politically fraught question should the u.s. cut off aid to egypt. already the state department is taking the first steps to delay economic aid to egypt. "the new york times" reports the administration is also considering delaying the delivery of a apache helicopters and repair kits for tanks and officials decided not to dlever f-16 fighter jets and cancel joint military exercises but the central debate is over the question of the 585 million dollars in military aid still scheduled to go to egypt this year. does the u.s. use that as leverage? a growing chorus of lawmakers is arguing it's time to pull the plug on aid to egypt. >> when we threaten something, as we did that we would cut off aid, the administration did and then not do it, then you lose your credibility and your influence. >> we are going to have to suspend our aid. >> i do not see how we can continue aid. >> i do believe we have to change our aid. >> i think the actions of the

last week, no doubt cause us to suspend eight. >> it's counterproductive and shows nothing but american weakness to continue it. >> i want to bring in michael crowley and ann garran. what is the calculus the white house is weighing this morning? >> is there a bipartisan call in congress to suspend aid. really as you pointed out in your introduction, chris, there isn't a ton of aid left to go this year out of 1.3 billion. it's something between 5 and 600 that is left so they could withhold some of that. it probably wouldn't have a great effect or immediate effect on the generals in cairo but send a symbolic message than the white house has sent before. on the other hand, you have israel and powerful gulf allies and many within the

administration and at the pentagon saying don't suspend aid because as slim at, it's the only leverage we have and it will only cause greater problems down the road in you yank it than if you keep it going. >> michael, it is important to point out the majority of the u.s. goes for military purposes and a smaller portion for economic aid. is there any indication coming from the administration that they are giving any serious consideration now to pulling this money? >> well, i think the indication you're seeing now is what you would expect and which i think is typical in politics where there are these kind of half steps and half measures that are coming out into the press. maybe we would not send the economic aid, which is a very small proportion. you said most of it is military. i think i haven't done the math but it has to be something like 95%. they are talking about delaying some certain weapon systems.

so, you know, this is -- this is sort of what you might call smart politics which is, you know, symbiymbolically to put t brakes on. i think you're hearing and reading increasingly and strategic factors here like our ability to cut the line and go through the suez and air space over egypt and counterterrorism i think real concerns about strategic advantages we get behind our, quote/unquote, leverage what is happening politically. >> let me bring in republican congressman luke messert. good morning. >> good morning. >> i know you think it's too early to cut aid to egypt. why, though, at this point? when you watch what is going on over there, the blood shed that continues is it what we heard michael talking about which is the leverage on the strategic

issues like the air space and the suez canal? >> nobody condones the violence the last several days. let alone the last couple of years. we have to be very careful here. egypt has been a source of stability in that region of the world over the last several decades and one of the few countries in that region that has had some sort of peace relationship with israel with a peace treaty and we have to be very careful about what we do. i also think we have to understand the context of how these events have occurred. they didn't happen in a vacuum. the muls him brotherhood government in egypt was trying to implement shia law. the economy there was collapsing. there were millions of people in the streets. the events of the last several days and weeks are a response to that. >> well, look. you just got back from israel. but there are people who are arguing that this argument about israel security is an old one. bobby gosh writes in "time" magazine, quote, the balance of

military power isn't hardly lopsided in israel's favor. it was rasemarkable morsi movedo reassure everyone he would adhere to the peace treaty between the two countries. all of the main constituents in egypt know if they went to war with israel their country would be reduced to rubble. does he have a point? >> i think the issue is less of whether egypt would attack israel and more an issue of whether the instability in egypt is bad for america. and bad for our closest israel. i think it's hard to argue the rise of an islamic extreme government in egypt is somehow good for america and good for israel or the region. >> what is your sense, having come back from israel, if we don't cut aid, what happens there? oven obviously the instability isn't good for anybody but what do we do? >> we need to be clear about what our expectations are from

