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>>shepard: and republicans and some democrats in congress say the united states military role in libya is unclear. maybe that say that because the united states military role is unclear. the defense secretary gates and secretary of state, hillary clinton, stressed the message that the role and the mission will shrink. it may. tonight the white house reports that the president will explain that in an address to the membership during fox report. with us now from washington, retired air force colonel and former united states assistant secretary of state for public affairs with us. good to see you...

Another $1.6 trillion to it. state it differently, will you vote not to raise the debt ceiling to stop the government from borrowing because they are so addicted to borrowing, it won't stop unless lawsuit prevention them? >> all we are talking about on the republican side is what we can do is put hard spending caps. bob corkeb has a statute that would limit spending. we have to put three or four different straight jackets on this federal government to get it to stop the madness, the madness in terms of out of control spending. that is all we're talking about. you bet i'm willing to absolutely ...

That's not what this technology is for. it can be utilized only to spy on the terrorists at the border. we need that. we don't have a fence. we have don't have a wall. this can provide and go a long way to protecting americans and our national security at the same time. >> jacob, what is there to keep the drones just on the border? what is there to restrain local police from asking the feds to spy on somebody? state it differently, isn't this the beginning or the likely beginning of a slippery slope to the government watching us wherever we go? >> of course. why don't we just put a camera on e...

The southern border. that's not what this technology is for. it can be utilized only to spy on the terrorists at the border. we need that. we don't have a fence. we have don't have a wall. this can provide and go a long way to protecting americans and our national security at the same time. >> jacob, what is there to keep the drones just on the border? what is there to restrain local police from asking the feds to spy on somebody? state it differently, isn't this the beginning or the likely beginning of a slippery slope to the government watching us wherever we go? >> of course. why don't we j...

Push back. the situation is not ripe, to use my favorite word, the palestinian leadership is weak and divided. if palestine were a state it would be somewhere between a fragile and a failed state. we need to build it up. and you have an israeli government that is not prepared to make significant compromises in these circumstances. so, the president ought to spend his capital on other issues, on rebuilding the relationship with israel and on building up the capacities of the palestinians, that if they ever became a state, they could govern it. >> norah o'donnell, health care debated, illegal im...