what is the most convincing, compelling reason i know you are a strong spew porer for this military strong supporter for this military action by nato. why are we helping them? i know we are helping them because gadhafi is a person who is capable of carrying out acts of terror. he has the blood of americans on his hands, as a result of pan am 103 he s a person who over time would, if he were able to succeed, would clearly train terrorists and export terrorism. by the way, i think that the tnc or the ntc, will govern. and i believe they were govern effectively. we have a lot of challenges, including reconciliation. no human right abuses. we have to secure the arms depots. we have to make sure that the
castle is under siege, and is he still inside ? we haven t heard from him for at least three days. martha: the cars are flooding into tunisia, in desperate need of medical supplies. and dominic, on the border there. tough situation. gregg: it. martha: and, lawmakers in washington are warning the end of qaddafi is not the end of the fight in libya. senator john mccain saying power vacuums can be just as dangerous as dictators and the international community cannot just pack it up and leave. he s on his way out and we have to concentrate on making sure there is not the kievend baghdad experience we have had. and we need reconciliation and we need to get the arms depots under control and prisons where there are hundreds, if not thousands of political prisoners, get those people released and preserve the government buildings, and get in there and try to help them set up a functioning government.
this is ali. chris seen on a well-deserved vacation. we have a lot going on today. let s get to it. high drama and high stakes over raising america s debt ceiling. we are now just 20 day ace way from the treasury deadline. president obama will meet again today with congressional leaders for the fifth straight day of negotiations that ended abruptly yesterday. republicans saying the president stormed out of the talks. this morning, democratic source is telling cnn president obama shut down the meeting after house majority leader eric cantor continued to push for a short-term extension of the debt ceiling. something that the president categorically opposes. that s when sources say the president got agitated saying, quote, this could bring my presidency down but i will not yield on this. end quote. then he added, talking to eric cantor, eric, don t call my bluff. i m going to the american people with this, end quote. let s go live to dan lothian at the white house. differ acco
it is not just increasing the borrowing power but doing it just as tom coburn said, conditioned on reforms to deal with a $14.3 trillion debt. that is what the markets want. gregg: chris stirewalt. great to see you. thanks. you bet, gregg. jenna: in libya the civilian death toll rising after proqaddafi forces unleashed a brutal assault on misrata. this is one month after nato resolution greening intervention in libya. david lee miller from capitol of tripoli. david? reporter: jenna, nato is keeping up pressure on qaddafi forces. yesterday alone there were 60 nato airstrikes. among the things targeted we are told, hangars, arms depots, radar installations and missile launchers. according to libyan television, earlier today there was a nato airstrike just southwest of the capitol tripoli. meanwhile qaddafi forces continue to, defight these
tanks away. they tell us they re trying to repair those. this is really how they ve been arming themselves. they have basically been cobbling together bits and pieces of weapons that they re finding. what they carry into the battlefield is whatever they have recovered from weapon storage facilities, from arms depots. this is why they say they need weapons and equipment. now, the chief of staff for the opposition military did tell us that they specifically have asked various foreign countries for weapons and for equipment, because these fighters out there, anderson, they don t even have flak jackets. but the army chief of staff is saying that as of now, they have not received anything. david, we saw this anchor or television presenter basically whip out what looks like a brand new ak-47. i know you were on the road today in a town where people have been armed, given new ak-47s. that would seem to be a sign of some confidence by gadhafi if he s willing to arm some of his people.