should think this is a good moment to pledge some kind of eternal friendship. >> iran is syria's last remaining ally, the last remaining unequivocal ally. for the islamic republic of iran, syria has been the only consistent ally since the 1979 revolution. syria is very important to iran in that it is a major thoroughfare for iran's patronage of hezbollah. to use a poker analogy, iran is all in what it comes to syria. is a zero sum game for them. if the regime falls, they stand to lose and a major way, so they're doing all they can to express solidarity with the assad regime. >> how much influence does iran have in syria? >> iran has influence in terms of its financial aid to the assad regime which has been cut off financially. they support syria with cash, subsidize oil, arms, with tactics and strategy to continue to cause the uprising and one of the philosophies of the iranian regime is that when you're population rises up, never compromise because if you start to show signs of compromise, it will project weakness and encourage the opposition. i'm sure that is the advice they ha

it's not even civilian you know we had mainstream report that came to syria and for iran for a while i went with them on the scene you know but in the january. in december i asked him to do a position where the were already implemented ok and so i could have an idea as an eyewitness and in the beginning we did not even know who were source people and we said said those people there were. identified. gangs you know we said we don't know who they are but they are spreading. these sort of the killings abducting and many kind you know of metal rods. to destabilize a country and also to implement a kind of punishment what if you've been to war for example they would kill. very targeted targeted for example they will keep a low if i have seen. in almost. a flock. of blood. because in the day before. people you know source and i did then defied gangs have been beheading nine i know with people just because they were i know it i have seen this with my eyes and i talked to the population of the sunni population who do you think has has perpetrated this they didn't know they said they were wea

the world's second largest global body the organization of islamic cooperation has suspended syria iran has been the only member speaking out in support of. president assad to decide the fate of chewing a song who's waiting for an asylum ruling in the country's london embassy that says u.s. hackers try to crash the wiki leaks website. thanks to as the white house considers pushing through cyber security orders after congress failed to get to grips with it archie talks to apple co-founder steve walz about privacy rights and web democracy . as co-founder of one of the largest companies in the world do you think that you have a responsibility to speak out about issues like internet regulation i don't think anyone comes with a responsibility just because their company is really big especially since i'm not the one who wanted to run a company just be a great engineer that helped start it so i don't feel that anybody has a responsibility however i do like it when well known people that are in the public eye speak out on social issues and give their opinion what do think about legislation like

i have circled that reaches from iran and iraq from syria and into lebanon. >> iran does not want to see this shiite access destroyed. syria is iran's most of for the arab world. so to iran does not want a change in government there. >> saudi arabia and qatar are supplying the syrian rebels with money and weapons and cooperating with turkey and the united states. washington, too, has repeatedly called for assad to resign, a step that would be a major blow to iran. >> the west and its allies are hoping that a new regime will take over in this area that promotes pro-western policies and alliance itself more with saudi arabia. but russia and china does not want to do the west a favor by giving up on bashar assad and watching syria go to the west, so to speak. >> the intense saudi arabia and rivalry makes mahmoud ahmadinejad's visit to the summit in mecca especially surprising. >> the u.s. and israel are heading down a road that could end in war with a view towards iran. saudi arabia wants to distance itself from that event, and that is why it invited iran to the summit. and iran's leader

president, david plouffe, who reportedly accepted money from a company that has close ties to iran and syriapromised to change washington. but they just fit right in. david plouffe, one of president obama's most trusted advisers, accepted $100,000 from a company that does business with iran and syria. he is not talking. the company's activities are under intensified scrutiny. one country, two speeches, $100 thousand. barack obama hasn't changed washington at all. >> sean: joining me to break down the latest scandal to rock the white house, the author -- four weeks in a row on the new york times best seller list, what the bleep just happend? monica crowley. and juan williams, who will tell us what bleep means. >> i am going to try. >> sean: someone said the following in the campaign. iran, cuba, venezuela -- those countries are tiny. they're not a threat. remember who said that? >> no. >> sean: that was barack obama. so, do you have a problem with david plouffe taking this money with a company with close ties to syria and iran? >> well, i think, you know, i am not comfortable with it. i don't

in this situation iran syria we spoke to professor paul sheldon suits of california state university who specializes in middle eastern affairs and he believes the u.s. and its allies are using the humanitarian situation in syria to pursue their drent in the region. it's a pretext it's still another way to divide and take over the country using the united nations as your vehicle is unfortunately a repetition of what happened in libya or the united nations being used to both war and for both case their playbook for doing whatever they want to drill a save point for go at those work anymore but there is no desire by. the west nailed you have been negotiated settlement the oldest purpose of this exercise is to make sure that there is no competition in the middle east for life well such is by way of syria iran and other places all these other things are excuses to claim that they care one bit about humanitarian concerns as it is a gross. generator and a sound has broken his silence for the second time since being granted asylum by could or in a reign to be the whistleblower talked upon la

