still up in the air, you had issues in saudi arabia that were tampered down, oman was an issue, yemen has fired you and we still don t know what s happening inside syria. this entire region could very well be known as the year that the dictators went down, what kind of a future does it hold, what kind of government takes place here, what kind of policy, how does that affect the u.s. policy in the middle east, these are wide open questions we ll go through throughout the morning as we bring in some terrific guests over the next two hours. martha. martha: bill, thank you. as you know, the u.s. military played a crucial role in bringing about the beginning of the end of qaddafi s regime. jennifer griffin has been following this all along for us, they joins me live from the pentagon. what is the word from the pentagon this morning on all of this, jennifer? reporter: martha, neither u.s. defense officials or intelligence officials at this point can confirm that qaddafi has been either c
statements from the department of state. we get this from nato, nato aircraft saying it hit two pro qaddafi forces military vehicles which were part of a larger group, maneuvering around the town of sirte. the armed vehicle, nato said, were conducting military operations, presented a clear threat to civilians, that from nato. whether that has anything to do about whether or not this was in the air where qaddafi was captured or found, we do not know. we will find out more from the pentagon, department of state, and the white house as we get it here on america s newsroom . breaking news out of tripoli. back in a moment after this.
bill want too continue with our breaking news out of tripoli. we re getting an indicator from the libyan ambassador to the u.k. he is also saying now that the form dictator and leader moammar qaddafi is dead. that goes along with some of the other threerg our own david piper had at 9:00 this morning, 42 minutes ago, when a spokesperson for the transitional government in tripoli told david that he was, indeed, dead as well. this is a picture that has now gone around the globe. it is viral. this is what they say is a dead moammar qaddafi, shot once in the head and once in both legs. california congressman kevin mccarthy with me now in the studio, we brought you here to talk about the economy and jobs and obviously, that will go to page two for the moment. your reaction initially to what we re seeing out of libya. well, i hope this is true. i mean, this is a good day, when you think about it, imagine, four decades of
that muammar qaddafi isorts dead. there is the picture circulated pure reported to be purported to be muammar qaddafi after he was shot in the legs and head. reports that they took off his shoe and beat him with it. this is huge day for revolutionary forces in libya. the transitional national government is taking creditor for this. this is brand new hour starting right now of america s newsroom. good morning, everybody, i m martha maccallum. bill: i m bill hemmer. good morning as well. this started back in mid-february. we re eight months down the road with this conflict. fox news producers on the ground in libya getting conflicting report exactly what happened. one says qaddafi died in a trench in his hometown of sirte by gunfire. one described him in a hole. another says he was taken out by a nato airstrike. nato released a statement and there were operations taking place around the town
wounds, or was it, in fact, a nato air strike? nato did issue a statement earlier today about the same time that gadhafi was reported killed that it had fired on two vehicles in what they described as a convoy of gadhafi loyalists. we haven t been able to confirm that those airstrikes had anything to do with gadhafi s death, but, again, looking at the video, it looks like one bullet wound behind the ear. martha: obviously. the people who have been the revolutionaries on the ground, you know, according to sources in libya say they are taking credit for this, and that may very well be the case. it s possible that there was a combination of the two things, perhaps the convoy was hit and then he was vulnerable on the ground to some of these forces. so we re waiting to hear sort of the extent of that. what s the word at the pentagon in terms of the stability on the ground in the libya right now? what s their thought, their approach to that?