Suffering from depression. The federal Aviation Authority in germany said there was a medical condition attached to lubitz file due did not specify. The clinic said he had been a patient as late as march 10. They did not provide details based on con phi detentionality. The records are sent to the governments office. On wednesday, lufthansa said he pass the checks with flying colors. German pilots undergo annual physicals but not specific psychological testing. Thats limited mostly to a questionnaire filled out by the pilot themselves. Europes Aviation Safety Agency is recommending airlines always have two people in the cockpit of a flying aircraft and lufthansa said they will offer 50,000 assistance to each victim. Rose our thanks to cbs evening news with scott pelley. We turn to Anthony Cordesman of the center for strategic and international studies, with a look at whats happening in yemen. The c. I. A. Puts the shiite population in yemen at about 35 of the population, and it has been houthi dominated. The sunni part has been divided almost since the formation of yemen, almost constantly fighting, at least at some kind of level. Its a country which has never had the ability since it was unified and before that it was the source of fighting between the two halves south of yemen. Rose my conversation recorded this week in damascus by bashar alassad. There is a number alarming to me is that 90 of the civilian casualties come from the syrian army. How did you get that . Rose that was a report issued in the last six months. As i said earlier the war is not the traditional war. Its not about capturing and gaining land. Its about winning the heart and miebdz of the syrians. We can not sustain that position as a government and me as president while the rest of the world, the great powers and regional powers are against me and my people are against me. Thats impossible. This has no leg to stand on so this is not realistic and is against our interest as government is to kill the people. What do we get . Whats the benefit of killing the people . Rose the argument is you there are weapons of war that have been used that most people look down on, one is chlorine gas. They believe it has been used here. There is evidence to that and they would like to have the right to inspect to see where its coming from. As you know barrel bombs have been used and come from helicopters and the only people with helicopters are the syrian army, so those two acts of war which society looks down on let me fully answer this. Rose barbaric acts. This is very important. This is part of the malicious propaganda. Its is not military gas. There is evidence. Traditional arms is more important and if it was very effective, the terrorists would have used it on a larger scale. Because its not effective, its not used. Rose why not let somebody come in and inspect to see whether its been used or not. You would be happy with that . Of course, we ask the delegation to come and investigate. But logically and realistically, it cannot be used as military. This is part of the propaganda because in the media when it bleeds it leads and they always look for something that leads. Rose thats on 60 minutes. Then on cbs this morning on monday. Monday evening on this program the full hour of that conversation. Next here, al hunt on the story with barney frank. People say to me what happened to bipartisanship . It died when obama became president and no republican would give him the cooperation that harry reid and nancy pelosi and me and chris gave to him. 2008, six or seven weeks before the president ial election, the tensest period in american politics. Ben bernankey three times appointed by bush, hank paulson came to the Democratic Congress and said the economy is about to fall apart and weve got to do something that the public isnt going to like and we respond by helping them pass the tarp which goes down in history as the most unpopular successful thing the government ever did. Rose we conclude with Benjamin Scheuer who wrote and stars in a oneman musical called the lion. He reflects on cancer and his father. We get dealt those cards. Wanting one thing and getting another and how we deal with that is the kind of person we are. Ive had the unfortunate circumstance of losing a parent at an early age and being diagnosed with a very serious illness at an early age and i felt the way that i could get through it was to make art. Rose when we continue, Anthony Cordesman, al hunt on the story with barney frank Benjamin Scheuer all of that when we continue. And by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose we begin tonight with the latest from yemen, saudiled forces have launched air strikes against the countrys shiahouthi rebels. Meanwhile iran which many believe is backing the rebels warn any military action would only result in a deepening crisis. Joining us from washington, Anthony Cordesman of the center for strategic and international studies. Anthony, thank you for doing this and taking time from your busy schedule. Let me begin with whats happening on the ground. Where are which . Where we are seems to be that the hoot is moved the edge, theyve taken over some key air bases near there. They now occupy ports along yemens western coast as well as the capital. But we need to be careful about this term because the houthi are allied with the former deck tater sala. They split the forces which are largely sunni dominated so this isnt a sort of shiite takeover with iranian backing, it is a shiiteled mixture of sunni and shiites and an odd combination of a religious Tribal Movement and a former dictator. Rose what are the stakes for saudi arabia that led them to be engaged . Well theyre immense. First, there are 4 million yem en] qq saudi arabias foreign