he said iran has a very important role to play in syria. his part, iran's supreme leader ayatollah khamenei said on his website that the solution in syria is to stop shipping weapons to the rebels. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to gwen and judy in tampa. ifill: tonight with a lineup of high profile speakers, all centered around one theme republicans have titled, "we can change it." another elected official attracting attention here is florida senator marco rubio. elected in 2010's wave election, he is one of a handful being touted as the new face of the grand old party. i talked with him earlier this afternoon. senator rubio, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> ifill: you're going to be speak before the convention tomorrow night, thursday night. what's the message you hope to bring? >> my job is to introduce mitt romney. and i hope i can present him in a way that does two things, culminates about what we're going to hear about mitt romney leading to the speech, his success as a person. s had success as a busines

but do you think these comments clearly have a good iran and syria do you think perhaps you could say this is now being a failure on iran's part for mediation of the summit or there is still some hope that something could be salvaged and something concrete could come out of this meeting. well and they say the very fact that the meeting is a very complex. there was an all out effort to stop this meeting and all out effort to keep. iran itself and the stop any country from having any economic political relations with iran whatsoever so over the very fact that one hundred and twenty eight nations. thirty five heads of state have come to tehran for this meeting is of extremely short of them now will they all agree with each other no i don't think so. will this be a voice and a possibility for the future i think that the potential is still there but we should be aware that there's big pressure. very much so on every one of the countries i can understand fully syria walking out because they are playing they say absolutely game change there's every effort of the left to intervene and they're

and if i'm wrong this is aeration iran syria was spoke to professor paul show the fruit of california state university who specializes in middle eastern affairs and he believes the u.s. and its allies are using the humanitarian situation in syria to pursue that and to the region it's a pretext it's still another way to divide and take over the country years seeing the united nations as your vehicle is unfortunately a repetition of what happened in libya or the united nations being used to promote war instead of promote case that playboy who are doing whatever they want to try the same playbook and do it those work anymore well there's no desire. at the west nato to have been negotiated settlement so that the oldest purpose of this exercise is to make sure that there is no competition in the middle east for pipeline searches by way of syria iran and other places all these other things are excuses to claim that they care one bit about humanitarian concerns as it is a gross war. wiki leaks is planning to blunder into this year and debate it with julian assange promising millions of relat

organization of islamic cooperation will hold an emergency summit on tuesday to agree to a resolution on syria iran's the only member of the block to openly speak out against sidelining damascus several member countries are unconditionally backing the rebels inside syria out there are conflicting claims over the fate of a government war plane that came down on monday officials blame technical failure with the pilot said to have a jacked it up but currently missing the rebels say they shot down and capture the pilot with a claim to show in an unconfirmed video this comes as the opposition steps up calls for a libya style intervention which there is little appetite for one foreign policy at spur told r.t. . there's not a great popular support in the united states for such an event and we're in the middle of campaign season losing leading into the presidential election also we have stronger opposition in the scenario we have china russia and iran all openly opposed to this so it would be a much more difficult step because one is not popular popular support for any intervention and because there are much

member of islamic cooperation will hold an imagist to sign it on tuesday to agree a resolution on syria iran is the only member of the block to open it speak out against the sidelining demarcus while several member countries are going to be part of the rebels and inside syria there are conflicting claims over the fate of a government. officials with technical failure of the pilot. current must run the rebels claim they shot down and captured the pilot who they allegedly shot and confirmed the zio this comes as the opposition steps up. style intervention which says they will appetite for as one foreign policy expert told r.t. . there's not a great popular support in the united states for such an event and we're in the middle of campaign season leasing leading into the presidential election also we have a stronger opposition in the scenario we have china russia and iran all openly opposed to this so it would be a much more difficult step because one is not popular popular support for any intervention and because there are much stronger opponent abroad the reality is that the free syrian army a

