tonight we begin our coverage of egypt with roger cohen of the "new york times." >> when suleiman met with abc's christiane amanpour he said "look, there's no culture of democracy in this country, there are foreign forces, foreign agendas pushing the use of egypt into this pro-democratic party." these were not the words of someone who made you feel confident that egypt is really turned the pauj when it comes to installing democracy. >> rose: and we continue with lara logan, chief foreign affairs correspondent from cbs news who was in cairo but is now back in the united states. >> what happens after dark? what happens behind closed doors? it's what happens in those places, those rooms that the protestors and media can never go to and can never spotlight. that's the real terror that you're filled with over there. >> rose: we continue from cairo with mounir abdel-nour of the opposition party, the secular wafd party and has been in negotiations with the government. >> the young egyptians, full of hope, full of ambition, wanting to change the culture of their country, empowered by the inte

i begin with roger cohen. tell me about this day since it was announced that hosni mubarak was leaving. >> well, charlie, from the moment the announcement came and after all the long speeches and evasiveness of mubarak it was a very brief announcement from vice president suleiman in the end, just that hosni mubarak had resigned and handed authority over to the army. and then there was this explosion, honking, fireworks, the scene right now out in the street is just unbelievable. i saw little kids crawling out of a tanks. children dancing. flags everywhere. trechl does elation. i think, you know, the lid's come off the pressure cooker and mubarak held this country in his grip. for the last 30 years. and he's gone. and people can hardly believe their eyes. remember this only really began 18 days ago. tunisia, of course, helped people get over their fear. and then this young generation of egyptians, 20 somethings, a leaderless revolution, they proved faster, more adept, better organized than this hierarchy. and m