embargo. >> ifill: now, joining us from the white house, is deputy national security advisor denis mcdonoughlcome, mr. mcdonough. we just heard secretary gates say there could be any number of possible outcomes. what is the desired outcome that the white house is hoping for. >> gwen, thanks a lot for the opportunity to be with you tonight. i really appreciate it. the president explained to the country last friday afternoon that we are setting aside for ourselves a very tightly defined finite establishable mission in the early parts this effort where we're going to shape the environment using our unique assets and then enable our international colleagues, our allies in europe and our partners in the arab world to take over the conduct of the no-fly zone. we're making good strides toward that. he also said out an effort to protect the civilians in benghazi. we have done that thanks to the good work of our marines, our sailors, our airmen and we're making good progress towards both of those goals. what happens after then is we'll watch the u.n. do its work. importantly you'll remember the u.n.

libya in the first place i know we did hear very recently from deputy national security adviser denis mcdonough about our involvement and he said this he said quote we don't intervene based on precedent or based on a certain set of consistency guidelines but rather so that we can advance our interests what in this case are u.s. interests and let me well the interest is not to be intervening that's for sure the interest in libya if you look at serious national interests for the united states is libya's an energy producer whoever is in charge of libya will have to sell the energy so that's ok it doesn't matter who the government is and the and the other thing is you know the basically libya cannot become a base for terrorism but libya was not a base for terrorism under. gadhafi so the question is there's no national interest really here libya was not a base for terrorism under gadhafi at all i mean he said not recently not since he had a long history i know it is hard out of the cold yeah exactly but in recent history could offer us not going to supporter of terrorism as far as anyone knows but t

indeed, this past weekend, deputy national security advisor denis mcdonough echoed what others in the obama administration have said that al qaeda is actively trying to recruit u.s. citizens. >> they make videos, create internet forums, even publish online magazines, all for the expressed purpose of trying to convince muslim americans to reject their country and attack their fellow americans. >> warner: but today's first witness objected to the premise democratic representative keith ellison of minnesota, the first muslim elected to congress, told of a man who rushed into the twin towers on 9/11 to save others, but was, for a time, a suspect himself. >> mohammed salman hamdani was a fellow american who gave his life for another americans. his life should not be identified as just a member of an ethnic group or just a member of religion, but as an american who gave everything for his fellow americans. >> warner: zuhdi jasser, of the american islamic forum for democracy, agreed but said the muslim community needs to acknowledge there's a significant problem with radicalization. >> you k

denying permits to build mosques. at the height of the park 51 controversy, a man asked a cabbie whether he was a muslim. when the cabbie said "peace be unto you," the individual stabbed him. dennis mcdonough recently spoke at the adams center and the all-dulles american muslim so side. he noted al qaeda coerced recruiting argument is that the west is at war with islam, a chief goal of our national security policy is to undermine this argument. this requires active engagement with muslim community at home and throughout the world, as president obama said in his cairo speech, "islam is not part of the problem in combatting violent extremism. it is an important part of prom poeting peace." this brings me to my last point and i will try to hurry, mr. chairman, because i see the time. the best defense against extreme ideologies is social inclusion. ralph bolter, head of the minneapolis fbi illustrates my point. he led a large-scale probe into counterterrorism involving local somali americans heading overseas to fight with terrorist organizations. he is now coming to d.c. to become the agency's deputy assistant director in charge of counterterrorism. bolter's strategy, to find extremism, the ag

denying permits to build mosques. at the height of the park 51 controversy, a man asked a cabbie whether he was a muslim. when the cabbie said "peace be unto you," the individual stabbed him. dennis mcdonough recently spoke at the adams center and the all-dulles american muslim so side he noted al qaeda coerced recruiting argument is that the west is at war with islam, a chief goal of our national security policy is to undermine this argument. this requires active engagement with muslim community at home and throughout the world, as president obama said in his cairo speech, "islam is not part of the problem in combatting violent extremism. it is an important part of prom poeting peace." this brings me to my last point and i will try to hurry, mr. chairman, because i see the time. the best defense against extreme ideologies is social inclusion. ralph bolter, head of the minneapolis fbi illustrates my point. he led a large-scale probe into counterterrorism involving local somali americans heading overseas to fight with terrorist organizations. he is now coming to d.c. to become the agency's deputy assistant director in charge of counterterrorism. bolter's strategy, to find extremism, the age