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Working -- honest, they were hard working, determined and a lot of heart. were there some bad apples in the bunch? probably. there usually are in any military organization, but these guys were committed to the cause. they wanted what we had, democracy and freedom. megyn: were they citizen soldiers or were they, for the most part, civilians who had just taken up arms? >> mostly civilians. they had training from former members of gadhafis military trying to teach these guys to learn how to fight. ...

Welcome back, everybody. breaking news we continue to follow on msnbc. this graphic cell phone picture demonstrates that anti-gadhafi forces claim prove that moammar gadhafi is dead. were still waiting for official reaction from the white house. still a lot of confusion on the ground about how it happened. right now there are cheers and celebratory gunfire out of libya at this hour following report rts of gadhafis death. a rebel fighter claims he was found in a hole shouting dont shoot when he w...

Lindsey graham, who serves on the armed services committee says he wont stand in the way of president obama continuing the u.s. commitment there. >> the presidents done a lousy job of communicating and managing our involvement in libya, but i will be no part of an effort to defund libya or try to cut off our efforts to bring gadhafi down. if he survives this, youre going to have double the price of oil that you have today, because he will take the whole region and put it into chaos, and i wont b...

>> was the president successful in his speech to the nation last night? >> he was very successful in talking about the past and why the united states intervened, what his reasoning was. i haugt thought he made a compelling moral argument. a lot of republicans including john boehner just agreed with. where he was much less clear, and in the past, was pretty clear, the future he left murky. yes, he has a strategy. but its not clear the strategy will work. healthcare is in europe. exploring every a...

Youre sitting there, mark, the pentagon is actively in conversation while the president meets behind closed doors. hillary clinton will come out at 6:15 this afternoon after the pentagon, after the u.n. and say something. walk me through, mark, what exactly you think will happen in the next 120 minutes. >> this is going to be very tortured, dylan, because you have two major nato allies against nato, overt aggressive involvement the to bring gadhafi down. the turkish government is against militar...

Flying their missions over libya, dealing a devastating blow toga definitefys military, stopping its in its track. the opposition has been able to capitalize on that, pushing gadhafis forces further to the west to the city of a sh aa by-a. there are concerns for other areas like israta, where gadhafis forces are embedded in these cities carrying out massacres against the population. because they are amongst civilians, the air strikes cannot be used against them because of the collateral damage, ...

Attempt to bring down gadhafi. whats happening? what is our foreign policy? >> i think the end game of this mission is still unclear, according to critics, at least. its unclear to me from talking to officials that they expect at the end gadhafi will be gone. they are hoping this take place because they have so isolated and pressured him, in this tribal culture, the inner circle will start abandoning him and take them out themselves. that is the hope, that is t is an inside game, that it does no...

It really does. the air attacks are not going to bring gadhafi down. what they could do is separate libya into two or three or more provinces. create little mini states there that are protected by western power. nobody wants that. gadhafis not going to come down until two things happen. the people in tripoli rise up against him, and that doesnt look imminent. the other thing that has to happen is that the rebels or the civilians or the protesters or whatever they are now have to retake the oil-p...

To headacmake a point from abrot we dont approve. i dont think it will have much good in trying to take gadhafi down. >> as you look at egypt and what may happen in libya they are trying to move toward democracy, with any luck, toward democracy in egypt. can you envision a democracy in libya at all? >> you can envision democracy anywhere but it is hard to foresee it happening in cairo despite the goodwill of the protesters. the military government is still in command. field marshall tentawi and ...

Confirm that are in custody, a third potentially in custody, thats being reported overseas, what do you think is likely to happen to them? >> well, i think the icc, the international criminal court, has said that it wants saif al gadhafi, the most prominent of his sons. theres an indictment against him. its a little unclear whether the transitional council wants to hand him over yet. weve had different statements from different people in the council. but its encouraging that he wasnt immediately...