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You just saw, on the outskirts of misrata. they have also come in the city of brega in eastern libya where i am right now. all of these air strikes are helping the rebels. they have been making some advances toward tripoli moving beyond the city, leaving misrata itself, and the rebels hope that they can regain momentum and push back gadhafis forces and end what had seemed to many even here as a stalemate. >> and, richard, as i mention, one the targets was that gadhafi regime brigade headquarters...

Eventually the united states had to come in. this is a conflict thats going to be tempting us in the months to come. >> general marks, the rebel forces, as i said a moment ago, has said theres been no bombing in four days and theres a report in the "washington post" that says, u.s. officials are quoting nato is running out of precision bombs and munitions. can nato actually really realist tickically beat back gadhafis forces? >> not with -- only through the application of errair, it cant done. n...

Have beaten back gadhafis forces. they fought back. it really is a stalemate in and area where there are not a lot of civilians, around a key oil refinery area and perhaps with the defections weve seen of the foreign minister and others, perhaps theres a period where some back channel diplomacy can take place. we heard the rebels talk about the possibility of a cease fire and heard the government spokesman dismiss that. i guess the sense of the two weeks after coalition action here and intense s...

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Opposition will have driven back gadhafis forces, and they will be able to go back home. the children are still laughing, the parents, adults huddled underneath their blankets. but they feel confident at the end of the day the opposition is going to win this, simply because they have to. >> nic, along those lines, were hearing that gadhafi is arming volunteers to fight. have you seen any evidence of that? does that seem to be true to you? >> reporter: it does to a degree. he seems to be arming m...

Quote, show no mercy to his own people in benghazi. so he was threatening to kill, slaughter even his own people. again he said i will show them no mercy. so i think the presidents doctrine is not an ideology, hes very pragmatic, so hes for, as he said in soich soich, hes for what works. without additional authorities, additional sanctions. so what the president did is his worked with susan rice, his ambassador up in new york to expand the authorities available to him and to the other members of...

The president? doing this and not those things? >> well, chris, i think youll remember early last week gadhafi said that he was going to, quote, show no mercy to his own people in benghazi. so he was threatening to kill, slaughter even his own people. again he said i will show them no mercy. so i think the presidents doctrine is not an ideology, hes very pragmatic, so hes for, as he said in soich soich, hes for what works. without additional authorities, additional sanctions. so what the preside...

>> its a shrinking empire. we are talking about the capital, and the area around the capital standing ae lone, apart from fighting in other towns as well. gadhafi is almost painted into a corner there. other cities and tons, these are localized movements. its not as if there is an organized is army of opposition fighters who are pebeating back gadhafi but the domain is crumbling city by city. if gadhafis statement, which you no doubt played back earlier shows his desperation, another rambling sp...

Defeated? there, theres very little water, no electricity. the conditions are visibly very difficult. theyre relying on handouts from benghazi. yet all of these families who we met are refusing to leave for one simple reason and that is because every single night when they go to sleep by their fires, they woke up believing the next morning that somehow the opposition will have driven back gadhafis forces, and they will be able to go back home. the children are still laughing, the parents, adults...

Whats the guiding principle of the president doing this and not those things? >> well, chris, i think youll remember early last week gadhafi said that he was going to, quote, show no mercy to his own people in benghazi. so he was threatening to kill, slaughter even his own people. again he said i will show them no mercy. so i think the presidents doctrine is not an ideology, hes very pragmatic, so hes for, as he said in soich soich, hes for what works. without additional authorities, additional ...