>> up first, president obama is imposing new sanctions designed to make it harder for rogue regimes to crack down on their own people. speaking at the holocaust museum he drew on the lessons of history saying it is imperative to never forget and never be silent, he said, when there is evidence of mass killings, human rights abuses and other atrocities. >> with allies and partners we will keep increasing the pressure of the diplomatic effort to further isolate asad and his regime so those who sack with asad know they are making a losing bet and will keep increasing sanctions to cut off the regime from the money it needs to survive. >> is it enough? the new steps from the president, syria continues to violate a cease-fire it negotiated with the united nations and as the president spoke so he had sudan attacked south sudan and fred townsend is in new york with us tonight with the external advisory board for the cia and the home atlanta security department. announce the the new board and the new sanctions and other stuff he says the government will do a better job watching, keeping track of what the rogue regimes are doing. listen, even a man that supports the president, a hero, listen who what he said at the ceremony. >> in this place we may ask have we learned anything from it? if so, how is it that assad is still in power? how is it that the holocaust number one denial mahmoud ahmadinejad is still a president? >> anything, fran, in the new steps, this new practice put forward by the president that might change that and. >> no, john, i think the additional sanctions that the president outlined, particularly as regards syria, are helpful, are useful, and applying more pressure. i find no fault with that. i think what you're hearing from someone like muzel is we need more than words. we ought to do more than just watch this and talk about it. i think there is tremendous frustration. what i think people fail to appreciate fully is as asad violates the terms of the cease-fire he agreed to, as he continues to kill his own people, the civilian population left and abandoned by the international community in syria becomes more hardened and ral callized and bitter over that abandonment, and i worry from a counter terrorism perspective they become vulnerable to radical elements because they feel that there is no one left to turn to and so we really have a national interest to do more than talk about it, more than merely sanctions. we really have to do something about it. >> when you say that, you're laying out an accountability test if you're going to talk about it, you better do something and a lot of people said that in this administration and it is hard and for months now asad's days are numbered, here is what the former secretary of defense madelyn aul bright and coen wrote about, the real test whether the u.s. government will use this body and the tools develops to heed the warning signs and engage early enough. no longer will pure the kra i can inadequacy and look of prioritization be an execution for inaction. this initiative raises the standards of accountability for this in future administrations and they're making the point you make if you're going to lay this out and say we have new tools, you better be prepared to use them. >> exactly right. it is funny. there is a parallel here. the privacy and civil liberties board which was recommended and put in legislation after the intelligence reform was manned by the bush administration, didn't do a lot, and then in the new administration only last week did the people get appointed three years into an administration and again they haven't done anything. if you have one of these boards, you better be sure you're prepared to appoint the right people and use them to really formulate policy but you can have a board but if you ignore it and don't take action, it really doesn't matter. >> national security contributor. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> we learned another member of the united states military is under investigation in that prostitution scandal that came to light during president obama's visit to columbia. the scandal still hasn't touched the white house staff. dana is keeping track of the dwromts. start with a 12th member of the secret service complicated and this taking at the president's hotel. >> it was the cartagena hilton as you said was the president's hotel and a source familiar with the investigation tells me this happened five days before the president arrived in columbia and not just that it was two days before the infamous evening with 11 secret service members and prostitutes at a different hotel and i am told investigators believe they're completely separate incidents that will feed into the worry this is a cultural problem with the secret service. >> and the other agency is the white house communications office. this is a member of the military who was assigned to the white house communications office, agency, what do we know about that? >> we know that one member of the white house communications agency or in the alphabet soup of washington we call waca was relieved of his duties after he told according to barbara starr her leadership he was involved in misconduct of, quote, some kind. now, the white house communications agency is travels with the white house and they're involved in documenting the president's events, archiving it, so that is separate from the white house staff but with regard to the white house staff we learned today from the spokesman that the white house council did his own investigating and found according to them that nobody inside the white house did anything wrong and those of course are white house advance members who were there ahead of time to prepare for the trip. >> thanks so much. president obama heads out tomorrow, a two-day trip to universitys and three important swing states. le call for congressional action to prevent student loan interest rates from doubling this july. the republican nominee, likely nominee, tried to get out in front of this issue today and, surprise, listen. he agrees with the president. >> i fully support the effort to extend the low interest rate on student loans. there was some concern that that would expire halfway through the year. i support extending the temporary relief on interest rates. >> gloria, there is breaking news animation and it is very rare that governor romney and the president agree on something that involves spending and involves philosophy. smart for governor romney to get ahead of the president? >> sure. it does cost $6 billion but it is temporary and it is all about younger voters. don't forget 2008, president obama then candidate obama won with young people by 2:1. this is part of mitt romney's pivot as he we call it because he is talking to women voters because he knows he has a gender gap. he is talking to young voters because that is a problem and he is also talking to hispanic voters where he is losing by about 47 points to president obama. >> i hope the young voters you mention and had also their parents that might need help with this. >> absolutely. >> we showed governor romney talking. if we broaden out the picture a little bit you see this guy marco rubio, the freshman senator from the state of florida, both of them say, no, no, no, just campaigning together but are we looking and hopefully we can show pictures