latest from the country and we'll get a fresh perspective on the issue from sally mcnamara and scott horton and i will focus on the latest victims of scott walker and the anti-union legislation yesterday we told you about professors who are being targeted by conservative think tank having their e-mails pulled through the freedom of information act so today we'll speak with one of the professors to get his take on what he thinks is really going on and we'll tell you about hunger strikes taking place across the country why it's because aid to provide food for the poor is on the budget chopping block so i'll speak with one of the people leading this strike and the president addressed the country today but this time he was directing attention toward securing our energy so we'll have details on his proposal and how easing our dependence on foreign oil will just mean more drilling here at home all these stories and much more it's a night show but first our top story. looks like a limited humanitarian intervention a limited scope operation a.j. a kinetic military operation in libya is no longer so

turn to one man who is taking a close look at what's really at stake in the raymond davis case scott horton is a contributing editor harper's magazine and he joins us right now from our studios in new york scott thank you so much for being here now there is a lot that doesn't really seem to add up in this case now if you listen to the united states they would have us believe that this is just you know a clean cut former soldier a u.s. diplomat with immunity who killed two men but did so in self-defense which of course is not really what we're hearing from the pakistani side walk us through some of the more glaring inconsistency is here. but if you're reading the press accounts and pakistan you know the that ray davis was not a diplomat that he was a cia contractor probably the station acting station chief in lahore pakistan that he shot two young pakistanis through the windshield of his car then got out of the car pumped for the rounds into their bodies and photographed them or this was done coolly and methodically and if you're reading the pakistani press you also would have heard that the

low and what will that mean for the war in afghanistan joining me from our studio in new york is scott horton contributing editor on legal and national security matters for harper's magazine scott thanks so much for joining us tonight now what do you see from this situation do you think that this relationship as i said between the obama administration and i.s.i. is is really just completely melting away. well i think you know we have a very dramatic situation in the foreground with raymond davis and all these complex claims about diplomatic immunity or absence of diplomatic immunity but that really is just sort of a smokescreen that hide a very very serious rupture in the relationship between two intelligence communities particularly the cia and pakistan's department of interest services intelligence i.s.i. we know they've they've had difficult relations for years but in the last several months they've grown far more serious and indeed lethal because of course we see reports now in the pakistani newspapers but the two men who were shot by raymond davis were in fact low level operatives who ha

a disagreement between civilian and military leaders on how to act joining me to discuss it is scott horton contributing editor on legal and national security matters for harper's magazine scott thanks so much for joining us what do you think is happening here because we're seeing of course secretary of state hillary clinton say that nothing has been taken off the table upon the saying all options are off the table that the military is caution here that this would be white and they can make and sell are they as apt to say that i was thinking about it really hard or are we seeing some kind of disagreement. but it's actually typical in recent years that professional military men are poor more research in their views about the use of military force them politicians arms but i think what we're seeing here is a division i say we can see three camps out there one we have the neo conservatives people like charles krauthammer bill kristol who have been arguing aggressively war robust deployment of military forces they view a no prize own as the absolute minimum that the u.s. could do they'd like to

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operations for the american center for law and justice and joining us from our new york studios is scott horton he's a contributing editor legal and national security man for matters for harper's magazine gentlemen thank you both so much for being here now we do know of course that. there has been a ceasefire declared at the moment and we don't know exactly how the situation is going to play out but jordan i want to start with you is this potential intervention a just cause as president obama said today i do think it's a just cause maybe a little bit too late those of us who are we have been following this story closely and work in international law and human rights law we're hoping that when the rebels really had tripoli and were coming on to tripoli and could offer his forces were not really well organized in response to this popular uprising that was going on with military equipment so a big difference in what happened in egypt and what we noticed is that. women could offer was the weakest the you would get stuck in these discussions and unfortunately this does point to some of the problems

tonight i want to get your take on this solutions that perhaps it was the best case scenario how did scott horton actually been convicted and perhaps executed then relations between the u.s. and pakistan would have deteriorated completely but at the same time how does this look to pakistanis although taking blood money is within their practice is that really count as justice. well i think the first thing i'd note is that the matter is not over for raymond davis one of the points that was evidently agreed in the background here was that he would return to the united states and the american justice department would open its own criminal investigation into this case with the possibility of some action so he's still in some jeopardy evidently but as you note in pakistan this sort of arrangement is common in fact in punjab province it seems roughly half of all homicides in the blood money payments of this sort so it's usual but whether it's really just us that's a subjective issue when no doubt a lot of people in pakistan are very upset about what happened suggesting that the americans bought his way