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more. later in the show, the u.s. rolled out the red carpet for china's next president but what is going on behind the scenes between the two rival nations? we have a great panel of china watchers. also, believe it or not, the eurozone crisis is solved. how, what? stay tuned, we'll explain. first, here is my take. we're hearing a new concept these days in discussions about iran. the zone of immunity. the idea often explained by ehud barak, israel's defense minister, is soon iran will have enough nuclear capacity that israel would not be able to inflict a crippling blow to its program...

Down. >> this has been an unbelievably successful operation. as far as i have heard we have not lost a single airplane, not a single casualty. we control the air space. we have succeeded in taking the opposition forces and putting them on the offense instead of defense which is what they have been doing for a couple of weeks. we have won the battle quickly and with remarkable speed. >> what we have done is we achieved the initial objectives of a no-fly zone and, in essence, support to the opposition to keep gadhafi's forces moving backwards. what we haven't done is achieve the overall objectiv...

Weapons to the rebels. that was specifically exempted in this resolution. they refer back to the arms em bar go and exempt rebels from that. as far as air attacks in coordination with the rebels, i think that would be beyond what the resolution certainly intended. >> an issue emerging here in domestic politics, the domestic debate there are significant numbers of members of congress opposed to the intervention. they are saying there is noel legal foundation for the president to have ordered our participation. you were in the secretary of state's office, at the state department during our inter...

Is he wrong about that? >> i agree with all the presidents who consider the war powers resolution is unconstitutional. i believe that. that is amending the constitution as well. it legalizes war for 90 days like mentioned earlier. he doesn't have to sweat it with congress because congress legalized war for 60 days and then 30 days more. by then there is killing going on and nobody stops a war. they slip into war. congress reneges on their responsibility. the president usurped his power and use it in the executive branch. they like this. but the war powers resolution isn't constitutional. but t...

I think -- let's be frank -- that's not going to be sufficient. taking away his money that's in international banks won't stop him from being in power. in fact, we all know he has tens of billion that is he stored in tripoli. if we are going to get rid of gadhafi there are really only two ways. either we or our allies take action to get rid of him, or the rebels do. i think what you are seeing now is this hesitation in the international community's part of whether to take the step towards the second option -- arming the rebels, coordinatingle military operations with the rebels, letting them k...