journal, which is owned by the patient company of this network, is he live with us from cairo now. it s my understanding that you saw a soldier crying into his cell phone today talking to his mom? yeah, that s right. he was, i mean, i just overheard him as i was passing by. he was kind of on the periphery of tahrir square. where the army had been maintaining a presence there. he was, you know, off to the side by himself. and apparently speaking to his mom, because he said mom. but he was crying and he said that, you know, he wanted to join in the celebrations of the supreme. shepard: you look at them by the tens of thousands, i suppose this is a scene repeated all across the country. still out, still celebrating at this late hour. they must be running on adrenaline. yeah. i mean, you know, you speak to people here they say this is their moment. they are not going to sleep tonight. they have already, so many of them have already camped out in
in the transition and help a new democratic force to be in power and this has to be maybe by the end of the year. to have parliamentary elections. to have a new constitution, even a temporary one, and then to have a presidential elections by the end of the year. we have to have a clear road map for people. and, you know what s good about this? people at the tahrir square just today while they were celebrating this victory, they were telling everybody, we re going to stay here until we re for sure that there is a clear map for a democratic process. who are here because we need to make sure that the army is good, that they are taking over right now but we need to make sure that they are not going to stay there forever. this is something that everybody realizes, even in the military by the way. shepard: we will see if they realize it. they have a pretty good life. they told people that they realize the new government has to have the legitimacy. and this is was good to say. what s impo
the streets. now, that flower, a different kind of essence. the essence of future freedom of the egyptian people. after 30 years of dictatorial rule, shep. shepard: dominick dinatale live streaming from cairo early this friday morning. dominick, thanks. a live look there. hear the noises coming from the square. now our interpreter is telling us what they are chanting over and over again. three phrases the people brought down the regime. the army and the people are one. and then, maybe most telling of the future, mumbarak must be prosecuted. one opposition leader calling this the greatest day of his life. mohammed el baradei a nobel peace prize winner. head of the nuclear watchdog agency and opposition leader. he tells reuters we have waited for this day for decades. we all look forward to working with the military fofer-to-prepare for free and fair elections.
he goes on to write i look forward to a transnsional period of co-sharing of power between the army and the people. el baradei had said he would be willing to lead a transitional government if that s what the people want. today he says he is not thinking of running for president, saying, instead, i have lived enough. and am happy to see egypt liberated. but someone who may be running is the head of the arab league. he says he plans to quit that job in the next few weeks because he has new plans. in the past, he had said he would consider running for president of egypt, if mumbarak stepped down. president obama says the egyptian people have changed their country and changed the world by demanding nothing less than genuine democracy. now after weeks of protests in yesterday s false alarm, our president says their government has finally responded to the cry for freedom. there are very few moments in our lives where we have the privilege to witness history taking place. this is one of th
this has been set up army is mostly at peace and doesn t have a lot to do. shepard: it s worked very well so far. i know the military there owns 10 or 12 factories. people who retire from the military live lavishly. they make a lot of money to want to change that sort of thing when some 6 your neighbors are living on $2 to $4 a day. it doesn t make a lot of sense. there won t be much desire within the military to do this. but regardless of what happens, egyptian military itself is in need of major reforms. it s enormously bloated for a 21st century military. it s con description army of 500,000 regulars and another half million in reserve. far in excess of what they need and far in he excess of what s required in modern armies which need fewer conscripts and educated professionals who can handle modern military equipment. shepard: right now the interpreter tells me in the square 22 minutes past 2 locke a.m., by the thousands they re