cross talk libya after gadhafi i'm joined by lindsey german and london she is a national conveyor of stop the war coalition in denver we cross to daniel wagner he is c.e.o. of country wrists aleutians and in toronto we go to eric margolis he is an award winning journalist and author of war at the top of the world the struggle for afghanistan and asia all right folks this is crosstalk that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it but first let's look at some of the challenges facing the new libya. following six months of a rocky battle the grip the world's attention the arab spring has produced another significant outcome the toppling of libya's comes out in may have come as a surprise to almost everyone now the least of which were the rebels who fought the forty two year regime. but as the victory fanfare settles libyans are facing a far more trying challenge that of proving they can create an alternative to conduct his rule when the stonewall poor working locals to. the local civil society is. so starting from zero point. four. in this situation the countr

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and i don't really think that anybody knows the answer lindsey if i go to you in london one of the things that the nato powers keep in mind of a as they met in paris is that they realize that they didn't have a follow up plan after their invasions of afghanistan in iraq do you think that the nato allies have thought that far ahead in this case is they'd say oh ok they have military control of the country or they have sarah gets there now do they know what to do next and can they build help build a nation. well no i don't think they can nato is a military operation it's a military organization the british and french in particular have played a very big role in initiating this this intervention and in packing out the fact that the libya conference the conference is chaired by france's president sarkozy and prime minister here in britain david cameron tells you exactly how much the west intervening here but they don't have any clear plan later many of the people there now backing up people who who were in death his government who work for

lindsey graham with america's still locked in two wars and another number of other covert wars neocons like lindsey graham are beating the drum for another full out war in pakistan after news came out that pakistan's rogue intelligence agency may be responsible for attacks on americans in afghanistan graham went on fox news sunday to call for military action against pakistan but if they continue to embrace terrorism as part of their national strategy we're going to have to put all options on the table including defending our troops that the experts believe that we need to elevate our response they will have a lot of bipartisan support on capitol hill the best ride because with a nation struggling with a terrible economy in a debt problem what we really need is another war and one against a nuclear power about maybe we should stop listening to the same guys who got us in these wars in the first place and yukon's like lindsey graham who are very very. coming out there's a specific race privilege in america the most right you were oblivious to break it down as do it. drives the world the

that is the voice of amateur storm chaser lindsey phillip n. her car when she caught this tape, the tornado west offal begany. this happens just one week after it was slammed, that aim area, by flooding and damage from hurricane irene. coming up, we're going to be talking to lindsey philips about that dramatic video. >>> republican presidential candidate jon hauntsman -- huntingman own the campaign trail, the former utah governor says the key to winning the 2012 election will be rallying former republicans to return to their gop roots. >> the republican party is with ind hents, we need to win back democrats who used to be republicans a long time a. the reagan democrats, so called, we've got to have numbers on our side, so drawing contrast is one thing but we've got to have a candidate who have foster boundies and bring in the numbers that will allowtous win the election. >> huntsman talked about working in obama administration as u.s. ambassador to china, huntsman saying whaoeubl he believes the president is a good man they have very different

politics of a struggling economy with senate majority whip democrat dick durbin and republican senator lindsey graham. >>> then a u.n. showdown over palestinian statehood with the plo's chief representative and the israeli ambassador. >>> then recession worries with alice rivlin and douglas holtz-eakin. i'm candy crowley, and "state of the union." >>> the president unveils how he will pay for his $447 billion jobs plan tomorrow. public reaction to part one has been tepid. in the latest "new york times"/cbs poll, americans are split on whether the jobs plan will actually create jobs. as for the president's own employment, there is open democratic fear he's a one-termer. the vibe was bad enough this week that top obama campaign strategist sent a memo to reporters noting that the president's support from the democratic base is strong. the same cannot be said of independents. 54% disapprove of how he's doing his job. >>> things can change between now and november 2012. the more immediate question is whether president obama has the political capital to sell his jobs plan to the public and push it t

