more than 24 hours after at police broke up two pro-morsi sit-in camps. protesters were fighting back. the chaos spread to other cities in egypt. state of emergency declared and a nighttime cure few was put in place but the turmoil shows no signs of letting up. leland vittert has more for us. leland. reporter: the army and muslim brotherhood say they are not backing down. we ve not only seen government buildings torched but churches torched in revenge by muslim brotherhood because they kay the coptic christian population is supporting the army. today in cairo it is the day after. you also have protests and you have massive cleanup operations underway. there is overwhelming military presence there especially in the center part of this city. you have the police out and you have the army out. and then obviously you have the families out of the dead. more than 500 people died there and that who is, they are going to bury.
msnbc. kristen welker, thank you for the latest. outside of condemning the violence in egypt, the united states is staying on the sidelines in egypt. is that the right move? to talk about that is steve clemon, washington editor at large, for the atlantic and also founder of the american strategy program at the new america foundation. steve, what i want to know, as someone coming to this is, are we making the right move, from your expert opinion, are we making the right move in staying on the sidelines john kerry called it deplorable. the united states hasn t gone further than that. is that the right move? no. from the moment that morsi was removed from office, the united states should have suspended aid or suspended a significant portion of the aid. we did cancel some fighters. but that wasn t enough. they should have sent a stronger signal. not necessarily because of concerns about democracy but largely more broadly about what signal it sends to a very important group of young
come from the president s speech this morning. i think what we want to look out for is how he describes what the u.s. considers acceptable outcome in egypt. things are so unusual right there in egypt right there. we know this because the administration refused to use the words, military coup dedescribing what happened in egypt. i think steven said coup/not coup, we can do that either way. this is the time for fantasy football. you go first. i m going to plug politico s morning money. please tune in. big shoes. i m excited. angela. i want to plug and shout out all of the people working diligently on the march on washington corporation. and brad? i would like to wish happy birthday for my son and shameless plug for children s hospital of philadelphia taking care of a very important young
morsi supporters for torching churches and government buildings and said the u.s. can t do business as usual with the egyptian military. while we want to sustain a relationship with egypt, our traditional cooperation cannot continue as usual when civilians are being killed in the streets. and rights are being rolled back. president stopped short of using what may be his most powerful leverage, the $1.3 billion in u.s. military aid to egypt, although he said further steps may be taken. jon: and i guess the president also pushed back against the idea that the u.s. didn t doing enough to end the violence? he did. he said america can t determine the future of egypt even though the u.s. has refused to declare the military takeover a coup which is obviously was. the president insisted this country has not taken sides. we ve been blamed by supporters of morsi. we ve been blamed by the other side as if we are supporters of
muslim brotherhood says it was a massacre and today as the group called for more protests, backers of egypt s ousted president set fire to government buildings near cairo. this as nations around the world, including the u.s., condemn the bloody crackdown and president obama just made a statement on the on going crisis. wendell is live on martha s vineyard where the first family is on vacation. what did the president have to say? well, jon, the president announced the u.s. is cancelling next month s joint military exercise with egypt for the sebld time second time in a row. they ve been held since two years after the egyptian-israeli peace agreement but they haven t been held since 2009 because of political upheaval. mr. obama said the u.s. opposes the military s declaration of martial law and also criticized