of course it would be about the united states would be to that let me. finish please this is about if we're speaking about interest then we must speak about european countries and their interests not the united states the focus here on the united states i think is a bit misleading first of all france and the u.k. took the lead on libya not the u.s. u.s. it still does this moment why has it and in fact that involved obama wants to hand it all but as a quick just read the paper i just read the press so this is really not an american war with. the united states military you know you know like a well known internationally and we know a deferential and a british where the leader is behind this operation not obama. not go bomb administration so what i see here is madness friends with the rebels i think you have to stay out of order as if i got a right to know what you have is a i want to go to i want to go to the i want to get this is a bull in the ok all right eric finish your point there's really no it's not going what i want to see a shop the u.s. ok the u.

belfort you need to do something very different and this is not that about western intervention this united states people united these. but this is not a bad day united states you got ten members of the security calling you can who are already. here we're going to continue this discussion after a short break and after that story we'll continue talking about libya in the greater middle east a thirty. eight. story . it's the secret incursion into the country. it's the invasion by means of. tradition the language is really. the best be copied could be. culture. the thing is that the had the dems are still unaware of what's going on in the land still asking why do you. think i don't know anything about alaska the great. on our cheap. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from around russia. we've got the future covered. you. still. want to. welcome mr brosnahan people about to remind you we're discussing libya's future. and. ok eric i'd like to talk about the logic of humanitarian assistance and military intervention what about the ivory coast what about the sudan over the last decade

haitians in the united states. non-governmental groups have to play an important role because the haitian government is extremely week and doesn't have a great, a great deal of capacity. but in order to get to a point where it has greater capacity to deal and resolve its problems, i think non-governmental groups can play an important role. so you have to figure out a formula, ah, for all of these actors, ah, to work together. >> ray, should the u.s. government step aside and let others take the main responsibility in haiti? >> i think we have to play an active role. clearly, american tax-payer dollars are at work or involved in haiti. we have to have accountability. we have to have transparency. we have to combat corruption. ah, we cannot be, clearly, indifferent to what we're going to do. we've pledged to, ah, support with several, and i think the current supplemental is about two billion dollars. ah, that's almost the rest, that's almost equal to what we're spending in the rest of latin america. how we're going t

the united states is helping to lead an international effort to defer the search for the file put in place unprecedented saying hold the gadhafi government accountable and support the aspirations of libyan people we are also responding quickly to the urgent humanitarian needs that are developing. but there's also another side this view of real politic that principle should be thank you for power and this is not a democrat versus republican issue even within his own administration there seems to be a difference in opinion here secretary of state hillary clinton earlier this week let's put aside the moral cumana ceria and do good side of what we believe in and let's just talk it out straight reale policy we are in a trap petition with china take papa would it be any huge energy find you go to one of senator lugar's very strong points exxon mobil is producing it china is in there every day in every way and joining me now to talk more about this is ohio congressman dennis kucinich and congressman let's talk about this you have hillary clinton the secretary of state on one hand thing you

each child would be taught bad the united states is -- would be taught that the united states is the greatest nation in the world based on free enterprise capitalism. [applause] i remember i was green and i leave -- and naive. i introduced the bill and you just drop it in the clerk's box and it would work its way through the system. the next morning, ient inside the house chaers and every democrat had their lights on. they wanted to talk, everyone of them. i am sitting there this innocent baby. they would get up and said, speaking introduce this bill. the audacity to say that the united states is the u.n. challenged greatest nation in the world. he wants to get rid of multiculturalism. th took turns beating on me. i am sitting there thinking, what is this hyperventilation about? aren't these things true? i will go further. i believe god guided our founding fathers. he moved them around like men on a chess board to ship this nation. we need to defend and uphold what they did. it is not just to protect what we had. it is not just to declared that the shining cy on the hill has been ach

mexico and united states. fifty thousand people slaughtered innocent people that are simply trying to cross the border for a better life. it has to be a slaughter president obama said the words of the world community the words will be fall if you don't take action and we need to do things for humanity human rights how about right here how about what to do people dying every day i look at the fact that these people are being slaughtered. president obama needs to step up and practice with the beaches that only the middle east where there's oil for right here at the front door and then we get all of that from here because you know in this situation we have an evil dictator moammar gadhafi willing to you know he said he's willing to go in and slaughter his own people i know you're not saying that mexico's leader if only because their own is an evil dictator i think you're talking more about what's going on with the drug cartels is that a fair assessment. that's right and i'm not saying this is president calderón i