they're criticizing obama on syria as you said on iran and other issues and it seems as if he's romney is trying to win base for him by criticizing obama on this issue i think they are criticizing him but most most american voters don't really care about that to be quite blunt and so i mean they just you know they may read the newspapers and they don't know very much about these issues foreign policy and defense stuff they don't know which what our policy should be in many of the countries because they're not even familiar much with the countries but they know their own paycheck they know the educational system they know the state of the highways they know stuff and domestically and that's why u.s. elections usually tend to focus on that unless there's a big war going on or unless there's some crisis like the iranian hostage crisis during the one thousand nine hundred eighty for jimmy carter something like that then it becomes a bit more of an issue and less than three months left for the elections obama is still leading do you think that's going to be the case for until november sixth

to the extent that issues like syria, iran, i do think the president and vice president biden will be able to leverage the fact that they have governed in national security in a way that mitt romney and paul ryan have not. >> breeze surprised by the pit? >> i was. -- >> wereui you surprised by the pick? >> i was. it is a risky choice. >> a rising star in republican ranks. >> i do not think anyone would have been surprised to see him and that as a presidential candidate in 2016 or 2020 or a u.s. senator or governor. but he is 42 another has -- not a household name. he will be a national figure overnight. it does bring back 2008. >> with paul ryan in american samoa mitt romney's running mate, there are a number of potential candidates who did not get the call. -- with paul ryan in as mitt romney's running mate, there are a number of potential candidates to deny get the call. >> i did not start with the expected risch -- with the expectation i would be vice president. i'm glad he did congressman ryan. i am happy to support the ticket. >> to the other side of the aisle, president obama is

west is staying away from this while iran is hosting the summit where they're discussing issues that the u.s. wants to control you know and run in the sand such as syria such as the nuclear nonproliferation especially when it comes to iran and here they are discussing these issues that you know the u.s. would like to be part of but is left behind and then what about thanking the u.s. could you general against the advice of washington do you see in capitol hill he is attending this summit into iran at the same time though what people are ignoring is that he's been given permission to examine nuclear sites and yet washington is expecting him to come back with harsh rhetoric your thoughts on that harsh rhetoric . you know we were hoping that would be very harsh on iran that he would go there and untraditional it for him it's surprising that they were expecting this because he is a very soft spoken diplomat that the u.s. was saying hopefully he'll go and he'll be very aggressive and tell iran off but what actually ended up happening was one came and said look iran could be a very effective mediator when it comes to middle eastern issues and that's what he

syria. host: could iran carry out its threat on the street? will be the implication for syria? it is a very narrow waterway in which a 600 of the world's oil passes through. it is a strategic waterway. iran has been threatening to close it for a long time now. they made this threat so many times that the u.s. navy is very much on alert. they could do for a couple of days but they certainly could do it for a prolonged period. i think we should actually tell iran if you want to be cavalier, go ahead. in a way, closing the strait is as strategic as a suicide bombing. they're going to hurt themselves. they're cutting off all their oil revenue. most of the oil passing through is not bound for the united states. it is actually bound for china which has become iran's key commercial ally. they will alienate the chinese. above all, the closing of the strait would be detrimental to iran. host: thank you for joining us today. that is our show today. tomorrow's schedule, bill kristol will be joining us at 7:45 a.m. to talk about the latest developments in the presidential race. then we wil

is to make sure that there is no competition in the middle east for pipelines such as by way of syria iran and other places all these other things are excuses to claim that they care one bit about humanitarian concerns as it is a gross. wiki leaks is planning to plunge into the syrian debates with julianne are songs promising millions of related e-mails with the published will be published in a rare interview the whistleblower gave to upon last american t.v. network he also pointed to a clear manipulation of the media over the syrian conflict songe also defended the weaker leagues activities saying that unlike us actions and afghanistan and iraq no one was hurt as a result of their website his publications he said he has never brutal sort information and insisted everything his website ever revealed was the truth on the stand also touched upon the surveillance via the internet suggesting the us lane tains a spy network through google which. let's now discuss our soldiers latest revelations with jeff patterson director of the courage to priss to the project through to resist project rather

joining us today my first question is you've been there for twelve years working in damascus in syria iran different areas has there been a difference in your work throughout those years and in the recent months that we've seen uprising and violence of course we have been facing. reality evolving to get more and more of that as you can the democratic. you know it's really in the central head. it's so for us it was new because we were. put in service provision of the smallest pity since nineteen ninety four. and we really. appreciate. the security team in syria you know its security feel for chords which is imposed somehow. by regime which is very strong good and sometimes it kind of. began but nevertheless the reality is that everybody was living in security. now with when the events begin. to raise we were very happy because really also wanted felt the need for a chance but the fact we are pretty quickly. we got bad news. from. the witnesses. you know what they are since you in homs. and also from damascus in daraa. where what to do is it messes with the civilians who's out any political.

