international journalists. russian s foreign minister is in syria trying to keep it from being the latest arab government to fall. many world leaders say moscow is ignoring the slaughter of civilians. ivan watson is in istanbul, turkey, covering this for us. is there any optimism that russia can rein in this violence? reporter: that s a big question. the russian foreign minister definitely got a hero s welcome as he arrived in damascus. he seemed to be one of the biggest allies and friends of president bashar al-assad right now. the russian line has been that the western governments have not been putting enough pressure on the opposition groups to stop violence as well. if you want to know how wide the differentiation is between the two sides in syria, just about 100 miles away the artillery shells continue to rain on the opposition held city of homs where hundreds of civilians are believed to have died in just the past couple of days, kyra. now you re also seeing a growi
it s the work of mckay and he joins us live from washington, d.c. good to be here. tell me the timeline of the e-mails you obtained. the series of e-mails that go back about two weeks and the first 1 that we see that has to do with this happened about five days after the value voters summit where reverent jeffress called mormonism a cult after endorsing rick perry. one of the people quoted in this said he is the head of this radio network and sheet self-described leader of christian talk radio. he was planning to interview jeffress and they called the pastor s comments a stroke of luck in this. yeah. the other person involved in the e-mails was david lane who is a