egypt. i don't have a problem with being clear with egypt that we need to continue to have democratic process there, once deteriorated the course of the last several months. >> haven't we sent that message already? >> i think we need to be clear -- >> including senators mccain and graham who were just over there. >> with the new military leadership, we need to be clear that we expect the democratic government to rise there. we need to see an end to violence and i wouldn't have a problem with tying aid to those demands. i would have a problem with cutting the aid first. i think it would lead to further instability in egypt and it would risk sending the message to the people of egypt that we are in line with the muslim brotherhood. there is a sense already of people among the people on the ground in egypt this administration is more tied to the muslim brotherhood than the forces of democracy in the region. we don't need to send a message of direct cutting of aid right now that lets the people believe somehow we are doing that because we are disappointed of the muslim brotherhood has gone

away. >> don't suspend the aid now but you're willing to say to them we expect these things to happen and if they don't, cutting aid, removing the aid will be the consequences? and if that is right, what would be that criteria? >> i think absolutely we ought to be clear and i think the two criteria are an end to violence in the region and the restoration of a democratic government there. >> thank you very much, congressman luke messer. let me bring in nbc amman who is in cairo. we know a fast moving story while most americans slept. give us a sense where things stand today. >> if you look at the last three major gopts in 23 hours you get a sense of what is unfolding from so many angles. you start out with the sense in the peninsula militants stopped police vans belonging to the

ministry of interior and executed them in short range and 25 we understand it 25 people were killed. that is one incident. giving you an indication of the lawlessness and militants rising in the peninsula. on the other hand, here in cairo late last evening the police forces here transporting 36 individuals belonging to the muslim brotherhood they allege were involved in activities the past week and transferring them from a police station to prison and in that process they killed 36 of those prisoners. they allege that the prisoners were attempting to break out of the truck that was transporting them that they were trying to escape. the muslim brotherhood said this was cold blooded murder on the hands of the police force who wanted to kill them after they had been tortured in the police station they were trying to cover it up. we understand they died as a result of suffocating after police fired tear gas into the truck carrying them. those two jents, coupled with this developing story here in cairo involving a cairo court

which has just ordered release of former president mubarak ordered his release and that s complicated the political situation. those three stories indicate how volatile the picture is here in cairo. >> thank you so much. let me bring michael and ann back in. you have an increasingly situation over there. no end to the violence there. is there anything the united states or any other western outside forces can do over in the uk today? the british foreign minister saying i still don't believe that outsiders can't have any influence, but can they? if so, what is it and how? >> well, our influence is limited. we spend a lot of time in washington talking about what will obama do about syria and egypt and how can we convince putin to do something different? he doesn't have a magic wand. america has influence in the

world right now. there are probably some things we can do. one thing indirect diplomacy to work with the countries to prop egypt up including the united arab emirates and convince them to lean on the military regime in egypt. america can also lead kind of global economic leverage. for instance the way the international monetary fund thinks about whether it's going to -- to give egypt loans to try to get its economy back on its feet. that is kind of the way you get out of a total disaster here is if they are able to stabilize the economy. one last quick point. i'm so glad you mentioned bobby's piece for "time." not a shameless plug. the larger argument he makes egypt doesn't matter as much as it used to and it's a provocative idea we are wringing our hands but a country politically and militarily so much weaker than it was a

generation ago and possible we are thinking about it with somewhat dated thoughts about its relevance. you don't want chaos in the middle east, of course. at the same time, egypt is not what it was. it's important to remember that. >> yeah. i have to say i think it is a piece that people have to read if they care about this. i was talking to richard haass about it this morning. i think a very modern idea which goes back certainly decades is this idea of the difficult situation you have when you're looking on one hand spreading democracy and human rights and, on the other hand, you have issues of security and safety and stability in the region. chuck todd made the point this morning that the administration is trying to wait this out because it's important for them to have a relationship with whoever wins. is that really what is going on here? >> there is certainly a sense in the administration that something is going to have to happen in egypt, either that the

government will move as it's promised to do toward elections which would validate the administration's attempt to maintain fairly good relationship, a fairly good relationship with the military backed interim government. or you will see a return to essentially a military dictatorship in which the military is force to do take a step back. mind you, it did have a 30-year relationship with the previous military dictatorship on which the current policy is based. it would be hard for me to imagine that two years after the arab spring, three years after the almost three years after the president's speech in cairo that that relationship would be put back together intact. >> thank you both, to be continued. i appreciate it. >> pleasure. highly emotional court appearance for oscar business

