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Issue with the united states being in an ongoing conflict that is the american side of the ledger. on the foreign policy side of the ledger, i think is there a broader issue about american prestige and the president called for mubarak to come -- to be out of office, you cant call for mubarak to be out of office and not do anything to get mubarak out of office. we have to get that part. >> talking about gadhafi? >> im sorry, gadhafi. >> from one crisis to the other. and would you agree with that?...

Cnn.com/cafferty file. candy? >> jack, do you ever write any of these people back? >> absolutely not. you dont communicate with folks like this. they are dangerous. no, i dont. >> thank you. thanks, jack. talk to you next hour. the u.s. and its allies are getting more aggressive in their fight to stop moammar gadhafis forces. why nato is now warning people in libya. and it is being called a black eye on baseball. the bitter divorce thats forced the league to take control of the l.a. dodgers.

Arsenal before this started. thats a massive number. especially for a country like libya. schroeder estimates the numbers captured by rebel forces in the hundreds. hundreds of those missiles in the hands of rebel forces that dont go at them very well. thats easy pickings for al qaeda. >> you can also understand from your report why the u.s. has been so reluctant to arm rebels. >> absolutely. >> brian todd, thanks so much. the bodies of two well-known photojournalists killed yesterday have arri...

People. >> did you think that of george bush -- >> the difference is george bush, certainly a hard-headed president. people respected his strength, thought add north star, he was guided by his principles. i think americans think barack obama is guided by barack obama and his faith in his own abilities. >> let me ask you, looking ahead to the election, cause i want to move on to libya, because, you know, we went in there and it was a mission that just felt like it wasnt going to take very long. a...

>> thank you. we are learning more about the u.s. militarys use of armed drones in libya along with possible new plans for nato in the near future. plus, the owners of the l.a. dodgers lose custody of the team as they duke it now the a bitter divorce. and your iphone is tracking your every move. find out how to get the information and who could use it against you. what are you looking at? logistics. ben? the ups guy? no, you see ben, i see logistics. logistics? think--ben is new markets.

Seen for days now, the indiscriminate shelling of many cities and n libya. especially misrata, benghazi, other major population centers continues by gadhafi forces. nato is trying to do everything it can to attack and basically take down gadhafis military capabilities. take down any of his ability to move his forces around and communicate with his forces in the field. and his ability to launch coordinated attacks against street people of libya. thats the goal here. have a listen to what the pent...

Cnn team encountered this 13-year-old boy named moved carrying an ak-47. he said he was train order how to use it by his uncle and his mother was okay with him fighting. could the u.s. and allies see their support of these rebels come back to bite them? the president of neighboring chad has saidal al qaeda operatives in north africa have taken many of the surface-to-air missiles which al qaedas used to target civilian aircraft in the past. the president offered no concrete evidence al qaeda had ...

Surrounded the dodger team, the divorce, this horrible beating thathappened, i mean, this is not good news for the dodgers. so they are saying that this is exactly perhaps what the dodgers need to bring some integrity, they say, back to the organization. and to the franchise. >> thelma gutierrez in l.a. for us. thank you. you are in "the situation room." happening now, breaking news. pentagon is expanding the u.s. arsenal against libya. and adding one of the most effective but controversial we...

We are following breaking news. new u.s. weaponry now being cleared for use against moammar gadhafis forces. defense secretary robert gates says president obama has signed off on the use of predator drone aircraft in libya. cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr is working. this story for us. barbara, what can you tell us about how these predator drones will be used? >> well, candy, these -- this was just approved in the last several days by president obama when nato made the request of the un...

That kind of weakness ho could come home to roost. >> that being said, the president is in an incredibly tough position, he is dealing with japan, earthquakes, nuclear crises, he is dealing with what happened in egypt, dealing with libya. i think he found a way in libya to thread this needle that has the american forces in there to do what they can to help, but also keeps american troops off the ground, which i think american public would really not want to see. we have to give him a little bit ...