this, but it s unfortunate that justice thomas would involve himself in the case. now richard. this is serious. this is clear. just played the sound bite where mrs. thomas spoke for herself about maybe president obama happened to wake this country up. we re not talking about some kind of interpretation, some marginal attack. this is a direct, frontal partisan attack. we might add that mr. thomas did not disclose his wife s connection and financial connection until challenged. how can he sit there and then, let me bring this up to you, let me show you this, tomorrow, tomorrow, there s a forum called the constitutionality of health care reform. sponsored by the federalist society. the exact organization that judge scalia and judge thomas keynoted their fund-raiser the other night. well, let me separate out
richard and richard, joining me from capitol hill is luke russert. key members said they want answersful how long are we there and what s the cost and the end game? did they get their answers tonight? well, chris, as you might expect it fell along partisan lines whether the speech was clear. republicans almost to a person reiterated a lot of the questions you just did. what is the end game in libya and how long will we be there. republicans saying that president obama did not do a good job addressing the concerns tonight. a spokesman for john boehner saying that the speech failed to provide much clarity and nine days into this interventions, the americans have no answers to the question what does success in libya look like? that message was echoed around the republican party that sets up a partisan division going forward. they did not close the door on a
yes, i think he did. here is this responsibility to protect that is an international norm under the united nations. that s one of the reasons there was support for that. the key is the next phase of this. you touched on that briefly and talking to chris, who remembers the rebel forces? they are ill-organize and ill-equipped. it doesn t meet the definition of assistance or self defense by supplying weaponry. that is the test of this doctrine if that is what we saw moving forward. here in benghazi, it feels like the rebels have backer and are being remembered from the air by the united states. thank you very much and we now go back to chris. i think she has more perspective from congress. we do indeed. richard and richard, joining me from capitol hill is luke russert. key members said they want
the ground and we don t take casualties. it s nato and france moving forward in terms of military engagements. there is not a big cost for the president here. then people can judge. they often said judge on the results and a few weeks or months s time if we are lucky. we will see which direction this is going. we can assess whether he made the right call or not. we don t think there will be demonstrations and if the tea party people will be that upset about it. it could be that this becomes more i don t mean to be dismissive about this, but background noise to the ongoing political battle wees have in the country already thank you for station up late with us. back to you. richard will be coming back and we will have final thoughts from libya and talk about what s next when the mideast in crisis
is the president set out in his speech. the concept of a just war is how the president spells it out. whether it works politically depends on the success. here s the way it was just and justified and that s a piece of american exceptionalism. now richard, do you think that the white house meant to go this far? i listen to the speech from here in benghazi and clearly the people here were touched by it because the president talked about not waiting for mass graves to be filled. these would have been the people of bengazhi that filled those mass graves the president went beyond talking about libya and justifying the action he talked about a new doctrine of preemptive war going to war when the president of the united states doesn t feel it is morally right not to go to war. do you think the white house had that intended message?