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Let's talk about this. cnn military analyst general spider marks. general marks, the president tweeted this, iran is playing with fire. they don't appreciate how kind president obama was to them, not me. general marks, there are u.s. navy ships in that region. things are already tense between iranian vessels and american warships. do these tweets matter? >> carol, they do. carol, thank you, we've had a number of conversations over the years and you've been an absolute pro. so thanks for all that you've done by putting a spotlight on some very tough topics. to answer your question, yes, they ar...

Good to have you on. general marks, where are we now, what's happening? >> the question we need to ask right now, it's difficult to get beyond the palace intrigue, and the faces that are involved in this, we need to ask the question, what now, less who now. we're going to try to figure out who the next national security adviser is going to be, and a number of faces are going to pop up, keith kellogg is an interim solution, is he the permanent solution, probably not. this town and a bunch of places have immense talent that could step into that role and provide some great leadership, the challen...

This band of rebels, weapons is a choice and as mr. hadley indicated, it's necessary for this -- for the rebels to achieve any greater success and not achieve some stalemate, which everybody has decided is unacceptable. we would all agree that a partitioned libya is not what we're looking for. >> general marks, from a military stand point, arming folks who, you know, have just been handed a weapon for the first time and giving them an rpg, is that -- is that practical? is that easy to use? >> the notion of the gang that couldn't shoot straight might be lived out. absolutely, there must be some...

>> general marks, what do you make of the fact that the opposition has already lost territory that they just retook and they were really only able to retake that because of the close air support from nato and coalition forces and the fact that libyan troops just basically cedeed the ground. they're back at ras lanuf that they had taken just yesterday. >> we shouldn't be surprised at all. in fact, there might be an argument that some of those key locations are key only to the rebels for some reason that defies my definition of military importance. they could bypass those and maybe achieve succe...