the situation in libya is quickly developing as nato counties shift military resources to the region. molly henneberg is tracking that and live in the d.c. bureau. molly, good to see you. secretary clinton it s so unusual to hear from how severe things they are. should she did have a couple diplomatic points she wanted to make very clear clear. tell us about those. molly: that the u.s. backed international efforts to prevent libyan leader from muammar khadafy from attacking his own people but the u.s. would be taking a supportive role in any operation. we did not lead this. we did not engage in unilateral actions in any way, but we strongly support the international community taking action against governments and leaders who behave as khadafy is unfortunately doing so now. we think an international order that can bring about this kind of unity is very much in america s interests. molly: the secretary also reiterated what president obama said, that the u.s. would not be
new now now there s about a thousand to 1500 folks over there, and by contrast, the energy seems to be tonight on the right on line side, the tea party movement, the tenor of the polls, the atmosphere of the campaign trail. it seems to be leaning toward the gop and conservatives. here today they ve had two big speakers already, nancy employees, the speaker of the house, and harry reid. both of them experiencing some degree of unpopularity because liberals, progressives feel a certain degree of unrequited love as well as the white house with president obama in charge. they feel that the agenda that has been accomplished on the left so far this year is actually inadequate. they prefer to have had a public option, a government-run insurance program and health care reform. they believe that the financial overhaul, the financial deregulation program we reformed just a few days ago is itself inadequate for lack of teeth. earlier today nancy employees pi warned democrats they need
fair, balanced, and unafraid. shepard: another senator calls it quits. he loves serving but doesn t love congress. tonight, bad to worse for democrats. plus, inside the afghan offensive. i m shepard smith. the news starts now. they are facing snipers, bombs, and potentially deadly booby traps. but coalition forces still pressing ahead. and word tonight the enemy son the move. plus, the new faces of terror. [chanting] al qaeda is going to try to find people who will blend in to our society. shepard: people who look and sound like all of us. the enemy is adapting. shepard: tonight, a global manhunt for the english-speaking terrorist. and now fox news has learned the christmas day underwear bomber told the fbi he met some of those english-speaking recruits at a terror training camp inside yemen. and now the united states and its allies trying to find them before they hatch their own plots. of course, yemen is where the feds say the suspect got his training and his ex
eye look back at his career and his life. meanwhile, the slogan this hour, fox & friends, a spoonful of truth to help the news go down. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute www.ncicap.org steve: welcome, folks. it is a beautiful tuesday here in new york city. we thank you very much for joining us. and it is the lead story .234 all the papers here. we start with a fox news alert. gretchen: a possible attack on the u.s. broken up. the suspects believed to have links to al qaeda. and a senior source on capitol hill tells fox newsed this the tonl pob bad. potential to be bad. this series of predawn raids yesterday still has people scratching heir heads trying to their heads trying to figure out what took place. residents awoke yesterday in queens to find more than a dozen law enforcement, some in camouflage carrying automatic weapons. they knocked down at least one door. sources tell fox warrants were execu
three submarines for operations against libya. in the ground in libya, opposition forces seem to be holding on as new reports say french fighter jets have fired on four libyan tanks there. our rick leventhal is there. what is the latest that you are hearing and seeing? residents are happy to hear that it s quiet tonight. this morning tanks rolled in from the southern edge of the city, shells landed within a couple hundred yards of our hotel. we saw a fighter jet shot out of the sky. a fighter jet circled over the capitol richard harlow catches the exact moment the plane is hit by anti-aircraft fire. it s unclear if the doomed jet