>> long after he retired, allen got the chance to vote for an african-american for president. he later was a v.i.p. at president obama's inaugural. the only inaugural he ever attended. i turn you over to wolf blitzer in "the situation." americans warned to leave egypt. the violence spiraling out of control, prompting president obama to speak out. also former congressman ron paul is here to talk about baobama care, a possible government shut down, his son's political possibilities. and when martin luther king, jr. went off script and made history. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >> it's certainly one of america's most important allies

in the middle east. right now egypt is unraveling as the world watches. the united nations security council will hold an urgent meeting this hour in new york. the united states is telling americans to get out of egypt. the state department says if you're in egypt, leave. if you need help, ask. and if you're planning to go to egypt, don't do it. more than 500 people were killed in clashes yesterday, thousands were injured leaving the country reeling. fred joins us live from cairo. what did you see today on the streets of the egyptian capital? >> reporter: hi, wolf. the emotions here still absolutely charged in cairo. what happened today is i went to a mosque in cairo. what was in the mosque was a lot of the people killed in that crackdown that happened yesterday. there were supporters of mohamed morsi who told us as many as 500 bodies were inside that mosque. we didn't get the chance to count them because there were

people coming in, trying to take the bodies of their relatives out for burial. of course these people were grieving and they were very angry. the muslim brotherhood was saying when that crack down happened, they were caught off guard and were in disarray but they say they are going to be back. we saw some of that around cairo. there was an administrative building attacked by pro-morsi supporters that had to be evacuated. it was also set on fire. tomorrow the muslim brotherhood is calling for large demonstrations here in cairo. the authorities here have already said that if the authorities are attacked, they will counter that with live fire. so it looks as though it has all the ingredient, if you will, for this to spiral further out of control and to get worse before it gets better. >> because there have been attacks on government buildings, there have been attacks on police. the military is now saying the security forces if you violate the curfew and there's marshall law, a state of emergency under

way right now, or if you do any of those things, you're not going to be resisted with water cannons or tear gas, they're going to shoot and kill you. is that right? >> reporter: that's absolutely what they're saying. they're saying they're going to play hard ball and certainly it is certainly where they have shown that this is something they're willing to do. the whole crackdown that we saw on wednesday was then giving a very clear statement to the muslim brotherhood that they're not going to take any more of the demonstrations of the sit-in. they call that a jeopardy to the state of egypt. they say that's why the crackdown was so harsh. there's absolutely no doubt in anyone's mind that if tomorrow there are larger gatherings in front of, for instance, military installations, police installation, that the authorities will most probably return live fire as they have done in the past couple of days. so very, very, very emotionally charged situation. i can tell you one little anecdote from today, when we were at the mosque, there was a

military vehicle that may have strayed into the area, it was immediately pelted with rocks and bottles and it also responded by the soldiers shooting in the direction of people pelting it with rocks. right now both sides very much at odds. i can tell you this country is absolutely polarized, wolf. >> a terribly dangerous situation unfolding right now. fred pleitgen, stand by. >> president obama is cancelling joint military exercises between the military and egypt and says they are weighing further steps. the president is vacationing on martha's vineyard. dan, what else did the president have to say about egypt? >> reporter: wolf, the president said the cycle of violence needs to stop. he condemned the actions of the military government and announced the u.s. is pulling out of joint exercises, a move that a senior administration official had been discussed as early as june but that the president made up his mind just last night.

after a telephone briefing with his national security team on the escalating violence in egypt, president obama emerged from vacation mode in an effort to jolt that country's interim military government off what he called a dangerous path. >> the egyptian people deserve people. >> reporter: cancelling bright star, a long time joint biannual military exercise set for next month. >> our traditional cooperation cannot continue as usual when civilians are being killed in the streets and rights are being rolled back. >> reporter: this stepped up pressure comes amid calls to suspend the $1.3 billion in annual u.s. military aid to egypt, something that would be virtually automatic if the white house would call the military ouster of former president morsi a coup. but the obama administration has dug in its heels, insisting it would not be in the best interest of the u.s. >> does anyone in this building feel that perhaps it was a

mistake not to call what happened in egypt a coup? >> we don't feel that -- no, i'm not doing a retrospective and our position is the same. >> reporter: high level talks, a delayed shipment of f-16s and blunt criticism over refusing to call the operation a coup -- >> if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. >> reporter: some thing making the changes now will not have the desired effect. >> the task will be to diminish our relationship with egypt. we're finding that egypt is not the kind of country with which we can have the kind of intimate relationship we've had for more than three decades. >> reporter: the president, who headed to the golf course after his brief statement on egypt, left the door open to tougher action. >> i've asked my national security team to assess the implications of the actions

taken by the interim government and further steps we may take as necessary with respect to the u.s./egyptian relationship. >> reporter: white house state officials say that that $1.3 billion in aid to egypt is still under review. as for the impact of cancelling the military exercises, even the state department seems to acknowledge that there are some limitations. the spokeswoman over there, jen psaki, saying despite the changes, it won't make any difference on the ground. >> thanks very much, dan lothian, on martha's vineyard, where the president is vacationing. let's get reaction to the president's remarks. joining us is john mccain, joining us from phoenix. he was just in cairo last week with senator lindsay graham at the request of president obama. thanks for joining us, senator. did the president go far enough on egypt? >> no, of course not, wolf. a long time ago we should have

complied with our law, which we were asking the egyptians to comply with rule of law. we violated our own rule of law by not calling it for what it is because our law clearly states that if it's a military coup, then aid is cut off. so initially we undercut our own values and then we are told that in media reports that the administration called in the egyptians prior to the coup and said if you have a coup, then we will be required by law to cut off that aid. they had the coup and then of course we didn't do that. that's a blow to credibility. and then on the 1st of august, the secretary of state, john kerry, said that the military that the generals were, quote, restoring democracy. that was about the time that senator graham and i got over there. so our message was release these people from jail, have a

