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"the lead" with jake tapper starts now. decision time for new jersey governor chris christie and medical marijuana. the national lead. new jersey governor chris christie gives a conditional viee veto to a bill and medical marijuana. we'll talk to the father who begged for him to approve it. what does he think of this conditional veto? supporters who ousted morsi are back in the street in a mass show of defiancdefiance. and new revelations about the national security security agency spying on you. the agency broke privacy rules protecting americans thousands of times. what about the assurances president obama gave us a week ago. was he being, shall we say, selective with the truth? good afternoon, everyone. i'm jake tapper. welcome to "the lead." breaking news in our national lead. moments ago governor chris christie gave a conditional veto for medical marijuana for sick children. he says he is sending the bill back and asking for two changes and then he says he'll sign it. one change, instead of edible forms of marijuana available for everyone, he wants it available only for minors. and two, though adults using medical marijuana only need to sign off with one physician, he wants children to receive approval from both a pediatrician and a psychiatrist in order to be able to get medical mayrijuana and only one of them needs to be registered with the state. this came just two days after a father publicly confronted and asked him -- begged him to sign the bill on behalf of his ailing 2-year-old daughter, vivian. >> we've been trying to get in touch with you. we're wondering what the holdup is. it's been two months now. >> these are complicated issues. >> it's simple. >> i know you think it's simple -- listen, i know you think it's simple, it's not. it's simple for you. i have read everything put in front of me and i'll have a decision by friday. i wish the best for you, your daughter and family and i'm going to do what i think is best for the people of the state. >> do you think it's best for the governor to come between -- >> guess what, sir, i'm making -- i'm elected to make these decisions, i'll make the decision and i'll make it in time for friday. >> our elected representatives have told you what we want to do. please don't let my daughter die, governor. don't let my daughter die. >> we spoke with that father, brian wilson, yesterday on the lead. he joins us via skype. what's your reaction to the governor's decision? he wants to make the two changes and then he'll sign the bill. what do you think? >> it's not what we expected. we had a few ideas of what he might do. everyone expected a conditional veto but this is even lower than the worst case conditional veto that we thought. so while it is a small victory, he kind of put himself all over it and really just maintains the idea of making one of the worst medical marijuana programs in the country and one of the most unsafe medical marijuana programs in the country and really loves to insert the government in between the parents and the doctors and really get in the way of letting them make the best decisions for themselves. so it's a small victory but it's kind of ludicrous in a lot of ways. >> let's talk about what this means specifically for your daughter. you have already talked about obviously that you would want her to be taking some sort of oral form of medical marijuana, limiting it to children as opposed to having it available for everyone, that would not affect her. this would say one more person in addition to a registered pediatrician, which i imagine you have at least one of, having a psychiatrist as well, which is what i think he said the local new jersey association of the academy of pediatrics or something along those lines has recommended. is that too onerous a task? >> well, the pediatrician and the psychiatrist are ready and existing. so initially -- currently before this law came through, you had to have the pediatrician, had you to have a psychiatrist and you had to have a doctor on the medical marijuana registry, which is a whole different issue. you had to have one of them issue you a card. the quest for children was always finding anybody on the registry who would see a minor. normally it wasn't somebody who was even one of their doctors, it would be someone they could find. we had to call about 20 or 25 different doctors to find someone who would even entertain the idea of seeing a minor. so in most cases this is not going to be the child's pediatrician. then we had to talk to our pediatrician. our initial pediatrician wanted nothing to do with it. we went back to our initial pediatrician, she was sympathetic. she signed up and said i talked to you guys. when i talked to the lobbyist group in new jersey, they have no idea why the psychiatrist is on here. the new jersey psychiatrist association from what i was told by the lobbyist wants nothing to do with this. the psychiatrist is a roadblock. you're talking about sick kids who aren't even necessarily capable of talking. vivian can't talk. she has the card. sheep already got a psychiatrist because somebody did us a favor and had a psychiatrist write this for us but the whole thing is a roadblock. to keep that in is just telling patients -- parents who are suffering with these horrible diseases with children i'm going to make it more difficult for you to get it treatment for your child. the edibles are great. the other two -- the strain lift, we're happy about the lifting of the strain. the edibles we're happy for vivian but what about all the adults? governor christie is basically telling all the adults you have no other option but to smoke marijuana in order to make this -- in