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Against his own people and bashar asaad has opened up syria a bit and we've been hopeful that we, the united states, of forging stronger ties with syria to use it as a wedge against iran, but we haven't gotten very far yet. but i think there's reason to worry across the arab world. i think in the words of a scholar at the wilson center, aaron david miller, we're seeing an arab winter in parts of the arab world and a spring, hopefully, in a few parts of the arab world. >> let's talk about libya, because as a longtime member of congress, you know these relationships well. the president arrived b...

Immediately. others have defected to the opposition. a new website reportedly authorized by iran's government is calling for suicide attacks in bay irani after saudi troops supported bahrain's government, cracking down on protesters there. the eu is defending bahrain's actions. and here with me now to sort through all of this, intelligence expert, former congresswoman, jane harman, who is now the president of the wilson center, a nonpartisan think tank here in washington. well, where to start? first of all, syria. never seen pictures like this coming of out of syria. >> there's been an emerg...

that are coming in late. now, it's a human thing to either be indisposed for one reason or another. something could come up and so forth. that's why in an area like this, which is so critical from the standpoint of not only safety, but national security, that they have only one person in that tower. now, i understand, they're suspending this person, but i think they need to look into the supervisory staff and those people who are responsible for mainthewe du poanreuc asreanaipo, icis stone's throw away from the pentagon, from the capitol building and everything else in washington, d....

Let other arab countries arm them. is that enough? >> of course, not. and it is only about a year too late. this is a shameful episode in american history. it began back in 2009 when we refused -- when the president of the united states refused to speak up on behalf of the demonstrators in the treats of tehran and gone from one episode to another. here over a year and now talking about possibly vetting some people. look, nearly 10,000 people have died. this is a brutal regime of incredible proportions and by the way, if bashar asaad failed it it would be the greatest flow to iran in the last 2...