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and its 140 character messages could revolutionize the way political campaigns are run. indiana university research finds it comes down to this, more tweets equals more votes. more than 500,000 tweets were analyzed from 435 competitive

races in the months leading up to the 2010 mid terms. listen to this. in 93% of those contests, the candidate with the most mentions on twitter won! here is the really interesting twist. it didn't matter whether the mentions were positive or negative. here to talk about this is eric yabb yabberbomb. twitter is playing this increased roles in campaigns. >> 93% is pretty significant. >> yeah. >> it wasn't a small sample. it's over 400 races for the house in 2010. i mean, 500 million tweets. that's a really statistically relevant thing to look at. we have talked about this before. i thought obama got into the white house basically on social media. here you see them twitter. in the old days, the days i grew up, on a saying any press is good press, i never believed

that. i think it turns out any tweet is a good tweet. 93% got elected. >> the coauthors of this study say it levels the playing field for folks who don't have a lot of money. if you're in polling are you nervous right now? >> no. you know what? i'm -- by the way, the polsters are mostly wrong any way. but we will see which one is more right than the other. i know all of the pollsters are getting that question the last couple of days and still a relevant role for them to play. >> how is it different, this social media interaction than what the pollsters do? >> i always keep my eye on research and say this is one study, let's see if it bears itself out over time in a new medium. i can tell you the new medium whether it's twitter or facebook, you name it will play a big role who gets into office so you have to master this stuff. >> is twitter on a growth path? i ask that only 20% of internet users are on twitter and only half tweet every day.

if there is a surge, i wonder if it will make this more predictable or less so? >> i think every time twitter gets talked about like this story right here, twitter was very accurately able to predict 93% of elections in the house? that is incredible! that is off the richter scale successful. the more people hear about that the more people will get engaged with twitter. i never got twitter in the beginning but it feeds everything else you do in a social world. the way news is decimated now, twitter is almost first all the timt. >> time. >> if it's overwhelmingly bag like filner or weiner, all bets are off. >> if they did this same thing with the mayoral race i bet weiner is winning on twitter but losing in the race. obviously, there is exceptions. >> how does the campaign do this? obviously, let's say if you have a debate, especially if you have a presidential debate that is

getting a lot of attention, twitter is going to go crazy any way. but for those nonbig moment times, how do campaigns -- >> what people have to do on twitter like you would do on the show. you're engaged with people interested in you. they like what you have to say and they are mostly positive about you and why they follow you and maybe some of them you follow back. they have to learn how to play the whole game on twitter to talk to the people that are most predepos predisposed to seeing their perspective. >> great conversation. eric, great to see you. >> always great to be here arnold schwarzenegger and bruce willis and all of them could lose their vacation homes. look at this massive beaver creek fire in idaho and has already burned 126,000 acres and 10,000 homes threatened and this fire is bigger than the city of denver. the sun valley ski resorts firing up its snow making guns to wet down the mountain. what are you doing back there?

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everyone in the gop he and the governor won't be agreeing any time soon. >> the party in the northeast is shrinking almost down to nothing. they need to be looking to people with new and different ideas. what i would say is that there is room for people who believe in bigger government in our party and i think that, you know, some of the things that he seems to have promoted make us believe that, well, he thinks that there is a lot more spending that could go on. >> at the end of the week, president obama is kicking off a bus tour to focus on the economy, but he'll have company. the conservative group heritage action for america is starting its own bus tour today. its focus is defund obama care. her staj foundation president jim demint is leading the tour which kicks off today in fayetteville, arkansas. bob filner is expected to return to work today in san diego following his stint in therapy after 16 women accused him of sexual harassment. opponents of the mayor fanned out across the city yesterday to gather 101,000 signatures in a

