end soon. that s what president obama said when asked last night about his exit strategy. the exit strategy will be executed this week in the sense we will be pulling back from our much more active efforts to shape the environment. this week says president obama. mr. obama s secretary of state, hillary clinton, reading from the same page. it will be one week on saturday. will it happen by saturday? well, it will be days, whether by saturday or not dendup t eluioma byurilarcoanrs onwi o aiean pane. this repeated insistence that the u.s. is not going to lead this thing, it doesn t just have an international audience, it is not just about telling the muslim wor, for example, that america isn t leading this charge, it is not just about telling american allies in this intervention they better step up, that u.s. forces aren t going to lead it forever. this repeated assertion that the
the exit strategy will be executed this week in the sense we will be pulling back from our much more active efforts to shape the environment. this week says president obama. mr. obama s secretary of state, hillary clinton, reading from the same page. it will be one week on saturday. will it happen by saturday? well, it will be days, whether by saturday or not depends upon the evaluation made by our military commanders, along with our allies and partners. this repeated insistence that the u.s. is not going to lead this thing, it doesn t just have an international audience, it is not just about telling the muslim world, for example, that america isn t leading this charge, it is not just about telling american allies in this intervention they better step up, that u.s. forces aren t going to lead it forever. this repeated assertion that the u.s. is going to pull back also has a domestic audience, and frankly a legal one. the idea that libya is a limited intervention, an intervent
and we come upon the 100th anniversary of the shirt waste factory, 146 women died because they were stripped of their rights and safety regulations. sure. we are witnessing a possibility of these house extremists taking us back to a time when we didn t have child labor laws, or safety or clean water or clean air, and they want to strip people of their rights? their rights? that s who they are. katrina, always a pleasure. thank you. great to have you with us tonight. thanks so much. answer tonight s text question right there at the bottom of the screen. we want to know what you think. the president is talking exit strategy for libya. so why are more american forces joining the fight? tonight s takedown, remember all the right-wing fear about health care reform? this health care bill will ruin our country. you re going to die soon. this will change our country forever. it s over. this is socialism. well, it s one year later.
slaughter of the innocent to bring along citizens. we didn t wait to see where the international community was. we brought the international community along. now we have an opportunity to press for the kind of opportunity for the opposition that i think they re looking for and they re taking. president obama is going to have a lot of questions to answer today now that he s back on american soil. in an interview yesterday, president obama categorically ruled out a land invasion to oust gadhafi and reiterated that the white house wants to hand over control of the operation within days. the exit strategy will be executed this week in the sense we ll be pulling back from our much more active efforts to shape the environment. we ll still number a support role. we ll still be providing jamming and intelligence and other assets that are unique to us. many wondering who exactly we re turning the operation over to. meanwhile in a strongly worded letter to the white house, house speaker
land invasion is out of the question. absolutely. and the exit strategy will be executed this week in the sense that we will be pulling back from our much more active efforts to shape the environment. how do you engage in what is combat now in effect with a crazy dictator like gadhafi while you are announcing what you will not do? well, i think the administration is playing a little bit too much to those in the congress and in the american people who are worried about us stretched too thin, emphasizing a bit too much things like there won t be a ground invasion. no one expects a ground invasion, or that other people will be paying for this. i think you re right. it is difficult to survive war in a democracy where you re telling the public what you re doing when gadhafi doesn t have that disadvantage. but in the end, i think the public will stay with this. the trick is for the administration to distinguish between short term and long term