snidon t think people are critical. mike: i will show you the news clip. maybe the mormon and broader sense of people coming to america. but the basic principles that bring us together as a nation is how you look. our stocks went down dramatically as we are two plus inted of three a. it is how people look at us as a fighting group of politicians rather than having the faith that makes america so great. if we believed that god was on our side and if you do the rightt thing you are rewarded for doing the rightt thing. i don tt care if it is republicans or democrats. the last thing in the world i expected that it would be controversial. believe me. mike: i would tend to agree it shouldn t be controversial that people envoke faith in an
snidon t think people are critical. mike: i will show you the news clip. maybe the mormon and broader sense of people coming to america. but the basic principles that bring us together as a nation is how you look. our stocks went down dramatically as we are two plus inted of three a. it is how people look at us as a fighting group of politicians rather than having the faith that makes america so great. if we believed that god was on our side and if you do the rightt thing you are rewarded for doing the rightt thing. i don tt care if it is republicans or democrats. the last thing in the world i expected that it would be controversial. believe me. mike: i would tend to agree it shouldn t be controversial that people envoke faith in an american discussion .
so that tops the news at the bottom of the hour. david lee miller live in libya. first our national correspondent catherine herridge who works intelligence for us in d.c. catherine. thank you, shep. this is one of the only known pictures of a libyan who is now reported to be a military commander for the rebels. he also spent five years at guantanamo bay s detention camp. according to the documents posted online by the new york times. trained osama bin laden camp in afghanistan in the 90 s after the jihad against the soviets he worked as a truck driver for bin laden in sudan. after that he became member of the fighting group banned as al qaeda affiliate. the interesting thing. provided one of the key lifelines for the insurgency in iraq from 2003 to today we know that libya provided was the second leading source of jihadi s insurgents.
president of the global intelligence and security firm and the former c.i.a. officer mike baker is here to weigh in. nice to see you this morning. thank you so much. john mccain, he says he knows who these rebels are and arming them would be the best case scenario. you completely disagree with him. yeah, i m not quite sure. maybe john mccain and i have a tremendous amount of respect for him and what he s done over the years. maybe he s got a separate line of intelligence right now that no one else has. but the bottom line is we re trying to figure out what degree the extremists, if you re talk about al-qaida elements or al n aligned organizations like the fighting group, we re trying to find out to what degree do they make up the fabric of this opposition? we don t know what influence they will have in the short to medium term over the opposition. so it s it s a little bit odd that people will come out and say either. one or the other so say there are no extremists or there a
states. and now he is saying the same individuals are back in libya and fighting on behalf of the rebels, the freedom loving rebels. judge jeanine: is this al-qaeda that we are helping as the rebels in libya? well, this group that he is a leader of the libyan is not a fighting group, it is not al-qaeda but it is aligned with al-qaeda essentially they all have the same aagain da. it as matter of tactics. judge jeanine: and that is? sheridaia law. judge jeanine: fundamental islamism. right. judge jeanine: did we know that before we started defending these guys and helping them win? we knew about acedi and the muslim brotherhood and their decades of involvement in the eastern part of libya in particular. we knew about al-qaeda s recruiting efforts. al-qaeda has found the eastern part of libya to be a fertile recruiting ground over the years for al-qaeda members for the foreign fighters to move