that s not correct. for 60 years. the time we had the best job growth is when the marginal tax rate was 50%. governor rendell, good to see you. politico s roger simon, thank you so much. also making news this morning, very busy morning, secretary of state hillary clinton is condemning the latest reports of violence in syria. and said she s disgusted by the killing of thousands. activists claim pro government militias killed 78 people in hama, including women and children. syria says the claims are absolutely baseless. in afghanistan, defense secretary leon panetta take aim at pakistan, pressuring the country to take concrete steps to root out the terrorist network. he said american officials are, quote, reaching the limits of our patience. secretary panetta also joked with troops in kabul. we just took down another leader in al qaeda the other day.
unconfirmed reports say pro government militias killed nearly 80 people about half of those people were women and children. this come less than two weeks after 108 people were killed in the town. secretary clinton placed all the blame on syrian president assad. the regime sponsored violence that we witnessed again in hama yesterday is unconscionable. assad has doubled down on his brutality and duplicity and syria, will not, cannot be peaceful, stable or certainly democratic until assad goes. senator john mccain who has been calling for the u.s. to arm the syrian rebels once again called for action on the senate floor just in the past hour. how many more have to die? how many more have to die? how many more young women have to be raped? how many young, more young syrians are going to be tortured and killed?
how are you feeling besides wiped out there, richard? reporter: i think the next thing i ll be having is a prescription for some form of antibiotics. no, it s been amazing. look, the rain is still pouring, my suit is drenched. but we have seen over four days a carefully choreographed, constructed routine from the spectacle of the river to the ceremony of today, right through the way to the balcony at the end and the fly-past by the world war ii planes. if that isn t really showing with 1.5 million people standing outside your front doorstep, if that isn t showing an element of appreciation, i don t know what is, kyra. i m just curious, can you mix antibiotics with pims? reporter: the pims are over there. and i assure you there s plenty of them. i think what we have there were an enormous numbers of levels you could have taken over the last few days. at its most basic, a tourist attraction for people to come to london ahead of the olympics. go up a notch and you can ta
that s because their murders, reportedly government militias, did their killing face to face friday night after a day of antiassad protest in hula. first tanks shelled the neighborhood. then men in uniform began going door to door. one neighborhood boy said he watched as a militia man, grabbed his friend, a 13-year-old and shot him in the head. they forced their father to watch as they killed them. i watched the bodies of nine children, he s saying. one less than nine months old. did the infant carry an rpg, he asks? was he a fighter? he had a pacifier in his mouth. over the weekend that baby and dozens more were washed covered in white sheets as you see and layed in rows, row after row of shrouded figures. then with a war raging all around them, the bodies were buried. you see the make shift cinder block wall being used to try to keep the rows of body separate to preserve at least some shred of dignity in death. they had no dignity in life because of this what regime did t
this is from homs where government troops have free reign. body after body, truck after truck. according to the opposition, these were women and children stabbed, burned to death late sunday. some had their throats slit. you see 22 body bags in all of the 45 who were reported dead. as always, we can t independently verify the claims of the video, but today at least we got a kind of confirmation from syrian state media. it, too, broadcast the victim ofs in homs. normally they limit themselves to footage of funerals of police officers and security forces. now at least it is showing civilian victims, but on syrian state television, they blame those killings on so-called armed terrorist groups. it s a narrative we ve heard over and over again from the regime. the military has taken control of the neighborhoods in homs. the pictures you saw may, in fact, support that assessment. in his meeting, kofi anan, the syrian dictator stuck to the story that the violence is being committed