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>> brown: ray suarez talks to marcia coyle about todays supreme court argument: are prescription drug records confidential medical data, or can drug companies use them to market their products? >> warner: tom bearden reports on attitudes toward b.p. and the government a year after the blowout of the "deepwater horizon" well. >> there are an awful lot of people who live along the gulf coast who are extra extraordinarily unhappy about the the way the whole b.p. oil spill was handled. >> ...

>> brown: ray suarez talks to marcia coyle about todays supreme court argument: are prescription drug records confidential medical data, or can drug companies use them to market their products? >> warner: tom bearden reports on attitudes toward b.p. and the government a year after the blowout of the "deepwater horizon" well. >> there are an awful lot of people who live along the gulf coast who are extra extraordinarily unhappy about the the way the whole b.p. oil spill was handled. >> ...

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Alisyn: well. the "wall street journal" has a report saying iran is secretly assisting syria, in cracking down on these pro-democracy demonstrations. what form does the assistance take? >> im smiling because, secretly is hardly secret. they are arming the people, for instance, in syria with equipment, signals intelligence equipment, et cetera that can get into the twitter and into the communications network and it is very important that they give them sophisticated equipment because syrias presi...

coverage at the white house. tell us about the vote on the $38 bail. $38 -- $38 billion. >> reporter: its 7 months into the fiscal year and still the federal government does not have a budget approved by congress to fund the government. the house will vote on the deal to fund the 2011 budget for this year. stu ask whether its a sure thing. no, its not. we have the house speaker john boehner expressing confidence the deal will pass the stop-gap deal. but there are many tea party freshma...

but before we get to him, the news from overnight. in afghanistan, u.s. commander david petraeus condemned the burning of the koran by florida preacher, which has set off three days of riots in afghanistan and taken more than 20 lives. in libya, nato warplanes continue to target moammar qaddafis forces. qaddafi shows no signs of leaving, but one air strike went wrong and took the lives of 13 rebels. in yemen, some of the biggest demonstrations yet. hundreds of thousands turned out to d...

Take a closer look now at a man in the center of the controversy in syria. the unrest sweeping that country. the family of this man has been at the center of power in that country for more than four decades. were talking about the president bashar al assad. lets go to cnns mary snow. shesbashar al-assad. >> reporter: he is in line to become president because his older brother was killed in an accident in 1984. assad studied in london. because of his background when he took power, there was hope ...

What are the broader implications for the united states? ill ask a leading expert. plus, hes the man at the center of one of the latest uprisings in the region. the story behind syrias president bashar al assad. [ woman ] we take it a day at a time. thats how it is with alzheimers disease.

Themselves increasingly empowered as the days went on. my book, i wouldnt take back a word of it. it tells the story of what arabs are thinking and what their attitudes are, but theres no way from those attitudes to find the predictor that this would have exploded, that it would have spread. i will say one thing. tunisia was clearly important but it was cairo that set the stage. >> when you think ben ali in tunisia, mubarak gone, now maybe gadhafi. what about in syria? whats happened there? >> i...

He views lebanon with interest. he is the keeper of the flame of allied interests who have had a chokehold on power. >> reporter: they are a minority in syria and their power is resented by many. assads inner circle says he wasnt allowed to interview other people like his younger brother. opposition forces say he is responsible for the harsh response against dissidents in the city of basra. then there is assads cousin. a former u.s. ambassador says the ruling family has been compared to "the god...