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of inquiry if they see some suspicious behavior. so i can assure you this is not just a new york city issue. it's an issue throughout america. >> so the city is now appealing that federal judge's ruling that stop and frisk is unconstitutional, calling it indirect racial profiling and that was the argument from trayvon martin's mother, sybrina fulton. >> you can't debit the police officers the right to just stop somebody because of the color of their skin. >> this is a debate being faced in major cities around the country. to talk about it amy holmes and angela wright. good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> angela, let me pick up where ray kelly left off. the mayor bloomberg wrote an article. 90% of people in our city killed and those who commit the murders and other violent crimes are black and hispanics.

every american has a right to walk down the street without being targeted by police because of his or her race or ethnicity and every american has a right to walk down the street without geged mugged or killed and pointed out that the police force in new york are minorities. do the numbers justify stop and frisk? >> absolutely not. you see the mayor is using racial profiling and cannot say it is racial profiling and that is lazy policing. instead of taking preventive measures rather than a stop and frisk which i would think is a day late and a dollar short, there needs to be some type of community policing program where folks get involved on the early side so there is not a contentious with people of color and race. post stof and frisk you have sean bell and gray which are

examples i can think of off the top of my head. >> in an analysis by the new york civil liberties union says innocent new yorkers have been subject to police stops more than 4 million times since 2002. the mayor likes to quantify the number of lives he believes is saved by stop and frisk, but what about the mistrust that develops between police and the citizens. any given city? >> i think it's a huge problem. we understand from stop and frisk the majority of risks, i think over 90%, have to do with marijuana possession. so while i understand the mayor is trying to explain that this is sort of the first step in policing of community and bringing it down violent crime, i live in the west village in new york city and no stop and frisk policy there. ten people were smoking pot openly last night and they didn't get arrested. stop and frisk is targeting

particular communities and as someone who lives in manhattan, they can find crime in my neighborhood but they don't frankly because it's where a lot of wealthy white people live. >> the mayor would say that is exactly the point or the commissioner would say that is exactly the point. that you focus the attention in the neighborhoods where you know that they have the most crime, that, in fact, in a lot of places, they do it a different way. if you're rich, you're going to have more of a police presence because they are going to make sure nothing bad happens in your neighborhood. he says we are, in fact, the polar opposite of that and we go to the neighborhoods we know crime occurs and where we use stop and frisk and we are going to use it. again, he points out with smart policing that is done by a majority of minority police officers. >> but the problem here is, chris, like this is institutionalal racism and there is institutionalal racial profiling. even fountain officers look like the people in the communities, if the relationship is

automatically contentious because the color of your skin makes you suspicious, that is a tremendous problem. there is no probable cause needed for stop and frisk. it's just how you look. it's just suspicion and just like trayvon martin's mother mentioned in the clip you played the color of your skin should not be reason to automatically stop someone. that is exactly the problem we have. that is why we have gun violence, not only being perpetrated by people of -- or peep on the street, latinos and black men but also the officers. i've used some of those examples earlier in the program. >> chris, the point that i would make is to say why is a crime in one neighborhood something worthy of stop and frisk but it's not in another neighborhood? if you go down to nyu why aren't those students stopped and frisked even though you and i both know what is going on down there, and they don't get that interaction with police that folks living uptown do. what is the definition of

criminality and why police officers go after one community aggressively and not after another community that we could observe with our own eyes is committing the same crimes. >> amy holmes and angela rye, thanks. >> checking the news feed. prince william called baby george a rascal and says his son reminds him of himself and his brother harry as a baby. the prince opens up in a new interview talking about life with george. he was asked about that now famous moment when he put the car seat in the car himself at the hospital and took the new family home. >> believe me, it wasn't my first time and i know it's been speculation about that. i had to practice. i really did. i was terrified it was going to fall off or wasn't going to close properly so i had practiced with that seat. >> good not to dump the baby on the ground for sure. this comes as princess diana is back in the news. investigators looking at at new information surrounding her death but insist they are not

formally reopening the case. two russian female athletes shared a kiss on the medal stand on saturday after winning gold at the world athletics championship and that is sparking debate whether the gesture was celebratory or a protest over their country's lgbt laws and neither have talked about it. alex rodriguez conversation is escalating. ryan dempster appeared to intentionally hit a-rod and segment off outburst by joe ga girardi got ejected. then a-rod hit a home run. a-rod's off the field battle with the yankees. >> we didn't want to try this case so to speak in the media but what has been going on has been outrageous. it doesn't stop and it has to