order to use it. you cannot have access -- it's not necessarily a safe thing to do. you know, let's have a safe program here. >> brian wilson, we thank you. good luck with your daughter vivian and we'll check back in with you as the story develops and obviously our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family and your daughter. dr. sanjay gupta's high-profile documentary "weed" reairs tonight at 10:00 p.m. you do not want to miss it. >> turning again to the events in egypt today. police firing tear gas at supporters of deposed egyptian president mohamed morsi. and in many instances, it's not just tear gas. 17 people have been killed today in clashes between protesters and police. and 40 others have been wounded according to state tv. thousands of morsi protesters undaunting after the show of force against them. on that day egyptian forces killed at least 580 people when they raided two camps filled with morsi supporters. and protesters jumping and climbing off trying to make it to the street in order to escape gun fire. morsi was democratically elected. it allowed islam ic -- the obam administration was no fan of morsi and refuses to call his removal a coup because that would mean it would have to cut off the $1.5 billion in aid the u.s. gives egypt every year. 1.3 billion of which goes to the egyptian military. the state department spokesperson jen psaki joins me now. thanks for being here, appreciate it. the u.s. has provided tens of billions in aid to the egyptian military over the years, mostly in the form of assets, weapons and ammunition and the like. i guess the big question right now, as the world watches, is for the americans are supplies that the u.s. has given egypt now being used to kill civilians in the street? >> well, jake, first let me say that what's happening on the ground in egypt, what we've seen over the past couple of days is deplorable, horrific. there are not enough adjectives to describe it. you've heard the president and secretary describe it in that way as well. we're looking very closely at our broad relationship with egypt. you can't have business as usual when hundreds of civilians are being killed in the street. butch but we have a broad and strategic relationship with egypt that's gone on for decades. we've taken some steps to cut off certain forms of aid but we're continuing to evaluate day by day. >> are munitions given to egypt, are they actually tools of slaughter? do we know that one way or the other? >> obviously we're watching every event happening on the ground very closely. regardless of where these tools are from, this is horrific what is happening to civilians on the ground. it certainly is not acceptable to the president, to the secretary of state, to anybody in the administration. and we are evaluating and reviewing the events happening on the ground and the steps being taken by the interim government every day. >> i'll respectfully note you're not answering that question. i want to play you certainly that former state department spokesman p.j. crowley told me yesterday about the president's reluctance to call this a coup. >> i think we missed an opportunity six weeks ago to call it a coup, the fact that we haven't undermines the credibility of the united states. >> his basic argument is that if we had called it a coup and then held out the threat that we weren't going to give any aid or actually started to not give any aid and paved the way for the egyptian military to get that aid back, we would have more influence. do you think he has any point that he's making? >> well, obviously, jake, these issues are being debated within the administration. but the reason that we continue to provide aid to egypt is about a broad, long-term relationship that has to do with our own national security, regional stability and egypt has played for decades a very important role on that front and our own belief that in order to help the egyptian people and the country get back to a long-term and sustainable democracy, that it's important to continue to be a partner. so we look at all of those pieces as we're making these decisions. if these were easy decisions to make, we would have made them long ago. but our aid and our relationship is very important strategically to the united states. >> and lastly, jen, if could you give us any sort of update on the terror alert that was issued. my understanding is that almost all, if not all, of the u.s. embassies across the muslim world have reopened. does that mean that the alert is done and we are no longer fearful of this specific attack? >> well, we evaluate information that's coming in every day. and i do appreciate your question because there's been some confusion, especially in egypt. we've had a travel warning in place there since july 3rd. we have updated it to ask american citizens to abide by the curfews that have been put in place. we still do not certainly support the state of emergency that's been put in place. but in other countries we have reopened our facilities. they remain closed in lahore and we make decisions day by day. but our bottom line is keeping american citizens safe, visitors safe and keeping our personnel safe. that's how we'll continue to evaluate. >> is the terror alert over? is it done? >> we continue to evaluate threats day by day. i can't speak to it more than that other than to say we felt comfortable enough to open up the post we have opened up. there are some that remain closed. we look at information as it comes in every single day. >> jen psaki, thank you very much. we appreciate it. >> the u.s. government is keeping an eye on you but there are rules to what they can spy on, right? 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