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Badi. we'll continue to follow up. stay safe. coming up, new protests, new violence in syria. and a familiar refrain from the government, the deadly violence is the work of foreigners, thugs. government forces firing at peaceful protesters, we'll have the latest. we're going to talk to a huan rights activist in syria. new images showing the force of the tsunami that hit japan as a wall of water rolls through the city of kesanuva. [ marge ] psst. constipated? phillips' caplets use magnesium, an ingredient that works more naturally with your colon than stimulant laxatives, for effective relief...

Also with us, professor faoud ajami. and ari fleischer. fouad, what do you think? >> i think the president did a great job. i'm not a fan of president obama, i didn't vote for him. i think he should have done this much earlier. but the second guessing -- he laid out, if you want to call it the obama doctrine of intervention, fine. if you want something less ambitious, fine? he did it, and he told us the truth, this was always about benghazi, a rescue operation he was forced to do. i think it's the right thing. >> ann marie slaughter, what did you make? some of the big questions out there about...

When we went into panama to remove noriega, we didn't asell bell a coalition. there are times when the united states has to have a coalition of people who are willing to join us. but america leads and america remains the leader of the world. >> john mccain and president obama. house speaker john boehner weighing in, saying the speech did not provide americans with much clarity. joining us now, david gergen, and ann marie slaughter. also with us, professor faoud ajami. and ari fleischer. fouad, what do you think? >> i think the president did a great job. i'm not a fan of president obama, i didn...

Telling us that 95 people had had died. from the opposition here, those air strikes most certainly do appear to mean salvation, wolf. >> we're going to check back with you, arwa. i specifically want to know if in fact any arms are coming in. they're desperate for more weapons right now. stand by. faoud ajami, we talk about the rebels as if they're one but there are various elements that are aligned against gadhafi. isn't that right? >> well, think there are all kinds of people in this broad coalition against gadhafi. as we said before, there are some elements, his former minister of interior, ...

They truly believe that they had been saved from a massacre. if you look at casualty numbers from the assault by gadhafi's forces that took place here on saturday, hospital officials are telling us that 95 people had had died. from the opposition here, those air strikes most certainly do appear to mean salvation, wolf. >> we're going to check back with you, arwa. i specifically want to know if, in fact, any arms are coming in to rearm them. they're desperate for more weapons right now. stand by. faoud ajami is with us as well from the school of international advanced studies. this is a dispara...