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Effort with our allies with the united nations security council and so on. at the beginning evidence was praising americas leadership role in this mission. in the latter part of the speech you will recall he also -- >> bill: let me stop you there did sarkozy become an american citizen in the last couple of days? he is the guy that led it. not president obama. >> hear me out. i understand what you are saying. im talking about the message the president presented tonight. on the one hand he seemed ...

Legitimacy to lead and he must leave. >> reporter: saturday at a conservative conference in iowa, mr. obamas libya policy came under attack from republicans. >> reveals the utter lack of clarity in the presidents thinking. >> reporter: in his address to the nation tomorrow, experts say the president must explain how the coalition operation helps meet the administration goal of seeing gadhafi leave power. >> we have other policy options to attain our own objectives that are separate from the u.n....

Defined obamas presidency from the start. now obamas decision to use u.s. military forces to impose a no-fly zone over libya has prompted criticism from republican presidential hopefuls that the president dithered before agreeing to act. "the chicago tribune," the headline says, "while obama seeks clarity, were fighting another war. the president must find clarity before beginning such an enterprise. to do otherwise is to risk not only american lives and his own presidency and political fortunes...

Saying, permits the can international countries to arm the rebels. it has a specific exemption from the arms embargo passed in resolution 1970. its clear to me that that is the long-term solution. you will use international air power and a greater and greater force on the part of the -- these people standing up to the dictator, the rebels, and they will, eventually, shrink his space to the point hes defeated. >> all right. jamie rubin, i know well be talking to you as we go along here. always go...

Supporters or not. and the other crew member was given shelter by anti-gadhafi rebels until help came from him. some democrats are saying that the presidents libya policy is in shambles. the administration turned on a dime last week going against the first instinct and ordered the use of force. some in congress are saying president obama didnt have the power to do that. but hes not the first commander in chief to do so without coming to capitol hill first. jim acosta live in washington. the pr...

With great sadness you hear reports from the front lines of the rebels, where are we. there is a lot we should be doing. helping them communicate, helping them finance with what they are doing. i dont agree with the interpretation we cant provide assistance to them because it would be like sending to a post office box in eastern libya. we should know this opposition before we get to military options but were very late now. >> gregg: i believe you noelle yont cohn. he had an op-ed in the "wall st...

Democrats push back hard on that and hillary clinton seemed to be able to diffuse that as friends may send me things but i was always available to ambassador stevens. she said she had other ways to be in touch with him. this has been a long day. there are not a lot of new areas but they were trying to show that clinton embraced the libya policy as her own and then some of the smaller details raising the question of could she have done more to provide security? she has answers for those and says ...

>> the interesting thing is would she want that name sydney bloomingthal off the e-mails because she requested to possibly have him as an employee and the white house said no. >> exactly right. the fact she said the author of the intel that he was passing onto her didnt matter is quite something to pass it on in circles, including the white house when talking about libya policy. its important to note that it took three hours but the narrative now from democrats and from some of the media is this...

On both of his lines of questioning for -- he was trying to basically say she was responsible for the libya policy, for basically the decision to join the coalition to remove gadhafi from power. the first time he did that, its like okay, what does that have to do with benghazi? that is a direct political criticism of secretary clinton, and thats debatable. but thats got nothing to do with benghazi. the second time that representative roscoe did it was even more insulting. he went after her, tryi...

Those three things must happen, as every american child knows that has seen any version of how a bill becomes a law, animated or not. no other congress in history has ever believed a bill could become a law with only one of those three things happening. here is how the shock waves spread through washington after cantors delusional statement. >> the senates got to act prior to expiration of cr. if it does not act, hr 1 becomes the law of the land, and if theres a partial shut down, members will n...