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Not going to work. >> reporter: men have to do three pull-ups minimum to pass the marines fitness test. it takes 20 to earn a perfect score. women had to meet the same minimum. but only need eight pull-ups to score perfect. because so few passed, the marines will let them choose to hang on the bar for 15 seconds and pass without doing any pull-ups. >> wide grip stance. that works best for you. >> reporter: marine corps officials admit pull-ups are better and the flexed arm hang elicits little muscular strength adaptations necessary for a common military task such as pulling oneself over be on ...

The distinction is chemical weapons. that has two international treaties. >> if that's your standard you ought to support me because i think we ought to take out iran's nuclear sites before they associate their radicalism -- >> you're with me? >> i have no problem with that. >> the nukes. >> yeah. >> why don't we take out the middleman and go right into iraq? >> right into iran? >> because we can't win a ground war in iran. >> we don't need the ground war, we need bunker buster bombs and all those facilities would be a monumental military task as they're spread all throughout the country. >> t...

Enrichment program iran has been pursuing. it puts a difficult military task in front of israel if it's thinking about striking. shannon: i thought george will column was interesting. he outlined several comments by benjamin netanyahu saying if israel does act, talking about self-defense. we shouldn't be surprised if they go that route. we are talk about 48 hours. do you think they would act alone in that short time frame and if they do will the u.s. and others be pulled in? >> they act alone before when faced with a nuclear threat. i don't think they would hesitate again if they thought they ...

Can actually see this mission ending with gadhafi still in office. >> certainly that has a lot of people shaking their heads. all right. general clark, let's get to you. what is the next step, after hearing this pentagon briefing what is the next step for the united states? >> well, i think the next step is really diplomatic. the military has done what it was asked to do. it may or may not have destroyed all of gadhafi's air defenses. there are some reports from the reach than say that he managed to pull some of his air defenses back and we heard earlier on that admiral courtney say that some ...