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All right. Let's talk about the people he overthrew to take the spot, the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt considers them basically a terrorist organization, but they want the world to see that as well. What's the likelihood the U.S. moves in that direction? BAKER: Well, that's exactly right and when President Sisi met or his people met with people from President Obama's administration, they brought up every single time, you need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, they said. And the Obama administration consistently refused.

The Trump administration is debating this. They're not sure about this. There are some people within the administration who agree, who think that the Muslim Brotherhood is essentially equivalent to radical Islamic groups like the Islamic State, like al-Qaeda, like Shabaab.

But there are many others inside the Trump administration and many outside the Trump administration who say, no, that — you shouldn't conflate the two. They're not like that. They are more moderate. They have officially renounced violence and they are a much more amorphous organization anyway that would cause all sorts of unintended consequences if you call them a terrorist organization because suddenly you wouldn't be allowed it deal with people who are in governments in places line Tunisia and other places.