briefing because we are told that there is a lot, a lot of opposition to the concept of arming rebels. listen to what one lawmaker, jeff davis, of kentucky just told me coming out. >> i strongly oppose arming the rebels because in that complex tribal patchwork that makes up this insurgency, it's very uncoordinated. there are significant amount of air defense systems that are portable, that are on the ground, that we know from public discourse. we now know that there are islamic radicals who are coming in to join with this as well as islamic radicals of eastern libya, a hotbed of recruitment of jihadists to head to afghanistan and to iraq who may in fact get access to very dangerous weapons that could be used elsewhere. >> reporter: so i'm told that some of that actually went on behind closed doors. members of congress saying we can't do this because we don't know exactly who we will be arming and some pretty dangerous people will be armed if the coalition goes ahead and does that. another very hot topic we're