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We have to stop spending the treasure of the united states in these military adventures and start taking care of things here at home, bill. >> bill: so you are willing to be-to sit by and watch qaddafi slaughter his opposition and you know he would. >> im not willing to be the policeman of the world. thats my opinion. im saying if he is going to take action against libya. he cant do it on his own. he is not a king. is he a president. he has to abide by the constitution which doesnt give him unil...

Karlos sanchez ram oz caused the fatal crash this week. he was deported but had slipped back in the country. >> brian: the white house appears to be standoth on libya and debating in the u.n. . now families of the lockerbie victims are accusing the administration of sitting back and putting u.s. oil interest in libya. this is the father of a lockerbie victim and first of all paul, the president called for al-gaddafi to leave. doesnt that show that your theory is wrong? >> well, he did that over ...

Government officials are debating if thats a wise thing to do. the u.s. government telling americans to leave bahrain as protests there reach a boiling point. troops from saudi arabia were called in to help beef up security. protests in the tine oil-rich country have been going on for weeks now with demonstrators trying to oust the royal family. human rights activists say more than 1,000 were hospitalized sunday when fighting broke out. and a tragedy for nasa. a contract worker fell to his d...

Debating that james okeefe has taken on big targets and come up with stunning results. once again he is our power player of the week. >> a youtube video, we would get them to say something funny but never wo in our wildest dreams. >> that was in 2009 marveling of his acorn videos that pushed congress to cut off federal funding. now, he has struck again, masterminding the sting of npr executives that was supposedly a rich muslim donors that show their political bias against the tea party. >> we w...

Debating that james okeefe has taken on big targets and come up with stunning results. once again he is our power player of the week. >> a youtube video, we would get them to say something funny but never wo in our wildest dreams. >> that was in 2009 marveling of his acorn videos that pushed congress to cut off federal funding. now, he has struck again, masterminding the sting of npr executives that was supposedly a rich muslim donors that show their political bias against the tea party. >> we w...

Giving to the young people out there who are considering, do i have a problem? am i on the edge? what were doing is were taking it to the next level saying, its okay to be this way because you are the highest paid actor on television. >> and being the face of cbs, which is, you know, supposed to be a family, you know, network and the families out there, and hes working with a 9 or 10 or 11-year-old boy, so he comes into the set, hes off a crack run, been with a few hookers the night before, what...

Hours. reporters in tripoli literally roll out a red carpet. moammar gadhafi comes into the hotel pumping his fists. he did not speak to the journalists as a group, but he was sending a defiant message there. he knows the world is debating what to do. >> thats right. and hes a nut case. hes so unpredictable. but he has bigger guns and bigger planes than the other side. >> and the other side is starting to complain. we are outgunned. we are outmanned. we dont have the am in addition or the sophis...

Entitlements down the road? >> no. i would not support medicaid cuts when you have 50 million americans who have no health insurance today at all. when you cut medicaid what do you think happens? where do people go when they get sick? they go to the emergency, they get sicker they go to the hospital and you spend more money on their needs or perhaps theyre one of 45 million americans who die this year because they dont have health insurance. i dont think thats a solution. talking about health ca...

Done with the public. >> is there any evidence that anyone is doing that educating, that anyone is talking straight to the american people? >> well, interestingly paul ryan, the republican chairman of the house budget committee is setting out right now to go around the country with stacks of charts saying, heres how bad the problem is. let me tell you. hes doing that because republicans know that even the cuts that they want to propose, first on spending programs like these, and also later on en...

Members of my caucus, i mean, that will be one of the most difficult things once these senators return because, you know, weve been friends with them for a long time and there is a lot of republican senators that are pretty upset with what theyve done. >> but one of those democrats said that claim is bunk that the caucus is split. i was told by phone today, i just checked in to another hotel for the weekend here in chicago. that should tell you everything you need to know. we met this morning. t...