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Underscoring that, you know, there are tens of thousands of russians living and working in syria. its their former client state. russia has a warm-water naval base in syria. evacuating 100 russian citizens isnt that much. however, this would appear to be the first sign that moscow is finally seeing the writing on the wall without publicly admitting it, of course, that president assads days in power are now truly numbered. mara? >> jim maceda live in tel aviv, thanks so much for that. now back ...

Al qaedas flag. so i think this is really showing us really the fight we have been told over and over again is over, is not over and that we have to have a real discussion about what all this means. jenna: thats what were trying to do i guess, right, guys? bret, what are our options? if the united states is in the place theyre suggesting it is, what truly are our options at this point? >> the united states has been losing leverage all over the middle east since the arab spring began in the begin...

Vice versa makes everybody wanted to his forces. it is not a good thing that this guy is about to lapse? his government is about to collapse? >> he is also responsible for a lot of american deaths in iraq. he sheltered al qaeda terrorist, even though now he is saying that al qaeda is on the other side. it is not a good and bad. whats happening in syria is inevitable. in light of the arab spring. our task, and ambassador bolton knows that the diplomats and to the military extent, is to do weekend...

mayberry. griffith played a single bad who kept the peace and doled out advice in a country town. in the 1980s he found fame again in the courtroom drama "matlock." he was a member of the tv and christian music hall of fame. want to bring in our own larry king who joins us by phone who knows mr. griffith well. you interviewed him several times. give us your impressions, your sense of who he was. >> well, suzanne, he was an incredible person. not only as a talent but as a friend and as ...

discuss all this. then we go overseas to egypts election of muhammad morsi. what can we expect from an islamist president? two of the top egypt experts tell us. next, how do you count and catalog 1.2 billion people? ill ask the man creating a revolutionary biometric i.d. for every one of indias citizens. also, the housing bubble caused the crash. will the coming housing boom finally power this anemic recovery? first, heres my take. what to do about syria. western military inter...

Reverse the results of the uprising there. so i think its a difficult situation. you cant call it a success. >> you mentioned that putin came out in his press conference and said look -- he didnt say i am effectively not convinced that action needs to be taken, but almost walked back the comments that president obama had made saying i think weve gotten putin to sort of see more clearly that something needs to be done in syria. i wonder, p.j., from your perspective, is putin going to be movable o...

>> it is a very serious issue. it is important to look at the russian perspective on this is that the opponents of the assad regime are getting weapons from outside the country. they accuse sunni extremists funneling weapons in. what you have is a situation where a miscall can really result in a huge potential crisis. it is fortunate appears at least on this vessel the british insurance agents revoked the insurance for the vessel which will actually prevent it from moving forward. but the russia...

Senior there. p.j., where are we on this crisis? >>guest: well, part of what you just reported is trying to raise the costs of russian sport to its client state, syria, to the point that russia begins to envision a syria without assad and there is some hint coming from mexico in the presidents conversation with putin at least they got to that point. well, what happens the day after assad goes? as we go forward if russia believes their national interests are protected in syria a wider range of op...

im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." the largest bank of the united states is called to before congress to explain a $2 billion loss that one lawmaker compared to russian roulette. jpmorgan chase ceo jamie dimon appeared before congress saying he could not defend or justify the trades that ultimately imploeded. liz zi was there watching it all unfold. and it was very dramatic. >> it was very dramatic. ive known jamie dimon and covered jamie dimon for a long time, wolf. usual...

Knowing who did it. the state department emphasizing not that it was just militia but aided by iran. is that the most important part of this? >> its one of two. the report highlighted the other which is where does russia go since syria is its most significant remaining client state in the middle east. its entry into influence in the region. >> in terms of the iranian involvement and the fact this may have been, we cant say for sure but signs and witnesses say it may have been carried out by gove...