in libya somehow, as the demand is higher than ever, right? as migrants and refugees flood into libya from all over africa, from all over the middle east, from all over that part of the world, trying to use libya as a launching point to try to get themselves into europe to save themselves and save their families. how would you crack down on that industry in libya if you wanted to? unless you were physically going to stop the smugglers loading people on to these boats, unless you re physically going to stop them which would effectively be a military action it is hard to imagine how else you would do it because there are no authorities in libya to crack down on them by any other means. libya doesn t have a government that controls its whole territory. it has a few competing groups that say they govern specific places, but there is no governing authority let alone one capable of taking apart a big lucrative criminal syndicate
kinds of distraction and attacks and i m ready for that. i know that that comes unfortunately with the territory. it is, i think worth noting that the republicans seem to be talking only about me. i don t know what they would talk about if i weren t in the race, but i am in the race, and hopefully we ll get onto the issues and i look forward to that. former secretary of state hillary clinton in new hampshire addressing questions about reported allegations in an upcoming book that s not released yet called clinton cash. the book is basically opposition research from a conservative group led by a guy who does this stuff and has for a long time. the family bankrolling the ted cruz campaign are on the board of his organization. the surprising twist, the whole shopping the opo-research story, the twist that doesn t make much sense to me yet at least is that the midst of celebrating their
as migrants and refugees flood into libya from all over africa, from all over the middle east, from all over that part of the world, using libya as a launching point to try to get themselves into europe to save themselves and their families. how would you crack down on that try if you wanted to? unless you were physically going to stop the mugglers, unless you re filly going to stop them, which would effectively by a military action, it s hard to imagine how you would do it. there are no authorities in libya to crack down. libya doesn t have a government that controls its whole territory. it has a few competing groups that say they govern specific places, but there is no governing authority in libya, let alone one that is capable of taking apart a big lucrative criminal syndicate that may be handling hundreds of thousands of people for year. just for scale here.
that region be supporting isis? it s not so much that other countries are supporting it. here s the way it works. there are a lot of countries like in libya, the government has collapsed, there really is no government. in other places the government doesn t want to take the lead because they re fearful that there may be elements of the population that support it. they don t want to cross certain religious leaders who might have sim path es. it s really a lack of leadership. in jordan you have a strong leader with a vision who also has fairly good control over his country and can lead it. the country is increasingly unified behind him. those conditions do not apply anywhere else. libya doesn t have a government of any kind. so it has fallen to jordan and the king of jordan to really be the pivotal figure in all of this. then there s qatar, too, who has played a crucial role. crucial and utterly possible role. who has been criticizing even
me about the terrible situation with this, you know, militias run rampant and nobody really controlling them. and listen to what he told me about the state of his state right now. is libya a failing state? translator: libya is not a failing state. the state of libya doesn t exist yet. we are trying to create a state and we are not ashamed of that. outside world believes that libya s failing but libya was destroyed by gadhafi for 42 years and destroyed by a full year of civil war. and that s why we re trying to rebuild it. so there you had it from the prime minister s own mouth. this is not even a state yet. and we see it play out. this is the highest profile of these kidnappings but it s been going on for a long time and people are saying this happens, you know, to high connected people in libya as well. it s just happened to the prime minister. he went on national television, really to try to calm