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I'm hopeful we can bring this all to the surface after 50 years of hypocrisy in the middle east and elsewhere and be honest about the fact everybody wants freedom, we have degrees of corrupt governments to mildly corrupt and violent corrupt governments and we need to reconcile mildly corrupt governments to freedom period. congressman, thank you. robbt you made me feel like dick cavett with you hanging around. coming up, how the political debate here at home is continuing to potentially influence u.s. mission to libya, picking up exactly on what congressman chaffetz was describing to us. there ...

Mile from where i'm standing in the direction of qadhafi's compound. those explosions returned immediately with anti-aircraft fire. coalition forces have knocked out most of the fixed positions of anti-aircraft defenses in libya. some of those mobile guns still very much in operation, firing up from five or six different points. as far as fighting on the ground, there have been gains by the rebels. one week allege it look like they were it of luck. they have regathered now, thanks to support from that no-fly zone and have moved out from benghazi. they are advancing to towns they had lost. qadh...

Objective to protect civilians. between you believed in the humanitarian america the president says we are after the biggest threat to the libyan people is qadhafi. how can you not remove him if you expect to protect the people. >> greta: i didn't understand what the president said. >> i didn't either. >> greta: good. it seems like the president said, i get he wants him to leave. he didn't say he wanted to kill him or remove him or we should do that. so i'm confused as to why we went in there? number two, what our goal is? how long we going to be there? how we are going to achieve that goal an...

Calling afghanistan the other war, ultimately iraq it is the war, and the others followed. there have been so many interventions. >> and now libya. >> now libya. and this master narrative, which mr. obama, president obama seems so resistant to. the idea the u.s. is eager to intervene in arab countries. do you see a strong difference between this, the character of this american intervention, and the other ones we just talked about, richard? >> well, i was sort of surprised. in the last several months, been touring the middle east, covering these revolts, and suddenly i woke up one morning, foun...

Just one more time. we'll do this once more. how dangerous is yemen? how serious should we take the al qaeda rhetoric which is so heated specifically around that country. >> the west has to watch yemen extremely closely. two attacks have been launched from yemen over u.s. soil in the past year and a half. the u.s. state department is waiting to see what happens. what follows, no one really knows. >> if you were to look again at egypt, there seems to be reasonable chance for debate of a modern adaptive government whether immediately or over time. libya is on the road to be a failed state. if on...