attending. his resignation of archbishop of edinburgh is part of a mandatory age requirement because he is 75 years old but it comes in the wake of allegations of misconduct. british newspapers report that o brien has been accused by three current priests and one former priest of acting inappropriately with them in the 19 80s. the cardinal said he will not monday that he will not attend the conclave because he does not want media attention focused on him during this most important session on rome. this puts pressure on someone like cardinal roger mahony of los angeles who says he will help elect a new pope in rome despite calls from critics that we draw because of a sex scandal in the los angeles archdiocese. a lot to watch there. jenna: lauren, thank you. jon: i m not sure you follow that, religion and this kind of thing about a misbehaving bunny. jenna: we ll try. jon: disneyland not apparently a happiest place on earth from a san diego
regime there bashar al-assad. they announced over the weekend they are boycotting the session over the displeasure of washington s failure to provide arms to the rebels. there has been increasing pressure on washington to do that. there is no talk about that forthcoming. they are trying to salvage the meeting and get the rebel leaders to go to rome and meet with kerry on thursday. he personally dialed on the phone the syrian opposition president to encourage him to join him in rome. so far there is indication that they will come after call. jenna: we shared with our viewers a little bit about what secrd about iran. this trip is so important because it sets the tone, very much if you will for his term, his time as secretary of state. we heard that he was nudged a little bit on the syria issue, specifically. can you tell us a little bit more about that? reporter: that s right.
police, alp. that s these small militias that are loyal to village chiefs, and the u.s. military, the special forces in particular, are recruiting these locally in order to defend their villages just like we did in vietnam and just like dave petraeus did in iraq. the problem is, jenna, that they re not loyal to karzai, nor are they subject to his corruption. karzai thought that these alp forces would be disbanded after u.s. special forces pulled out of wardak. well, that s not happening. so what this is, in this our opinion, is a cynical effort by karzai to disband the alp so that he can gain control of the military operations in this very key province, wardak, which sits just southwest of kabul. jenna: so he s tarnishing the name of our special forces for his political gain in afghanistan. what should be our response? well, our response should be to maintain the course. i mean, the alp, these local
voting in general. there, jon as you remember democrats are just a lot better right now at turning out voters for early voting. why that s so important, sometimes it s hard to convince somebody to show up on one day out of 365. but if you ve got four weeks to work them over you can get them out to vote and end up with more voters. jon: success r- mark zuckerberg is a big obama supporter. it seems like a strange stop for the republican national committee. it s a business. mr. zuckerberg hosted or is going to host a fund-raiser for governor christie out of new jersey. money is green i. don t think that it s such an order plac odd place for the chairman to stop. jon: thank you very much. we ll keep an eye on th on the trip and look for the report when it comes out. jenna: what is behind some of the skyrocketing gas prices and is there relief in sight?
put her to death. however, there is a fine balance between keeping her on long enough to create that relationship and nottess stranging the jury annottess stranging the jury and making them think her time has passed. jenna: we have a snippet of the way this trial is going, this cross-examination. let s play that now. that wasn t the truth was it that you were there to help him was it? no that what you not the truth. and in fact you were there for a different purpose, you were there so that he wouldn t get the truth, right? no, i was there against my will. you were there against your will. you didn t have to talk to him, did you? in hind sight. yes or no, did you have to talk to him? i m not asking you about hind sight. isn t it true you could have chosen not to talk to him, right? i could have i think. and well you keep saying i think. at the time i didn t