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Here s what one man told ben wedeman today in brega. translator: we ll live free, we ll die free. we ll die as martyrs. we ll fight to the last bullet, to our last drop of flood and god willing, victory will be ours. the opposition, the question what a future libyan government could look like is a work in progress. there are some key steps we ve heard in the works. we re hearing that the members of a transitional national council could be named as soon as tomorrow. representing people from all over libya. joining us live, senior national correspondent ben wedeman and in washington, joining us again is a journalist and middle east expert. he says gadhafi labeled him an enemy of the state years ago and he s written about it for the dailybeast.com where he is a contribute for. ben, first of all from you, and i know we woke you up early in benghazi, so i appreciate you ve had a long day of reporting already. how who is the opposition ....
Freedom plaza. it s the last spot in the just vote them out tour. the rock star in all of this, sarah palin. here she is in boston. is this what their change is all about? i want to tell them, na, no, we ll keep clinging to our constitution and our guns and religion, and you can keep the change. so what is it about the tea parties that s caught fire and sparked so much growth and power? let s talk about it with cnn contributor john avlon. he s also a political columnist with the dailybeast.com. i watch her speak, she s got the one-liners, doesn t she, john, that catches everybody s attention. she sure does. and the people who love her, love her. she may be polarized broadly, but her base is there for her. you know, it s interesting, it s important to remember that one year ago, april 15th, was really the first massive start of the tea party movement. ....
President s only energy and his own commitment to this, the numbers started moving up again. that s david axelrod on charlie rose. in that interview he called the president a worrier. not a worrier, a warrior. a warrior. that s what i call willie, a warrior. he s a warrior. w-a, a worrying warrior. i look at president obama and many words come to mind. warrior is not one of them. with us now, founder and editor and chief of the dailybeast.com, tina brown. good morning, everybody. good morning. let s get right to this. maureen dowd talks about that. hail the conquering professor is the name of her piece. obama wanted to reason to compromise to float in his ivory toury but at long last when push came to shove he shoved and let nancy push. he realized sometimes you can t rise above it. ....
Dailybeast.com. he s author of the boot wing nuts: how the lunatic fringe is hijacking america. thanks for coming in. marco rubio, all of a sudden he s become a major player. what does that say about what s going on in the republican party? well, i mean, i think it s important to say that marco rubio is being pushed by something a lot bigger than the tea party. it s an indication of the anti-incumbent mood sweeping the country. the fact that he s a speaker of the florida house is running on a fiscal conservative platform. there s a major backlack against charlie crist not only because he s in the center of the party and the conservatives are going to dominate, but because he s being seen as being too close to obama having backed the stimulus bill and other things. rubio is running a strong fiscal conservative campaign. right now he s real competitive. i don t think it s a good year to be an incumbent any place but especially not in florida. is the tea party movement moving toward ....
There s plenty of raw politics to toss around. joining me from the convention, john avalon, columnist for the dailybeast.com. author of wing nuts. eric erickson, editor and chief for redstate.com. guys, thanks for being on. i want to go over with you a couple of, you know, it s a leaderless movement and a lot of the members of the tea party like to say that. there s not one leader of the movement but there are people who are popular within the movement. let s talk about a couple of them. tom tancredo who had the opening night speech. yeah, i mean, one man s red meat is another man s raw sewage. and i think last night s speech was ugly. it didn t go over as big in the crowd as some people at home might think. i think it is a consensus. this statement about barack obama being a socialist is close to conventional wisdom here. what s interesting is tancredo hasn t been that much a factor in tea parties to date. he s known primarily as an anti-illegal immigrant activist. that hasn t bee ....