war in syria iran very much allied with syria. >> you've been talking a lot on your show.oom out of damascus. >> this is something we're getting new information on. this is a town that's not on a map but would be close to anadan. this was a town that a french reporter who visited this small village 20 miles outside of aleppo said it's been in rebel hands for three weeks life is returning to normal. what happened today according to a reuters reporter, an air strike by the syrian military. people are going home to home looking for their relatives that they can't find and in many cases finding them in the morgue or indeed already buried because islamic tradition will compel you to bury someone within 24 hours. that's what's happening there. when you have these rebel held enclaves the syrian regime is wanting to make a point and p bombing is what happened over the last 24 hours. >> we're watching. thank you. i appreciate it. >>> back home some political pundits calling this the nastiest race ever. we're ask really, ever? a little perspective on the 2012 race, next. butter or r

iran is hosting the summit where they're discussing issues that the u.s. wants to control such as syria such as the nuclear nonproliferation especially when it comes to iran and here they are discussing these issues that the u.s. would like to be part of but is left behind we were hoping that one came one would be very harsh on iran that he would go there and on traditionally for him it's surprising that they were expecting this because he's a very soft spoken diplomat that the u.s. was saying hopefully he'll go and he'll be very aggressive and tell iran off but what actually ended up happening was one came and said look iran could be a very effective mediator when it comes to middle eastern no issues and that's what he said and something the u.s. i'm sure wasn't expect. despite iran's willingness and ability to help find a solution to the syria crisis any ideas put forth by terror on could be met with resistance or journalist action returned poor owners are now proposing a syria plan and let's remember that it is one of the regional powers and their views regarding any type of peace in

joining us today my first question is you've been there for twelve years working in damascus in syria iran different areas has there been a difference in your work throughout those years and in the recent months that we've seen op rise in violence of course we have been facing. the n.p.t. evolving to get more and water but as you can pick you know it's really in the center headed. so for us it was new because we would. put it through this partition of the small nest thirty six nineteen ninety four and we really. appreciate. the security team in syria you know its security field chords which is imposed somehow. by regime which is very strong good and sometimes a kind of. again but never does unless the reality is that everybody was living in security. now were when the events begin. raise we were very happy because really also wanted felt that the that is a need for a chance but very very quickly. we got bad news. from. the weaknesses. in our biases in homs. and also from damascus in daraa where what to do is a weakness is civilians lose out any political. position and you know they were co

is to make sure that there is no competition in the middle east for pipelines such as by way of syria iran and other places and all these other things are excuses there to claim that they care one bit about humanitarian concerns as it is a gross. and also we're killing exists planning to plunge into the sewer and debate with juvenile songs promising millions of related emails will be published in a rare interview the whistleblower gave to latin american t.v. network he also pointed to a clear manipulation of the media over the syrian conflict a sound also defenders of the wiki leaks sexy this is saying that unlike us on shows in afghanistan or iraq no one was hot as a result of the websites publications and he said he has never bortle sold information and insisted everything his website ever revealed was the true it's a song also touched upon surveillance via the internet suggesting the u.s. maintains a spy network through google the whistleblower admitted he may have to spend from six months to get holed up in ecuador's london embassy until there's a diplomatic solution also we didn't dro

is to make sure that there is no competition in the middle east for pipelines such as by way of syria iran and other places all these other things are excuses to claim that they care one bit about humanitarian concerns as it is a gross. and also we could be planning to plunge into the sewer and debate it with julian assange promising millions of related emails be published in a rare interview the whistleblower gave to upon last american t.v. network he also pointed to a clear manipulation of the media over the syrian conflict also defenders of the weekly except seriously saying that unlike you us actions in afghanistan and iraq no one was hurt as a result of the website's publications he said he has never bought all sold information and insisted everything his website ever revealed was the truth is a song also touched upon surveillance via the internet so trusting the u.s. maintains it's plain at work for google the whistleblower tomatoes he may have to spend from six months to a year holed up and acquittals london embassy until there's a diplomatic solution all sweden drops the case again

from the west to staying away from this while iran is hosting the summit where they're discussing issues that the u.s. wants to control such as syria such as the nuclear nonproliferation especially when it comes to iran and here they are discussing these issues that the u.s. would like to be part of but is left behind we were hoping that would be very harsh on iran that he would go there and untraditional a for him it's surprising that they were expecting this because he is a very soft spoken diplomat that the u.s. was saying hopefully he'll go and he'll be very aggressive and tell iran off but what actually ended up happening was one came and said look iran could be a very effective mediator when it comes to middle eastern issues and that's what he said and something the u.s. i'm sure wasn't expect the u.n. chief ban ki-moon has said he's planning to use the visit to address the crisis in syria but in a few minutes we're going to get to the latest developments in the country to help world powers complete the deal with hold information they don't want any part. that's still to come but first ukraine's highest court has rejected an