be repeated all across america. >> guest: i think it is reflective of a greater problem in the united states which every penny knows that many of the states and federal government is simply too much indented and held massive deficits and those together means something has to give. i think there's a lot of debate as we know about cutting spending. the writ be more happening on the tax side and it's problematic. the united states already in the corporate taxes of about 35%. this is higher than the oecd average which is 25% and in fact a friend of mine from denmark remarked to me recently how he found it quite surprising because in denmark as we know the income tax at the present level was higher. we have to become 60% tax breaks is that the corporate level for the corporate taxes to be lower in a place like scandinavium and denmark it's quite surprising. the united states really build on this idea of private sector innovation and incentives it is a symbol of how things have become but it's the fact the matter will be the tax rises plus budget cuts, spending cuts in order to get out of this agg

it's more around here yes by the united states and libya. moammar gadhafi is. a bad man because gadhafi the very bad man and you agree with the president well i am the president we're there to. make sure they're cut off is taken out of power trying to get rid of gadhafi. trouble trying to rid of gadhafi. down the papers like move right now libya is right there here and why do you think we're in libya. well there's they're in civil war right you know so but i'm not sure exactly why we're there it's really sad the congress gave themselves a weekend off so that the president could go ahead and declare this war you know what do you know funny thing i have no idea. i really couldn't answer because i have not read the paper and vacation you know i haven't watched the news here today . we didn't know what do they. now. let me out let me live yeah you'll probably. hear us all the u.k. i particularly on the afghanistan right now because the reaction you're going to be whatever the commander in chief tells them to next go. the lords and you're from the congo right would

you need to do something very different and this is not that about western intervention this is united states people united these. but this is not a bad day united states you got ten members of the security calling you can who are already. here we're going to continue this discussion after a short break and after that story we'll continue talking about libya in the greater middle east a thirty. story . download the official t.m. placation to i phone on i pod touch from the i.q. stops to. watch on t.v. life on the go. video on demand on teens my old costs an r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the t.v. dot com. would be silly to brighten the food movement from phones to christians. who threw stones on t.v. dot com. and you can. still. welcome in your own stuff on people about to remind you we're discussing libya's future. and you can. start. ok eric i'd like to talk about the logic of humanitarian assistance and military intervention what about the ivory coast what about the sudan over the last decade or so what about bahrain to day why aren't why isn't there just a huge storm yo

we are working on the set in the united states. we have to address the social and economic forces. 22 reached at risk youth before they turn to drugs and crime. we are trying to expand across the region. we want to invest in drug and crime prevention programs. the united states stands ready to do our part in a new partnership to put the focus where it should be. with regional and international partners, we make sure our support is not just well- intentioned, but well- coordinated. i have said before, and i will repeat. the united states shares our responsibility for drug violence. the demand for drugs in the united states drives this crisis. we have new strategies to focus on reducing the demand for drugs. we are increasing education and treatment options. we are increasing our efforts by $10 billion this year alone. we want to extend the flow of we are screening rail cargo in seizing more guns and putting more people behind bars. every gun we take off of the streets is one less threat to the families of the americas. we are promot

this is not the president of the united states against khadafy. it is not the nine states against libya. that would be no contest. this is really a limited effort to help the libyan people achieve a degree of self determination and individual rights. much of the rest of the world have enjoyed those rights for a long time. host: florida on the independent line. caller: good morning. it is an honor to speak with you. i was a volunteer rescue worker at the world trade center. guest: thank you. caller: i am honored to have the privilege of to do that. i think you're a true american. you're a wonderful general. i think you should run for president one day. guest: i did that. caller: you should do it again. you are a true american. i love america. god bless you. i love you. i think all your ideas of the right way for the country. i'm overwhelmed speaking to you. i never heard the speech before. i'm overwhelmed by the way that you -- i believe our president is commander in chief and he has a right to go into any country he wants to. many presidents have d

