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The negotiation position of gop leaders. are we about to see a shift where the budget hawks will give a knockout to the war hawks? >> the pentagon already has been struck in year because of the sequestration cuts. there is also a strong group of both republicans and democrats who believe that the military budget should not be cut even the 4% or so that it's been cut under the sequester. it's actually less than 4%. so i'm not ready to call it a paradigm shift. you hear the nsa revelations, you have increasing discussion of drone warfare. none of which are particularly by the way large budget it...

Like water cannons being deployed on the crowds there. this is the 12th day now the protests, the turkish prime minister said to meet with protesters tomorrow. what are we expecting to happen? >> reporter: i think what you're seeing behind me is him trying to increase his negotiation position of strength. there's little of a protest, less at this particular point there may be anger tonight from the rest of istanbul as they get off work, over 100,000 people by some estimation but the real goal of the taksim platform as they call themselves opposition leaders has been to change the development p...

The biggest point of leverage. >> it also seems to me the tone is moving in the wrong direction. after the -- right after the election, there was a little bit of recrimination, a little like well, boehner sounded getting squishy and what's happened over the succession of weeks since then, as he's meeting with the caucus, there's a hardening. in terms of -- >> or a disbelief -- a disbelief -- >> comes out and says stuff like that, you read some of the local papers, these people rshs it. >> are telling their local paper we're in a bad negotiation position here. >> the problem is, had he's probab...

I don't know. >> part of this, the republican party has not developed an alternative idea set other than what they were campaigning on. is it their opening negotiation position. >> bret: we will follow every step. next up, update on the political turmoil in egypt and the administration's response. [ whistle blows ] hi victor! mom? i know you got to go in a minute but this is a real quick me, that's perfect for two! campbell's chunky beef with country vegetables,

The last warning right there. >> i wouldn't say we shouldn't slow down aid. i think we should probably start holding back a little money and start improving or negotiation position in pakistan but i don't think we should cut it off. we need a lot of questions answered but i wouldn't just go in with the suggestion that you're an enemy of the united states, we're going to cut you off completely. i think that would be pretty harmful to our long-term national security interests. >> for starters, they take supplies -- that's the split route into afghanistan so we don't want to do that. but do you y...