Wi it, understanding of what is happening. President obama made clear our deep concern made by the Egyptian Armed forces to suspend the constitution is also important to a knowledge tens of millions of egyptians have legitimate grievances with president morsi and undemocratic form of governance they do not believe it is a coup. Indeed they were demanding a new government. Lou Oxford English dictionary defines it as sudden and violent removal of power from a government. Said do they really want to say they cant recognize any Foreign Government that has en delegitimized because enough of the countrys citizens have grievances the president s spokesperson did have the motivation for the reluctance to label the action 82. 1. 5 billion of aid is under active consideration to cut off the aid. Dell think to be in the best interest of the United States to imediately change our assistance programs. Rethink. Not justify. We think it is not the best interest of United States. Were reviewing our and obligations under the law. Lou he caught himself just in time with the firstperson reference. With the foreign assistance act of 1961 requires the government to restrict the assistance to the government of any countryhat kevin is supposed by military coup or decree. The administration has decided to ignore thlaw and continue moving money to the egyptian military. But now to avoid further embarrassment after his decision to aggressively support the Muslim Brotherhood in the fiction that elections equal democracy. Joining us toght former federal prosecutor Andrew Mccarthy and the author of the best seller book the grant jihad and spring fever. Great to have you with us. The press spectacle to watch the secretary and the administration refusing to call what has happened a coup. Your reaction . Ihink it is laughable the underlying reason is because the law would call on them to cut off aid and they have not paid attention to the law up to this point. The president decides to make recess appointments when congress is not in recess and during the libya festivities he would not ll whahe was doing a war because that would trigger obligations under the war powe resolution. Lou what doou make of a president who decides he will take sides that United States has not been engaged or will not take sides in egypt where we have been a constant and steady friend and ally of the finance year for decades . It is a big problem for him because he really has taken sides. The Muslim Brotherhood in general and he is more sees biggest supporter now a lot of aid goes to the mid egyptian attila egyptian military. We give aid to egt to maintain the peace with israel and counterterrorism. For my many we have a lot more of that today. Lou and for the taxpayer you think it should be continued . Yes. I think it is worth having a discuson broadly about foreign aid with egypt in that context but given we continue to support them well the brotherhood was in power now the regime is more proerican it seems it sends the wrong signal for the most to the aid we have given them is already in the pipeline so i would bite my tongue in wait to see what happs. Lou what you think of senator john mccain calling for the suspension of aid to egypt . This is a republican senator , a failed president ial candidate who seem compelled to step to the forefront to speak on Foreign Policy issues almost as if he were the executive. As i rode ove the weekend when iraq was falling mccain said the Muslim Brotherhood should be kept at of the egyptian and government because they were a sharia activist thinking that was not mocratic. No that they have done what he wanted them to do now he wants to cut off aid. Today is monday he knows where he will say on wednesday. Lou inconsy seems to be lit elusive. The president himself says the aid to egypt was based on the appearance to democratic procedures. The Washington Post gave him a three pinocchios that would be six for any mere mortal because what could he possibly have been thinking . He has adhed agaiain and again and the rhetoric would be thrown out with any other position that elections equal democracy he has rejected that to get true democracy you have to have as a precondition a democratic culture you cannot just bring it into beingith a popular election. Lou senator cruz said lou the senator continues, in my judgment judgment, articulate intelligent propositions of the situation better than the agencies of any part of the executive branch and most of those that make up the congress d the senate. The senator is entirely ght now we need to move to the next up to the egyptians were smart enough to get rid of them maybe we should stop having Muslim Brotherhood people in the government to have a great deal of persuasive force with Foreign Policy because that has been a big problem since the administration has come in. Coming up the administration considers the zero option in afghanistan. Jeff miller will offer his perspective next. The boys used double miles from their capital one venture card to fly home for the big family reunion. You must be the boys garths father . Es from hello. Capital one venture card mother. Mother traveling is easy with the venture card because you can fly any airline anytime. Two words. Double miles this guy can act. Wanna play dodge rock . Oh, you guys and with double miles you can actuay use, you never miss the fu beard growing conte and go win whats in your wallet . Lou turning now to reports that the Obama Administration is considering withdrawing all troops from afghanistan the zero option. Politically motivated maneuver to aid the Obama Administration dealings with the uncooperative