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Assad. secretary kerry also called out iran. the united states' decision to take further steps now is the result of the continued brutality of a superior armed force. propped up by foreign fighters from iran and hezbollah. >> shepard: the united nations estimates the syrian civil war has led to the deaths of more than 70,000 people. a senate committee is set to vote next week on john brennan, president obama's nominee for the cia director. but members of both parties are demanding more documents from the white house about the droning of american terror suspects. the memos spell out the adminis...

>> yeah. it's all about the prosecution showing premeditation and then the ability to cover it up afterwards. you talked about a cup perform things, throwing the weapon away for example, a couple other things like she did take some nope and wash the knife. sent him a voice message and text message and email. they this back and forth when he was hammering her about these communications. take a listen. >> why are you sending it? it you sending it so that can reach him in the grave or what? >> no. >> you are sending it so that, as you previously said, involving the telephone calls, so you won't h...

Younger that be the 78 year benedict was when he took office, shep. >> shepard: makes sense. jonathan thanks so much. benedict the xvith was the first pope to tweet. you wouldn't know it from looking at his twitter page tonight. the vatican has dleeltd all of the tweets there. replaced the pope's picture with the code of arms and changed the name of the account to sede vacante or vacant seat. direct food and medical aid to the syrian rebels since the syrian government started murdering tens of thousands of its own people two years ago. john kerry announced new support to the tune of $60 millio...

If it's found grossly negligent in the civil trial it could be on the hook for many billions more. casey stegall with the news live outside the courthouse in new orleans tonight. casey, by mr. was on the stand, what, all day long? >> yeah, he was. gives you idea how grueling it was. he got up there 8:00 this morning. aside from the court's breaks did he not get off of that stand until 5:00 at the end of the day. this is the first time in the whole week that we have seen only one witness questioned for the whole day. and in his testimony, he admitted that the internal investigation he led for t...

Debate on the role of the military and our foreign policy in general. today, a judge accepted his plea but he still is going to trial on the more serious charges and a former jag attorney thinks today he made a mistake. listen. >> so if they maintain their innocence on the aiding the enemy side of the case, he is going to have to then explain to a jury how these statements are all true and under oath he admitted to doing these things. but, yet, it's not aiding the enemy. and here's why. >> and keep in mind everything he said today in court can be used against him for his trial which is set to ...