constitutional change, set up a national dialogue and move forward with elections. obviously that wasn't as impactful as it might have been given the statements and actions by the white house and the secretary of state. so we predicted, unfortunately, that there would be blood in the streets and it's a terrible tragedy. >> what you're suggesting, senator, and you'll correct me if i'm wrong, that that statement from senator kerry that he made in pakistan and i'm going to play it for our viewers right now, that undermined the mission that the president himself had given you in going to cairo. here's what the secretary said. >> the military was asked to intervene by millions and millions of people. and the military did not take over to the best of our judgment so far, so far, to run the country. there's a civilian government. in effect they were restoring

democracy. >> i take it that's the statement that irritated you; is that correct? >> well, i just think that it -- it gave a degree of legitimacy to a nonelected government that was appointed by the generals. we know who's calling the shots. and it gave them a certain legitimacy which then in their view i think may have interpreted as a green light to take whatever action necessary to put down any opposition. and, wolf, you and i remember and i hope many of our viewers do, in the 1990s there was an uprising in algeria. they put them down brutally at a cost of about 200,000 lives. and i'm afraid we may be seeing that algeria scenario again. there's no doubt that they can kill enough people they can probably bring at least some order, but to think that they're going to eliminate the muslim

brotherhood flies in the face of the history of muslim brotherhood, who have managed to survive under mubarak and will be able to survive perhaps underground despite the efforts of the generals to eliminate them. >> are you suggesting, senator, we may be on the eve of a full scale civil war in egypt perhaps along the lines of what's been unfolding the past couple years in syria? >> i think it's more along the algerian model. i think that this government probably has enough military capability, a lot of it our equipment, that they can probably quell disturbances. but i don't think that they can put it down. i think there will be acts of terror, i think that there will be tremendous unrest. and, you know, wolf, our interests are our values and our values are our interests and it is both our values that are being violated here but also our

interests of a stable egypt which we know is the heart and soul of the arab world. and to repress in this way with this kind of slaughter is something that makes it incredibly more difficult to get what is absolutely necessary and that's a national dialogue and reconciliation. and that is going to be much more difficult now. >> you heard the president announce today he was cancelling bright star, the joint u.s./egyptian military exercises that takes place in sinai every two years. thousands of troops from both countries and european troops participate. that's gone. i'm sure you support that decision. but what worries me, senator, i don't know if it concerns you as much, the 700 american soldiers who right now are in sinai at a time of a growing al qaeda presence, part of that multi-national peacekeeping force that's been in place quietly all of these years since the israeli-egyptian peace

treaty was signed in 1979. how concerned are you about those american troops who are lightly armed in sinai? >> i'm concerned about that. i'm concerned about the safety of american citizens. under mubarak, as you know, there was a tremendous amount of anti-americanism and anti-israel, which was fostered by the mubarak government. this government is fostering that to an incredible degree, pictures of president obama in the street and our fine ambassador there, ann patterson. they accuse me, the leading newspaper in cairo said that john mccain had hired muslim brotherhood on his staff. the intensity of the anti-americanism, which is being stoked by the military junta makes a lot of our american citizens unsafe. so what does that do to egypt? one, it drives up tourism. it harms any business interests

they might be able to have and of course the image of egypt throughout the world is badly damaged. so they are really on a very, very bad path here and in this day and age of instant social networking and communication, i would have grave -- i would have serious doubts as to whether they're going to keep everything -- be able to keep everything under control. >> would you pull out those 700 american soldiers from sinai? >> first of all, i'd consult with our military people and ask about their security and safety. i'd have to make that assessment with the facts. but there's no doubt that as a result of all this that sinai is erupting, it's much more dangerous in the last few months than it's been in many, many years. the side effects of these things, the morsi supporters are now attacking christian churches. the implications and ripple

effect of this kind of thing going on is far reaching and terrible and tragic. >> senator mccain, thanks very much for joining us. we're glad you and senator lindsay graham are back safe and sound from egypt as well. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> coming up, a huge car bomb explosion, raging fires, more than a dozen people killed. now one group apparently no one has ever heard of says it is behind this deadly attack that occurred today. >> also, the new jersey governor chris christie has advice for republicans as they brainstorm about their party's future. >> you either sidle up next to them and whisper sweet nothings in their ear and hope you don't punch them. or the second alternative is you punch them first. punch them first. max and penny kept our bookstore

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republican leaders are huddling again, trying to plot a way back to the white house. first the first time, they're getting advice from governor chris christie. jim acosta is in boston at the republican national committee's summer meetings that are unfolding right now. what's the latest there, jim? >> reporter: wolf, you'll recall earlier this year from republican presidential candidate bob dole said the gop should be closed for repairs. this is where they're trying to make some those repairs at this rnc meeting that's happening right now here in boston. they brought in a certain governor from new jersey, chris christie, as you just mentioned there, wolf, who has some ideas on how to fix it. inside the hotel right next to the boston convention center -- >> i have just called president

obama to congratulate him on his victory -- >> reporter: where mitt military gave his concession speech last november, top republican leaders are in search of ways to break their losing streak. so they huddled behind closed door to hear how governor chris christie handled business in his state. he talked tough about his dealings with the new jersey teachers union. >> you either sidle up next to them and whisper sweet nothings in their ear and hope they don't punch you. the second alternative is you punch them first. >> reporter: he also delivered what some consider a veiled jab in his recent war of words with republican rand paul. >> i think some folks believe our job is to be college professors. >> for our ideas to matter, we have to win. because if we don't win, we

don't govern. and if we don't govern, all we do is shout into the wind. so i am going to do anything i need to do to win. >> reporter: christie's comments were obtained by cnn and "time" magazine as the speech was closed to the press. >> who made the request for this to be closed? >> there's no request. it was a closed event. a lot of what happens is closed because it's a business meeting of the party. >> reporter: other events were open to the media, like this panel discussion saying the party is more inclusive. >> to govern people have to decide that they want your ideas. >> reporter: another top speaker at the rnc meeting, newt gingrich said a positive gop agenda could even beat hillary clinton, if she runs in 2016.

