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Morning. Morning joe starts now. Which sets us apart from the terrorists, as we believe in the dignity of every human life. Palestinian, muslim, jew, american, christian, everyone. If you give that up, the terrorists win. We can never let them win. President biden is back at the white house this morning after a jampacked trip to israel, where he promised continued support for americas ally and cautioned against ragefilled vengeance. Meanwhile, his administration is working to address the growing humanitarian crisis in gaza ahead of an expected Ground Invasion by Israeli Forces. Well go through...

Perspective and since we're shifting to egypt, the dilemma has been for the u.s. between wanting to maintain its strategic interests, the passage through the suez canal, unlimited access to the waters, etc., etc., and between one thing to advocate for the values of just human rights, democracy, free speech, etc., etc. and at this point that balance is difficult to strike so from a human rights perspective, we expect them to pressure their friends. >> what about the president in terms of both egypt and syria but let's focus on egypt for the moment given what is going on over there. is there a s...

All of the aid from a country where we have a lot of interest in terms of balance in the region. if we take away all the aid tomorrow, we have no leverage. anna is right. we should condition that aid on making sure egypt is moving in the right direction and egypt's leaders are moving toward essentially that representative government that morsi was not able to give them. if we take away that aid tomorrow, that's it. our influence is gone. we have limited influence in the region. we need to use what we have. that aid is part of that. >> i want to switch gears and talk about texas governor rick p...

It approaches gaza. >> is it time, because we have heard from the state department, is it time for the president himself to publicly speak on this or the white house to issue a statement on what morsi has done the last few days? >> the president has been clear through his first term and will be this term about the power of democracy and necessity for democracy in every country, and he's spoken meantimes about the importance of democracy in the middle east not only in egypt but libya and beyond. so he will be speaking on it. we've seen the secretary of state clinton out there very active in thi...