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That is an inappropriate policy answer. now you've got political kickback out of congress wanting to know who's going to explain to them what's happening. that should not be general carter hamm on a television interview explain what we're doing in the middle east. >> that's who we saw in the last few hours the face of the explanation, giving us some answers to the questions. chris, general mccaffrey, kerj ja colonel jacobs. we'll have more news. time for the "your business" entrepreneur of the week. brendan and john were beach volleyball player whose turns their passion into a year round act...

So you can be good to the last drop. welcome back, everyone everybody to "news nation." we are waiting to hear from president obama. he's holding a joint news conference with the pez of chile. the president is expected to answer maybe one or two question. we're getting two-minute warning. chris, i want to pick up on something general mccaffrey said before going to the break about the face of the campaign.

Proximity to europe that libya is so close to oourp they're taking a profound interest here they wouldn't take into a country that's further away, like iraq. i think the geography has something to do with this. >> waiting on president obama and pinera. >> more about the comment general mccaffrey made. a couple of weeks before we started shooting up in libya, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff was publicly obviously, against the use of military force in libya along with secretary of defense and it was clear both of them had recommended the president not do it. >> president obama and chil...

That means we have to go everywhere, if we go anywhere. i hear that at home, it's called the perfect is the enemy of the good. you can do it all so you do what you can. you go into situations where you can do the right things because there are many areas you can't because there are too many alliances. where you have a free hand, you do something good. i don't believe you do anything good because you can't do everything good. that's an argument for doing nothing ever. >> i don't want to fight anyone else's case, certainly not against you, but the point be, chris, the question still remains, we ...

Involvement in libya. a couple of weeks ago, surprisingly then, decided to abstain from vote on resolution 1973, authorizing action in libya. why did they do that? we talked them into it, basically, which is very difficult to do it. so it took a lot of diplomatic effort to get them more or less out of the way. there was a polite fiction on the very first day of the attacks that in fact the french were leading and there were lots of pictures of french attack planes and so on. in fact they did participate in attacking surface-to-air missile sites. but at end of the day it's an american operation...