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The ground. there is either going to be a stalemate or gadhafi is going to fall. and either of those cases present very serious challenges for us in terms of what we're going to do here in the next month or two. >> well, senator webb, you've made a distinction now between this operation and what we've seen in the past. i understand it's a useful distinction. did the briefing yesterday, the classified briefing, did that accomplish one goal in terms of informing congress? and does the presidential findings that we understand the president signed in order to permit the covert action, does that ac...

So you could call it a war of choice, you could call it a pragmatic intervention. i think he's a pragmatic idealist. and when he's looked at that whole selection of possible motives and he's factored in the moral calculus, because i think he genuinely felt that there was a humanitarian disaster about to happen, then he acts. that is the obama doctrine. i mean, he said in his speech that america is different. and i think insofar as people has been asking all along whether he believes in american exceptionalism or not, i think that is what he was talking about that night. >> i also want to talk ...

More than likely, unless this remains a volatile combat situation for quite some time. and even then, what are we going to do? there are calls for arming the rebels. there are calls for other countries maybe to come in and become militarily involved. this is not simply the prerogative of the executive branch of the government, when you reach the situation that we're in right now. >> do you think that the president has already crossed a legal line and, also, do you find encouragement in the fact that moussa koussa, the foreign minister there has defected, at least the libyans are denying it, bu...

But the fact is, they are now cutting -- today they're going to cut -- vote to cut 70,000 jobs from the faa, our airports are going to be a lot less safer because we're not going to have the money to take care of them and not have the personnel available to keep us safe. and at some point, reason has to prevail here. and we cannot allow the tea party to rule. we just can't afford that. because all we're doing is cutting off our future. >> it doesn't sound like agreement is going to break out anytime soon on capitol hill. thanks so much. good to see you, good to start the day with you on "morni...

Take a look at what we need to be examining over the next week or two weeks, first of all, yes, we have reports that there are cia on the ground. it depends on what they're doing, if they're trying to get intelligence information on the makeup of the opposition, that's certainly something that we need in order to make estimates in terms of what a future policy might be toward them. but the key questions that i see right now are, first of all, i think there were legitimate questions about the legality or the constitutionality of how the president moved forward in his initial decision to take mi...