threat out there. what we had talked about in theory before 9/11 became reality on 9/11. steve: sure. and you re exactly right. peggy noonen in the wall street journal yesterday wrote that, on 9/11, people stood about where i am right now, and looked up at the towers that were on fire and it never dawned on them that they would fall, but they did, and suddenly we went from a safe police to a not the safe place. it s the same thing with the pentagon where you re standing. it s like how could they possibly hit the pentagon and with one of our planes. yeah. i have a slightly different take on it. you know, nobody gets up in the morning someone s going to take huge airliners and fly them into the sides of buildings, but if you work in a place like the pentagon, you re in a military environment and you realize there are threats constantly. i think it s less of a surprise for people working in the the pentagon and for those who focus on the pentagon than maybe those outside. steve: tha
and now we re reinvesting in technology. the bulk of our oil goes into cars and truck. thanks to these standards set when president obama came into office in the first year, we re going to save more oil than we currently import from the persian gulf by 2030. is that happening now? no. we re putting technology in place and catching up with the rest of the world. oirn we re wasting two thirds of everything we burn at a power plant. i get what you re saying, let me see. if tomorrow our government didn t have the capacity to set standards or decided not set standards, just let the market take care of itself, do you think that our cars would become better and more efficient? or would we be able to compete with europe or would we become less? let me insert one thing. if the market was taking care of itself the real cost of oil would be reflected and gasoline $16 gallon. the free market theory, if you had a free market theory where the clul cost of fuels is not offloaded to the tax paye
outside misrata. so, nick, is it necessary to put boots on the ground to get real control of the situation? well, in misrata the rebels are surrounded, besieged by government forces. this has been going on for the last five or six weeks. the whole duration of the no-fly zone. we ve heard the nato commanders say that it s difficult to target government forces at misrata because it s an urban environment. that the tanks, we were here a weak ago, week and a half ago, tanks were hidden under trees. military vehicles hidden inside store fronts. to have made any enforcement of the nato the u.n. resolution to protect civilians, it makes it very, very difficult. but it s also very difficult military environment. gadhafi s forces far outnumber the rebels and have more equipment. yet they re not able to take over the city. so even boots on the ground here
cases and hear both sides would have made the determination that the best thing is to go with the tried and true, to go with the system that has served us well. and distinguishes us as a nation. reporter: republicans in congress called it the right thing to do . american people realized how wrong it was to hold a civilian trial anywhere in new york or anywhere on the continental united states. reporter: so did some family members of the 9/11 victims. the man was caught in a military environment, in a war environment and should be tried in a military rtribunal. a little taste of the reaction here in new york, site of course of the world trade center attacks. here is the new york post. about face. attorney general holder also took members of congress to task for their continued criticism of where the trial should be held. really the criticism that swayed
everyone could have their sense of humor and but those times have changed and there are women on that boat and it was highly, highly offensive, i think, to women. and certainly, to gays who are perhaps at that time still living undercover, essentially. and i would only add that it is not just offensive to women and gays, it is offensive to men and straight people as well. good! but it was hostile. this is not acceptable behavior in the 21st century, period. so you don t think we re so far imposing civilian values on a military environment? perhaps this is a better question for you, commander, because we have you know, we do have certain rules that are enforceable in the civilian world. are we trying to are we imposing those values on people who are in a wartime scenario, where they have to vent and just blow off steam, as the captain has claimed? well, quite frankly, when you look at imposing civilian values, i think it s the other way around. i think the civilians look