as president obama wraps up his speech in the united states on the topic of libya rebels in libya trying to push westward toward the capital tripoli there are conflicting reports just how far they've advanced claims of controlling colonel gadhafi hometown of syria have been dismissed by reports on the ground which say the city is still held by government forces who've been putting up heavy resistance . russia's foreign minister says the international coalition is taking part in the civil war in libya beyond the limits of what's been allowed for u.n. resolution sergey lavrov has also expressed concerns about the protection of civilians which was the reason for the sole goal of the mission agreed at the u.n. security council. russian authorities have arrested two suspects in connection with the general terrorist bombing at moscow's airport in which thirty seven died seventeen militants were also killed in a special operation by three different russian federal agencies in the southern republican. at the fukushima nuclear plant in northern japan are frantically trying to dispose of radioacti

then, are a third of the persian gulf threats, and they are, i think, the most dangerous to the united states they are the most dangerous not because they are more powerful than the united united states, r because her supported by all muslims. they are the most dangerous gulf origin threat to america because the u.s. bipartisan governing elite has uniformly refused to accept reality. from the first bush to clinton to george w. bush to barack obama, americans have been told that they are at war because al-qaeda and its allies are motivated by hatred for our liberty, way of life and democratic institutions. this is a palpable, lethal lie. we are being attacked because of our at least half century record of intervention in the muslim world. it is in the cumulative impact of 50 years of intervengsism that we find the principle organizational glue that provides a modicum of unity to the movement's always-fragile cohesion. the islamist motivation is to be found in their perception of u.s. foreign policy as an attack on the islamic religion and its followers. this is a view that is held not only by

the united states of america is different. as president, and refused to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves take place before action. moreover, america has a strategic interest in preventing moammar gaddafi. a massacre would have driven additional refugees over the borders putting enormous strain on the peaceful yet fragile transition in egypt and tunisia the democratic and also is better doning across the region would be eclipsed by the darkest form of dictatorship. the oppressive leaders.. the rest of the dotted nations security just empty words of the united nations security council and future in cripplin its future credibility to uphold peace. i will never minimize the peace or cost of military action i am committed that a failure to act in libya would of. a farquhar price in america. far greater price in america- >> and also arguing against intervention in libya there are others that suggest that we broaden our military mission beyond the path of protectant just love the people and do whatever it takes to bri

oh nothing i have to say is to exonerate the united states or companies based here of many wrongdoing they may have done but i think the reality is that the united states is relatively unique in the world in terms of practicing a fairly free wheeling form of capitalism where wherever selling a product at the lowest price gets the business most of the world their capital in the sense that they're not socialists but things are much more under government control corporations do what the government lets them do and part of the quid pro quo for that is a third governments protect the among these. protections of course being terrorists and non-tariff barriers and the bad news is this can be a very potent competitive system when you have big business and big government pulling in harness together particularly against the little ones were right and again small business in the united states so in the minute or two we have left here in fletcher what do we do about this i said in my book the united states should go back to being a terrorist protected economy i don't flinch at the term protection

guest: the specific issue is collective bargaining but it is reflective of a great problem in the united states which everybody knows that many of the states and the federal government is simply too indebted and has massive deficits and those together means something has to give. there is a lot of debate as we know about cutting spending. i fear that there will be much more happening on the side and i think it is problematic. the united states already in corporate taxes is 35%. this is much higher than the oecd average of 25%. in fact a friend of mine from denmark quite recently was quite surprised because in the market as we know the income tax of the private level is much higher. 50, 60% tax. but at the corporate level, for corporate taxes to be lower in a place like scandinavium, denmark it's quite surprising. the united states is built on this idea of private sector, innovation and incentives and so it is i think it is really a symbol of how bad things have become the effect of the net is there is going to be a mix of tax rises plus spending cuts in order to get out of the situation. >> hos

