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Actually going to take over liberation square. that was their objective and i know ivan was there witnessing that and they got very close and then there was a countercharge by the anti-government demonstrators and it pushed them back. at this point looking at numbers of pro-mubarak protesters left, there's no way that they could push, at least from this entrance, the egyptian museum entrance, push into the square any farther. >> so what you're saying, anderson, there's a lot more anti-mubarak demonstrators still outside the museum than pro-mubarak demonstrators, is that right? >> in front of t...

They didn't want people bringing weapons into the square, so i don't know what sort of weaponry the anti-mubarak protesters actually had with them in the square, if they did. i don't know if new ones arrived after the violence began bringing weapons with them. we saw -- ivan watson witnessing paving stones being used to hurl at the opposite side. i'm not sure how they were able to mobilize themselves, but they certainly at this point seem well organized, and they literally formed this barrier with this metal sheeting. it's a very ingenious way. it's almost like -- i don't know if you're famili...

Witness is that they came with a variety of weapons, with whatever they had, because we saw the molotov cook kals being launched in the first round of that and initially overwhelming from that side of the pro-mubarak protesters, when we were -- when the crew and i were being attacked by the crowd, there was a man there with a knife very close by as part of the crowd that was around us. so clearly there was nothing restricting them from bringing any weapons, even though they passed by military checkpoints. they weren't being searched from what i can see in the area that i was in. they weren't s...

Dramatic change from yesterday. >> yes. >> a game-changer, if you will, in terms of what the u.s. strategy policy has to be. >> well, i think obviously you see the pro-mubarak forces fighting back, and i think the big question that's being asked in washington as well as in egypt is just what has the military decided to do, wolf. early on in this conflict the passivity of the military standing back while you had the anti-mubarak demonstrators gave those demonstrators some reassurance that the military was letting them do what they wanted to do keeping the peace. today, as anderson cooper was ta...

Two men who were wounded. they both had sustained head wounds, from rocks, they said, and they were going to head right back to the square, to keep it up. they were saying they were not going to give up. these two men were specifically anti-mubarak demonstrators. we weren't able to stay for too long. the crowd outfront quickly became agitated mostly instigated by a few individuals there that the doctor had previously pointed out to us as being the government or pro-mubarak agents. they began screaming no to the media, shouting profanities, but it's just an indication of how tense even at a hos...