great experience. they certainly endure so many hardships. they re happy, smile easily, have a great work ethic. will hard work be enough in a coun history of violence. they need opportunity to make much needed changes. that s what i think we created here. joining me, the ceo of the guardian. great to see you. after all these years, has haiti turned a corner? when we were there in the 90s, a lot of good things happened. it was a functioning
has massive unemployment, an economy inibles but this is a classic middle east survivor. long a fixture on the list of terrorist sponsors, libya is after it after striking deals to get rid of weapons of mass destruction, pay to the locker by victims relatives and help america in the war on terror but he is still prone to bizarre behavior like the rambling speech at the u.n. reporter: and then the assassination or killing of kennedy in 63 or 62. why? we want the know who killed him. reporter: what s his secret been 42 years staying in power? combination of tribal politics, patronage, paying off tribes, punishing his enemies by throwing tribal members out of school, out of government jobs, really taking a ruthless approach. reporter: david shenker says he changes the laws, makes entire ministries disappear and doesn t even have a functioning
routinely changes his country s laws and he doesn t have a functioning legislature. he says this is a nation ruled by one man s whim. with all the momentum for change in the region, experts say it may be a long shot for this particular uprising to bring down moammar gadhafi. not sure if he spoke in front of the crowds before he just appeared. if gadhafi should leave the scene one way or another, doesn t that leave one of his sons next in line. he has seven sons. two are seen as possible successors to him. it may be difficult for them to wait into power. if he moves one into power while he s still there, that may be workable. otherwise it would be hard for the family to hold onto power in libya. so far he hasn t proven a guy who wants to let go of power. thanks so much, brian todd. egypt is getting extra help from the u.s. as it struggles to move forward in the wake of its
everything pops with the pringles superstack can! here s one of the awkward things about fixing washington that i think the senator was just alluding to. the people who have been around longest in washington don t feel that much urgency about fixing washington. after all, they ve survived there a long time. it s the new arrivals who are trying to figure out how you they re going to survive in washington. they re the ones who seem to be the most shocked by what s broken and the most moved to fix it. new senators thinking that the senate is the a law-making body. those are the ones who have been most shocked into action by the fact it s no longer true that the senate is a law-making body. if the senate doesn t run on majority rules, it if it takes a super majority to do everything, it is no longer a functioning
majority rules, if it takes a supermajority to do everything, it is no longer a functioning legislature. how can that be fixed? if the old hens in washington were worked up about it, it wouldn t that hard to fix. you can change the rules of the senate with a single majority vote if you do it on the first day that congress is in session. it s not that big a deal if the powers that be wanted to make it happen. the people who do want to make it happen are not the powers that be. they re the junior senators. they don t generally get to call the shots. instead of trying to pull this off by persuading the big shots, that the big shots want to do this, because maybe the big shots can t be persuaded, the junior senators are organizing trying to get the public behind the idea that the senate rules should change and should change on january 5th with a vote on that day. making a case for changing the