0 when he goes on wednesday. never happen. it will be interesting to see. never happen. rachel, thank you so much for being here. also leading in sports, look around the office today and everyone looks super busey, because they are. i mean, butler versus bucknell, that s a tough call. the productivity takes a real dive during march madness, and that s because everyone has a real shot at winning. even the person, you know who you are, whose picks are based on the favorite colors or whether they think a bear could defeat an eagle. it s estimated office pools could cost companies a couple of billions of dollars in wasted worker hours this month. we ve seen some pretty out-there touchdown dances and goal celebrations in our time, but never one that got a player suspended for life, until now. yeah. that ll do it. it s 20-year-old greek soccer player jorgos giving a hiel after the goal. the greek soccer authorities didn t buy that, and they banned him from the greek national team. it
a defiant message to his critics, including president obama who 43 days ago said gadhafi must yield power. just moments ago, the white house released this new joint statement from the president of the united states, the president of france and the british prime minister that says bluntly, it is impossible to imagine a future for libya with gadhafi in power. and yet not only is the libyan dictator still in power, one could make the case he s winning, or at least not losing, after a month of air strikes by nato with that no-fly zone. as you zoom in closer, it is striking to watch this play out. here s the start of the air strikes. these strikes here. the opposition, green means the regime control. this is the start of the air strikes. and the opposition clearly benefited at the beginning. you see the surge right there. this is late march, the final days of march, the opposition making its way aiming west. but this is where we are now. look at that. the regime has taken back all
campaign. the response, no. delivered not in a diplomatic pouch but through another it a of coalition air strikes and through this stern message from secretary of state hillary clinton. mr. gadhafi knows what he must do. there needs to be a cease-fire. his forces need to withdraw from the cities they have forcibly taken at great violence and human cost. there needs to be a decision made about his departure from power. also tonight, new evidence of possible human rights abuses by the libyan leader and his lackeys. images of deaths and beatings you will find highly disturbing and images that are being cat lged as possible evidence of a war crimes trial. gadhafi gives no hint of leaving power. and repeats his claim the opposition against him is being orchestrated by al qaeda. the white house used this letter as little more than a message of defiance, not a diplomatic opening. there is a fresh and you might say unorthodox diplomatic push under way this evening. he says the li
the future of health reform, the tributes to ted kennedy. congratulations, i bet you re not sleeping at home, a new addition. a new baby girl. thank you very much for sharing that with the audience. all right. have a great sunday. i m john king this is state of the union. it s 11:00 a.m. eastern, time for state of the union. the analysts have had their say. the former vice president of the united states and the former colleagues who knew senator ted kennedy best. we have watched the sunday shows so you don t have to. we ll break it all down with james carville and mary matalin and the best political team on television. state of the union for august 30th. it was one of senator ted kennedy s closest friends. asked by the family to speak at the memorial service. if you think kennedy s death will change votes in the health care debate senator orrin hatch says think again. i don t think so. let me tell you, you know, you are talking about one-sixth of the american e