losing stronghold in benghazi. but cnn journalists there say they haven't seen a sign of a counterrevolution. libya is answering questions about possible defections within gadhafi's family as well. reuters reporting the country's foreign minister denying gadhafi's wife and daughter have fled to neighboring tunisia. this, as president obama had some very harsh words for the libyan regime had. >> the most extreme example is libya, where moammar gadhafi launched a war against his own people, promising to hunt them down like rats. as i said when the united states joined an international coalition to intervene, we cannot prevent every injustice perpetrated by a regime against its people. and we have learned from our experience in iraq just how costly and difficult it is to try to impose regime change by force, no matter how well-intentioned it may be.