don t know, but i think the white house realizes that before it could ever go down the road of much tougher either sanctions or even the very last resort of military course, that this is the kind of outreach that has to happen, and with ahmadinejad s speeches, i agree with richard he s not significant, but the fact he s relaxing his speeches means khamenei had him do that. he is a puppet. i think you have to talk a little before you start bombing. thank you, rich engel. we ll get back to you at some time and talk about your captivity. we had our worry beads out. thank you. as we should have. up next, yesterday was the president s big day, but didn t you get the idea that the vice president there he is you can t not laugh sometimes at joe biden was thinking about inauguration four years from now? he worked that inaugural crowd like it was a ward in iowa and this was a caucus meeting. this is hardball, the place for politics. [ female announcer ] going to sleep may be eas
speeches, i agree with richard he s not significant but the fact he s relaxing his speeches means khomeini had him do that. he is a puppet. i think you have to talk a little before you start bombing. thank you rich engel. we ll get back to you at some time and talk about your captivity. we had our worry beads out. thank you. as we should have. up next, yesterday was the president s big day, but didn t you get the idea that the vice president there he is you can t not laugh sometimes at joe biden, was thinking about inauguration four years from now. he worked that inaugural crowd like it was a ward in iowa and this was a caucus meeting. this is hardball, the place for politics. with the spark cash card from capital one,
already being evacuated. get your evacuation kit ready. get your medicines ready. take your insurance documents and have a plan to get out if you have to. treat this seriously, but then pray real hard that north carolina will be fine. good day, i m andrea mitchell live in washington. we ll start in libya and the hunt for muammar gadhafi. rebel forces searching the capital for the fallen try rant who used a radio address this morning to call for more bloodshed. rich engel is in tripoli and joys me now by phone. what is the level of violence right now? what are you seeing where you are? reporter: i think you can say there is more chaos than there is violence. the rebels are out in the streets. they are firing guns in the air. they are sort of looking for gadhafi and his loyalists, but with so much gunfire coming from so many people, the rebels frankly don t know who is firing. they don t know if they re being
in both parties who say ready for this maybe tomorrow there will be a resolution. we ll just have to watch closely and see if they can come up with something that will dole with this, because it is jobs, it is money to the government at a time when there was so much squawking about trying to cut budgets, now you ve got airlines able to simply pocket the taxes that were being charged to ticket holders and to put that in those private industry pockets instead of it going to the government. there are so many different levels of an issue here and they may be pulled back. we will keep on this and let you know as soon as we see some kind of break. a somali terror group is blocking relief agencies from getting food to victims of the horrendous famine there. nbc s rich engel joins us now. the state department claims in the last couple days that they were waiving the guidelines to permit rescue refugee groups and rescue groups and other aid and relief organizations to work with al shabab even
at this time? what does that mean if you agree with it for situations around the world? i don t think this was a unique humanitarian crisis. there are many humanitarian crises, many of which we could do at a lower cost. the honest truth is that i am not a libya expert and having said more than i should have on iraq and gotten a lot of that wrong, i m loathed to do it green. but there s a lot we could do in this world. this may be a good choice among many, people who know this issue a lot better than do i have said it is. it s a difficult engagement. we don t think, i think a lot of people agree, there s not been a truly clear mission. it s not clear what we do in the situation like rich engel just pointed out when not doing all that much turns out to be not doing enough. at the end of the day, we don t like losing wars. if we let him win, what does it say to the other arab uprisings right now?