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Retribution for a recent pakistani military offense against the taliban in their country. "the times" reports, the military says that the offensive has resulted in the death of 1,800 militants and cleared much of the region's most notorious hub of militant activity. michael, given today's attack, is the military offensive having any impact? >> that's a great question. it's a really complicated situation. you mentioned the region. the region is waziristan, on the border of pakistan and afghanistan. during my analysis of the afghan war, one of the serious problems of lack of progress in afghanis...

Hardest blow against that country. there have never been sanctions like this on russia since the end of the cold war. george w. bush didn't do anything like this when russia insladed georgia for example while he was president. what's being done against russia is unprecedented and it seems like it's going to keep going. if it's not going to be a military war, it's going to be an economic war. how do we expect russia to react, given today's fresh evidence that even as they try to laugh off the sanctions, they're already beginning to have their intended effect. joining me is michael mcphal thank ...

Came down. the president issuing a statement saying, quote: i now call on the egyptian military to move quickly and responsibly to return full authority back to a democratically-elected civilian government as soon as possible through an inclusive and transparent process and to avoid any arbitrary arrests of president morsi and his supporters, end quote there from the president. senior white house foreign affairs correspondent wendell goler is live with the latest and, wendell, what does the removal of morsi mean for u.s. aid to egypt? >> reporter: arthel, that is not yet clear. the president's...

The line here. the line that the president says we are deeply concerned by the decision of the egyptian armed forces to remove president morsy and suspend the egyptian constitution. that line alone is going to anger a lot of the supporters of the military. those who oppose morsy in jipt. the president goes further. i call to move quickly and responsibly to return full authority back to a democratically elected civilian government as soon as possible and to avoid any arbitrary arrests of president morsy and his supporters that furtherer will inflame many of those who wanted morsy out, millions ...

Hard to do? >> it's a lot easier than most things. it's certainly a lot easier than anthrax, which takes having to get the toxic form of anthrax and process that and get it down to a very granule level so it can be inhaled. ricin's easier, but again, easy to take a caster beam, mash it up, get some remnants of it. it's a bit harder to really grind it up, get an element that would be ingested or inhaled and be toxic. so, people with no training can do it, it's just not clear whether this individual who apparently had no training was successful in doing it. >> okay, we will be watching for more ...