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Public on going to war or conflict? >> i think they were all difficult decisions. you saw president reagan, three clips there of lebanon, grenada and libya. president george w. bush had a couple. i think they all do it well. the country rallies, think to remember, when the decisions are made we rally around the flag. typically it is a matter of what's the exit strategy, and that's when things go a little awry if there's no exit strategy. i think our presidents do that very well, they know how to capture the moment and the mood and deliver the explanation. then it is a matter of how it is execu...

Second. you saw the map that showed over the past weeks the territory controlled by gadhafi, he retook. the territory he retook has expanded dramatically. the cost of human lives has gone up because of delay. >> it was a cost obama had to pay. it would have been better if he had done it a week ago. but to have done it without the legitimacy that comes from the arab league would have been terrible -- >> you dismiss the consistency because all that we're left with without skinsy is the arrogance of righteousness that we go into certain countries. outside of that we don't have a congressional app...

Them? >> i'm not ready to say that, chuck. we are already getting ready to have a new generation of nuclear power plants and nuclear regulatory commission looking at seven new designs and they haven't built a new plan in the united states for seven years from scratch. they will incorporate all the possible safety features and we're even moving towards a reprocessing way, a way to take used nuclear fuel and just use it over and over and over again so it's not separated. >> i want to ask you a quick question on libya. senator richard luger, the top republican foreign relations believes any milit...

I mean the humanitarian issue is really enormous further up north. i mean, there is a serious risk to life. just because the aid has not arrived and the conditions have worsened, especially with how cold, how bad the weather is and how little heat there is. so, this is an overwhelming, unprecedented type of disaster and it is uncertain as to why one agency or another is adequate to respond to it. >> ann curry for us in akita, japan. thanks very much, ann. >> all right, you're welcome, chuck. let's move to libya. the u.n. security council is expected to decide today on a resolution that could...

Nations backs any no-fly zone and backs by any means a necessary cause in the regulation. what says you? >> that's a historic debate that the president has to come ask us what to do. i think if we don't have a resolution, the president at least needs to consult with congress about anything that might be considered an act of war in libya. >> so, you would like to see a resolution? i mean, when you say consult, that means a resolution, no? >> no, not necessarily. i think throughout our history we had different stages of it. one is to have a big debate, as we did in vietnam and vote on it. anothe...