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Administration has this dilemma. that is they sold this to the country as a humanitarian defensive effort and now it's apparent that with the coalition vowing it will get gadhafi out of there, that the only way they may be able to succeed unless there is a regime crack is that they have to go in much more decisively militarily and that's going to be very, very hard to sell. >> well, look, the president's statements about the boundaries and perimeters of our military intervention hab so rigid, no boots on the ground, nothing beyond air support, very hard to see how we can expand that when it co...

Of what we're seeing, is there any sense there is an effort to impose any command structure on what remains of the opposition forces? obviously they see they're going in the wrong direction. is anybody in the transitional government saying, fellows, we need a new game plan, this individual will now be in charge? any effort to regroup and do something different? >> reporter: well, we know there's lots of statements coming out of officials in benghazi about the importance of putting up a defensive position outside of ajdabiya, of organizing the forces of the anti-gadhafi groups, but what you see...

Weeks ago authorize secret cia operations if libya. what does that mean the cia can do there? >> well, i think what -- that would be specifically outlined in the presidential finding. there would be a very limited number of members of congress that might know. you're authorized to have cia shoes on the ground as i think you guys identified earlier in your program. >> no boots, don't use that term. >> no boots on the ground. shoes on the ground is okay. that you can go in and maybe do reconnaissance or maybe do training of the rebel forces, you may facilitate arms shipment. >> what does that me...

>> the harsh reality of the battlefield is intervening the best laid plans never go as you want. what we're seeing is an opposition force being routed. we are hearing there are fewer than a thousand total in the field there who they have no arms, no command structure, no intelligence and they're simply in retreat and yet at the same time we're finding out the president sent the cia in and folks in the white house must be scratching their heads saying now what? how can we salvage what is increasingly a dire military situation. >> it is and, eliot, the best hope right now is for a regime change ...

Readiness almost nonexistent. when you see the interview i'm about to show you i think you'll come to the same conclusion i did, it is almost inconceivable that these rebels can beat gadhafi's army. we learned this at the same time the president signed an order giving cia support to the libyan rebels. cia personnel are on the ground in libya right now. when the obama administration decided to intervene in libya, did they know how incredibly few resistance fighters there are? we'll talk to david gergen about the administration response in a moment. but first the interview i did just moments ago...