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>> alan, you know, when you look at quotes from then candidate, obama, he talked about how preventing a potential genocide in iraq is not a good enough reason to keep u.s. forces there and that sounds like the reason were in libya. >> im troubled by it. this is more comparable to the kosovo mission, when there was ethnic cleansing going on but, i believe the president needs to consult more with congress and im upset that that has not happened and i dont know what the end game is and the powell d...

Of the coalition, that is how we start an extremely busy morning, in "americas newsroom," glad to have you with us, im martha maccallum. bill: qaddafi is holding strong, so far, his will is not broken, after a fiery speech late on tuesday. meanwhile, nato warships patrolling off the coast of libya, and enforcing a u.n. arms embargo and this is new videotape inside of libya, plumes of smoke rise from a strategic down in the east, after libyan forces reclaimed control. a significant blow to the re...

Way ahead of hurricane kan katrina right lower on the gulf coast of the united states. estimates put that at $135 billion. and it is far more devastating than the quake that struck kolbe, japan in 19985, damage from that cat asie cost upwards of $100 billion. lots of digging out for people. bill: indeed there is and our prayers and thoughts are with them every day. dont call it a war, peace keeping, president obama calling the mission in libya a humanitarian mission. but whatever you call it, ...

Since 1980 and have never seen a communications strategy more in disarray and clearly something is going on between the white house and the state department and hillary clinton and the president and they cannot get their story straight and if there was a lesson of the involvement of iraq, it is, you have to explain the rationale behind military action before you commit american troops and they havent and and i think theyd like to believe it is kosovo and heres the key difference, kosovo was at t...

Per flight. also, we have 11 navy ships now in the mediterranean, including three submarines, two amphibious assault ships an multimillion-dollar f-15 that went down in libya, yesterday. both pilots have been rescued, they are safe. >> good news and in the meantime, defense secretary robert gates is arriving in egypt this morning. expected to give an update on military operations in libya and will also hear egypts views on this crisis, this is the defense secretarys first trip to egypt. since ho...

Islamic militants worldwide to join the fight in libya. >> translator: the islamic army needs to fight, in this fight. the demonstrations are all over the place, who support you. everywhere, in asia, africa, in america, in europe, the populati populations are against them, their peoples are against them and those who are against you are a small amount, small number of people that are nothing. bill: what is significant about what you are watching there is the videotape and the speech was made lat...

Lean on you again tomorrow, okay? well see where we are then. chuck nash out of washington. martha: you were talking about the uncertainty that surrounds this effort in libya and that has not gone downnoticed by the oil markets because prices are up once again and that means higher costs at the gas pump as well. take a price at of crude oil, $104. just to put that in perspective, that is up $19 since the middle of february. that is a huge climb for oil, and it comes as the president pledges $3 b...

Ways, qaddafi. martha: lets look at how this has shaped up since operation odyssey dawn as it is known began on saturday. the u.s. has flown 2012 sorties or missions, and the coalition has flown 124. the number of airstrikes on libyan targets, 108. and at least 162 of those tomahawk cruise missiles have been fired into the area, as well. bill: watch this story, too, martha. the debate will pick up on the hill. the mission in libya, costing american taxpayers money. clearly, the price tag easily ...

Beds, across that entire region. what next in libya? qaddafi continues his brutal crackdown. what will the president call for next in this mission? and are he and secretary of state hillary clinton on the same page? you will hear from her. bill: also he vowing, qaddafi, that the west is sitting in the dust bin of history, his forces carrying out new attacks. we have the latest from the ground on that war in libya, in a matter of minutes. >> this is the hour of glory that we are living today. we ...