state department and currently a scholar at the woodrow wilson center. strong words from turkey hard on the heels of the jordanian president calling for assad to quit. he is clearly running out of friends. is he running out of time? >> this is headed south but when it's anyone's guess. syria is the black box on the mediterranean. i expect the most perceptive of analysts are having a hard time reading this. this is very hard in these circumstances, particularly with this regime, because it is quite opaque. i point to three variables, all which will have to impact. number one, the opposition. can it take the struggle with the assistance of friendly middle eastern countries? the regime itself, how much pressure is it under? could you end up with cracks in the intelligence community? finally, the west. to what degree are they capable short of military opposition of increasing pressure? >> the obama administration has not completely ruled out military intervention and they seem to be an outsourcing their diplomacy to the arab league. they don't seem able to d

as a fellow of the wilson institute, the wilson center for scholars, which used to be headquartered heree. i was a fellow for three months and that's where i began my second roosevelt biography, theodore rex. it's the first time that i have ever been in an academic environment among fellow scholars from all over the world, and i must confess that i felt very strange. hundred, in the company of these several guys with long strings of degrees with their names. i was given the study in, right up at the window looking out over the mall, and the first evening i spent there feeling very strange i was disturbed by the most extraordinary screening in the corridor outside -- screening. it sound like a knife fight in a new york subway. so i rushed out of my office and said to the professor who was in an office opposite me, is somebody being killed is what we do? do we call the police? he said don't worry. is a pair of renaissance scholars, don't mix with those guys. [laughter] >> that was my introduction to the lethal world of academe. and it hasn't changed much since. i have a feeling, ladies and

[laughter] as a fellow of the wilson institute, the wilson center for scholars which is head quartered here in the castle. i was a fellow for three months, and that's where i began my second roosevelt biography, theodore rex. it was the first time i had been in that environment amongst scholars from all over the world, and i must confess i felt very strange in the company of these guys with long strings of degrees after their names. i was given the study in the tallest of the towers. you'll see outside, right at the top of the immense gothic windows looking out over the mall. the mall, and the first evening i spent there feeling very strange. i was disturbed by the most extraordinary screaming in the corridor outside. it sounded like a knife fight in the new york subway. i rushed out of my office and said to the professor who was in an office opposite me. is somebody being killed? what do we do? do we call the police? he said, don't worry, it's just scholars. don't mix with those guys. [laughter] that's my introduction to the lethal world of academia. it has not changed much since. i h

state department who is currently a scholar at the woodrow wilson international center. thank you for joining us. strong words today on the heels of the jordanian king calling for assad to quit. he is clearly running out of friends, is he running out of time? >> when and under what circumstances is anyone's guess. syria is the black box of the mediterranean and i suspect that even the most perceptive analysis in european capitals and the middle east are having a hard time reading this. this is very hard under these circumstances, particularly with this regime which was actually quite opaque in terms of security and intelligence services, to know exactly where the fissures and the cracks are. i point to three variables. one is the opposition. can it endure? can it take the struggle with the assistance of friendly european countries? the regime itself, how much pressure is it under? could you end up with cracks in the intelligence community? finally, the west. to what degree is it capable short of military intervention before increasing pressure? >> the obama administratio

[applause] and thirdly, i am on the board of the woodrow wilson center and i had the honor to chair search committee recently. and our first choice was condoleezza rice, who clearly has all of those skills as i will talk a little bit more about in a moment. [applause] unfortunately, we couldn't get her leave from stanford but couldn't get her away from writing this great book. and so, we were successful in encouraging congresswoman jane harman, who is a congresswoman in california and also a very charismatic driven, powerful, wonderful smart lady. so it is quite obvious i think from all of this but they really do have this biased. and for that reason, it is really an opportunity and pleasure to introduce the most successful women in the world and they really do believe that. so you have heard from my wife about leadership skills. and clearly, condoleezza rice has all of those. but in my opinion, the most important leadership skills she has anything all successful leaders have this, is the ability to bring people together, to team build, to seek a common ground and no one is more skilled at

. >> joining me is robin wright from the woodrow wilson center and steve clemens from the atlantic magazinerobin, in israel we had a poll that showed the people of israel most endangered by an iranian military weapon, a nuclear weapon because obviously, ahmadinejad has threatened them with it and they're clearly on the road to doing something with nuclear material, probably building a weapon according to the nuclear commission. he atomic energy commission. here's my question. if the israeli people are 50/50 whether to attack iran, how can newt romney be 100% that's the right way to go? >> i'm not sure the american bilk, cbs found that 55% of americans believe diplomacy is the way out. so i'm not sure it reflects what american sentiment is. the reality is that mitt romney talked about generalities, talked about a military option that both the obama and bush administration before it have left on the table. and he offered no specifics about what are you going to do, particularly given our experience on in two neighboring countries, iraq and afghanistan over the past ten years and the fact that

