alan, you know, when you look at quotes from then candidate, obama, he talked about how preventing a potential genocide in iraq is not a good enough reason to keep u.s. forces there and that sounds like the reason we re in libya. i m troubled by it. this is more comparable to the kosovo mission, when there was ethnic cleansing going on but, i believe the president needs to consult more with congress and i m upset that that has not happened and i don t know what the end game is and the powell doctrine, what is the exit strategy, how much money are we spending? why are we not asking about talking about budgets and fighting about teachers pay in wisconsin? we also are being told our mission, our leading will end by the end of the week and i hope that is the case and how do we know when we re done and what is exactly the end game here? we needed to know that. martha: and that is what we re waiting to find out and it is interesting, conservatives and liberals are divided on whether o
of the coalition, that is how we start an extremely busy morning, in america s newsroom, glad to have you with us, i m martha maccallum. bill: qaddafi is holding strong, so far, his will is not broken, after a fiery speech late on tuesday. meanwhile, nato warships patrolling off the coast of libya, and enforcing a u.n. arms embargo and this is new videotape inside of libya, plumes of smoke rise from a strategic down in the east, after libyan forces reclaimed control. a significant blow to the rebels. and, heavy anti-aircraft fire heard alongside loud explosions, in tripoli, the capital. overnight. martha: look at those scenes, to jennifer griffin, who has been covering all of this, throughout and joins us live at the pentagon. jennifer, does the u.s. still plan to hand over command and the leadership role in all of this to the french and british as we have been told. bill: absolutely. sources say they plan to do so by tuesday of next week and things are moving quickly, i m
way ahead of hurricane kan katrina right lower on the gulf coast of the united states. estimates put that at $135 billion. and it is far more devastating than the quake that struck kolbe, japan in 19985, damage from that cat asie cost upwards of $100 billion. lots of digging out for people. bill: indeed there is and our prayers and thoughts are with them every day. don t call it a war, peace keeping, president obama calling the mission in libya a humanitarian mission. but whatever you call it, america s role in the attack could put the white house in a thicket of constitutional and legal challenges and some of those, starting to build already. fox news senior judicial analyst, judge andrew napoll talo, thousand napolitano , how you doing, judge, the at says what? the president of the united states, says after consulting congress and
since 1980 and have never seen a communications strategy more in disarray and clearly something is going on between the white house and the state department and hillary clinton and the president and they cannot get their story straight and if there was a lesson of the involvement of iraq, it is, you have to explain the rationale behind military action before you commit american troops and they haven t and and i think they d like to believe it is kosovo and here s the key difference, kosovo was at the center of europe and we understood who was involved and why and we know basically nothing about the main actors you would like to believe it is iraq, but unlike iraq we have a coalition of the willing including turkey and qatar came on board and it s n what does that lead to. a world vision. what vision! we aren t doing it by ourselves. what are we doing. martha: that is guide question and i looked at a piece this morning, that pointed out the reason france and great britain