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Reaction from washington. republican house speaker john boehner calling on the president to better explain the objectives in libya. david joins us from. >> lawmakers are pleased that we are in libya but some are critical to the approach. we got a statement from john boehner, he knows what is happening today but he wants to know what is next. president is commander in chief but the administration has a responsibility to define for the american people the congress and our troops what the mission i...

Force against its own people. this is an international military effort, urged by the libyan people themselves and by other arab nations. we are joined by several other allied partners and are committed to supporting their efforts. indeed, we continue to receive commitments of support and participation and leadership from both arab and european partners. in these early days, the operation will be under the operational command of general carter hamm, u.s. africa command and the commander of odysse...

Security council were more than just rhetorical commitments, but are being translated into very specific actions. some countries are more public with their specific pledges to what they are willing to do, and others are looking at how they can best contribute but the conclusion of this meeting was, for me, very positive because it was an unmistakable commitment to enforcing the 1973 provisions. yes. >> what do the actions do to the timeline for gadhafi to act? how does it accelerate that? >> wel...

Military effort. urged by libyan people themselves and by other arab nations. we are joined by several other allied partners and committed to support can their efforts. indeed, we continue to receive commitments of support and participation in leadership from both arab and european partners. in these early days the operation will be under the command of and joint task force odyssey is admiral which is on board of whitney. >> and we anticipate a coalition commander in coming days. that said the u...

Force against its own people. this is an international military effort urged by the libyan people themselves and by other arab nations. we are joined by several other allied partners and are committed to supporting their efforts. indeed, we continue to receive commitments of support and participation and leadership from both arab and european partners. in these early days, the operation will be under the operational command of general carter hamm and the commander of joint task force "odyssey da...

They are saying this thing is on the downstream, you better fix this if you want us to loan you the money. theyre missing the point. we can keep commitments and we can give some proper expectations to young people in terms of social security and we cannot take -- we could actually enhance those that are on the low end, which is what the deficit commission did and fix social security. and we dont have to raise the first tax to do that. its all through delaying the time at onset and creating the p...

Finland sits it out. >> i think he sees us as a nice little country on the international stage thats going to be bound up by multilateral commitments and leadership. and the united states makes a mistake when it tries to lead, it ought to make its views known and hope that the world community comes together somehow magically and mysteriously to do the right thing. if not doing it in libya, its because we are lacking american leadership. if america goes to sleep, the world goes to sleep as well. ...

Finland sits it out. >> i think he sees us as a nice little country on the international stage thats going to be bound up by multilateral commitments and leadership. and the united states makes a mistake when it tries to lead, it ought to make its views known and hope that the world community comes together somehow magically and mysteriously to do the right thing. if not doing it in libya, its because we are lacking american leadership. if america goes to sleep, the world goes to sleep as well. ...

Little country on the international stage thats going to be bound up by multilateral commitments and leadership. and the united states makes a mistake when it tries to lead, it ought to make its views known and hope that the world community comes together somehow magically and mysteriously to do the right thing. if not doing it in libya, its because we are lacking american leadership. if america goes to sleep, the world goes to sleep as well. >> bill: all right. thank you, mr. rove. we appreciat...

Nato also took the decision last week to move some additional nato military assets closer. but remember, this is to monitor the arms embargo that the u.n. put in place as well as to provide humanitarian assistance if needed. we have been running a lot of humanitarian flights, refugees out of libya who are in tunisia getting them back to egypt. >> do we have the personnel to enforce a no-fly zone for a significant period of time? >> i dont think this has e.ver been a question of can we do this. a...