options to influence events in syria, but they seem to be acquiring a momentum of their own with widespread protests being called for on friday on facebook and other social media. randi kaye, cnn. coming up, president obama has said we are in libya for humanitarian reasons specific live. but he also said this it is u.s. policy that gadhafi needs to go. so what is it that the united states is really trying to accomplish? libya? we ll have that conversation next. in a lab. in a living room. we have lift-off. on a stage. [ jimi hendrix foxy lady intro ] in a garage. [ guys cheering ] and now. at the end of a power cord. introducing the extended range electric volt from chevrolet.
countries. nobody knows where it s headed. it s just a dramatic time of political upheaval in the middle east and north afr area, perhaps right here the most volatile neighborhood in the world. john, let s talk yemen specifically for a second. we know defense secretary robert gates today said he didn t want to talk about yemen, calling it an internal situation. my question is, is that the official policy on all of the different places you mentioned? well, obviously we re involved, our military is involved in libya, so we have had a pick and choose policy. that s one of the criticisms of the administration. why are they so nervous about yemen? you see some of the demonstrations here. yemen has been a very good u.s. ally. there are special forces operations in yemen. there are fights against al qaeda in the arabian peninsula in yemen. so when the add main ministration sees the demands seetion change, on one hand the president says you have to support the people because they want indi
struck in these strikes because they don t exist. the best they can do is a military site they say was a repair and maintenance training facility. because these things that they claim have been hit like schools and hospitals haven t been hit they can t prove it and haven t been able to show us any civilian casualties either it just shows the weakness of their argument and the lies and propaganda that they are trying to put out, brooke. nic, before let you go, i know is 10:15 there at night in libya and about this time when some of the anti-aircraft fire begins over the skies. have you seen any of that today in the last hour or so? we have had a little anti-aircraft gunfire, i don t think it was associated with missile strikes, i think it would have lasted longer it is possible that missiles are falling beyond the range of what we are able to hear here in the center of the capital but it seems to he me so far, so far at
position of the united states it is in sharp conflict. so, you know, my position is that we need very much not to get ourselves into a quagmire and do what we have to do as quickly as we can without putting american lives in danger and not open up another war. i want to ask you just real quickly while i have you here on the house intel committee, some questions about some of the mustard gas that perhaps colonel gadhafi has stockpiled in libya without you know, compromisinging any information here live over cnn, is that a is that a grave concern? yeah, i mean, obviously any time that we know that gadhafi has a history of not only, you know, contracting and figuring out how to attain weapons of mass destruction, we also have you know, pretty good information that he has weapons of mass destruction, not to mention that we know that at one point, he has some type of nuclear program going. now, he promised us that four
authorities. and there s a daily planning cycle that pilots know in advance what to go up, mixes that can be scrambled, something unusual happens. when the pilots are in the air, they are communicating to their air operations center, they are probably not making any decisions on their own unless something just suddenly comes up. so, if they see targets on the ground, they are probably going to go back to the combined air operations center, ask for verifications to make sure there is no friend phillies area, know the location of the friend his, they will do everything they can to be effective and minimize the chance of any mistake that would hurt innocent people. retired general wesley clark, thanks for your perspective, helping us understand what happens when an f-15 goes down especially. thank you so much, sir. back to the unfolding situation here in libya in a moment. but first, the other urgent crisis overseas. take a look at this. already spoken to children who are having night