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Russia isnt exactly -- and putin, they both arent exactly the united states best friend. >> where did that love come from? >> i know. and in most cases, they dont rise to the level of frenemy. so here you have poor -- poor. you have edward snowden who is there, leaving china basically from hong kong, which is china, going to moscow, which was supposed to be a transit point before heading off to venezuela, and, im sorry, to havana and then possible venezuela, there he is, stuck in this weird kind...

No more leaks from the soil of russia. he has to neuterize himself to agree to stay there. so he has it turn out the lights it survive personally. >> right. when vladimir putin, when russian president putin said said that, you know, in order to stay, snowden would have to do this, it was rather surprising. russia isnt exactly -- and putin, they both arent exactly the united states best friend. >> where did that love come from? >> i know. and in most cases, they dont rise to the level of frenemy....

Houses conversations as they watch israel undertake these two strikes this weekend, which there had been one previously in january, so this is not exactly completely new, but it does look like an escalation and the syrian response has been escalated. what are those conversations in the white house like? >> well, just the israeli strikes, in a way theyre not about syria as much as they are about lebanon, about hezbollah, the big arm group which sits on the israeli border. syria is the transit poi...

Predictably, none of this is war. reporter: as if bashar al-assad is any closer to hang onto power, the ambassador said he is not a psychiatrist, but the receivers military situation is worsening. jon: the longer this goes on from the more damage goes on. >> they are seeing hezbollah soldiers and weapons systems coming from iran and using iraq as a transit point. the secretary of state was recently in saudi arabia by providing arms to the rebels directly while the u.s. has non-lethal it. ambassa...

To do a better job of addressing than we have in the obama administration. >> greta: is it right now -- because of what is going on in syria and because iran gets its weapons to hezbollah through the transit point of syria and they are up to their eyeballs with syria? is the area more of a powder keg than, lets say, a year ago? >> absolutely. a year ago, iran was a year further away from nuclear weapons capability. and obviously, the situation in syria had not deteriorated to the point that it i...

To do a better job of addressing than we have in the obama administration. >> greta: is it right now -- because of what is going on in syria and because iran gets its weapons to hezbollah through the transit point of syria and they are up to their eyeballs with syria? is the area more of a powder keg than, lets say, a year ago? >> absolutely. a year ago, iran was a year further away from nuclear weapons capability. and obviously, the situation in syria had not deteriorated to the point that it i...

The islamic republic saying it is prepared to blockade a waterway vital to the worlds oil supply. the head of the countrys navy saying iran could prevent a single drop of oil from getting through if its security is threatened. it is a strategic passageway in the gulf. it is a transit point for 20% of the worlds oil supply. tehran doing more than talking and leaders are promising more naval forces in international waters where the u.s. navy is also doing patrols. a fox weather alert now, and pa...

the presidents plan calls for an end to combat operations in afghanistan next year and a withdraw by the end of the 2014. the president says afghanistans president hamid karzai is onboard. >> both oof us recognize that we still have a lot of work to do and there will be great challenges ahead. the loss of life continues in afghanistan. there will be hard days ahead, but were confident that were on the right track and what this summit reflects is the world is behind this strategy that w...

wired. >> thats okay because theres lots of news this morning. >> up first this morning, heads about to roll. at jp morgan chase. according to bloomberg, the firms entire london staff could be dismissed. the banking giant also expected to accept the resignation of this woman, ina drew. pulling down a salary of over $15 million a year. drew and two other company executives being held accountable for a stunning $2 billion loss. ceo jamie dimon doing damage control on sunday talk shows is...

his daughters fight for her life. >> stand by. hello, everyone. im don lemon. thanks for joining us tonight on cnn. here are tonights big stories and what were working on for tomorrow. the senate homestand security committee is going to hear a hearing on the secret service prostitution scandal. agency director mark sullivan will testify at the hearing on may 23rd. the scandal erupted last month just before president obamas trip to colombia. so far nine secret service employees have l...