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Room." the nato secretary general anders rasmussen announcing nato reached an agreement to take over operation of the no-fly zone over libya. no agreement on whether to go ahead and launch attacks against libyan ground forces tanks, artillery threatening opposition forces, the rebels. let's discuss what's going on in the breaking news that is significant. joining us right now are pentagon correspondent chris lawrence, our white house correspondent, dan lothian and ressa seya in benghazi. let me go to you first. it sounds complicated. but from the rebels' perspective, i assume they're happy tha...

>> when do you think you'll make the final decision on expanding the nato operation to include this other mission? >> without production, the outcome of our deliberations, i think we may be able to take the decision within the coming days. >> all right. thank you very much for joining us. anders rasmussen is the former prime minister of denmark. is that right? >> yes, indeed. you're welcome. thank you. >> we've met here in washington. he's a very good man. he was generous to share the news with all of us here on cnn. the secretary general of nato. we're standing by for the secretary of state h...

With the nato allies or breaks with the united states. we remember on the eve of the war in 2003 when the u.s. led the invasion into iraq to defeat saddam hussein, turkey refused to allow the u.s. to move into northern iraq from turkey. that was a source of grave concern to the bush administration at the time. we'll see it if the turkish government is willing to cooperate or if it decided to go a separate wags. clearly they have to have turkey on board. we'll see what they decide to do. paula, we're going to stay in close touch with you. as soon as you see the secretary-general, let us know. w...

The secretary-general is shuttling between the french delegation, the turkish delegation, it's incredibly fluid. he's trying to see if he can salvage a statement that nato will take this over. at issue, wolf, the sequencing, how quickly the u.s. can turn over command to nato and make sure this isn't staggered. the turkish delegation saying, look, stay tuned to see if they can put this through this evening. if not, secretary clinton scheduled to make a statement this hour. >> she's probably waiting to see if rasmussen, the nato secretary-general will make a statement first, and then she'll foll...

Nato or someone else should take that responsibility. is that a fair description? >> no. there's no split. on the contrary, there is a unity within nato. we have decided to take on the responsibility for the no-fly zone. it will fake place as part of a broad international effort to protect civilians. >> during the first six days, as you know, secretary general. if gadhafi's tanks were moving against rebel forces or artillery was firing weapons,