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Lot to do with it. his approval rating has dropped to 42%. 48% disapprove. by a large majority, 58% to 29% said the president has not clearly stated u.s. goals in libya. heres what the president told brian williams. >> but for us to take this limited action, limited both in time and scope, to ensure that potentially thousands of people were saved, in a neighborhood that could be profoundly destabilized, libya borders on egypt and tunisia. two countries that are going through peaceful transitions...

The president took the right steps. he involved the u.n. he has a nice coalitiodhis is going to be limited. >> i guess it depends on what youre -- >> he said days, not weeks. >> right. hopefully, he will hold to that. you dont know a situation until youre into it. its easy to say until youre faced with a reality. this president has been very thoughtful and doing things helping us to deal with the reality. not what we want him to do. >> everybody has got something to say, michele bachmann was on ...

How big of a check and how much of a military theyre willing to deploy. the british claim the same. meanwhile, the other nato countries, most notably germany, but ill add turkey, are claiming no interest in this. and the u.s. is attempting to wash its hands of it. meanwhile, its an entirely u.s.-implemented not war thats being run here. is there a way to run this gauntlet? >> maybe thats what well find out at 6:15 when secretary hillary clinton speaks. im not sure what shes going to talk about. ...

Ive forgotten his name, its been so long since hes been gone, but the former leader of egypt, to move him out of the way. and what were seeing in libya is that the situation isnt the same. the rebels, we dont know who they are. gadhafi is not someone the united states has been terribly close to. and so, the united states hemmed and hawed, as you said, to the point now where folks, including us here at "the washington post," were pushing, pleading with the president to declare a no-fly zone, or a...

Apparently it has been from some others, that a no-fly zone is a snap-your-fingers, one size fits all solution to a problem. >> but with libyan ground forces moving toward benghazi, simply establishing a no-fly zone at this point may certainly be a little too little, a little too late, if it was ever a good idea. so, now the administration seems to be leaving open the possibility of full-on military air strikes. here to "mix it up," contributor jonathan capehart and with the "washington examiner...

>> obamas left hand doesnt know what his far left hand is doing. food prices are going up primarily because of increased government ethanol subsidies -- >> you cant say primarily, because ill give you a contributing factor. >> it is certainly a primary contributing factor. >> i will give you contributing factor, for sure. >> we cannot ignore. okay, give me that. and prices are going up on the energy front because the administration has effectively shut down a third of americas domestic energy pr...

Using energy and gas the way we used to on a personal level. but also, i do think that there has to be at some point some kind of support for the sort of clean energy agenda that the president has been trying to push in trying to get the american people to reduce its reliance on foreign oil and fossil fuels and looking to renewable sources of energy to run this american life. and also, the other thing we have to keep in mind is that while were focused on our way of life here, remember, there are...

Care industry. its not a way to get the private health irsnurchs industry out of it. its giving people government taxpayer money to subsidize further the health insurance. the debate is getting health insurance companies out from between the people and their doctors. >> were going to wrap this on time but do you guys actually think were going to have a legitimate health care debate this year or are we going to see more nonsense? mark, yes or no? >> i think well definitely have a real debate. >> ...

Issues. you opened your show today by noting that our system seems to oppose progressive change. i think i would simply say our system opposes change, period. >> i dont necessarily disagree with that, mark, as you know. would you consider this? basically that? in other words, whaer the incumbent -- whatever is the status quo, whether its gitmo, the giant banking system, the current trade structure with china, a list of things, some that i like, some that i dont, whatever they are, you cant chang...

Onto it, effective will i taking it off the table as a point of policy debate. >> yeah. mark tapscott, youve got to kind of chuckle at the criticisms of the public policies, in fact, ran a presidential candidate on criticism of republican defense policies and security policies only to watch them flip to the cheney/bush terror architecture as soon as they got the job. >> well, actually, dylan, im not surprised to see this, and heres why. i have a column in the washington examiner today about how ...