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Every single person there. this was a revolution. as i told you guys on my interview this is a revolution 2.0. just like the -- our revolution, everyone is contributing to the revolution and there was no master plan here. >> did you believe this day would come when you set up that first website, when you were in detention and blindfolded and held? >> certainly i fully believed. i knew it. i knew this from the day that i left tunisia. i knew hosni mubarak would leave egypt. >> you knew from the day the dictator left in tunisia that mubarak would leave ultimately? >> yes. because at the end of t...

We just lost him again. we'll try to get another phone in with him. but this is a people who they tried, the state tried everything they could, every playbook they had, as the professor from johns hopkins said on my program many times, they used the playbook of saddam, and they tried all the tricks in the book, and it didn't work. and this work and this message is now loud and clear about what the people in egypt want for their future. the question, of course, hala, is what happens next. >> yeah, and what's interesting is a lot has been said, anderson, about who these protesters are and when y...

They said to themselves, the egyptians, if a small country of tunisia could do it, why not a proud distinguished nation like egypt do it with thousands of years -- >> wolf, stand by. >> yeah. >> because we want to find out, what is the reaction. ivan watson is at the presidential palace where this statement was issued, whether it was a tape recording, it came through state-run television. ivan, hold up your telephone, give us an idea of what the crowd reaction is where you are at the presidential palace. >> jim, take a listen. the crowd is cheering. it's just a few yards from the walls of the ...

Over. the same thing happened in the russian revolution, happened in iran. the phrase the revolution devours its children is an old one, and we all have to do everything we possibly can to work with the forces of stability and change in a democratic and law-abiding direction in egypt to help them economically, to help them politically and see to it that this does not become an islamist operation the way iran has and gaza has and i'm afraid lebanon may be on the way to being. >> when you heard wael ghonim saying -- calling this revolution 2.0 saying that facebook, you know, is where this began ...

These extraordinary developments. >> maybe jim wants to listen in and get reaction from outside egypt throughout the region. let's go to cnn's reza where folks are watching as they are all over the world especially in the muslim world, reza, with keen interest. what are you hearing? >> reporter: well, wolf, we've been monitoring reaction from iran, not so much in pakistan, of course, the images we've seen today and over the past couple of weeks in egypt remind many people of the uprising after the disputed 2009 elections in iran, that's when iran's opposition movement to so-called green moveme...