let s go back to some of our experts and talk as we close out our coverage about the key things that they ll be watching for over the next 24 to 48 hours. michael sang with white house adviser to former president george w. bush, what will you be watching for now? well, you know, everyone will obviously be focused on moammar gadhafi. where is he? but in a sense that may take quite a while to find that out. remember how long it it talk with saddam. i think the key thing here is security. can security be brautd to tripoli? can these sort of pockets of resistance that remain throughout libya be quickly overcome? and, finally, can tripoli be integrated into the governing structure which has been established in benghazi by the transitional national council? i think if we see those three things it could be looking up, at least in the short term, for
white house. tell us about the moammar gadhafi you knew at your time at the white house, michael. exactly as you said. he had been in power for 42 years. when richard mixon was president when this man became the leader of libya. every president since has had to deal with him. he adopted forcely with anti-israel sort of pro terrorism foreign pollty. his policies included the pan am 103 bombing but also included far more than that as well. he has essentially dismanned elled the institutions of his state. he sent us what he thought of s as called into personality. although we think of him as the eccentric and truly bizarre old man that he is today, he managed it rule libya for so long by dividing an conquering essentially.
jazeera. we have been mentioning how a number of the cabinet members, leadership underneath moammar gadhafi have been fleeing in recent days. now according to al jazeera, libyan prime minister, is now in tunisia. in fact, al jazeera pinpoints him it a place called the park inn. but clearly, a number of top level officials there in libya have been able to flee the country, but we still don t know the wheres about of moammar gadhafi. we will take a quick break and be back with more live coverage on this historic night on msnbc.
say, what the arabs would say it s a very important event for the arab world and they will be watching, where else does it resonate. thank you so much. thanks for all of our experts. we re going to continue to watch these developments, but you it is clearly a pivotal and historic night for libya. the rebels have broken through, controlling much of tripoli. but where is moammar gadhafi? i m chris jansing. good knight. machines have a voice. medical history follows you. it s the at&t network a network of possibilities. committed to delivering the most advanced mobile broadband experience to help move business. forward. helps defends against occasional constipation, diarrhea,
will be held morally and legally responsible, whatever he meant by that. he was saying that each side now is terrified because of the violence that has been going on, and the violence that will continue. so he is suggested, let s suspend all of the violence right new and ended it by saying that we need gadhafi in place to come to a peace and find an end out of this even though many people would say it was gadhafi who brought the country to this brink, chris. all right, thank you so much, michelle kosinski in london. we are getting reaction from congress. keith elson, representative from minnesota, the first muslim ever elected to congress, took to twitter. he wrote, great wishes of hope for the people of libya. you won the civil war. all the best on winning the peace. bless libya s patriots. also, senators mccaine and graham, two of those who have been critical of barack obama and who wanted more u.s.