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Movement sweeping through the countries here in the region. what you have seen happen in bahrain and yemen seems to be happening in syria. if you look at that press difference earlier in the day, she was parroting a lot of the lines we have heard the past few weeks from other leaders. she's saying that the government there regrets mistakes that have been made. she's promising certain reforms will happen, but she's also blaming foreign forces and blaming the media for distorting facts. all of these leaders that have come until pressure, the populations asking for reform and regime change, when ...

Who we know was quite ruthless. this will be a real test of how far the man in power now will go. >> absolutely right. when bashar el asaid came to power, he promised reform. economic reforms, more liberalization. that was extraordinary at the time, because syria is known to have an authoritarian regime. his father was known to rule with an iron fist. he promised this. people kept waiting and waiting, now you have protesters in the streets saying they have waited long enough. they're not going to wait any more. bashar el assad has a fine line. it's interesting he's been conciliatory at times, ...

That the administration thinks that someone else needs to be in place there. yes, they do. was this is specific mission about creating regime change? they say no. >> and a last question is, just tell me if you don't know, dan, the question of an exit strategy for moammar gadhafi short of, you know, fighting to the death. is there any talk there at the white house about how they could get this guy out of that country without going down in flames? >> you know, not only do i not know the answer to that question. i'm not sure they know what the answer to that question is at all. it's unhe predicta...

It seems to indicate the government is nervous and don't know how to deal with it. bashar el assad is in a tight spot right now. >> let's talk, regionally how important syria is. libya has bsh syria is interconnected with so many very important things in the middle east. that's israel, lebanon, iran, countless things will change if the leadership in that country changes. so it's very important what happens there. >> absolutely. i mean, the simplest way to try to put it, and it's a complex and thorny subject, but the simplest way to put it there can be no comprehensive peace without syria's bac...

from the secretary janl rasmussen, but we're expecting that nato will be taking command maybe sometime over the weekend. >> there had been some question as to whether handing over to nato would be problematic in the view of arab countries, countries in the mideast. do you know how that might be resolved? >> well, this is one of the things that's been the interesting back story, joe, is that the french have said that the arabs don't want nato to take over this command because they feel it would be some kind of western crusade. arabs we've talked to say they don't have a problem with n...