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Yes, i thought that. let me ask you about misrata. a retreat by the government forces, by gadhafi there that seemed to surprise even the rebels. there was something of a comeback by them. how do youthen. how do you see that fight going over in misrata? we have it on the map. >> reporter: misrata has been described as a massacre, what happened over the weekend. gadhafi's forces pulled back, the rebels became very excited, they were claiming victory, even people here in benghazi started to celebrate, they were calling misrata liberated, and then as the troops pulled back to the outskirts of the ...

United states needs to go after gadhafi directly. >> it is leading to a military stalemate. right now there is just not enough momentum by the rebels even if they're better armeded to break through. there is not deep support for gadhafi, so my recommendation to nato and the administration is to cut the head of the snake off. go to tripoli, start bombing gadhafi' inner circle, their compounds, their military headquarters in tripoli. >> cut off the head of the snake. senator joe lieberman also called for a more aggressive approach, but praised president obama for his use of predator drones in th...

All weekend there was indiscriminate shelling, a school was hit, a hospital was hit, maybe 45 to 50 people, at least according to medics were killed, unless they get some direct constant air support, many people believe there will be many more deaths. the predator drones have helped, but they don't seem to be in the sky enough or attacking enough to provide any kind of real security for the people of misrata. >> can you support that we have changed our strategy, that we're going for the kill, if you will, that we are escalating the nato forces, the attempt to topple gadhafi or not? are we stil...

Here in tripoli. it seemed to us one of the targets that might have been hit could have been an ammunition dump. you had one major explosion and several secondary explosions coming from the same site. there was a barrage of anti-aircraft fire that went into the air, pretty useless trying to hit the jets because they fly at an altitude much to high for the flat cannons to hit. also as we know and have been talking about the past couple of days also predator drones now in use especially it seems to us in the misrata area. >> misrata the all-important area a lot of back and area. what is the late...

Gadhafi out and to help the freedom fighters achieve their own independent for libya. you know, you can't get into a fight with one foot. you got to get into it. therefore i think the use of our predator drones which have extraordinary capabilities was the right thing to do and i thank president obama's commander in chief for authorizing that to happen. >> are we still in it with one foot as both senator mccain and senator graham believe? >> yeah, it's probably a foot and a half. look, the initial decision to go into libya by united nations, nato, the united states, the arab league, was the ri...