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Desire to sustain a relationship and possibly leverage over egyptian military. >> the white house pushed back on criticism that members of the national security council met with the muslim brotherhood in washington. pointing out that republican senators john mccain anagram graham did the same on a recent trip to egypt. some argue that the state department decision to give egypt foreign aid even as its interim rulers have non-governmental organization, may have empowered the interim rulers to ous...

farewell fly b-by as discovery hitches a ride on the jet and heads for a museum. im wolf blitzer, and youre in im wolf blitzer, and youre in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com this just coming in to "the situation room." we are live here in brussels, belgium. ill have the exclusive joint interview tomorrow with the secretary of state hillary clinton and the defense secretary leon panetta tomorrow from nato headquarters right outside brussels. lots to discuss ...

>> we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other thins, not because they are easy but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that were willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win. shannon: almost five decades after president kennedy issued that bold call nasa is pulling its plug on the return to the moon program. this is video of kneel armstrong ...

Returning to exploration, but the manner in which we did that didnt allow the six years from 2004 until 2010 to come up with a replacement to the shuttle. if we retired it at that point. and for 30 years we have been watching the shuttle land on a runway and it appeared to me that the previous program was very well satisfied with going back to the days of mercury and "apollo" landing in the ocean. i dont think thats u.s. leadership. i think we need to do things like not have a gap in our space f...

The manner in which we did that didnt allow the six years from 2004 until 2010 to come up with a replacement. to the shuttle, if we retired it at that point. and for 30 years, we have been watching the shuttle land on a runway, and it appeared to me that the previous program was very well satisfied with going back to the days of mercury, gemny and apollo and landing in the ocean. again, i dont think thats u.s. leadership. i think we need to do things like not have a gap in our space flight progr...

Didnt allow the six years from 2004 until 2010 to come up with a replacement to the shuttle, if we retired it at that point. and for 30 years, we have been watching the shuttle land on a runway, and it appeared to me that the previous program was very well satisfied with going back to the days of "mercury," "gemini" and "apollo" and landing in the ocean. again, i dont think thats u.s. leadership. i think we need to do things like not have a gap in our space flight program that allows -- that for...

Florida so people could step outside and see discovery leaving as they got to washington, d.c. ta took a couple of extra laps around the capit capitol. the space flight program has been so wrapped in the fabric of american pride. our leadership with space, the american public has had such a fascination with our program here and now we see that the heralded discovery going to go on display at the smithsonian. how fast are they going to have this ready for the public? >> i dont know. it is ready f...