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more human remains are found and now new signs that this could be the work of a possible serial killer. we will get a live report from the area, and i will be speaking to the mother of one of the victims and what she wants to say to the person or maybe persons responsible. but first, i want to get to something that has many, many of you worried right now. the price of gas is skyrocketing. looking at the national average and folks are doling out $3.80 a gallon which is the latest word...

Military, we need to do this, you can see the subtext clearly ca just, our cause is righteous, well see it through to the end. instead you hear him saying, well be in and out. its limited in duration. we wont be the ones enforcing the no-fly zone. wont be our ships enforcing the arms embargo. you see that reluctance shot through his rhetoric. >> tom ricks, we began the discussion this morning, richard engel reporting on the rebel, theyre getting closer to tripoli. then what thats when we leave? ...

Secretary of state hillary clinton and secretary of defense robert gates. then -- the president faces critics from both sides of the aisle. did he overstep his constitutional authority by using force without consulting congress. my interview this morning with republican from indiana senator richard lugar. finally, analysis of the administrations handling of the crisis in libya is our fragile economic recovery continues and our military is stretched thin by two other wars, did the president m...

>> you can see it. the irony that of course obama in 2008 was the antiwar candidate and for him to be the person who has brought us into a third conflict in the middle east, i think that is why you see that anguish. he does not want to be in these circumstances but he feels that his hand has been forced. i think it is going to a concern on the left. but whats interesting about what you see in congress is the objections seem to be mostly about process, hey, we werent consulted, less about substan...

This is really just obama going back to an eisenhower-like approach of not trying to get stuck in something but try to affect it. >> but bob youve chronicled this throughout the bush years and now the obama years. the point that you had made before, which is what if things dont go as planned? isnt the legacy of iraq to question the governments best hist case scenarios? >> and ive heard obama say things like, war is hell, it is managing chaos. he clearly does not like war and in his noble accepta...

Matter is the president is spentding most of his time these days on these national security issues. >> tom, youre a little bit more sanguine about this analytically. you said off camera there is a natural flow to libya from the presidents cairo speesh where he tried to refashion americas image in the rest of the world. >> yes. last week the white house was talking about the slaughter in former hugo slauf area. if he had let that happen, stood back, this would be an enormous blot on the presidenc...

Wing as opposed to the old hands, and the president is obviously not happy with his set of choices. one person told me in a meeting he called this military action in libya a terd sandwich. but he was quoting an aide who likes that term. >> ted koppel, you spent time with henry kissinger in the earlier days who knew something about the big ideas for the world. is this administration getting the big ideas right in the tumult in the middle east? >> i dont think anybody has the big ideas right yet. ...

Intervention in rib area. >> as bob reported -- >> you can see it. the irony that of course obama in 2008 was the antiwar candidate and for him to be the person who has brought us into a third conflict in the middle east, i think that is why you see that anguish. he does not want to be in these circumstances but he feels that his hand has been forced. i think it is going to a concern on the left. but whats interesting about what you see in congress is the objections seem to be mostly about proce...

History, this sort of action. this is really just obama going back to an eisenhower-like approach of not trying to get stuck in something but try to affect it. >> but bob youve chronicled this throughout the bush years and now the obama years. the point that you had made before, which is what if things dont go as planned? isnt the legacy of iraq to question the governments best hist case scenarios? >> and ive heard obama say things like, war is hell, it is managing chaos. he clearly does not lik...

Around. there is this receiticencretice woodward, this caught my eye in the financial times. this is it a p would could still run in 2012 on the grounds that he got out of two wars. hes not going to do things to distract us from afghanistan and thats totally consistent with what i call the obama doctrine, that other countries are going to have to do more in a more diverse international order. >> but this is war. uf can you cant extinguish our knowledge about war. this idea that you can have a li...