advantages, maybe a tip-off right before it happens. what jay karnney said is partly true. our military relationship with israel is strong. the relationship between the elected leaders of the country is in shambles. netanyahu is furious what he s heard from the obama administration, separating the united states and israel on this question and increases the likelihood they ll have to do something and do something alone. bret: juan, there s been a stream of u.s. officials headed over to israel, one after another, appearing to try to calm the situation and this is ahead of the visit by the israelis to washington. netanyahu s coming here and i think that you have an opportunity and i think we should all be grateful for it, direct face-to-face conversations between president obama and prime minister netanyahu. and the reason is simple, i think the united states has been trying to convey to the israelis, that at the moment, they re looking for signs that the iranians are actually
plus their recent trip to afghanistan. rapid increasing gas prices. how high and how long? with former ceo of shell oil. i m candy crowley. and this in is state of the union. the afghan government says the man who killed two american soldiers inside a highly secured afghan government building is an afghan intelligence officer. president hamid karzai has offered condolences to the families of the four americans killed since news that u.s. personnel apparently inadvertently burned copies of the koran at an air base in afghanistan. karzai called for calm but insisted the u.s. must prosecute those responsible for burning the muslim holy book. joining from me kabul, ryan crocker. mr. ambassador, let me ask you, first, the u.s. over more than ten years has spent half a trillion dollars in afghanistan, almost 2,000 american lives have been lost, and the american people wake up this morning to find that two high military officers sitting inside a secured afghan government building
military action to take out that nuclear program are outweighed by an iran armed with a nuclear weapon with nuclear blackmail. sean: we have the worst relationship with israel i can t even think back. we re doing the wrong thing. we re separating ourselves from israel. sending a message we don t want the israelis to take action. israelis is going to take action. sean: why would we give $800 million to the new government of egypt when we re dealing with the muslim brotherhood that has aligned themselves with more radical islamists. at the very moment of trying to push the military out of power? it s a very tough issue. if you look at pakistan, when we cut our military relationship with the pakistani army, it did real damage. it s important to have military to military relations, that is why you ve seen resistance to cut military aid but when they
military action to take out that nuclear program are outweighed by an iran armed with a nuclear weapon with nuclear blackmail. sean: we have the worst relationship with israel i can t even think back. we re doing the wrong thing. we re separating ourselves from israel. sending a message we don t want the israelis to take action. israelis is going to take action. sean: why would we give $800 million to the new government of egypt when we re dealing with the muslim brotherhood that has aligned themselves with more radical islamists. at the very moment of trying to push the military out of power? it s a very tough issue. if you look at pakistan, when we cut our military relationship with the pakistani army, it did real damage. it s important to have military to military relations, that is why you ve seen resistance to cut military aid but when they
aid to egypt over the years. and they now hold 19 u.s. citizens virtually hostage. will we ever learn? will we ever learn that you can t buy friendship? reporter: well, senator paul is backing the amendment to cut off aid to egypt completely. other lawmakers say it is better to control the pursestrings and possible steer the outcome. it sounds like they are concerned that some of the money may end up in the wrong hands, whatever that means. reporter: there are. the muslim brotherhood has partial control of the parliament. and they could theoretically control it. the brotherhood is saying they will not recognize israel and it plans to deny the peace treaty brokered by jimmy carter. and new warnings that cutting aid to the egyptian government, including the paul amendment could make things worse. i know an amendment being proposed to break our military relationship and cut off all