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Aid into darfur." our top story at the bottom of the hour, pentagon officials say the u.s. has spent more than a half million dollars so far on the libyan conflict. the president made a robust case for humanitarian intervention during his speech last night while contrasting the effort to some of those waged by his predecessors. white house correspondent mike emanuel looks at the so-called "obama doctrine" as well as the comparisons he made between this conflict and the ones in bosnia and iraq....

Doctrine on monday? >> absolutely. this is obamas got to two things, one, set the record straight on what he is trying to accomplish with libya but also to make clear what the obama doctrine is. the other two wars he is fighting, afghanistan and iraq are ones he has up hiartd. this one he started himself. so i think what he is going to talk about even though he may not use it in these terms, a limited war and intervention. he wants to go to war with limited means, no ground troops, limited perio...

Hill writing a letter to the president as he returned from vacation, basically, ripping his mission in libya. heres what he says. it is regrettable that no opportunity was afforded to consult with congressional leaders as was the custom of your predecessors before your decision as commander in chief to deploy into combat the men and women of our armed forces. well, thats because its not officially war. if you look at how the spokesperson yesterday answered the questions about whether or not this...

During the cuban missile crisis and we have seen both republican and democratic predecessors focus and keep the visual message coming from the white house and that is different about this situation. >>neil: well, jane, possibly the president could say i expect europe and coalition forces to lead the way because libyas fate is more important to them than to us, and, let them sort it out and let us quit being the wring leader. >>guest: that may be what is going on. he certainly is prioritized the ...

Jerrold nadler and maxine waters raise constitutional objections. conservatives said the president waited too long to act. >> i regret that we didnt act much more quickly, but thats not the point now. the point is lets get behind the effort. >> and then theres the question about the end game. the ultimate goal of the mission still undefined. president obama follows seven predecessors who faced off against colonel gadhafi. obama could be the last. >> this this is a great opportunity to replace a ...

Said, it is a difficult mission for the military and, we dont want to get involved in a third war and, what you have is a situation where the u.s. government has frozen qaddafis assets and the u.s. government has embargoed purchasing libyan oil and this all serves to isolate qaddafi and i think limit what he can do and, it is going to expedite the fact that qaddafi is -- i dont think there is any way that he stays in power and is not about the u.s. going in there and bombing his home or anything...

And conservative, was one who said, it is a difficult mission for the military and, we dont want to get involved in a third war and, what you have is a situation where the u.s. government has frozen qaddafis assets and the u.s. government has embargoed purchasing libyan oil and this all serves to isolate qaddafi and i think limit what he can do and, it is going to expedite the fact that qaddafi is -- i dont think there is any way that he stays in power and is not about the u.s. going in there an...

Council not been used every time we have force, i am glad we have international support. but i dont want the model to be that you have to go to the u.n. to teal with tyranny, because russia and china will be less than friendly to getting rid of dictators, because in many ways they are countries run by dictators. >> chris: senator reed, should the president get authorization from congress. >> the president should notify is on the war powers act, like all of his predecessors, and, that gives us th...

Members of the own presidents party and they are critical about how he has handled the response in libya. >> good expect example jam reed said when it comes to this mission, congress needs to be included more in the planning. >> president should notify the war powers acted like his predecessors doesnt apply but he knows it applies, the fact is gives the opportunity to review what he has done, if there is a proposal coming before the congress, i would have no difficulty in supporting the action t...

9-11, it is a terrorists dream to have these fuel rods transported around the country. >> we are having this discussion in the lyndon johnson room, one of your predecessors as democratic majority leaders of the senate, one of the great legislative masters and one of the great compromisers. one of the other great compromisers in the senate came from kentucky, senator henry clay, and he said all legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession. henry clays seat is now held by mitch m...