speech that mr. obama gives later today. right here in new york. and last night, the president spoke to the nation to defend his choices and also to announce that nato will take over the lead role tomorrow. emily schmidt is joining us from washington with all the details. good morning, emily. reporter: peggy and rob, good morning to you. before president obama used the word libya last night, he said the words international effort. and he said the world had had a responsibility to act. president obama, explaining the u.s. involvement in libya, said it was the right thing to do. the united states and the world faced a choice. gadhafi declared he would show no mercy to his own people. it was not in our national interest to let that happen. i refused to let that happen. reporter: mr. obama said in ten days, the coalition stopped moammar gadhafi s advance, doing so without u.s. ground troops and with a full transfer of power to nato tomorrow. in fact, just hours after th
and last night, the president spoke to the nation to defend his choices and also to announce that nato will take over the lead role tomorrow. emily schmidt is joining us from washington with all the details. good morning, emily. reporter: peggy and rob, good morning to you. before president obama used the word libya last night, he said the words international effort. and he said the world had had a responsibility to act. president obama, explaining the u.s. involvement in libya, said it was the right thing to do. the united states and the world faced a choice. gadhafi declared he would show no mercy to his own people. it was not in our national interest to let that happen. i refused to let that happen. reporter: mr. obama said in ten days, the coalition stopped moammar gadhafi s advance, doing so without u.s. ground troops and with a full transfer of power to nato tomorrow. in fact, just hours after the president s speech, secretary of state hillary clinton arrived in