0 members hate homosexuality. >> it is an abomination. what part of that don't you fools understand? >> reporter: aaron jackson wasn't a fool when he decided to buy this house in 2007. jackson was voted a cnn hero for all his charity work in places like haiti. but now, it's hate he says he's fighting. while googling the baptist church, he went to the street view of their headquarters. >> i saw the house across the street had a for sale sign on it and it hit me right away. i'll buy the home and paint it the color of the pride flag. >> reporter: it turned out that house was no longer available. but another one was. also across the street from the westboro church. jackson tried to get the seller to reduce the price but he wouldn't budge. jackson's charity coughed up about $81,000 for the house. and on tuesday, the house got painted, transformed in a gay pride rainbow house. >> oh. beautiful spring colors. >> actually looks really good. >> reporter: jackson himself isn't gay but he's big on equality. >> i'm a straight ally as one would say. >> reporter: the plan is for the charity to run anti-bullying campaigns out of the rainbow house. as for the church's reaction -- it sends cnn a statement saying, we thank god for the sodomite rainbow church. it's right across the street from the only church that loves people enough to tell them the bible truth about the sin of sodomy. it helps shine a bright spotlight on this. a mansion it ain't but this humble rainbow house has one thing going for it. >> location, location. i bought this house for the view. >> reporter: from now on, the view from the church property will be as dorothy would put it -- ♪ somewhere over the rainbow >> reporter: jeanno moos, cnn, new york. >> make it a point. you can always follow when's going on here on twitter. you can tweet me @wolfblitz. >> you can tweet me and the show. >> that's it for us. thank you very much for watching. "erin burnett out front" starts right now. next on the tenth anniversary of the u.s. invasion, 55 people killed in iraq today. why is al qaeda rising? plus, police find a bag of explosives next to the body in a college dorm room and we have the video the cops found as they went in. and cbs demands employees to submit to health tests. if not, you pay a lot of money. is your employer next? and is this fair? let's go "out front." good evening, everyone. i'm erin burnett. first heard here on cnn, the chairman of the house and senate intelligence committees telling wolf blitzer a short while ago there's a -- i want to quote their word. high probability that chemical weapons have been used in syria. >> i have a high probability to believe that chemical weapons were used. we need that final verification but given everything we know over the last year and a half, i, mike rogers, chairman of the intelligence committee, would come to the conclusion they're positioned for use and ready to do that or, in fact, have been used. >> or, in fact, have been used. the head of the senate intelligence committee dianne feinstein echoed that warning with a stark message to the president. and i will quote her. she said, i think the probabilities are very high, we are going in dark times and i think the white house needs to be prepared. both committees now have been fully briefed. all right. i want to bring our guests tonight and talk about what this means. seth jones joins us with general wesley clark. thanks very much for both of you. you know about this issue. general, let me start with you. this is something the president has set as a red line, i'll play what he said in a moment, but he has said if chemical weapons are used, that's a red line. what does the u.s. do if they have been? >> both secretary of state and the president have looked very closely at this issue of what assistance can be given to the syrian resistance, the rebels there. and the syrian rebels are getting increasingly well organized. they're right now just representatives, pretty soon the government will be formed. people will have positions so i think what you are going to see is more and more u.s. assistance to directly get rid of the assad regime and i think the additional line is that we're going to go really hard back at moscow. because moscow's assistance has been pivotal in keeping assad in office. >> how do we go hard back at moscow? >> first of all, go at them diplomatically. their interests where the united states and russia have certain parallel interests and work those interests. the russians believe in linkage. everything with the russians is about linkage. what does putin get from continuing to support assad? one thing he might get a higher oil prices because there's a risk premium on oil. this is important for russia. >> absolutely. >> you know, the united states is going to be a big factor in russia's future because we increase the oil production and the predictions are predicting more than russia or saudi arabia in five or six years. that's a mortal threat to russia if it affects the price of oil. >> all right. and seth, what damage could be done with these chemical weapons? you know, if we're hearing and this rhetoric out of dianne feinstein, mike rogers is different. this is -- they're using them. what could they do? >> it's worth noting that the reporting out of syria right now is a little confusing. the syrian