been imposed on a region for a long time and they need education, they need more free thinking and they need to break out of that conspiracy theory. >> richard, in terms of the scenes behind you and what we've been able to see tonight in terms of footage from cairo, what can you tell us about the intensity of what's going on there and the change in the response from the egyptian authorities that you described in that report that we just aired that. >> reporter: when the protest first broke out here, and it happened quickly and demonstrators rushed up to the embassy, there really wasn't much of a response at all from egyptian authorities. protesters climbed over the embassy walls. they pulled down the flag. they put up a new flag. they climbed back over the wall. they wrote graffiti on the outside of the walls. that all takes time. the egyptian authorities just sauntered up and eventually chased them away. we saw a decisive change happening pretty much yesterday