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Bill: is there greater organization on behalf of the rebels? and based on what you have seen have they made any ground on qaddafi? >> reporter: they are training. they do have some professional former qaddafi army members training them. we visited a training site, a former qaddafi army base where regular civilians including computer engineers and shop owners are getting five days of basic training learning how to fire weapons and anti-aircraft guns and they are being sent to the front lines. >> serious questions about the length of the international military operation in libya. france's foreig...

Target of opportunity, they saw an air defense system that they needed to go back and strike, and they did decide to employ those very expensive tom maahaw missiles and cost $1.5 million apiece to fire and, 14 were fired overnight. bill: the fighting continues in libya, stead fly flow of civili are leaving the front lines and the situation continues to get worse for them. >>. >> translator: the situation is getting worse and worse as days go by, god will allow justice to these people. bill: our reports suggesting qaddafi cut supply lines to the eastern region, leaving people without water and ...

Fought at 36,000 feet. what robert gates is saying, nobody is under the illusion this thing can wrap up in a matter of weeks. that's the military side. do you think on the political side they agree with that? >> no, i don't. that's why you can continue to see statement that say, days, now it's going to be a week. and now the military reality may be settling in. i'm sure secretary gates and the military have been telling the white house what to expect. i have no doubt they have been painfully honest. i think the military objectives are not syncing up with the political reality. bill: will qadda...

Are raising the same issues of going to war without a vote by congress. this is -- we are having the debate. they are not doing that in libya. -- >> joe, joe -- >> we joined a coalition. >> this president -- told -- how is it possible he's subcontracting american forces to the british and french? look what happened at the nato conference they had the other day. nato doesn't want any part of this thing them. president has no strategy, and yet committed our troops. heather: let me ask you, on the campaign trail, president obama said he would not commit troops in this kind of way without a define...

Law enforcement activities. it simply can in the be done. >> the supremacy clause of the u.s. constitution states that the federal government is the supreme law of the land. and that you, the states, have no right to challenge that. what do you say to that? >> well, how on earth can the states not challenge federal laws, that is the way our system of government works. >> reporter: he says the states created the federal government and thus should have more authority than the federal government and that is it from here, heather, back to you. heather: douglas, thank you so much. bill: fox news co...