minute. and now, jennifer has been working over there a long time, and they hoped to keep the balance in place with israel. i take issue the way the state department called him a reformer, we have seen no signs. he was an optometrist and his bolder brother was to take over for assad, the strong man of syria when he died but he was brought back, he knew nothing of running the military or a police state and he had big shoes to pill and he has done morning to reform the country. the reason he is so significant is that he is the gateway for weapons and money from iran to hezbollah and if he goes, which you are starting to see cracks in this regime, remember, they are from a minority clan, a small minority that clung to
about 4 a gallon gasoline. the message is that bottom line we feel the pain that all americans feel on the price of gasoline today. we see what it will mean, it is not a short term fix. we will increase the production of oil in the united states but there is a global plan. the president says oil prices could go up and go down but the over all trend is always up and we should prepare for that. shepard: the republicans are reacting to this proposal, and what they saying? guest: that it sounds like a set of ideas rather than a plan. the american petroleum institute denies the companies are sitting on oil they could be drilling. the recent trip to brazil and he said he wants the united states to become one of their boast customers for oil wrangled the critic whose say that oil production in the bunch is not to where it was before the deep
shepard: and like assad in syria, muammar qaddafi is still clinging to power and now he has an out. uganda is offering refuge if he steps down. a spokesman for the president telling the associated press and i quote, we have soft spots for asylum seekers. the united states and other coalition nations have a deal that would allow muammar qaddafi to go into exile and not face punishment for the war crimes, no international war crimes trial. the leader has shown no sign he is willing to leave at all and despite more than ten days of international strikes that crippled the air power, deaf s muammar qaddafi s ground
have wednesday s with juan. we have a big problem. juan: what is that? shepard: with syria. and now the question is, do the same standards apply for the president what did in libya because all of the five things are there. juan: if the president was sitting here he would say you are being naive we are not attempting to set any one pattern that applies across-the-board but looking at each situation individually as. nuclear situation. the big problem is the spring awakening, will the united states encourage democratic interests even if not in our best interest. shepard: we did that when we did not side with the rebels. juan: we have been. ship we shepard: we have not sided. they said. juan: we have sided with the rebels and we are about getting
that has not been made clear and it needs to be clarified at some point. shepard: thank you, official u.s. ambassador to nato and now a professor at harvard kennedy school. the president, today, is laying out a plan to slash u.s. oil imports. do not think this is not tied together. he wanted it boost production at home. today i want to announce a new goal: it is reasonable goal, that is achievable and one that is necessary. when i was elected to this office america imported 11 million barrels of oil a day. by a little more than a decade from now, we will have cut that by a third. shepard: the president said