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Mediterranean. the ... in essence a second destroyer was moved into the mediterranean crossing the suez yesterday, jointing a command ship off the coast of sicily and we were just told by secretary gates that the uss kearsarge and a transport ship can hold a lost cargo with a carrier deck, they have been ordered into the mediterranean. so, again, they are setting up, moving the naval assets closer to the libyan coast but they are positioning them for humanitarian assistance. >>shepard: thank you from the pentagon, jennifer. a new report outlines hundreds of billions in waste caused through red...

Barry, the stout which is a destroyer and the mt. whitney a command ship. but it's stuff to enforce the no-fly zone if you don't have the planes to do it with. >> reporter: you can't do it. the question becomes do you want to do it. i think secretary hillary clinton had a good point. we don't want this to be a revolution that has made in america stamped on it. let the libyans do this. our role is a different role. one of the roles we could have is the egyptian military who are talking to the libyan military. let's see the egyptian military ask the libyan military to stand down. when qaddafi is...

As did the airplane that left a little later. >> another british naval vessel is on its way. >> we had military assets over the horizon, that is the situation, you know, was concerning anyway. we had options available. >> pentagon officials said they never received a formal request to help. if they did, the u.s. navy only had a destroyer and a naval command ship in the mediterranean. neither of them particularly good for passengers. the u.s. military officials tell us that the real reason they weren't called upon is the state department was concerned that if the u.s. showed up on the horizon w...

>> reporter: the reason the state department opted for a ferry they weren't sure they could get permission for flights to land. there were heavy bribes being asked at the airport and canadian plane that went into tripoli have not been able to take off even though the american plane went to istanbul. >> and pentagon did not get involved? >> reporter: they weren't asked they were on the horizon but they only have had destroyer and command ship in the mediterranean, not particularly good for passengers. we are told they were very concerned that muammar khadafy could use images of warships on the ...

>> another british naval vessel is on its way. >> we had military assets over the horizon, that is the situation, you know, was concerning anyway. we had options available. >> pentagon officials said they never received a formal request to help. if they did, the u.s. navy only had a destroyer and a naval command ship in the mediterranean. neither of them particularly good for passengers. the u.s. military officials tell us that the real reason they weren't called upon is the state department was concerned that if the u.s. showed up on the horizon with the naval warships that gaddafi would expl...