labor. Thats a massive potential source of instability. Quite aside from the houthi, the main terrorist threat to saudi arabia is al quaida in the Arabian Peninsula. That was largely driven out of saudi arabia but into yemen and it still operates and conducts regular strikes inside saudi arabia. You have a border that has always been a source of contention, of smuggling, of illegal immigration. It is one of the longest borders saudi arabia has, around it is an area and it is an area where many of the factions have been a problem for saudi arabia for decades. You have the need for some kind of stability in yemen, but you also have saudi concerns that if iran should ever acquire air bases or any kind of naval bases either in the indian ocean area yemen has theres an island or inside the red sea they control potentially one of the critical choke points into the red sea affecting the suez canal and oil exports in the red sea area, so for all these reasons, yemen is critical to saudi arabia. Rose what are the stakes and the the risk for the United States . Well, the risk is, first al quaida in the Arabian Peninsula has been the group thats planned more direct attacks on the u. S. Than any to have the other extreme estor terrorist groups in the area. Another is we, too, are critically dependent on the stable flow of exports out of the gulf and and through the red sea. The suez canal is critical to move combat ships and critical in terms of the global economy. While we have been reduced dependence on oil imports, our dependence on other imports from countries like asia, countries who are dependent on gulf oil, and our dependence on europe keeps increasing. So are we achieving Energy Independence . No not at all. Were actually steadily increasing our dependence on the global economy. Rose what happened to yemen . Because it was a place that the president and others suggested go look at yemen, thats a good place to see where things might be. Well its sometimes very difficult to know because none of the data that were being collected by the National Counterterrorism center showed we scored any kind of major victories in yemen. None of the saudi reporting on the activity coming out of yemen showed that we were achieving stability. The houthi have been a very serious problem since 2009. This is not something new. The previous government, the dictator had essentially falon apart between 2011 and 2012, and the new Central Government was elected without any real opposition and without any real support as the military had split. I think part of the problem is we sometimes spin things almost in defiance of the facts. Rose could we be suggesting theres more iranian influence than there actually is . I think there is certainly that risk. There were a lot of reports initially that the houthi were only succeeding because of iran. There are no precise estimates here but the c. I. A. Puts the shiite population of yemen at about 35 of the population and it has been houthi dominated. The soon is part has been divided almost since the formation of yemen almost constantly fighting, at least at some kind of level. Its a country which has never had stability since it was unified and before that it was the source of fighting within its two halves, south and north yemen. Rose as you know as well as anyone, there has been some degree of split between the United States and saudi arabia that took place after the socalled red line in syria and the failure to attack there, witnessed the fact that the president went quickly from india to saudi arabia or to talk to the new king burks now king but now with a common enemy, i. S. I. S. And terrorism, is this strike a cooperation . Could there have been United States involvement with the saudis in terms of some way making it easier for them to do what they were doing . There are some reports that we did not get large amounts of strategic warning that the saudis are going to act but then the saudis had no warning that the Prime Minister would suddenly be dealing with houthi virtually on the edge of aden and have to leave. We are providing Logistic Support to the saudis, intelligence support and targeting capabilities that they dont have. I think it is fairly clear we may be flying Unmanned Aerial Vehicles as well as providing other kinds of intelligence so theres a close relationship and has been in yemen for a long time. This is not like the problems we face in syria or iraq. Ever since 2011 and, in fact, long before then, the United States and saudi arabia cooperated in trying to stabilize yemen and ever since about 20032004, weve had a strong cooperative effort to try to deal with al quaida in the Arabian Peninsula. Rose whats the risk for a larger war that could go from yemen to the rest of the middle east . I think you probably will not get any kind of unified explosion. Iran is a very weak military power in terms of air power. It has very serious reasons not to start a war inside the gulf. But iran can certainly stoke the flames inside yemen. It can make this into a very difficult insurgency. It can create a climate where there is more support for terrorism. Iran already is playing a role in iraq and it is an ambiguous one because it sometimes seems to be pressing for iraqi unity and yet is directly arming and supporting Shiite Militias which are attacking iraqier sunnis and been a problem for the kurds. They are watching irans back the assad regime strongly inside sir. I cant you see iran playing lower level games in bahrain lebanon and to some extent supporting or at least offit did in the past hamas and gaza. It is explosive. Its clear tensions between sunni and shiite are rising. At the same time were watching power struggles between Sunni IslamistsExtremist Groups and most of the governments