Course an economy, to be there to help the libyan people do all those things. the people of libya are fully prepared to be a full-fledgeded responsible of the international community and we should be there to help that happen. we don t know where gadhafi is this morning and we received reports including one from richard engel that there is now a sustained assault on a military compound within tripoli. what would happen if this mystery of where gadhafi is goes unresolved for a week or so and nato were to put french troops on the ground or british troops on the ground in seeking gadhafi is th ? what would the reaction be? i don t think the libyans want would thes on the boots on the ground. i think it s a question of time.
Add up because what i discovered was a call back to some of those fundamental issues of he wiprins that we believed. that was the thrust of 2009 and 2010. now we re in a different playing field because those issues get blown up because you re talking about a presidential race and how these viindividuals like a huntsman who i think would be a fine nominee for our party, in fact one of things, i m sure howard did the same hinge when he was chairman, trying to put the best foot forward because the party isn t one faction or one peripher spec difference. so it s a real challenge.best f party isn t one faction or one per spec difference. so it s a real challenge. i don t mean to be catty, but this is a great line.spec diffe. so it s a real challenge. i don t mean to be catty, but this is a great line. jacob wrote this was a thinking man s candidate. there aren t any thinking people in the republican party.
Actually living in relative comfort and maybe the cancer had a longer run than we had been told, i think that may have been a switch and he had lost all of his friends and reason you had international corporation was because gadhafi had no friends. the reason that gadhafi probably is still hold up in his compound as we re speaking is because there aren t very many cup countries that want to take him. so he had lost that enter national support. and he also lost whatever shred of support he had when he moved on benghazi and he looked look he was going to slaughter people. and he sounded like the old gadhafi. it s the visual of gadhafi getting off that plane undercut any relationship we had. let s turn to some presidential politics. in his latest attempt to look
Start bringing those troops home in as great numbers as he can and that neutralizes to some extent what s happening in:00 because people see this is on the way out. jobs is not on the way out. this is going to carry on being a big issue and people can t see a lights at the end of the done the which i abotunnel on the ec. we want to bring in richard engel, he s live for us again this morning in tripoli. what s the latest there? reporter: we re about a mile and a half away from gadhafi s compound and there has been heavy fighting in this area as i suspect during the course of our conversation you ll be hearing exchanges of gunfire, both rockets incoming and outgoing. for the last hour or so, there has been heavy fighting. we ve heard that the rebels have brought in reinforcements and are trying to storm inside gadhafi s compound. that is the last remaining strong hold in this city still held by gadhafi s forces. that is what we can see on the
Idea of getting rid of gadhafi. this guy was within of the worst agent tors e actors on on the w stage. i think we re pleased that he s apparently about to lose his position of authority.i think w apparently about to lose his position of authority. we hope that the new government is a more representative form of government. if indeed gadhafi goes down, you think the new government should hand over gadhafi to whom? to the united states of america would be my first choice. we would try him here and see that justice is done. it s unacceptable that this person does not face justice. i d like it see him face justice as one of the first acts of a new government, hope any a more democratic representative form of government, a modern government. let s get al megrahi back to court and seeking the real justice he deserves. welcome back to morning joe. it s 7:00 in the morning here on new york city.