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public s help tracking down a man who hit and killed a man at 8:30 last night. cheryl hurd is in san jose with the latest in the investigation and the clues that might help them find the driver. cheryl? reporter: police don t have many clues tonight. it was dark at the time of the hit and run. but chp officers are trying to get the word out because they believe that somebody saw something that can help them solve the case. he just heard a loud thump and that was it. it doesn t make sense. he would never cross in the middle of the street. reporter: maria is almost certain that the man who was hit by a truck and left for dead is the same man who gets off a bus here at 6:45 every evening. he used to have a suitcase on wheels and he used to bring that along with him every day at quarter to 7:00 every day. reporter: on saturday police say someone hit him while he was walking just east of harriet avenue in san jose. an older model pickup truck unknown make and m ....
and pre-occupied with that but on the other hand he also handed out packets to the journalists on events that s happening here on the ground. and portraying to them the government s side. the government in the past 24 hours has gone on a pr offensive. there s been several statements from officials addressing the events of the last few days, all of them say they are fighting a war against terrorism and projecting this as a conflict for egypt s future and stability not a political dispute but more interesting, the ambassador to washington came out with that statement that the egyptian government was trying or at least going to review the u.s. aid and that certainly caught a lot of people here by surprise. in recent days the egyptian government has been trying to assert more of its sovereignty. it s one of the things it s criticized for, over the years it was seen that it was somewhat of a lap dog on the u.s. government s hand because the former regime of hosni mubarak was ....
alongside with brian shactman, joe will be here shortly, don t worry about that. on set senior political editor and white house correspondent for the huffington post sam stein, president of the council on foreign relations, richard haas. good to see you. author of the book foreign policy begins at home the case for putting america s house in order and in washington columnist for bloomberg view al hunt. start off talking about a-rod, look tat the front page of the new york post, a-roid rage has the last laugh in the sixth inning. i will say i m a red sox fan, interest of full disclosure. these are the things that can turn a season around. when the red sox won the series in 04 that spat with jason vary tech and a-rod where vary tech took it to a-rod when he seemed bigger than the game turned his season around. if he gets to play out the rest of the year it s big for the yankees. also something wrong with the rules of baseball. after the pitcher goes after a-rod ....
if a program like stop and frisk is abandoned, will people die? well, i think, no question about it, violent crime will go up. a san diego mayor bob filner, the citizens of san diego have a message for you. it s time to resign. i m chris matthews. so anchoring with we want to begin tied with the ongoing crisis in egypt. enter islamic militants are on the ground taking responsibility for the execution style killing of egyptian police in the north si sinai peninsula. the lawyers for hosni mubarak says their client should be released from custody in the next few days until any court proceedings begin against the former president. reporter: chris, a lot of moving pieces here, showing how volatile this situation has become. you mentioned the killing of 25 police soldiers, police conscripts in the northern sinai happening this morning after they were taking off a bus and shot execution style. they were simply on vacation. but it gives you a sense of the incr ....
implications and then the domestic, political side of it here in america. for that we have two people who know. former white house mideast adviser, ambassador mark ginsburg. for the politics of it all, dana millbank. first to you, ambassador. american aid to egypt is about $1.5 billion a year, but $1.3 billion of that goes immediately back into american private corporations defense contractors for egypt to buy weapons. just cutting off aid to egypt isn t exactly the answer because that would have a negative impact on america. toure, there s so much naval gazing going on with this foreign policy issue it seems we re getting totally lost in the weeds here. the fact of the matter is that the egyptian generals do not need this $1.3 billion or $1.5 billion. whatever is left in the pipeline for the rest of this fiscal year is about $300 million. the saudis and others have said they will step in and fill the gap in. let me tell you, it s just a matter of time before vladimir ....