>> thank you, mr. chairman, members of the house of delegates. >> reporter: she announced earlier this week she'll be delivering an upcoming series of speeches on the topics of the day. gingrich called that a mistake. >> reporter: can anyone beat hillary clinton? >> sure. hillary clinton may beat hillary clinton. she may isolate herself so much from the average american that she defeats herself. >> reporter: as for christie, the new jersey governor also told the crowd here that the party needed to get away from what he called navel gazing. that sounded like a jab to louisiana governor bobby kristol to a lot of the people in this room, wolf. but christie went on to say there really isn't anything wrong with the republican party's principles. he said it's the strategy, their approach to winning, something he says he's got going in new jersey now. >> is bobby jindal, the

louisiana governor, is he at these meetings as well? >> reporter: he is not here. and neither is rand paul. christie was able to work on those jabs. no response from the senator on the governor, wolf. >> bob acosta, thank you. >> when we come back, the former republican congressman and former presidential republican candidate standing by to respond to governor krchristie. and i'll ask him whether his son has what it takes to win the nomination in 2016. he's got a new tv channel as well. we'll discuss when we come back. ♪

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congressman, the former republican presidential candidate ron paul sits down with me. what he says about obama care, a potential government shutdown, whether his son's potential plans for 2016 are unfolding, all that and more coming up. >> at least 14 people dead, hundreds injured after a car bomb rocks lebanon's capital of beirut. we're now learning about who's to blame and the intended target. >> and 50 years later, the dramatic moment in martin luther king, jr.'s famous "i have a dream" speech that may have changed history. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." the stage is clearly now set for a new battle over obama care and a possible -- possible government shutdown before the end of september. some republicans say they're willing to go that far in an attempt to defund what's called the affordable care act or obama care. let's talk about that and much more with the former republican congressman ron paul.

he's retired from congress but he's still very busy. we've got some new information, congressman, about your new chapter. but let's talk a little bit about obama care and republicans because newt gingrich, the former house speaker, now the co-host of the new cnn "crossfire" said this yesterday. he said "i will bet you for most of you, you go home in the next two weeks when your members of congress go home and you look them in the eye and you say what is your positive replacement for obama care, they will have zero answer." he said it's one thing to just complain about obama care and you need an alternative and the republicans don't have one now. what say you? >> well, i think there is an alternative and i actually practice medicine under that alternative before medicare and medicaid and it wasn't all that bad. people weren't suffering, there was nobody out in the street without medical care. i think the market offers an alternative. but the republicans have never had a good alternative.

they generally just say, well, a limb less obama care type medicine would be adequate. but the only thing that they have offered i think would be important to allow people to have some choice is to have the medical savings account, let people opt out. this pressure and mandate that you have to be in it, that's unamerican. why can't people take care of themselves if they want to and are kacapable of doing it? they worry about the close down of the government. i worry about that too. i opposed all the expansion of government in all the programs because i thought we were en route to a very serious economic disaster, but the closing down that i worry about is the closing down of this country with something similar to what's happened in detroit. so just the fact that you're for obama care and the government taking care of us from cradle to grave, it doesn't mean anything if you can't pay for it. we're running out of steam and running out of ability to pay

for this. >> if there were no affordable care act, 30 million or maybe more americans would have no health insurance. you got to do something about that, right? >> well, yes, it's a complicated problem because of how it was messed up. i was raised in a family of five in a depression of world war ii. they never had insurance. nobody went without insurance. but it's the system that has been created by government intervention that makes people do this. the whole idea of how you get a tax deduction, you know, the fact that big corporations can get a tax deduction, they can give medical care to the people but if you are independent or a small business owner, you are excluded. so you want to get rid of the hindrances and just not dwell on what are the complications when you get rid of all the bad things the government has been doing for a long time. people have lost confidence, they've lost the understanding, they never want to apply market forces to medicare.

it's the fact the government has been so involved that the cost is so high. this is the real problems, the cost of medicine is way too high because right now we have corporate medicine. under this administration as well. the drug companies, insurance companies, they're the ones who write these laws. it's corporations that are making out on this deal. >> congressman, i got a few quick political questions. give me some quick answers and we're going to move on to you and what you're up to right now. the new jersey governor chris christie, he spoke at the rnc. is he someone you could vote for? >> no. i couldn't vote for him because i don't think he agrees with probably anything i say. >> so if he were the republican nominee in 2016, you wouldn't vote for him? >> no, no, i wouldn't do it because he offers nothing, no change, just the status quo. it's more big government and that's not what i've been about. he talks about, well, you have to, you know, bend your rules and compromise in order to get elected so you can run the government and govern. well, there's more to it than

that, more to it than just power and to say and do anything you want just to be in government. you have to believe in something and understand economics or you just keep doing the same thing and deficits keep running up. that's why nothing changes whether you have a republican or a democrat because basically it's one party and that's where the frustration comes from. and now they're arguing over power alone and not issues. >> does your son, senator rand paul, have what it takes to do what you couldn't do, namely, win the presidential republican nomination in 2016? >> i would think so certainly. i think it's a little early to be talking about this. some of my supporters are still wanting to count the votes from last year. i think it's a little early to start talking about 2016. but he's certainly capable. compared to the rest, he certainly is capable. >> who would you prefer the next fed chair, larry summers or janet yellen? >> i don't have either one.

