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Tunisia. >> greta: donald trump is also talking about libya. hes showing us his birth certificate. why? donald trump wants the president to show his. he will go on the record and tell you himself. >> first, breaking news, sarah palin joins us with reaction to the presidents speech. governor, having her the speech what is the reason that you understand to be why we are -- why we participated in this military action in libya? >> i think that was a profoundly disappointing speech. it proved that th...

The middle east. the president speaks to strategy. he did say today that gadhafi must be held accountable. the trick is following the course of events. exploiting openings and driving to an end state that is satisfactory to us. >> okay. thank you so much. good to see you. >> you bet. >> and we invite all of you to watch meet the press tomorrow. hillary clinton and robert gates will be talking about the use of force in libya, how long it

Have gone there. >> no. weve been buying oil from libya for the last 40 years, weve been okay with that, the no fly zone does not accomplish the desired end state. martha: thank you very much, great to have your pin -- your input on this today. well be talking no doubt in the days to come about all of this, its not going anywhere. bill: martha, in a moment here, more signs that states are in serious financial trouble, a huge cred program on the ropes that could affect millions of americans eric ...

General i think youre more skeptical than i am. tell me where ive got it wrong. >> i think taking on the gadhafi regime was a good thing to do. we should have done it when they brought down our plane over scotland. hes a menace to the neighborhood. he was without friends in the arab world. however, having said that, i would be cautious about asserting that we dont have unanimity. the turks and french are both out of the box. we dont have a command and control system thats agreed on. we dont have...

Capabilities there. the big question is, of course, you know what next? how do you recognize and identify an end state and how do you get there? >> the question about the militarys advice here. i think the militarys advice is very clear. you know, give us the mission, tell us the end state. well work the military means to get to that end state. i think the advice to the president would be very, very clear in that regard. on the other hand, the president makes final decision. so the president can...

Isnt that to get arms in? >> i think the first things first. there is a real problem with gadhafis forces on the move, pretty rapidly shrinking the area that the opposition forces control. and with the threats that were emminating from gadhafis lips in the last couple days, adding fuel to that fire. so i think stopping that, preventing that a tragedy seems to me is the first order of business. now the challenge is if you can stop them, then how do you get to the desired end state? at least as it...

President obamas statement and it was all about stopping the humanitarian crisis. but not the end state. so i think -- my assumption would be that add mile an hour admiral mullen and the secretary of state and president are working very hard. we havent heard that articulated. >> as a military person, do you think that any of the leadership in the military right now would go in without some idea of when they were getting out? >> one would think theyve gone through this, talked about it. theyre ce...

Militarys advice here. i think the militarys advice is very clear. you know, give us the mission, tell us the end state. well work the military means to get to that end state. i think the advice to the president would be very, very clear in that regard. on the other hand, the president makes final decision. so the president can decide thats our constitution. >> right. well, i mean, i ask because we have had the secretary of state, the president and the undersecretary of state all say gadhafi has...

Coming out of there that the shortage of electricity, of water, of medicine. so there really is, sounds like, a beginning of a real humanitarian crisis. i think that probably increased the sense of urgency. >> so you think it was more fear of mission creep? >> maybe not so much a fear as just when you resort to military force under any circumstances, once the shooting starts, then things have a way of happening and are very difficult to predict in advance. we have on going engagements as youre w...