>> rose: welcome to the program, we begin this evening with syria, day 2, and dennis ross. >> if he thinks that the balance is fundamentally against him, then he is going to -- he is going to leave. the question is, you have to realize right now as you put it this is day 2, yesterday, he inteernlsed a shock, a profound shock. the brain center of his regime, of those who are responsible for running his security, either were killed or wounded, and now the shock effect as it wear off he then has to sit back and think, where am i? what is going to happen to me now. >> rose: also this evening, egypt and the future of the arab spring, throughout the middle east with david kirkpatrick. new york times bureau chief in cairo. >> among the people who think about how to write a constitution for a new republic rule number one is get the civilians in control. because when the military is controlling the government, that gives them a lot of different ways to influence the writing of the new constitution and that could have deleterious impacts down the road. it is clear in this case the military wants to

. >> rose: we continue our look at the events in syria on day 2, with dennis ross, he has had long experience in the middle east, has been at the top level of negotiations and also a participant of the national security council and at the state department and we want to begin, he is now the counselor at the institute for near east policy with this question, dennis, thank you for joining us, nice to be with you, thank you. >> suppose you are at the top levels of government, what questions are you asking on day 2 about the events in syria? >> well, i would probably ask the following questions. number one, are we seeing anything change in terms of status of the chemical and biological weapons stocks. number 2, are we seeing any signs that the make-up of the security forces themselves are beginning to change. are we seeing some disruptions in what looks like the chain of command? number 3, i am going to ask, are we seeing increasing moves around the country, for example, are we seeing some signs of the military around the country maybe withdrawing from places where it has been? again because you

been sort of ran obamiam personnel and in the middle east and owning -- >> you still people like dennis ross and dennis mitchell around. and i'm wondering if -- forgive me if this is in the book and i will read it but i'm sort of wondering if that's true on the advisers that have come around to own or present a different vision on the middle east of the palestinian issue is specifically. if no one has a reason sort of what factors play into that and is that in the area east deferred to an older generation. >> i think he's deferred to an older generation. i mean, he went through a first year or year and a half of efforts on the middle east and it didn't work so in interviewing people after three years they admit they didn't do right in the middle east. they pushed an initiative without seeing it was going to work and e of the questions in part because the region in my mind if there is a second term life would be interested in the first few months. either he's going to -- the middle east is in israel and palestinians are hugely taking a lot of effort. is he going to make this one of his priori

dennis ross, republican, this is after the supreme court decision. "individual mandate ruled unconstitutional, let freedom ring." >> and he had plenty of company if you go to the next one >> he had company from tom rooney. breaking, supreme court strikes individual mandate. great news victory for constitution hashtag obamacare. >> suarez: you can understand that in part because at first the story was reported incorrect and they're ha n realtime responding to an incorrectly reported story. >> cnn and fox news got the story wrong so people on their behalf tweeting victory because the supreme court struck down... of course it did not. and then on one of these it says "deleted two minutes later "so they are sensitive to realtime events and back to fund-raising, both the romney and obama campaign sending out fund-raising letters around the supreme court decision arguing different points almost in realtime. >> but now there are so many people who are associated but not officially part of campaigns. all furiously sending out opinions, ideas, impressions, re

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