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-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning our "starting point" today, tropical storm beryl washing away holiday plans in northern florida and georgia. it made landfall overnight with drenching rains and driving winds. the hurricane force winds have died down a bit but the beryl will be a super soaker as they call it. rob marciano is tracking the storm at the severe weather center, good morning. >> not usual to have one but two tropical storms into the month of may, not even ...

>> i gather you oppose the increased escalation using drones. you see this as one more step in an escalation. >> rather than raising what it is we do, i would lower what it is we seek to achieve. i would try to get a cease-fire, preserve as many lives as you can rather than having a prolonged civil war and possibly use other things to get gadhafi out, maybe covert action and take the time to work with the opposition and increase our confidence that weir actually shaping them so they would be som...

Way support what syria is doing in lebanon and gaza. theyre a force of radicalism, supporting groups that are terrorists that are in any way except israel. they have a close relationship and almost a strategic alliance with iran. that there is an unstable border with syria. what is technically a state of war and in reality its stable. you see a mixed fuse in israel as to whether you want to see assad go because, again, like in libya, you dont know what the alternative is. >> as you say, the end ...

Drones. you see this as one more step in an escalation. >> rather than raising what it is we do, i would lower what it is we seek to achieve. i would try to get a cease-fire, preserve as many lives as you can rather than having a prolonged civil war and possibly use other things to get gadhafi out, maybe covert action and take the time to work with the opposition and increase our confidence that weir actually shaping them so they would be something desirable. >> lets shift countries and gears in...

Way support what syria is doing in lebanon and gaza. theyre a force of radicalism, supporting groups that are terrorists that are in any way except israel. they have a close relationship and almost a strategic alliance with iran. that there is an unstable border with syria. what is technically a state of war and in reality its stable. you see a mixed fuse in israel as to whether you want to see assad go because, again, like in libya, you dont know what the alternative is. >> as you say, the end ...

In syria, if assad go, there is a question of who would replace him. syria is a diverse ethnically and religiously, so if the authority is precipitously removed, will it break down into chaos and discovery. in a much more strategic area of the middle east than libya, on the border of israel, lebanon and turkey, many of cubs that are our friends. so i think thats why the united states is hoping that president assad survives, but survives in a way that moves the country fompletd and i think theres...

You had defense secretary carter confirming that russia had given the united states some warning, a couple of weeks ago telling them that they planned to launch air strikes, but they only informed u.s. officials an hour before they actually started launching those air strikes. carter saying, quote, this is not the kind of behavior we should expect professionally. he had other strong words, as you just heard him say. he called russias tactic ill advised, without plans for a political transition a...

Russia is launching air strikes and if the u.s. is launching air strikes, thats there no mistake in the skies. the other thing i want to point out is that josh said its too early to tell what this specific target is of the air strikes that we are seeing from russia. but he said that d.o.d. officials are looking into that right now trying to determine exactly who is being hit. of course, russia said that they are targeting isis but some u.s. officials have questioned that, suggesting that this is...

Going to get them stuck in a quagmire. and it wont work. and they will be there for a while. if they dont take a different course. i also said to him that it is true that the united states and russia and the entire world have a common interest in destroying isil. but what was very clear, and regardless of what mr. putin said, was he doesnt distinguish between isil and a moderate sunni opposition that wants to see mr. assad go. from their perspective theyre all terrorists. and thats a recipe for ...

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