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Quickly as a consequence of internal defections. or a coup, or try to create a hurting stalemate so that over time in addition to frozen assets, containment and no-fly zone, and at some point somebody arming the rebels, whether its the united states or not, i dont know. there are serious risks for doing that, keeping the pressure on gadhafi. but im afraid here, unless we get very lucky, were in for a very long movie. that is not good for american interests and its not good for american credibili...

Proven problematic. they support hamas. what youre going to see in syria is what youre going to get. its going to be an arab winter. youve got a minority regime led by 15% of the population. unlike egypt where the military would not fire on the egyptian people because they had their own interests that needed to survive might be might be, this is not true of the others. it seems to me that the story will be repression, im afraid. >> rick: were going to end with saudi arabia. im going to ask you a...

Possibility of brokering deals in dc? >> its open season on president obama politically. everything he does now is going to be filtered through the eyes of pure politics and being reelected. i think its a horrible decision for the white house to make. i welcome it as a republican because now the president has put himself out as candidate obama and not president obama. the governing president that he should do with especially when no republicans have formally announced. >> brad, is it ever not op...

The rebels fight here. one thing that will change over the next 24 hours as of sunday, the u.s. will end all military combat air and naval operations here in libya. theyre handing these operations off to nato, to the brits, to the french. they will now begin to take the primary responsibility for enforcing this no-fly zone and also hitting gadhafi -- the u.s. will maintain a presence here. they will also support the operation here. but they are taking a back seat to the brits and to the french i...

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>> rick: we certainly do. its amazing because doctors had been so cautious -- cautiously optimistic, but they were careful to let everybody know this was going to be a long recovery. not to expect any miracles here and we havent really gotten a whole lot of information since shes been at the rehab facility. but to get this news from her intern that shes recovering quickly, probably more quickly than even her doctors expected. >> arthel: speaks volumes about her. im very big on the medical commun...

Be the worst scenario for this president. >> rick: all right. we have time for one question. you think the president does go into reelection mode, campaign mode, what do you think that means for the tone in washington as we look for our leaders, leaders in congress and the president to work out deals that solve the problems we have in front of us? >> i think he has to take a more active role and i think if the campaign starts, there is a lot of impetus on him to take that active role, to be out ...

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Weve got so many people out of work. is this the right time for president obama to be telling people he wants another four years on the job? >> you know what? i think its time that the president hit the trail and starts telling the american people why he did what hes been doing and why its been working for them. all weve been hearing the last two years is why all of his policies are bad. yet all the signs of the economy are pointing in the right direction. the stock market is up. unemployment is...

Washingtons job crushing spending binge. >> thats what a spokesman says, speaker boehner told the president on the phone call today. the government runs out of money at the last tick of the clock on friday unless lawmakers pass a budget to run through the end of the fiscal year. thats the end of september, or unless they pass another stop-gap measure. arthel? >> arthel: molly henneberg, thank you very much. >> rick: new reports that president obama is getting set to officially launch his campaig...