it didn't take very long at all it didn't take it's over a year ago that they called for bashar assad to step down that's that's that's incorrect so the point and the point is not just that now you know you i say i don't think that there was abuse going on the way that doesn't mean the u.s. isn't at fault no i'm sorry i do think so i do think that's correct because you know if you remember there was. a long article in the new yorker in two thousand and seven two thousand and seven that the bush administration has targeted the syrian regime for the removal and the detailed in how working with saudi arabia and israel they were and with what you know various radical islamic forces they intended to destroy the regime of bashar assad this was in two thousand and seven that seymour hersh wrote this article and what we've seen is the fulfillment of that policy so it's not true to say that somehow they do they know that well there's a lot of resources they want to scream the u.s. was meeting with syrian opposition activists of different kinds yes the muslim brotherhood was involved in the coa

looks at a place like syria they see bashar al assad's regime they see it allied with iran iran is our enemy and so we really want that guy to go and but in trying to will that to happen what we wind up doing is helping the opposition with non-lethal aid with intelligence helping other countries that are giving lethal aid and what that does is fuel a big sectarian civil war in syria that's now spilling over into lebanon spilling into turkey spilling into iraq and creating disorder and my initial criticism of u.s. policy at the beginning of the show is that what a great power should do is try and promote stability above all else because instability hurts a country's national interest it hurts civilians noncombatants creates in the humanitarian emergencies creates contagious civil war that's that's where i fault the u.s. government right now for not taking a leadership role to promote stability instead what they're doing is sowing instability it's very shortsighted it's very dangerous i mean ryan this instability is working for the united states we want to get rid of the regime in iran o

the original draft resolution in the general assembly called for syrian president bashar al-assad to step down. we understand now that the latest draft resolution has had that text rephofpltd it n removed. it no longer calls explicitly for bashar al-assad to step down. this was an attempt to try to muster as many votes as possible in favor of this resolution. very quickly it also calls for the withdrawal of syrian troops and heavy weapons from populated areas, bill. bill: david lee miller, watch that for us. the general assembly is trying to put pressure on the security council for the work it did not complete. what's next patti ann. patti ann: chic-fil-a around the country packed with people, massive tkpwroudz turn out to support the ceo who spoke out publicly about gay marriage. supporters say this is not about his beliefs. >> this is about an individual who has religious beliefs, based on not his own personal beliefs, but actually the beliefs of his faith and he is only expressing that. >> herman cain, former presidential candidate and successful business owner

, and certainly bashar assad was not going to give up. it's clear through iran's actions that its rulers are playing for keeps in syria, and they will stop at nothing to prevent the fall of bashar assad. why are the iranians so committed and involved? in the words of general maddis, the commander of u.s. central command, described before the armed services committee that the tpaufp -- fall of bashar assad would be the greatest blow to iran in more than 25 years. in fact, bashar assad falls, syria loses its position as far as lebanon is concerned. the lebanese people have an opportunity to lose their client status of syria, and hezbollah absorbs a serious blow because they lose their patron in syria. so the fall of bashar assad not only is a victory for the force of democracy and freedom, but it would also mean a significant -- a significant -- advance in our interests in the region as our major concern today remains the iranian continued development of nuclear weapons, the path that we're on. but sooner or later may provoke an attack by e

the need to remove any kinds of preconditions such as for example the requirement to present bashar al assad stepping down before some sort of a peaceful solution could be negotiated that is not what was reflected in the news coverage of the talks on tuesday between the the syrian delegation and the russian government of course we do have to keep in mind that the press conference that the take place was in arabic was they were translated to russian and then into english but what this really serves to highlight is that the lack of accurate information and balance information coming out about the eighteen month long conflict i also want to bring into the discussion the example of aleppo as the battle continues to rage in syria's second city several news outlets have reported for example what the free syrian army spokespeople have said that they have taken the trolls of nearly two thirds of the level of the syrian government of president bashar al assad has claimed disputed those claims and what all of us really serves to highlight is again the last of the balance information coming out about t

