disorganized they are. guardicorrespondent for frontlinghaith abdul-ahad, takes you inside the battle for syria. and later tonight, the regime responds. the regime now is bombarding civilian neighborhoods with artillery, with tank fire, and with fighter bombers. how is president bashar al-assad holding on to power? the iranians are gaining influence in syria now by the day. and what will happen if asd falls? there is definitely increasing worry in the united states administration about in whose hands these weapons are falling. these two stories on this special edition frontline. frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major funding is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. and by reva and david logan, committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public in
i don t care about the big gulp the war tribal and village to village. it isn t like the way it was in sodas but you know those king other wars where there were size candy bars, that s the clear lines of demarcation, problem. but when you go into a movie clear fronts. you don t know where the enemies theater and say what s next, are coming from. it makes it more dangerous now for war reporters on the front. what do i have to hoard now? you have to be able to get do you feel that? the five pound butterfingers if you look at baba amr and bar. oh, god. what it looks like now it s hard it s not just the size of the portions that s a problem butch to imagine anyone could have it s what s in them and it s all survived the area. actually strangely in a way that is killing us addictive. it s totally destroyed. the buildings are collapsed. there are certain sugars and the cliche is an earthquake that s what people say about zone. the popcorn in the theater. this looks much worse. if
compromise their principles. them to do it. there s too much of that in it also tells you to you can get politics today to begin with. but i also have to get everyone back to them. to acknowledge you re not going to get everything you want. dan has a good piece in the once you get acknowledgement on both sides of that equation, you issue, too, but how he just can find and force compromise as an executive. doesn t like doing it. bill clinton, whenever he played i can walk and chew gum at the golf, he would either have always a donut with him or swun same time. okay. i can fight with democrats who would tell sim something publicly and privately over with the skmi. issues of principle where we can t find compromise and at the i understand but this poll shows same time hold conversations with them on issues where we can find common ground and force that. this illusion that you see in this town that somehow that can t happen, it s not possible, is just an excuse. that 59% of rom
it s time to change. why? for a pervert in the middle of the night maybe. it was just awful. are you really getting fashion advice? i made a terrible mistake. it was a lapse in judgment. sort of like that guy in high school. is there video? anyhow, welcome to morning joe. joining us, msnbc contributor mike barnicle, former policy adviser to the bush administration dan seymour. you re back for more? stockholm syndrome. you did well yesterday. it was a feisty discussion. i would say you have to keep your volume down. there were four people yelling at me. well, don t you yell back, you being elegant. and we have for tune editor. do you want to show us the headline? yes. oh, that s a good one. and richard haas. hi. first of all, what chris christie said, it is easier said than done. would anyone at the table like to talk about why? do we really blame both sides? like on this tax issue, is there a deal to be made or is it just going to be
brandywine road. northbound sounds like it will be closed at dyson road for an accident reconstruction crew. stop 7 is in as a maryland over new hampshire avenue at 108 at fender bender, but traffic is able to get through. here is the beltway at new hampshire avenue, that is clean and dry. back to you. thank you. we want to get started with breaking news from china. a diplomatic standoff over a blind activist is over. he left the u.s. embassy in beijing in order to receive medical care as well as be reunited with his family. escaped from house arrest last month. a u.s. official says that he will stay in china after being promised he will be treated as a normal citizen. the dispute threatens to overshadow high-level talks between the u.s. and china and china is now demanding an apology. president obama on his way home from his surprise trip to a afghanistan. the commander met troops at the airbase honoring their efforts in fighting the taliban and bringing osama bin laden