see if we can get him back on the phone. he's probably got difficulty getting a cell signal. meantime, the word has just come down that at the top of the hour, about 20 minutes from now, president obama will make a statement about the situation in libya. the white house says we can expect some announcements about a u.s. response to the libyan government's violent crackdown on protesters, the ones that libyan leader moammar gadhafi has called rats and cockroaches. now, our next guest has actually been to libya several times and he's met the colonel. joining us from new york is cnn's national security contributor and former national security adviser, fran townsend. fran, good to see you, as always. a number of people who have met moammar gadhafi and talked to him, like fareed zakaria and others, have said he doesn't necessarily make a great deal of sense. listening to his comments yesterday were a little fl