seeing coming out of tehran reflective of internal disagreements there, and that s jenna: what do you think about that, what s your opinion on that? well, i think certainly they re under far more pressure than they were before and if in fact this strategy of ours of using the pressure to force them to compromise is a winning strategy, a strategy that will ultimately pay off, then now would be the test of that. my own guess is that the supreme leader of iran is a very hard line guy, we ve seen his government get narrower and more radical in recent years, not more moderate, and i tkwout they re really ready for compromise. that s not to say they might not see a good reason here, jen kwrarbgs for a tactical sort of pause, to relieve the pressure and sort of distract the international community. jenna: we ve seen that before, haven t we? that s something that s been done before. so what s at stake for the american people? let s say there is a compromise. let s say iran says you know
by being a crime victim reporter. and so what is the prosecutor suppose to do, say okay, she doesn t want to participate, let s let this violent criminal go free and walk the streets? she s the victim. gen jen that s the thing, she is the victim. she s the victim in this case. jenna: she is allegedly the victim, chip, but then what? the message is if you re a victim in the state of california, something that you don t want to testify about or embarrassing to you or something like that, don t show up, because you re going to become a second victim, they re going to throw you in jail versus the person who s the real crook. that s the message that the prosecutor is sending in this case. jenna: we ll see. we re going to follow this case closely. chip, courtney, appreciate your opinions on this. it struck us as a case we wanted to take a closer look at. thank you. thanks jenna:a. jon: a brand new study, linking the weight of pregnant mothers to autism in their children. what researc
tomato and marble at a policewoman from the presidential palace last thursday. president sarkozy has apologized to the officer, but this isn t the only incident, by the way, involving sarkozy and food in recent days. last week, the french president s entourage was pummeled with eggs on a campaign stop. sarkozy is seeking reelection and trying to recover from the worst poll scores of nimodern day french president. it remains to be seen how this latest incident will affect his campaign. also, we should report that this isn t the first incident involving one of the sarkozy off spaeupbg recent hrerbgs pierre sarkozy, the 26-year-old son, caused stir in january when he had to be flown home in a government plane after an apparent bout of food poisoning. we re not making this up. no word, though, jen kwrarbgs on if the food poisoning, what he was eating, was either tomatoes or eggs! we ll leave that again for speculation. jenna: i have to admit, my
you re looking at a live picture of the state department, where we re waiting for a briefing on syria. the white house is also going to hold its daily briefing, and that s where we find wendell goler with the latest. reporter: jen kwrarbgs we ve gotten the two minute warning for this briefing, press secretary jay carney likely to be asked what s the next step to support the syrian opposition. secretary of state clinton has talked about forming an ad hoc group of like-minded nations to intensify sanctions on syria, monitor the flow of weapons to that country. susan rice, the u.n. ambassador, says the u.s. closed its embassy in damascus because syria s government refused to step up security there. but the backdrop for this is this weekend s failure of a u.n. security council resolution that would have endorsed an arab league plan, calling for bashar al assad to step down. syrian troops stepped up their shelling of homs soon after russia and china vetoed the resolution saturday. acti
secretary of state clinton called the veto a travesty, warned the syrian people will remember it once assad is forced out. president obama told matt lauer assad s departure is inevitable but he ruled out u.s. military involvement. we have been relentless in sending a message that it is time for assad to go. that the kind of violence that we ve seen exercised against his own people this weekend and over the past several month social security inexcuseable, but not every situation is going to allow for the kind of military solution that we saw but would you consider military reporter: jay carney, press secretary, set to begin this briefing in less than a minute for now. jenna: we ll watch for those headlines, thank you very much. and the state department as well, waoefp watch the headlines from there. while we re dealing with sir kwrarbgs there are also tensions escalating between the u.s. and egypt. as sam la hood, son of ray la hood, is one of # americans facing charges for