powerful, it s been shared these past few days. peter alexander has more. reporter: at one of america s premiere service academies, a powerful lesson in leadership. you should be youts raged. reporter: the head of the air force academy summoning 4,000 cadets after five black students at the academy s prep school this week found the words go home and a racial slur on their doors. this is our institution and no one can take away our values. reporter: he implored his cadets not to be tone death to the racial tensions in the country. like charlottesville and ferguson, the protests in the nfl, because what we should have is a civil discourse. and talk about these issues. reporter: among the students targeted, jay song s father saying the real victim is the person raised with that kind of hatred, adding americans should boycott hate. the power that we come from and i will walks of life, that we come from all parts of this
a work in progress. jay song of the wall street journal. thank you. i have a question regarding syria. over the weekend you gave an interview where you said how many members of congress viewed president assad as a reformer. is that your position? because it s been well documented, cases of syrian support for terrorist groups, allegations it s pursued atomic weapons and some in congress says syria actually poses a greater threat to the united states national security han libya does. is it the obama administration s position now that it can work with president assad to initiate some of the reforms that his people are clearly calling for? thank you. first, jay, as you rightly pointed out, i referenced opinions of others. i was not speaking either for myself or for the administration. we deplore the crackdown that is occurring in syria, and we call