the downfall of bashar assad may precipitate the disintegration of syria as a unitary state and i've always predict that this is that almost a year ago that if the charlotte said felt that he was about to fall from power i think he will resort to his own community to our community they are a majority in the coastal areas and they're likely to go their own way or the druze in the south also over the kurds are also gearing up for some sort of autonomy or self-government. also got a number of flood of cleavages within syrian society rural versus urban secular versus islamist and away versus sunni arab versus kurd also class divisions i mean serious a society is rather complicated and there are more divisions than syrians would be happy to admit so i think the solution really is for serious to be honest with themselves to have an honest and open dialogue with the support of the international community and to get away from the language of. accusing the other of being unpatriotic in the other of being a terrorist we need to get a move away from that and really have a constructive dialogue

one of the reasons why i'm being so supporter of bashar assad was that he was very close the border. into turkey what we're now seeing of course is the border between turkey and syria is open to incorporation into syria rebels and also. supplies that were open as you all come a blind eye to the border man who was firing into syria was always the risk of course your horse will smile while. there's also another. mind is the risk of religious extremists and his rudeness from the men who don't necessarily recognize any water between syria and turkey who don't necessarily want to create a culture state she wish to create a kind of county and they've probably have no great chance to do so they could calls and have called the one who trouble in other countries who cause trouble sometimes well there are reduced to minorities who get into he said because along the border. and some other international news abbrev rise the spillover from the syrian conflict continues in lebanon at least seven people have been killed down thirty three wounded as gun battles raged overnight in its northern city o

had taken the trolls of nearly two thirds of the level of the syrian government of president bashar al assad has claimed disputed those claims and what all of this really serves to highlight is again the lack of a balanced information coming out about this conflict there really needs to be a middle ground in this escalating conflict what we're seeing instead is a sort of black and white paper trail the trading of barbs sort of the lack of ability for the different sides to come together to really move this forward and a diplomatic way another thing that's really not helping. the potential of a peaceful negotiated solution to the crisis is some of the language that we've seen coming out of from the the united states as of late on monday because president barack obama had really caused quite an international stir when he said that the movement or use of chemical or biological weapons by the government of president bashar al assad could trigger could cause the u.s. to reconsider its opposition to military intervention and this of course goes to the against what sergei lavrov has been continuous

but one of the reasons why i had been so supporter of bashar assad was look he's very close the border. into turkey of course a very long border and what we're now seeing of course is re border between turkey and syria so to incorporation into syria rebels and also. part of the problem is you know you all have a blind eye to the border into syria with all the risk of course porous was marquardt. there's also another issue. the religious extremists in our religious fundamentalist groups who don't necessarily recognize any water between syria and turkey who don't necessarily want to create a kurdish state so she wished creative accounting and they probably have no great chance of doing that so they could cause of course the world trouble in other countries they could call for. we wish the minority are going to he said because we're on the border. a gun battle in lebanon's northern city of tripoli has left at least two and several others wounded the country's injured a number of clashes between supporters and opposes of the regime in neighboring syria the three moved into fighting on both

. >>> the general assembly is expected to vote calling on bashar assad to step down. the vote largely symbolic. the general assembly has no way to enforce that measure. it will call on the syrian army to stop shelling on rebel forces. there's been heavy fighting in aleppo. >>> an update on the bombing in bulgaria that killed five israelis. this computer generated image was released of the sue said attacker. so far the bomber hasn't been identified. israel blames iran in the lebanese militant group hezbollah. >>> "moneywatch" time now on a thursday. the post office fails to make an important delivery. chick-fil-a restaurants are packed. ashley morrison with more. good morning. >> good morning, terrell. worldwide investors are watching europe today. the european central bank is meeting to discuss ways to prevent the debt crisis from spiraling out of control. the head of the ecb has vowed he will do whatever it takes to save the euro. one course of action could be a bond-buying program lowering borrowing costs for struggling economies. >>> it was a mixed day for the asia

you know one of the reasons why i had been so supporter of bashar assad was that he was very close the border. into turkey of course a very long. and what we're now seeing the course is very border between turkey and syria so to incorporation into syria rebels and also. some. people you know who know. this. all kind of blind eye to the border matters funneling into syria with all of the risk that they of course the right price. absolutely not turkey says it can defensively strike at the kurdish separatists is it therefore giving itself a green light to attack syria given the kurdish enclave that's building over the border. there is not a possibility and certainly what the effect. of syria has been to create. kurdish areas and was something which the turkish government and all the mainstream parties were very worried about in iraq in two or three and then the opposition anywhere into the situation in syria the problem is. you can you. also work to intervene in syria how far would they be able to go how could they control. the stabilize and who are already very very promising we're alrea

