The aftermath of the bombing of St. Peter and St. Paul’s church was still the topic of the day for the nation’s talk show hosts. Hona El Assema host Lamis El Hadidy was preoccupied by the fact that one of the four suspects arrested in connection with the bombing worked at a watchtower at Cairo International Airport and had been arrested before during the pro-Morsi protests in 2013. “Our institutions lack discipline,” she said, criticizing lax security procedures. “Were we waiting for a plane to fall out of the sky before dismissing him?” she asked, wondering why the worker had been allowed to return to his job (watch, runtime: 1:44). El Hadidy reminded her viewers that things could always get worse, pointing to the crisis in Aleppo. “We should always remember that there are other disasters in the world, especially in neighboring Arab countries,” she said.

El Hadidy used that to pivot to foreign relations, saying Egypt can play a different role in Syria thanks to “good relations with both Russia and the new Donald Trump-led US administration” (watch: runtime: 3:29).

Amr Adib found forensic testing as fascinating as Lamees, who had also dedicated a portion of her episode on the forensic evidence in the case. So fascinated, in fact, that he spent almost the entirety of last night’s episode of Kol Youm to it. The host aired a report he filmed (watch, runtime 5:06) at Demerdash hospital in Cairo detailing the bomber’s postmortem facial reconstruction procedure (view it at your own risk here, as the content might be too graphic for some, runtime 24:07). The Interior Ministry’s Gamal Abdel Bary then briefly explains to Adib and audiences the infallible nature of DNA testing and how it worked to confirm the identity of the bomber (watch, runtime 5:26). Adib also follows up on injuries during an interview with the head of Ain Shams medical school (watch, runtime 9:45) and interviews a victim who claims to have seen the bomber’s face (watch, runtime 4:29).

Yahduth fi Masr’s Sherif Amer was more interested in the incident’s legal facets and spoke to Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Magdy El Agaty about expected amendments to the criminal code that had been demanded by members of the House of Representatives. “The criminal code is over 50 years old now and has been crippling the judicial system,” El Agaty said, adding that that Prime Minister Sherif Ismail will begin holding sessions next week to discuss the necessary changes with legal and judicial experts. He said as well that an entirely new criminal code is in the pipeline. Because that’s what’s holding us back in the war on terror: An updated criminal procedure manual.

Separately, El Agaty added that he expects the House majority to vote in favor of the new Media Act during today’s session.
An oasis of sanity: Ibrahim Eissa bellowing, “Why would we amend the constitution? What exactly about the constitution stops us from battling terrorism? What is the obsessive desire for tyranny and fascism?” He asks (watch, runtime 1:17). Eissa then went on to say that “blood is not the answer” to violence. “We have killed more than 2,000 terrorists in the Sinai and terrorism still exists,” he said (watch, runtime: 1:10). The host lambasted objections by Salafist MPs to Cairo University scrapping religious identity from its registration (watch, runtime: 0:49).