this is the heir of hugo chavez. this has been going on for over 15 years. he is a corrupt cruel dictator. he is putting, you know putting tear gas out in the streets, shooting people, confrontations. these are just, you know, venezuelans who want democracy, who want peaceful transparent elections. that s what they are asking for and they are marching in the streets and the tools of millions and millions of venezuelans day after day taking their lives at risk in order to fight for democracy and take their country back. there is a lot of disturbing scenes playing out as we are continuing to watch some of these pictures, but another thing we ve learned recently is venezuela s state-run oil company through a subsidiary donated $500,000 to president trump s inauguration committee in december of last year, that equals what pepsi, verizon and walmart donated combined.
he actually had a coalition? i m with the president on this one and i think if it is defined the way he says it is, limited in scope, this actually could be a situation where we don t hear from gadhafi for a long, long time. so what i think is going to happen is that we re going to have a libya with gadhafi. he might survive this. and then we re going to have a country with rebels who want democracy. this is all about democracy, people wanting freedom. i m with the president on this one. as i said, i think he deserves the benefit of the doubt. it s your call, mr. president. this is one american who s with you tonight. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. do you support military action against libya? text a for yes, b for no or go to our new blog at ed.msnbc.com. make your comment there and we ll bring you the results of the text poll later in the show. joining me tonight are a couple americans who don t see this story the same way. former pennsylvania congressman
why? because he didn t do it your way? he didn t go far enough? he actually had a coalition? i m with the president on this one and i think if it is defined the way he says it is, limited in scope, this actually could be a situation where we don t hear from gadhafi for a long, long time. so what i think is going to happen is that we re going to have a libya with gadhafi. he might survive this. and then we re going to have a country with rebels who want democracy. this is all about democracy, people wanting freedom. i m with the president on this one. as i said, i think he deserves the benefit of the doubt. it s your call, mr. president. this is one american who s with you tonight. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. do you support military action against libya? text a for yes, b for no or go to our new bl at ed.msnbc.com. make your comment there and we ll bring you the results of the text poll later in the show. joining me tonight are a couple
america s infrastructure. we have a big battle at home about the budget and the republicans are hammering the president because he is not invading the entire middle east, not doing it the way they would want to do it. president obama has decided on a more focused, realistic approach. he s trying to give the rebels, those who want democracy, a fighting chance at just that and trying to stop gadhafi. this is the human thing to do from slaughtering his own people. now, aside from all the reasons for this mission, he will never convince me that gadhafi didn t have a hand in the lockerbie bombing. you ll never convince me that gadhafi hasn t supplied resources to terrorists. given the fact americans died on that 747 over lockerbie, i m all for this mission. i think the president of the united states, barack obama, deserves the benefit of the doubt and our support. the key here is no ground troops. a limited role in scope. working with international partners who also want to do this and ar
president obama has decided on a more focused, realistic approach. he s trying to give the rebels, those who want democracy, a fighting chance at just that and trying to stop gadhafi. this is the human thing to do from slaughtering his own people. now, aside from all the reasons for this mission, he will never convince me that gadhafi didn t have a hand in the lockerbie bombing. you ll never convince me that gadhafi hasn t supplied resources to terrorists. given the fact americans died on that 747 over lockerbie, i m all for this mission. i think the president of the united states, barack obama, deserves the benefit of the doubt and our support. the key here is no ground troops. a limited role in scope. working with international partners who also want to do this and are flying their jets in there. and staying within the confines of the u.n. resolution. there s a lot of restrictions