they're identical. they both believe in the federal reserve, they believe in economic planning through the expansion of interest rates so my choice is nota, none of the above. the two you talk about, they believe you should come to the rescue of all corporations of all banks, be the lender of last resort and bail everybody out. and monetizing debt. can you never change the course of what has happened to this country, a downhill course economically, by endorsing this principle that's a hundred years old and has destroyed 98% of or dollars since 1913. to say there's a big difference between yellin and summers, there isn't. they're smart enough to know what the interest rate is and what the money should splooi should be. no one person is capable of doing that. >> i see a sign behind you.

it says "the ron paul channel." what's up with that? you want to compete with us? what are you planning on doing, congressman? >> yes, we are competing with everybody in the sense of getting the news out. but this is an internet channel, it gives me an opportunity to keep doing what i've been doing for 35 years, talking about the issues and cnn and fox, nobody offered me a job on regular tv so i thought i'd go with the competition, which allows me a lot of flexibility. and one advantage i have with an internet channel is i don't have to worry about advertisers, i don't have to worry about time circumstances, you know. i can go about my own speed. so there's a lot of advantages to this. but the most important thing is i see this as an opportunity for me to continue to do what i have considered important ever since 1974, the first time i ever ran for office, and that is talking about what i think is important and it really is the cause of liberty. i think that is so important,

whether civil liberties, a sensible foreign policy or economic liberty. and there's a large number of people coming to the on this, certainly on the college campuses where i go frequently and the reception is good because most of the young people realize we are in serious trouble and we cannot continue with the status quo. so i'm very happy i have this opportunity to continue to talk about the issues. >> i see you're still as feisty as ever. one quick question. it's not cheap creating this new internet channel, the ron paul channel. who's coming up with the cash to pay for it? >> well, the people who want to look at it will have to because i don't have the advertisers to do that. so people who sign up will pay a fee for this. but, you know, somebody -- and i've had criticism even from some of my friends. they say oh, almost ten bucks a month? that's expensive. that's the price of two sunday "new york times" newspapers and you know what newspapers are doing these days.

so they have $10 they want to spend on two sunday editions of the "new york times" or come and hear some information and interviews that i have to offer on the channel. i happen to think it's a pretty good deal for the subscribers. >> what's ashton kutcher's role in all of this? there are reports he was among those who are financing it. >> who was it? >> ashton kutcher, the actor. >> well, i didn't hear that but it doesn't sound right to me. i don't have any one person financing it. >> not one person but he's among those who have been supporting you. you're not familiar with him. he's an actor. he plays steve jobs in the new film about steve jobs. >> no, if he's a supporter of mine, i'm just sorry and i apologize to him for not recognizing him. >> you have a lot of supporters, congressman, over the years we've gotten to know you quite well and we always appreciate your joining us here in "the situation room."

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a huge car bomb rocked the southern suburb of beirut. this is known as a hezbollah stronghold, one with heightened security. this is the second such car bomb in two month, really going to show there is more spillover from the syrian civil war. i say that because what's happening here is many people are convinced that hezbollah is being targeted because they are participating in syria's civil war, because they have sent fighters in to support the syrian military in their fight against the rebels. we saw very chaotic scenes on lebanese television tonight, thick, black plumes of smoke, many cars set ablaze, we got disturbing reports that people were stuck inside burning buildings. one resident said he's concerned this will continue to happen because he believes hezbollah is being targeted by sunni militant islamic groups and they say they

will continue to target hezbollah because they are participating in the syrian civil war. >> we'll stay in close touch. thanks very much, mohammed. be careful in beirut. when we come back, christian churches caught in the bloodshed as vice president reels from deadly violence. arwa damon is standing by.

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in just over a week from now, the country will be celebrating the historic march on washington and martin luther king jr.'s "i have a dream" speech. there are some potentially never-before heard stories. brian todd has details. >> reporter: many of them were so young that summer. martin luther king jr. himself, only 34. but they led hundreds and thousands on a march to the nation's capitol. time magazine captures that moment in a tribute to king centered around the celebration later this month. the youth of the key players then was publishing this tribute now. >> they are still with us. they can tell their own stories

a at the was so important to talk to them directly and hear their memories of that day. >> reporter: the memories come from people like clarence jones, king's speechwriter. in a testimonial on "time"'s website, he describes a moment where he grabs the audience. >> i'm listening to the speech and as i'm listening, i see that he is reading while he's speaking. tell them about the dream, martin. tell them about the dream. his whole body language changed and he changed to the baptist preacher stance. and i said to whoever was sitting next to me, whoever that was, i said, these people don't know it but they are about ready to go to church. >> when king's body language changed, so did the speech and with it a movement. >> i have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its

creed. we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal. >> time's tribute called "one dream" includes rarely seen photos and plus the hard cover edition. it illustrates how the march on washington attracted major celebrities, like charleston heston and civil rights historian says that came from king's private collaboration with singer harry bellafonte. >> harry asked him, quite frankly, what can i do to help? and king's response was that he needed to bring the presence of hollywood people and others of high visibility in to some relationship with the movement in order to continue to elevate the status and statue of the movement. >> that calculation worked, as did another one.

clarence jones says when they were planning the order of speeches, martin luther king was originally scheduled to be in the middle of speeches. jones said he should be put at the end because he'd be tough to follow and his advice was taken and it was historic. >> folks were saying that until that pivotal moment, he wasn't exactly exciting people in that huge crowd. >> right. in the first part it was a policy speech and he was losing the audience and then the gospel singer interrupted him and said tell them about a dream and she and others had heard an earlier version at a rally. >> and the rest is history, as we say. >> right. >> you can see much more of "time"'s magazine issue at