the current unrest the united states isn't about the merits of democracy democracy is alive alive and well it's really about sort of spending and fiscal responsibility as a relates to government this may be the issue of the decade in the united states to be perfectly honest with you democrats love to blame folks like george w. bush but in reality the situation dates back to over a generation when the johnson and frankly both parties are culpable we're running a federal deficit of one point five trillion a national debt nearing fifteen trillion everybody knows we need to cut back but nobody wants to step forward to make the difficult cuts with that said if america wants to remain the world's economic leader it must draw a line in the sand right now and that's what we're saying with scott walker in wisconsin and casework in ohio ok steve if i go to you a lot of people would say a skeptic would say is that the banks can be bailed out wall street can be bailed out. big pharma big big everything can be you know protected but when it comes to the middle class who protects them. and that's e

now there is a solution but nobody is prepared to move forward in the united states. till this problem is solved. there are going to be no partnership in your research but you know steve speaks as a scholar of russian the soviet union but he doesn't speak about the enormous opposition even this modest reset has confronted in the united states you had again a republican party which for decades has supported bipartisan arms control treaties and how many republicans did you finally get seven i think at the most so the resort is modest i agree with steve's analysis of the ongoing problems but the fact that it's. under fire in america is a failure of both the c.e.o. of the solitary city are sure this is one area where presidents both had some enormous power and. gorbachev and reagan world posed by their own parties but they overcame and made better things being attacked in moscow from the reset obama there but this is where leadership is required but don't forget these guys inherited this problem of nato expansion obama didn't expand nato he did not hear in this problem it

united states planes problem but that's not a fur explanation or ignored. secondly nato expansion is clearly a big issue still think it's the biggest stumbling point between america and russia it's even bigger than people understand and i will tell you why the president made beautiful said russia isn't from a sphere of privileged and from the former soviet security if you want to call it we say we have united states and. we say no because no countries are allowed to have a sphere of influence and it's an evil what is the expansion of nato it's an expansion of the american sphere of influence rashed expansion into the character henri used to be the sphere of influence of soviet russia so moscow seems to washington why do you get the spirit and in our backyard and we get on this is the geo political conflict over a time when there will be. no war now there is a solution but nobody is prepared for war in the united states. till this problem is solved and they're going to be in a partnership an organization that you know steve speaks is a scholar of russian the

fortifying go to is a system working for the average american in the united states right now. i don't think the system right now is really working for anyone it's still the best system in the world but it can get better and that's really what we're seeing you know from abroad it looks like we have on the rest but what i think a lot of people around the world don't recognize is is that democracy is not always clean it gets messy and you know the mere fact that we can have protests in wisconsin without people getting shot in the streets like say libya says a lot for the american democratic way with that said you know the u.s. government and governments around the world need to really wake up to this sort of fiscal realities of the twenty first century and until that occurs this is going to continue in manifest itself and spread to other states in america and around the world look at greece it is a tragedy what happened in because you know basically everybody took their eyes off the ball for the past generation and i think we may see that elsewhere as well steve what do you think

the united states.here will be a huge market for these batteries. we have made great strides in biofuels. research done two years ago are being put into power plants today. we expected to continue. we expect to be announcing ground making plans for by a new refinery plants. we have assembled teams. at caltech there is an energy team that will correct biofuels directly from sunlight. this is an economic way of bypassing other forms of energy. these are things we have been doing. natural gas -- as you all know, natural gas is a -- we are growing our natural gas reserves. we believe it is possible to safely and responsibly extract natural gas. the u.s. government remains committed to that. electricity -- the president has spoken before about electricity. we have roughly 40% of our electricity in clean energy if you consider nuclear, when, solar. the president announced in the state of the union that by 2035 we will expect 8% of our energy to come from other sources. this unleashes a lot of the capital sitt

is collective bargaining as we know, but i think it is reflective of a greater problem in the united states which everybody knows which is that many of the states and the federal government is simply too debt -- too indebted and haves massive deficits. those things together means something has to give. there's debate about cutting spending and more happening on the tax side, and it's problematic. the united states already corporate taxes is around 35%. this is much higher than the oecd average which is usually 25%. a friend of mine from denmark remarked recently how it's surprising because in denmark as we know, income tax at the private level is higher. it's 50%-60% tax places, but at the corporate level for corporate taxes to be lowered in a place like scandinavia and denmark is quite surprising. i mean, the united states really built on the idea of private sector, innovation, and incentives, so it is, i think, really a signal just how bad things have become, but the fact of the matter is there's going to be a mix of tax rises plus budget and spending cuts in order to get out of the situa

