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We did it with help from europeans. we need to support the attempts at forming democracies in the middle east and wherever they occur. richard says reduce our foreign giveaways by 25%. reduce the deficit. we are broke. keep our money in the usa. if you want to read more on this, find it on my blog. cnn.com/caffer cnn.com/caffertyfile. wolf? >> thanks very much, jack. good word. john king speaks to mike huckabee. what would he do about libya if he were president? thats coming up. when we come bac...

At home, including the soaring deficit. thats on jacks mind. hes here with "the cafferty file." >> the house of representatives has passed more than $60 billion in cuts to federal spending, the first sign that republicans are trying to make good on the campaign promises to close the deficits and cut government spending. its worth pointing out that 60 billion is less than 3% every this years projected definite session of more than $1.6 trillion. the house bill cuts federal funds to planned parent...

Cut programs that many of them depend on, especially with the 2012 election looming on the horizon. that $60 billion, word is it will wind up closer to $55 billion. the question, should the government cut the programs in order to attack the deficit. post a comment on my blog. jack, thank you. battles over public worker unions are preding to cash-strapped states across the country in what may be the most high-profile fight. there are more protests today. our senior political analyst gloria borg...

Protesters. >> is madison, wisconsin, congressman a tunisia of american politics now? >> theyre not the same in in way, shape or form at all. so when john oliver was dispatched to wisconsin, it seemed like bringing a camel would be a great gag. this blogger flipped out his flip cam in in time to capture this. the camel got its foot caught and was making unhappy gurgling noises. it fell again. >> we were worried the camels leg was broken. >> jack posted the video on his blog and the animal rights...

>> i suspect a lot of our viewers will say yes, jack. >> a lot of them already have. in afghanistan alone its $5 billion alone. just in afghanistan. >> its costing about a billion dollars a day. >> you think of all the money that could be spent for education or development or whateve whatever. >> yeah, or the infrastructure. >> americans are waiting to get out of libya. bad weather holding up one chartered ferry stuck in tripoli. plus a saudi man under arrest in texas accused of trying to build ...

Hours for the sailors and marines to find the crew. they had barricaded themselves so deeply in the ship. and the pirates sounded the horn on the magellan horn to disrupt how well they could talk to each other. these are real world lessons this team learned to pass onto the anti-piracy teams that relieve them and are now heading to the waters, wolf. >> chris lawrence reporting for us. chris, thanks very, very much. fascinating stuff. up next, jack cafferty with the cafferty file with your e-mail...

Out with a drone a heldfire missile going down. >> drones work great if you know where they are. if someone inside his inner circle provided us with the intelligence, i would think thats an option that the president should seriously consider if we had great intelligence saying this is where he is. >> his interior minister defected to the opposition. hes in charge of the police. he knows where gadhafi may be hiding out. >> its a small group of people that gadhafi depends on. you need someone in t...

Jack cafferty is here with the cafferty file. jack? >> the political uprisings across the middle east and northern frik have paved the way for change for millions of people who have never known life outside a dictatorship. for the rest of us watching at home, those up risings have create ad lot of questions about the future f of a region rich with oil and not exactly starved of anti-americanism. until egyptian president hosni mubarak resigned earlier this month, one party held all of that nigss ...

Soaring. jack cafferty is coming up next. then -- >> talk to you along the way, sir? >> no, no. >> admiral mike mullen did speak to barbara starr, but why the libya crisis is raising tensions at a middle east arms fair. standby. and just before the u.s. navy moves in, pirates kill four americans on a hijacked yacht. were trying to piece together the final moments of what happened. and dozens dead, a city in ruins. the horror of new zealands earthquake. >> its crushed the building there. and ...

When they said i had to do a cnn interview. >> okay. >> you can see the old rahm is still there. for any candidate to win, they have to get more than 50 pblgt of the vote. if nobody reaches the hurdle, the top two will face a runoff. >> well see what happens if he gets 50% plus one vote. hes the next mayor of chicago. should president obama stay out of the fight, if state fight, were going top find out. what youre telling jack cafferty. and from the towering female bodyguards to speeches so lo...