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mocking president obama. so why is the right wing so outraged? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." shock, grief, and simmering rage in egypt. just a day after ferocious clashes left the city of cairo with more than 500 people dead, thousands wounded. the streets of the egyptian capital are quiet with burned-out vehicles and rebel between security forces and supporters of the ousted president mohamed morsi. there are rows of white shrouded bodies in a mosque. violence is still flaring. on the out skirts of cairo, a mom burned a government building in giza, a couple miles from the ancient pyramids. president obama today strongly

condemned the military's crackdown and announced a punitive step. >> while we want to sustain our relationship with egypt, our traditional cooperation cannot continue as usual when civilians are being killed in the streets. 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 scheduled for next month 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. we call on those who are protesting to do so peacefully and condemn the attacks that we've seen by protesters, including on churches. >> when he says churches, it's a serious, serious problem. the christian community in egypt, what's left of it, very, very worried. let's get more on what the

president is referring to. let's go to arwa damon who standing by. christians are fearful right now for their very existence as a community. aren't they, arwa? >> reporter: they most certainl egypt trying to urge a political resolution. this is exactly what they were worried about. this kind of violence targeting egypt's christians. amid the scorched walls and the small village outside of cairo, this man silently sweeps, seemingly oblivious to the others around him. i'm sad, he says.

my religion tells me to come clean. i cleaned the church. the church is my home. the islamist pro-morsi mob attacked at night, leaving and then torching the building. what makes it more painful is that the perpetrators are from around here. they know some of them. at least 30 other churches across the country were attacked in less than 24 hours. egypt's minority christian community finding itself in a crosshairs of a battle of which they have no control. the violent started after morsi's ouster on june 30th, this father tells us. they started organizing marches and demonstrations chanting outside the church, chanting down with the church. he says he will continue to preach about the need for peace and tolerance. but it is going to take time to heal egypt's many wounds.

while we've been filming inside, some of the people kept on closing the door. they are worried that those who carried out this attack would see us here. they are concerned about our safety and all of this as well. and even while this cleanup operations under way, there are still great fears that similar attacks are going to become more frequent in the future. as we depart, gunfire on the overpass. we're signaled to go back. someone tells us it was a demonstration. an ominous sign, perhaps, of what's to come. and wolf, there are many reasons for people to be greatly concerned here. the muslim brotherhood are calling for even more demonstrations to take place on friday. and as we know only too well and as we have seen, the more violence there is, the more potential there is for even greater violence that remains for the future. >> arwa damon reporting for us. arwa, thanks very, very much.

it's certainly not just egypt on fire. 2 1/2 years after the arab spring began, the -- much of the arab world is in flames. in lebanon today, a car bomb exploded in the beirut area. 14 people dead. in iraq, at least two dozen died today in a series of car bombings, mostly in baghdad. and u.s. chemical weapon investigators will soon go to syria where the civil war over the past two years now tops more than 100,000 dead. joining us now is our chief national correspondent john king and the middle east expert, professor at university john hopkins. vali, thanks for coming in. how interconnected, if they are, is this violence that is

exploding in the region right now? >> in egypt we're seeing a major reversal of the arab spring which started as a democratic process. now the military has stepped in. in syria we saw assad not even letting the arab spring get off the ground. the other which which they are connected is that a big part of the change in the arab world was that islamists came to power. they came to power in tune ne . >> this is a nightmare for the region, certainly for the country and the people who live there. it's also a nightmare for the president of the united states, john. because the u.s. has so many critical interests in that part of the world with egypt exploding as it is right now. this is a dangerous situation. >> and pick the countries you just went through and the

options if you're the president of the united states, secretary of state of the united states, generally range from bad to worse. there are no good options. there are no magic options. in egyptian, the administration walked away from a bet. it made a bed that supporters of mohamed morsi were coming. they tried to get the government on a path towards new elections and it was trying to broker between the rival fashions in egypt. now you are hearing that they condemned this military and weeks ago they had hope that the administration made a bad bet and, b, you're hearing a course of criticism that there's another example of america leading from behind. is that. >> certainly opportunity look like the u.s. over these past six weeks since morsi was removed has had a lot of influence with the egyptian generals. >> largely because they think

that the president pushed mubarak off and then basically washed our hands of egypt. we didn't help the country in the right direction. they assumed that we accepted the coup. we called it the restoration of democracy. we refused to call it what. it was a coup. and then when the coup began to face difficulties, we're turning on the generals. we're not making a lot of friends. we're creating a lot of enemies and we don't have a strategy here. we are reacting to events based on what is happening in the street but nobody knows what our game plan is and this is the most important arab country and the situation is quite difficult. >> the decision that the president had to make, he's canceled the joint exercises scheduled for next month but he's certainly going forward with $1.5 billion in economic and military aid. >> and the administration belief believes, wolf, that it has limited leverage.

it's tied to the aid, the money, and it's tied to the relationship between the generals who know generals and colonels who know colonels but the critics are beginning to say, if you have these relationships that are supposed to work in a crisis like this, they are supposed to say, general, you know me. dial it back. where is the proof that that works? >>s you >> as you know, he was calling the top general in egypt almost every day over the past six weeks. what good did that do? >> well, it's what he is offering them? we are not offering a way out. >> what would you do? >> largely, we should have had a plan as to how we're going to help the general deal with this situation. so they've rolled the dice, they've came in, they are facing stiff resistance. they can't go back. we have to find a way forward. and it cuts both ways. in exchange for the aid we're

getting cooperation and faster travel of the ships through the swiss canal and it's aid to american industry. if we're cutting off the aid, we're cutting off jobs in the united states and that there have other implications in this kind of climate. in some ways, we don't have as much leverage. the egyptians have more leverage on us. >> john, thanks to you and niva to you as well. they are happy getting free f-16s and battle tanks from the united states. the jobs may be here in the united states but the egyptian army gets it for nothing. should the u.s. holt that $1.5 billion in economic aid to egypt. we're going to have a debate between two former state department insiders. and a very rare court-martial for a u.s. army general after an illicit affair with a junior army went bad.

