in tripoli. many thanks. let s go to the white house now with cnn s ed henry. ed, i don t think things are much clearer about arming the rebels and our mission there. reporter: i think the president s speech may have succeeded in giving the american people a better sense a couple of nights ago about why the president got in and got involved. the u.s. involved in the military action. i think the reaction from capitol hill suggests that people are wondering how do we get out essentially. what are the tools we will use to get to that point where there may be an exit strategy. nic lays it out it is not as easy as one would think. there is question over the training. one of the interviews the president did with the three networks yesterday, he said he was leaving the door open to
moan time a critic is accusing the united states agency not doing enough to. a russian special hoist helped clean up chernobyl claims the iaea got too cozy and largely ignored lessons from that disaster in 1986. police in london revealing that they arrested a woman with explosivessary the site of the 2012 olympic stadium it happened yesterday. police say they got some sort of information that led them to stop the woman s car near the stadium in east london. we re told the woman is a security dog. a dog handler. she is now in custody. no word on what she may have been doing with said explosives. word of a major set back for the libyan rebels trying to topple muammar qaddafi. they are apparently in full retreat tonight. even as we are hearing of a possible exit strategy for the libyan leader. a lot at stake here. you now have the arab league, the security council of the united nations and nato and the
what are you annoyed at us for? we just wanted to know why we were bombing people. nobody said [ bleep ] to us. we were just sitting there, look, we re doing what we said we would do. last night nato decided to take on the additional responsibility of protecting libyan civilians. this transfer from the united states to nato will take place on wednesday. so there is an exit strategy. we turned over the mission to nato. man, i feel bad for whoever the sucker is that s the main driving force financially and weaponwise in that organization because those guys are wait a minute. we re nato! that s like beyonce saying she s seeding control to sash that fierce.
democrats, and that is that they really wanted to hear, what s the end game, what s the exit strategy and that s something we haven t heard from democrats yet but i certainly expect them to say that they didn t hear that from the president tonight and probably are not happy about it. there s going to be a lot of testimony from administration officials on capitol hill, presumably they ll have some more answers to these questions. ed henry is our senior white house correspondent, he s still over there at ft. mcnair at the national defense university. the secretary of defense, the secretary of defense, the joint chiefs, they re going to have closed door hearings tomorrow and open door hearings wednesday. that s the way of letting congress know what the u.s. strategy is, right? they re going to go to capitol hill to continue to make that case and part of what they re going to be talking about, interesting that you really put your finger on it wolf at the top of this hour, is that the p
laid out, if you want to call it the obama doctrine of intervention, fine. if you want something less ambitious, fine? he did it, and he told us the truth, this was always about benghazi, a rescue operation he was forced to do. i think it s the right thing. ann marie slaughter, what did you make? some of the big questions out there about the mission in libya, what s the goal of the u.s.? what s the exit strategy? how will the u.s. military be involved? are these all questions he sufficiently answered? i think did he. if he s getting criticized that heavily from left and right, he s striking a balance. he made clear that we went in to avoid what he described as violence on a horrific scale in benghazi, that again the mandate of the u.n. coalition that nato is now leading is to protect libyan civilians, i think that makes very clear what success looks like there, it means that libyan civilians are safe, safe