Bashar Al Assad: “If that happened, this is treason.”

He's also using the same -- literally, the same false rhetoric that was used by Mubarak, that's been used by Gadhafi, blaming satellite news channels, blaming foreigners, blaming unnamed conspiracies.

Today President Assad, the dictator in Syria, has announced that he's granting what he calls amnesty to protesters accused of committing crimes.

He's saying, you know, 'I will decide what reforms are made. I will decide when they're made and how they're implemented. And, you know, you guys should just sit down and shut up.'

Bashar Al-Assad has lost control over these monsters.