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a u.s. army general now facing a rare court-martial after an illicit affair with a junior officer. it all ended in allegations of sexual abuse. it could be a test of the military's new get tough policy. what happened, chris? >> this involves sex on hotel balconies and small offices in afghanistan. but some are already saying that the military went too far in charging this case and hasn't done enough to inspire trust in other potential victims. bri ga dear general jeffrey sinclair texts, "you are so hot. you excite me." in one exchange, the accuser writes, i love you mr. sexy pants and the gentles her, you are my homeless panda. the younger is a female who had

an affair with a general. it's a black eye for the pentagon still reeling from the estimate that 26,000 troops were assaulted last year. >> the bottom line is, sectixua assault is not tolerated or condoned. >> reporter: allowing commanders to transfer accused troops so they don't come in to contact with the victim. >> unfortunately, with one exception, these really just tinker with the margins. >> the pentagon's only significant change is assigning a lawyer to advocate for victims throughout the process. >> they fall short of real reform. >> defense secretary chuck hagel also issued a new memo to the military ordering them to ignore remarks from president obama who said those who commit sexual assault should be -- >> prosecuted, stripped of their

positions, court-martialed, fired. >> that comment did result in an impact in some of the cases that were ongoing. >> judges in some cases found the commander in chief's comments amounting to unlawful command influence and dismissed the charges. >> i don't know how somebody can, in essence, unring the bell. >> an attorney argues hagel's memo is too little too late. >> in fact, i'm pretty convinced it's not effective to tell people to ignore it. >> he represents general sinclair, a married general charged with forcing an officer 17 years younger than himself to have oral sex. but jeff says those text messages we you a earlier that this relationship, while clearly wrong and against the rules, is consensual, and it really represents the murky area that the military is wading in to as it attempts to combat this problem, wolf. >> chris lawrence, thank you, over at the pentagon.

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stopped smouldering but accident investigators are bracing themselves for what may be a longer than usual investigation. the national transportation safety board briefing ended just minutes ago. listen to what investigators know so far. >> no evidence of an uncontained engine failure. there's no evidence of a preimpact fire. and there is evidence of debris ingestion of foreign debris, such as dirt and wood debris from trees. now, all of this is a preliminary look at the engine and the engine will be transported to the manufacturer for a complete tear-down. >> all right. so what board members are saying there, essentially, is that the engine did not violently break up in flight.

as far as the debris found in the engine, that is not surprising either. it's consistent with reports that the plane hit trees before crashing. now, today investigators were able to recover the flight recorders. they couldn't do that yesterday because part of the aircraft was still smouldering. you can see the recorder on the right badly damaged, covered in soot there. compare that to the recorder one month ago in the asiana crash. despite the damage, investigators say they are cautiously optimistic they will get data off of the recorders. they are going to be working on this throughout the night. we should know by tomorrow if they are successful. certainly this would make for a very complex investigation if they are unable to pull that data off because, of course, the two pilots, they passed away in the crash. there was no distressed call that we know of. so those recorders are really going to be crucial. >> they will let us know what they find out. thank you very much, rene, for

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the money. and a clown who performed at a rodeo is picking up big name conservative support. and the son of the legendary white house butler speaks with cnn. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." getting back to our top story, an extraordinary burst of violence leaves egypt staggering. the united states provides egypt with $1.5 billion in military and economic aid each year. 1.3 billion goes to the egyptian military. if they were to call it a coup, the aid could be called off. all of that is under review. the military money to egypt flows as normal. joining us now are two guests. p.j. crowley and aaron david miller. he was an adviser to six secretary of states.

let me read to you what senator rand paul said to you about the 1.5 billion in aid to egypt. with more than 500 dead and thousands more injured this week alone, chaos only continues to grow in egypt. so mr. president, stop skirting the issue. follow the law and cancel all foreign aid to egypt. you think, aaron, that would be a blunder? >> i think the president and the u.s. is in an investment trip. it's too important to the country. so the president, i think, wisely and willfully is trying to find that balance. walk that line, suspend f-16s. >> the delivery? >> yeah, which isn't part of the 1.3. cancel bread star, the joint exercise that was canceled once before but hold back on suspension of u.s. military systems. and by the way, i am under no illusion that the continuation of this money is going to change one iota the general's

conception of what they need to do. but suspension of the assistance won't do it either and that is the nature -- that's the cruel predictament in which we find ourselves. >> you say suspend the money right now, p.j.? >> i say we should have done it six months. less communicating with the general, the president sent a strong message to the generals today. the real problem is how do you entice the muslim brotherhood who has a coup followed by violence against them, how do you entice them back in to the political process so you get to where everyone wants, a return to civilian rule and democracy. the conditions are getting worse in terms of the ability to do that. >> with this a coup in egypt? >> of course it was. >> was this a coup in egypt, aaron? >> was it a coup? >> yes, it was. >> if the law will stipulate that it's a coup, u.s. military

aid should stop. >> yes. and the administration has found, because of its own conception of what constitutes american national interest around that. it's walking a fine balance. the law is the law, no question about it. is the president obligated to follow it? have you seen a grassroots movement in congress or among the american public to suspend military systems? egypt? the answer is no. and there are reasons for that. >> part of this is about the credibility of the united states. if you don't call this a coup, you are never going to call something a coup and so the narrative that the united states advances in the region is in favor of democracy is being decimated by what is happening here. i would say that the military aid is one thing. you also mentioned that we only give $250 million in civilian aid. what egypt really needs is economic assistance, you know, to create jobs that can address the challenge of a rested and young -- >> they are getting 10 or $15 billion from the uae, from kuwait, from saudi arabia.

