this newscast. stick around for that. but first i want to begin this hour with libya s leader of 42 years, moammar gadhafi. he may still be in charge of his capital city, that being tripoli, but listen to what he s lost. any semblance of control in cities in eastern libya. you ll see that in just a second. he has also lost the support of his diplomats. several libyan ambassadors are calling for him to resign, one of whom accuses gadhafi of genocide. but at least the question we ve been asking thus far, where is moammar gadhafi, that is answered for now. he appeared on state-run television today and spoke for more than an hour from a long-ago bombed-out palace in that capital city of tripoli. he had a lot to say, urging supporters to fill the streets to demonstrate for him. and if you listen he also had pretty ugly names for the thousands of libyans who are openly revolting on the streets against him. he said they were high on drugs, that they were committing a crime that wi
and certainly, the left, remains in frustration with the behavior of wall street and the fact that these big corporations are sitting on trillions of dollars in terms of capital, not investing it in jobs and the economy and why make friend with big business but bill daley is big business and that is why the chamber of commerce which has been after the obama administration on so many fronts, is hailing bill daley. that is why you know, it is a surprise that all of a sudden, you see people on the right, and, they say, we love bill daley and people who have been at obama s base are like, what is going on here? why all of a sudden? but, it is obvious it has to do with the same thing. in washington the personnel is policy. and, some cases that is true. it remains very much to be seen, however, whether that will prove true in this case, whether the advent of daley and james sperling, and others, perhaps, will herald a seriously different policy direction. my sense is, it probably will on s
overseas and now, this, here s the latest from arizona. gabrielle giffords is in critical condition after a bullet passed through her head, arizona s chief federal judge, john roll, one of gifford s arizona staff members and a nine-year-old girl are among the dead. one suspect, identified by authorities, as 22-year-old jared loughner was arrested and a second man is being sought. and for more on this story, we turn now to carl cameron on capitol hill and, trace gallagher in tucson, trace? reporter: we re outside the university medical center where gabrielle giffords, the congresswoman, remains in the intensive care unit and she s in critical condition but doctors are optimistic about her survival. the bullet passed through her head but struck part of her brain and though she is responding to commands, medical experts say that does not rule out the possibility of long-term damage. we have also learned that gabrielle giffords was the intended target of this attack. in all, 19
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island of oahu. but he has to get back when he gets back to the coming weekend of washington to the economic realities we re told by a senior aid that when he does the state of the union, which we believe will happen in late january, there will be a lot on the economy, a lot on jobs. but before he gets to that, he s got to deal with personnel issues, largely replacing the chief economic adviser, larry summers. we re told by the senior aides to expect next week that the president will unveil the replacement to larry somers. there are a lot of names flying around as to who will replace him. there s been an expect nation that the white house will get it done in december. it s carried through the holidays. some of the names out there, james sperling, the senior counselor there for the treasury department for the secretary, timothy geithner. he s well known. serve in the clinton administration as well. and interviewing with top officials. including the president.