are very strong forces inside yemen moving toward change you have the regional forces the gulf cooperation council which have a great deal of influence and then i think the international community needs to step forward and needs to step forward in a much more purposeful way than it has. then you know i mean if we look at the influence of the gulf countries i mean i lost count how many deals that saleh was given what four already now and he's probably locked away from each one of them i mean what can the region do and i would like to point out that saudi arabia does acts very harshly and swiftly when it sees its interests threatened them bahrain comes to mind of course i mean do you see that saudi arabia would be emboldened to do to take a side in should be even actively getting involved on the ground. well the saudis have been involved there's the how the rebellion which has been going on and particularly two years ago in august of two thousand and nine the saudis sent their forces into yemen and back and i think sixty's they did they were full fledged participants in a war which egypt and i lived

is obviously working this very closely with the saudis, gulf cooperation council. john brennan, the adviser to president obama, was out in saudi arabia this week trying to get president saleh to sign this deal. the u.s. wants president saleh out. they stood by him for a really long time because he was an ally in the war on ter. >> reporter: this presents an opportunity for al qaeda and extremist groups to exploit the vacuum in the country. this week secretary of state clinton was as emphatic as anybody has been around yemen saying it's time for president saleh to get out, move out of the way for a transition to democracy, marty. >> i want to turn the corner real quick while we have time to talk about libyan. new developments on the libyan woman who was allegedly gang raped by moammar gadhafi security forces. what have we learned in the new information about her whereabouts? >> this poor women really hasn't been able to get a break. not only after she was claimed that she was raped by libyan forces, then they detained her. she finally escaped to tunisia and on ward

iraq the key thing here is that we have a chance to make iraq a closer ally at least the gulf cooperation council states and ultimately the united states now this is very important because you've got to look at what iran is trying to do you think you are going to drive is on its way out and that may be the case but isn't the best way to do that to just back out and start building schools . hospitals that are blowing people up but we are building schools and hospitals tom but also people that i mean if they were eighty and came in and said ok we're going to occupy a country by the way we'll build some schools hospitals and you can have canadian health care so they should do the conservatives would be better for it it's for imposing culture and it would be only thirty second sure with that but the big thing to keep in mind here tom is that you know you have to be very careful with troop drawdowns troop drawdowns are very important and they're very necessary for our functioning for the military is functioning the problem that you have is if you do it too soon and you do it too publicly against it yo

ago, saleh said publicly he'd agreed to abdicate under a deal brokered by the saudi-led gulf cooperation councilby washington. but the next day, he expressed defiant reluctance. >> ( translated ): this is a coup. you call on me from the u.s. and europe to hand over power. whom should i hand it over to? those who are trying to make a coup? >> warner: saleh has ruled impoverished yemen for 33 years. he faced threats even before arab spring-style street protests erupted in late january. they included rebellions in the north and south, and an al qaeda terror franchise headquartered in the sparsely populated eastern part of the country. this potent al qaeda offshoot triggered ever-deeper u.s. involvement in yemen and support for saleh. but this spring, after government forces began killing protesters, the u.s. began working with the saudis to ease him out. last week, after missing two agreed-upon deadlines to sign the agreement, saleh balked a third time. >> ( translated ): we do not want any foreign intervention or solution from outside of yemen. it is a yemeni issue. we should go into a dialogue wi

they have actively backed this proposal by the gulf cooperation council, which is basically yemen's neighbors led by saudi arabia, who basically made a proposal in which saleh, president saleh would hand over power -- officially hand over power to the vice president and step down and the vice president would then create a transitional unity government, which would run the country until elections can be held. and this, many believe, is the best chance for a peaceful transfer of power. >> thank you so much for that report. >> reporter: my pleasure. >>> an amazing arc of chaos sweeping across north africa and the middle east. when we return, newt gingrich got off to a shaky start today. it got worse. a presidential campaign that can't get out of its own way. >>> later in the show, a preview of the wikileaks documentary airing on cnn this weekend. tell us about it. >> well, coming up we're going to be discussing the impending legal crisis facing julian assange and, no, it's not in sweden, it's a lot closer to home. of course i'll show you a clip from my newest documentary. >> thanks, kaj. that st

speaker, we were asked to come into libya by the libyans, by the arab league, by the gulf cooperation council, by the european union and by the united nations security council. today we are standing with those who believe in freedom, in human rights and in the rule of law. but also today as we debate this issue, muammar gaddafi's forces continue their merciful assault on combatants. in cities throughout central libya. the libyan transitional national council, which needs our support, is grossly short of weaponry, money, training, but they are the boots on the ground fighting -- dying to dislodge gaddafi who is a bad guy. we need to be on the other side, not giving a comfort to gaddafi so that he can thank us for the resolution and this vote. we need to make clear, we don't support him. we do support people who are fighting for the same values that detype our country. 30 years ago people were killed just this week. the cutoff of operation and funding for the nato operation is to aside with gaddafi against the forces who are fighting for those values which define us. you know, the idea we haven