, what's happening in egypt, i'm joined by jane harmon who is now the president of the woodrow wilson centerom egypt and other places in the region. first of all, when you were in egypt just i think last week, it was before the protests erupted, but you were with our ambassador there who is so expert at it. and did the u.s. foresee this tension with the slow transition to civilian rule and the growing frustration of the young people? >> yes and no. i was in tunisia, andrea, about three weeks ago and saw a transparent and fair election. it was extremely impressive. then i went to egypt, which was calm, i was in tahrir square. and i visited with ambassador anne patterson, one of our best ambassadors ever who was in pakistan last. there was concern that the first part of the election, first phase next monday the 28th was going to be confusing, the military has written the rules for three elections. and they're different for different parts of the country and people don't understand them and there were no provisions for ex-pats to vote. there was one clear election to do with huge turnout, 90% o

[applause] and thirdly i am on the board of the woodrow wilson center and i had the honor to chair theommittee where our first choice was condoleezza rice who clearly has all those skills. i will talk more about that in a moment. [applause] unfortunately' we couldn't get her away from stanford. we couldn't get her away from the supreme court. and so we were successful in encouraging congresswoman jane harman who was the congresswoman from california and a very charismatic driven powerful, wonderful, smart lady. it is quite obvious from all of this i really do have this bias and for that reason and opportunity and pleasure to introduce the most successful woman in the world and i really do believe that. you heard from my wife about leadership skills and clearly condoleezza rice has all of those. but in my opinion the most important leadership skills she has and i think all successful leaders have it, is the ability to bring people together. to team build, seek a common ground. no woman is more skilled at this condoleezza rice. national security adviser as you all know, it is her job to

. >> our promise -- nancy sherman, blogger wilson center in georgetown, this follows on your remarks and that has to do with the art of being a clinician. there's science and anti stigma. your statistic was alarming that 50% of suicides or so had been in behavioral care. so resources aside, and standardization a side, is there concern about what this so-called art of building an airport and getting people to trust you which is what clinicians do or supposed to do whether it be through skype or phone calls or 1:1 consultation. is that something the army is looking at and recommendations regarding that? >> we are looking hard at it. are have spoken about this a lot. we used to in this country -- we use to make use of boards where doctors when they got together would sit around and talk. someone was lost on operating table they would sit and talk about the operation and what happened and what went right and what possibly went wrong. my understanding is many of those boards have gone by the wayside because of the fear of individuals being sued in malpractice insurance. one of the things

. >>> washington nationals center wilson ramos is back to venezuela after a trip to nationals park today. he came back so a team doctor could check him out and that the players and managers could see he is okay. ramos wanted to show his appreciation. >> thank you for your praise and support and happy to be here. happy to be with my family. and see you in spring training. >> physically he is in great shape. he will spend the winter playing baseball in venezuela. >>> the temperatures are below freezing in some spots already tonight. doug is in storm center 4 with details. >> some areas down into the mid-20s. frederick was 25 degrees. now they have at 27 degrees. manassas down to 27. culpepper at 28 degrees. in the district we are at 39 degrees. it will be a very cold tonight and a cold start to your day on your saturday. but then we get another change at the end of the weekend. i'll show you coming up in the full forecast. >> thank you, doug. >>> still ahead on news4 a controversial new trend that has parents paying for used lollipops. >>> some of the music world's biggest names celebrate

that's less clearch we'll get into all of this with robin wright, a scholar at the woodrow wilson international centerrs and author and bob behr, a former officer in the middle east. he writes a column for "time." thanks for joining us. first of all do, we know who those people, are robin, who grabbed the british embassy today in tehran? >> i don't think anybody knows for sure, but british certainly suspect this was part of the revolutionary guard, paramilitary thugs, a kind of militia that works for the government because there's no way this could have happened without government approval or sanction. >> by the way, how many students on campus are sitting around thinking about economic sanctions? usually that's the sort of thing that the government ministries are focused on, right? >> oh, absolutely. >> do you have any other views on this, the same whether -- we had to put up with the word students for years there. i always wondered what that meant, does it mean grad students hanging around berkeley or what? are these guys students or thugs? >> they are hired by the government. they were sent by the

