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Arizona congressman with the house armed services committee. thanks both for joining us. >> criticism is coming in from both sides of the aisle, democrats and republicans, representative dennis kusinich action calling it grave without congressional and ron paul saying its insulting the authority to impose a no-fly zone copping from the united nations and not congress. beginning with you congressman mcdermot, should congress been more involved? >> i think the president has handled this very well....

Apparently, is the libyan transitional national council? >> i dont think recognition, frankly, is going to make one bit of difference. one way or the other. nor should we, and we need congress for this, arm these people. we dont know who they are and libya is a black box and i dont want american weapons showing up sold on the black market, used against innocent civilians or against the u.s., ultimately. we have to keep our eye on the objective i is note libyan opposition. it is whether or not in...

Been unknown. his statement to the nation have been by telephone, those telephone speeches replayed on state television. as far as the fighting on the ground goes, across libya, there is still government forces in action around the city of misrata but the breather for the rebels in the stronghold of benghazi. tanks belonging to khadafy were wiped out by french warplanes and there are reports that fled the rebel stronghold now feeling safe enough to return to that. that is the situation right her...

Alive, after nine days, in fact, the 16-year-old, clamored out of the ruins of the house an flagged down the rescuers, and helped to save the -- his grandmother and both, considering nine days under the rubble, in relatively good condition. so that is one good thing, out of this. and as you note the debt toll grows, heather, overall, death and missing figure is now topping 20,000, and the fear is, that the actual final death toll will get in that range as well. back to you. >> heather: what a gr...

Freedom and democracy, not so much about the military action but the president has been monitoring the situation on the ground in libya. >> gregg: what do we know how he has been monitoring the developments? >> reporter: were due to get a briefing from his national security advisor in an hour or so. i anticipate we will learn more about how the president is keeping tabs. but this morning, first thing he had a conference call on a secure line with secretary of state hillary clinton, bob gates als...

Reaction from washington. republican house speaker john boehner calling on the president to better explain the objectives in libya. david joins us from. >> lawmakers are pleased that we are in libya but some are critical to the approach. we got a statement from john boehner, he knows what is happening today but he wants to know what is next. president is commander in chief but the administration has a responsibility to define for the american people the congress and our troops what the mission i...

Or any gunfight. this is not easy but this is the easiest part of what may turn out to be a rather prolonged campaign even though they now have agreements from at least one arab country to join this coalition. >> gregg: look, the president stated objectives and he stated it yesterday is that we want to protect the libyan people. has he shifted away from what was his stated policy of regime change? >> it strikes me that he has. the commitment there wont be one single ground troop put on the groun...

Role you mentioned, of course, the united states in control, right now, command and control as you mentioned but well be handing that over. what about from the beginning of this? in terms of president obama and the united states? do you think it was a mistake we did not take a leadership role, officially? >> i do, in the sense of moving towards action earlier at the united nations and i think there was a window of opportunity, a week to ten days ago but i think it is sensible, at this point, to ...

Officials say qaddafi himself is not targeted but had not been seen on television in two days, making his reports now, very yeah, the telephone, back to you. >> gregg: steve, live in tripoli, keep us posted. thanks. oil prices shot up more than $100 a barrel when the protests first broke out in libya and now are skyrocketing again as bombs rain down on the nation. are oil stocks a good investment? ceo of bell rock capital, author of the book "dont buy the bull" joins us, good to have you. thanks...

>> heather: the decision to launch a military operation in libya, coming only after the arab league threw support behind the plan. but so far have you noticed the arab league is not doing anything in terms of military action? why some say that makes america look weak. well talk about that after the break. with similar safety features as the chrysler town & country. the difference between theirs and ours is that all our safety-tech features come standard and most of theirs are optional. we dont t...