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Subject. >>judge napolitano: it is touchy. first, the first amendment prohibits the government from elementing speech, it cannot shut down radio, newspapers or cable tv or broadcast tv or the internet. senator lieberman introduced legislation that would give the president emergency powers during a national emergency that he declared, which would authorize him to shut down the internet and president obama and the white house have indicated their support for the legislation. it has not made its wa...

Some future time when something goes whacky and what if the president decides constitutes an emergency, that allows you to turn off the internet? >>judge napolitano: for mubarak it was an emergency. for here there is no standard, an emergency is whatever the president who was president at the time thought it was. i hate the idea. because it interferes with free speech. free speech is a natural right and its protection is guaranteed by the constitution which means two things: the government canno...

Administration was in the white house about what happened if they did not take action. here is secretary clinton on that issue. >>guest: if we were sitting here and benghazi was taken, and tens of thousands of people had been slaughtered and hundreds of thousands had fled, some over the border to egypt, destabilizing egypt during its particularly delicate transition, we would be sitting here and people in the congress and elsewhere, would be saying, why didnt we do something? >> secretary clinto...

For. but we do have a lot of intelligence reporting about muammar qaddafi taking the bodies of people he has killed and putting them at the sites where we have attacked. >>reporter: officials say that the rebel opposition is about 60 miles east of a key town that is, of course, muammar qaddafis hometown. it would be a strategic victory, another 250 miles, then, to the capital of tripoli. >>shepard: thank you, from the pentagon. as i mentioned at the top of the hour, president obama will address ...