bashar assad was seen on tv for first time today in two weeks. he showed up.g with iran top security chief. the message there was that a central part of the axis of resistance was standing together. iran and syria. what about the situation on the ground there? back with the panel. >> i hate to see the american secretary saying we are hoping he will go. and planning for post assad era. as if we can't do anything about it. it find it demoralizing as an american. i went back and looked at the speech president obama gave in march 2011 when he announced the mild intervention of libya, which did help to get rid of gaddafi. every reason he gave for intervening in libya is there squared, tri triply triplicate. we are talk about we hope there won't be sectarian violence later on. this is unfortunate. >> bret: but do you sense there is any appetite to intervene? >> a lot of people are calling for it. the administration is doing its best to resist. >> bret: juan? >> there is no appetite. no appetite on part of the american people. no appetite on capitol hill with the exc

so it is clearly in our interest to accelerate the end of bashar assad which we all agree will happen many have to die is the question, and that's directly related to the united states involvement. >> i wanted to ask you about the foreign fighters, because i interviewed an international journalist, one of two, who was actually kidnapped by foreign fighters. there are other reports about al qaeda inspired or al qaeda linked groups there. there are some people that see that in the united states and say look, this is now an opposition that has al qaeda in it. we should not be supporting them in any way. do you see the presence of foreign fighters as a reflection of the nature of the opposition, of the politics of the opposition, perspective of the opposition, or do you see it as a vacuum that jihadists are filling. >> clearly a vacuum. people began this revolution were not jihadists, al qaeda. in fact, they are the exact opposite of al qaeda. they were people who peacefully demonstrated for the kinds of things that we cherish. as the conflict has dragged out, there has been more and more

assad. the u.s. banks on a rebel victory and looks to a syria free from the regime of bashar al assad. >>> and new attack. president obama jabs at mitt romney's proposal to cut taxes for wealthier americans. >> it's like robin hood in reverse. it's romney hood. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning, everybody. good to be with you. i'm terrell brown. this morning, investigators in wisconsin are trying to determine what caused the former soldier to go on a deadly shooting spree inside a sikh temple. wade michael page killed six worshipers sunday morning before being shot to death by police. last night at another sikh temple 100 miles away, people of all faiths gathered to remember the victims and make sense of the tragedy. at the white house, the president said if the attacks were motivated by ethnicity, americans should "recoil" against those kinds of attitudes. >> in this country, regardless of what we look like, where we come from, who we worship, we are all one people. >> while no motive for the shooting has been established, authorities say page had been linked to white supremacist groups for more

president bashar al assad's forces have been carrying out air strikes in some places. they have warned opposition fighters in the commercial capitol aleppo to surrender or face full-scale attacks. >>> the escalating violence prompted u.n. officials to end their observer mission in syria. monitors pulled out of the country after failing to get both sides in this conflict to stick to a cease-fire. things are just as bad if not worse than when they arrived four months ago. nhk world's yujiro fotori got into damascus and filed this report. >> reporter: we entered damascus for the first time since forces broke out in july between president bashar al assad's troops and opposition forces. historically, syria developed as a trade hub between the east and the west. the old town of damascus is on unesco's list of world heritage sites. the violence that spread to damascus has left its mark on the city's beautiful streets and building. in this residential area the buildings have been scored with bullet holes from the recent fighting. the area looks deserted. fighting between gover

. >>> heading overseas to the crisis in syria tonight, syrian president bashar al assad made a rare public appearance without his vice president. this comes as more than 300u.n. security council monitors are leaving syria tonight as its peace keeping mission there never got off the ground. fox's steve harrigan has that story. >> reporter: it was a rare public appearance by syrian president bashar al assad in damascus. he hasn't been seen publicly in more than a month since an explosion claimed the lives of his four top security aides including his defense minister and brother-in-law. one man not at the mock ceremony to mark the end of ramadan was the syrian vice president. there is speculation he could have defected. syrian rebels claim he defected with his family to jordan, but the syrian government denies any defection. meantime fighting continues in major city of aleppo. rebels are hanging on there for several weeks now despite being outgunned and having no air power and finally in the north along the border near turkey a number of small towns controlled by rebel fighters now being poun