they've decided that they want this anti-morsi government in power. >> the longer it takes egypt to recover, the harder it's going to be to -- >> how do we do that? >> i can't answer that. we will not be the central driver in this narrative. >> you served in the military. you and i go way back to your days at the pentagon, p.j. isn't the military in egypt the most, quote, pro-american element in the egyptian society? >> sure. i'm very sympathetic to this. we're searching for leverage. we have a very weak hands to play. >> they are a lot more pro-american than muslim brotherhood. >> but if you understand what is going on behind the scenes, we told the general not to conduct the coup.

they did it anyway. we told them to provide a civil government. they are making mistakes. the really question here is, if we have leverage, how do we use that to get egypt back to civilian rule in a very aggressive time frame in six to nine months. >> even one of the fiercest opponents of morsi, the ousted president of egypt, the former head of the iaea quit yesterday. he couldn't stomach what was going on anymore. >> yeah, and he's trapped in a very difficult position. we've provided $1.3 billion to a regime, wouldn't allow the kinds of protests and demonstrations. how now -- and this is an interesting point. how now can we suspend military assistance to a government, to a people that is generally trying to cope to find another way out of this? that's an important question. i think the president realizes.

but above all, i think he realizes that the u.s. will not be the central after here, will not be the central driver and ultimately we are not going to fashion a democratic policy. >> what do you think is going to happen in the next few weeks with egypt? >> it's going to be very difficult. >> the violence will continue? >> the violence will continue but really the greatest challenge in the next several weeks is how do you entice the muslim brotherhood to participate in the political process? otherwise, what we've been complicite in -- >> i don't think the military wants -- >> all we've done is move from one to another and move back to the old guard that ruled egypt for 30 years. >> the reality is that joining the brotherhood is not like joining the health club. this is an organization that has a long-range view of egypt's identity, the kind of power that

it wants there. that view, my judgment, doesn't coincide with an american view, either our interests or our valleys. and i would argue that it may not coincide with the views of millions of egyptians. >> we've got to leave it there. good debate. a debate as much as a good discussion. thank you very much for that. let's get to the most unbelievable images out of egypt. we want to warn you, the pictures you are about to see are very disturbing. brian todd has collected some of the strongest images over the last couple of days. brian, show our viewers what you are seeing. >> wolf, the images are so powerful and such heavy volume that we've had to comb through them again to comb more of these pictures and videos. we start with a scene like we've seen, a crowd is moving from a confrontation and a person is cut down in a split second. watch closely moving left to right, a veiled woman videotaping the protests in cairo. as she moves backward, the

sounds of gunfire. in an instant, as the camera repositions, she's on the ground. in this video posted on the website liveleak, you see the crowd around her dragging her away. she appears to be seriously wounded. her eyes wide open. we don't know who shot her. what kind of chaos is this when either side could shoot down a harmless woman in the street? >> they believe that they are engaged in a struggle that is an all or nothing struggle. so there is no room for compromise. >> egypt's binge of violence plays out on social media. these are the most graphic videos we feel we can show you. on twitter, an injured man in a wheelchair. he was killed after this was taken. cnn is unable to verify that. this video captures an apparent sniper on the rooftop of a building. the person posting it calls him the sniper of death. as you can see, the person videotaping this appears to be hiding. still pictures circulating on

twitter, facebook feature violence and other accounts say this vehicle was pushed over. video from an egyptian news site captures the impact and this picture of the aftermath. there was at least one person inside. by this twitter photo of a family mourning a loved one, a caption with one word, heartbreaking. in a single day, more than 500 people, including policemen, would bring global saturation media coverage for weeks. >> if you listen to the arab broadcasts, this is shocking. this is all over the place. however, if you read the american newspapers, it may be above the fold but not necessarily. >> ucla says what is make this so disturbing is we've all been so spoiled. they termed the coin arab spring

believing we have a cleaner and swifter move to democracy than we have and now we're in the midst of a sugar crash and a key component of what has gone on this week, i've had two analysts tell me that the egyptian security forces are no good at riot control. they are good at battlefield strategy, combat, intelligence. when it comes to crowd control and moderating violence on the street, they can't do it very well. >> obviously that's a serious problem. brian, thank you very much. p.j. crowley and aaron david miller is still here. there is another side here. 43 police officers were killed yesterday by some of the mobs, if you will, pro-morsi militants. christian churches are being torched. there's two sides to this story. >> there's more than two sides to this story. it's the fragmentation of politics in egypt at a time when our policy and our approach is trying to bring it back together

again. it's going to be very, very difficult. >> it's going to be worse before it gets worse and in large part it's our own illusions that have conditioned us to believe in hollywood endings. when this started in the spring of 2011, the notion that the arab spring would somehow perceive in even fits and starts toward a quicker transition to democratic life was an illusion because the basic requirements for democracy, strong leaders who believe in a national vision, a mechanism to basically debate without violence and without paralyzing your society, the most divisive and emotional questions, these issues, these factors don't exist in egypt and we better condition ourselves to the reality it's going to be a long time coming. a long movie, wolf, and a tragic one. >> aaron david miller, thank you very much. p.j. crowley, thank you very much as well. up next, the growing backlash of a rodeo clown who made fun of president obama. what's going on? and a big political surprise from a former republican

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clowns are supposed to make people laugh but when a rodeo clown made fun of president obama started a national debate that's getting louder and angrier right now. here's cnn athena jones. >> this is infintile this is worse than political correctness. >> the firestorm over this mocking of the president has created a firestorm of its own. >> he put on an obama mask. he's a rodeo clown. >> conservative commentators like rush limbaugh and glenn

beck are defending the act that caused an uproar with moments like this. >> president obama! >> hey, i know i'm a clown. he's just running around abltct like one and doesn't know he is one. >> soon as this bull comes out he's going to get you. >> tuffy gessling has been banned to perform for life. his supporters are reaching out on his facebook page, even starting a petition on the white house website asking the president to defend him. a white house spokesman had this to say. >> i haven't heard about the president's reaction if he had one. i can tell you as a native missourian, it's not one of the finer moments of our state.

