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Themselves with al qaeda. so unless the situation truly implodes and al qaeda can take advantage of that, frankly, i wouldnt worry about it. besides, if al qaeda does establish bases there we will pound the living you know what out of them as soon as we identify them so i do not believe this is a long-term threat. >> roger, what does pan am 103, how does that play into this? a former justice minister under gadhafi said he had evidence gadhafi himself ordered the bombing of this 747 over lockerbi...

Shows 75% even of tea partiers support the no fly zone but sort of the same two-thirds deeply disapprove of obamas handling of the situation in libya. you make sense of that if you can. i cant. >> what about mr. boehner? he says that the united states has a moral obligation to stand with the libyans and this is the same guy who wont stand with the unemployed in this country, the 99ers what about that moral obligation? ive been listening to you talk about the numbers and remembering what dr. king...

Of the libyan people. these are the two men secretary of state hillary clinton met with last week. according to the financial times, the people, those two men represent in libya are lawyers, academics, businessmen, and youth who participated in the february 17th revolution and formed committees to organize themselves and run cities and towns. joining me now to talk about all of the threat about al qaeda in africa, former white house counterterrorism official and now a terrorism analyst for msnbc...

Fund, the operating budget of the pentagon to do this. this really didnt need a special allocation of funds. >> well, continuing resolution you could put an amendment in that would be a restrictive amendment that would essentially stop the president from being able to spend any funds for the operations against libya. >> so moving forward, president obama has done this. what are the -- what is the political downfall with his base on this? your take on that? >> you know, i have to tell you, i mean...

Situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation. still, the white house insists tonight that this is a legal operation. national security adviser thomas donlin told reporters today while consultation with congress is important, quote, the administration welcomes the support of the congress in whatever form that they want to express that support. joining me tonight is congressman dennis kucinich of ohio who has got some serious problems with our activity in lib...

Libya. mr. luger, i think youre a little late to the party. arent you? more on this tomorrow. the money and where is the middle class in all of this? republicans dont know what to do. cheer lead for war or attack the democratic president. what the hell? theyre going to do both. wait until you see the knots theyve tide themselves in. stay with us. were americas natural gas. and heres what we did today in homes all across america: we created the electricity that powered the alarm clocks and brewed...

Marching on benghazi has been pretty nearly defeated. the people in eastern libya are now going to be safe. and imagine what we would be talking about right now if president obama hadnt done this? with the support as you mentioned of the united nations and most of the world. not only would we have a blood bath but also a message sent to dictators all around the world that gadhafis approach for dealing with these political protests through violence and brutality works. finally we would still be e...

>> we expected in a matter of days to be able to turn over the primary responsibility to others. we will continue to support the coalition, well be a member of the coalition. we will have a military role in the coalition, but we will not have the preeminent role. >> and despite the heavy military action in libya, president obama went ahead with a planned trip to brazil. in a speech there, he mentioned what was going on in the middle east. >> but for our two nations, for the united states and bra...

And what they did on friday. even without me being around, they still went up. >> even without you. >> the dow up 83 points, 11,859. >> you left some good market karma behind you. >> you never know. oil up this morning, so well watch -- >> that often has a negative effect. >> overseas has been rallying today. so a lot of times how that goes, thats what happens. >> stephanie elam, thanks. 29 minutes after the hour. time for your top stories. coalition forces striking libya over the weekend. u...

Driving his forces back from benghazi. and now at this point, pentagon officials say they will be able to start patrolling the skies over libya. >> we now have the capability to patrol the air space over libya and were doing just that. shifting to a more consistent and persistent air presence. as admiral mullen reported this morning, the no-fly zone is effectively in place. >> and again, the u.s. expects to transfer control of this operation to its allies in the next few days. kiran? >> chris la...