are we being cut out of this equation? bret: yes. even heard them say our influence in egypt is pretty minimal. i thought that was eye-opening to hear from the defense secretary to say because a relationship between the military, u.s. and egyptian has been very significant and $1.6 billion of military economic aid has always held some weight. it is now trumped by 12 billion plus by gulf nations, saudi arabia. they have an interest seeing the muslim brotherhood because of the potential threat to their owner team. martha: an interesting thing of why he has had a great week. he looks at what happened in egypt, though the united states is not being persepolis in what is going on egypt, standing back