is there a basis to that i don't think it's a direct threat to the united states. certainly not a military threat they're competing and they have a comparative advantage of having a huge population that can make things much more cheaply than people kind of the united states i don't think it's a huge threat it's perceived again because the rise of china. as a serious power. with economic clout is has been is recent and has been very fast people are fearful for many different reasons and it's helps them to be able to focus it on something in the united states it's usually an external enemy well why is it such so often external and it could be part of a lack of knowledge what is well i think it's something that's probably the history of the u.s. it's sort of refuge from the dangerous outside world one way to make people feel that they have something in common with each other that creates a kind of cohesiveness of society because of course this idea that here we are in the united states and we will have to defend ourselves against this dangerous world out there isn't t

in the united states. on really cable t.v. and so on who. use this issue to stir up. or to exploit resentment now in one of your articles about china there is a place where you see nationalism is often fed by a sense of impotence and i want to ask you about this do you think that is a saying that could also be relevant to modern day united states yes but it. comes back to that same issue that people who feel they're not represented they don't have a voice that they're not listened to but they don't have a grip on public affairs. very vulnerable. leaders who promise the earth as it were if you feel you're a lonely individual who has no influence on anybody and nobody cares about it feels good to be in a crowd shouting usa usa or. in the case of america because in china it could be anywhere in china what i meant by the chinese nationalism being a form often an expression of from him since i didn't mean that sense of the chinese government but where people have no political voice china is awful not a democracy. there nationalism can play the same role that religion plays

so i think that's probably the main reason. >> rose: what should the united states do? at should the united nations do? >> i think first we shouldn't have done what we did, if we didn't have a plan of assistance which is to call for qaddafi to step down. i think having said that, we've sort of engaged our prestige and our power to some except, linked to his removal. and then we have taken a long time to orchestrate a global response. i think it's very important that qaddafi go. i think it is strategically important because only-- if only pro-western regimes are overthrown, as happened in the case of mubarak and the leader in tunisia, that i think would not send a good message. also if he crushes the opposition it would not send a good message. i would take a look at moving much more rapidly than we have. to get a no-fly zone zone in place and consider additional measures, including support for the opposition, to make sure at a minimum, that benghazi is not taken over in the immediate future by colonel qaddafi and his forces. >> rose: some argue it was a mistake for the u

foreign policy i mean when people of the united states job it should representation when it comes to their value versus the ballot of the pro israel lobby so all of this helps to explain why first stop on the international tour is it say china with its rise in the world is taking us bonds or russia which the u.s. is trying to reset relations with or saudi arabia with the planned u.s. sales of sixty billion dollars in arms to counter rerun or even the u.k. which is the other part of the so-called special relationship but instead widely tensional presidents on the surface looking to boost their foreign policy street kred bypass all of these other countries and head straight to the stump in just one lauren lyster r.t. new york such an interesting point lauren brings up there is a lot of allies certainly israel is one of the important one and let's talk about this it seems to be a hot trend of course we are getting into that almost election period we're seeing mostly republicans and of course there's some obvious reasons for that to talk a little about that and also i'm curious if you ca

we also look at the border not simply as a boundary between the united states and mexico and the united states and canada, but we also look at it as securing the flow of goods and people toward the united states. the trend in this issue is is as the chairman and ranking member indicated. we have a responsibility to identify dangerous people and things as far away from the border as possible and as early in time as possible. that's why we have the international footprint of c.b.p. we also have an enormous responsibility with regard to the expediting of lawful trade and traffic. and the approach c.b.p. takes to this task is by risk management by assessing risks and being able to distinguish between trusted travelers, trusted shippers and those about whom or about which we have adverse information or lack sufficient information to make a judgment as to how we ought to expedite their passage across our physical borders. these two mission set, securing the land border, southwest border, the northern border, the latorals and also securing the flow of goods and people through programs such as

