his father had been educated in a much more liberal environment. bashar came across to me far more rigid than his father was. >> where was that coming from do you think. >> again -- bashar was born into the party. so his influences were all ill liberal. something, again, we didn't get because we thought that an ability to send an e-mail somehow meant that you were a friend of the west. so, you know, he was groomgd to run the party. as well as the best i could do in running the country. i conveyed that to washington at the time. if you think it's going to get better and easier after he goes, think again. the son struck me at that time as a harder line with less