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Correct? >> this was -- that was a sunday night. it was late sunday night. i was home watching a hockey game on of t. all of a sudden i got a call from our bureau chief sam saying we dont know whats going on, but the president is going to be making a statement at 10:30 or 10:45 tonight. this was a sunday night. and as a former white house correspondent, my initial instinct was, where is he making the statement? is it in the oval office? the briefing room? he said its going to be in the east room...

hour, extensive live coverage of the fight for libya. and the hunt for the man who held an iron grip on the country for decades, will gadhafi and his inner circle be brought to justice? president obama is warning the fight for libya is not over yet. cnn is using its global resources to cover the latest gasps of a brutal regime and deadly civil war. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." libyan rebels say their rea...

Anti-obama on this. although they split between military action, those who thought we should have air strikes earlier, that we would be in a better position right now. how important is this position going to be heading into the prima primaries? is this is a flash in the pan or something thats going to stick with them? >> no, i think is this a very prominent issue of the campaign because is so illustrates one of the fundamental problems that the administration has, which is, saying on one hand, w...

Savannah guthrie. and savannah, obviously secretary of state, the white house has made it very clear, they are going to wait for collective action on the issue of libya and a no-fly zone. whats the strategy behind that? >> well, they are looking at multilateral organizations to lead the way. what they dont want to do is set up a dynamic where it seems like its the u.s. versus libya. they think that would be counterproductive. so theyre comfortable working through the u.n., although when you talk...

And clearly bob gates had a lot of reservations about a no-fly zone. the upshot was you had this extraordinary mixed signals about it and it seem to me the white house was ultimately exaggerating how difficult the no-fly zone would be to impose. >> you write the case for a no-fly zone in todays "new york times" and in part you say we would not have to send any ground troops to libya and a no-fly zone would be executed at the request of libyan rebel forces and at the demand of six arab countries ...

Resignation, he taped a defection message he wanted me to put on youtube and as the tide began to shift, as gadhafi gained strength, they said hold off, hold off. so i think there are a lot of officers like that who now see maybe gadhafi will win. weve got to change that perception. >> so our military might, just a flyover at 1,500 feet could probably intimidate two-thirds of the libyan army, i would imagine. but the difficulty would come, would it not, if you decide to cradle the runways in lib...

Dictators, because that would have effects down the road in terms of the perception of the u.s. for example, in egypt, you have demonstrators out on the streets. nick would have a better idea than i do about what their perception is now a few weeks later of the u.s. involvement. did they speak out forcefully enough, soon enough? this is the future of the middle east. obviously the u.s. wants to be on the right side of it. >> nick, respond to that real quick? >> it certainly worked out well in eg...