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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 editor for "the washington post" and author of "obama's...

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, assoc...

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 editor for "the washin...

That's totally consistent with what i call the obama doctrine, that other countries are going to have to do more in a more diverse international order. >> but this is war. i mean you can't extinguish our knowledge about war. this idea that you can have a limited video game, it just isn't the way it is. no one knows more about this than tom ricks. and the question is, what's going on here, and the larger picture is what savannah is calling the arab spring. i'm not sure whether it's unrest, an up heevl, whether these are revolutions. but in a 5,000-mile area, mon toews ya to afghanistan, you hav...

>> as bob reported -- >> you can see it. the irony, of course, that obama in 2008 was the anti-war 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 be 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...