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Not going to prosecute you for war crimes, and then he goes back and says to gadhafi, hey, look, this is what's going on, and i think this is a deal you may want to take. so there's a possibility, though i think they probably are going to denounce him as a traitor. >> to your point, peter, if a military commander or even if one of his sons were to defect and you have this image of gadhafi standing alone in a room, how does he then control any forces he may have left on the ground? what happens then? is he stubborn? does he leave? does he stay? >> remember, like i want before, i used the word "...

Officer. peter. thank you for joining me. good to be with you. us this is perfect case in point. now in london defecting, how big of a deal is this today? >> well, it's certainly symbolic. he is one of the inner circle. it could be showing some cracks in this regime. that's what the administration and nato allies and other coalition partners had been hoping for. but once again what's going on on the ground is a military operation. i would feel much better, i think, if i heard about senior generals or senior military commanders defecting. right now he's the first one, it could be the beginning ...

those are the rebels. and what you see right there is actually the road we spoke about just yesterday. this is that coastal road meandering along the med ter and ian sea where most of the fighting is taking place. here's the maps. today the rebels have regrouped near brega. but i want to turn the corner because all eyes today are on tripoli and the quell of whether gadhafi's inner circle perhaps has been collapsing. moussa koussa turned up yesterday in london defected, here's what we know. there was a filmed conversation last friday between musa kusa and william hog. details undisclo...

you're really doing is choosing when you were get health care and who will pay for it. if you go without insurance, if you choose to do that, what you're saying is you'll choose to pay for it later out of your own pocket or quite possibly have the rest of the public pay for it. if you're uninsured, you may not be able to afford your care. they're saying the decision to go without health insurance is, in fact, a form of economic activity and can be regulated by congress. >> now, this was the case that was brought by a virginia attorney general, but there are other health care cases th...

around $25 billion a year. we think we can achieve the same objectives by 2014 with a force of one quarter that size. that force is important and it cannot be at tiny force, 10,000 or less, because it will not have sufficient capability to do the job. our vital interests are what drives us. we have a vital interest to keep pressure on al qaeda to prevent them from attacking the united states. we did that from afghanistan as well as with our friends in pakistan. if we took those networks out of afghanistan, we would lose that understanding of what is going on with al qaeda, even insid...