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"ac 360 with wolf blitzer" starts now. breaking news the the death toll climbing, the shock waves spreading from egypt's day of anger. live with new developments. also tonight, with this little girl's health and life maybe in the balance chris christie makes a decision on medical marijuana, but is it enough? i'll ask her dad. later, anderson's conversation with oprah winfrey about race, justice, and the "n" word. but we begin with breaking news out of egypt. late this evening the country's state nile tv reporting new numbers, at least 33 new fatalities in cairo and alexandr alexandria, the two biggest cities 180 wounded. the wounded topping 4,000 since. since wednesday there are more than 600 people killed also new on it's facebook page the egyptian military saying they arrested 440 quote armed men and terrorist unquote. security forces clashing with muslim brotherhood fighters and attacks on christian churches. conflicting information coming in and accusations that cannot be fully verified because of the truly chaotic situation on the ground. some reporters there are calling it urban warfare plain and simple. we're being careful about our reporting and making perfectly clear which are claims, which are solid indisputed fact. one such fact, some opponents of the military government are clearly willing to die for their cause. new video tonight shows it may be very hard to watch. a man what we've highlighted unarmed walking straight into automatic weapons fire. again, this is very tough stuff. you might want to turn away right now. [ gunshots [ gunshots ]. >> horrible situation. very, very rough day in egypt. joining us now our man in cairo and joins us by phone a member of the opposition a self-described moderate e el hawarwy and arab analyst robin wright at the woodro wilson center. in cairo, many on both sides dead or wounded and squares of churches burned. what's the latest you're seeing on the ground? >> reporter: well certainly a terrible situation on the ground, especially at downtown cai cairo. what happened as you said they called this the day of rage. the muslim brotherhood and aphysical uaaf affiliated organizations were supported to go to the square and when they reached, clashes started and live fires was used. the egyptian government said there were armed people among the protesters and opened fire. the morsi supporters said the government forces opened fire first, but the clashes went on for a long time. there are a lot of people killed. we're getting information, also, from mosques in that area that there are dead bodies in the mosques and one mosque in that square where apparently a thousand people are still trapped and surrounded by armed people pro-government people and say they are afraid to come out. it was a very chaotic day. i saw some protest marches myself. they were big and went on for a long time. of course, there was a lot of confrontation and a lot of hay friday in the air. >> the hundreds from the muslim brotherhood have been arrested. you're actually worried, robin, and you and i have known each other for a long time, this country is descending into a period of civil strife, if not civil war, is that right? >> i think we all fear both sides are polarized and there is no middle ground of group of politics who are merging to create an alternative, to urge compromise or broker between the two. the international community had absolutely no impact. the u.n. is sending an envoy to see if there is any ground for compromise, anyway of the international community playing a role and ending the violence. the danger is neither side is willing to compromise now and descends into what we saw in algeria, desen grated into civil war. >> mike, you say the obama administration has been too passive in it's approach, that it's got to be more concerned about what is happening. what should the u.s. be doing in egypt? what should officials have done? >> i think that we have to be very concerned about the fact that we're basically irrelevant to this process there. i think the first thing we have to do is take a much stronger line with general cc. on the one hand, the muslim brotherhood was definitely taking the country in a bad direction but hard to see how these events will improve the situation. this is basically a return to mubarak and he ran the country into a cul-de-sac. i don't see how this could make it better. >> it seems you could make a strong case the u.s. can't make much of a difference either way, the u.s. influence in this current situation, mike, is relatively weak. >> well, this is something one hears a lot behind the scenes from the obama administration, but there is an absolute lie certainty, an absolute certainty if you step forward and say i have no influence, i can't do anything, then you won't have any influence and you won't be able to do anything. i totally agreed with what robin said about the importance of developing a third path, and that's what the united states needs to define as it's task. it needs to mobilize the international community and put pressure on cc and the organization and others to create the third path, which would be a process, a poll lit. >> caller: -- political process toward a more democratic future. >> morsi, everyone though he was elected by the people and got 52% in a democratically elected contest. you said there never was a democracy. there was an impeachment, not a coup. >> president morsi first and only objective was to build the democratic process in i giegypt do that. democracy constitutes there is a constitution that is properly done and represents the organization and secretary policies he was imposing without needing to go to the streets. there was the elected officials that we would trust and do that for us. there was no parliament or due process. he creed himself above the law and constitution and courts. he ran through a constitution that is shameful to any nation through trickery and forgery. so to begin with -- >> let me -- let me -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> he was not running a democratic democracy. it was a government that was trying to push the country to the ground. >> i know you said the military crack down on the sit down was inevitable and the muslim brotherhood and supporters used violence to be sure against christian churches, but here is the question, does the brutality of the military crack down seem like the right move? even the vice president under the new interim government he couldn't take it anymore and he quit. >> let's understand, the sit down was not disbursed by the military by police force, not by the military at all. we do believe that the police force are extremely brutal, and we have been fighting against the police and trying to inform the police for several years now. we have to remember one thing, the only person and the only authority that had the chance, a real chance of informing the police was mohamed morsi and muslim brotherhood. it was extremely clear mohamed morsi, while in power, did not want to reform the police force. he actually promoted the corrupted leaders of the police force to use them against his political opponents, and he actually used the police and anti-right police against any protesters and he was imprisoning a lot of activist and killing them while with this supporters all with the police force, and now the police force doesn't have any kind of training or any civil disbursement of violence sit down that was happening with the muslim brotherhood, only the violence they were trained on and had only the tools that mohamed morsi allowed them to have before he was i'm peached. mohamed morsi was democratically inpeached. we asked him himself to declare the -- >> hold on, hold on, hold on -- >> [ overlapping speakers ] >> hold on a second. you say he was democratically impeeched. a lot say he was removed by the military as part of a coup. mike, what do you say? >> i can't say how this can be called an impeachment. it's a coup plane and simple. everything he said just has to make one stop and say where will this left for egypt or the united states? obviously, the forces are on the ground that are polarized right now in fighting each other. neither one of them is interested in a democratic future. neither one of them is interested in any compromise. it will be up to people outside egypt to define that path and to put pressure on the egyptians to move toward it. >> the stakes for us -- >> sorry -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> let me bring robin in for a quick question. remind the viewers, robin, especially here in the united states, why the united states provides egypt with a about a billion and a half dollars a year in various forms of economic and military assistance. >> the vast majority goes to the military and a lot of it ends up back in the united states because it's for egypt and training of the egyptian security forces. this goes back to the arab israeli conflict in the 1970s and when egypt began becoming one of the largest recipients of u.s. assistance. the economic development is small. i think as the military cracks down even further, this are likely to be a lot of questions about the use of u.s. equipment, u.s. tear gas, u.s. guns, tanks, armored personnel carriers, other things put into what what role or coupebility or responsibility the united states has in this and this will be a very tough, i think, in the fall when congress comes back and has to debate the issue of aid. i think administration will come under a lot of pressure from republicans particular lay to reconsider how much aid, particularly the kind of helicopters that have been used for security purposes and to try to control the crowds in cairo. >> robin wright, thanks very much. fred, mike duran, thanks very much. important conversation. a lot more happening tonight, including late developments involving two little girls with their whole lives ahead of them and a whole lot to lose. vivian wilson needs medical marijuana and the decision by chris christie can pave the way. i'll talk to her dad and sanjay gupta. little veronica, the battle between her and her birth parents and adoptive parents. could be at the breaking point. the two sides squaring off today. we'll bring you the latest. 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