extreme. for instance, cutting cancer research, i think that s extreme. how about cutting meals on wheels, which feeds home bound senior citizens while refusing to touch the oil companies. that s extreme. cutting boarder security when there s a clamor to stop illegal immigration. and jon kyl has said that s a bad idea. and these riders, de-funding planned parenthood are extreme, and republicans like susan collins and scott brown said those are wrong to be in the bill. so yes, hr 1, the bill that the tea party sticks with and that they are not budging from is extreme. i said it before, i said it on that call, i ll say it again, that s not news and i have no problem that reporters heard that, heard me say that. senator, before you go, i just want to get one question about the situation in libya, your reaction to the president s speech. have you been surprised by the
we have to make an exception to the fact that we have this rule because these are the right libyans. we need to know a lot more about who they are. sign for it, perhaps. there you go. but seriously, these weapons are going to live through the years and as we saw in afghanistan, when we armed them during charlie wilson s war, remember in the 1980 s, those are the same weapons that the taliban is now using against us. it s a big question. but it probably has to be answered within the next three days. absolutely. so we will have you back to analyze our decision. it seems like we re leaning that way. no good answer but great analysis. former deputy assistant secretary of defense and fox news contributor. thanks. thank you. coming up straight ahead, most tourists come to america for souvenir and to meet gretchen but some are coming for birth certificates. it s the anchor baby problem no one saw coming. and a snow border trapped after an avalanche with a camera strapped to hi
here. he s got a lot on his plate right now with the nfl lockout and a bunch of other stuff. he might be the new regis. let s be honest and they re basically clones. michelle bachmann will be here. she s going to be running for president it seems and she s also embroiled in what s going to be a so-called attack on the tea party by the democrats trying to create a schism between republicans and the tea party. we ll expand on that. and finally, as you can see, screen right, susan lucci will be on our program today. she s got a lot to talk about as well. there are some rumors, all my children could be on the chopping block. i don t see how. it is a brilliant gone crazy! i know about pine valley. in the meantime, we begin with the latest on the situation in libya where nato is starting its takeover now of military command. overnight, reports say rebel fighters are on the retreat, though. they re fleeing the key oil towns as qaddafi s forces hammer them with counterattacks.
inconsistency in the sense that they look at the terrain, they look at libya and they say you know what, our equipment, our planes, our big weapons, they ll work there. we can actually beat back what gadhafi is trying to do with the technology we can bring to this, whereas they may look at an african country, jungle environment, a vietnam type environment, and say we are not successful in that kind of environment, so we re not going in. i think there s an element of that. i think the more important element is the question how the local people will react. if we were to go to yemen or where you have a nasty dictator, the yemenese would be aghast. there is no doubt that ordinary libyans libyans, especially in the east, are overwhelmingly behind this. when you look at what the president said he needed to see in order to do that, you don t see that in the other cases we talked about, the population wanting us there, the u.n. acting, everything that came
history is not on their side because it s not on qaddafi s side, they turn on him, essentially join the rebels or directly go after qaddafi and he s taken care of internally. that s a nice outcome. it looks less plausible today. jon: the selgd, outside pressures force cadaf second, outside pressures force qaddafi to leave. nato or other countries? this is actually the scenario the u.s. officially embraces, that the military effort is not designed to knock out mommar qaddafi but a combination of forces over time will do him in, you have economic sanctions, arms embargo, international isolation and continued support for the rebels so they can t be pushed out and that over time he sees he can t win-win, he s going to be dragged down, negotiate his own departure. how realistic, we ll see. jon: then we get to the even that one doesn t sound so good, but the other two scenarios that you laid out, even less good, libya separates into two, and you see a stalemate result.