anonymous sources and asking us to respond to them and you re not allowing us to use anonymous sources specifically when we ask him where dev. n nunes got this information. and it s on the record. we traced the call. it s coming from inside the house! but the president s closest aides continue to call us on the telephone to talk to us. nbc s peter alexander, thank you very much. we appreciate it. still ahead, a very sobering number for you. 5 million. that s the number of syrian refugees living abroad, as the civil war rages on. now, what could be a major departure on how the u.s. sees the future of syria s president bashir alassad. that s next. with e trade s powerful trading tools, right at your fingertips,
there is not really a government. you have each city administering its own affairs. the people of misrata are very loyal to misrata. their role in the revolution and the same is true in zentan. there is not the kind of blood-letting and chaos that we saw in places like baghdad. what they are going to need to do now and starting now is to form a truly national government and hold elections and they say that is supposed to take place over the next eight months. richard, what about the inspiration to the dissidents in syria? they are now asking for protection. there really was an immediate reaction after gadhafi was found and killed. this could inspire the revolt against bashir alassad. they started on the streets across syria, dissidents started chanting in favor of the rebels in libya. they were using some of the same slogans in syria that the rebels were using in libya.