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ever been because language seems to be more heated or seems to be escalated now you have senator lindsey graham talking about perhaps americans defending themselves military action against pakistan that's the worst it's ever been. considered to be a responsible. she's not irresponsible in terms of foreign affairs. or republican but you to say. this combined with the statements from them all and and of course be it is of the hakani network of which the i.s.i. is clearly related to yes i mean it's not good and there's a lot of. unfortunate rhetoric on the other side to a special community pakistani media so i would say that it's certainly it's getting pretty bad and it seems to be a sense that even though the relationship remains very critical of a lot of levels especially in terms of aid in arms shipments and so forth from the united states pakistan a lot of people in the united states who are really getting twitchy about this relationship and they're already if you want to understand who think that the relationship as you call it so i would say yes we're not in a good place right now wit

we are joined by senator lindsey graham from his home state of south carolina.e'll start with admiral mullen that the pakistan supported sig sug. you said we are on a collision course with pakistan. >> guest: it is a flawed relationship that can't be abandoned. but they helped us with al-qaida target in afghanistan. and they openly support the network and safe havens in pakistan to attack our troops in afghanistan and parade aid to the taliban. and no longer are we to desinate aid to pakistan. and here is the key, secretary panetta said the idea of pakistan intelligence agencies supporting terrorism needs to come to end. they are destabling pakistan and killing american soldiers. if they continue, we'll put all options on the table includingy defending our troops. >> chris: that is tough statement. military action against whom? >> guest: i am saying that we know the hakaninetwork operates in pakistan. and admiral mullen and secretary panetta isi security intelligence network in pakistan they do good things with us against al-qaida. they have to choose. what driv

investigators say 25-year-old lindsey lowe lived here with her parents. >> we he receireceived a calls. lowe's father. he reported to us that he had discovered a deceased child in his daughter's bedroom. >> reporter: in a police affidavit, officers say lowe confessed she knowingly and intentionally killed each of her children using her bare hand to stop their breathing until they were dead in order to prevent her parents from discovering. police said it happened here at her parents' home monday night, moments after giving birth to the twin boys. >> she was very sad at the last point that i saw her. >> reporter: in the affidavit, police said lowe confessed that she placed them, the dead babies, in a laundry basket in her room and covered them with blankets to prevent their discovery. the 25-year-old suspect accused of killing her newborn twin sons is now here at the sumner county jail awaiting a bond hearing. >> in the time that i've been with hendersonville, for 17 years now, this is the only time that i've seen a crime such as this. >> reporter: facebook pictures show lowe as a happy

senator lindsey graham on the one thing the u.s. can't afford in iraq. donald trump on the president's plan. and mr. herman cain is here. seconds ago he finished debating several other contenders for the republican nomination. all four are here and ready to go on the record. right now all eyes on the white house. in less than 24 hours president obama traveling from the white house to the capitol where he will he us his long anticipated and promised jobs plan. unemployment rate staggering 9.1%. joining us senator john thune of south dakota. ready for tomorrow night's jobs speech? >> i am. >> greta: what do you want to hear? >> i want to hear something different than what the president said before. what he has said and doing hasn't been working. as you mentioned 9.1% unemployment rate. two million more unemployed today than when he took office. the debt has by 39% since he took office. gas prices doubled. health insurance rates up 19%. food stamp recipients up 41%. this is a bad economic record. his policies haven't worked many what i hope he comes out wit

i'm sure lindsey would like to know why he was put out of a job.e put out of a job. where is the money? >> reporter: you think they should talk? you think they should speak to the congress or to me or someone else so we can find out what happened? >> i want to know why i'm behind on my bills now? sally may wants to know why they are not going to get their loan for this month and maybe next month. i have to tell them something. i told them i was put out of a job. i want to know why. >> reporter: what do we need know what happened -- >> it is a sad statement it is hard to do manufacturing in the u.s.. i was happy to see somebody giving it a shot. they assured us they were planning expansion to remain here so peoplehere in the u.s. and california could get jobs in manufacturing which we have lost. that knees to be encouraged. -- that needs to be encouraged. it doesn't mean everything is going to work out, but i hope people don't stop doing that. it is a trend leaving this country and this state that in the long run is a bad trend. >> greta: straight a

we'll talk with the top foreign policy voice on capitol hill, senator lindsey graham. >> also at the fox news/google debate the republican front-runner stumbled. >> was it before he was before the social programs? >> chris: we'll is our pan if rick perry is in trouble -- is in trouble? hello again, from fox news in washington. with fears growing about a worldwide double dip recession, the stock market had its worst week since october of 2008. joining us to talk about president obama's plans is white house senior adviser david phru. welcome back. >> thanks for having me. >> chris: i want to focus on what president obama has said and what he's doing. whether he's living up to his rhetoric. let's begin with what he said about raising taxes two years ago. >> the president: the last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of a recession. that would suck up -- take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole. >> chris: question f the president still believes what he said on that two years ago why is he proposing huge tax increases in the midst of what is v