it's not looking good for bashar al assad.abouts of the vice president, it's an open question that's worrying people in the free syrian army now. >> i'm sure it is. i want to ask about the united nations observer mission. ended today. did it accomplish anything? >> reporter: they went into observe a cease-fire which never came into effect. if we remember back in the early april, that cease-fire almost came into play. the death toll went down to single digits for a couple of days. then escalated back up where it is today, over 100 a day, people killed. by the time of the middle of that object irver mission in june, the observers switched from being observers they said to trying to organize periods of a decrease in the fighting, localized in sort of certain areas to help humanitarian supplies get in. that's what they were reduced to. that's why they're pulling out now. they couldn't fulfill their original mission. so they did play a role. they say they're not leaving entirely. there is going to be a new u.n. representative to sy

president bashar al-assad has ordered his warplanes now to fire on residential neighborhoods. amateur video posted on the internet shows a lot of buildings have been destroyed, and tonight there are reports the rebels may have pulled out of some of their strongholds in aleppo. the assad regime rarely allows journalists inside syria. our holly williams is just over the border in turkey. i guess, first, holly, bring us up to speed on the latest on the battle for aleppo. >> reporter: well, sir yoo's state tv said today that government forces have taken full control of the dal dimasi district in aleppo which had been a rebel stronged hold but the rebels had been staging a tactical withdrawal and hadn't given up at this point. the fiercest fighting at the moment is in aleppo. it's syria's biggest city, and both sides believe controlling it is crucial to winning the civil war, but the violence, the bloodshed, the fighting, the shelling-- that continues in towns and cities across syria. >> schieffer: and, holly, i understand that bashar al-assad has installed another new prime minist

he can no longer support president bashar assad because he has no ability to stop the fighting. >>> this morning they are remembering texas a&m university. he shot and killed an officer who was trying to shoot two people. hours after the tragedy community members gathered to pray for the victims. >> the first round was 5 or 6 shots, and it was like an automatic gun going off and it was going off for about 30 minutes. >> a woman was there helping her daughter move before the start of school. >>> the jerry sandusky abuse case may cause the school to lose their accreditation. the university is on warning and the school must submit a report to show how they will handle the fallout but hey say they are confident they can address this and keep their accreditation. >>> they could provide relegal for 2 million undocumented immigrants living in the united states. the people here can apply for a temporary work permit. they can fine them at the u.s. immigration website. time now 5:46, so far there is only a few cars which earned a few passing grades. the act cure were. the l volvo were good the oth

when we asked them about president bashar al-assad they said they don't want him dead because they would be too easy. "let him taste the suffering that we have" said this woman. "we hope that he and his whole family are humiliated just as he has humiliated us." more than a thousand new refugees arrived in turkey in the last day, joining 44,000 already living in camps. why are you leaving? >> they burned our houses. >> reporter: they bombed your house? this woman told us if president ossad can't be killed she wants to die herself to escape the hardship. she said her son stayed behind to fight with the rebels against the government. some of the families we've seen flee across this border were too frightened to speak with us. they don't know who will eventually win this conflict and they told us they're scared of retribution. they escape with their children and a few possessions, but as they cross the boarder to safety, many also bring their hatred of the man they blame for leaving them homeless. >> pelley: holly williams joins us now from the turkey/syria border. yesterday, holly, the syri

. >>> an aid said the prime minister said he began planning his escape after bashar assad offered him a position. he said he only took the position because bashar assad threatened him. >>> and more information about the man, wade michael page reportedly has connections to white supremacist groups. they have swastikas and he killed several people and was then shot and killed by a police officer. one of the injured is brian murphy who is in critical condition after being shot nine times. he is spented to survive. he was the first officer on the scene and was ambushed while trying to help a victim. one of the six people killed was the president of the temple. he saved lives by trying to stop the gunman with a knife. >> i was told the blood trails and the evidence inside shows a battle had ensued and a knife next to his body which has blood on it. >> and in the wake of temple shooting, president barack obama has ordered all flags at military posts to be flown at half staff until friday. three of the people had military ties. they are praying and mourning. they plan to hold a candle light