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Lot of u.s., by the way, in those leadership positions. the commander, commander in nepana naples, four-star admiral. there is u.s. involvement. the assets used are what the nations provide. those assets are coming from primarily other than u.s. assets right now. but u.s. can provide c-130s, the warthog, the a-10s, to make them available, they certainly can do that. >> nick, let me move you on to another subject. these predator drones coming in, very precise, high-tech equipment that can circle for a very long time. it doesn't involve a pilot. it is unmanned so it's safe in the sense of human ...

A chance on taking him out with a lucky air strike. >> and beyond predator drones which now we have put into this fight, what do you want the u.s. to do and supply? >> well, right now nato is running this conflict by committing. by taking u.s. leadership and u.s. air assets out of it we've really reduced our ability to prevail on the battlefield. we need the ac-130s and a-10s back in, we need the american assets back in this a heavier way. look, the british and the french, i thank them, but they are running short of some of these precision weapons. the fact is that it's the united states that'...

Can restrict firing into them, heavy weapons in there, if they're not removed, they can be attacked by nato air strikes or predator drones. i think this will take some of the pressure off of the rebels and also attacking the fuel, the ammunition, the command and control. those were all done in bosnia. that's part of the nato record and i think that could change the outcome that we see now. >> sort of a safe circle. >> a safe area. yes. and i think it could work. >> nick, let me move you on because there are so many areas in the middle east to talk about. but syria, day in, day out, we are seei...

National public radio, bill kristol of the weekly standard and fox news political analyst juan williams. the president agreed this week to put two unmanned predator drones in the skies over libya and in a visit to benghazi, john mccain called the rebels heros and said we have to get much more deeply involved in the war if we are able to topple qaddafi. brit, where are we headed in libya. >> chris there is an article just out today in the new yorker, by a friendly correspondent toward the obama administration about the evolution of the obama policy and, in the article, in the summation, an aide...

Place is over. we're hearing that fighting is still going on, that gadhafi's foerszs are still shelling the town with mortar and artility. we're hearing of 22 people killed on saturday alone through the fire and also more than 60 people who were wounded. meanwhile, nato is continuing to step up the air strikes and the air campaign here over all of libya, a lot of command and control infrastructure was hit in the tripola area, and around surt, telecommunications areas hit. and they're ramping up the air support for the rebel forces. one of the key things that happened on saturday is we saw the ...