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On the couch. nice to see you. the author of "a simple government." this quote comes this morning from a rebel fighter. do we have to wait until muammar qaddafi to kill us all until the world acts? and an opinion piece in the wall street journal yesterday that says president obama has been dodging some major decision points spinning his wheels while libya is burning and dodging the decision in favor of the approval rating. do you disagree? >>guest: i am not sure it is an effort to say look at approval ratings but he has a legislative mine set. a legislator can say we will deliberate and always...

>> but all those decision points have to go through. >> if you were running this operation if you had your men and women around the table, what would you have them doing right now? >> right now i'd be going over the sectors and going in and creating liaison with the japanese defense force as to wa sect are they would want us to work in, work collaboratively with them, coming in from the sea and doing air search and rescue. this is not rocket science. and we have some of the best in the world at it in the united states navy. coming ashore with an ability to get people who are stranded on roofto...

Winter storm. he signed 1,000 copies of his new book "decision points." guys? >> all right, gretch, high speed rail rejected. florida turns down $3.2 billion in federal funds to build a line from orlando to tampa! >> florida governor rick scott says it's just too costly to taxpayers who would have to pay even larger subsidies if the plan didn't pan out and he joins us live from tallahassee. good morning to you, sir. why did you cut it? >> well, first off, i'm very worried about the cost overrun of just building it. it could be $3 billion to our taxpayers. second, i'm very concerned about just ...

Light, lighting. mrs. obama said if her husband knew he was going to be president, he would have started dyeing his hair ten years ago. michele bachmann is being called on to explain $1.5 million worth of donations. the federal election commission is asking the republican to itemize the donations from the october filing period. bachmann broke fund-raising records during the midterm election cycle, the most expensive house race bringing in $13.2 million. and george w. bush's book "decision points" tops the list of books college students are reading right now. coming in second on the list, "the ...

Apparently. in an interview with c-span the former president says he's sworn off politics for good. >> define that. >> i won't go out and campaign for candidates. i don't want to be viewed as the perpetual money rai racer. i don't want to be on these talk shows giving my opinion, seconds guessing the current president. i tell people one of the interesting, you know, sacrifice, i think it's -- i don't think ysacrifice to run fr president, to the extent you do, you lose your anonymity. i like the idea of trying to regain anonymity to a certain extent. >> that may be difficult to do. but since le...