Michael singh a former director of international affairs joins us now. do you feel this is more like ha power move, a bump lee move or is there real cause for concern? well, look, i think that as part of a strategy to try to deter iran or dissuade iran from continuing with its nuclear weapons program we need to have a credible military threat. we talk about military options being on the table, but you have to have more than just talk if the iranians are going to believe that. this sort of step, taking improvements on this very large bunker busting bomb which really only has one target in mind, that buried nuclear facility in iran is certainly one step to establish that military credibility. arthel: it has that target because that particular nuclear enrichment plant is underground, deeply underground. so, how abg reul accurate is this 30,000-pound pw upblge bunker buster bomb we are are
but my sense is that one of them involves this long general election. is the public losing interest in the way we cover the presidential campaign? the justice department is investigating national security leaks to the new york times and critics blame the obama team for spilling some of the secrets that put the administration in a favorable light. a firestorm today as republicans claim the white house has been leaking national security secrets to the press, to make president obama look good. david sanger, the author of one of those stories, will be here. plus walter cronkite was the most trusted man in america. and that s the way it is, friday, march 6th, 1981. but sometimes he did things that were rather untrustworthy. would that have gotten him fired today? we ll ask his biographer, doug brinkley. i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. remember when the republican primaries were going strong and we all bounced from bachmann to trump to perry to cain an
afghanistan. they won t say whether it s the type that contains highly classified information. security experts say if it is that drone, the u.s. military has lost a lot. the important point to take away here is that the iranians now have a very sensitive piece of american military technology in their hands. i hope that there s a self-destruct button attached to it. after months of bloody crack jouns against protesters, syria now says it will let observers into the country to monitor what is going on but only if the arab league agrees to drop sanctions against syria. the u.n. says more than 4,000 people have died in sirrian protests this year. once again, southern california is bracing for powerful, dangerous santa ana winds. we re talking gusts hitting 60 miles an hour in the mountains. that s happening today. 50 miles an hour in los angeles, ventura counties. what has it been like to deal with santa ana over the past week? cold, number one. scary and going to bed re
Reassuming the full scale manhunt, hunting fire suspect in the shooting of a park ranger there, they ve picked up his footprints and found the rifle and backpack, along the colorado siver south of moab, and a nuclear scientist saying he was inside a north korean nuclear enrichment plant, and he said it was stunning. now, the volcano, killing 304 people, and, many more, with illness linked to that eruption. jamie: all right, time for sunday house call and he makes his house calls on time. dr. isadore rosenfeld the rossi distinguished professor of clinical medicine at the wild cornell medical center.
Herself. in a blog post she called her time adrift in the indian ocean crazy. police say in new mexico, about 30 gunman burst in and killed 19 men in chihuahua city, 200 miles south of el paso. jamie: iran s nuclear chief says they ll begin the nuclear enrichment plant, days after united nations approved tougher sanctions and iran s government has plans for ten now enrichment facilities, sites that can process uranium gas for nuclear power plants. the u.s. and other nations fear iran will use it to make material for nuclear warheads. iran is denying this is the case. jamie: and we re nearing the one year anniversary of iranian activist s death. remember the 25-year-old woman shot and killed on the streets of iran during a protest over the reelection of ahmadnejad?