afghani president carter site and for the president to disengage from the most frustrating for a policy failure. Jennifer griffin has our report. The New York Times exclusive said it tapped tongues wagging saying is that having obama consider the zero tripp option. Appalling all troops from afghanistan leaving nine behind after 2014. The white house has made clear there is the zero option on the table. The state department pointed to the gina marie eight Conference Call th on the eve of president karzai visit to washington d. C. the president does not view these as a goal to keep troops in afghanistan. It is important to note we stated here, i think here but in public in january thats it was an option. It was a shotcross the about. Th president is very upset at the karzai attitude in the fracturing relationship but he wants to say he still has the option to pull out the american rug from underneath him. That videoconference between the president and karzai would tip the balance civic i was told it was the unmitigated disaster. Both president s went after each other with karzai traing to cut off relations with the United States because we talked to the taliban and the president tries to get his agenda through to karzai if he is not liening. It also reminds people how the forces left iraq after they could not negotiate an agreement to allow any troops tuesdaas a stabilizing force. In m alone 1,000 iraqis were killed in sectarian violence making it the most by the month in iraq since the surge in 2007. Theyre not any similarities between iraq and afghanistan. But the office has been closed in protest after president karzai said it is setting up a governmeinexile. Lou Jennifer Griffin chief National Security corrpondent. With theolitic instability in egypt the Muslim Brotherhood rejected the plan to fasttrack election and adopt the islamist drafted constitution after the interim president was named. Joining us now is congressman jeff miller also a member of the Armed Services select committee on intelligence. Good to have you with us. Good to be back. Lou start with the zero option. This obviously is a trial balloon in an effort to prepare the ground for what may be the president s position to move forward to full withdrawal of all trips spivvy this is something obama had his sights on for a long time but we will give up a lot of the ground gained by those have given their lives and shed blood a lot of this countrys treasure iproviding the Afghan People to stand on their own 2 feet and to do it too early is a huge mistake. Lou this president has made no secret he is supportive of the Muslim Brotherhood of the years and months leading up to the morsi ouster. We learned the Muslim Brotherhood will be part of the interim government. Where should the United States be . We have john mccain republican senatoror seemingly speaking for the party saying we should end a to egypt and the president says we shot. What is your judgment . It is a Political Choice that someone to do. Unfortunately i dont think it is the right move to make because egypt is critical to believe better not, i keep the peace with a very important ally in israel. The issue is whether or not what you called in egypt a coup. I picked by all definitions it is because the military went in to take the lead errata office. Both of us would call it a cut comedy to it because even if the president doesnt. He wants to continue to give aid to egypt and i do support him in that situation but time will te. Lou our military this week begins a furlough of 650,000 Defense Department employees taking 11 unpaid days in the army will cut 12 combat brigades for congressman congressman, how can this be . We have Fighter Wings on the ground, ships stayi in the port, aircrafaft carriers that is suppose to be leaving and not able to do that. We try to give the president flexibility in the department of defense through dollars around to make savings where they could but unfortunately he has chosen to use the most severe pressure that he could to make the public react to what is going on. We try to make sure washington stays within its means and we have a long way to go. Unfortunately sequester was a trigger that finally brought everybody to the table. Lou i am not sure what has occurred and who remains work is even that correct table to be see to that seated out. The American Public understand there are those of us that think we need to control spending unfortunately some of that happens within the department of defense rethink there are places you can lessenhe dollars being invested right now in certain instances but unfortunately the president says the best way is to close the white house and to start fuough the civiln population. Lou the republicans response is what . Good for the budget . Talk about living within our means as a people under the government but then there is no modesty or constraint with the ambitions or the administration that preceded it which a rival stresses of men and women in uniform stand if there is no problem if you constrain the military with a mission that we ask them to fulfill. We go to the process right now. We have reversals from iraq. Here ithe president lking about doing something in syria and there is no appetite we never should have gone into libya in the first place in my opinion. I think the Republican House has trying to put optio in front of us that dont raise taxe in order to get spending under control but the problem you talk about not only talks about active duty but also the veterans. Lou and facing as you know, it is obsce what were doing to those vetans who are being denied benefit. Were ouof time. Welways