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Of the primary contributors of oil to europe, it's a big deal to a lot of these european nations, and the united states, for better or for worse is the security umbrella for europe. >> and, chuck, i know you're going to be a busy person. you're anchoring "hardball" and the coverage of the speech tonight so we'll all be watching. thanks, chuck. the president's address comes as western air strikes pave the way for rebels to make a dramatic advance across the libyan coast, retaking some 200 miles of territory in less than 24 hours. the goal now of the rebels, to break the military's hold on sir...

Striking. not in our vital interests and yet we're committing military resources to it. >> but then it wouldn't be fair to what bob just said. did hib ilibya attack us? no, they did not attack us. >> but they did have interest with our allies and our allies have been standing with the united states in afghanistan for a decade when they were not attacked. so that's the case that secretary clinton is making. >> reporter: and i think behind the scenes, that's what's made it an easy thing for the u.s. to do these things and to commit to this international coalition to do something about libya. but...

Ticket in 1984, former vice president walter mondale joining us. and president obama will address the nation tonight on libya, trying to explain the mission and the goals as nato takes command of the military operation. nbc news chief white house correspondent and co-host of "the daily rundown" chuck todd live at the white house. chuck, what are they explaining about how the president will make the case tonight? >> reporter: they're not explaining a lot, you know, in terms of public comments. we had an off-camera briefing with the deputy national security adviser and it began with i'm not go...

To help the civilian population and protect them and at the same time to help libya to get on the way to being a stable and sustainable partner for europe and for the west. that's what we're trying to do. i think there are real benefits in what we're doing for our peoples. >> thank you so very much. the british ambassador to the united states. stay with msnbc of course for live coverage of president obama's speech about libya tonight at 7:30 eastern. and tomorrow nbc "nightly news" anchor and managing editor brian williams sits down with president obama. see his interview tomorrow on nbc "ni...

Set for libya. it's not just the united states and europe. we've got a number of the arab countries, african countries represented there. there is huge support from the international community for that. so we need to look ahead to what the international community can do, first of all, helping the humanitarian situation and then beginning to chart the way forward on the political situation. as you said, most of our countries are having contact with this transitional council, which is set up in libya. the senior member of that council politically is going to be in london. he'll meet members of t...