stop because they are per verting this process. >> a-rod is currently appealing 211 game suspension for doping. federal minute wage is $7.25 an hour and washington state is pushing to raise theirs to $15. it has the highest minimum wages in the country at $9 .19 an hour. several mayoral and several city council candidates say they will consider the proposal. police weren't just trying to satisfy the munchies and they included a message to go online and check out the city's guide to legal marijuana use. by the way, the doritos ran out in under 30 minutes. mark zuckerberg hacked. michelle is here with what is moving your money. man, if it can happen to him, what hope is there for the rest of us? >> internet security guy found this glitch on facebook and

tried to warn facebook about it a number of times and they didn't heed his warnings. bottom line he ended up hacking mark zuckerberg's page directly and they noticed and they are fixing the glitch. this is one of the theories when it comes to running a website. you want people to try so that way you know where your weaknesses are. >> back to school season now. >> yep. >> we have known that teachers have often spent their own money out of pocket for school supplies but more are doing it? >> when surveyed by an insurance company 26% say they are spending $400 on school supplies in their classroom. that is 3 percentage points higher than the last time the survey was done. budgets are going to retirement benefits for teachers so that diverts money away from the classroom and things like that. >> michelle, good to see you. thanks. >> you too. the nfl season kicks off september 5th with a game on nbc

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i was going through old journals and revisiting a lot of the questions and themes that popped up while i was doing that. >> what were the themes you wanted to get across? >> i was 21 at the time. and for the first time being forced to think about questions like what kind of parent did i want to be when i grew up and what residue was kind of left on me from my parents and other influential people in my life and it was, yeah, so all of those questions are kind of woven through the story. >> brea plays grace who is not just somebody who works there but has had some issues in her own past. let me play just a little clip. >> jack, i'm sorry. please cancel the past until we figure this out because i know her and i know that things are not good at home! >> how do you know that? because she read you a children's story? >> don't [ bleep ] with me, jack! i am on the floor every day with those kids and last night, that girl sat next to me and she cried and she tried to tell me the only way that she knew how! >> grace, you are a lying staff!

it's not your job to interpret tears. that's what our trained therapists are here for. >> then your trained therapists don't know [ bleep ]! >> brea, how did you get ready for this role? did you spend time in one of these homes? did you each know they existed? >> when it comes to the foster care system, i think i knew about it as much as everybody else. i didn't know the exact intimate details of it but i was aware of it so i spent talk talking about friends of dustin and people that dustin had worked with and other staff members to kind of get the idea of what this role was like. >> i thought it was interesting. in the movie you have a relationship with john gallagher who people recognize from the newsroom. i don't want to give his part of the story away because it's kind of a surprise in the movie but i think one of the things that will surprise people is how warm and funny -- parts of this movie that are hilarious and life

affirming. >> absolutely. that is the exact term i've been using. >> how do you get that out of a story that basically, in many ways, is about abandonment, can be about rape? i mean, all of the negative things you can think about in the foster care system, you see in this movie and, yet, somehow, you feel positive. how does that happen? >> i think that that is a combination of two things. i think it's a combination of the reality of these situations and when we shouted at these facilities you keep it light. part of being this staff is deal with their problems in a light and humorous way and not get too deep in anything and see the environment we had on the set. it was not a dark situation being on that set. we had so much fun and we laughed way more than there were tears. >> it's tough to get a movie like this made, no doubt about it. hundreds of millions are spent on the big blockbuster and number 2 and 3 and 4 and 17. i should say however this movie

isn't released yet on rotten tomatoes it has 100%. >> is that possible? >> pretty amazing. every single person loved the movie. you won the awards at the fan festival. i guess the news comes out on friday. how do you spell a movie like this? how do you convince people to go see a movie about foster care? >> i think once people see this movie, the reaction has been very positive and i hope once people see it this weekend they will start telling their friends and people will start hearing that it's more than just a movie about foster kids. it's also a movie about family and a movie about life that anybody can relate to. >> i'm just a lowly journalist. i'm not a movie critic but i thought it was great. i think people should see this. i think it's an important and moving film. >> thanks for having us. >> thank you both.

