united states will be involved in this libyan conflict? give a best case, perhaps, and worst case scenario. well, you know, that s hard for me to say, but i would say that we re going to be in this till the end. i think we made a commitment, quite frankly, in my own opinion i think we made a commitment without due consideration for the long term and what it was ultimately going to evolve into. but, you know, i think we are going to see gadhafi hang on for quite a while longer. he has all the resources that he needs to hire surrogate forces, to hire mercenaries to help protect him. and, alex, he has no place to go. so i think we re going to see this go on for quite a while. best case, you know, maybe in the next 30 days we ll see the rebel forces in tripoli. having said that, i think it s also entirely feasible that in another six months, gadhafi could still be holding on. but general, even if the rebel forces are able to take
i think it s a big question that the administration is going to have to wrestle with. retired lieutenant general jerry boykin, sir, thank you so much. good being with you. thank you. let s go now to london where more than 200 people were arrested in those massive protests that we were watching all day yesterday here. more than a quarter million people took to the streets to protest the toughest spending cuts since world war ii. it was one of the largest demonstrations in fact since the protests against the war in iraq back in 2003. staying in london, we are counting down to the royal wedding, now only 33 days away, and learning more details about the big day for william and kate. it s been a pretty busy weekend for the royal couple. they have selected their wedding cake. tazin has more of the sweet details about this cake. good morning to you. reporter: good morning, alex. the thing with these cakes is there s so much secrecy surrounding them. we re not going to see what they
natural gas installations but they are now in control of a third one binjawa. it s a very small town along that coastal road but it s very significant because the rebels were stopped in their tracks there a little over two weeks ago when they were pushing towards tripoli and that really was the turning point. from that point until just a week ago, it was all about gadhafi s air force, all about gadhafi s artillery and his volunteers were coming out of the woodwork to help push those rebels back. now, of course, it swung 180 degrees again. the rebels have actually moved 180 miles in 24 hours, alex. it truly is an extraordinary amount of mileage, but again it s an asphalted road. they have met absolutely no resistance. gadhafi s forces are just not there. a lot of the destroyed material is there lining that road
now, some newspapers are saying this particular cake is a chocolate crunch cake, the kind of thing you often see in coffee shops, alex. i ve been sitting on the set for three hours and 45 minutes, i m hungry. okay, thank you very much. i appreciate that, it all sounds great. reporter: me too. thanks, alex. in a moment, the latest concerns about radioactive waters around japan s crippled nuclear power plant. what are the chances a meltdown could still happen? your watching msnbc sunday. announcer: this past year alone there s been a 67% spike in companies embracing the cloud big clouds, small ones, public, private, even hybrid. your data and apps must move easily and securely to reach many clouds, not just one. that s why the network that connects, protects, and lets your data move fearlessly through the clouds means more than ever. castrol syntec has been reformulated for better performance under the hood. so we gave it a new name.
are we going to have to go into different places? what makes libya different than the hot spots there and the unrest in those countries? you know, alex, i m glad you asked that question, because i don t see a distinction. i think that we went into this thing at the request of this notional international request, which was pushed primarily by the europeans because their interests there are far greater than ours. they get much more oil out of libya than we do. anfothlawode rbiesaow always be there with our military capabilities. now they need military capabilities that they don t have, and they have had to go to the united states and we rushed in to bail them out. i m one who is opposed to the u.s. involvement in this no-fly zone. so why libya? why not syria, why not yemen, why not bahrain, why not jordan?