performing her former co-star kevin costner who we haven t heard from so far this week, kevin costner will be speaking during the funeral services for whitney houston. and her former husband, bobby brown, has now officially been invited. susan candiotti is in newark, new jersey, this morning. susan, authorities are also making special arrangements to try to maintain some security, also maintain a perimeter around the new hope baptist church since so many will be in attendance? reporter: that s right. after doing a walk through of the church we re seeing some of the new security measures falling into place. for example, perhaps you ve noticed right away the biggest change, we re no longer allowed to stand in front of the church right across the street from it, but we have been pushed back across the street and behind a parking lot. the parking lot behind me is the one where it is believed that the celebrities and all the invite tees, some 1500 people, it s one of the parking
of targeting u.s. troops in iraq and other places. it really is a nation state that engages in terrorism. can you imagine if they have a nuclear weapon? this is very serious stuff. they re clearly trying to position themselves as a nuclear power. it means that the nuclear arms race triggers off in the middle east. turkey said, hey, they get em, we might get em jenna: sure. we re going to have to run here, congressman. thanks, jenna. jenna: we appreciate it very much. we ll be right back. [ rge ] psst. constated? phillips caplet use gnesium, an ingredient that works more naturally wityour colon than stimulant xatives, for fective reli of constipation without cramps. thanks. [ professor ] good morning students. today, we re gonna.
also giving access to certain diplomats to a new site of centrifuges that could be used for nuclear power or weapons, it s anyone s guess at this point. are we taking our eye off the ball here with all the happenings that are, well, happening in iran and syria? well, it s easy to take your eye off the ball. i don t think libya is taking the eye off the ball. we can do more than one thing at a time. the frustration is i think thede administration is very slow. remember, they wanted to have conversations with ahmadinejad in the beginning, clearly, that did not work. we were slow in the sanctions game. this is pretty serious stuff. i mean, very serious stuff, things that keep me awake at night. if iran goes nuclear, it is destabilizing to the middle east and that entire region, and this is a country that we know has used its intelligence services, its military services to even participate in a round about way
in libya is stop gadhafi from be slawlgterring his own people. now human rights groups in syria are saying president assad has murdered 2200 of his own people, so should the precedent that was set in libya be applied to syria? well, to an extent, and i think president obama and the allies are having a sensible policy. we ve started very strong international sanctions against the regime. we ve called on the regime to step aside. we re freezing all of their assets as much as we can. we ve got a coalition of european countries, there germany can play a very important role tightening the noose around assad, getting arab countries to participate. the problem, though, is assad controls the armed forces, he controls the institutions. and what the syrians don t want us to do, the syrian people, is a military intervention. this is a very important, strategic area, and we have to be very careful.
either through the united nations. i think you first have to show some strength, some force. that is starting to happen. and then i think he will recognize that possibly the end is near. but what we need to do is have a coalition of european countries that deal with syria. arab countries that deal with syria. get involved to pressure him, to isolate him. and those steps are being taken. and i think eventually as has been the arab spring, the tyrants of the middle east are vanishing. and i think that s what s going to happen to assad. but it s going to take quite a bit of time, i believe. jenna: it s interesting to see the timelines. again, when we talked back in march, we maybe wouldn t be able to predict that here we are now in august, here we are in libya. we are seeing some international pressure, turkey on syria. again, the question is where does the strength come from, who s the leader on that? and it s a topic we re going to talking a lot about. one of the countries that seems