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Democrats on capitol hill, they're not here yet, they're out in their districts. you can't deny this a good thing. they had their doubts about the president in al ceci, but this is something donald trump took a particular personal interest in, and he made it happen. >> bret: tim. >> i was a little surprised at the timing, because i thought friday, putting it in a news dump day, as opposed to monday. the other side i was struck by, bo berg dahl was released and having the parents and the father started speaking arabic. that had americans raising their eyebrows. i thought this was a good thing. ...

Democrats on capitol hill, they're not here yet, they're out in their districts. you can't deny this a good thing. they had their doubts about the president in al ceci, but this is something donald trump took a particular personal interest in, and he made it happen. >> bret: tim. >> i was a little surprised at the timing, because i thought friday, putting it in a news dump day, as opposed to monday. the other side i was struck by, bo berg dahl was released and having the parents and the father started speaking arabic. that had americans raising their eyebrows. i thought this was a good thing. ...

President is looking to get out of this meeting? >> well, what both militaries, the egyptian and the u.s., have a long history of cooperating together over the years -- exercises, training, use of egyptian bases. but the world has changed with president el ceci in power in egypt. a lot of criticism of his human rights record. like michelle said, the u.s. wants him to go after terrorists, wants him to go after the brotherhood, to go after isis, which is very much taking hold in sinai, a big concern there about that. so, they're going to want to see some work done on counterterrorism by the egyp...

That embassy. >> that's right. if you look back, wolf, several weeks ago, about a month ago, when president-elect trump called president el ceci about that vote at the united nations and said, i need you to put that vote on hold, so, now the president of egypt is calling, saying, look, you need to look at this and be more carefully considered about what you're going to do, you know, president trump has said all along the campaign, you know, day one, i'm going to move the embassy, but the more, our understanding is, the more they talk to diplomats, the more they talk to allies, and even israel,...