Address On Libya News Today

But there was some optimism on the senate floor this morning. >> spoke with the white house this morning, theres conversations going with the white house and the republican leadership in the house. and i think that this matter, with a little bit of good fortune, could move down the road in the next day or two to get us to a point where we can have something done. >> nbcs luke russert covers capitol hill for us. and luke, some positive words from the majority leader. we saw boehner respond to the...

Get it. well, president obama made it clear last night that our involvement in libya is a humanitarian mission, not an operation to specifically remove gadhafi from power. but if gadhafi did choose to leave and seek exile, where would he go? here on the flip side we take a look at behind some of the other well-known deposed leaders who fled after their reign wasut short. lets start with the very latest. hosni mubarak couldnt hold control of egypt but hes staying relatively nearby at sha sharm ...

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>> jamie, it was clear last night the president wanted to reinforce the international agreement on this action in libya. so does that mean that were not going to make this same move in other countries, be even if there are atrosties being committed, like genocide in sudan going on right now and the fact that we can justify being in libya, but we cant justify being in sudan. so what are the limits of the obama doctrine? >> well, there are limits to americas ability to control whats going on in th...

The pressure on and deepen the isolation of the gadhafi regime. this includes a unified front of political and diplomatic pressure that makes clear to gadhafi, he must go. >> i want to bring in former state department official and now bloomberg vice executive editor, james reuben for more analysis on the presidents address in libya. jamie g to see you. the republican response to this speech came quickly. senator mccain, in particular, wasnt pulling any punches. take a listen. well talk on the ot...

The president had to say. do you think thats really a political attack or serious concern that might give other auto kratz in the region comfort as well? >> well, i dont really think that that particular sentence that senator mccain referred to really was intended the way he suggested. by imposing the way the president suggested -- by imposing a no-fly zone and attacking gadhafis ground forces from the air, this is precisely what president obama is doing, is to prevent the 1991 disaster john mcc...

Prevent something terrible from happening, the kind of slaughter we know would have happened in benghazi, because gadhafi said he would show them no mercy, and we can do that at relatively little cost with support from the rest of the world, that is a tremendous act on the part of the united states that should be supported. just because you cant do it everywhere doesnt mean you should do it nowhere. >> jamie, speaker john wayboehns office released a statement saying we didnt get the answers we w...

Confusion in the early weeks when president obama and his team were clearly reluctant to get involved, and then made a last-minute turn-around. and any time you do that in government, there is a likelihood that the opposition party will take advantage of that. but i think what matters a lot more to the president and should matter a lot more to the country and the administration is that weve got this thing just about right. weve got international support, weve got american involvement through nat...