. >> and philosophical society, the woodrow wilson international center for scholars, and the charles warren center at harvard university. is as his have been published in both scholarly and popular press as "the new republic," "the new york times," and journal of american history, among others. his current research scores the impact of organizations on politics government and private-sector labor relations. this is the interest led him to write the book easy to speak about this evening, "collision course: ronald regan, the air traffic controllers, and the strike that changed america." please help me welcome doctor joseph mccartin. [applause] >> thank you very much, tracy. appreciate that introduction. and thank you for your excellent work, preserving the history of workers and the labor movement in the southern labor archives at georgia state university. without that repository i couldn't have written this book, and we would know much less than i think were the most important events in recent labor history. thanks to my hosts here at the carter center, especially tony clark and direc

recipient of grants and fellowships from the national endowment for the humanities, the woodrow wilson international center for scholars and the charles bourne center at harvard united states. his essays have been published in such publications as the new republic, "the new york times" and journal of american history, among others. his current research explores the impact of public sector labor organizations on politics, government and private sector labor relations. this is the interests that led him to write the book he is here to speak about this evening, "collision course: ronald reagan, the air traffic controllers and the strike that changed america." please help me welcome dr. joseph a. mccartin. [applause] >> thank you very much, traci. appreciate that introduction, and thank you very much for your work, preserving the labor movement in the southern labor archives at georgia state university. um, without that repository, i couldn't have written this book, and we would know much less, i think, about one of the most important events in recent american labor history. thanks, too, to my hosts here at th

doubts about his client's mental fitness more concerned with his lack of access to wilson held at pontiac correction center request to move him to cook county jail tonight. tomorrow fuld eleroy house expected to vote on pension reform bill triggered during our wgn tribune the investigation exposing the abuse of system seriously in the red. bildt would diminish future state pensions but also cracking down on abuses we found. things like double dipping union leaders taking city and union pensions only supposed to take one. for those looking to take city pensions at lower city salaries by higher management salaries once union bosses. herman cain fighting off allegation from a new woman this time 13 year affair and new research could help doctors better diagnose and treat attention deficit attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. [ mom ] hey guys. guys... [ female announcer ] pillsbury cinnamon rolls with cinnabon cinnamon are an irresistible sunday morning idea. nothing calls them to the table faster. sunday morning ideas made easy. [ older brother ] hey, that's the last crescent. [ younger brother ] oh, do

secretary panetta, speaking at the woodrow wilson center in october of this year, said -- quote -- "the fiscal reality facing us means that we also have to look at the growth in personnel costs which are a major driver of budget growth and are, simply put, on an unsustainable course." the secretary concludes, "if we fail to address these costs, then we won't be able to afford the training and equipment our troops need in order to succeed on the battlefield. providing the department with the authority to adjust tricare prime enrollment fees based on a realistic index of national health expenditures per capita, as the administration requested, would have been the right thing to do. instead, this bill limits all future enrollment fee increases to the cost-of-living adjustment for military retired pay. military retirees and their families deserve the best possible care in return for a career of military service and nothing less. but we cannot ignore the fact that health care costs will undermine the combat capability and training and readiness of our military if we don't begin to control th

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wilson bridge. more to come. news. >>> we will begin with a developing story out of where another man was from a shopping center. they approached him at the shopping center. they believe the suspect drove atms and forced cash. withdraw fled.n the victim was cut in the face head. they believe this is connected two similar crimes on saturday.and >>> we're following the latest a child sex on scandal at syracuse university. if their man accused him of him nine years ago. -- a third man accused him of him nine years ago. revelations were much. the basketball coach last night. three men accused him of them when they were boys, it just like the penn scandal which involves a longtime assistant coach. are questions about what head coach in new. one of the accusers recorded a wife of bacith his in 2002. the tape, and she appears to and knowledge knowing about it. >> i know that everything that went out with them. maybe he is that aware of it. he has issues. >> no. davis said he told police about abuse back in 2002 but got nowhere. he made the recordings of his accusations would be taken seriously. >> do you think he is th

wilson or something. you're right. you have to think of the couple you talked about in the center you feel there. we have to get to the fundamental issue. single people want to have children. there are a lot of folks who maybe they will lose a spouse and they want to have children so later they can use a sperm and so forth. but we got to think about what is best for the child that is coming out of this. a lot of adult desires and wishes here that we are putting ahead of the child. forget about getting married and all those things. but it all plays into this in terms of it's all about how to create a child in the family because that couple or person wants one which is a lovely thing. but what does it mean for the child ultimately. >> it is. i do think we made commodes out of children. and children are somehow our fulfillment in a way that i think again because we have the technology tow do so, we haven't really come to terms with what that means and what it will mean for our society. that's a problem. >> what is best for the child flies in the face of the taxpayers and survivor benefits. what's be