and now stockman invited him to perform. the dixie chicks caused a riot in 2003. some radio stations refused to play their songs. the missouri chapter of the naacp wants the secret service and the justice department to investigate the incident. to the dismay of fox news sean hannity. >> really, you want to spend your hard-earned taxpayer money like this? >> they are aware of the incident but they've determined that this incident does not rise to the level of a threat. the justice department has declined the comment at this time. wolf? >> athena, thank you for that report. believe it or not, a member of the bush family appears to be rooting for hillary clinton. barbara tells "people" magazine she thinks the former secretary of state is, quote, unbelievably

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tour. let's bring in ted rowlands. he was in the courtroom watching it unfold. what happened, ted? >> well, wolf, it was not only emotional. it was incredibly engaging. she talked about what it was like to live a life with michael jackson, things like bearing his two eldest children. talked about watching a movie with him, "to kill a mockingbird" and calling gregory peck to talk about the movie, and watching his fall into addiction. it was absolutely mesmerizing. >> which side did she shep? >> aeg brought her on and she did one thing for them and that was to establish that michael jackson was using proposal for decades going back to his day for arnie cline who she worked for. for the jackson family attorneys, though, she humanized him more with these anecdotes and stories and jurors were riveted to that. so, i think in totality, she really helped both sides.

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back to work for prince william his first public appearance since bringing his wife and new baby home. was at an agricultural show, check it out. next month he finishes his tour of duty, by the way, as a royal air force search and rescue pilot. he also sat down with cnn royal correspondent max foster for an exclusive interview. you'll be able to see it monday first on cnn's "new day." then later here in "the situation room." presidents come and go but for many years a man named eugene allen was just one step away from some of the most powerful men in the world. he was the white house butler. and his story will soon be in movie theaters, in fact, we'll start seeing them, all of us will be this weekend, now his son is talking to cnn's dan lothian. >> i'm cecil gangs. i'm the new butler. >> reporter: it's a hollywood story built on the life of a humble man, eugene allen, the

real butler who lived and worked in two very different worlds. >> you hear nothing, you see nothing. >> reporter: allen didn't just work but mingled with the rich and powerful, heard their stories, held their secrets. like walking into an unlocked vault, his legacy lives on in this modest home a few miles from the white house where allen and his wife raised their only son charles. >> when the presidents, when they got to the point where they could talk comfortably around, you know, that's when you, you know, you kind of, like, fit in. and they would just talk around you. because he wasn't going to divulge anything. >> reporter: not even to his wife of 65 years played by oprah winfrey. >> i want to hear all the stories. i don't hear because they done swore him to some kind of secret code. >> reporter: but allen's son said the butler who served eight presidents from truman to reagan was far from a silent witness to history. >> they respected his opinion.

he was a respected man. >> that moment in the film where cecil gangs goes in and says the white help is making more than the black help here, and i think that's not fair and we should, you know, get equal pay. that is his way of warring. >> reporter: a proud black man who wasn't defined by a racial stereotype. the line between butler and friend could be blurred. >> most of the french slaves at christmas would invite our wives and children down for a christmas party. miss eisenhower used to give all the children a toy at christmas. >> reporter: toys, ties, paintings. >> these two paintings here were done by president eisenhower. he'd be out there on the porch and mrs. ford would call my mother because she said, the president wants to talk to you, you know? and they were nice people there. >> reporter: nancy reagan and her tough-as-nails reputation seemed to have a soft spot for

allen, even if her personal attention sometimes rattled him. >> she was looking for him and somebody said that -- >> reporter: she's looking for you. >> -- the first lady's looking for you. they say -- >> reporter: i'm in trouble, right? >> i'm in trouble. i'd like to invite you to the state dinner next week. >> will i be there, miss reagan? >> not as a butler, cecil, i'm inviting you as a guest. >> reporter: he became emotionally attached to all the first families but especially the kennedys. john f. kennedy's assassination rocked alton the core. that was the first time you saw your father cry. >> first time. the first time, yes. >> reporter: following jfk's funeral, allen was with jackie as she celebrated her children's birthday. in times of mourning or in the midst of the nation's racial conflicts or a controversial war, allen was just a step away from power. yet the butler never sought attention and years later

shunned multiple offers to tell or sell his story, until his wife passed away. >> you owe this to mom, man. i said, this is not about you. the fact that my mother wanted my father recognized and this happened, it means everything to me. >> reporter: dan lothian, cnn reporting. >> see that movie this weekend. finally take a look at this amazing pictures of what are now believed to be the oldest known rock carves incarvings, they we discovered etched into boulders in western nevada and they say they could date back as far as 15,000 years. researchers aren't sure what the symbols mean, but they say few are deeply -- a few of them are deeply carved in as are these. remember, you can always follow what's going on here in "the situation room" on twitter, go ahead and tweet m me @wolfblitzer. tweet the show @cnnsitroom.

thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in washington. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. "outfront" the dow drops again. 350 points in 2 days. we'll tell you what is behind the plunge. plus, president obama calls for an end to the violence in egypt, but is he doing anywhere near enough? and the latest from the hannah anderson investigation, she's set to make her first public appearance since the abduction any minute. that will happen this hour. we'll go there. let's go "outfront." good evening, everyone, i'm erin burnett, and "outfront" we begin with the breaking news of the dow dropping, nearly 350 points in the last 48 hours. the biggest selloff for stocks in nearly two