ex-general, yes. reporter: you think the army is out here to protect the president, not the people? yes. yes, to protect him. reporter: thank you very much indeed. nice talking to you. tuff handshake like a general, very strong. thank you. well, that s just another opinion that we re hearing on the streets here. people have been very friendly with the army so far. but clearly there s a train of thought here that fills that the army is still at the moment really protecting the president and his interests rather than theirs. we are not to be sold for the spoiled businessmen from the president and his staff and his friends. they are all spoiled people. they stole our land. they stole our jobs. they stole our future. reporter: thank you very much. everyone here wants to speak to
tweets, your messages on facebook, the facebook pages you re following. i ve got my screen up here for you. once i showed that, immediately i got hundreds of posts from so many of you who are following all these developments on social media. i will be along next hour, guys, to talk about how technology in general is revolutionizing revolts. we ll have that conversation. all right, josh levs, thanks so much. i know you re going to be around next hour. it has been significant talking with so many people with different perspectives on this. one of those that stands out is the egyptian writer living in the u.s. who says this exemplifies a liberation of arab imagination. i know you ll be following it throughout the evening. i m here for another hour. stay with us on cnn. all our gre. safe driver, online, homeowner s more discounts than ever before. and they still get great service. ow! [ disco music plays ] whoa, yeah is it just me, or is it getting funky in here, huh?
on the side of the truck hi, guys. on the side of the truck, mubarak, go. the slogan on here is mubarak, get out of the country. this is painted on the truck of the army here. you were telling me you re a former general. you were a general, ex-general. ex-general, yes. reporter: so you think the army is out here to protect the president, not the people. yes. that s the plan. that s the plan to protect him. reporter: okay, thank you very much indeed. it s very nice talking to you. you have the handshake like a general, very strong. thank you. well, that s just another opinion that we re hearing on the streets here. people have been very friendly with the army so far, but clearly there s a train of thought here that feels that the army is still at the moment really protecting the president and his interests rather than theirs. we are not to be sold for the businessmen from the president
out so there s no such thing as a complete shutdown. i mentioned earlier that we d show you some of the tweets going on right now with respect to some of the concerns about what people are calling chaos, concerns about looting, concerns about security in general in various areas. take a look. i just pulled up a few that were sent to us by viewers say pay attention to this one. this one talked about reports of there being gunfire near the presidential palace. this is a good example of what s happening. a lot of people are sending out this kind of information. it can t always be verified right away, but there are some people inside egypt who are continuing to get some tweets out. here s another one i wanted to show you. this one saying cairo residents are forming groups to protect each other already seen police badges hidden on looters. now part of what we have going on is some people getting their tweets out from inside egypt. what we also have is officials around the world using twitte
target of tens of thousands of e-mails from yet another general. what a soap opera. but guess what? one of the generals, actually an ex-general, is head of the cia, or just was. the other general, the one sending the e-mail by the bushel, is our commander in charge in afghanistan. if this were a british plot and it sure is kinky enough, we d be calling it carry on generals, but there are stakes. and one of them is our country s security. let s not forget as we dig deeper, that fact into this plot tonight. joining us right now is washington post reporter sauer ri horowitz, and david woods senior military correspondent for the huffington post. give me a sense, i don t want people to get lost before we start, let me take may own shot at this, how the whole thing is put together. let s watch. the messy and complex web begins with david petraeus. in 2006 petraeus meets paula broadwell, a west point graduate and doctoral student after giving a speech at harvard. fast forward to may of th