here, looking at a dream ticket? here is what they had to say about it. >> like unemployment which under his watch has gone up. like a debt which under his watch has gone up. like the value of our homes which under his watch has gone down. >> senator rubio giving an endorsement and denouncing president obama as part of the endorsement for mitt romney. a ticket? >> it is a little premature, wouldn't you say, john? >> very premature. >> it is easy. you look at marco rubio, young, attractive from the battle ground state of florida, could appeal to hispanic voters and at least get them to give him a second look. mitt romney during the primaries moved way to the right. he is now trying to move back to the middle. i think marco rubio is trying to giff him a lifeline there by revising the dream act and saying maybe you could go along with that. in the end what mitt romney has said is that the person he picks has to be ready to be president on day one. i think some republicans and maybe mitt romney himself would think, you know what, if we're running against barack obama on the experience issue, saying he did not have enough experiences of two-year senator, maybe marco rubio would not be ready. >> one of the many calculations governor romney has to make. apeeling in some ways the experience and does have some if not more experience than senator obama but if you make that case. see how that goes. we'll watch. >> you bet we will. >> we'll see the next audition. >> who he is out with tomorrow. still to come, a question whether sanford, florida, will need a new police chief as part of the fall out from the trayvon martin case city officials refuse to accept the chief's offer to quit. next, the annual report card on medicare and social security is i wake-up call or at least it should be. 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>> both programs are paying out more than they're taking in so adding to the deficit when you look at known demographic trends our federal financial hole is getting deeper $10 million a minute. the longer we wait to increase entitlement reform or social insurance program reform the more dramatic the changes will be, the more risk of debt crisis and the less transition time we'll have. >> david mentioned $10 million a minute. that means about 40 million dollars, 50 million during this conversation. >> i wish i was getting the money. >> we're in an election year. nothing will happen between now and november. they tried the bargain last year and got nowhere. what is the trigger, the circuit breaker that will get politicians to sit down and figure this out. >> that's the $40 million question. i do think there is a deadline coming up at the end of this year because of the deal that they did to get the debt ceiling raised. so, you know, we could see some fairly dramatic action then. the other big thing, and i don't see when this is going to happen but what forces other countries to finally deal with the budget deficit problems and that's essentially what this is, when the rest of the world stops agreeing to lend you money. the perverse at this of america's situation today is even though america is spending a lot of money right now, the rest of the world is lending america money at incredibly cheap rates. the feet are not to the fire. >> if the feet are not to the fire, one of the things that allowed the politicians and this goes back to previous administrations not just with thun and not just this congress to sort of punt it, kick it down the line is the report always says the next generation, future generations, two of the public trustees say if they don't deal with this and soon people now on these getting aid from the programs will be affected and people waiting in their 50s about to kick in will be affected. will that be enough to light the fire. >> what will be enough is if we get a market signal. right now we have the lowest interest rates in modern history. we have not locked them in nor the long-term. for every 1% kr he is in interest rates 100 basis points it is over $150 billion a year for which we get nothing. it is not a matter of if interest rates are going to go up. it is a matter of when and how much unless we make meaningful progress. we must make meaning lful progress in 2013. as you may know i was a trustee of social security medicare from '90 to '95 and myself and my co-public trustee were the one that is blew athe when i go he will in the 1990s. >> that's conceding the point we won't make progress in 2012. when will we at least make progress in advancing the dialog? the president has his approach and governor romney says in terms of the big approach to the deficit he says take tax cuts off the table and he talked about things like raising the retirement age and the like. are we at least going to have them discuss at the presidential campaign level some of the pieces so that whoever wins the election will be able to move quickly or am i being too idealistic? >> i am afraid that you are being too idealistic. at this point although there is a lot of discussion about the economy and i think there is a meaningful discussion happening now about taxes, i don't think either side is presenting a really realistic program forgetting the budget in balance. >> so? >> that's true. neither candidate right now has a credible program to be able to restore fiscal sanity. one that achieves a measurable goal, one that is culturally acceptable and one that can pass a political test, that can get the support in the house and the senate and meaningful bipartisan support. >> does it take somebody outside the system to kick and raise the issues? >> well, i think the point that david and i have been making is maybe what it is going to take is some kind of very powerful market signal. what's unfortunately about that is market signals come really painful and unpleasant, so i hope it doesn't come to that. the other point that i would make is president obama took a lot of flack trying to address health care. one of the problems here is the u.s. has probably the least effective health care system in the western industrial world. you spend a lot of money and don't get particularly good results. fixing that really you fixing the guts of the health care system would go along way towards fixing medicare. >> john, we spent double per person for health care and get below average societal outcomes and as you know the trustees said if the affordable care act was re peeled, then the medicare date would move up to 2018. the other thing that they didn't talk about is that the chief actuary medicare actually thinks the situation is much worse than the trustees and the politicians claim. so we have serious problems. this general election really has to focus on the facts, the truth, the tough choices. we need to be able to make meaningful progress no later than 2013 or we could have a debt crisis in the united states. >> hope that we're all wrong, that the candidates are more shall we say debating the facts and issue more than we think they might. thank you for coming. we'll stay on the issue going forward. in north carolina prosecutors started presenting evidence that could send one time senator and hopeful john edwards to prison for 30 years. wreelt have the latest on his trial in a little bit. next, winter sudden revenge in the northeast. 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