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Exactly what was going on there. we have had men, plain clothes men come to this very location in the past, not showing any identification, searching our bags, searching our equipment. and questioning us in the past and asking for our identities. as i'm learning, that seems to be a bit of a norm in egypt. so when people show up banging and trying to get in, it could be an enthusiastic demonstrator, it could be the secret police and our neighbors advised us they thought it was the latter and told us to hunker down. and given the activities of the past -- of the past 48 hours that you know bette...

Here, there were pretty violent clashes taking place in the side streets to the east of the enclave. and the opposition activists, they did manage to capture more territory. they moved several city blocks, if not more, to the east and set up more barricades and it's a sign that, you know, the genie is out of the bottle and these clashes are continuing and it's going to be hard to bring this under control and put a stop to it. >> and ivan, at one time -- i was listening to your reporting today from the square. it sounded like you had concern that there were some state agents or secret police ac...

Insults at the man who has been president for the past 30 years. everybody comes up to me, grabs my arm and says, i have something very important to tell you, and they complain about unemployment. they complain about corruption and nepotism, the fact that they have education, and they can't find jobs. they complain that they have not been able to have a say in their government for many years, a significant portion of the egyptian population is under the age of 25. many of these people are young, and this has been described by even opposition party leaders who have run for president in the past...

The office immediately afterwards. but i was so angry because we had some incredible pictures of ordinary civilians, a family of four, mother, father and two children who had sat down on the pavement, sort of an ad hoc sit-in and started chanting against the mubarak regime. a group of these plain clothes police member went after them with billy clubs, punches and kicking. and we had some other great pictures. when we lost those, i was so angry. i took some of that anger out on the commander of the police there and had to be dragged away by my colleagues. >> and you did this in fluent arabic, b...

Evanses and mary rogers, tried to wrestle with these guys. and these guys are really rough individuals. in fact, tommy evans was right into the face of one of them. he said the guy looked like he was on drugs. his eyes were all weird. any way, one of those policeman cracked the view finder while we all had our hands on the camera and yanked it away, pulled it off and we were going to go back to the office immediately afterwards. but i was so angry because we had some incredible pictures of ordinary civilians, a family of four, mother, father and two children who had sat down on the pavement, s...