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Injuries. it is escalating day by day and is turning into the next syria in gradual steps. >> thank you, keep safe, hakeem. now egypt is planning support from arab nations and leaders. becky joins me now. i dont know if you heard the conversation there, but he is saying the war is escalating day by day. leaders meeting there have clearly a lot on their plate, but im guessing yemen will take center stage. >> yes. let me just get our viewers to some pictures coming in. this is at the airport, a ki...

Soldier. >> he did talk about how he did not agree with the war effort in afghanistan. >> reporter: some of his former teammates could be called to testify at a trial. some believe several soldiers lost their lives looking for bergdahl. >> i believe the fact of the matter is whether those soldiers were -- when those soldiers were killed, they would not have been where they were at if bergdahl had not left. >> reporter: barbara starr, the pentagon. well turn to the breaking news coming out of y...

Egypt was also part of the arab spring and theres just been chaos there ever since. morsi comes in promising reforms, instead it just gets worse. the muslim brotherhood. now egypt has reverted back to form. now you look at the chaos thats spreading across the middle east. the arab spring has not turned out the way we expected it to. >> with that backdrop we move to israel where there is growing uncertainty about ties between the united states and israel after israeli prime minister benjamin neta...

Into israel. and these rockets are provided by the syrians, by the iranians, this is a different capability, and the israelis feel that theyve got no choice, theyre going to have to go in and root these out because 100 missiles, with the iron dome, they cannot knock them all down. >> what needs to be done in terms of international conversations, international pressure, support, what needs to be done from leaders outside of the region to deescalate this? >> theyve tried for years. the problem is ...

Order releasing condemned terrorists from prison. on my recent visit to egypt i met with many government leaders. and ordinary egyptians who were very disappointed in the recent breakdown of the u.s./egyptian relations. those relations have been beneficial for decades from the camp david peace accords where just a minute was the first arab country to recognize the state of israel. its the obama administrations if he canless policy, the dithering and the double speak and the refusal to support an...

Constitutional breakdowns. the second would be that egypt would remain committed, as it has been, by the way, in those three, four years, to combatting terrorism in the peninsula and the gaza strip. as the viewers may remember, it borders israel on two sides, on the north and the east, but it borders egypt on the south and the southwest. and the third thing is that the israeli-egyptian peace agreement remain intact and stable. if you take those three as a package, this is what were looking at. a...

Now egypt, israel and the united states, our destinies are forever intertwined. and for the u.s. to not support egypt in its fight for democracy against the muslim brotherhood is to deny our own origin. our declaration of independents says, governments are instituted among men deriving just powers from the consent of the government that whenever government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it. unfortunately, our president in true obama fashion p...

To protect the interest of the united states in this election? >> thats a great point, judge. remember, this is about the egyptian people. but the point that these egyptian officers made to us is that its also about the united states. look, theres only one bull work in that broad swath of the middle east that is taking aggressive, offensive action against al qaeda and thats the egyptian military. theyre doing it with the libyans in the west that are beginning to form malitia groups. while the re...

Stability if elected president, has asked our president for the help on the war on terrorism. is it smart for the u.s. to provide aid to egypt at this point. >> it absolutely is. >> yes. >> both of you can answer that. go ahead. >> go ahead, general. >> its very important to understand that the egyptian mail tear, because of their chronic economic situation are trying to fight this war on a shoe string. in many ways, these enemy militias are better armed than the egyptians are. the united states...

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