>> for sure because he is thinking what could happen post bashir. ra. >> rose: so will there is this contradiction but which you obviously know, saudi arabia had no trouble sending troops into bahrain. >> no. there is a very big difference here. bahrain is part of the ggc and the six countries in ggc have an agreement whereby if any country is attacked or under danger all other five states have the right to enter fear so it came under the umbrella of that. number one. number two, the -- of saudi arabia so really when they went to bahrain with other ggc countries, they were defending saudi arabia and the ggc countries so it was not only defending bahrain. >> rose: i want to broaden this out from syria and saudi arabia, this is the article that you wrote for the wall street journal, opinion section, in which you make the following point. one, now is an opportune time for the arab no narc chal regime which still have goodwill to begin political reform, another point is if there is a lesson to be learned from the arab spring is that the winds of changes

. >> we'll debunk the lies with joy ann reid and martin bashir. >>> sean hannity released his evidence that the president didn't want to kill bin laden. tonight i will embarrass him again with the facts. >>> good to have you with us, thanks for watching. republicans, they screamed bloody murder about class warfare, haven't they? americans, we haven't been buying it. it's time to roll out the new war, the culture war, the past 24 hours, rick santorum fresh off the three-state win has said president obama is taking us down the road to the french revolution and guillotine. and soviet 8th is why i am. >> taking faith and crushing it, when you marginalize faith in america, when you remove the pillar of god-given rights, then what's left is the french revolution. what's left in france became the guillotine. ladies and gentlemen, we're a long way from that. but, if we do and follow the path of president obama and his overt hostility to faith in america, we're headed down that road. >> the new shiney object in the culture war is the obama administration's position on birth control. requiring h

i'm joined by msnbc host martin bashir and also msnbc political analyst richard wolffe. richard, you first tonight, please. we are in this political war of words right now as to who is at fault when it comes to gas. prices in this country. is what president obama what he needs to do -- what does he need to do right now to avoid the blame game as it being on the administration's shoulders at this point? what would be effective? >> he needs to offer solutions up. there's not a lot you can do in the short-term but there are a whole range of things that will lead to a longer term solution. and by the way, this isn't his blueprint necessarily because his predecessor had exactly the same challenges. president bush saw gas prices go up from $2 to well over $4 and went into exploring alternative energy. i toured those plants with president bush. nobody in their right mind could possibly think that president bush allowed gas prices to go up because he was an environmentalist or too tough on the oil and gas industry so the president now has to say we've been here before. there's a

martin bashir will have live coverage of that. it all starts here at 3:00 p.m. >>> outraged e jipgss are blaming police for failing to prevent a soccer vriot that killed 70 people. nbc's a man mul dean joins me from cairo. was the riot a result of the sports rivalry or politics at play? how is it being determined? >> well, thomas, we have an investigative committee. the key question is whether this was something more sinister than what it seemed to be. according to many egyptians and analysts, they think there is something underlying this violence. now as you mentioned, 74 people killed. but many people are surprised that the sudden spike of violence. yes, politics in egypt are common with sports. but the key question is, why did so many people get killed? was it a result of people rioting at the stadium with weapons planning to attack this club and fans? it's clearly something that cuts across all levels of society and politics. as you mentioned, the people here are putting the blame squarely on the shoulders of the security forc

. >> you actually know president bashir of south sudan.ou talked to him before about becoming your buildings. >> i have. greta, i think -- you know, we have to look where do we go forward from here? i believe the only thing that we can do is get the united states engaged in this. president obama. and if i could give him advise it would be bring bashir and the two governors of the upper blue file and the south state and bring them to camp david and have a camp david style meeting and find a way to resolve the differences. i believe all parties would like to find a way to resolve it. >> i don't think we realize the number of people involved. we have our attention on other hotspots in the world but it has an enormous impact on thousands of people. >> it does. it's huge. because the people right now are fleeing to the south. you have a huge refugee problem going on in the south in the blue file and these are states called the upper blue file and south kordavan. 300,000 are christians and other 400,000 muslims. but they live in peace together.

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president bashir assad has the right to stop it. a ground force of 320,000 people, 5,000 tanks, and fighter jets as we reported last night, at least 555 russian migs. aft the 4,000-plus surface-to-air missiles, syria is the largest in the region and would have the ability to fight back. what happens if assad is forced out? power vacuum, instability, sichbl war, coming outfront, david ignatius. great to see you. >> great to be here, erin. thank you. >> there is obviously a lot of fear about the void that might be created if president bashir assad is forced out. what would happen in that scenario? >> well, if he was eased out with a transition that specified that there was some interim government, one thing that's been proposed is that the vice president of this syrian government would act as an interim, would appoint a transitional committee and have elections and a peaceful tranlsfer. if he's forced out with nothing, with no clear process of transition, you're going have a free-for-all. syria is one of the most divided and volatile

president bashir assad has the right to stop it. has a ground force of 320,000 people, 5,000 tanks, and fighter jets as we reported last night, at least 555 russian migs. aft the 4,000-plus surface-to-air missiles, syria is the largest in the region and would have the ability to fight back. what happens if assad is forced out? power vacuum, instability, sichbl war, coming outfront, david ignatius. great to see you. >> great to be here, erin. thank you. >> there is obviously a lot of fear about the void that might be created if president bashir assad is forced out. what would happen in that scenario? >> well, if he was eased out with a transition that specified that there was some interim government, one thing that's been proposed is that the vice president of this syrian government would act as an interim, would appoint a transitional committee and have elections and a peaceful tranlsfer. if he's forced out with nothing, with no clear process of transition, you're going have a free-for-all. syria is one of the most divided and volat

