then the other thing on an exit strategy standpoint, how do you get out of this business? if this is something you want to sell eventually, that s something a buyer is going to ding you for. you have all the different concepts that we are a mexican chain or a brew pub, we have all the different concepts to manage in one area. it could be really difficult to get out of it. it is something the folks who were building these things don t think about, what is the exit strategy. it is very local to this one area. you are thinking about expansion, it is not just in that one area. how do you do it in new york, chicago and philly? it is tough because the local economy conditions are not the same as down there. it translates. are people going there because they know the mcnellie s name and know it is the same people. if you put this in chicago, will it translate. when you build the model, perhaps that s the thing you can sell, they are on to something with the business model, how they ru
not even in a surnt role pport nato operation. you think it was the wrong idea? i think supporting freedom movements, those who want assistance with institution building, those who want assistance in organizing around their cause, so long as they are consistent with our values and our ideals, expanding liberty, democracy, and promoting human rights, then i think there is a role that we can play. heavy boots on the ground and no real exit strategy and not being able to tell the american people what it s going to cost, first and foremost or whether or not it s core to there are no boots on the ground in libya. the president said flatly from the beginning no way. when you create a no-fly zone and when you re in to that extent that s an expense and that s a risk and we have to say if we re going to go that far is it core to a national security interest? let me close by asking you what s your sense? you ve been here a couple of days. we assume you re running? we ve got a few mor
upper east side apartment where he had planned to live while fighting sex assault charges. but up first tonight, two breaking global challenges. the obama administration issues a new warning because of intelligence seized at osama bin laden s compound in pakistan. chris lawrence is live from the pentagon with more on that. chris? reporter: well, john, what we ve been able to determine is that al qaeda thought the best way to hijack some of these oil tankers and really hurt oil and natural gas interests was to hijack one of the oil tankers and then detonate their explosives from the inside. they also recommended using scout ships to observe how these oil tankers move and even doing trial runs. it says that their ultimate goal was to plunge the u.s. into some sort of economic crisis by disrupting oil supplies for years to come. and based on all the intelligence that the navy s.e.a.l.s carried out of bin laden s compound, the homeland security department and the fbi issued thi
reporter: you know, t.j., the most interesting thing about being here is you realize how much this is a wholly owned local set of revolutions. they re not looking for the u.s. to bail them out. they re not look for the u.s. to somehow ride in on a white horse. they do want support, moral support, political support, economic support, and i think that what obama has made clear, in general, we support their aspirations in general the united states is going to try as best it can to help make these revolutions successful. but there are going to be differences in our response. i mean, we intervened militarily in libya. it done mean we re going to inter convenient militarily everywhere. it depends on the likelihood of success, which is very low in syria. the regime has to talk about an exit strategy, nas yemen. i think people here are looking
captions by vitac www.vitac.com s. we re going back to it, more than likely, a lot in the hour as we wait on the attorneys to come out. attorneys were dominique strauss-kahn who we can say is the former world banker charged with trying to rape a hotel maid, former, we re saying here, because dominique strauss-kahn resigned as head of international monetary fund. he s going through a hear, as we speak. we did find out that he has in fact, been indicted in this case and charged in the sexual assault. you know this by now, the story by now that he s accused of trying to or accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid at a high-end hotel in new york city. we have a couple of reporters covering this for us, one being richard roth, outside the courthouse right now. richard what can you tell us about what went on inside that courtroom? reporter: the hearing is still going on. as the prosecution and announced, there s an indictment filed by the grand jury against dominique str