in the west is staying away from this while iran is hosting the summit where they're discussing issues that the u.s. wants to control such as syria such as the nuclear nonproliferation especially when it comes to iran and here they are discussing these issues that the u.s. would like to be part of but is left behind we were hoping that i would be very harsh on iran that he would go there and on traditionally for him it's surprising that they were expecting this because he's a very soft spoken diplomat that the u.s. was saying hopefully he'll go and he'll be very aggressive and tell iran off but what actually ended up happening was one came and said look iran could be a very effective mediator when it comes to middle eastern issues and that's what he said and something the u.s. i'm sure wouldn't expect. our u.n. correspondent us to see a truck going to just a bit earlier. than a jew a political analyst for the u.k. a column website in london says that iran is just trying to get what it has so far been refused at the u.n. . well for iran this gives them a diplomatic stage and puts them on equal footing with other competing nation's

is calling for the release of what it says are dozens of iranian civilians captured in syria. iran says the nearly 50 hostages are pilgrims who were kidnapped after a trip to a shiite shrine near damascus. >>> in a new video, a man claiming to be a syrian rebel commander appears with those prisoners, claiming the men are really iranian militiamen, some even in the iranian revolutionary guard. >>> back home now to american politics, where republicans are ramping up their attacks against senate majority leader harry reid and his claim that mitt romney is withholding his tax returns because he may not have paid taxes over a ten-year period. that's according to what the senate majority leader called a reliable source. on the sunday talk shows, republicans responded. >> this is a reckless and slanderous charge by harry reid. this is a guy who hadn't released his own returns, and for three years can't get a budget passed in the united states senate. >> as far as harry reid is concerned, listen, i know you might want to go down that road. i'm not going to respond to a dirty liar who hasn'

to make sure that there is no competition in the middle east for playboy and such is by way of syria iran and other places all these other things are excuses there to claim that they care one bit about humanitarian concerns as it is a gross war but also weighing in on the syria situation is wiki leaks julian assange promising to publish millions of emails to cast new light on the crisis they're supposed to show just how comfortable the west used to be with president assad and how the media is currently being manipulated to vilify him it was made his comments during a rare interview with a south american t.v. network while he's holed up at the ecuadorian embassy in london songe criticized washington's harassment of wiki leaks saying speaking the truth should never be considered a crime he also mentioned how the west is turning into a surveillance mega state which he believes makes a mockery of human rights as predicted he would stay for up to a year at the embassy surrounded by british police until either a diplomatic solution is found with a case against him is dropped. but we've been fol

united states is the most journalists syria. iran the u.s. . election year. pressure on the obama administration to do something you go. screaming do something in so let's hope that these threats of verbal i'm still hoping that there will be a diplomatic solution but chances are receding as political pressure grows and the united states and behind is let's remember that this really is a person pushing very hard to do something to. overthrow a government and even supports its syria may be breaking up into little cantons fighting one another along religious ethnic and tribal lines or just as a lebanon was in the one nine hundred seventy s. this is a very frightening prospect and we have to work hard to make sure it does not happen. opposition activists claim saturday was the deadliest day since the start of the unrest with more than three hundred people killed in the fighting between pro and anti regime supporters across syria the lion's share of deaths were reported in the suburbs of damascus which have been witness to fierce battles of late but the war hasn't

the world's second largest global maldivian organization of islamic cooperation has suspended syria iran has been the only member speaking out in support of damascus. and ecuador's president is said to decide the fate of julian a soldier who's waiting for an asylum whirling in the country's london embassy as u.s. hackers tried to crash the wiki leaks website. next the man feared by a thousand and sears as he fights your corner it smacks kaiser. imax geyser this is the kaiser report well you know more bankers more shenanigans. max keiser when you look into this mirror who do you see. well in fact you may be seeing jeannie diamond i think if you read this first headline chase c.e.o. placing blame her to qana me look no further than the mirror if you want to know why the economy remains so sluggish says the c.e.o. of the j.p. morgan chase and company it's because of us we scapegoat each other we point fingers said jamie diamond while touring ohio no mirror mirror on the wall who's the cricket is of the malts jamie diamond this is a classic blame the victim routine i think he's implying that