center camera. can see they have those lines because of the construction. throughng your way books decent. now back to cynne simpson. it, 65you believe degrees. kidnapping of wilson ramos. hear his message to his supporters. thatpart of the audiotapes supporters. thatpa[ female announcer ] maybe you're one of them. ♪ one of the always electrifying... eyebrow-raisers... and jaw-droprs. ♪ are you a gat, fine arm-flailer... catwalk-walker, or talk-a-friend's-ears-off talker? one of the hard-to-describe, the laugh-out-loud lausers who inspired a variety of gain scents that are, like all of you, anything but ordinary. >>> checking our top stories. the man at the center of the abuse scandalex speaking out. terry sandusky told nbc he is that he is not a pedophile. of molesting eight young boys. more alleged victims have come forward. wounded arizona congresswoman giffords says she will congress and toshiba's better. she used fragmented sentences sawyer.ne it was her first interview since shot in the head. >>> the prince george's county is set to vote on a bill that could ban slot machines. the company that owns the them towants to bring track. could be aay it traffic pr

center. traffic is heading away from us. this looks ok. let me switch over to georgia avenue. this is quiet. we will go south of town. a hopefully, at the wilson bridge. if you take the george washington parkway crash exit for 395,the open in both directions. >> bid to see you. -- good to see you. >> 48 degrees. >> is another busy day for in australia.a on hist what is an agenda. hast is an issue that of turkey, feathers texas. wants toayor >> we have the highest rate of run deaths in the nation. 76 people died in the past 10 from hit and run accident d.c. alone. vare were two and a 17-in into an 79 in maryland. drivers were drunk, and driving an unregistered cars. fire marshal's office teenager into a 11 year making andaught detonating explosive devices. the children were released to their parents. the explosives are minor and think they are linked to any attacks. >>> there will be a special ceremony at arlington national ceremony today. they will lay a wreath at john kennedy's gravesite to honor vision. the ceremony renews a tradition that a place for two decades after he was assassinated in 1963. we return to the scandal at penn state. a ne

on rock center tonight, harry smith reports on the country's largest school cheating scandal. here is an excerpt. >> bob wilsonrney. in august of 2010, the governor appointed them to a team of special investigators and early on they visited a school where a teacher confessed. >> she said there was cheating. it had been going on since '01 and she laid it all out. >> it wasn't the students that were cheating. it was the teachers. it was the principals. and one of the ways they cheated was by using a number two pencil, especially the eraser. >> there were parties at which teachers would get together on the weekends when these tests were supposed to be in a secure location and they would get together and change answers. >> no question -- >> hang on one second. like get together, teachers would get together at a house. >> someone's home, yes. >> and they would literally sit there together and change answers on these tests? >> yes. >> on the tests taken by first through eighth graders. impossible to achieve without help. the investigators found 178 teachers and principals had cheated in 44 different schools across t

wilson just didn't understand. didn't understand the affair was actually winding down. >> why would he say you're in love with him then? >> he's very self centeredinto himself, believes the whole world loves him, but i didn't. we were actually pulling apart. it was coming to the end. >> really? detectives added it up, and here is what they had. the story about some shadowy intruder didn't seem to check out. the swinging, the affair, story true or not she wanted out of the marriage. oh, and by the way, she stood to collect $700,000 in insurance money. the detective confronted joan and she, well, given her life-style, she said, she wasn't surprised at his attitude. >> he's disgusted. he is automatically prejudice against me and focuses on that. he's determined he's going to get me. >> back in north dakota, david shannon's family tried to keep up with all of the shocking information, the murder, revelations about swinging. now joan was telling them she had become a suspect to which they replied joan? not a chance. >> we tried to play the scenario did joan have a part in it. none of us cap see she could possibly have done that. it is just not in her

wilson ramos was a target considering his major success. >>> we have learned that remains of members of the u.s. military were placed in a landfill, and this practice may have gone on for five eyaryears. the centered on the dover air force base in delaware. some of the remains were cremated and dumped at a landfill in king george county. we have the breaking developments on this. >> airforce officials confirm what many call an unbelievable practice by the u.s. military, taking body parts of those killed in action, incinerating the them, and dumping them into a virginia landfill. their family members had no idea. >> i am almost in tears. >> to recess smith is heartbroken to hear that body parts of fallen men and women were mishandled or back on u.s. soil. >> they should have been laid to rest and their families and friends contacted. this is devastating. >> devastating to hear that the remains were never matched with their rightful owners. instead, "the washington post" reports that there were cremated incinerated, and dumped at this landfill in king george virginia primarily of those returning from iraq and afghanistan. >> this is not a deliberate act. >> them negligence goes further. while at dov

