government, we ve sustained our commitment to egypt and its people. but while we want to sustain our relationship we egypt, our parisianal cooperation traditional cooperation cannot continue as usual when civilians are being killed in the sprees and rights are being rolled back. as a result, this morning we notified the egyptian government that we are canceling our biannual joint military exercise. going forward, i ve asked my national security team to assess the implications of the actions taken by the interim government and further steps that we may take as necessary with respect to the u.s./egyptian relationship. let me say that the egyptian people deserve better than what we ve seen over the last several days. and to the egyptian people let me say the cycle of violence and escalation needs to stop. we call on the egyptian authorities to respect the universal rights of the people.