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Bahrain where now you have saudi troops who have been brought into suppress the population. they say they are not directly involved in activities with protesters. we have this remarkable video of a man being shot point blank by what looks like a rubber bullet. but what's going on in bahrain as you see it? >> this was always built for a rainy day such as this. but to be honest, we've done this big middle east story together for many, many days, for the last month or so. and i'm not that worried about bahrain. i don't think in bahrain you can just kill indiscriminately. the saudis can't do it. i...

People. it could all backfire. the arab league said the no-fly zone, they're going to think about it, but only if the african union or other arab nations might be involved in that, not the west. the u.s. has got to be wary of that, not wanting to look like they're interfering. well it is a real the united states has played on the international stage since the 1950s. police of the world. and whether it was korea, or vietnam, somalia, or iraq, the u.s. military has always been there. but there's also an equally long list of humanitarian disasters that the u.s. stayed out of. think of darfur. t...

You take a hit like that from vice president cheney, i don't see crist winning the republican nomination. i don't think he can. when you said you thought he would go independent, i think if he wants to be the senator, that's the only shot he's got. i'll tell you, when you leave the republican party, joe, i can speak from experience, a lot of republicans who are with you, they say good-bye, we have to stay with the party. that looks like crist may have to compete with meeks, frankly, if he want the to be -- >> polled votes -- >> you were mentioning, ft. lauderdale area, the jewish folk, but he'...

Go into the union, run into the ground schools, all of these things add up. where are the pastors, priests, where are the churches? chicago is the black epicenter of the intelligenceia, where are they all? >> a lot of folks, pastors, black, white, hispanic, are doing their part. the issue is chicago has a serious gang problem, whether you're talking about blacks, hispanics, whites. that has always been the case. i think one of the things that has to happen, you have to have the surge attitude to the police going into neighborhoods people who are not afraid of the cops. a kid the other day was ...

Effectively turning them into monsters. and the events that led american soldiers to slaughter an iraqi family in 2006. "time" magazine contributing editor jim frederick profiles the soldiers and their motivations for murder in his new book "black hearts." in it he writes, quote, many soldiers actively cultivate and dehumanization of locals as a secret to survival. you cannot think of these people as people, he writes. what about this crime struck you? >> it struck me how important leadership is. and how debilitating isolation can have on small units -- >> what was the crime? >> the crime was ...