wilson bridge. we'll keep watching the roads, but for now back to you. >>> prince georges county police are trying to find out what led to a shooting at a shopping center. it happened last night on walter's lane. a man and woman were shot. the man died. police say the woman ran into a store for help. she went to the hospital and is expected to be okay, we're told. police say the gunman was wearing all black and also had on a black mask. investigators are reviewing surveillance cameras from surrounding stores to help with this case. >>> this morning, metro officials announced a new initiative to hire more bus drivers. they will hire 26 more bus drivers and they will start to take applications today. >>> dreaming of striking it rich? now could be your chance. tonight's powerball jackpot is up to $245 million. it's the largest since june of last year, and has people lining up for tickets. it's so busy, virginia lottery officials expect to sell close to 1,200 a minute at peak times today. >>> coming up, the founder of t >>> this morning weeka >>> this morning weeky -- wikileaks founder is fighting his extradition. he is accused of sexually assaulting two

wilson ramos after he was kidnapped from four gunmen from his home sunday night. now back to "michael jackson and the doctor: a fatal friendship." >>> michael jackson's performances in the rehearsals at staples centerad not been going well. after the crisis meeting at michael's house between michael, murray, and the producers, the doctor decided to try to wean him off of propofol. murray says that two days before jackson's death, he managed to get jackson to sleep without propofol. the impact on jackson's performance at rehearsals was immediate and could readily be seen in the footage played at trial in kenny ortega's testimony. >> he entered full of energy, and desire to work and full of enthusiasm and a different michael. we had two very successful days at rehearsal, and michael was feeling great and he looked at me and asked me if i was happy and i said i was happy. i asked him if he was happy, and he said he was very happy. >> as you know now, he never retu returned to staples center. following that rehearsal, michael was taken home and arrived home at 1:00 in the morning and the question is what transpired then from 1:00 in the morning to michael's death. >> his last rehearsal was one that all

travelling across the wilson bridge coming in, slow going through lanes as well as local lanes as you work your way over to route 1 virginia accident activity mainline tieing up the center of the roadway keeping you guys on the brakes, headed back to virginia, we have that wreck inbound new york avenue still tieing up most of the roadway now we can clearly see some traffic is trying to squeeze by to the right. bw parkway, route 50, trying to get to northeast washington. toward the pentagon, headed up to 14th street bridge is cleared, the belt way is slow springfield to telegraph road we had the wreck in the left lane. that is a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. >> leaders in district of columbia will announce a new push to make dc a state this latest initiative involves asking state and local legislatures around the country to pass a resolution supporting state hood for the district the new nationwide campaign will be launched by vince grey, delegate eleanor holmes norton and other sit ity leaders -- city leaders downtown. >>> dc police chief says the department is adjusting tacticreopenning an investigation into an incident last friday when a car hit three protestor

center. the orange line customers metro line need to anticipate an additional weight. here we are on our way to the metro with traffic on right moving normally. at the wilsond for drivers through alexandria. is the topside of the beltway at georgia avenue which bad and we will take you to 395 north of the beltway. >>> more clouds and sun to start the day. we will have some breaks in the there willover all, clouds than sun. get enacted into be prettywhen it will damned. 50's right now, breezy but warm the high temperatures in -- upper 60's. thank you for joining us and will be back ♪ [ jerry ] attention shoppers. your groceries are the size of idaho but the interest rate on your checking is small potatoes. earn more at capital one bank. get new high yield free checking. your interest rate will be 5 times the national average. that's huge. and free atms at any bank. free is good. sign up at capital one bank. what's in your wallet? what is he, a clydesdale. >>> just a toddler, sky metalwala, disappeared a week ago. that's his dad handing out flyers. his mom is many hiding right now. we're to talk to sky's father, live, just ahead. >> boy, it's got to be so ha

. ♪ [music] ♪ [music] >> john milewski: welcome to the woodrow wilson international center for scholarswashington, d.c. i'm john milewski. each week dialogue explores the world of ideas and issues in international affairs, history and culture. now let's meet our guests. lieutenant general mark hertling is commanding general of us army europe. he assumed that post in march of 2011. robert litwak is vice president for programs at the wilson center where he also serves as director national security studies. gentlemen, welcome to dialogue. thanks for joining us. >> thanks, john. >> thank you. >> john milewski: i want to begin with a little scene setting. let's not assume that the history is widely known. as i was preparing for the discussion, one thing i realized is that troops in europe are not the way americans think of troops in other places. we accept troops in europe as part of the [inaudible], part of the national security picture. we don't talk about whether or not they should be there or how long they've been there. it's something that we almost accept, but there is a history to it.