indiana. indiana has haze the the average under mitch daniels. we think it goes to the middle 80s. we can t let that happen. bill: so you say democrats are united and talking about an exit strategy is only talking about negotiations. that s exactly right. bill: not a crack in unity? not at all. bill: you ve been in illinois for what, two months now? no, one month. one month. and we are optimistic, and we re trying to find a way to get a compromise to bring us back. we d like to come back but only if the workers of indiana are safe. bill: i got you. are you proud of what you re doing? we think we have to do it. it s worse than wisconsin, this is not just public employment collective bargaining, this is private sector. this will reduce the sal recent and wages of everybody in indiana. we think we have to do it. bill: how long can you stay there? well, we can stay as long as we need to. constitutionally, we re supposed to be done by april 29th, i hope we re done far before that.
time ago with the president of the united states in el salva r salvador. we are trying to get that tape fed in on the commercial. the president said the administration is looking for ways to try to provide more help to the libyan opposition. as soon as we can get that tape or transcript, we ll bring that in more context. let s condition this conversation because a lot of questions now about what is the end game in libya, what is the u.s. exit strategy, who will manage this coalition. our senior political analyst gloria borger is with me. abc news had an interview with secretary of state clinton tonight. she said something that s kind of tantalizing, then you eyou r not sure you can believe it because she s not sure she can believe it. the united states has some reports friends of the regime are calling around to friends in the world saying what should we do here, is there a way out, someplace for gadhafi to go? let s listen. a lot of it is just the way he bebehaves. it s somewhat unp
we abandon it and totally cowardly yeah craven way either of those is going to be bad for barack obama. sean: he dithered on the afghanistan troop issue. then he didn t give the generals what they were asking for. similarly, he couldn t come out in defense of those students that were fighting for freedom in 2009 in iran. we saw this in egypt, same thing. it is sort of like he we don t know what his foreign policy is. we don t know what his objective is, his exit strategy is. i suspect, that the liberals that are opposing him are gonna have a profound him pack on his future decision-making on this. do you agree? i think they are, this could be the thing that catalyzes a primary against him. i think there is something more important. you are getting at it.
frightening. the president can make a decision. conflicting messages within the administration. they can t define what the actual mission is. now he s got the left wing of his own party . which tells me the president is going to try to bail out as soon as he can. france and great britain leading the way any way. your thoughts? i have a column on this on my website that i just wrote. the powell doctrine is the one we should follow in this situation. which says, first we need to avoid mission creep. second, we need to have clear objective. thirdly, before you go in, you need an exit strategy. he has failed on all three counts. we ve already had mission creep. this was sold as a no-fly zone to stop qadhafi s air force from attacking rebels and killing civilians. now it has gone way beyond that we are bombing his armor and striking his armed forces nothing to do with no-fly. secondly, they said our goal
well, shep, the president noted as he was being asked that question that nato members were meeting were talking about the next steps in libya. here is more from the president. we have unique capabilities. we came in up front, fairly heavily. fairly substantially. and at considerable risks to our military personnel. it is not going to be our planes maintaining the military no-fly zone. it is not going to be our ships that are necessarily involved in enforcing the arms embargo. so, bottom line, the president and his team realize that they will be measured on that they have made multiple times, days not weeks in terms of u.s. involvement in the lead, shep. shepard: mike, meanwhile we are hearing that colonel qaddafi may be looking for an exit strategy of his own.