i don t understand why we are not using the issues bosnia. we brought war criminals to the haig for trial based on their bad acts. moammar qaddafi is a war criminal. he killed americans. i don t understand why we are not using that as a drum beat to justify action been qaddafi. his own ministers confirmed he approved the lockerbie bombing that killed hundreds of americans. bill: that might have been the effort in the first 48 hours and they missed him. i think we should have redefined our policy objectives to say this guy is a car criminal and it s time to bring him to justice. bill: the president is back in the white house. do you expect him to talk today? is it past due to make another statement to the american people? i think he s going to have to. with speaker boehner giving the
moammar qaddafi has said that he will target civilian targets if libya were hit. we don t know if he s behind it. we don t know who is behind it. it s one thing you run through your mind if you are a parisian official looking into this. more as we get it. new reports from the pentagon saying that the military mission in libya is changing. now the forces will be on the focus will be on qaddafi s ground troops. meantime, american planes bombed the wreckage of an f-15 fighter jet that crashed in libya. the military took the action to keep sensitive material from falling into the wrong hands. rick leventhal streaming live from benghazi, libya. rick? reporter: here in benghazi, they re taking baby steps to form a transitional government. they re a long way from assuming control, because the violence is continuing and
anti-regime uprisings in the 1990s and then he merged his forces into al-qaeda. on march 18, while denouncing the united states, france and britain, killed on his forces to overthrow qaddafi. this is the leader? if it is, it s not good. he s running an al-qaeda group denouncing the united states. is it possible that that is who we are helping? yes, it s certainly possible. what christopher is saying speaks to the overarching problem, in that we went into this situation so haplessly, so unprepared, unaware of what s going on that we not only don t have an exit tragedy. we didn t have an entry strategy. and people that we re looking alt mustafa abdul jaleil was the justice minister for moammar qaddafi and he s one of the guys that we re looking to to replace moammar qaddafi.
being justice minister for moammar qaddafi is no claim to fame. it s a complete and catastrophic failure of leadership. christopher, with all due respect, life is not a box of chocolates. it s serious stuff. the world cries out for adult leadership and we re not getting any. we don t know where it will come out. we re clueless. we don t know who is in charge of the operation from our side. megyn, chris, i love you. you are consistent with republican talking points. republican talking points are goldilocks without baby bear. it will never be just right no matter what president obama does. in this situation, it s cried out for that on your side. we heard he didn t go in fast enough. we heard he s gun in too fast. which is it? we re working with an international community to try to rectify a situation where millions of innocent civilians would have been killed but for
minutes ago, by our check. clearly, that s not happened. but we just talked to our foreign desk, at least a spokesperson at the eiffel tower, who is confirming that the tower was evacuated, some 4,000 people. they re investigating the package. they expect to reopen the eiffel tower in the coming hour sometime. a mixed message because they re still investigating the package, though they expect to reopen it. again, the concern is, moammar qaddafi made bold threats against the west, so in this climate, anything being taken extraordinarily serious. megyn? megyn: indeed. trace, just as i read the wire, it has been evacuated, right? reporter: right. no people are inside the tower. they expect to reopen it. it s not been reopened. they re still investigating this package. and investigating the threat that said that the tower would