Kelly: 'No question' people will die if stop-and-frisk ends 
 
 New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says there's "no question" more people would die if the city's next mayor ends the controversial stop-and-frisk policy, which a federal judge has struck down as unconstitutional. 
 
 "No question about it, violent crime will go up," Kelly said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press: when host David Gregory asked if more people would die. 
 
 Kelly defended the policy as part of every police officer's toolbox, not a specific program aimed at targeting young black and Hispanic men. The federal judge called the program "indirect racial profiling." 
 
 (Also on POLITICO: Kelly defends stop-and-frisk) 
 
 "Again, this is not a program," Kelly said. "This is something that's integral to policing. This happens throughout America at any police jurisdiction. You have to do it. Officers have to have the right 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. And this case has to be appealed in my judgment because it will be taken as a template and have significant impact in policing throughout America." 
 
 The commissioner also defended the program as saving minority lives, not targeting them as suspects. 
 
 "We need some balance here," he said. "The stark reality is that violence is happening disproportionately in minority communities. And that unfortunately is in big cities throughout America. We have record low numbers of murders in New York City, record low numbers of shootings, we're doing something right to save lives." 
 
 Kelly also rejected the idea of drawing direct lines between stop-and-frisk and the Trayvon Martin case in Florida. 
 
 "I've dealt with this in many community meetings," Kelly said. "It's something that is very important in the African American community. I would also submit though that the Trayvon Martin case is a little bit different. These are two civilians. It clearly was a tragedy, but it didn't involve sworn police officers." ||||| Graham: Egypt is turning protesters into martyrs 
 
 The crackdown against the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi will backfire, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation," warning that Egypt's military-backed government is "making these people martyrs." 
 
 More than 800 people have been killed in Egypt since the government cleared out two pro-Morsi encampments in Cairo on Wednesday. Early Sunday, authorities raided the homes of Muslim Brotherhood members, ahead of the rallies that Morsi supporters have been planning all across the country for later in the day. Meanwhile, the Egyptian government is now considering reviving the ban against the Brotherhood. 
 
 Should the decades-old power struggle between the military and the Brotherhood reach that point again, the Brotherhood will go underground and al Qaeda will come to their aid, Graham said. The Brotherhood is a "force" in the streets, he said, but "if you had new elections the Brotherhood would get creamed." 
 
 Egyptian authorities on Saturday said they arrested Mohammed al-Zawahri, leader of the ultraconservative Jihadi Salafist group and the brother of an al Qaeda leader, who has been allied with Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood. Nevertheless, Graham said that he would suspend all aid to the Egyptian generals until they allow for a democratic transition of power. 
 
 "Al Qaeda's never going to win at the ballot box," he said. "The best way to solve this problem is write a new constitution where everybody has a say and have new elections." 
 
 Meanwhile, the government can't expect to jail the 25 percent to 30 percent of Egyptians who back the Muslim Brotherhood. "The Egyptian people are not terrorists," Graham said. 
 
 CBS News correspondent Charlie D'Agata told "Face the Nation" host Bob Schieffer that the military-backed government is indeed acting as if their crackdown is about stopping terrorism. Reporting from Egypt, D'Agata said that the government is handing out flyers with photos showing Muslim Brotherhood members and their supporters using live ammunition. The flyers read, "Egypt fights terrorism." 
 
 A son of Ammar Badie, 38, killed Friday by Egyptian security forces during clashes in Ramses Square, and also son of Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader Mohammed Badie, prays during his funeral in al-Hamed mosque in Cairo's Katameya district, Egypt, Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013. Egypt increased security at the Supreme Constitutional Court building ahead of planned mass rallies by supporters of the country's ousted President Mohammed Morsi. / AP Photo/Manu Brabo 
 
 The government is arguing "they have to do this in order to crush this threat of terror, but that's not what we've seen," D'Agata said. While there are armed civilians fighting against the military, witnesses have seen unarmed civilians going into the line of fire and being shot in the head. 
 
 "I think the real question here, and we may see it this afternoon, is how much steam the Muslim Brotherhood has," D'Agata said. 
 
 If the Brotherhood and its supporters can carry out the protests planned for today, even as they come under fire from the military, "it will show you there is a force, and they will face the line of fire." 
 
 Later on "Face the Nation," Bobby Ghosh of Time Magazine said it's time for the U.S. to suspend aid to Egypt. "That leverage is the only thing left now the president can use, and the time has come for it," he said. 
 
 Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report added, "The situation in Egypt is another reminder of the lack of influence the president has right now... his 'lame duck-ness,' both internationally and domestically." ||||| The attorney for Trayvon Martin's family said Sunday it was a "slippery slope" from stop-and-frisk programs in New York City to deadly incidents. 
 
 "No matter what you want to call it, essentially it's racial profiling," Benjamin Crump said on NBC's "Meet The Press." "And we know Trayvon Martin was profiled for something that night on February 26, 2012. And he had broken no laws. He was just walking home. That's the problem with racial profiling. It's a slippery slope. And it's so bad for so many in the community." 
 
 A number of commentators have drawn lines between stop-and-frisk and Martin's death. The 17-year-old died was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, while walking home in Sanford, Fla. A jury acquitted Zimmerman of murder earlier this year. Zimmerman said the shooting was in self-defense. 
 
 Read more about: Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, Stop-And-Frisk ||||| Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus took a shot on Sunday at a former top aide to Mitt Romney. 
 