half maybe both about about what i think which is trying to say i think this is important that united states is not going to solve these issues what charlie is going to have to be solved with to diplomacy and development and i think that's a good a good thing where is the bush administration thought everything can be solved militarily she's talking about the fact that in iraq you're going to turn really over the situation to state department and i do people by the end of this year and in afghanistan hopefully as you said it's the civilians can bring about reconciliation i think that's the way it should be because military power can't get the answer to everything right but a lot of folks are saying that this is this is where they take issue they say that this money that is sort of being dubbed as aid who is it really going to and that's the problem that they had with egypt saying that you know what over a billion dollars a year from the united states they were like their country on the left turn steve so much aid and there wasn't really going to clearly it wasn't going to the egyptian people

nations security council and there is a lot of failure to acknowledge that in the united states they know their military action would be illegal unless it's authorized by the united nations security council so that's the first fact that absolutely must be taking to account that means not just russia and china the permanent members of the council have to go again but the rest of the numbers of the council only india brazil and south africa i would chant insisting that any external military actually asked to conform to the nations charter and you know in addition to this. the next thing i think is really important is that you know there's been a lot of what secretary of defense gates called loose talk. the. this notion that the no fly zone is just kind of waving a magic wand and then you know the libyan government can't find anything and i think they're you know well threats that people are not prepared to carry out there's danger that they're counterproductive there's a danger if human courage people in two sides of the danger first of all. they exacerbate tensions inside libya m

i think united states is ready to be created there. it is always our ranch's fall and we never look at our own action. we have toppled to the governments and have american troops on either side of them, we have american troops in the persian gulf. we act as though iran is not supposed to be all launder concern to do anything to hold us back. we should look at it through their eyes as well. if we want a relatively stable afghanistan and be able to get out of there, then we need to address iranian interest also. >> i am with the washington institute. i have a question about the recommendation about in gauging the iranians. with the green movement this now -- is now hoping to benefit, what you say about the timing of engaging in some type of diplomatic initiative in afghanistan? within not undermine the movement we are trying to encourage kurds to mark >> i do not think so at all. president reagan met with dissidents have to bring down the berlin wall. we negotiated the same time with the russians. absolutely not. " we have to do it the s

coalition of nations to liberate kuwait and its people in order to defend the national security of the united states and enforce united nations security council resolutions relating to iraq. mr. speaker, the thing that was said then at that time in response, i pointed out that in the persian gulf war there was an international coalition, world support was for protecting kuwait. there was no world support for invading iraq. the resolution which president bush submitted to this congress which resulted in the invasion of iraq eight years ago said, whereas after the liberation of kuwait in 1991, iraq entered into a united nations-sponsored cease fire agreement pursuant to which iraq unequivocally agreed to eliminate its nuclear, biological and chemical weapons aagreement and to end its support for international terrorism whereas the efforts of the international weapons inspectors and iraqi defectors led to the scoffry that iraq had large stockpiles of chemical weapons and a large scale biological weapons program and that iraq had an advanced nuclear weapons development program that was much closer to pr

i was from northern border of iran united states and they are very moment earlier in so many countries and one large or very were there for. katrina makes a point of american intervention. discredits your prerogative to the tyranny of its getting old throne because when it appears the pirate was overthrown with the backing of the united states in the force of the favor of domestic democracy. and edition what we're witnessing in egypt and. it's not clear these are pro democracy which are these are and the responding words they want to get rid of a dictator but getting rid of a dictator or country doesn't mean they're censoring to democracy that's a process in these countries would be very difficult when there is no democratic culture american intervention or one other point. if intervention is necessary it should be the collective action of the united nations and this might not be a bad thing because the united nations was created in an effort to maintain peace and if there were actual war and violence against the populations you know there's going to be intervention and i think people

i think is that the united states should do something word to shepherd you know the support of shepherd like a former guide for his flock of sheep or in his cattle to or the idea of a united states that's to shepherd these countries as a force for us from god or his and bradley these countries will make an order or maybe make it all the united states doesn't understand the situation but there is a danger of a political involvement of your god which would be remiss i mean there are two things that have arisen in the united states in the last few days one is of course the renewal of democracy promotion this idea that america has the right or the wisdom to impose democracy in other countries and you see a lot of this in the commentary president obama should bring democracy to egypt or bring democracy to tunisia that's not our role we need to get our own act together inside our country but also of course there's a concern that there will be more terrorist threats and danger in the. the feeling yes that the instability will fuel terrorist threats well you could argue the opposite th

