arthel: that s the point. will carr, thank you. to answer the question, just listen, will. i could well, it s rhetorical but i ll give a rhetorical answer. i could live with you because you re neat. i couldn t share a bathroom because all your products, you know, for your hair and face and stuff would take up too much space. gregg: my products? i have no products. i would be a lot better looking if i had some products. that s what i need. yeah. you cannot now borrow my blowup mattress anymore after that insult. arthel: fine. gregg: all right. she is closer than she s been before. will the american endurance swimmer make it all the way to florida from cuba this time without a shark cage? it s really amazing. we re keeping a close eye on diana nyad s marathon swim. arthel: plus american policy when it comes to the syrian crisis and how it could be applied to the iran nuclear showdown.
don t take nexium if you take clopidogrel. relief is at hand for just $18 a month. talk to your doctor about nexium. arthel: as president obama works to drum up support for military action in syria, some top international players are now speaking out. russia s foreign minister calls the white house s evidence of chemical weapons used, kwoit, unconvincing. israeli president peres is backing president obama and says he s confident the u.s. will strike syria. chief washington correspondent joins us now and james, the air ak arab league met. what happened? they told reporters in cairo remember cairo? while only the asad regime is responsible for use of chemical weapons in that country, only
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israel and drum up support among the syrian population with statements like that. they also said that there was international condemnation of what the united states was doing. that of course coming from syrian state tv, which is fully operated by the syrian government. another interesting thing was they put out statements from regular people say they go would support the president. and i know from sources on the ground in damascus that apparently the regime has been sending cars into the streets with people waving syrian flags, trying to drum up support for bashar al assad. the government there has said if attacked it, will retaliate in any way it can. it s unclear how it intends to do that. we ve heard from sources on the ground that apparently the syrian military is moving around a lot in the damascus area, potentially trying to bring its hardware at least out of sight of those potential u.s. air strikes. clearly they are very worried about this, they re starting to realize that this
social media, which contribute to the effort to understand what s going on there, though in and of themselves i suppose not confirmation. michael calderon, thanks for coming on for the discussion. thanks for having me. if the president does act in syria, it will hardly be a surprise at this point. could the early heads up help bashar al assad? stay with us.