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Husband and six defendants were cleared by an egyptian court on sunday. earlier this month, you may remember i asked egypt's president about the case. >> translator: we always act within respect for the law, and egypt, as well as the judiciary. whenever there is a case according to the president of the law and constitution, we take action. i would like to reassure who are interested in this case the case is being looked into in the courts. as soon as there is a verdict, it will be decided. >> bret: one former american egyptian political prisoners has 19 americans are still jailed inside egypt....

Streets that we have seen before. this really shows how much support the muslim brotherhood has lost. at the same time, how much stronger the army has gotten inside egypt. the army has a firm hold on power now inside that country. they don't have a very good hold on their relationship with the united states, though. just yesterday secretary of state john kerry showed up in egypt to show a little damage control. at one point washington, d.c. and cairo were close in terms of relations. just to give you an idea of how much the u.s. has lost influence inside egypt for the first time now in more th...

Something that is good for not just our party but for this country. >> oh, reince, i've used that talking that point myself. joining me now is christina. thank you for being with me today. >> nice to join you. >> robert, you had a piece and you went behind the scenes looking at this shutdown debate among republicans in congress and on the one hand the leadership is acknowledging that it's a losing strategy but at the same time they are having to thread the political needle. here's something you wrote. the delicate political situation has forced boehner and cantor to work against the shutdown c...

Incli inclusive kind of language. our leverage in egypt is not the money we give them. it's decades of human relationships both in the intelligence services and the pentagon. the human relationships are very strong and not everyone supports general sisi. i think it's important to realize that he's taken that country across a line and it needs to come back and we may need to mix up or try to mix up the leadership inside egypt and hopefully potentially without him. >> you know, am bar dos ross, how nervous does this make israel? because one of the things it strikes me, as so many things in the m...

On. no side -- the islamists and the military, no side is pure here. but we have to remember that the united states policy should be very strong for not having islamists in charge of egypt. >> you know, i want to go back to the president's news conference martha's vineyard, took time out from his vacation to denounce the violence we've been showing on our screen. what he didn't denounce were the attacks on coptic christians and these christian churches, the coptic pope is in hiding, a great many christians as well. and yet no denouncetion from this president. why is that? >> you know, gregg, i...