operation with international approval at the express request of nato, the arab league, a gulf cooperation council, in libya's on transitional national council for the narrow but urgent purpose of preventing a slaughter of innocent civilians in libya. third and finally, we fully recognize reasonable minds look at the resolution differently. it would not be surprised that they have since there inceptions. scholars have spent their entire careers debating these issues. these questions are matters of important public debate. reasonable minds can certainly differ. and with knowledge that there perhaps steps that we could have taken to foster better communication but none of us believe that the best way forward now is for gaddafi to prevail and to resume his attack on his own people. with the u.s. not to drop out of this collective civilian action mission or to sharply curtail its contributions would not only compromise our international relationships and destabilize the region, but would undo nato's progress by permanent gaddafi to return to the brutal attacks on the very civilians whom our interventi

speaker, we were asked to come into libya by the libyans, by the arab league, by the gulf cooperation counciln union and by the united nations security council. today we are standing with those who believe in freedom, in human rights and in the rule of law. but also today as we debate this issue, muammar gaddafi's forces continue their merciful assault on combatants. in cities throughout central libya. the libyan transitional national council, which needs our support, is grossly short of weaponry, money, trainig, but they are the boots on the ground fighting -- dying to dislodge gaddafi who is a bad guy. we need to be on the other side, not giving a comfort to gaddafi so tt he can thank us for the resolution and this vote we need to make clear, we don't support him. we do support people who are fighting for the same values that detype our country. 30 years ago people were killed just this week. the cutoff of operation and funding for the nato operation is to ide with gaddafi against the forces who are fighting for those values which define us. yoknow, the idea we haven't been -- this hasn't b

speaker, we were asked to come into libya by the libyans, by the arab league, by the gulf cooperation council, by the european union and by the united nations security council. today we are standing with those who believe in freedom, in human rights and in the rule of law. but also today as we debate thisssue, muammar gaddafi's forces continue their merciful assault on combatants. in cities throughout central libya. the libyan transitional national council, which needs our support, is grossly short of weaponry, money, training, but they are the boots on the ground fighting -- dying to dislodge gaddafi who is a bad guy. we need be on the other side, not giving a comfort to gaddafi so that he can thank us for the resolution and this vote. we need to make clear, we don't support him. we do support people who are fighting for the same values that detype our country. 30 years ago people were killed just this week. the cutoff of operation and funding for the nato operation is to aside with gaddafi against the forces who are fighting for those values which define us. you know, the idea we haven't be

operation with international approval at the express request of nato, the arab league, a gulf cooperation council, in libya's on transitional national council for the narrow but urgent purpose of preventing a slaughter of innocent civilians in libya. third and finally, we fully recognize reasonable minds look at the resolution differently. it would not be surprised that they have since there inceptions. scholars have spent their entire careers debating these issues. these questions are matters of important public debate. reasonable minds can certainly differ. and with knowledge that there perhaps steps that we could have taken to foster better communication but none of us believe that the best way forward now is for gaddafi to prevail and to resume his attack on his own people. with the u.s. not to drop out of this collective civilian action mission or to sharply curtail its contributions would not only compromise our international relationships and destabilize the region, but would undo nato's progress by permanent gaddafi to return to the brutal attacks on the very civilians whom our interventi

speaker, we were asked to come into libya by the libyans, by the arab league, by the gulf cooperation councilean union and by the united nations security council. today we are standing with those who believe in freedom, in human rights and in the rule of law. but also today as we debate this issue, muammar gaddafi's forces continue their merciful assault on combatants. in cities throughout central libya. the libyan transitional national council, which needs our support, is grossly short of weaponry, money, training, but they are the boots on the ground fighting -- dying to dislodge gaddafi who is a bad guy. we need to be on the other side, not giving a comfort to gaddafi so that he can thank us for the resolution and this vote. we need to make clear, we don't support him. we do support people who are fighting for the same values that detype our country. 30 years ago people were killed just this week. the cutoff of operation and funding for the nato operation is to aside with gaddafi against the forces who are fighting for those values which define us. you know, the idea we haven't been -- thi

operation with international approval at the express request of nato, the arab league, a gulf cooperation council libya's on transitional national council for thearrow but urgent purpose of preventing a slaughter of innocent civilians in libya. third and finally, we fully recognize reasonable minds look at the resolution differently. it would not be surprised that they have since there inceptions. scholars have spent their entire careers debating these issues. these questions are matters of important public debate. reasonable minds can certainly differ. and with knowledge that there perhaps steps that we could have taken to foster better communication but none of us beeve that the best way forward now is for gaddafi to prevail and to resume his attack on his own people. with the u.s. not to drop out of this collective civilian action mission or to sharply curtail its contributions would not only compromise our international relationships and destabilize the region, but would undo nato's progress by permanent gaddafi to return to the brutal attacks on the very civilians whom our intervention has p