to being a broader ownership of the outcome. to build on the theme of tonight's show, he had a tipping point strategy to tilt the odds toward the rebels given what they were facing but this thing could have still gone very badly. we didn't own the outcome. i think if you listen to president obama's remarks tonight, he ended them exactly with where we were talking before. this had to remain a libyan story, their control and we had to be supportive but on the periphery of thing. and i think that's exactly the right tone. >> steve, i'm cognizant this is not over. we had a live report from just outside tripoli tonight that said that the rebels claim they control 90% of the city, should be viewed with a lot of skepticism, there are quite a lot of pro-gadhafi forces still left and still fighting inside tripoli. if this does continue to tip, if this does not turn into a long, proce proce