we sum up with two of washington most respected journalist, michael duffy of "time" magazine and andrea mitchell of nbc news. >> wile we talk about libya and these are the most immediate decisions a that have to be made, you've got the rest of the region and it's not too far away from july where the administration is wrestling with divisions, deep divisions over what to do about afghanistan. and again general petraeus whose testimony in the last week or so was mostly overlooked because of the event in libia. the fact he is pushing not to have a significant withdrawal. the president wants a more significant withdrawal. and as bob gates testified this week to the senate arms services committee, said we are strapped. we've got 19 ship as sesing the japanese-- assisting the japanese right now. that not a small number. >> we turn to the final four with john feinstein of the "washington post" and organize stiringt university head basketball coach craig robinson. >> if i was scouting vcu, al, i would not let those guys shoot any three point shots. that team is a dynamic three point shot shooti

this subject in particular, andrea mitchell, chief foreign affairs correspondent for nbc news and michael duffy a sis tenant managing editor and bureau chief and lord knows how many other important titles at "time" magazine. i thank you both for joining me. andrea, this week started off a little bit different than it ended up, we hope, the libya es capade would be over rather quickly. if it's not, the big debate now is do we arm the rebels and on that you see the president wanted to keep his options open. heirst first raised the possibility of arming the rebels in his interviewses. but at the same time you've got now this alliance between the secretary of state and the secretary of defense. both against arming rebels whom we really don't understand. what you are talking being are groupses that are not a unified opposition. they're an ad hock mix of tribal leaders and others who are unified by their opposition to moammar qaddafi. but not by who else they would ally with. and their attitudes towards america, towards the united states and the western allieses is one thing. also you heard from the

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