martin bashir, i turn first to you. what does this mean? >> we've had this primary process described as theater of the absurd, a shakespearean tragedy, but we always come back to the idea of a circus. and remember, donald trump is the magician. don't assume that he's going to endorse mitt romney. i keep being told this. yesterday, esteemed journalists on "the new york times" and indeed to my left, s.e. cupp who works for the "daily news," people were being told repeatedly that it was going to be newt gingrich. and today, what are we hearing today? >> mitt romney. >> and we don't know if this is the word he is putting out. i got a release yesterday from the trump people, as i do, and i should let you know that at the bottom, it said, obligatorily, all media invited. which i'm pretty sure is just on the trump letterhead, right? it's just in there. >> it's embossed on the envelopes. actually embossed on the envelopes. >> i think they might change the place of this announcement, it might be at cirque du soleil. but trump's been really good to b

. >>> i'm martin bashir, coming up, adventures in sea pack land. faith where the only rule is don't be nice to democrats. >>> word of wisdom from kirk cameron. a new dnc attack dog, rick santorum. back to tamron. >>> it's been four months since the death of steve jobs. now the fbi has released its files. some paninted him as a dishones man. a lot of this reads similarly to what we saw in the biography. why was this put together? >> the first president wanted to appoint steve jobs to a board that makes recommendations to the government>8rtÑ trade polic. in early 1991, the fbi was assigned to do a background investigation. he was appointed to this advisory council, but the fbi had to talk to his friends, neighbors, coworkers. most of them were quite complimentary about him but there were some people who questioned what they said were his behaviors. some people who worked with him at other companies said, for example, one fbi summary that they questioned his honesty and said he will twist the truth and distort reality in order to achieve his goals. a

. >>> i'm martin bashir, coming up, the fight in michigan revs up. mitt romney looking vulnerable.re war ignites a t a congressional hearing. you thought rick santorum made offensive comment bs about women, wait until you hear what his money man said. back to tamron. >>> the colbert reports halt protection. sa cindy crawford puts the breaks on her beautiful daughter's modelling career. why? let's get the scoop from chris witherspoon. let's start off with the colbert report. is he okay? what's going on? >> all we know is that fans received an e-mail tuesday that were going to attend the show wednesday and thursday to not come. the show would be postponed. we don't know why they are not taping. the wall street journal put a report out saying colbert had a family emergency that made them postpone taping. >> even though they sent out the alert some fans showed up thinking they would be attending the taping as well. >> he has loyal fans. this happened twice before with comedy shows. another time when a staff member suddenly passed away. i think fans are concerned. they want that. >> the

instead syria's president about a shi-- bashir al assad is proposing changes to the constitution.eduled for february 26th. >>> and now a cnn exclusive. our photojournalist was able to get inside the besieged city of homs and get into a clinic. viewers may find some of our reporting upsetting. for her team's own security we're not revealing its location inside siro. >> reporter: on the horizon thick smoke billow from a sabotaged gas pipeline. this is the war zone that homs has become. we're in a neighborhood that's endured constant shelling opinion civilians are killed and wound every day. a 30-year-old man lies on the brink of death after shrapnel hit him in the head. he had brain matter that came out of the wound last night. i couldn't really do anything for him the doctor says. i just stitched him up to keep the brain matter in and insert ad tube. it's actually a nasal tube to suction the blood. he will die if he done get out. dr. muhammed is one of only two doctors here. his specialty is internal medicine. the other doctor is actually a dentist. the 36-year-old's arm is attache

. >>> i'm martin bashir, coming up, halftime show of strength from the president.n bet that means a republican field more desperate than ever. the candidate eager to unseat joe walsh and the political ad that will make you cringe. >>> controversy over the super bowl halftime show and controversy over what gisele sed in defense of her man. plus, your favorite super bowl ad. kim, let's start off with the super bowl halftime controversy. the singer/rapper, m.i.a. gave the middle finger to the tv screen there. i guess that's the only way to up stage madonna. >> madonna said before in her press conference when talking about her show, she promised there would be no wardrobe malfunction. she said she had been working on this so hard. you didn't expect anything like that. you didn't expect a finger malfunction. yeah, i think it's interesting that she is up staging madonna in this. it's too bad because it was such a great performance. >> there was a failure in nbc delay system. nbc says the nfl hired the talent that produced the halftime show. our system was late to obscure

security council is expected to meet today to vote on a resolution calling for syrian president bashir al assad to resign. they killed 200 people yesterday in the city and they injured hundreds more. the u.n. estimates more than 5,000 people were killed in the last year. in what protesters say is concentrated assault on demonstrators. >>> meanwhile, dozens of syrian americans gather outside the syrian embassy on wyoming avenue northwest last night to show their support for protesters. they denounced president bashir al assad saying what he's doing to his citizens is considered genocide. there are protests going on at syrian embassies around the world. >>> the army intelligence analyst accused of the biggest classified leak in u.s. history will now face a court-martial. the commander of the district of washington handed it down against bradley manning last night. he is accused of giving wick qui leaks more than 7,000 classified documents from the wars in afghanistan and iraq. he faces 22 counts including aiding the enemy. the could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted. >>> a traf