since dictator mar, qaddafi was toppled in 2011 residents of libya's capital tripoli dealing with the latest full out from the countries enduring political turmoil, cottage shops and burned out cause. with the result of his fighting between rival militias at the can on friday night and loss of into saturday. lighting began after midnight job at around 1 o'clock at night. so initially there was early light shooting, then it became heavy like the people inside the houses all fell terrified. i don't know any one who tried to leave their homes and could not get out there. ha, i'm with how left london militia clashes on escalation and the power struggle between libya's to governments. trip to the base government has been backed by the u. n. to bring about national elections. it's headed by up to meet de baber. he's the ex, out parliament, based in the eastern city of santa has appointed arrival. prime minister, thought he basheba both claim leadership over the country to pay those out in the streets of tripoli on saturday evening to reassure supporters that we will not leave this country t

i think the iranians look at qaddafi and a look at saddam hussein and they look at the ukrainian example and they draw conclusions.

i think the iranians look at qaddafi and a look at saddam hussein and they look at the ukrainian example and they draw conclusions. also very frankly, they look at taiwan which has its own nuclear weapons program -- which had its own nuclear weapons program in the 1980's the unit states pressured them out of. look where taiwan is today. look at how we are talking about taiwan today vis-a-vis the chinese. no analogy is perfect i don't mean to suggest these things are all cookie cutters let apply but if you are i ran, -- you are iran, i think the conclusions they would draw would be very alarming. if i am talking to the president, i would say i understand the political pressures you are under but the path you are on now is going to make not just war more likely. it is going to make a nuclear arms race more likely. now is that time not to follow the lead of progressives in your base but to actually lead by showing them this is the way toward a safer, more secure and more peaceful outcome. >> just to everybody feel really good, let me remind them that rob greenaway -- if i am not mistaken, y

wars to overthrow saddam, aside, qaddafi. those were all rolled out in the next 20 years. been a disaster, debacle in those countries, horrible for the united states, trillions of dollars wasted. but that was a plan, and that neoconservative plan is in its heyday right now two fronts, ukraine and on the taiwan strait front. it is traordinarily dangerous what these people are doing to american foreign policy which hardly is a policy of democracy. it is a policy of a small group that has the idea that a unipolar world and u.s. hegemony is the way that we need to go. amy: jeffrey sachs, we don't have so much time, but because this was such a big issue, naomi klein talked about you recommending shock therapy. can you draw a line between what happened as the russian economy unraveled, the conditions leading up to the ukraine invasion, how did the economic catastrophe that followed the collapse of the soviet union lead to the rise of the oligarchic class, the presidency of vladimir putin? jeffrey: i have tried to elain to naomi, whom i admire, that what what i was recommending w

and in the book he weaves both his experiences in libya as a child and and the history and end of qaddafi's dictatorship along with his own return to live you after the arab spring to search for his father's remains. about his father he states my father is both dead and alive. i do not have agrammar for him. he is in past, present future. even if i felt his hand and felt it slacken as he exhaled his last breath i would still i believe every time you refer to him pause to search forthe right tents . i suspect many men have been very their fathers the same. i am no different. i live as we all live in an aftermath . i think about writing my own i family history in this context especially as i set out to write about both my dad and step dad and how they influenced me as a kid forryhow their missteps also influenced me . why my relationship with my father's history does not have the weight of his own story but i cannot help but feel a connection of the search as it relates to my own . was i searching for my own father in these wars orin my service ? where does their history and and my own begin.

i think the iranians look at qaddafi and a look at saddam hussein and they look at the ukrainian example and they draw conclusions. also very frankly, they look at taiwan which has its own nuclear weapons program in the 1980's. the united states pressured them out of. look where taiwan is today. look at how we are talking about no analogy is perfect but i don't mean to suggest the things are all cookie-cutter that apply but if you are in charge of the iranian nuclear weapons program, it's a nuclear weapons program and to support the jcpoa and pretend it's not, i think the conclusions they would draw would be very alarming. i understand the political press is the president is under but the path you are on now will make not just were more likely but a nuclear arms race more likely. it's time not to follow the lead of progressives in your face but to me by showing them this is the way toward a safer, more secure and more peaceful outcome . let remember my -- let my you remind that ron greenway, your entire career was spent in the middle east as a military officer? >> correct. >> so when rob

weave both his experiences in libya as a child and abroad is an exile and the history and end of qaddafi's dictatorship along with matar's own return to libya after the arab spring to search for his father's remains. about his father. he states. my father is both dead and alive. i do not have a grammar form. he is in the past present and future even if i had held this hand and felt it slacken as he exiled his last breath. i would still i believe every time i refer to him paused a search for the right tense. i suspect many men have been buried have buried their fathers feel the same. i am no different. i live as we all live in the aftermath. i think about writing of my own family history in this context, especially as i said out to write about both my dad and my stepdad and how they influenced me as a kid or how their mistake missteps also influenced me. while my relationship with my father's in history doesn't have the way to matars on story. i could not help but feel a connection to a search as it relates to my own. was i searching for my own fathers in these wars or in my service? where

action as we took against iraq and syria's attempt to develop nuclear weapons, and as you threatened qaddafi these people cheat. if you get to the point where they are inches away from loading their enriched uranium into the nuclear core of bombs, you have nothing you can do. you have to be prepared. we all have to be prepared to take whatever action is necessary with a dealer without a deal. i'm not going to be in israel without being a signatory a partner to this horrible deal. we'll do whatever is necessary to defend our country and our citizens, and i'm telling you, to defend the world. >> brian: mr. prime minister, at they are allowed to go back in the world stage economically and sell their oil, then goes moscow on steroids, hezbollah goes on steroids, islamic jihad does on steroids. it enables the entire region. with the weapon as uranium, true or false goes to russia, and true or false, russia gives it back to iran if the next president decides to tear up this deal like president trump did. that's going to be the leverage that they use in this administration against future administra

i think the iranians look at qaddafi and a look at saddam hussein and they look at the ukrainian example and they draw conclusions. >> we are going to break away to keep on more than 40 or commitment of congress. the house is about the gavel in for a brief session. no votes expected today. you are watching live coverage on c-span. the c the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's rooms, washington, d.c. august 19, 2022. i hereby appoint the honorable jennifer wexton to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by chaplain kibben. chaplain kibben: would you pray with me. omnipotent lord, remind us this day of all you can do. open the a perfect teurs of both our hearts and minds that we would see and believe that there is no violence you cannot suppress. no injustice you cannot reverse. and no evil you cannot overcome. help us to enter into this holy mystery that you would allow u