theater, killing more than 12 people a week ago. and in syria where rebels and government forces are still fighting to gain control of alebeau, the country s main commercial scepter.eppo, the co commercial scepter. syria s tv says they suffered losses. ivan watson is watching this firsthand. earlier he told us about an army base that s surrounded by rebels. reporter: for the last hour i ve been watching rebels attack on a syrian army base located just outside the northern limits of that city of aleppo. it started around sunset with great deal of rocket fire and mortar fire and machine gunfire, and we ve basically been watching constant tracer fire at night, focused on this syrian army base and emerging from this syrian army base. the rebels seem to be attacking this base, which has an estimated 14 tanks and about more than 200 soldiers from many different directions. and i ve travelled in the villages around this army base. they re almost surrounded by sympathizers and su
syria and the massacre of the 69 murdered children. it may become the tipping point. calls for air strikes to protect civilians are getting louder and louder. all the while, the violence is getting worse and worse. we can tell you now today, at least 13 people have been killed. the massacre on friday, killing 103 last night. joining me now is former state department spokesman p.j. crowley. welcome back. let me begin with this comparison i ve been hearing more since this slaughter many homs. is this beginning to resemble a bosnian-type situation where you have ethnic group versus ethnic group fighting for themselves? first, the international community struggled for a couple of years in 1992, 93, 94. it wasn t until the tragedy of srebrenica that there was a c catalizig effect that have brought people to the negotiating table and international forces to implement the peace agreement. is hula that kind of cat liezing moment? it may or may not be. the numbers are fuzzy. tha
presidential nomination is all but over but we will get a taste tonight of whether the tea party will finally show some 2012 strength and a test of how important the culture wars will be in a year defined mostly today by economic challenges. our first stop indiana where 80-year-old senator richard lugar, leading republican voice on foreign policy is asking for one more term but facing a tea party and conservative revolt, revolts lugar s critics prove the senator last touch with the folks back home. dana bash is at lugar headquarters in indianapolis. you had a chance to talk with senate lugar a bit earlier today. let s listen to some of the exchange. reporter: you re 80 years old. you ve had by all accounts a stellar career. why did you decide to take on this fight within your own party rather than just say it s been great, time to go? well, first of all, because i believe that i have a unique opportunity to serve my country with regard to arms control, with regard to terr
points. . it se it seems like a yes or no question to me, so why didn t he give a straightforward answer? let s be clear, these are not stumbles or miscues, these are absolutely planned, seeded, on-purpose stuff. so to say that the civil rights stuff was unconstitutional because it impeded on private property rights, that was exactly what it was supposed to do. it was to tell people that they could not discriminate in housing, they could not discriminate into who they welcomed into restaurant. and so anyone who says, for any reason, that that was the right thing to do and keep doing, he said this multiple times. he can t take it back. so i m going to ask you, do you think that the civil rights act of 1964 should have been enacted, you would say? absolutely. no question. i was on the treadmill i almost fell off. i was like, where is his straightforwardness. like 100 years too late. you re just sensitive, though, because you re black.
pennsylvania. sara, people think that excuse is pretty flimsy. reporter: yeah, don, what happened yesterday at the announcement for the new head football coach, the one that will replace interim coach tom bradley, who replaced joe paterno when he was fired just a few days after the jerry sandusky scandal began to unfold, so rodney erickson was asked this question by reporters at an intimate question-and-answer session after the announcement. he was asked the question, how could penn state officials, such as yourself, be caught so off guard when this was news that, you know, people in pennsylvania were talking about, and that was re-published in several publications back in march. he said what he has said all along. he said, i did not know penn state was involved in this scandal until i read the grand jury report in november. he then refused to follow up a question about the patriot-news article in march. he went to another reporter. his press secretary basically said one