Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi said Tuesday that to call the U.S. and Egypt allies is "dependent on the definition of an ally," in an interview with CBS News:
CHARLIE ROSE: It is said that there was a heated, heated phone conversation between the president of egypt and the president of the united states. was there?
MOHAMED MORSI (TRANSLATOR): It was warm. It was not hot.
ROSE: What's the difference in warm and hot?
MORSI (TRANSLATOR): It's the same difference between a friendship and being an enemy.
ROSE: So the United States government and the Egyptian government are friends, not enemies?
MORSI (TRANSLATOR): We are not enemies, of course.
ROSE: But you are friends?
MORSI (TRANSLATOR): For sure. We are friends.
ROSE: Allies?
MORSI (TRANSLATOR): The U.S. president said otherwise.
ROSE: I know he did, he did. But I'm asking the Egyptian president. Would you consider the United States an ally?
MORSI (TRANSLATOR): This is dependent on the definition of an ally. The understanding of an ally as a part of a military alliance, this is not existent right now. But if you mean by allied partnership and special diplomatic relationship and cooperation, we are that ally.
