bill: hillary clinton from moments ago arriving in pakistan with our own wendell goler talking essentially about that steep climb. libya was divided into two tribes. western tribe where qaddafi was from and eastern tribe where rebels come from. qaddafi is dead from the associated press. libyan prime minister says qaddafi has been killed. that is from the associated press as well. we re taking all the parts of the story and piecing it together for you. this is often times how it is made here and this is one of those days. martha: hillary clinton touched on it there. the future of the country and pushing the lines through ms. rought at this and benghazi throughout the civil war on the ground. no one can dispute the positive outcome of this day if indeed as hillary clinton mentioned, if he is removed from the picture which indeed seems to be the case today. breaking news throughout this morning in america s newsroom. a huge day in the history of watching these countries evolve.
progress but the administration has not laid out a durable plan to win the peace. excellent journalists in libya have pointed out post-conflict winning the peace in many ways is harder than the military operation. bill: you also point out it is actually more important today knowing the fate of qaddafi and he had lost so much power and was basically a man on the run for the past eight months that progress with this transitional government is key right now. but what about the opportunities for islamists in that country? they re waiting there. do they have a say in this? or will the transitional government shut them out, do we know? well, we know a good deal. the transitional national council, now the transitional government, have been more transparent that we ve seen in other similar situations. each of these conflicts presents its own challenges but it s true their hands are full. they need a lot of support. there will be changes in leadership with qaddafi out of the picture in all li
they work to make the next phase of their democratic revolution as successful as the fight to free their country. that just coming in from senator mcdane. senator mccain. we ll continue to hear from those weighing in on this momentous day. steve harrigan joins me live from monterey, mexico, but steve on on the ground in tripoli throughout some of the most dramatic stages of this battle. steve, what s your reaction to this huge news this morning? reporter: martha, i think a tremendous day of joy for the libyan people. and we re likely to see those emotions burst forth like we saw when tripoli fell. i think we can expect several days of heavy gunfire in the air as libyans celebrate this. i think in many peoples of minds there was this fear, qaddafi could do harm and come back in some way. one point i d like to make amid this excitement and joy is that we ve seen this before, we ve seen this in
there, it was qaddafi who called on these western leaders to tripoli and said i m going to give up my weapons of mass destruction, and that was in 2003, then you have the turning over of megrahi, who many people thought was responsible and still think to this day, for the bombing of pan am flight 103n a moment here, you heard david piper nine minutes a. david piper is saying that the spokesperson for the transitional national council, which is the de facto government in libya today, reporting that qaddafi is dead. we re going to bring the better, john bolton, to answer the question about where this crawnd goes next, right after this.
the phone from riverdale, new jersey. we spoken about this in the past. wonder what your thoughts are on this day? very satisfying. i never thought i would see the day that qaddafi would be eliminated. i have to praise the obama administration on new form of template for dealing with state-sponsored terrorism. his administration eliminated. bin laden and qaddafi. you do it we should never again occupy these countries. today is great day. nearly 24 years later it is last chapter for me personally. does mean my brother and 269 other people did not die in vain. martha: i can only imagine what it feels like for all of you who have waited so long and gone through some years of frustration in seeing some sort of justice or some sort of end as you say to this chapter in your lives. and i wonder what you think