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the regime. human rights activists say at least 2,000 people have been killed in the regime's brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters over the past several months. as the crackdown has played out, the administration has gone from urging assad to stop the violence and implement reforms himself to of late saying the dictator has lost legitimacy, but until now the administration has stopped short from demanding he yield power. here's how the u.s. ambassador to the united nations described assad's behavior right here on this program last week as she promised to push for more aggre...

Afghanistan so that we could be working with the afghan people so that they don't prefer the taliban over americans. >> do you find that the obama administration has been more candid with congress aboutç th war than the bush administration was? >> well, i think they've been more believable because, you see, this is -- he's my president. but i think george bush told us what he was going to do over there and he did it. and certainly i disagreed with him all the way along the way. but i'm hoping that my administration, the president of the united states today will be as candid as he can be abou...

Ground inside pakistan. it is absolutely urgent that we take a stand to stop spreading war in pakistan, to nip in the bud the u.s. ground presence. as for the 92,000 documents released by wikileaks, congressman kucinich suggested that the problems with the war in afghanistan have been crystalized. >> our troops are being placed in mortal peril because of poor logistics, countless innocent civilians killed by mistake. and an afghanistan government which is hopelessly corrupt, pakistan intelligence collaborating with the taliban against the u.s. the pentagon understating the fire power of the in...

Mattis. while senator john mccain seemed eager to portray the wikileaks documents as harmful to the war's chain of command, general mattis disagreed though he depolice record the relead deplored the release of the documents. >> it probably won't have much because at the moment they're actually reporting they are probably more eager to get the truth up the chain of command. that said, i just thought it was a -- just a -- an appallingly irresponsible act to release this information. it didn't tell us anything that already aware of. >> let's bring in congresswoman lynn woolsey of kifl's sixcalif ...