government accused the rebels of using poisons or chemical weapons so both sides are now accusing each other of doing it. if, in fact, the syrian government has used chemical weapons against its population, against syrian rebels, this is a serious red line. i think there are a range of options including what the israelis have already done, trying to target facilities producing the kinds of chemicals. but this goes back to saddam's gassing of his own population about a decade or two ago. and so i think this really changes the dynamics of the discussion in the u.s. >> let me just play -- you mentioned the words red line. here's what president obama has said. here's why this news, not just from a humanitarian perspective but whether or not the united states military will get involved, this is why chemical weapons is so important. here's the president. >> we have been very clear to the assad regime, but also, to other players on the ground that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical movement around or utilized. that would change my calculus. that was change my equation. >> general, does he make a mistake when he set so clearly what red lines are? people want them. if someone crosses it, you are forced to act. >> i don't think it's a mistake. i think it was a clear warning, both to assad and to his russian supporters that they can't do this. now, if the russians have an influence with assad, they better rein him back in. we talked about diplomacy and linkage with the russians. i didn't talk about the military option but there's a range of military options that could be used. >> all right. that brings me to the other top story tonight. that's al qaeda rising. why this is so complicated. violence rippled across iraq today. tenth anniversary of the u.s. invasion. no group yet claimed responsibility. signs point to al qaeda. the decade-long war in iraq caused 4,488 american lives, more than 100,000 iraqi lives and more than $800 billion. today, another 55 iraqis lost their lives, 200 more wounded. there were 17 car bombs, 7 roadside bombs and 2 shootings that ripped through mostly shiite neighborhoods. arwa damon is covering the war since it began and in iraq tonight and i asked her how much strength iraq gained. >> reporter: there were huge swaths of the country controlled by al qaeda. now, that is no longer the case. and at one point al qaeda's capabilities in iraq were, in fact, significantly diminished. when's been especially disturbing that we have been seeing over the last few months is the reemergence of al qaeda, especially in iraq's al anbar province. there's been, for example, ongoing demonstrations. people demanding certain things, legitimate things from the iraqi gornment. at the same time we have also been beginning to see over the last few weeks al qaeda's flag raised, as well. you can imagine the ripple of fear that's causing for the population in of itself and not just today's attacks that bear the hallmarks of al qaeda. last week, a coordinated complex attack on the justice ministry located in what's supposed to be one of the safest parts of the capital. so we're most certainly now seeing al qaeda beginning to regain quite a bit of its strength. >> general clark, is america safer or less safe? >> we built -- i mean, we got rid of saddam hussein. that's good. everybody understands that. but we gave an opening for al qaeda to come in to iraq. to sink roots in. to have tar gets of americans and now they're feeding on the schism between the sunni and the shia population and that's -- it's more than the iraqi security forces which are shia dominated can handle. so are we safer? very complicated question. we've learned a lot of things as a result of our experience in iraq. we got great capabilities in our special forces and so forth. but if it had been up to me, i wouldn't have done it in the first place. >> you wouldn't have done it? >> i wouldn't have gone in there. >> seth, are we less safe? not just iraq where al qaeda has now gotten another stronghold. it is, of course, syria and why you can go and support the opposition in syria and might be, yeah, supporting a lot of al qaeda-linked groups. >> well, i think general clark is right on the range of positive aspects, including political freedoms now in iraq right now but coming to the terrorism problem, i think there's no question right now it's worse. if you look at the number of al qaeda in iraq attacks, they're averaging about 30 attacks a day, which is a 50% increase from 2011. it's a last year that the u.s. military was in iraq. and then neighboring syria, one of the most significant and powerful terrorist groups is in al qaeda in iraq affiliate. they have heavy weapons now which they have accumulated from a range of attacks against syrian bases. they have got inroads in to networks in europe right now. so i think on the terrorism front, things are not looking good in this area right now. >> thanks very much to both of you and appreciate your time. still "out front" the assault weapons ban has been shelved. washington, d.c. found a pot czar. the state's high commander out front, of course. a chilling new video of a would be killer. inside the florida college dorm room full of explosives and weapons of the video the cops took when they went in. 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