Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110225:04:39:00
Mostly not had to ex-filtrate their citizens from tripoli. you talked about benghazi and other parts of libya. this is a real problem. what's happened is the state department chose to marshal everyone they needed to evacuate into tripoli. they originally had a plan to evacuate them by air. the air reservations they made were not honored. so they were looking for plan b. they were reluctant to get a military aircraft in there for fear they could get involved in a conflagration. and by the way, the libyans wouldn't permit them to land a u.s. military aircraft. so plan c was the ferry. weather ha...