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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...

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 ...

Don't worry. i wouldn't be surprised. you'll let us know how that conversation goes. let's go to i think we're going to go to ivan watson. he's over at the presidential palace. excuse me, arwa damon. she's in tahrir square. let's go to arwa first and check in with ivan in a few moments. arwa, set the scene for us, do me a favor when you're there. i want to hear from the crowd. take a moment and let's hear what the folks are saying. >> first of all, this scene is something completely unimaginable, the ambience emanating from the demonstrators who have been here day in and day out for more tan t...

Tahrir square in the heart of cairo. that's where we find our own arwa damon right now. arwa? >> reporter: jim, i cannot even begin to describe the atmosphere here. the crowd has gone absolutely insane! hysterical with enjoyment, chanting god is great, chanting we are egyptians. jim, this is the unthinkable that has been accomplished here. demonstrations that began over facebook and twitter taking on a life of their own, brings down one of the best-known dictators in the middle east, a man who held on to power for 30 years, now being brought down by the people. people around me right now cheer...

Of egyptians started corroborating content. you know, like we would post a video on facebook. it would be shared by 50,000 people on the wall within a few hours. we -- you know, i always said that if you want to liberate us, get on the internet. if you want to have a free society, just go on the internet. the reason why is the internet is like help you, you know, help you fight the media war which is basically a war, the egyptian government, egyptian regime playing very well in 1979 to 1990 and when the internet came, it really couldn't. i'm going to talk a lot about this. i plan to write a bo...