lot of americans go to big bend national park in texas to visit one of the best features of big bend national park is this village. the idea you cross over, hey, it s like feels to me like a kwa quaint version of tijuana? more like a village. go to a village. tijuana s its own thing. this feels like the same idea. that s right. and they are actually i think it was four or five hours by road close to the closest other mexican town, population center in mexico. they re pretty isolated. their nearest population center is big bend. you said you were looking for a wall story. why? like, what were you trying to debunk going in there looking to debunk mythology? what was the goal? we hear a lot of pundits with very strong opinions on both
on the libyan side of the border, like every border crossing, there s the egyptian side that stamps visas and the entry side on the libyan side. all of the libyan side is gone. as soon as you get through egypt, you just drive right into the country. then you run into the protesters. you run into the rebels. i don t think you can call them protesters any more because this is an armed movement with its objective, they are not trying to sit peacefully in tahrir square in cairo, they are gathering weapons with the intention to go and kill gadhafi. they are actively trying to overthrow the government. so as soon as you cross-over, you get into libya, you run into these armed demonstrators, lots of them. they set up check points almost everywhere they can put a checkpoint, on intersections, on street crossings, down the main highways. there s lots and lots of these protester rebel check points. we drove around about 100 miles in this part of eastern libya,
soon as you cross the border from egypt, it is obvious that things are not normal here, that the government of gadhafi who has ruled the country for 41 years no longer ex-erts his authory across the country. on the libyan side of the border, like every border crossing, there s the egyptian side that stamps visas and the entry side on the libyan side. all of the libyan side is gone. as soon as you get through egypt, you just drive right into the country. then you run into the protesters. you run into the rebels. i don t think you can call them protesters any more because this is an armed movement with its objective, they are not trying to sit peacefully in tahrir square in cairo, they are gathering weapons with the intention to go and kill gadhafi. they are actively trying to overthrow the government. so as soon as you cross-over, you get into libya, you run into these armed demonstrators, lots of them. they set up check points almost everywhere they can put a