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Mediterranean, add a french general or british admiral to it and claim that we're no longer in command. right now it is a u.s. army four-star general running the operation. so i think we could transition the command and control without much difficulty. the problem will come though if gadhafi's next move, as he's done before, is get inside urban areas with his armor, protect himself from allied air attack. at that point i don't see how the brits and the french and four fighter jets out of qatar make up the difference. >> the other claim that's been made is that there will be no american boots o...

They were back in washington dealing with libya and japan right now because they do admit it would be a lot easier to be there than be on this trip at the same time, the repair work that would have gone into dealing with chile and brazil, seeing the president of the united states diss latin america. >> remember the indonesia trip got canceled not once but twice. what we see is really i would call it dual-track diplomacy. president on saturday was sticking to the schedule here in brazil though it had to slide a little bit. then doing briefings in between these meetings he's convened secure conf...

Who -- such as al qaeda that will come back and also be a problem to the security of our country. that's a major issue for us. >> i have to ask you here, congressman, about what the standard is for american intervention because a lot of people watching this, what's happening in libya, are saying, wait a minute, 52 people were shot dead in the streets of yemen on friday. we have same thing happening in syria, in bahrain. if this is about a moral stand, if it is a humanitarian mission, why not there? what's the difference? what should people know about that distinction? >> i think there is a big...

A ranking member of the house committee on intelligence, participating in friday's meeting with top congressional leaders on libya. congressman, good morning. you were in the room. what exactly is the objective here? what should the american people know about what we're doing there and how long we'll be there? >> i think the most important thing is this is a united nations security council resolution with the support of the arab league. this makes this a lot different than, say, when president bush went into iraq unilaterally without the united nations. >> we agree on that point but what is th...

Yemen's ambassadors to jordan and syria and the yemeni parliament's deputy speaker. an unexpected blast of winter weather in southern california this weekend. snow, ice, flooding and rock slides led to evacuations and the closure of some major highways there. back now to the ongoing military campaign in libya. we're joined now by nbc's chief pentagon correspondent, jim miklaszewski. jim, good to see you this morning. >> good morning, willie. >> jim, what are you hearing out of the pentagon? we've been getting pressure now the president has from democrats and republicans alike saying, whoa,...