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With, as you say, traffic flowing on the streets. to hear the thunder of guns. heavy aircraft guns firing up into the sky tonight as they did last night. 50 caliber guns as well as individuals firing their rifles up into the air. it does lend a weird sense one hand have you traffic and stores and on the other hand you have people firing up in the air from other parts of the city. this is a really energized place. its where there is a sense of energy but also fear as well. there is a lot of peopl...

Fighting back and what is the latest as it relates to that steve? >> as far as fighting on the ground goes, qaddafis government loyalist forces are still active. they are trying to solidify control over the town of misrata, about 125 miles away from here. they really want to sure up their control in the west. its going to be a lot tougher for them in benghazi. of course, their forces strepped along that 600-mile desert road are easy pickings for air strikes. but they are going to solidify their ...

Thing to have this attack announced by nicholas sarkozy and david cammeron, the british prime minister and the french president? is it so bad for us to be folded in the grove. >> i dont think so. i can tell you the white house thinks absolutely not. its okay if other people are out there kind of waving the flag and we are actually doing the real substantive work of making this happen. and dont forget this is a complicated situation. its not just libya. there is tunisia in egypt where the preside...

This action is necessary, legal, and right. president obama is talking about limited action of days. qaddafi is not the legitimate leader of libya, he is international criminal. he should be investigated by holder for his actions panam. we should isolate this regime. knock out radio and tv ability to community with his own people. we shouldnt pay qaddafi forces any money when it comes to libyan oil. isolate, strangle and replace this man. that should be our goal. >> chris: i just want to make su...

Pulled into this without the international support we need not just militarily but financially. particularly at this critical moment when we are struggling with the deficit. i think the presidents leadership has created the conditions for international coalition. were shaping the battlefield right now, initially we have that capacity. but we will be able to hand off very quickly to french, to arab forces like qatarys and others. that will send a strong signal to the arab world that this is not a...

It was their call for resolution backing. we are talking to steve harrigan who is live in tripoli at the moment. arab league called for this which gave impetus to the international community to call for and pass the united nations ask discount resolution that backed this. today the arab league indicated, steve, and there you are, that they thought that perhaps this was going too far. any indication from the arab league or any dissent? this while were told the nation of gutter will have four in t...

President clinton ruled out in kosovo. caused him to capitulate. we ended up sending in peace keeping forces and we got rid of my lois very much. we need to get rid of qaddafi. i think we were slow in doing what we had to do but we have to be effective as brit said but lets see if its sufficient. we cant, i think, i hope the obama administration is not taking the position of we hope this works out. we have u.s. forces admit committed. we can pretend we are following and not leading. we need to s...

Interview, one of his sons saying this is a mistake by washington and london and paris. what is the sense of the government officials have you talked to, their reaction now in this operation has started and going on for more than 4 hours? >> you can hear that rattle in the background. that is more antiaircraft fire going up in the skies. were not sure what the target is of course it was cruise missiles that fire would be in vain. also raf warplanes have hit targets near the capital in the past 2...

Colleagues vote very strongly against him. we have got an arms embargo thats more effective than the one that has been put in place in 19 -- its dr. chris under those similar conditions, he brought down the plane at lockerbie. he bombed the nightclub that killed americans in 1986. even a cornered isolated qaddafi, have to tell you, sir, he is very discuss. >> he is a very dangerous guy. is he very unpredictable. and certainly i think the -- i think all of us will continue to bring a lot of press...

Quite as much time on bracket picks and this stuff in the past week. at the end of the day, policies right the policy is right. im not sure anything he should have been doing about japan. libya, i think he was too slow. i think we paid some price for that. libyaians killed and qaddafi strengthening himself. he needs to make sure qaddafi goes. if he does, people will forget he was on tv and bracket picks or forget he was a big booster of pitts chances and underrated that fine little school in ind...