as they call it, to secretly assist the rebels who are fighting gadhafi s forces, what does that say to you? first of all, i have no knowledge of whether he signed a finding or not. it may be one of two things, may be an actual sort of action or it could be keep pressure on gadhafi to really feel the heat that he s feeling now with the resignation of his foreign minister and also with what i think is what is happening in london where the international community is very much united in what needs to be done. for all practical purposes the coalition, now nato control, they they have taken aside in this civil war, they want to help the rebels and see gadhafi go, even though the u.n. security council resolution didn t go that far as we all know. here s the question. if in fact the president signed a secret finding that goes way beyond what the coalition accepted, including the u.n. security council, how much of a
the military situation on the ground and come to some kind of negotiated settlement. but clearly, monita what s hampering them is the situation on the ground. the coalition is starting with the air strikes, although nato does have control now of the arms embargo and of the no-fly zone. critically those air strikes continue on the ground. i want you to listen to the uk foreign secretary william hague. we just spoke to him in the last hour. we all want a cease-fire and really, the start of anything like that is a cease-fire. that s what the u.n. resolution calls for. that s what we re trying to bring about by making air strikes and missile strikes on gadhafi forces who have been attacking or threatening to attack the civilian areas of libya. and so we all want to see that cease-fire. and i think we all want to see gadhafi go. reporter: you know what s interesting, they continually say they want to see gadhafi go, yet at the same time we heard from president obama that, look,
okay. but if, if they re talking about does gadhafi go, what will they do? if he s already in benghazi and he does have overwhelming force compared to them, correct? correct, yes. so, it could all be moot if they don t get a move on. it could. although bear in mind he s not been at the gates of benghazi as we ve been suggesting. there s propaganda battle on both sides. at the same time let s remember how difficult it was for benghazi to penetrate in zawiyah in the west. urban fighting is hard. there s a defensive advantage even with the inferiority in forces. so there is still time. so, unless he sort of basically, to put it crudely he may well do that. he s indiscriminately shelled urban areas. even so it still takes time and he will come up against grave resistance. and in that time you say grave resistance. where s this resistance? where s the arms coming from? we saw pun picture there, and we can see it again, of the plane