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lemmon. this is not good for the president of syria. one of his most senior officials has defected and now he's talking. nawaf was the syrian ambassador to iraq. not anymore, he fled his post and fled to another country and is supporting the rebels trying to throw out president bashar al assad. >> translator: the regime in syria is a totalitarian regime and dictatorship. there is only one person who gives the orders. one person who is the president. >> fares talked to cnn from his secure location in qatar. the syrian capital damascus has witnessed the most intense fighting yet toda...

say to president obama that waiting for election day the make the right decision on syria is unacceptable for syrians. we cannot understand that a superpower ignoring the killing of tens of thousands of syrian civilians because of an election campaign. also an american pastor kidnapped in egypt apparently had no idea that where he was traveling was a dangerous area. the pastor was abducted along with a parishioner and tour guard. his son talked with cnn's randi kaye about the ordeal and how it's taking a toll on the entire family, especially the pastor's wife. >> all of a sudden an...

Decades. what i heard was that the u.s. administration is still trying to catch up with the reality on the ground that has outpaced everybody. for example, when he spoke about egypt and the need to support egypt's reform and its new dawn in egypt, there was a missing sentence, and the missing sentence was -- that the united states continues to give $1.3 billion in aid to the egyptian army and egypt right now is ruled by the supreme military council so there was nothing there. military council is detaining people, torturing people and forcing people on military trial. when the president spoke a...

educator in chief that came out today. he provided a kind of world view, almost a historical interpretation of the causes and consequences of the arab spring. he began in the beginning with tunisia and moved forward. he tried to present a way in which he saw america's interests and values as squarely aligned with this arab revolution. he touched on the places that we don't like, the regimes we don't like that are having trouble dealing with people. tehran, damascus. he also talked about bahrain an yemen. but you are right, of course, he didn't talk about the 800-pound gorilla that is...

We will go to the democracy through that dictatorial constitution. my expert on constitutional law said the easiest way to start an new era with an interim constitution and set aside the parliament which is rigged and the constitution which has nothing to do with democracy and give ourself a year for the peaceful and safe transition. then we will get a proper president and proper parliament then again a full fledged democratic institution. that's the way i see it. >> a pleasure to have you on. thank you so much. up next, the latest live from egypt, major protests in cairo and alexandria and mo...