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there's a young up start politician making big waves in the midwest. mayor bobby tuft of dorsett, minnesota, may be young but the voters confidence. at 4 he was re-elected in the small town where anyone can vote as often as they want and pick the winner's name out of the ballot box at random. joining me is bobby tufts and his campaign manager, emma tuft. mr. mayor, how are you? >> good.

>> good! a little tired? did you have to get up early to come to the studio today? >> really did. >> yeah, yeah. tell me about being mayor. what do you do, bobby? >> what do you do? >> i am making -- promote local businesses. >> oh, local businesses. do you have a favorite one? maybe an ice cream shop? >> ice cream shop! >> ice cream shop. mom, ms. campaign manager, we know dorsett doesn't have an official city government so does bobby have anything to do besides cleaning up his room? any official duties as mayor? >> no. he just comes and does handshaking and takes pictures with customers that come to town and greet them. >> in other words, a typical politician? >> yes.

>> is it hard to tell a mayor to clean up his room or has he been bossing his family around since he got elected? >> no, i pretty much put a kibosh to that as i'm mayor and i don't have to do anything. >> i'm the boss. >> did he just say i'm the boss? >> yes, he did. >> so what does the boss get to do? >> i'm the boss! >> i am the boss! >> what was that? >> do you have an office, mr. mayor? >> i am the boss. >> what has this been like? he know the publicity has been crazy. everybody wants to see and meet bobby. can i say in the pictures we were showing he knows how to wear a hat well. >> right, right. >> can't hear. >> oh, no. >> something going on? is there a problem there? >> yeah, he lost his ear piece. >> i think he pulled it out. i have that effect on people. >> oh, no! >> so, bobby, what do you think

you want to do in the future some have you thought about running for even bigger office? maybe president? >> quit picking my ear. >> have you thought about running for office? >> yeah. >> there you go. >> what do you think, bobby? is president next or what is in your future? what do you want to be when you grow up? >> what do you want to be when you grow up, she said. >> i want to be a president. >> a president. okay. he is going to be one to watch for and i got to tell you he's a snappy dresser, mom. >> thank you. >> thank you! mayor bobby tufts and his mom emma, 4 years old and absolutely adorable. that is going to wrap up this hour of jansing and co. i'm chris jansing. thomas, he is not the first politician i've had a hard time getting to answer a question. >> i love him. he was the best. he was the best. >> you have to talk to patrick about that.

>> he was like doing this with your questions. no, chris jansing. no! then he threw out his ear piece. he was great. he was re-elected! that is what we need. that is the kind of leadership and a good dresser. i loved him. you did a great job. >> thanks. >> that is going to go bible, i hope. speaking of mayors. we get serious about one on the west coast. will san diego's scandal-plagued mayor show up for work today? a majority want him out and the republicans pop the popcorn and how long can filner politically survive in the face of such opposition? speaking of opposition. the president returns to washington. deadly clashes in egypt looking worse than before. chris christie's olive branch to the lgbt community. a change of heart or calculated move to the middle? all that and much more next. this day calls you.

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washington and back to business. jobs and health are a few of the items vying for president's attention at the white house. i'm thomas roberts. good morning. topping our agenda today. the president's packed post vacation agenda and "usa today" breaking down what it calls the challenge ahead in the next few days and months for the president. he is going to kick off a new push for middle class jobs. a plan that includes a bus tour later this week. try to get the ball rolling again on immigration reform and work to implement the next phase of obama care. the president hit back republican critics in his weekly address. >> a lot of republicans think if they make this law fail they will somehow be sticking it to me but they would just be sticking it to you. >> add to that a lengthy to do list and another threat of a government shutdown this fall october 1st is the next big deadline for congress and the administration as the president and a half gaits a packed agenda. foreign policy his response to the policy in egypt comes under fire bracing for