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Government-owned enterprises. these guys have a stake in the game. theyre all on the payroll. its not clear what the former militarys relationship is and the kind of controls by the current government or military, but theyre all in cahoots. its very, very dangerous and volatile situation. congressman ackerman, to be fair, it is a complicated situation. in the past they have worked with us, to give you a list of the folks we did find in pakistan, we did get khalid sheikh mohammed there, we did ge...

Pakistan claims they are working diligently to root out these terrorists hiding in their country. now, look, theres two ways to prove that going forward. one, hand over the other terrorists that are surely there. just do one sweep of abbottabad and youll probably get a dozen or show. secondly, fire almost everyone at the top levels of your intelligence. theyre either complicit or the worst intelligence agency in the history of the world. all right. joining me live now is representative gary acke...

Of enhanced potential for american violence following bin ladens death. congressman ackerman, thank you very much. peter king is here, a republican congressman from new york. i know you must be pleased. this is a moment youve been waiting for since 1993, going back to the first attack on the world trade center. i guess were not hearing peter king. we will hopefully reconnect momentarily. this is new york city. those are pictures from new york city. well check in with peter king in a few moments....

>> all right, youre looking at a live picture where secretary of state hillary clinton is going to come out and speak about libya. reports that well be handing off to tokyo. turkey did not want to participate initially, then there were reports they were going to participate in the naval blockade. the french wanted to do a different setup where it would be france and england along with the arab league. and so we will find out in just a second if those reports are confirmed and if it will, in fact...

>> well, our new role would be confined to behind the scenes capabilities, which sf code word for intelligence and systems integration. november country is better than putting a lot of different stuff together and weaving together a force structure from component pieces. i think youll see the united states play the role of a kind of wizard of oz behind the curtain, if you will, without a lot of public exposure, but playing a vital systems teation le. help av in a coordinate and also were a key p...

Here to prevent the massacre en mass of the libyan people, which weve been asked to do specifically by all 21 of the others, excluding libya, states in the -- >> surprisingly, they werent onboard. >> yeah, they didnt quite go along with that. although if you poll their ambassadors around the world, they might have gone with that. and to enforce a no-fly zone, which is what they wanted us to do. were going to accomplish that. and you could almost say weve just about accomplished it right now and ...

Andrea mitchell is already reporting that it appears its going to be nato. thats a good thing, because thats an alliance we have used many times before. familiar with going to put together something new for this instance, involving the arab league and the british, et cetera. we trust nato a little bit more. its not an impromptu thing being put together. but we dont know for certain thats whats going to happen. secretary clinton will speak to that in a minute. were talking to congressman ackerman...

I think gary ackerman has it right. the way these things work is youve got an incredible degree of international consensus today about gadhafi being a bad guy, having to go. you have a kind of unprecedent ed concern about whats happening around the world. whats important to realize, as the calendar goes on, if gadhafi were able to stay in place, other countries dont have the same cost benefit relationship with gadhafi and libya that we do. we can afford to put him in a box and not worry about it...

Those places? or is that a loss? or is it somewhere in the middle? >> well, i think the mere fact that we stopped what could have been a horrible situation in benghazi, real mass killings, that is a victory, but more importantly, we just did the right thing, i think, to stop that. now, if this turns into a kind of, you know, a civil war or sort of a country divided, thats going to create problems for us for the nato coalition, assuming -- im assuming its going to come together, and for president...