reporter: predator drones are used to give close air support and to try and eliminate small precise targets. in misrata, for example, there are snipers operating in buildings, there are vehicles that look just like civilian vehicles that are used by gadhafi forces. if you re flying at 20,000 feet, a nato jet certainly can t hit a sniper in a window and will have great difficulty identifying one toyota land cruiser from another. a predator can stay in the air a long time, it can watch the movement, who comes in and out of that toyota land cruiser, and can fire a relatively small missile, a hellfire missile about the size of a poster tube, and take out a single car and not cause a lot of collateral damage. it s much more closer involvement without sending american boots on the ground or pilots, i guess that would be american boots, hovering over the ground. is this an intimidation to gadhafi because we can target him or his family?
it would. let me ask about the predator drones. what do they bring to the table? politically we can say inside they re unmanned, politically this makes it sustainable in the u.s. which isn t interested in a third war that involves u.s. combat troops. but are there draw backs? the predator first let me speak a little bit about the predator, it has great experience from combat both in the balkans and over the course of the last decade certainly in southwest asia. so it s a proven weapon system that does exceptionally well. so we know how to employ those things.i altitude. they have a long endurance. better than planes. it doesn t put a pilot at risk. and all the infrastructure of trying to get a pilot if a pilot goes down, if an aircraft goes drown. so a predator has a great
teams on the ground right now. we ll get more information including facts like how wide was the tornado. how long was it on the ground? other facts will come into play as we get the data. it s interesting how quickly we got the information that it was a tornado and likely at least ef-3. that was the big story in the united states. there s been a lot going on overseas as well. let s bring you up to speed on that. nato is using a new weapon against moammar gadhafi. american predator drones. the alliance said the drone took out a rocket launcher used by gadhafi forces outside of misrata. and rebels could be close to a breakthrough as government troops withdraw. the city has begun a rally try for rebels fighting gadhafi loyalists. but it s not sure who controls the city. reporter: it remains somewhat unclier what exactly is going on in the town of misrata. there are differing accounts
juan: colonel peters, there is another question to be asked about mission creep. what we are saying is we have predator drones that are authorized since thursday to fly over libya. i m looking predator drones. mission creep. may end up with american boots on the ground and libya a third war. isn t it getting out of hand? juan. you are exaggerating wildly. now, come on, now, sending keeping two drones at a time over the besieged city of misurata does not mean the 1st airborne core is going to land in tripoli tomorrow. i don t believe we are going to see u.s. boots on the ground. it s not going to happen. we may see french and british boots on the ground in addition to the trainers. but, look, those drones are an interim measure. obama took politically correct move and i support it drones will help somewhat in the besieged city of misurata where qaddafi s people are shelling innocent civilians every day.
weighted, they use it because they are more likely to itemize the taxes. to go after them in big way takes courage. to say tax reform is one thing. if you get into details people like how it is. it s entering in numbers and seeing money come back at the end of the year. tucker? unfortunately, all tax increases affect middle class and depressed private sector. the problem is if it s a choice, presented as a choice of taxing people you never met; ie, super rich and cutting any entitlement benefit, the president unfortunately has the poll on its side dramatically. chris: turn to libya. senator mccain went there today. and said that the rebels -opposing muammar gaddafi are heroes. tucker what do you make of that? what do you make of president obama s decision to put two unmanned predator drones over the skies of libya? the state department signed off on senator mccain s trip and said it was pleased with the outcome of the trip.