i would like to get off topic after the slam of william hague. >> hague. how can you defend him if you can't say his name? >> he had a fervent female following. they were the hague hags. i would like to submit you to the club. as far as this guy is concerned, why didn't we interest view the cell mate? if anyone knew what was going with his prostate was his cell mate, and no one talked to him. that's just shote something or other. >> it is shote. -- shoty. >> i think we should send the same crew that got bin laden, the same crew to get this guy. he is guilty of killing hundreds of americans. he is no different than bin laden, but had a smaller number of people he killed. just go in and stake him out. while we are there we pick up qaddafi. why not? before we move on, i want to say congratulations to you. you and your wife had a baby. >> well, my wife had a baby. >> but i bring this up -- >> why do you bring this up? >> the baby's name is jack baker, and speaking of spies and cia stuff, there is no name better than jack baker. can i do an impression of your c

months ago we were told it would be a matter of weeks rather of months and so i suspect really what william hague the british foreign secretary says anybody having a symbolic act to try to show that somehow or other we're still in charge of the situation but i think the situation is increasingly unpredictable the real problem for nato is that unless they have a lucky strike as they tried several times i think to decapitate that are injuring by bombing places where they thought he was the chances are that there won't be a dramatic collapse of his regime now it survived the first shocking act and so now the question is will the rebel help sufficient resources to push on through prettyman small fighting it's difficult to avoid the conclusion that the crisis in libya is in certain great deal of how toil and one of the problems has been that the rebels thought that very quickly they would get hold of the oil assets in the past to turn all exports into money haven't been able to operate the oil filled with will effectively they need money to maintain their forces because a they need money for the socia

william hague said that although britain's preference was for colonel qaddafi to go into exile, it was up to the libyan people to decide. now, to the u.s. debt talks which are locked in a bitter standoff. with just a little more than a week to go until the august 2 deadline when the u.s. must lift the debt ceiling or risk default, both sides are digging in for a fight. today, rival proposals were rolled out and tonight, the president will address the nation in a televised address. but among those who think the tea party republicans should hold their ground is freshman representative joe walsh and he joins me now from capitol hill. thank you very much for joining us. are you really prepared to risk the country going into default over this? >> no. no one wants to risk default. nobody up here in this town wants to do that, jane. we just want to make sure we get this right, that we get the solution right. we met with a couple of the credit agencies last week and they were pretty clear, they told us even if we raised the debt ceiling and we don't enact real spending reform, our credit ratin

british foreign secretary william hague called him one of the truest friends britain has ever had. >>would the 4th of july be without the nathan's hot dog eating contest on coney island. >> there were two champions left standing. as randall pinkston reports, one of them barely weighs 100 pounds. >> it is a 4th of july tradition. who can eat the most hot dogs and buns in ten minutes at the annual nathan's hot dog eating contest. >> it is joey chester. ajoey chestnut downed 62 hot dogs, chewing his way to the top for the fifth time in a row. for the first time ever, nathan's held a separate mens and women's event. 100 pound sonya thomas sucked down 40 hot dogs to win the inaugural women's competition. thomas is known in the competitive eating world as the black widow. she took part in the contest when it was co-ed. she supports the separation. >> one of the greatest all-time hot dog eating champions here on coney island did not compete this year. he has a contract dispute but some spectators suspect something else was keeping him away. >> i think he's afraid to lose. >> i think he knows

powers and that will roll on so the credibility of it for example will be shot and the fact that william hague gets up when the international criminal court issued this indictment two days ago and says this only proves our point remember that the statute is the international criminal court is entirely skewed the supreme international crime as it's defined is the crime of aggression and it was the foreign office legal advisers here in london who to a man and woman's the iraq war with a crime of aggression and that's simply been left out of the statute otherwise tony blair would be on trial in london for example or in the hague or wherever so it's very much seen as askew there's your mischaracterizations your answer all right i gave him or let me first clearly for the first fairness and then we'll discuss that here because i just would like to maybe go on a little bit further with what are jim had to say here it seems to me now a bit mate when nato decides it wants three or use military force against a country it uses the international criminal court to is a political tool we now it's really tur

recognised countries not governments but is this situation really as unique as foreign secretary william hague is making it out to be. no it's not unique but what i think what he's done is change the rules by which britain normally recognizes as he correctly says countries not governments because what he's done here is given tacit recognition and support the transitional government for quite a long time and is now formally announced recognition of them and given them a hundred million pounds almost all of us belong to the. former government of libya but behind that is the attempt to unfreeze in a much larger tranche of assets running into many games and so reality usually on the other scene is a war for regime change and this is now going to be successful and i think that this is going to be subject to a lot of legal arguments additionally he claims to be just a mercy of the transitional government it has no democratic basis anymore than the regime of colonel gadhafi has an elected basis and so he has made a value judgment based on his political instincts let's talk about those assets gadhafi

