Week In The News: Syria Horror, Manning Sentence, NSA (Tome Ashbrook, On Point)

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Hideous images out of Syria this week.  Nerve gas charges.  And once again, the question of what the world should do.  It’s done little.

In Egypt, Hosni Mubarak flies out of prison.  In the US, Bradley Manning heads into a 35 year sentence and says he’s a woman.  Chelsea.  She.  With everybody heading back to school, Barack Obama says he’ll use government leverage to beat tuition down.
The NSA, in more trouble on surveillance.  Wall Street’s in a tizzy.  Fukushima is leaking large.  Elmore Leonard has died.  Up next On Point:  our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

- Tom Ashbrook