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Now newt goes back to the hill and trying to side with the freshman and making boehners life more difficult. were you surprised he did that? >> in our system there will always be an inherent tension. thats part of caucus politics. the democrats have on their side, the republicans have it on theirs. the task is for them to come together own do something about it. >> were you surprised that newt went up to the hill and undermined john boehner. >> he didnt undermine john boehner. >> he did. >> they...

Saying, why didnt the president do something? >> can i ask you about -- >> these are difficult choices. >> did speaker boehner raise any objections when he was briefed prior to the mission? >> i know there was a constant flow of information both to members and staff and of course the president had a conference with some members in person, others, many others, including the speaker on the phone. but we have no objection to anybody asking questions. but i think its important to look at the context...

Mission partly accomplished. defense secretary robert gates says the u.s.-led effort to enforce a no-fly zone in libya has rendered moammar gadhafis forces defenseless. in an appearance on "meet the press" secretary of state hillary clinton defended the military action. >> this was an international effort that the united states was a part of. i certainly believe it was within the presidents constitutional authority to do so. it is going according to the plan that the president laid out. the unit...

Had gotten to benghazi and in a city of 700,000 people had massacred tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands had fled over the border, destabilizing egypt, everybody would be saying, why didnt the president do something? >> can i ask you about -- >> these are difficult choices. >> did speaker boehner raise any objections when he was briefed prior to the mission? >> well, i know that there was a constant flow of information, both to members and staff. and, of course, the president had a conferen...

Influenced obama, yeah, it probably did. im sure obama knew all that. i dont think he had to talk to bhil it. ive heard people say half measures dont work. they worked in kosovo, the bombing campaign that we did over serbia. the clinton administration, that seemed to have stopped that genocide. so i think when people are about to be slaughtered, there is a case to be made that the talking has to stop and you have to kind of do something, and you feel much better about it the next day. people liv...

Private concert at the white house and then he went to play golf the saturday before last and then this saturday, and before he went to golf he gave a saturday radio address to the entire nation. he wanted to make sure that we were celebrating womens history. has somebody hit this man with a stupid stick or a tranquilizer dart? i dont, that were celebrating womens history, emean can he look through those windows in the white house? has he become king louis? i wonder where his passion is. i like ...

Containment center? >> yes, that is what they would do. of course, im not there and watching their control panels. but that would be the procedure they would use. walnu once it built up inside the dome, theyve got to let it out somewhere. the realty is is that the levels that they have let out now even though it sounds like a lot, 1,000 times is one report, im not sure if thats accurate, but even if it was 1,000 times background, it still wouldnt reach health-related levels. however, theyve got ...

Now back to "hardball."ç here is sarah palin. no longer a governor but still in political contention, knocking the hottest republican presidential prospect out there. chris christie. >> with all due respect to governor christie, he has no choice but to cut budgets because hes proper. his state is broke. what courage really is in the face of having a surplus when you have opportunity to intend, spend, spend other peoples money and then you still choose to rein in government, to let the private ...

For your company. >> it is pretty hard to get financing. we started working on the stuff in january of 2009 and launched it in march of 2009. we didnt pick up financing until september. after six months of knocking on doors and hustling. >> so if you were to -- if someone were to say to you, the president or the secretary of treasury were to call you in and say, we need a lot more entrepreneurship in america, we need a lot more innovation, we need a particular technology, what should we do to ha...

Were to say to you, the president or the secretary of treasury were to call you in and say, we need a lot more entrepreneurship in america, we need a lot more innovation, we need a particular technology, what should we do to have lots more of this kind of thing? these kinds of companies? >> yeah, we have actually been called for advice on similar things. and i think a lot of it is to educate students, youngsters, about this path in life that you can go do something on your own. and if you fail, ...