like to hear your clear and well reasoned ways i said i could go alongith a brigade but what i meant as long as we constrained the mission. For the life of me i do not know how we can do this to our military, given all the challenges we face and i hope we find a way to be constrained as well as reasonable to ensure the nations interest. Is the only thing constitutional we are supposed to do to provide the defense to the American People. That is what we wish you be doing. Lou a man. Up next obama calls on congress to hphem reorganize to run Government Agencies in the name of efficiency. With the chalk talk we will see why he suddenly needs all of the help he can possibly get. Keep on doing what we can administrativelyut we sure could use congresss help at a time when the city one re Efficient Government and they give lip service to it. Lou the presidenuses that himself as he calls on congress to hp him run the federal government better. Were not even in six full months in to the president s second term and he cries for help and he needs all he can get. Here is his painful year to date marked by an utter failures and uncertainties his yeartodate performance just going straight to the abject failures failur to oppose gun control that has sucked up much of the energy resulting in nothing but created a backlash instead of tightening n control laws but only five tight ends them as the president asked. Scandals go lower controversy over benghazi, irs and the Justice Department most recently Edward Snowden and sucking up what energy this administrationan muster in of course, the sequester. The furloughs started for more than 650,000 because of the administration the failure to stop the mandated budget cuts but by the way for historical reference sequester itself is the brainchild of the Obama Administration. They are projected to save the department of defense one preau cannot help to thinkf he did not go on a weeklong trial a trip to africa where so much money was spent, more than those 35,000 sequestered employees would have been scared. Now precarious uncertainty uncertainty, Immigration Reform as some like to call it zero or there getting debate. Those terms dont go together but the white house is desperate to have legislative victory by the end of the summer but the way house leaders are talking that is the likely to happen. Imementing obamacare. The Health Care Law is the gift that keeps giving. With the employer mandate they still have it coming we get to p up for the we also learned it will allow subsidies not using a template of certain criteria but on the honor system those seeking government aid will not have to give any proof of their income for example. This is a peculiar administration by any measure at all. Of course there is egypt. When the president was racking up domestic failures in the first german least he could have secured been lauded but so far for policy this year looks le a full one failure if not the all right disaster. Up next and the weeder now Eliot Spitzer throws his name into the have are that high in the ring . I dont remember how wows. Youll never believe if who he is running against for the job of new york city comptroller. You will love it. The a team takes that up. Next. The pursuit of a better life for our children is something we all share. But who can help prepare them for the opportunities ahead . Who can show them how to build on your success, but not rely on it. Who can focus on making your legacy last for generations to come . That someone is a Morgan Stanley financial advisor. Anwere ready to work for you. Lou we youreeclaring the new york city elections thi november has officially become a full on joe. Not only is an to the root weeder running for mayor but voters can now choose to elect Eliot Spitzerhe former governor as the city the citys next controller and what is strange he is competing agnst the manhattan matt young, the woman who said she supplied him with hoers. Joining us now to assess the deep political currents Monica Crowley former pentagon official k. T. Faand the president of Citizens United foundation david, thank you for being here. Lets start with the most Important News spitzer could face the former madam but anthony wien is contesting for the mare. You could not make this up or even with these characters that anyone would beeve kirk of the irony he will run againsthe woman who supplied his hookers when she has already declared and did in the of race. Her tweet said this will be the most fun campaign ever. Then she gave a serious interview where she set i broke the law granting the call girl ring i went to jail and paid my debt to society. Eliot spitzer never did this so she will spend every minute of the campaign reminding the people of new york he never paid his debt to society. Lou your thoughts as we see them seeking forgiveness but why not on the matter ofho has paid her debt . New york especially is a place for the second act. One of the greatest of the 20thcentury is richard nixon. He lost the presidency and could not run for governor of california but he came back dan monaco worked for him in 68 and ended the war in vietnam was piece of the released, arms control it didnt show up so well. Is that a recommendation . She is the incredible optimistic. Idled think they stand up in Richard Nixons shoes. Theyre the lowest of the elbow and those of the Democratic Party have to be called into question for even considering these to be serious candidat it says something about the Democratic Party and democratic voters unfortunately. I put my vote for the madam. She ran an effective small business, she knows what they needed in