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The united states has no plans to do that at this point in time, and that is according to the pentagon officials and backed up by a white house spokesperson and the white house is according to the united states according to the white house officials has been playing more of a support role in the nato-led military effort there in libbia, and we ylibya, and w continue until this is finished in some capacity. >> thank you, kristen. reminder we will bring you the presidents remarks as soon as we get...

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>> reporter: with the nay toe operation blagging -- nato operation dragging into the fifth month, but u.s. in support role, president obama said it doesnt require us to weigh on the constitutionality of the war powers. >> i dont have to get to the question. we have engaged in a limited operation to help a lot of people against one of the worst tyrants in the world. somebody who nobody should want to defend. >> reporter: the resolution requires congressional approval for military action lasting m...

On state tv that it was an apache helicopter shot down, and that was the fear all along that they might be more vulnerable, but it was an unmanned helicopter and part of the surveillance and the support mission that the united states is engaged in. they have been refueling, and there have been a few combat missions, a few, to take out some radar installations, but otherwise the united states staying in the support role and these helicopters are evidence of that, martin. >> stephanie gosk, thank ...

Involved in libya in the first place was the only major disagreement that you have had with this president. do you agree with the current strategy of letting nato take the lead of -- as it is called, the strategy of leading from behind? is that a strategy for success? >> i think it is absolutely the right strategy. when this operation started, the president, we were at war in iraq. still, we have 50,000 troops in iraq. we have 100,000 troops in afghanistan. we had 24,000 people engaged in japane...

Get anything behind anything that resembles a tax hike. for their part theyd like to see an overhaul of medicare. democrats have balked at that. there is an august 2nd deadline to this which is looming large. again, they want to get a deal done quickly. they are going to meet four times next week, chris, and try to hammer this out. >> another headache for the white house, this whole issue about libya and the president, the white house issues 30 plus pages justifying why they didnt need congressi...

To the war powers resolution, because the u.s. is not in war nor engaged in military action, and the united states solely has a support role right now in that nato-led military effort in libya. however, a lot of of the lawmakers are not buying that argument, and namely house speaker john boehner has come out very strongly against the white house argument as well as some members of the presidents own party including dick durbin, the senate majority whip. now, the top democrat in the house, nancy ...

Confidence in light of whats going on in the field. >> last night the president would not put a time frame on this. not being very specific. many in congress saying, we need more. i assume the presidents playing it safe. he doesnt know how long its going to take, so he wasnt going to put something out. if if you have the government of the united states and many of its allies saying, gadhafi must go. if the battle goes in the wrong direction in favor of the regime in the coming days, is there any...