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Assad

Robert Siegel speaks with Michael Hudson, professor of International Relations & Arab Studies at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studiesat Georgetown University and Alan Makovsky, senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy about the role Syrian President Assad is now playing in the middle east. Stereo (6:30) (IN S

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