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>> heather: a "fox news alert," the defense secretary speaking out on the coalition assaulted in libya. robert gates saying that the president's advisors unanimously supported his decision op the use of military force. robert gates saying, quote, any president who is contemplating the use of military force should demand a spirited, intense debate, among his advisors on all of the ramifications. but, he added, quote, whatever positions people took in that debate, and in that discussion, there was unanimous support for the approach the president decided on. gates making those remarks to reporter...

Fundamentally, analysts would be the price of oil should be $80 a barrel and there is a big spread based on the fear premium built in to the price now. >> gregg: let's forget oil now, it is too volatile and there are too many uncertainties. >> yes. >> gregg: if you want to invest in energy markets what do you invest in. >> we are, looking at alternative types of energy stocks, the one example would be something like a peabody energy. something that is coal related. solar is something that calls has done well in the last week or so, as people realize, there is an alternative to oil and it is an...

Into context, aaron miller joins us, author of "the much too promised land." thanks for being with us. in addition to military force, we are still enforcing various sanctions against libya. where do you see this thing going? will it force muammar qaddafi from power? >> if i knew the answer to that, i would probably be back in the government. the reality is, we are in one of those tricky situations, in which we are involved in a discretionary war. not of necessity but choice and might have been a good choice but it is a war of choice and as a consequence we are severely constrained about the ki...

>> i think they're getting a survey, trying to see where they need to go before they get all the people here. i think they came with a few people in a truck or something like that. friends, initially we thought it was going to be about 50%, but it's really starting to turn out to look more like 75 to 90. people come in day by day and we have big hugs and try to gather information. >> excellent. thank you very much. steve corbett. he also spoke to his mom earlier on in this evening. one very happy woman. >> thank you so much for telling that story. we just got a little news alert that's quite...

You think. we had a similar shift when the chilean quake happened. and again, you've got to remember the orbit around the sun isn't completely circular or -- and when you think about other things like the magnetic field, that's constantly changing. everything around us constantly changes, but the scope of this thing typically change very, very slow. and when you have an event like this, what typically will change on a very, very slow scale changes quickly. and everything that comes along with it we've been saying. >> it reminds us we're at the mercy of mother nature. thanks so much, rob. new...