senator lindsey graham is speaking out saying there is support in washington for a very strong response. >> the sovereign nation of pack san is engaging in hostile acts against the united states and our ally afghanistan that must cease. i will leave it up to the experts. if the experts believe we need to elevate our response they will have a lot of bi-partisan support on capitol hill. jon: what should our response be? let's get some thoughts from peter brooks, a senior fellow from the heritage foundation that joins us now. peter a lot of people have been asking for a longtime is pakistan our friend or foe? can you answer that question? >> well it's certainly not an ally. i guess the most generic term you can use is a partner in fighting terrorism but that's certainly come under question based on what admiral mullen said last week. he was probably the right voice here. he's invested a lot in his relationship with the general in the pakistan-u.s. relationship and he's leaving his job and he came out and said that the isi, pakistan's intelligence service is supporting the haqqani network w

today as you can say they are the john mccains or the lindsey graham's of the world and some of the pundits the john bolton's as well there but do you think that there is another option right if you're going to call american empire is there another way to do it other than militarily i mean as we were saying that history can you just be a wonderful diplomatic loving empire where you are the you could argue that the british went through a similar transition in the nineteenth forty's and fifty's where they simply lost but it was for. the exhaust of themselves the resources that they need to maintain their own empire we made the inflection point right now it's interesting that the suddenly different spring is on the table and the question is what are they going to cut and chill they start talking seriously about withdrawing some of these enormous for the planet with us and i was in asia and europe the other two women it's in the middle east. you know the u.s. taxpayer is going to be on the hook we're talking about some of the bases here right at the end of the day there is not even anybody who

the mccain, lindsey graham view, the bush view, the bush-cheney view, is now also not the mainstream of the gop anymore. it's going back to its isolation as pre-9/11 mindset, as they would say. >> it is a compelling and grim piece. frank rich, writer at large for "new york magazine," thank you very much for joining me tonight. >> delighted to be with you. >>> coming up, how corporations pay their ceos more, more than they actually pay in federal taxes. that gets tonight's rewrite. >>> and later, mayor michael bloomberg's hurricane briefings in spanish provoked what has been called the best thing about hurricane irene, the tweets of el bloombito. >>> politicians should be commended, not ridiculed for speaking spanish and english at press conferences, but some spanglish tweets have turned into an internet sensation after michael bloomberg's press conferences on hurricane briefings. >>> and next, how can republicans argue that corporations need tax cuts when some ceos are actually being paid more by their corporations than those corporations pay in federal taxes. that's in the rewrite.

the mccain, lindsey graham view, the bush view, the bush-cheney view, is now also not the mainstreamgop anymore. it's going back to its isolation as pre-9/11 mindset, as they would say. >> it is a compelling and grim piece. frank rich, writer at large for "new york magazine," thank you very much for joining me tonight. >> delighted to be with you. >>> coming up, how corporations pay their ceos more, more than they actually pay in federal taxes. that gets tonight's rewrite. >>> and later, mayor michael bloomberg's hurricane briefings in spanish provoked what has been called the best thing about hurricane irene, the tweets of el bloombito. [ ticking ] [ grunts ] we are! got it. [ male announcer ] don't be the last to know. get it faster with 4g. it's the network of possibilities. at&t. when you switch your car insurance to esurance. i could save 'em 522 smackers. you talkin' dough? bread. benjamins? scratch. greenbacks. moolah. cheddar... simoleons! don't try to out-save me. [ female announcer ] any way you say it, $522 is the average amount saved by people who switched to esurance. 52

. >> reporter: she is 25-year-old lindsey lowe.uburb outside of nashville say this according to what they can find out her dad found a baby's body in the laundry basket. she was living with her parents. and she was carrying twins, and police say she tried to cover up her pregnancy and recently gave birth in her parents' bathroom. the details of the story, jon and jen a are so tough. but now she is facing first degree and second-degree murder in the deaths of those two baby boys. police say that she delivered in the toilet. one of the children was born alive. she smothered it. the next child born alive she mothered it. aeu corresponding to them they are going forward with their case against 25-year-old lindsey lowe outside of nashville, back to you. jon: that is a tough story to bring to our viewers. harris, thank you. jenna: new information now on the nation's unemployment rate and the situation is bleak to say the least. more than half of the states in the u.s. are reporting increased unemployment rates for august. this is on the

