that created an even greater deficit in wisconsin, and i think that you have to look at corporations and at the wealthiest individuals in a society accepting a fair share of the burden of taxation. now, you know, middle class people and working class people are already paying a lion s share of the taxes federally. the burden of taxation has shifted more and more on to the middle class in this country, and i think that we ought to look at how taxes are structured in every state to make sure that corporations are paying a fair share and to make sure that those who make the most are paying a fair share. representative dennis kucinich, live for me from capitol hill. sir, i appreciate the conversation, thank you. now, here we are, top of the hour, watch this. she fears for her life inside of libya, but she s willing to risk it all to talk to us live. i m brooke baldwin. the news is now.
i must say that it is a positive feature within a very complex, problematic situation that so far we have not witnessed eed violence against foreigners in libya. having said that, we, of course, are in favor of addressing the situation at the security council. yesterday there was a press statement that came out, and as you know brazil is at the presidency of security council during the month of february. we ve also associated ourselves with an initiative to call a meeting of the human rights council to look at the situation in libya. and differently from what happened in egypt and tunisia, what to us is a very worrying element here is the use ofunarm. otherwise, we see the manifestations in northern africa and the arab world as a movement that can only elicit solidarity from the brazilian
he s going to be lasting like the only person lasting in this country. we are hearing that we ll be hearing live from president obama in about an hour speaking as speaking as a native libyan, what do you want to hear him say? i want to hear him say that he supports libya, he ll do whatever he can to stop this massacre from happening. what are you seeing from this ball cony? right now the streets are empty, though the government has been sending text messages and trying so hard to push people to get out of the streets, but but all the people are afraid. they are home. they are trying to stay as safe as possible. what if the revolutionaries, in this case the people we see on the streets, what if they lose? what if moammar gadhafi stays in power? what then? the people will not stop, even if he was the last person remained in this country. the people will not stop. you know, you said something yesterday that really resonated with a lot of us.
clint clinten, but we would also like we just heard from the brazilian foreign ministry standing next to hillary clint nl. really she just reiterated the point she made yesterday, the president made friday, that the u.s. strongly condemns any violence on the ground in libya. to her point about the chartered ferryboat that s supposed to be taking the americans from tripoli to malta, they were anticipating having the ferry arrive in malta today, we ve gotten word that is not happening because of the bad weather. that ferryboat with all those hundreds of americans are still in tripoli. i want to go to ben wedeman. he is the first western journalist to enter the country of libya and to first report from libya. ben, i know we can say where you are. you are in the second most populous city of ben guzy. if we can, just springboarding off what we just heard from secretary of state hillary clinton, she said they strongly condemn the violence there.
military counterattack on this part of the country to punish it for what to date has been a fairly successful movement to cut his control of this part of the country. you know, ben, i was speaking with a woman who we couldn t identify yesterday out of libya, out of tripoli. she was talking about how she was born and raised her, how she was, her words, brain washed into thinking freedom is not a right. is that the message you re hearing from people there in libya? reporter: yes. well, the message is that for 42 years they really could not speak their minds, that the quality of life has deteriorated dramatically in recent decades, and what we re seeing here is the exuberant, giddy expression of finally the ability to speak their minds. we were at a demonstration in