conference. ben bernanke says he expects the economy will continue to recover and gas prices will level off or drop. fox news learned defense secretary gates will step down from the post at the end of june. c.i.a. director leon panetta is president obama s pick to replace him. read more about the certificate release on foxnews.com. glenn beck returns in a moment. but first, bret baier previews special report. bret: coming up, washington reacts to the birth certificate state in the the briefing room. why now? politics behind the sedition. syria erupts in more violence. that s at the top of the hour. now have back to glenn. glenn: today, we have a live studio audience and we will be with one tomorrow. don t miss tomorrow s program. ry i ll introduce you to
if we can make a modest contribution with the armed predators we will do it but i don t see it and i don t think any of us see that as mission creed. i believe that we should be much more involved and engaged in the air campaign than we have been. chris: defense secretary gates and senator john mccain differing over how much help the u.s. should provide the rebels in libya. and it is time for our sunday group. brit hume, fox news senior political analyst. mara liasson of national public radio. bill kristol of the weekly standard and fox news political analyst juan williams. president obama did agree to put bones in the skies over libya. senator mccain called the rebels heros and says we have to get more deeply involved in this war if we going to be able to topple qaddafi. brit, where are we headed in
shepard: and breaking news from the president of the united states under the heading of mission creep day two. he has approved the use of armed predator drones in libya. missions are starting now. that is according to the defense secretary gates. remember how well the armed predator drones have gone over there in pakistan. flower now we are moving some to libya where we are not fighting a war and we have not taken sides, the official positions of the u.s. government and the president is sending the predator drones to libya. but not taking sides. and it is not a war. and the situation in libya s third largest difficult is desperate after two months of attacks. hundreds reported kills in the not war in misrata including two western journalists who died yesterday. and word that hospitals are struggling to deal with the injured.
but i did save probably the most important place for last. thank you very much, fran. say when. this looks fabulous. go for it. now, this is the most important place on the entire camp arguably. anna polon always said an army marches on its stomach. that can also be said for an arctic expedition. we re very lucky thanks to fran s cooking and culinary skills to have this amazing food. thank you. and to read cousteau s daily expedition blogs head to cnn.com/ali. nato took the lead in libya today, but there are still some big questions about the conflict here at home. secretary of defense robert gates and joints chief of staff chairman admiral mullen right there live speaking on capitol hill. there s defense secretary gates.
they have grown worried. democrats on hill usually on their side saying we were caught off guard by how quickly this happened and not enough questions have been answered. got to answer those tonight, randi. and has the president been relying on anyone in particular for advice in libya? there s no doubt he s been relying on defense secretary gates and secretary of state clinton. when you show their comments for the sunday shows yesterday it was clear secretary gates was saying this was not necessarily the direct interest of the united states to intervene. but stfs still important to prevent a larger humanitarian crisis. he was acknowledging there that maybe this was not in the direct strategic interest of the united states. giving critics fodders to say