decided late wednesday night that in fact they would pull out of the those joint exercises. do they believe that will have direct impact on the ground, even a state department official saying there are limitations to this move but they do believe it will send a strong message to the current government there in egypt. >> so, dan, the other leverage that administration has over egypt is this more than $1 billion in aid. the administration is not calling what happened a coup, because that would obviously trigger a pulling out of that aid. but how are they going to use this as leverage? what happens to the aid? >> and you're right, brianna, that's the key thing. it really is sort of the biggest stick if you will, leverage, that the u.s. has in trying to push the current government there along to this transition. the administration does not want to label what happened in egypt a coup because they have said