Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170408:10:04:00
One candidate on the ballot, hafez al assad's son. it was illegal for anyone to run against him so he got 99.7% of the vote in that year 2000. that's how he got power. that's how we got bashar al assad as the not quite king of syria. it's basically a dynstic dictatorship. he inherited the dictatorship after his father took over in a military coup 30 years earlier. at the start of bashar al assad's second decade in power e in 2011 when demonstrators around the arab world started dmoen straighting in the streets for relief from corruption, from real democracy, for reform ag n agenda that was dif...
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