 After the RNC voted to bar NBC and CNN from participating in party-sanctioned 2016 debates over each network's planned miniseries on Hillary Clinton, former Romney spokesman and adviser Eric Fehrnstrom tweeted: "Bad optics for the RNC to block CNN and NBC from sponsoring presidential debates. Attacking the media is a loser's game." 
 
 "I don't know if his Etch-a-Sketch is on tilt," Priebus said on ABC's "This Week," referencing a famous Fehrnstrom gaffe during last year's presidential campaign. "I'm not really taking advice from Eric Fehrnstrom right now." 
 
 Priebus then laid out ways he was trying to repair the GOP, many of them relating to alleged weakness of Romney's 2012 operation. 
 
 "I'm trying to build a party that's year-round. I'm trying to fix a dated digital operation, I'm trying to get a hold of a primary process and a debate debacle," he said. 
 
 The chairman also defended the move to block NBC and CNN, suggesting more GOP-friendly entities would be allowed to host debates. 
 
 "If you're not going to have 23 debates, these guys are making it a lot easier for us to pare this down to a reasonable number in front of people and entities that actually give a darn about the future of the Republican Party," Priebus said. 
 
 Read more about: Mitt Romney, Reince Priebus, Eric Fehrnstrom ||||| The United States has “no credibility” in the Middle East due to the Obama administration's inaction in Egypt, Sen. John McCain said Sunday. 
 
 The administration previously threatened to cut off aid if there was a coup in Egypt, the Arizona Republican said, but has refused to honor that promise. “We could be cutting off the aid,” as well as cutting off economic assistance, tourism and exports, he said, but the administration is “not sticking to our values.”. 
 
 McCain has just visited Egypt in an effort to broker an agreement between military leaders and supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi. While there, he said he wanted to give the military generals an opportunity to get on the “path to democracy." 
 
 (Also on POLITICO: Graham: Egypt at risk of becoming failed state) 
 
 But after last week's violence, he said, "for us to sit by and watch this happen is a violation of everything we stood for.” And he accused the interim regime of preaching “anti-Americanism.” 
 
 McCain drew a comparison to President Barack Obama’s rhetoric on Egypt to his “red line” vow about Syria, in which he pledged action if Syrian President Bashar Assad used chemical weapons on his own people. 
 
 Asked by CNN host Candy Crowley if the president had been weak in the Middle East, McCain said, “There is no policy. And there is no strategy.” 
 
 “We are much more hated and much less respected than we were in 2009,” in the Middle East region, McCain said. 
 
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 Read more about: John McCain, Cnn, Egypt, Candy Crowley, Syria ||||| Paul blames Christie for spat 
 
 Sen. Rand Paul says that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie started their recent spat by arguing that libertarians had no place in the GOP. 
 
 "The party's big enough for both of us," the Kentucky Republican said on "Fox News Sunday." "The party's big enough for lots of different Republicans. This all started with him saying, 'We don't have enough room for libertarian Republicans.' The thing is, that' show we grow our party." 
 
 Paul and Christie went several rounds over national security and wasteful spending earlier this month, including Paul calling Christie "The King of Bacon." And Paul said northeastern Republicans like Christie particularly needed to welcome libertarians. 
 
 "The party in the Northeast is shrinking, almost down to nothing," Paul said. "They need to be looking to people with new and different ideas that will attract the youth, independents and even Democrats to our party." 
 
 Pressed by Fox host John Roberts on whether he agreed with the assessment of his father, former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), Republican Christie offered "nothing," Paul said Christie did bring something. 
 
 "There's room for people who believe in bigger government in our party," Rand Paul said. "Some of the things that he seems to have promoted makes us believe that, well, he seems to think there's a lot more spending that could be going on." 
 
 Both Rand Paul and Christie are potential candidates for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination.
– Ray Kelly isn't soft-pedaling the effects if the NYPD's "stop and frisk" policy ends: "No question about it, violent crime will go up," he said today when asked if more people would die without it, Politico reports. "The stark reality is that violence is happening disproportionately in minority communities," he said, adding that "officers have to have the right of inquiry if they see some suspicious behavior." Benjamin Crump, the lawyer for Trayvon Martin's family, called the policy "a slippery slope. No matter what you want to call it, essentially it's racial profiling. And we know Trayvon Martin was profiled for something that night on February 26, 2012. And he had broken no laws." Kelly said Trayvon's case is "a little bit different. These are two civilians. It clearly was a tragedy, but it didn't involve sworn police officers." Elsewhere on your Sunday dial, as per Politico: John McCain on Egypt: The US has "no credibility" and the White House is "not sticking to our values. There is no policy. And there is no strategy. We are much more hated and much less respected than we were in 2009." McCain called for the US to cut off aid. Lyndsey Graham on Egypt: "We're gonna have a failed state in Egypt, and we're gonna have to suspend our aid because we can't support the reaction of the military. Even though the Brotherhood overplaying their hand started this, we can't support what the military is doing in response." Reince Priebus rebuts criticism from Eric Fehrnstrom over debate brouhaha: "I don't know if his Etch-a-Sketch is on tilt. I'm not really taking advice from Eric Fehrnstrom right now. I'm trying to build a party that's year-round. I'm trying to fix a dated digital operation, I'm trying to get a hold of a primary process and a debate debacle" Rand Paul on his fight with Chris Christie: "The party's big enough for both of us. This all started with him saying, 'We don't have enough room for libertarian Republicans.' The thing is, that's how we grow our party. There's room for people who believe in bigger government in our party. Some of the things that he seems to have promoted makes us believe that, well, he seems to think there's a lot more spending that could be going on."