a reformer is ridiculous. shepard: you are in the middle of a broader policy issue that will bite the united states when you get in bed with dictators who repress and murder their own people. this is where you end up. reporter: absolutely. and i think, again, all eyes should be on syria. it certainly is one of the most important countries in the region and it has great implications for u.s. national security and with regard to israel, very important place. the fact that those people are rising up is much more difficult to rise up in syria and come out to the streets of syria than in egypt so this is a major shift. i remember asking secretary gates about this when we were traveling to afghanistan just two weeks ago. i said why haven t we seen protests in syria and he said because the assad rejamie regime would kill those people so there are a lot of raised
eyebrows to see the syrian people are protesting. shepard: and i would say that washington was probably caught off guard and the people were blown away by this. this was leaked, the message to the president in advance was reform begins now. a 48 year police state was about to evaporate and when it did not happen in the south of the country they started to rise up again and we are either going to see the military back down or we are going to see the military kill them. jonathan: far more likely in this situation we are going to see the military kill them. they are not like the egyptian military. the syrian military is very much in the hands and under the control of president assad so likely what we will now see is protesters who are not even more angry than they were just 12 hours ago. and you will see the army
there is too much at stake. if you look at the newspaper reporting this morning and what the u.s. government has been saying the last 24 hours it could be that the vast majority of the people including the senior heards are not radical element and you have to keep focused on this and the administration is right to give it a careful assessment, not prejudge it and see what decision the president makes. he will be influenced by our coalition allies particularly the french. they are very much, eager to do this but this cautious attitude has merit. shepard: and we have a problem that the news cycle is getting away with the time for analysis and now it is fair to say, and correct me if you disagree if they don t get weapons and ground support they are going to lose and it will be the bloody massacre the president was afraid of. so if you have to wait to decide because you do not know would they are do you watch a massacre in the interim the one you just
that they are not supposed to be in 9 water with. so you do not know if the person is injured or has a medical problem? in idea. i don t think they are out of the water but in which with the whale. as you mention back in 1999 the same whale killed another trainer, and in 1991 in a freak indent, a homeless guy snuck into the park and was found dead the net morning. sea world saying this is part of the social and mental enrichment. shepard: his what? guest: social, physical and mental enrichment, part of the rehabilitation plan for the wheel which clearly a major money maker for them. shepard: okay . thank you from florida, phil. a four car pile up in the capitol, no one hurt but the cops say . this man is to
some say the missiles could be a game changer but others say what he have shown is a lack of leadership. it does not matter what they have on their souls shoulders they cannot win a battle without trained leadership. shepard: and they say they cannot win it without us. we are now considering giving aways to them. and now a very difficult day in tripoli. thank you very much. the president says he wants the united states to cut the foreign oil imports by a third. the president laid out a plan to cut our imports of foreign oil by a third. he set out a timeframe. but will it accomplish anything? we will get the details on that ahead. stay tuned.