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>> when i think of egypt and we all do, we think of it as an ancient culture, an ancient country, a real country, not confected by the europeans, by churchill or after world war i, there's a real country of egypt that preceded islam. what is egypt today? is it egypt or is it just part of islam? >> well, if you asked the people here right now, they are reclaiming egypt. and it is not just the egypt of a specific group. the group that saw history began with islam 1,400 years ago. there were slogans in this square uniting muslims and christians. there have been christians in this country going ba...

Different tone than when the country was running after mubarak. this was very inclusive, you have the coptic pope, the head of an empire. they tried to present the broad inclusive picture. the hope is they learned their lesson from their last disastrous attempt to run the country. >> great thinking and great reporting. joel rubin, i think it's fascinating. we have a military in this part, whether it wants to be popular, knows the mistakes of the past. this may be a good sign for a future stability in egypt tonight. we'll be right back after this. look at them kids...

In fact, the israeli army built a fence to wall itself off from the sinai. it was a pretty bad experience of the muslim hood in power. now i think they've said i don't want it anymore. they're not rejecting it writ large, but people in the square are muslims, they are proud to be muslims, but they blame the muslim brotherhood for manipulating religion, using it like a banner on its chest, a superman's "s," if you will, that gave them the power to do whatever they wanted. and i think that backfired against them. the question now, will this set the tone for other of the new arab democracies? if ...

Morsi's regime. he says, basically, called to election, in a way, aren't we saying thanks for doing that, we can't agree with the way you did it but we like the results and all we want is a new election? >> well, perhaps, i think that's a pretty decent way to put it, one of the other points we're browsing through this e-mail we got from the white house a short time ago. he said when the democratic political order that now takes over is put into place, it should include participation from all sides, all political parties, secular and religious, that's referring to the muslim brotherhood among o...

The number of people i spoke with that a year ago when you talked to them were saying, no, no, give him a chance. let's try to work with him. and you talked to these people a year later and they're like, no, he has to go right now. i'm talking about opposition activists, politicians, the people that really working with the brotherhood a year ago. they're the ones feeling disillusioned now. and that's why he's no longer president. >> richard, as a journalist, you've grown up ith egypt. i know the stories you've told of growing up there and improved your arabic and got a sense. what would you ca...