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Called that crackdown, quote, the most serious incident of mass unlawful killing in modern egyptian history. white house officials made it clear they have no intention calling morsi's ouster a coup, publicly hedging on whether the administration plans to suspend aid to egypt. >> that review is ongoing. that review is being made in light of actions that are taken by the interim egyptian government. >> is it fair to characterize the president is still considering officially calling this a coup as part of the aid review process? >> no. >> ruled this out. >> we've said for sometime now -- >> you'l...

U.s. law for our assistance to the government of egypt. the president also had asked the military not to arrest president morsi or his supporters, though it appears that morsi is under house arrest, and the muslim brotherhood's supreme leader has been arrested, charged with the killing of a number of protesters outside his headquarters. the president's statement expresses concern but carefully avoids criticizing the military. it calls for a new government in which all voices are heard, those who protested and those who supported morsi as well. arthel? arthel: wendell, what's the reaction on ca...

That give him unchecked power. now you have some of the same people, the young literal protesters, who took to the streets to topple mubarak, calling morsi the new egyptian pharaoh. he's concerned and says the obama administration, particularly president obama and secretary of state hillary clinton have to be much tougher than they've been. they've been almost silent so far, and come out strongly this week in condemning morsi's power grab and in effect threaten them with u.s. military aid, economic aid. a debt forgiveness deal. so there's a lot of leverage and we have to start using it. >> he'...

It doesn't look like israel has reversed any way of the cease fire. hamas held their fire as well. although hamas says they're going to launch a protest with the egyptians who mediated this deal over the shooting incident. so far we don't have any reports of more shootings in the gaza strip. that is a good thing going forward. in egypt, the large protest in tahrir square against the president and the muslim brotherhood. the muslim brotherhood president, mohammed morsi, just issued some decrees which puts him above the judiciary and also exempts his parliament from any type of judicial review. ...