renounce nuclear power. are we seeing another potential libya unfolding in syria? the situation is very different, but the regime clearly has lost legitimacy. assad is butchering his own people. he should heed the call of the international community to stand aside and allow syria to transition to a more open what if he doesn t? what will you do? france, a no fly zone? we will continue to apply pressure and seek to build an international consensus for pressure on syria, but we can only act whether it s legal capacity to do so and at the moment as you know, it is not been possible to build a consensus across you d like a u.n. security council resolution to authorize potential military action. i would like to see a u.n. security council resolution calling on the regime to end the violence against syrian nationals.
its own brutal crackdown, that s it s running out of money. i m wolf blitzer. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com it could get lonely being the front-runner especially if you re way out front in new hampshire as romney is now. the first in the nation primary is only five days away. that makes him the prime target of his rivals, but they re also squabbling among themselves and while romney can afford to look ahead to south carolina, some candidates can t afford to fall further behind. let s go to john king in new hampshire. john, you re on the scene for us. give us the lay of the land right now. the big picture. what s going on? five days out, wolf, you would have to say new hampshire is romney country. just like in iowa, you have the campaigns now gearing up for their final push. we see more lawn signs than we did in iowa, but nowhere near the level of past campaigns. the reason, people here are pretty well considered to b
more on the race straight ahead live. newt gingrich is starting his day in iowa meeting with moms at a coffee shop. newt gingrich has seen his support among likely caucus goers plunge. part of the reason is negative ads targeting him. analysis finds almost half of all the political ads in iowa have been attack ads against gingrich. crowds defy danger and took to the streets in syria today. opposition groups call the rallies the crawl to freedom square. they urge demonstrators to defy sniper attacks to make their way to public gathering places. the opposition says 32 people were killed by security forces today. the uprising has prompted some soldiers to defect. translator: we got the orders in the army that went against my oath as a soldier. i had sworn to protect civilians, but when i saw what the government forces were doing to the people, i defected. they say there will be no change in policy despite the death of kim jong il now replaced by his son. the state-run ne
are you going to be getting up at 4:00 a.m.? i ll probably catch the dvr. normal time over there, not so normal over here. i m sure millions and millions will be getting up very early there and they are not going to want to miss any of it. we ll be watching every step of the way. we re getting ready for a big show. we ve got a lot of news happening, a lot of political news. major developments in libya unfolding right now. ivory coast, a reporter finally in ivory coast. we re trying to get a reporter, we ve been trying now for weeks to get a reporter into damascus in syria. they are not letting any international news organizations send anyone over there. we also have a big debate coming up on what to do as far as raising the nation s debt
some leaders, very much like the rebels in tunisia that took over, got rid of the dictator there, or those in egypt who got rid of mubarak. is this a similar situation in libya unfolding right now as to what happened in tunisia and egypt? while allowing for slightly if you will, both u tunisia and egypt, with no disrespect, those are much more evolved societies. there is broader middle class, much higher level of education. but the libyans have told us who they are. if they go back and listen to what they ve said, if we look at the people who have been meeting with our diplomats, it is just a broad civic opposition. now there is of course an element of regionalism to it only in the sense that in sri lanka where benghazi is, that you have the ruler in tripoli, you have the opposition in benghazi, but fundamentally these are just decent people trying to give themselves a break. they know their situation.