inside the middle east, and its this interaction of different nonstate actors with outside states supporting them and feuding with other states that can sort of create this longterm almost unquenchable series of violent sort of hot spots throughout the region. Rose whats the status in syria . Im afraid the status is that the last Rebel Movement that we tried to back first had very Serious Problems last november and then was decisively defeated a month ago by not the Islamic State but another sunni Extremist Group called the el nusra front. The fighting against assad is very mixed. From day to day its hard to know exactly whos winning. At time assad seems to be gaining, and he certainly seems to gradually be taking back some cities, but he doesnt seem to be creating any kind of lasting ability to hold the more Populated Areas of syria. As weve seen inside iraq, tikrit didnt produce this quit, sudden victory by the Shiite Militias and the shiite portions of the iraqi army, so now were in the business of supporting the iraqi army. The Shiite Militia said that they will stand down. It is far from clear who inside any of this is achieving some kind of unity between arab sunni and shiite or between arab and kurds. So this is an area where the Islamic State is a problem. The el nusra front is a problem the assad regime is a problem and you have this constant battle between factions in iraq. Rose Anthony Cordesman, thank you very much for joining us. My pleasure. Rose Anthony Cordesman c. I. S. In warrant washington. Hunt barney frank achieved a first dream in his 20s starting as top aid to boston mayor kevin white, serving in the massachusetts General Court and 32 years in congress culminating as chairman of the Financial Services committee during the financial crisis. During that time he proudly paraded as a progressive a liberal champion of affective government but hid the fact that he was gay. He has written a memoir aptly entitled frank by barney frank in which he tells about these experiences. Barney its great to have you here. Thank you. Hunt barney, how much of your public year in the first 20 years was affected by the fact that you were gay and couldnt disclose it . I now know retroactively more than i thought. There was one way it didnt affect me. That is, i never let that keep me back from being an advocate for gay rights. So that was a decision i made earlier on. I cant be honest about who i am so im going to be a coward, but i wont be a hypocrite. Im not going to hold back from the fight, so i did that. But you know this takes a lot out of your personally. Hunt you talked about the emotional damage. No question. You are repressing repressing is a good word you have physical and emotional needs, needs to relate to other people as who you are. Especially when i became a legislator. Legislation, as you know, is a personal business. Legislators have to interact with each other. We dont have a formal hierarchy. Nobody can order anybody else. When your interpersonal skills are somewhat impeded by your own inner turmoil you dont do it as well. When i did acknowledge being gay publicly a number of my colleagues including a number who advised me not to do it because they thought it would damage me said were glad you did it because youre easier to work with youre better at your job because i put all my energy into my work and not bottling it up. Hunt you suffered a lot of emotional damage but in some ways the most painful must have been after you came out, when you were sanctioned by the house for relations with a male prostitute. The relationship was my bad decision. That was one of the things, realizing i was behaving irresponsibly because i was feeling the need for emotional and physical companion ship is what helped me come out. Because i said, this is crazy youre acting irresponsibly. So when i came out in 87 the public and colleagues responded better than i thought and i got reelected. I thought oh well, theres this big thing i did and hasnt hurt me. So almost two and a half years later this guy comes back and i had broken off with him, we werent dating at the time when i came out. So yeah, i was humiliated, i thought i hurt the cause is cared about and i thought i was free of all this and i found myself pulled back. So it was a very low moment. Hunt youve certainly bounced back from it. In all my years of current politics, i dont think ive ever seen an issue where it changed so ropey. As recently as 2004, karl rove was using antigay stuff as a we believe issue and now its changed and its republicans who dont want to bring up the issue. What caused it to change . I agree with you. As late as 2004, if i said i plan to get married but im still a member of song, people would say thats controversial. So when i got married in 2012 to jim and somebody said thats controversial, i said very. A lot of my colleagues were mad because i didnt invite them. Heres the deal its no question its the most ram id major social and political change in American History. We started out having hidden from everybody. So the prejudice ran the show because there was no counter to the prejudice and what happened was more and more of us decided to be honest about who we are. I was late than many others. As we became honest about who we were, reality defeated the prejudice. Particularly on samesex marriage. Im convinced this is the dynamic there were people who were against the marriage mainly because they disapproved of us and didnt want us happy. They didnt want to give any kind of sense that we should be treated normal but they couldnt come out and say that. Instead, thats why it was called the defense of marriage act. What do you mean . Hunt you married jim. I married jim, whats that do to you . In a debate, i said, whose marriage will we