. >> senator lindsey grahamte telling us over the weekend this is class warfare. >> when you pick one area of the economy and say we're going to tax those people because most people are not those people, that's class warfare. >> i am so over this dude. when you look at people that make more money and have better health care, that is class warfare. when you know that the education for people with money is greater than the people without money, and recycling the same process of them staying in poverty, to me, that's class warfare. i am so over lindsey playing politics and trying to throw words around to scare people. >> even paul ryan of wisconsin said, quote, class warfare may make for good politics but it makes more rotten economics. will? >> look, lz, i have to be honest with you. the president is the one playing politics here. if you add the fact that i said this plan doesn't help fix the problems in the tax code. and look, by their estimate, there's something like 22,000 people that might be affected by this new rule. that would add about $19 billion to the federal revenues. so if

how will lindsey graham spend repeal day? how, for example, will the lady who said that don't ask, don't tell was responsible for the mass deaths of birds in arkansas? how will she spend repeal day? remember her? >> the blackbirds fell to the ground in beebee, arkansas. the governor of arkansas's name is beebe. and also there was something put out of arkansas called don't ask, don't tell by a former governor. this was proposed, bill clinton. and so could there be a connection between this passage and now that we had the repeal of the don't ask, don't tell, it could be because we have said it's okay for people who commit these kinds of acts to be recognized, you know, in our military for the first time in our history. there is a potential that there is something that actually happened in the land where 100,000 drum fish died and also where these birds just fell out of the air. >> she was one of the endorsers of republican presidential front-runner rick perry's stadium prayer event a few weeks back. cindy jacobs. i've been thin

the mccain, lindsey graham view, the bush view, the bush-cheney view, is now also not the mainstreammore. it's going back to its isolation as pre-9/11 mindset, as they would say. >> it is a compelling and grim piece. frank rich, writer at large for "new york magazine," thank you very much for joining me tonight. >> delighted to be with you. >>> coming up, how corporations pay their ceos more, more than they actually pay in federal taxes. that gets tonight's rewrite. >>> and later, michael bloomberg's hurricane briefings in spanish provoked what has been called the best thing about hurricane irene, the tweets of elve bloombito. these nasal allergies are spoiling our picnic. i know what works differently than many other allergy medications. omnaris. omnaris, to the nose. did you know nasal symptoms like congestion can be caused by allergic inflammation? omnaris relieves your symptoms by fighting inflammation. side effects may include headache, nose bleed, and sore throat. got allergy symptoms out of my way. now life's a picnic. [ man ] omnaris. ask your doctor. battling nasal allergy s

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and mccain and lindsey graham and sarah palin are increasingly seem to be the fringe on foreign policypublican party. that's a sea change. and ron paul helped lead it. >> what about chris christie, who when i interviewed him, i spent a day with him, fascinating character, very pugnacious. i watched him over the hurricane the other day i thought being very, very strong in his leadership and powerful in his rhetoric to tell people to get off the beach and so on. i'm getting a sense that although he said to me absolutely no way am i going to run in 2012, he is coming under pressure, do you think from republicans to chuck his hat in the ring? >> i think he has to be. because i do think -- i don't know if he is really a plausible president of the united states. to his credit, he himself has said i'm not ready for this. it's not the time. he's not saying i'll never do it. he has been in this job for a very short period of time. on the other hand, he has certainly done more than some of the other candidates in the republican field. my guess is he is sincere that he doesn't want to do it and h

remember shortly after i started writing this book my editor sent me a little clip about reportedly lindsey lohan was carrying the prints around with her flt i'm not sure if he learned the proper lessons from it. but he has an appeal outside of the realm of politics that i think very few other political writers have. i think because he represents such a kind of personality type , the guy who is not going to put up with any of the funny business, he's going to sort of puncture the piety and the saunching assumption and in a way any time somebody sort of talked about how good people are basically good, there are people who believe that but there's also the other types who believe people are basically scoundrels and ought to check your pockets to make sure they haven't been picked. that is machiavelli. people who feel that way feel a kinship with machiavelli. they relate to him on sort of a visceral level. >> where did you get your education? >> my informally i got my education largely in florence. i went to brand dike and i an art major. i wrote about art for many years before i went back to

