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>> neil: you talked about prior administrations, too. they all advocated, democratic and republican administrations alike, and candidates alike in the past that jerusalem is the capitol of israel and some day we should put our embassy there, whatever. they never followed up. this president did. so i understand the rage on the part of the administrations response to say, we might hold back aid to the united nations in the future. should that? >> i think that its wise on a case by case basis, espe...

Died from their injuries. the familys 4-year-old boy is the only survivor and remains in the hospital. it looks like guatemalas presidential election is headed for a run off. officials are tabulating the vote and none of the 14 candidates is expected to win the 50% plus one needed to secure the presidency. last week former president otto perez molina resigned over a bribery scandal and is in custody. leaders from austria and germany are warning they will have to scale back aid for migrants s...

I think what the eu is trying to do and what we should try to do is force the -- force the ukraine into an early election. let them go ahead and push -- let them start their election process early rather than later. that may calm the protesting down. but when i say force, i dont mean military force, i mean diplomatic force, i mean sanctions, if you want, if the sanctions mean holding back aid that you may have added to them. >> like, for example, the president of ukraines bank account, or preven...

Demonstrators. that is not what that thousand is. that includes people on both sides of the political divide that have been killed. it also includes the al qaeda muslim brotherhood connection in the sinai. that is where the egyptian military has gone in to clean out al qaeda nests that are in the sinai peninsula that muslim brother president allowed to spring up. jenna: a dozen scholars and experts in egypt and american foreign policy came together and wrote an editorial in the "washington post"...

Advocating more and hes a guy normally seen as more of a dove, right. somebody whos very -- a lot of the vietnam veterans in general. hes very hesitant about using u.s. force. hes on the side of u.s. force. the only guy having trouble with how to put -- plan this out and plot this out are the guys at the pentagon because they dont know what is the -- what does it look like in ten days? lets say you shoot cruise missiles. okay. then what do you do? >> juliana, question for richard. >> suppose the...

United states. this is one of the u.s.s key outlines in what is already a volatile region. the president coming out condemning the violence, calling on the interim government calling on them to start as quickly as possible. we know president obama continually gets updated by susan rice. he convened an entire meeting. the u.s. is continuing to monitor the situation but they still have not gone so far as to pull back aid, and as you point out, that is really the critical remaining issue. >> kriste...

In new york. >> do you think, eric, this obviously carnage in pakistan today, gives some in washington pause about pulling back aid to pakistan because of maybe theres something to what the government says about we deal with the same thing? >> this is absolutely one of the most difficult foreign policy challenges for this administration. look, on with unhand, pakistan you would say in a moral sense played a double game, been to deceitful, they dont deserve the aid. the temptation is cut it off a...

Like refereeing an argument between my two little sons. its a matter of semantics and accounting. if trump wants to make mexico pay for the wall, he can account for it anyway he likes. he can hold back aid, theres a lot of ways to do it that arent that much trouble. there could be a border crossing tax. i mean there could be a border adjustment tax when stuff comes in. a remit answer tax when you send money home. none of those things are very hard to do. if he wants mexico to pay for it, they do...

I think what the eu is trying to do and what we should try to do is force the -- force the ukraine into an early election. let them go ahead and push -- let them start their election process early rather than later. that may calm the protesting down. but when i say force, i dont mean military force, i mean diplomatic force, i mean sanctions, if you want, if the sanctions mean holding back aid that you may have added to them. >> like, for example, the president of ukraines bank account, or preven...