really went into this war was almost a abandon thinking counselor who would flee to venezuela as william hague already anymore is where the what you need i'm sorry to interrupt you talk about when that when the western forces and forces went into this war it was supposed to be a humanitarian mission now if i may just for a moment according to media reports gadhafi now controls are more territory than before nato started bombing does the alliance think that the libyan leader is going to surrender looks like he's taking fairly well at this point. well i think certainly is doing much better than than certainly any of the outside forces anticipated and the real problem or made here is this one less they have a lucky strike as they have tried several times i think you can protect her without injuring by bombing places where they thought he was the chances are that there will be a dramatic collapse of his regime that survived the first shock impact and so now the question is will the rebels have sufficient resources to push on through crowded months for hygiene or will their own divisions their own

we really went into this war was almost a of national in south dakota we flew to venezuela was william hague really anymore as well you know you can you know i'm sorry to interrupt you talk about when when the western forces and allied forces went into this war it was supposed to be humanitarian mission now if i may just for a moment according to media reports gadhafi now controls are more territory than before no doubt started bombing does the alliance think that the libyan leader is going to surrender looks like he's taking fairly well at this point. well i think certainly doing much better than the uncertain any of the outside forces on to separate it and the real problem were made here is that unless they have a lucky strike as they tried several times. or what are. the chances are the political will be a dramatic collapse of his regime survival first shock impact and so now the question is ruler of all hopes. to push on through the two months for writing or will their own divisions their own inadequacies. real training will disappear were injuries shifted support back to congress are. s

the foreign secretary today, william hague, came out and said, when i saw the footage of him at thatly, i knew we'd made a grave error. look where we're at. we're at, the brits are at with libya. no peace on the ground. it's an absolute disaster, and no end in sight. the nonwar war. >> this dude got released because he was supposed to die. he reminds me of louis farrakhan. he's been dying for 25 years of cancer. he was released on medical grounds. >> compassionate grounds. >> everybody knew. >> do we really need to point this out? he was released under president obama's watch. >> he doesn't deserve a thread of compassion. >> if it were bush, or the other bush, bush 43 or 41, yes. >> do you think you can get through a segment without mentioning obama? >> you're kidding. this guy was supposed to be worm food three years ago, but of course with the far left european compassion policies, this guy is now still walking the earth. and it's unbelievable that he has the cahones to sit there at a pro-qaddafi rally. he's not even in the witness protection program. >> it's like seeing an employe

british foreign secretary william hague: >> the national transitional council has shown its commitment to a more open and democratic libya, something that it is working to achieve through an inclusive political process. this is in stark contrast to qaddafi whose brutality against the libyan people has stripped him of all legitimacy. >> suarez: hague also said the move paves the way for the rebels to get access to $150 million of libyan oil money held in britain. and he announced the expulsion of the few remaining envoys from colonel qaddafi's regime within three days, but they could reportedly be given more time if they choose to defect. qaddafi, meanwhile, continues to reject calls to step down and in a further act of defiance, libyan state television yesterday showed the lockerbie bomber abdelbaset al megrahi at a pro-government rally. his appearance comes nearly two years after he was returned from britain on humanitarian grounds because his doctors said he was months away from dying from cancer. on the ground in libya, a virtual stalemate continues. over the past five months nato h

foreign secretary william hague is inviting them to london.overnment can use it. >>> oregon congressman david wu is resigning over allegations he had an unwanted sexual encounter with an 18-year-old woman. wu, a democrat, says it was consensual. he plans to leave congress when the debt limit crisis is resolved. >>> finally, crash course for a student driver in california. motor vehicle office is closed this morning after a driving lesson ended on monday with the student smashing into the driving school. nine minutes past the hour. oops. we have a preview of tonight's cbs evening news. >>> america's fighting men and women come home to a hero's welcome. but they also come home to a tough economy. and for many, more than a year later, jobs are still hard to find and prospect are slim. we'll take a look at the growing problem of unemployment among america's veterans. that story tonight on the cbs evening news. >>> . >>> and taz your lahat's your l weather. >>> just ahead, a medical mystery. why were these twins always getting sick? their mom was f

william hague, the foreign secretary, said the country officially recognizes the main opposition groups the legitimate government of libya and they are expelling all diplomats from gaddafi's regime and is unfreezing assets to help the national transitional council, which is recognized as the sole legitimate authority. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> the postal service is subject to marketplace trends and we have seen a significant long- term decline in our most profitable product category, first-class mail, which accounts for 50% of our revenue. >> that was the postmaster general in maid testifying on the financial stability of the u.s. mail. this week, plans were announced to close 35 under branches across the country. learn more online at the c-span video library. it's what you want, when you want. >> every weekend, american history tv on c-span3. 48 hours of people and events telling the american story. what personal interviews about historic events on "oral histories." revisit key figures, battles, and events during the 150th anniversary of the civil war.