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Happening in ukraine, how would you describe it? the way, you know, it appears on television is, you have forces for freedom, democracy, and a relationship, an organic relationship, with the west, battling against a pro-russian president. is that what's essentially happening? >> that is not my impression of -- my impression, it's in essence a divided country. the eastern part is orthodox, russian oriented. the western part, the further west one gets, is a form of catholicism -- >> and western -- >> and pro-west. so i think the opinions are going to be fairly evenly divided. as to the parties f...

>> right, unfortunately based on what we've seen and what's coming out of egypt. she's not the only one. it's very difficult to find those who are, you know, anti-morsi, but also are pro u.s. or are, you know, pro west. this is the propaganda that has been basically growing in the country and they recent us for many reasons, for the involvement of the u.s. in toppling mubarak and taking too long to topple mubarak and there are so many mixed sentiments here, but again, it just points to the importance of vetting out the secularists and finding them. and that's where our money and attention shou...

Our coverage with full analysis. it starts tomorrow night 8:55 eastern time. jenna: serious questions about our strategy in syria as we learn of new concerns about where the weapons being shipped to rebel groups are really going. american and middle eastern diplomats claim the arms are going to hard line islamist jihaddist instead of the opposition groups fighting to overthrow bashar al-assad. potentially those groups would be more pro west or pro american. that is one of the questions being raised in syria today. jennifer given is live at the pentagon with more. first, what are we doing, jenn...

The muslim brotherhood is doing at this point the only thing they can do, turning out large numbers of people in the street. that demonstrates their popular support. and i suspect behind the scenes what you've got going on is a lot of negotiation between the brotherhood and the military. megyn: the muslim brotherhood had won a number of seats in parliament, again their candidate still claims to have won the presidency there. they say, and this is the most extremist group, i mean, you know, none of them are exactly u know, pro west, but some more than others, even the muslim brotherhood candida...

We hope this euphoria doesn't lead to, you know, a hangover and leads to the willingness of the people and the new government to roll up its shirt sleeves and get to work on establishing a secular, a pro-west, a free, a democratic government at peace with its neighbors. i mean, egypt is strategic to the united states and others around the world. just think about the suez canal. not only commerce and oil, but u.s. naval ships pass through there from the east ports of the united states to support our operations in iraq and afghanistan. as well as fight the pirates in the gulf of aden. so it's cr...