lindsey appear on the "today" show this week to defend what some say is too far. >> with some thingsto think it is over the top, but with gymnastics or damages or competitive cheerleadering, you wear makeup or hair, and to us, it is not over the top, it is normal. >> some are calling this child pornography and abuse and some questioned if child protective services should get involved and others wrote, it is no big deal and it is like a halloween costume and all in good fun and no comment from tlc. what is your gut telling you? is it appropriate for a 4-year-old beauty pageant contestant to wear enhancements the look like dolly parton? you can logon to newsnation.msnbc.com and vote. i'm michael smerconish in for tamron hall and you can watch "newsnation" every weekday at 2:00 p.m. on msnbc, and be sure to catch me hosting "hardball" for chris matthews tonight on msnbc at 8:00, and the great martin bashir is up next. [ male announcer ] this is coach parker... whose non-stop day starts with back pain... and a choice. take advil now and maybe up to four in a day. or choose aleve and two

. >> there's a purity test inside the republican party, lindsey graham said ronald reagan would have a hard time being elected today. >> nonsense. >> the reference he was making was that reagan was pragmatic when he had to be while trying to stick to his principles. so he signed a tax increase when he had to. he increased government spending. >> most of the government spending came as a result of defense increases not on the social side. >> to get to this argument a little bit, this purity test, do you think it's gone too far? that reagan would think the purity tests have gone too far? >> no. reagan was the original tea party candidate. you look at his speeches. '60s and '70s, it was always about anti-establishment, it was upon taking on the republican establishment as well as the democratic establishment. when he announced in '75 for the '76 nomination, when he took on ford, he attacked the buddy system of big labor, big government and big corporations. >> i only hear sarah palin talking that. she used crony capitalism over the weekend. >> well, she's saying that, but what is missin

lindsey hilsum of "independent television news" is there and filed this report. >> reporter: in the earlyning, they gathered in central tripoli at martyrs' square. no one calls this green square any longer. security was tight as they began the eid prayer, marking an end to ramadan and this year, an end to colonel qaddafi's control over their lives. this is a very different eid celebration. people here have been telling me that in the past col. qaddafi used to interfere with their festival, use it for his own propaganda. not this year. >> this is the first time in my life i feel that i am free and i pray free without any restrictions from qaddafi's regime. >> we are very, very happy. all the people in tripoli very very, very, very, happy. we work this day from six months. all the people wait this day six months, we afraid, he killed many, many, many people, many people. >> i need hundred words, not hundreds, thousand, million words to say what i feel. >> reporter: on the front line, 25 miles from colonel qaddafi's hometown of sirte, the fighters can't celebrate in the same way. qaddafi's s

in america lindsay lohan is our lindsey lohan. the idea was that bill gates is a legitimate hero to the chinese. >> yes. >> rose: whereas here, -- >> i do remember a man name named-- li who worked for gates at microsoft and headed google's microsoft. hi moment in china where i saw his face on the side of buses, in om provincial townment so he has a how to do it show, as if bill gates had such a show here. there is that curiosity. to me it is mitigated by just the sort of genuine hun humor and color and i think there's a real sense of humor among most people in china that is not easily perceived. >> rose: but i mean the fact is that they have created their commerce rules so tt they can, in fact, learn. the erican companies care most about the fact that they can make a deal, but at the end of that deal when the ten areas are up, the chinese companies will have taken their technology. and they insist on having access to it in order to do business. >> sure, right. and that is a real dilemma for companies doing business there. i think

here to talk about it is republican senator lindsey graham, a republican from south carolina, a membertee. when you see this in kabul, coordinated attacks, perhaps not as effective or deadly, but this is the capital, what does that tell you about the state of play and the state of u.s. troops, the 100,000, the president wants to get about 30,000 of them out, in a year or so? >> don't let this event fool you into believing the fundamentals haven't changed. the taliban are on their back foot. the surge forces 30,000 have taken the fight to the taliban in south. they can generate attacks like this, but they were suppressed. the coordinated effort between the afghan security forces, commandos and nato, you're seeing the future. this is what i want in 2015, a military footprint where we can support the afghan security forces when they engage the enemy. the fundamentals have changed against the taliban. the person who said this is a war perception is right. i've been there a lot. the surge is working. and we're on track to defeat the enemy. >> so, let's look at the numbers, then. right now 1