democrats on capitol hill, they re not here yet, they re out in their districts. you can t deny this a good thing. they had their doubts about the president in al ceci, but this is something donald trump took a particular personal interest in, and he made it happen. bret: tim. i was a little surprised at the timing, because i thought friday, putting it in a news dump day, as opposed to monday. the other side i was struck by, bo berg dahl was released and having the parents and the father started speaking arabic. that had americans raising their eyebrows. i thought this was a good thing. whether you agree with president trump or don t, it is nice to see somebody who is falsely accused brought back to the country, and she is home. maybe this leads to more with el ceci. who knows. we should point out that secretary mattis returning from this trip overseas had a lot of positive reaction to the trump administration from not own arab leaders, but also israeli
democrats on capitol hill, they re not here yet, they re out in their districts. you can t deny this a good thing. they had their doubts about the president in al ceci, but this is something donald trump took a particular personal interest in, and he made it happen. bret: tim. i was a little surprised at the timing, because i thought friday, putting it in a news dump day, as opposed to monday. the other side i was struck by, bo berg dahl was released and having the parents and the father started speaking arabic. that had americans raising their eyebrows. i thought this was a good thing. whether you agree with president trump or don t, it is nice to see somebody who is falsely accused brought back to the country, and she is home. maybe this leads to more with el ceci. who knows. we should point out that secretary mattis returning from this trip overseas had a lot of positive reaction to the trump administration from not own arab
president is looking to get out of this meeting? well, what both militaries, the egyptian and the u.s., have a long history of cooperating together over the years exercises, training, use of egyptian bases. but the world has changed with president el ceci in power in egypt. a lot of criticism of his human rights record. like michelle said, the u.s. wants him to go after terrorists, wants him to go after the brotherhood, to go after isis, which is very much taking hold in sinai, a big concern there about that. so, they re going to want to see some work done on counterterrorism by the egyptians. that is likely to be a very big thing, and russia looms not just over the horizon, but right in the egypt. in recent weeks, we ve learned that russian troops are in an air base in eastern europe, just west of libya, making their way into libya trying to influence the situation there, so
that embassy. that s right. if you look back, wolf, several weeks ago, about a month ago, when president-elect trump called president el ceci about that vote at the united nations and said, i need you to put that vote on hold, so, now the president of egypt is calling, saying, look, you need to look at this and be more carefully considered about what you re going to do, you know, president trump has said all along the campaign, you know, day one, i m going to move the embassy, but the more, our understanding is, the more they talk to diplomats, the more they talk to allies, and even israel, they would like to see this happen, not their first priority right now. everyone is telling the administration, listen, if you want to look at this, let s talk about it, let s lay the groundwork as part of a grander strategy for middle east peace, but you can t just do that and let the chips fall where they may, because it could cause a very dangerous situation. and i think the administration is s