husband and six defendants were cleared by an egyptian court on sunday. earlier this month, you may remember i asked egypt s president about the case. translator: we always act within respect for the law, and egypt, as well as the judiciary. whenever there is a case according to the president of the law and constitution, we take action. i would like to reassure who are interested in this case the case is being looked into in the courts. as soon as there is a verdict, it will be decided. bret: one former american egyptian political prisoners has 19 americans are still jailed inside egypt. human rights groups estimate there are 60,000 political prisoners in egypt. united nations officials say
streets that we have seen before. this really shows how much support the muslim brotherhood has lost. at the same time, how much stronger the army has gotten inside egypt. the army has a firm hold on power now inside that country. they don t have a very good hold on their relationship with the united states, though. just yesterday secretary of state john kerry showed up in egypt to show a little damage control. at one point washington, d.c. and cairo were close in terms of relations. just to give you an idea of how much the u.s. has lost influence inside egypt for the first time now in more than 30 years, a russian president, in this case vladmir putin, is now scheduled to visit egypt to talk about having relations with that government. a very different situation that we used to see here in the middle east in terms of egypt s alliances. back to you. jenna: certainly a meeting we should watch. thank you. jon: there are new indications that the games from the u.s. surge in iraq have pret
something that is good for not just our party but for this country. oh, reince, i ve used that talking that point myself. joining me now is christina. thank you for being with me today. nice to join you. robert, you had a piece and you went behind the scenes looking at this shutdown debate among republicans in congress and on the one hand the leadership is acknowledging that it s a losing strategy but at the same time they are having to thread the political needle. here s something you wrote. the delicate political situation has forced boehner and cantor to work against the shutdown caucus but without antagonizing it. it s a wink-wink order. what is this idea of maybe not shutting it down but use the debt ceiling debate to slow it down. what s the strategy here? it s a really difficult situation for house republican
and restitution, job assistance, that is the way to go. like you said, it was jim web, the senator from virginia who quoted your statistics, 25% of the world s incarceration. either we re the most evil people in the world or we re doing something wrong. what do you hope it is? i hope that we re doing something wrong. you also support the legalization of marijuana. how would that affect the incarceration rates? let s start with marijuana. we heard mr. holder s comments and i applaud them and any sound-thinking person would. there is no substance. what does a gang affiliation mean, what does a low-level offender mean? we need leadership and caring leadership that we don t have today. maybe he slept better on monday night for having made this statement but there s in substance. where is the clemency that
incli inclusive kind of language. our leverage in egypt is not the money we give them. it s decades of human relationships both in the intelligence services and the pentagon. the human relationships are very strong and not everyone supports general sisi. i think it s important to realize that he s taken that country across a line and it needs to come back and we may need to mix up or try to mix up the leadership inside egypt and hopefully potentially without him. you know, am bar dos ross, how nervous does this make israel? because one of the things it strikes me, as so many things in the middle east, it s not just about what is happening in egypt. there are implications for israel and other parts of the evangelical john. i think the israelis are nervous for good reasons. there are a lot of jihadis. when morsi was president, he did nothing about that.