his people have risen and these people are not controlled by the united states the area nice state is moving in with their with some european powers to provide millions of people over there if things are a girl's even the rebels will be out of the mercy of the united states the endgame is to divide libya and pretty soon ok that's a very good point gentlemen let me jump in here just point if i go to brad ok bret the interesting point it's been brought up here what if this current military operation however you want to call it isn't successful meaning khadafi isn't just thrown just in thrown out have we the west western powers partitioned libya is that is in anyone's interest a partition or are they going to forever protect benghazi in other areas this is what i'm getting at is the law of unintended consequences i mean what if you can't get rid of gadhafi with planes alone. well look that's going to be right we don't know how this thing is going to play out bullshitting we know what it's going to play and before we go and no we should have no doubt there's anybody how does anybody know

has set off panic and speculation about the crisis over fears of a meltdown in japan leave the united states to reconsider its renewed interest in nuclear power. what he viewed as wrong very wrong but whatever happens the rule of law has to be followed in terms of our history. so it's bradley manning just getting what he deserves and what about the now former state department official who criticized the pentagon over manning streetman well hack into the issue. and the u.s. is arguing that a cia operative was clear accused of shooting two pakistanis should receive diplomatic immunity it's now up to a pakistani court to decide so what can the case of raymond davis tell us about the tangled u.s. pakistani web. and it's more money more problems right well the government seems to think that cutting spending is going to pull this country out of debt but will it really work or could spending more money make less problems. now it's monday march fourteenth seven pm here in washington d.c. i'm lucy catherine of and you are watching our t.v. now while the happy collective anonymous has taken up the cas

you take pay cuts or the removal of various privileges because the culture of debt on which the united statesand like most western states has lived for so long is coming to an end the chickens are coming home to roost the bills are having to be paid so we're seeing an unraveling of the really the entire post-war financial international system here and that's why i think these events are actually linked in a way which people probably haven't even thought about running if you want to feel the one that's an interesting way of looking at it here because it is it is fine global finance and your poll politics together it. well i don't go as far as john i think where i disagree with him i mean i think the economic problems that were definitely a trigger for some people but they triggered more profound underlying unresolved political question was that which was a democratic one who controls these countries and in whose interests so people might have been pushed out into the street because they can no longer afford them amount of food in the past but they soon came face to face with a much more histor

now have more in common than we do that separates us we are both economic powers the united states is a mature economic power the russian economy is growing so we need each other as exhibited today by the vice president having his meeting. about the airplane deal that was done we need that russia to be part of the w t o we need a free trade with russia i think that that message is being sent today so there's all these things that unite us rather than separate us the other thing of course is that we're coming up to the tenth anniversary of nine eleven i don't think it's lost on the american people that the russian people have been victimized by islamic terrorists and we share that in common and i think the metaphor for that is this idea of a missile defense although it's aimed at states like iran and others i think that it's a symbol that we stand united against terrorists and that's another thing so while we might disagree on things like libya i think going forward the relationship moves forward no matter what the little setbacks might be and. that symbolic gesture of saying that i

this is not the president of the united states against khadafy. it is not the nine states against libya. that would be no contest. this is really a limited effort to help the libyan people achieve a degree of self determination and individual rights. much of the rest of the world have enjoyed those rights for a long time. host: florida on the independent line. caller: good morning. it is an honor to speak with you. i was a volunteer rescue worker at the world trade center. guest: thank you. caller: i am honored to have the privilege of to do that. i think you're a true american. you're a wonderful general. i think you should run for president one day. guest: i did that. caller: you should do it again. you are a true american. i love america. god bless you. i love you. i think all your ideas of the right way for the country. i'm overwhelmed speaking to you. i never heard the speech before. i'm overwhelmed by the way that you -- i believe our president is commander in chief and he has a right to go into any country he wants to. many presidents have d

