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Is a stalemate back and forth, the longer term that the regime would revail. >> the regime will retrail. gadhafi will win. that was before this international intervention. it was the opinion that gadhafi overtime was going to win. then came intervention. it calls for all necessary measures. the reaction on the ground and the rebel stronghold of benghazi for intervention, cheering in the streets. aze rebels were losing nj back. they referenced directly tonight in terms of the dramatic nature of its tin

That's problematic for a lot of reasons. but partly because congress doesn't want to vote for all the reasons i just mentioned. if you're john boehner, you're happier not voting on that libya intervention. six months ago you can say whatever you want and no one throws that vote in your face. the fact of the matter, this is a creep of unilateral authority by the executive branch in sort of military operations, it is also on congress who just sort of are shirking. they haven't demanded justification of the authority in mass, and it is on them to come forward and ask for that if they want to have...

The intervention. >> i wonder if you sketched out the way the right is going to deal with this in the future. the president tonight gave a very detailed, very clear self ren shall, repetitive idea of multilateralism. the idea that american leadership means diplomacy alongside force, and diplomacy means getting the world go along with what we want, which means participate rather than lead from a military perspective. that is multilateralism. that's something hawkish republicans like to criticize in theory. so doesn't this open an opportunity for republicans to go whole hog john bolton on the gu...

Involved. the precedent. the libya intervention as the beltway over how this justifies the u.s. of american military force. how a president-elected in part because of frankly national revulsion. how this president justifies action of his own. whether or not you like the action in libya, it's clear for why it is justified matches what he said he would do with military force. what he would see as the justifiable use of the u.s. military. it is clear it matches what he said about that issue at the very start of his presidency when in his first year as president, he accepted the nobel peace prize....

That's problematic, but i think it's partly -- congress doesn't want to take a vote for all the reasons i mentioned. if you are john boehner, you are happy not having voted on the libya intervention can you say more or less whatever you want and no one is going to throw that vote back in your face. the fact is as much as i think it's problematic creep of the ions, it's on congress whoebrchl are shirking here. they haven't demanded a justification of authority and it's on them to kind of come forward and ask for that if they want to have that argument. >> a key predictive point that the politic...