tape asks? bashar she says. she s in the remains of a living room judging by the cushions on the floor. the girl is obviously too young to understand what is happening, but she knows enough to say the name. she s been told who s responsible. bashar al assad. after ordering a year long campaign of repression followed by outright carnage, he promised the u.n. to stop. the final deadline tomorrow morning. back when he agreed to that troop pullout proposal on march 27th, he toured the streets homs. we re showing you one of his photo op that day. the other the bombardment in the hours before he arrived in homs and after he left and almost every day since then. that day when the dictator of syria was smiling for the cameras, 57 people died. today in homs and across syria tanks rolled, shells exploded, snipers fired, and at least 145 people died. in other words, the slaughter goes on. more than 700 have been killed since assad announced a cease fire on april 2nd. nearly 1100 since h
tunisia. that s footage from the meeting. they spoke about the violation that claimed 91 lives today. there was a warning for the assad regime. assad can still make the choice to end the violation, save lives, and spare his country from descending further into ruin. but if he continues to reject that choice, we and the syrian people will keep pressure on him until his deadly regime cracks and collapses, because it will. i m absolutely confident of that. earlier today president obama called for greater pressure on assad. all of us who ve been seeing the terrible pictures out of syria and homs recently recognize it is absolutely imperative for the international community to rally and send a clear message to president assad it is time for a transition. it is time for that regime to move on. and it is time to stop the killing of syrian citizens by their own government. despite the words, the killing goes on. at least 91 lives today. more than 100 yesterday according to ac
people who showed up to see him yesterday, got to figure that he is cresting. yeah, at exactly the right time. i don t think there s any question about that. in fact, you would be hard pressed to find anybody that would put serious money of what the order of finish would be, probably the top three being romney, santorum and paul. pardon me but rick santorum certainly has been surging here. the problem that he has, i think, though is we only have we ll have six days from tomorrow before you have to go into new hampshire. even if they wave to new hampshire and go on to south carolina, that s 10 days after that. so the long kind of ground game that senator santorum had here can t be duplicated and what you get into february, march and april, these things come on faster and faster. very good. rich galen joining us today from our des moines bureau. rich, thank you very much. have a great night. thanks for joining us. thank, steve. you, too. all right. 27 minutes now after the top
the republican nominee. only three times has the winner of the iowa caucus went on to win the republican nomination. don t discount iowa. our next guest says the losers in iowa are key. what are we talking about? columnist rich galin joins us live from iowa to explain. good morning to you, sir. good morning, how are you, steve? i m doing great. i read in one of your columns that iowa is great not at picking winners but at identifying losers. explain that. what happens here is let s say tonight, there are six candidates running clearly only one is going to win. three will probably, as we say, get their ticket punched to move on and the other three will have to make some serious decisions. if you go back just four years, when barack obama won here with hillary clinton and john edwards not far behind and edwards actually beat clinton by a couple 10ths of a percentage point, that very night both chris dodd and dick gephardt
people who showed up to see him yesterday, got to figure that he is cresting. yeah, at exactly the right time. i don t think there s any question about that. in fact, you would be hard pressed to find anybody that would put serious money of what the order of finish would be, probably the top three being romney, santorum and paul. pardon me but rick santorum certainly has been surging here. the problem that he has, i think, though is we only have we ll have six days from tomorrow before you have to go into new hampshire. even if they wave to new hampshire and go on to south carolina, that s 10 days after that. so the long kind of ground game that senator santorum had here can t be duplicated and what you get into february, march and april, these things come on faster and faster. very good. rich galen joining us today from our des moines bureau. rich, thank you very much. have a great night. thanks for joining us. thank, steve. you, too. all right.