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Options are on the table. what are we talking about? a lot of talk in washington this week and in europe about a no-flow fly zone. secretary gates at the pentagon says, you know, he calls that loose talk. he says thats the equivalent of essentially going to war. you would have to start bombing libyas radar sites to enforce it and its not clear what that would achieve because gadhafi has significant ground force capability. this is not just air strikes hes using against people. next, what arming ...

Anti-gadhafi demonstrations as well. were hearing reports now of heavy machine ygunfire in green square. when we look at this development and the limits options that the u.s. has now what really is on the table? i mean, is there a possibility of covert option here by the urz and maybe britain as well? what are they actually talking about at the pentagon? >> reporter: right. i mean, you know you hear the phrase, all options are on the table. what are we talking about? a lot of talk in washington ...

Would this leave, a ground force to go in to get a safe area for people. theyre very familiar with this area. there are marines, 800 of them. is that enough? im not sure. so its going to take a lot of planning and a lot of political will if youre going to do this operation. >> i appreciate your time and insights and expertise. when we come back, a leading voice on capitol hill. well talk to him about military, diplomatic options and his time of great uncertainty in libya. nts say its really hard...

War on terror and we do need the strong ground force. we have been put in a weaker position and we have to i believe undo some of the decisions that president obama announced and we dont tell the enemy when it is that we are going to essentially wave that white flag and say we are leaving. we are in it to win it and if we are not then the american public feeds to know that, too. we dont want to send our sons and daughters over there for some kind of futile effort, chris. we are becoming war wear...

Arent understanding is a part of this. the rein statement of the marriage penalty tax. cutting the child tax credit in half. higher investment taxes. capital gains taxes increasing 15% to 20%. qualified dividends. those taxes going up. elimination of certain exemptions and deductions and a phasing out of personal exemptions. we could go on and on and on about what is a part of the expiration of the bush tax cuts. the people i think are just super ficially hearing information on. they need to get...

The table in order to win this war on terror and we do need the strong ground force. we have been put in a weaker position and we have to i believe undo some of the decisions that president obama announced and we dont tell the enemy when it is that we are going to essentially wave that white flag and say we are leaving. we are in it to win it and if we are not then the american public feeds to know that, too. we dont want to send our sons and daughters over there for some kind of futile effort, ...

Arent understanding is a part of this. the rein statement of the marriage penalty tax. cutting the child tax credit in half. higher investment taxes. capital gains taxes increasing 15% to 20%. qualified dividends. those taxes going up. elimination of certain exemptions and deductions and a phasing out of personal exemptions. we could go on and on and on about what is a part of the expiration of the bush tax cuts. the people i think are just super ficially hearing information on. they need to get...

Arent understanding is a part of this. the rein statement of the marriage penalty tax. cutting the child tax credit in half. higher investment taxes. capital gains taxes increasing 15% to 20%. qualified dividends. those taxes going up. elimination of certain exemptions and deductions and a phasing out of personal exemptions. we could go on and on and on about what is a part of the expiration of the bush tax cuts. the people i think are just super ficially hearing information on. they need to get...

Of war. hes also a fox news contributor. general, always good to see you. i was a bit confused. maybe you were, too, sir when the president said the taliban has never been stronger but not strong enough to overtake the country. your thoughts on that. >> yeah, frankly i disagree with that. heres why. the president is right. we have not been fighting on the ground in afghanistan since 2014 when we ended combat operations. what have we been doing? very robustly we have been providing an intelligenc...

Fuel gets to those generators and supports the hospitals and critical needs and moves into power generation restoration and power transmission and power distribution. thats how the system works and the plan has been laid out across the island and the resources necessary are there. we have 7,000 and i will make sure i read the numbers. over 10,000 federal forces on the island and lets see. 7,200 troops are there and 10,000 federal employees total. thats a combined ground force helping us distribu...