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Empat empathy. during arab spring, when i was reading andy carver and he retweets and i was watching in real time these people i don't know at all. i never met. i've never been to egypt. there were there in this way incredibly visceral, incredibly close and i was watching them in real time saying i'm getting tear gassed, beaten by the police and it felt like this human pinprick connection in a way that i couldn't -- and at the same time, the same vector of technology can produce the least amount of empathy, the most -- and i feel it in myself this hatred and vial sensation that the other perso...

In the next few minutes. when that happens. obviously the protesters have been waiting for a long time. there is expands moan yum in the -- there is pandemonium in the streets. the protesters have been through a lot. they say they have been through a lot the past 30 years on mubarak's hold on power, sometimes a brutal hold on power. we saw that manifest itself as these protesters oftentimes got tear gassed and beaten by pro-mubarak thugs. these people have a lot of energy to let out. they are so excited that they may have finally reached their goal of having president mubarak resign. of course...

From around the country are in selma today to make the same journey activists took in 1965 when they were attacked tear gassed and beaten by police and state troopers on bloody sunday. but today's march is not just a tribute to those brave foot soldiers but also a call to action. a call to remember what they were marching for, voting rights equality and full participation in american democracy. president obama issued that call when he spoke in the shadow of history yesterday at the foot of the edmund pettus bridge. he acknowledged that the struggle continues. >> we just need to open our eyes a...