0 going to be an injection of muslim brotherhood leadership into the arab world. people were predicting this was the beginning of the long talked about caliphate in the region. things have changed. the people of egypt want this thing called quality of life. they didn't like islamic laws being implemented. they didn't like the fact the economy was in the toilet, education was nonexistent and tourism insreubl. now they are calling for the president to leave and the military weighed in and they put the president on a deadline to meet with their opposition, especially emphasizing the youth who they say brought on this continuous state of revolution. >>gretchen: he's not going to do that. he's saying i was democratically elected to run this country, and so he's rejecting what the military is asking of him. i think it's fascinating because remember when this happened, guys, we talked on this couch about is this what the people of egypt want? do they want somebody like president morsi to lead their nation? would it be so much better than who they had who was president mubarak. now maybe they're finding out maybe not so. >>brian: he had four ministers resign. the head of the military said i call it quits. >>eric: what i find fascinating is president obama backed the people. he said i'm with the people if this is what they want. i'm backing them, even though hosni mubarak was an ally. he worked with the united states. now the people are saying we made a mistake. we didn't realize the muslim brotherhood was going to have such an influence in our government. they didn't understand that. now president obama is saying not so fast, people of egypt. you don't have so much of a say. >>gretchen: did they understand it and could it be they would elect somebody else and they wouldn't be happy with that either because change takes time. remember when russia went through their entire revolution and everything changed. it didn't happen overnight where they were a successful nation and suddenly democratic in nature and capitalism was on the rise. you always have this down swing. i'm not sure exactly if the people, is this what they wanted and now they don't like it, would they go back and change their mind? did they want morsi at the time. >>brian: it's great to be a terrorist and outliar and say how bad hosni mubarak is but then to be in government and have no vision, i think the people begin to see that. as you guys know, the people that caused this revolution had nothing to do with the people who took power. they were sidelined by the muslim brotherhood poised waiting for this moment, unprepared to utilize this moment. i thought charles krauthammer nailed it when he talked about the president of the united states immediately call for mubarak to leave but sitting opbd sidelines now. -- sitting on the sidelines now. >> obama the bystander. here are the egyptians in the millions on the street trying to bring down a government increasingly dictatorial, increasingly intolerant, arresting judges, trying to islamac i ze their military. what does the president do? says he's not supporting either side. yet he took the side of the people, demanded mubarak had to go. morsi represents a movement which is essentially deeply anti-american and deeply antidemocratic and yet he's neutral on this. this is a shocking position for a president to take. >>eric: the important point here is that whichever way president obama decides to go, that will likely be who wins in this battle going on in egypt. if he sides with the people, you will likely see a regime change. morsi will probably have to leave. if he in fact sides with morsi, they will uprise but probably the -- very importantly the military will probably stay with them. >>gretchen: who do the people want? have they named somebody they want? >>brian: i think what is going to happen in the interim is the military is going to take over. that to us is great news for america because we have trained most of those officers. we have great relationships with the egyptian military. and they have proven to be the most powerful entity in the government. they took over before the elections and i think they're about to take over again. and the police sided with the military as well. they gave him 48 hours. they say you have 48 hours to meet with other factions. you can sit in your building but you're there without the cops, without your military, without your ministers. he better have a backdoor. >>gretchen: let's look at how the u.s. has supported egypt over the last couple of years. just a big blur because it is pretty much the same number year after year, $1.6 billion from 2009, slightly less in 2013. thus far pledged $1.3 billion. >>eric: i think we also gave them some f-16's? didn't we hand over some? >>brian: we did. rush limbaugh is going to be live with us at 8:30 to talk about this and so much more. rush limbaugh live this morning from his studios. >>gretchen: in the meantime, edward snowden still trying to figure out a place where he can call home now. he's making new asylum bids. i think there is a list of about 15 countries that he supposedly requested, including germany and france -- >>brian: france, italy, ireland, nicarauga, russia, poland, switzerland, spain, venezuela. he could leave with the venezualan president. >>gretchen: russia has apparently now essentially turned him down. they told him we don't want you to give up any more u.s. secrets. we will not extradite you to the united states but you can't stay here if you continue to give up united states secrets. >>eric: they also gave him a free pass saying we'll let you go to any of the countries you want to go. we're not going to hold you up and we're not going to extradite you back to the united states. >>brian: how unbelievable is it that vladmir putin says if you stop leaking secrets, if you want asylum, stop leaking secrets, harming our american partners, as strange as that may sound coming from my lips. stop leaking secrets. there's many theories about this. a lot of russian experts weighed in. they thought, number one, at the beginning they thought they had a piece of gold, a great propaganda tool, they put out documentaries how this guy represented all these great truth seekers in the past. now they are realizing we can't get him off our tarmac. no other nation will take him. china dumped him on us and could this actually boomerang? could there be a russian spy willing to tell secrets? could this be bad precedent in the future? >>gretchen: could there be another reason why russia allowed him to stay for a little bit. let's listen to ralph peters on the o'reilly factor last night. >> the russians are draining all the -- they are down loading all the intelligence he's got, questioning him. snowden is trying to make them happy because he wants asylum. for putin, once the russians have the intelligence, snowden is a liability. the chinese downloaded his computers, told him to hit the road. putin is going to hang on a little longer, question him but eventually he'll move along because snowden is a liability. >> no offense to colonel peters, how does he know what the chinese have? does he know they downloaded his files? could we bifurcate this issue. whether or not you agree with what ed snowden did or not, did he it. the other is you have to say what the n.s.a. did was, in my opinion, unconstitutional. they did things the wrong way. they did things they weren't allowed to do. those are two separate issues. we have glenn greenwald in the next hour saying he's got more information on what the n.s.a., their tactics. >>brian: let's hope every 29-year-old decides he's better fitted to be the guy who does our national foreign policy. let him decide to reveal our secrets to jeopardize our relationship with our allies in france, germany and throughout the european union, 27 countries strong. he caused an uproar that hurt this nation. >>eric: did you think we weren't spying on anyone? does anyone in the world -- >>brian: does it work to anyone's interest to have it revealed. >>gretchen: i don't think that is a revelation. we have a lot to debate. this cop was arrested four times in seven years and still has a job. even worse, he's not alone. how does it happen? charles payne has an idea. next. >>brian: did you see jimmy kimmel last night? we'll guarantee you'll never see anything like this. we'll show you what happened. 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