allegation that is made seriously. we would take every allegation seriously. but i m not going to outline the status of those or any individual cases from here. hillary clinton s spokesperson says, we learned of it from the media and don t know anything beyond what s been reported. congressman ed royce joins me now from capitol hill. he s a republican and chairman of the house foreign affairs committee and he s launching an investigation. good morning. good morning. do you think it s possible hillary clinton didn t know of any of these allegations? the one thing we do know, carol, is that the intervection of senior political appointees in this process to quash these investigations and that would include hillary clinton s chief of staff and also include a rather senior position, the undersecretary of management, mr. kennedy. and, so, again, we have an example of a situation where investigators surface an issue
of catch in the backyard. we ll see a neighbor try to intervene here. hello, everyone. i m don lemon. thank you for joining us. developments in syria to tell you about where on paper, there s a cease-fire in place and a peace plan alt work, but that s not what it looks like, though. this is the city of homs. heavy artillery exploding inrential neighborhoods. winces say syrian forces felled a mosque and a church today. people were killed in homs today, including the mayor of this neighborhood. and across the country, we re told more than 65 people were killed in street fighting and artillery fire. there was even a street clash in the center of damascus where rebels reportedly killed 17 troops loyal to president bashar al assad. we re going to take you inside a makeshift hospital in the city of homs where a doctor follows his commitment to healing the wounded despite horrific conditions surrounding him. it s a cnn exclusive you don t want to miss. since the conflict in syri
syrian state television trying to show that the state of homs has returned to normal. they showed this videoarve bombarding the city for months. especially the baba amr region. cleanup crews, cars on the streets, even ordinary people returning. that s what they showed on syrian state television. on video posted on youtube today, video how the of homs, you get a far different picture. the streets as you see empty of cars and people. rubble is deeper. destruction more complete. a top u.n. official who just got inside homs today say parts of the city were completely devastated. those were her words. she says authorities kept her out of certain areas even though they promised her complete access. authorities have still not allowed the red cross in to bring humanitarian relief into the besieged neighborhoods. in homs, the guns were still firing. as always we re not there to see for ourselves because the regime keeps out reporters when it s not shelling or killing them. the estimat
rica. ed, the president steered clear of this? he was asked about the israeli air strikes and the president said israel has a right to defend itself. what that basically means, he s giving israel a green light to do what it needs to in the region and leaves the door open to a range of u.s.s. the president said it was a red line cross could possibly spark u.s. intervection in syria. the president said he wants more evidence to confirm that before anything is launched. a bottom line, a lot ofs are on the table on the u.s. air strikings against sir yampt one option is he took off of the table. he will not put u.s. boots on the ground.