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Every day and sitting in detention centers waiting to get deported. >> meanwhile, the president knew going in that immigration was going to be certainly on his agenda if re-elected. the other things that have popped up like gun reform and certainly issues with syria, although that's been a crisis now for the last two years, has certainly bubbled up to be more of a priority than he thought. especially now that we're getting more information about syria and what it's doing to its own people. take a listen to secretary of defense chuck hagel. >> arming rebels, that's an option. that's an option. ...

Parties doing things. arming rebels, the rebels are getting arms. they're not just dropping out of the sky. there are countries in the neighborhood that are giving them arms. the obama administration has looked at this carefully and gamed this out and don't see many alternatives leading to a positive outcome. perhaps the president misspoke when he used the term red line. i think if they had to do this all over again, they would not have used that particular phrase. >> i understand. >> they were not thinking of this when they used this phrase. they were thinking like when saddam hussein killed ...

Clearly, they'll try to say it's time for the next step. the question is, if the russians and chinese don't go for that, which seems likely, what do we do next? arming rebels is unpalatable in most western capitals. intervention seems off the table, which means all we can do is try to ratchet up the pressure and hope that with time assad's grip weakens. the fact is, he may be with us for some time to come. >> and meanwhile we have a crisis looming with iran, negotiations with weekend, i know you've written today that you think that the u.s. opening bargaining position is not tough enough and h...

Could use with some basic pointers from some sort of military officers, i was up at the front today and for the first time in a month and a half, we saw them actually bringing in bulldozers to build berms, basic protection in this situation. so there's plenty of work for advisers to do, should they come here, candy. >> one of the reasons that the u.s. has kind of so far stayed on the fence about the issue of arming rebels is they said we first need to find out who they are. obviously in the west there's a question about al qaeda influence or any kind of terrorist influence. do you have a firme...

Track people he doesn't care if his core deteriorates because he can replace them and you the rebels on the run. >> reporter: certainly that could be a factor. another factor too could be arming the rebels that's a real key debate now. we've seen real hesitation from the u.s. secretary of defense saying if the rebels will be armed, it will be another nation who will supply the arms. another nation who will supply the trainers. resistance from nato. head of nato opposed to arming rebels. turkey going farther saying to aid the rebels now, to arm them would be contributing to terrorism. the rebel...