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Desire to sustain a relationship and possibly leverage over egyptian military. >> the white house pushed back on criticism that members of the national security council met with the muslim brotherhood in washington. pointing out that republican senators john mccain anagram graham did the same on a recent trip to egypt. some argue that the state department decision to give egypt foreign aid even as its interim rulers have non-governmental organization, may have empowered the interim rulers to oust the atlantic candidate from the upcoming election. >> bret: jennifer, thank you. the head of the u...

farewell fly b-by as discovery hitches a ride on the jet and heads for a museum. i'm wolf blitzer, and you're in i'm wolf blitzer, and you're in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com this just coming in to "the situation room." we are live here in brussels, belgium. i'll have the exclusive joint interview tomorrow with the secretary of state hillary clinton and the defense secretary leon panetta tomorrow from nato headquarters right outside brussels. lots to discuss including the situation in afghanistan. certainly a crisis right now and what's going on with i...

>> we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other thins, not because they are easy but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we're willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win. shannon: almost five decades after president kennedy issued that bold call nasa is pulling its plug on the return to the moon program. this is video of kneel armstrong taking those first steps in 1969. nasa this week begins winding down the construction of their rock...

Returning to exploration, but the manner in which we did that didn't allow the six years from 2004 until 2010 to come up with a replacement to the shuttle. if we retired it at that point. and for 30 years we have been watching the shuttle land on a runway and it appeared to me that the previous program was very well satisfied with going back to the days of mercury and "apollo" landing in the ocean. i don't think that's u.s. leadership. i think we need to do things like not have a gap in our space flight program that allow -- that forces us to employ russian workers so that we can get our peopl...

The manner in which we did that didn't allow the six years from 2004 until 2010 to come up with a replacement. to the shuttle, if we retired it at that point. and for 30 years, we have been watching the shuttle land on a runway, and it appeared to me that the previous program was very well satisfied with going back to the days of mercury, gemny and apollo and landing in the ocean. again, i don't think that's u.s. leadership. i think we need to do things like not have a gap in our space flight program that allows he owe that forces us to employ russian workers to keep the soyuz flying so that w...