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League countries. >> also the pentagon briefing is coming up at 3:15 and we will be taking that live. i mentioned earlier today that we're going to see secretary gates delaying his trip to russia. he wants to stay in the states at least for another day and manage this more hands on before he leaves so we'll wait and see what the perspective is from the pentagon. chuck, thank you for keeping tabs on the president's perspective there in brazil. appreciate that. let me bring in former general barry mccaffery who is now an msnbc military analyst. jonathan alter who is an msnbc political analyst an...

From your vantage point, how optimistic is the arab world that they can stop the violence toward civilians in libya? >> this is a, you have to understand what's going on in libya in the context of the wider middle east. the middle east is going through an incredible period of flux with revolts and uprisings and revolutions from north africa stretching all the way to the arabian peninsula. all arab governments are in the cross hairs right now, very unpopular with their people. there have been successful revolutions here in egypt and tunisia by participating in this offensive, by participating o...

The case of libya by getting the u.n. resolution, by getting the support of the arab league, and having nato, that's the cover there. that's the model going forward. and i would be surprised if you see that model, them somehow move away from that model when dealing if this ends up being a humanitarian crisis. this libya model is the obama doctrine. this is what he ran for president on. this is what he has been talking about rhetorically since he took office and he is putting it action. >> chuck todd traveling with the president. thank you very much. appreciate that. msnbc military analyst reti...

People are fleeing benghazi east toward tobruk where i am and i suspect we'll see wounded people in the hospital here tomorrow. >> reporting from tobruk, libya, lindsey, thank you very much and take care. cohost of the daily rundown chuck todd is traveling with the president. chuck, the president's in brazil but he made a very strong statement today about the willingness of the united states to support the military effort. how far is he willing to take our troops? >> reporter: it's clear there is going to be -- we already have a certain amount of naval ships in the mediterranean and they are g...

Conference in tripoli from gadhafi saying he wasn't going to attack his people. >> men, women, and children are the primary concern when the united nations decided to act the thing they said was the cease-fire must happen immediately and must protect the civilian population of libya. nbc news chief correspondent of the daily rundown chuck todd is traveling with the president in south america. we're just getting news now that the defense secretary robert gates is delaying his trip to russia because he has the situation to deal with. how prepared are we? how involved might the united states beco...