Head of State TV announces that a joint Armed Forces/Presidential statement to be released. Military DENIES a statement will be released

— Mohamed Fadel Fahmy (@Repent11) July 2, 2013

Details emerge on Egyptian military’s post-Morsi ‘roadmap’.

Egyptian tv: "Presidency statement within hours in coordination with military. "

— Bassem Sabry باسم (@Bassem_Sabry) July 2, 2013

What I noted in my last post was that ironic position of the Obama White House and the Morsi presidency, two groups who have zero love for each other, but both meet on opposition to a military coup. Now the White House has seemed to tip its hand, pressing Morsi to hold early elections and in essence create a caretaker government of national unity. Read More

We’re two days before the Fourth of July, folks are on vacation, Congress is out of session. It’s slow news day. And yet, something of vast historic scope and proportions is happening in Egypt and I’m going to try to have us narrate the story for you today as it unfolds. On the one hand, it’s a non-violent popular revolt against President Morsi. But it goes way beyond that, not only for Egypt but for the rest of Arab world and less directly the non-Arab Muslim world. It goes to the basic question of whether Islamist parties – here based on the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood – or ideological kindred movements in other countries can not only come to power through democratic means (which Morsi did, though just barely) but govern with sufficient respect for pluralism that makes sustained democratic government stable and sustainable. Read More

Draft Egyptian military ‘roadmap’ would involve suspending the constitution and dissolving the Islamist led parliament.

Be sure to get your questions in for this one. Jon Alter is going to join us for a Live Chat at 5:30 PM eastern this afternoon at TPMPrime to discuss his book “The Center Holds: Obama and his Enemies” and share what he learned from covering the winning 2012 Obama campaign close up and getting a sense of just how and why they pulled it off. I had a long talk with Jon a couple months ago and one thing I realized was that my understanding of who the tech gods were within the Obama camp was totally skewed and frankly the actual systems they used to pull it off. Definitely join us at 5:30 PM and get your questions in now. You’ll learn stuff you didn’t know.

Muslim Brotherhood leader calls for “martyrdom” to end Egypt protests.

Two spokesmen quit President Morsi’s office, coming after the resignation of the Foreign Minister over night.

Romney voted against running in 2012 in family polll, but lost. And had to run.