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>> katrina, the day after the debate and the headlines werent all about donald trump. were you surprised? >> no, im not surprised at all. we knew going in, everybody knew going in this was going to be somewhat of a dog pile on donald trump. turns out thats what it was. im happy to see other people milwauk making headlines. we can look at other peoples policies. >> so no one can say that carly fiorina didnt give some specifics. listen to one of her answers about foreign policy. >> having met vlad...

By the way, the reason it is so critically important that every one of us know general suleimanis name is because russia is in syria right now because the head of the quds force travelled to russia and talked vladimir putin into aligning themselves with iran and syria to prop up bashar al assad. russia is a bad actor. but vladimir putin is someone we should not talk to because the only way he will stop is to sense strength and resolve on the other side. and we have all of that within our control...

>> the president needs to step up. hes in office right now. he needs to talk about what he can do in terms of letting in migrants of international aid, even use the 6th fleet to stem this tragedy at sea that we have going on, but we also need the arab gulf states to come in. we need a coordinated response from europe led by germany. you know, this is something which cant wait on politics. people need to step up. >> if up to cure terrorism, if youre worried about terrorists, just let the situatio...

Mcfarland and jennifer griffin were giving us terrific scripghtss of what they would be doing there. >> the building has a very long history at the navy yard. they dont run operations out of there. the operation are the run out of fleet headquarters. numbered fleet headquarters when you get to the 6th fleet in the mediterranean and the gulf area. the naval sea $systems command, what their job is is to develop and procure the weapons and ships and systems so their job is for acquisition, not for ...

I think thats probably the option that as the preferred option. we have the experience, having done that in the past, we have the precision strike capability, the tomahawk cruise missiles. the 6th fleet in the mediterranean is poised to do that. we have a target list and essentially the air defense and all of assads war-making capability that hes using right now. >> a fourth option would sort of be a desert fox option, sort of like what america did in iraq, a sustained bombing campaign over a pe...

Back from washington. >> reporter: it is almost 25 years since ronald reagan called muammar qaddafi the mad dog of the middle east and that gives you a good idea of what things have been like in that country, for all of this time and, even beforehand. it was 1981. when he laid claim to a big chunk of the gulf of sidra, an american f-14, ended up having to shoot down two libyan fighter jets in self-defense. five years later, our 6th fleet sailed over the imaginary line in the same gulf of sidra. ...

And givers you an idea what things have been like in that country all that time and beforehand. 1981 when gaddafi laid claim to a huge chunk of gulf of sidra and the 6th fleet flew over the imagery line that gaddafi called the line of death and when challenged our navy ended up having to sink two of their ships and couple months after that, president reagan ordered powerful air strikes, very powerful against libya days after a bomb blast at labelle nightclub to berlin killed two american service...

Hem hostage. >> and the reason that president sarkozy of france has been so much more forth coming and outspoken on the issue, the french and rest of the european companies have many thousands of internationals in-- its true that americans might be uniquely vulnerable, but on the other hand, the united states, has unique leverage over the libyans. >> wait, what is the leverage? we dont really talk to gadhafi very much. the argument is we dont have any levining, what i keep reading in the papers ...

Hem hostage. >> and the reason that president sarkozy of france has been so much more forth coming and outspoken on the issue, the french and rest of the european companies have many thousands of internationals in-- its true that americans might be uniquely vulnerable, but on the other hand, the united states, has unique leverage over the libyans. >> wait, what is the leverage? we dont really talk to gadhafi very much. the argument is we dont have any levining, what i keep reading in the papers ...

Taking to the streets demanding sweeping political reform from the countrys sunni monarchy. security forces pulling back after earlier crashes left two people dead and dozens of others injured. bahrain is home to the u.s. navys 6th fleet and a linchpin to our forces in the gulf. in libya the government is trying to quell the unrest by offering big pay raises to government employees. they say they will release islamic militants who oppose gadhafi. we are waiting for a reaction from the state depa...