again or will it be thank god the united states saw the opportunity to be on the side of right and did the right thing at the right moment this time? >> i think it's going to be the second. i think we're seeing signs in many many ways that where we didn't act quickly in egypt to support the protestors they knew it immediately and when we did act they were glad though they thought it was late. in bahrain we get reports the protesters are worried we're not supporting them. this is a completely connected younger generation that david or leon said actually often takes president obama as a symbol of the kind of thing they think they ought to be able to have and if it's a slippery slope, it's a short slippery slope because no one is talking about or can imagine troops on the ground and you arm the rebels as best you can. it's hard to imagine going beyond that. jessica is right i think to say you have to ask what will happen next. absolutely you have to do that but you can't always get all the answers. we would not have known the end game in rwanda if we had sent troops in and yet i d

united states claims. but that's not a fair explanation there is no agreement on the power secondly nato expansion is clearly the biggest thing is the biggest stumbling point between america and russia it's even bigger than people understand why president medvedev has some issues with the russians in a tight rope from a sphere of privileged interests in the former soviet republic security or if you can call it a collective we say we have united states not me we say no because no country is allowed to have a sphere of influence anymore it's an evil what is the expansion of nato it's an expansion of the american sphere of influence a vast expansion into the territory that used to be most from north of soviet russia so moscow says to washington why did you get this for us and in our backyard and we get none of this is the geo political conflict of our time and there will be no reset and go now there is a solution but nobody's prepared to move forward in the united states but it's still there's progress or. th

. >> another war front opens for the united states. the world unleashes all necessary measures to stop libya's leader, moammar gadhafi. his son, saif, speaks to "this week" in a worldwide exclusive. what next for moammar gadhafi, the libyan people, the united states military? how does it end? >>> then, disaster in the pacific. nuclear nightmare scenario in japan. how prepared is the united states? could it happen here? libya and japan, two crises with major consequences for the united states. >> announcer: live from the newseum in washington, d.c., "this week with christiane am amanpour, target libya" begins now. >> as we begin or broadcast, the united states is at war in a third muslim country, libya. we'll take you there live in a moment. abc's team of correspondents is covering every angle of the story. i'll have an exclusive interview with moammar gadhafi's son, and close adviser, saif. i'll be joined here in the studios by chairman mike mullen. to discuss what's being called operation odyssey dawn. >>> but first, the latest headli

and gets a resolution and the united states under the u.s. constitution the war powers are very carefully divided between congress and the united states and following not only the law but our historical practice the president has sold the case for going to war and no make no mistake about it that's what we're talking about here he sold the case to the american public gotten the support of the public and they've gotten congress' support what is happened to this effect forty eight hours ago we have the national security adviser saying the united states had no imperative because it is not about this we're going to have a civilian population we're not trying for it so that's why there's a massive. and i think that term is wrong and misleading to the people i think there's a lot left resonator here it's use that term i think there's a lot to be debated here but unfortunately that's all the time we have right now the only thing that i will say is that a lot of questions remain and i don't know if we can really justify going around and deciding who'

speaking about interest then we must speak about european countries and their interests not the united states the focus here own do not in states i think is a good misleading person france and the u.k. took the lead on libya not the u.s. they used the u.s. and still this woman why has it and in fact. one so handed all that as a quick just read the paper i just read the press so this is really not an american lord of. the united states military you know you know like a we're going to try and shock we know of the french and the british where the leader is behind this operation not obama. not the one administration so what i fear is on the fringe liberals like you have to stay out of order as if i got it right now when you ask is of i want to go to i want to go to the i want us is a bull in the ok all right eric finish your point is silly or something and i want to see a sharp the us ok the us is a bull in a china shop you do not pass the ball to fix things you get them out of the china shop before you try and fix things as it is and if i go to you in cairo let's try to square the circle here be

the united states is falling apart here but at the same time the united states is going around the world building countries i mean a lot of americans would like the american government to start rebuilding its own country you go ahead i mean nation building in the greater middle east outside intervention i mean we learned a lesson i must i must speak as someone from inside the peace movement. the united nations did not give need to a man be to change regimes in libya is a revolution going on in north africa and the middle east these revolutions are to overthrow the teeters who have been supported by the west for the past forty years these revolutions must be made by the people of north africa if we're going to have a democratization process social justice and the billions of dollars used to provide employment for the people of north africa the united states cannot afford a military adventure in north africa as did did in iraq in fact the opportunism of the pentagon is such that initially there are calls to no fly zone but now they're using this exercise as a public relations exercise for