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>> still seeking money for that border wall. also in phoenix tonight, among the many protesters there, what is the scene there and what are you hearing from the protesters gathered? >> reporter: anger, in a word, jim. let me show you what's going on here. you have 30, maybe 40 protesters here who have come here to taunt the president's supporters as they file into the convention center. right between them are the police and they put up barricades as well. the police are in a difficult situation here. they want to ensure everyone's first amendments rights, but they also want to maintain safety....

Gathering tomorrow. maybe that will work, too. >> shelly, do you agree with that? >> absolutely. during the 1770s here in this country, there were -- there was enough of a ground swell where people picked up arms and committed treason to throw the british out. so people organizing and self-organizing is not new. what i find fascinating is after the government shut everything down, only about 8% of the people in egypt can get online right now through the norisp. but people are using hand radios, phone lines, regular cell phones now turning them into dial-up modems, dialing isps in france and st...

Chris, i was wondering who saw this coming and what we do know is it started to move on tuesday, and twitter, twitter caught this before any other news operation caught anything, right? >> yeah. well, we actually saw the people in egypt self-organizing across facebook, twitter, on youtube, across the internet days ago, and particularly on tuesday when people came out into the streets, they coordinated their actions to start using facebook events, and then once they were in the streets using twitter to communicate with one another, and then, of course, they documented what their protests and ev...

Watch the emergence of the politically influential group and as you point out, it is the way you watch parties emerge over the course of our history and there are growing pains, carl. >> reporter: there are a couple of places around the country where there were objections and first of all, there were tea party members who thought the idea of asking people to come and pay admission to this convention was offensive for a grassroots organization in and of itself but you have to put them somewhere to hold workshops and there are costs involved and there are organizations across the country who hav...

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