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Moment along this cars route. president assads car, surrounded by security, look at what happens. a woman runs up, see her pounding on the drivers side of the car, waving her hands? she gets pretty close. it looked to me like she was touching the window before she is restrained, pulled back. now, we dont know what the woman intended here. but by that point in time, president assad had just finished speaking to syrias national assembly, and he dashed any hopes for anyone who wanted to hear he wou...

Maintain the no-fly zone. that seems like a new figure, interesting figure, were getting from the pentagon, again, via a member of congress who was told by secretary gates in this meeting. brooke. >> i think thats the first time any of us have heard any hard and fast figure put on the operation there in libya. dana bash right outside the closed-door meeting. dana, thank you. another political ticker update for you in half an hour. and now, watch this. the u.s. considering giving weapons to the...

His party to resign. people have basically defected from him en masses in the past couple of weeks. that has not happened in syria. even though the movement seems to have taken root in that country, quite extraordinary for a country with an authoritarian regime like syria. the fact is, assad has the support of the government there. even though the cabinet resigned, it was seen to give assad more popularity with the people, not to bring him down. owe has room to maneuver, but if more people come ...

Whats interesting is, when we spoke to antigovernment demonstrators who were out in the streets today, we heard chants of basically people calling for the fall of the regime. this is very similar to chants weve heard in other parts of the middle east when these protest movements have taken root. what started as a local thing, asking for local reforms in one part of the country seems to be growing into a more antigovernment movement. >> it sounds like its spreading. the headline yesterday is the ...

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