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Hot off the cnn political ticker. let's go to jessica yellin live in washington. jess characters item number one, the big speech tonight, president obama's speech. >> yes, brooke. you know, a lot has been made from the fact he's not delivering it from the oval office or even the white house. a lot of analysts and outsiders interpreting this he may be downplaying it or what does it mean? in my count during president bush's time in office he gave at least five nationally televised responses about the war in iraq or war in iraq in operations outside the white house, atlanta, georgia, cincinnati, ...

A certain degree when he was in the opposition to the war in iraq, when the secretary of state hillary clinton was a senator and in opposition to the war in iraq, they made some of these same arguments that his critics are now leveling against him so he's got some explaining to do, and i'm sure, you know, he's got a very strong speech ready to go tonight at 7:30 p.m. eastern. >> do you think, wolf, to your point, that he likely will not use the "w" word, will not say war, likely humanitarian mission, operation, and another point and ed henry was making this to me earlier, when we think about a...

Going through this very carefully, but they see the pressure building on the president because, again, it's not just speaker boehner with that letter that had some 16 questions last week, about how are you going to pay for this? what if gadhafi does not give up power? what then? also, what if, while nato assumes command and control, what if this no-fly zone drags on for months and months with sort of a stalemate and the allies start getting weary and want the u.s. to step back up to a lead role? what then? these are all tough questions. what i find most interesting is the last time the preside...

New jersey governor chris christie is telling washington politicians that it's time to put up or shut up. the republican rising star spoke here in washington today, and the more he says no to the possibility of a presidential bid, the more some fans are clamoring for him to say yes. our cnn's jim acosta has more on christie's big speech. jim? >> reporter: well, candy, he says he's not running for president, but it's unlikely republicans will let hem off the hook that easy. that's because there is a new situation coming out of new jersey, and his name is chris christie. conservatives are all bu...

There. top names on the conservative and republican side. there will be something like 15 names on the straw poll that cpac takes at the end of the week, and 11,000 attendees, many of whom are likely to vote, so the straw poll at the very least will get some real bragging rights >> i know the straw poll, of course, always makes news and also the person who makes news is the person who gives the big speech. people were hoping that was sarah palin. we know she won't be there, but do we know who will give it? >> reporter: yeah, that big speech was supposed to have been given by sarah palin, at le...