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Very obtuse answer. she said it depends on who replaces him. to say we know what youre doing in dara and damascus, and i think that there was an attempt, if you will, to take american diplomacy in a tougher direction. >> from a diplomatic effort, richard, why would you not say this man has lost legitimacy? >> because if your rhetoric gets that far out, the gap gets too large and you create a libya situation. the president could say, assad has to go, and then everyones next question is thats fine...

revealed. he must put up $1 million in cash and post bond of $5 million, he had to surrender his travel documents and agree to home detention here in manhattan. he lives in washington. his lawyer argues hes not a flight risk. even though he was arrested on a flight about to leave for paris, the lawyer said it was a prescheduled flight, not a last-minute booking. >> its indisputed that the police knew his wants is because he called the hotel, the scene of this incident, from jfk airport...

home detention here in manhattan. he lives in washington. his lawyer argues hes not a flight risk. even though he was arrested on a flight about to leave for paris, the lawyer said it was a prescheduled flight, not a last-minute booking. >> its indisputed that the police knew his wants is because he called the hotel, the scene of this incident, from jfk airport, to inquire if the hotel had located his cell phone or the hotel advised it had and asked him his whereabouts, which he prompt...

Obama adviser, was describing how he approached the libya decision. in other words, making sure that owe ba it didnt have the big u.s. stamp on it. getting a world consensus before you went ahead. that helped him get the resolution and indeed expand the resolutionhat the united nations. so thats what that -- >> it is situational. that phrase was applied to the libya situation, but obviously this is completely different. >> this is completely different. look, this is totally different situation. ...

Leave which is a complete about-face for the white house on this, brand new hour of "americas newsroom," im martha maccallum, welcome, good to have you with us. bill: on a monday, good morning, im bill hemmer. reports out of yemen saying at least 6 civilians are dead and government forces and plain clothes gunmen opening fire on a crowd of demonstrators demanding change. martha: we had seen this in several countries across the region, and, now they are saying, yemen, they want their president go...

Mortars at us. right there. martha: what a situation they found themselves in. we are glad to report to you they made it out of there safely. but one of the most striking things, bill, that jeraldo was talking about howt of -- out of that was just how unorganized the rebels are. you know, and that they seem to have no leadership, no command, no nothing, their former store keep -- they are former storekeepers and doctors and lawyers, and in this situation and theyre all over the place. bill: he m...

With respect to the budget. and, what we have said is youve got to reduce the deficits in a responsible way, not a reckless way, that will put the economy at risk. we have gotten good news, recently, on the economy and it would be a big mistake to put those jobs at risk, and we also have big differences, as to how we cut them. we think we should cut the subsidies for the big oil companies and taxpayer subsidies and they prefer to start with things like education and cutting cancer research at ni...

His earlier commitments, to take tangible steps to meet opposition demand, the security situation in yemen is at risk of further deterioration and, so, seems pretty clear, they are running out of patience, watching the situation unfold, there in yemen. martha. bill: a lot on the plate, to be sure. mike, thank you very much. the map behind me, ill show you the region in yemen why it is critical, remember, october of 2000 when the u.s. is the cole was bombed? that happened in the country of yemen ...

Instability across the porous border in the desert and the other factor to consider, there, this is the red sea. suez canal is up here, just to the northeast of cairo. and as i said, the uss cole, was in this location, the harbor, in yemen, where our u.s. sailors were killed, after the explosion by extremists hit that cole and blew a hole through the side of it. watch yemen, we were told over the weekend, by some of these ranking administration officials, how much time and efforts the united sta...

That situation. look at this! hail storm, dropping chunks of ice from the sky in milwaukee, this storm was part of a string of thunderstorms that rolled through wisconsin, the hail so punishing it took some residents sometimes scrambling for cover. >> they were water of an inch, sometimes it was half an inch. it was pretty big. >> i was walking down the street and all of the sudden the hail started coming down, like the size of bbs coming down. it hurt. martha: unbelievable. the hail created sli...