we don t believe it s necessary to hastily reach a determination. we have determined that we do not need to make a determination. isn t that the we have determined that it is not in the best interests of the united states to make that determination. and obviously, jen, it wasn t this difficult in mali. you had generals taking over a democratically elected government and al qaeda controlled half the country and the u.s. government called it a coup and aid ended. being consistent calling egypt a coup seemed pretty clear. so from the u.s. point of view the bad guys who were democratically elected got kicked out by what america felt were badder guys, but they still kicked them out undemocratically. when you look at it that way, isn t it fair to conclude that was a coup where america liked the winner so we don t want to call it one? well, a coup is a definition and we abide by our legal obligations. this was obviously looked at very closely by legal teams
law. so, i just want to play for you what you and others in the administration have said so far about this crucial word coup. uh-huh. we don t believe it s necessary to hastily reach a determination. we have determined that we do not need to make a determination. isn t that the we have determined that it is not in the best interests of the united states to make that determination. and obviously, jen, it wasn t this difficult in mali. you had generals taking over a democratically elected government and al qaeda controlled half the country and the u.s. government called it a coup and aid ended. being consistent calling egypt a coup seemed pretty clear. so from the u.s. point of view the bad guys who were democratically elected got kicked out by what america felt were badder guys, but they still kicked them out undemocratically. when you look at it that way, isn t it fair to conclude that was a coup where america liked the winner so we don t want to call it one? well, a
being consistent calling egypt a coup seemed pretty clear. and the bad guys who were democratically elected got kicked out by what america felt were badder guys but they kill kicked them out undemocratically, when you look at it that way, isn t it fair to conclude that was a coup where america liked the winner so we don t want to call it one? well, a coup is a definition and we abide by our legal obligations. this was obviously looked at very closely by legal teams throughout the administering, but we look at this as bigger than events that happened on one day or what the name the name terminology is. we re looking at this about our broad relationship with egypt. and that s the reason we made the decision we did, which was not to make a determination and we abided by our legal obligations. thanks very much to you, jen saki. i want to bring in john king who has been following the case and the president. and you heard jen talking about
by executive order. when the president looks like he s taking what was a terrible tragedy that all of america felt very strongly about and looks like he s just using that to leverage a liberal agenda. i think people have a lot of problem with that. this should be a national debate. this should be something where both sides take their story to the american people and they should let democracy figure this out. well, isn t that what the president s doing? i mean, jamal, give me your sense, then, as somebody who obviously has had experience with this both on the political front and on the personal front. realistically, given what you ve said about the difficulties, especially for people who are in some of the more rural or more conservative states, what gets done? i think you probably get the high-capacity magazines done. i think universal background checks is very easy. most people agree with that. whether or not you get assault weapons done, i don t know you get that done, but part o
context, it wasn t true for too many people. most of the top were doing very well. but for ordinary families all across america felt as if people were working harder, making less while the cost of everything from healthcare and college were going up. jobs were being shipped overseas. we ran two wars on a credit card. we turned surpluses in deficit and it culminated.. heather: and this speech from president obama there in chicago. we ll bring you any additional information. kelly: we ll continue to follow that and monitored it for you. meantime, governor romney s vp pick sparking a battle over medicare. both campaigns using some scary language regarding its future. is medicare the hot new topic that will decide november elections. our political panel will weigh in. heather: congressman paul ryan now in the history books as