likely to rest soon and the defense picking up. it will be interesting to see whether the defense calls witnesses or if they rest. meantime, it is a soggy fourth of july for millions of americans and it is impressively hot for others. it is indeed. it is certainly soggy here. rain drenching the southeast where flash floods are possible again today. the ohio river valley also has a risk of flooding. meanwhile there is more extreme heat in the southwest, cities in california, nevada and arizona topped 120 degrees in the past few days and folks doing all they can to keep cool. that is hot. half a world away egypt s democracy in turmoil. a popular uprising resulted in a military overthrow of the country s freely elected president and a new leader was installed, at least an interim one. yes, see how long he is there. the ousted president and many of his muslim brotherhood leaders
chaotic refre retreat of the rs shows that they will need help. secretary of defense gates says qaddafi will eventually be removed not by a military overthrow from the rebels but by political and economic forces, shep. shepard: how are the libyan people reacting? they are really hearing the government lying on state government line on state television. saying he was an aging man and he had diabetes. he asked for permission to leave and was given permission to leave and some day soon they will welcome him back into the fold her in tripoli. shepard: thank you, steve. be careful. the defense secretary robert gates says the task of arming and training the libyan rebels should fall to somebody else and not the united states. gates made that comment during a hearing today in the house armed services committee.
always a pleasure. you have made all of us significantly smarter and better informed and we thank you for that. we turn our attention to capitol hill in america and our own legislators. elliott angle and adam shift from the american congress, how will america respond to this revolution and what does this revolution imply to a military led american foreign policy in the middle east that has been at least by its pr in pursuit of democracy? how does the non-violent revolution for democracy in the most populist nation in the middle east portraying the arab young men and women as peaceful, intelligent people, what does that do to an american foreign policy predicated on military support for dictators or explicit military overthrow ourselves, a conversation with the american legislator after
traditional relationship between commander in chief and the military. senators lindsay graham, joe liberman, and john mccain said that. they left out the far greater truth that the comments are inappropriate and inconsistent with the traditional relationship between military and civilian authority and are thus intolerable. we can honor his service the way we honor the service of general kurtis leme, forever blemished, forever compromised, forever instructive, that however much credit each heroic soldier deserves, he and his comrades are not the masters of this country, but its employees. it s the fundamental tenets on which this nation rests. it s what president kept us from a dalliance with a militaristic history. it is the simple balanced poetry that has saved us from the threat of military overthrow and dictatorship for 234 years while nearly all of the other great nations of the world from germany to japan have succumbed to it again and again. and what happens next should be
nation. general mcchrystal s comments are inappropriate and inconsistent with the traditional relationship between commander in chief and the military. senators lindsay graham, joe liberman, and john mccain said that. they left out the part that it s inconsistent with the traditional relationship between military and civilian authority. we can honor his service the way we honor the service of general kurtis leme, forever blemished, forever compromised, forever instructive, that however much credit each heroic soldier deserves, he and his comrades are not the masters of this country, but the employees. it s the fundamental tenets on which this nation rests. it is the simple balanced poetry that has saved us from the threat of military overthrow and dictatorship for 234 years while nearly all of the other great nations of the world from germany to japan have succumbed to it again and again. and what happens next should be no surprise to anybody.