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That clear, publicly i suspect gadhafi would be in a different position, maybe even left the country by now. in techls of military action, so far it's an authority, a legal action. we'll see by president obama's statement in the next 20 minutes, half an hour, and statements of other countries of who is going to participate, how it's going to be coordinated. a no-fly zone is only one thing. the part you read, ali, it shows that you can use air power against gadhafi's ground forces. >> right. >> that is air strikes against those who might be moving forward. >> let me ask you, the defense secreta...

No-fly zone. there's going to have to be air forces from arab countries who will do so. administration officials believe they have a commitment from some of these arab countries to do it. they're trying to work out the details. in the en, they think the only thing gadhafi and his loyalists will appreciate will be power, military power. they're not just going to back down in the face of words right now. this is literally a case, ali, where administration officials tell me at the highest levels that actions will speak a whole lot louder than words because, as you know, the president of the unite...

The other is the imagery today, flying over the site. they really have been sort of blind as to exactly what's been happening inside all these reactors. remember it. it's not just one reactor. we're talking about six nuclear reactors here. all of them had various problems and various stages. they flew over wit a helicopter and began to look down. they could see, yes, it was as serious as perhaps had been feared, partial koerp exposure, problems with water levels and you certainly have significant areas of damage and possible exposure of the cores to the atmosphere. that's why they raised it to...

Three months and they needed some excuse to sell stocks? >> it's a little bit of each of what you said investors, traders, they've all been talking about this corruption. meaning we've had a nice run up in the markets, seen stocks shoot up really high. many investors and traders have said the markets have been over bought. they were predicting we'd see a downturn in the markets. in that way not such a huge surprise. but what they were in fact looking for all this time, ali, was maybe a an excuse. there came libyan the tragedy in japan. so those were the excuses for that so-called correction, e...

Is going to pay for all of this? and that's going to be a subject for negotiation. right now, there's no clear -- these countries are not committed to sending the bill to the libyans, for example. libya is a major oil exporting country and some time down the road they might be able to reimburse the coalition being put together that's going to pay for all this operation. maybe some of the oil-rich arab countries, the saudis, uae, qatar, bahrain, maybe some of these countries will pay for this mission. it's not going to be cheap, ali. it's going to be significantly expensive form the pentagon. t...