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more human remains are found and now new signs that this could be the work of a possible serial killer. we will get a live report from the area, and i will be speaking to the mother of one of the victims and what she wants to say to the person or maybe persons responsible. but first, i want to get to something that has many, many of you worried right now. the price of gas is skyrocketing. looking at the national average and folks are doling out $3.80 a gallon which is the latest word from aaa and look at this tweet earlier today, because i said, send me some pix from your town. loo...

Military, we need to do this, you can see the subtext clearly ca just, our cause is righteous, we'll see it through to the end. instead you hear him saying, we'll be in and out. it's limited in duration. we won't be the ones enforcing the no-fly zone. won't be our ships enforcing the arms embargo. you see that reluctance shot through his rhetoric. >> tom ricks, we began the discussion this morning, richard engel reporting on the rebel, they're getting closer to tripoli. then what that's when we leave? if gadhafi stays, can we really say this is mission accomplished? >> i think they'll say we c...

Secretary of state hillary clinton and secretary of defense robert gates. then -- the president faces critics from both sides of the aisle. did he overstep his constitutional authority by using force without consulting congress. my interview this morning with republican from indiana senator richard lugar. finally, analysis of the administration's handling of the crisis in libya is our fragile economic recovery continues and our military is stretched thin by two other wars, did the president make the case to the american people that libya is worth the cost and risk? with us, associate edito...

>> you can see it. the irony that of course obama in 2008 was the antiwar candidate and for him to be the person who has brought us into a third conflict in the middle east, i think that is why you see that anguish. he does not want to be in these circumstances but he feels that his hand has been forced. i think it is going to a concern on the left. but what's interesting about what you see in congress is the objections seem to be mostly about process, hey, we weren't consulted, less about substance. that seems to be kind of the bipartisan grumbling over issues of the co-equal branches, the se...

This is really just obama going back to an eisenhower-like approach of not trying to get stuck in something but try to affect it. >> but bob you've chronicled this throughout the bush years and now the obama years. the point that you had made before, which is what if things don't go as planned? isn't the legacy of iraq to question the government's best hist case scenarios? >> and i've heard obama say things like, war is hell, it is managing chaos. he clearly does not like war and in his noble acceptance speech he said war is never glorious, it's a manifestation of human folly. and here he is g...