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0 welcome to this special hour in the crisis in syria. we would like to welcome our viewers here in the united states as well as those watching from around the world. i am suzanne malveaux. >> i am richard quest in for michael. >> we are following fast moving developments as the drum beat for military strikes is met by growing demands for caution now. >> "around the world" moment by moment, were seeing new twists and turns in this crisis, so we are again devoting the entire hour to it and you wi...

People in the military, themselves, former generals like colin powell who are most cautious about striking syria. asking the key question, okay, then what happens? >> i have no affection for mr. assad. ive dealt with him. i know him. and he is a pathological liar, with respect to my interaction with him. at the same time, im less sure of the resistance. what do they represent? is it becoming even more radicalized with more al qaeda coming in? what would it look like if they prevailed and assad w...

With them. they have to live with them. what happens to israel? what do they do? do they -- do they side with -- theyre not going to side with hezbollah. hezbollah just lost the war. it was on the other side. hezbollah is the with the assad government. >> israel clearly wants some kind of transition, that sees assad step down and secular -- >> we all want that. its called christmastime. >> thats right. thats the problem with syria. this is the strategic center. no country is more important. no c...

0 lets watch her, please. im sorry. >> okay, go ahead. >> she has pledged as a speaker she would giver the republicans rights like allowing them to introduce amendments to bills. but she may have trouble reigning in the democrats appetite for revenge there has already been talk of multiple investigations and impeachment of the president. >> no. impeachment is off the table. >> and thats a pledge? >> well, its a pledge, yes, its a pledge. of course it is. it is a waste of time. >> so thats comple...

Kind of transition, that sees assad step down and secular -- >> we all want that. its called christmastime. >> thats right. thats the problem with syria. this is the strategic center. no country is more important. no country is more divided web it comes to ethnic groups, sectarian division. thats a problem -- >> how do you do no warm? >> how do you do no warm? a and once you cross the tlesh hold and are engraged many military action youre not blamed for everything that follows because of action ...

Wra. asking the key question, okay, then what happens? >> i have no affection for mr. assad. ive dealt with him. i know him. and he is a pathological liar, with respect to my interaction with him. at the same time, im less sure of the resistance. what do they represent? is it becoming even more radicalized with more al qaeda coming in? what would it look like if they prevailed and assad went? i dont know. >> well, robin wright is senior fellow at the woodrow wilson institute. i didnt like vietna...

0 their constituencies for throwing the read meat. the real question is the republican leadership going to tolerate that. boehner has yet to really stand up to these folks. and that is something that really deserves to be repudiated. and you would hope he would. one thing i would say though, chris, delegitimization of presidents is something that weve seen now. it happened under the clinton administration. we all remember how vituperative those times were. and there were people on the left who a...

These are the documents marked confidential, top secret, eyes only. this one talks about the security implications of cia letters accommodation for those who served in that operation code name tpajax. this one dated almost a month before the coup talks about preparing an official american statement to follow a successful coup. lets dig deeper into this story. were joined by robin wright. this is an event the iranians talk about 60 years later with surprising frequency. what have you learned from...

announcement just a few minutes away. welcome to "around the world. im suzanne malveaux. >> im ivan watson. >> hundreds of people were killed in a chemical weapons attack by the syrian government. i want to warn you some of these images are very graphic and maybe be very disturbing, very difficult to see these pictures. >> they were posted online by opposition groups following what they say was a poison gas attack. many of the dead were women and children. a doctor at a field hospita...

0 stay tuned for for "around the world. as u.n. weapons inspectors evaluate syria, the opposition makes a stunning claim. it says the government attacked its on people with chemical weapons killing hundreds. a court in egypt orders the release of deposed president mubarak. hes not out of trouble by any means. plus. >> i just tell them come in an try to make the biggest impact you can have. if we keep building a service that people love and that more and more people use every day, which we ...