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0 whats her strategy and whats the gop plan of attack for 2016? ill get insights and analysis from our special roundtable. im david gregory. all that ahead on "meet the press" this sunday morning, august 18th. >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the worlds longest-running television program, this is "meet the press." straight to the breaking news. a heavy security presence in cairo, egypt, this morning as military rulers are trying to strengthen their control over a country descending i...

Role or coupebility or responsibility the united states has in this and this will be a very tough, i think, in the fall when congress comes back and has to debate the issue of aid. i think administration will come under a lot of pressure from republicans particular lay to reconsider how much aid, particularly the kind of helicopters that have been used for security purposes and to try to control the crowds in cairo. >> robin wright, thanks very much. fred, mike duran, thanks very much. important...

For a long time. there are a lot of people killed. were getting information, also, from mosques in that area that there are dead bodies in the mosques and one mosque in that square where apparently a thousand people are still trapped and surrounded by armed people pro-government people and say they are afraid to come out. it was a very chaotic day. i saw some protest marches myself. they were big and went on for a long time. of course, there was a lot of confrontation and a lot of hay friday in ...

They were big and went on for a long time. of course, there was a lot of confrontation and a lot of hay friday in the air. >> the hundreds from the muslim brotherhood have been arrested. youre actually worried, robin, and you and i have known each other for a long time, this country is descending into a period of civil strife, if not civil war, is that right? >> i think we all fear both sides are polarized and there is no middle ground of group of politics who are merging to create an alternativ...

>> robin wright, thanks very much. fred, mike duran, thanks very much. important conversation. a lot more happening tonight, including late developments involving two little girls with their whole lives ahead of them and a whole lot to lose. vivian wilson needs medical marijuana and the decision by chris christie can pave the way. ill talk to her dad and sanjay gupta. little veronica, the battle between her and her birth parents and adoptive parents. could be at the breaking point. the two sid...

Confrontation and a lot of hay friday in the air. >> the hundreds from the muslim brotherhood have been arrested. youre actually worried, robin, and you and i have known each other for a long time, this country is descending into a period of civil strife, if not civil war, is that right? >> i think we all fear both sides are polarized and there is no middle ground of group of politics who are merging to create an alternative, to urge compromise or broker between the two. the international commun...

Make one stop and say where will this left for egypt or the united states? obviously, the forces are on the ground that are polarized right now in fighting each other. neither one of them is interested in a democratic future. neither one of them is interested in any compromise. it will be up to people outside egypt to define that path and to put pressure on the egyptians to move toward it. >> the stakes for us -- >> sorry -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> let me bring robin in for a quick question....

Put pressure on the egyptians to move toward it. >> the stakes for us -- >> sorry -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> let me bring robin in for a quick question. remind the viewers, robin, especially here in the united states, why the united states provides egypt with a about a billion and a half dollars a year in various forms of economic and military assistance. >> the vast majority goes to the military and a lot of it ends up back in the united states because its for egypt and training of the egyp...

It will be up to people outside egypt to define that path and to put pressure on the egyptians to move toward it. >> the stakes for us -- >> sorry -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> let me bring robin in for a quick question. remind the viewers, robin, especially here in the united states, why the united states provides egypt with a about a billion and a half dollars a year in various forms of economic and military assistance. >> the vast majority goes to the military and a lot of it ends up back in...

U.s. tear gas, u.s. guns, tanks, armored personnel carriers, other things put into what what role or culpability or responsibility the united states has in this and this will be a very tough, i think, in the fall when congress comes back and has to debate the issue of aid. i think administration will come under a lot of pressure from republicans particular lay to reconsider how much aid, particularly the kind of helicopters that have been used for security purposes and to try to control the crow...