(CROSSTALK)COOPER: Right. He's a Google executive who was just released after being held for more than two weeks.ABDALLA: Exactly. He was on he was on television on a very important program, and, you know, he had been imprisoned for 12 days, blindfolded and came out to find basically that the whole country had changed and about 300 people had died and he didn't know anything about it.And he was on -- he went on TV. And, you know, he had been a very important figure in terms of Tiffany Charm bracelethappening. And on TV, he very understandably broke down and had to leave and had to leave the program. That had a huge effect on everyone in the country.
COOPER: Finally, when Vice President Suleiman goes on Egyptian television or talks to Egypt and says, as he has just in the last 24 hours, well, they're going to start constitutional reforms,Tiffany Notes tag braceletgoing to set up committees to look into constitutional reforms, is that enough; is that real?ABDALLA: No, it's not real at all. It's all talk. No, everyone knows that -- everyone really knows that the regime has completely lost any -- you know, it has no real basis to exist anymore. They are not the people who should beCharm bracelet the transformation of this country. And they have made that very clear over the last 30 years and they have made that doubly clear over the last few weeks. And no one is being hoodwinked anymore. And that's very good.
COOPER: Khalid Abdalla, stay safe.ABDALLA: I will. Thank you(END VIDEOTAPE)COOPER: Should point out Khalid was in the square right before he talked to us, and right after he talked to us went back to the square and is spending the night there tonight.Talk about -- you heard Khalid talk about how people were moved to come to Liberation Square today by Elsa Peretti on saleGhonim's television interview. I just want to play you a small portion of it just for background. He has been held since the 28th of January. He was freed yesterday. He's the administrator of the Facebook page that is credited with sparking the first protest on the 25th. Here's what he said on Egypt's Dream TV.
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