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And then pay the consequences. now as they lost power, there will be no problem. >> how concerned are you that the apparatus of the state repression, the secret police, the interior ministry are all still there? >> come on. they are not there. we are much stronger. we are much -- we are much stronger than all these guys. we're much stronger than all these guys, so i met with the minister of the interior so many times. i speak to him one-to-one. i told him what i don't like so this is what works. you know, one year ago i said the internet is going to change the political scene in egypt. you kno...

They believe that the only good thing that's come out of the situation so far here in egypt is the fact that the army is in control and from what we've seen down here in tahrir square this evening, the people very much support the army soldiers standing atop their tanks, standing at the site of their tanks being kissed by the people, hands being shaken, i saw one little boy with an egyptian flag painted across his face target a soldier's sleeve and he kissed the soldier on his cheeks. that's the sort of thing we're seeing here. that's the affection people are showing for the army. it does seem...

And i'm not really worried because as i said, i trust 80 million egyptians. >> the question i had was first tunisia, now egypt. what's next? >> ask facebook. >> ask what? >> facebook. >> facebook. >> facebook. you are giving facebook a lot of credit for this? >> yeah, for sure. i want to meet mark zuckerberg one day and thank him. >> tell him why you think mark zuckerberg and facebook helped get people in tunisia and egypt and presumably other countries in the not too distant future -- >> i'm not talking about tunisia. i'm talking about egypt. >> tell us about egypt. >> yeah, tunisia was a bit...

And not just for egypt, actually, for the entire region. >> we understand people are shouting, the people and the military are one. they are happy that the military has taken over. it may be too soon to be analyzing some of the long-term ramifications here, but at the same time, they've got to be thinking about the future, even tonight, in tahrir square. >> reporter: well, jim, at this point in time i really think people are just caught up in the moment and in the reality of what they have accomplished. too caught up in that to be thinking about the future. however, people leading up to this m...

Crowds were erupting on the streets of cairo and really across egypt. what we heard from vice president biden right there when he talked about the core principles that the u.s. stands for, that mirrored almost exactly what president obama said in his strongly worded statement that he put out last night talking about the universal rights of the people of egypt needing to be respected as well as a key phrase that -- a key phrase calling for concrete and irreversible political change to be set into action. i'm sure that we'll be hearing more of this from president obama as you're expecting. we're...