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Bombing qaddafi's inner circle, their compounds and military head quarters in military. the way to get him to lead is to have his inner circle turn and break on him and that will take a sustained effort. >> we tried those things in the past with other dictators and it is harder than you think it is. qaddafi is a great survivor. we don't know exactly where he is. we do have to worry about civilian casualties and that could turn the libyan people against us. >> the debate comes as the u.s. put more unmanned predator drones back into the fight in libya. they were there in the early days mostly fo...

Lead us or lead others, it's extremely difficult. >> nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel was there with mccain. he joins us now from benghazi, libya. richard, it is always great to talk to you. what do you think the significance will be of mccain really throwing in with the rebels today? >> reporter: this is the biggest support they have got from a public figure. certainly an american coming to benghazi and telling the rebels exactly what they want to hear. he called on the united states, senator mccain called on the united states to recognize the rebel government and release some ...

This, which is another way of saying -- i don't think anybody says this about any other president. i don't know how he is -- ben, what do you make of that? people don't know. isn't that a way of saying i don't trust him. he said he was born here. he wouldn't take the office if he wasn't born here. >> there say history of polls saying nasty things about the other party. democrats in '06 and '07 half of democrats thought bush had an idea about 9/11 before it happened. i don't know how seriously to take the numbers. what i think is really different is that a lot of republican politicians, as you ...

>> reporter: predator drones are used to give close air support and to try and eliminate small precise targets. in misrata, for example, there are snipers operating in buildings, there are vehicles that look just like civilian vehicles that are used by gadhafi forces. if you're flying at 20,000 feet, a nato jet certainly can't hit a sniper in a window and will have great difficulty identifying one toyota land cruiser from another. a predator can stay in the air a long time, it can watch the movement, who comes in and out of that toyota land cruiser, and can fire a relatively small missile, a h...

Teams on the ground right now. we'll get more information including facts like how wide was the tornado. how long was it on the ground? other facts will come into play as we get the data. it's interesting how quickly we got the information that it was a tornado and likely at least ef-3. >> that was the big story in the united states. there's been a lot going on overseas as well. let's bring you up to speed on that. nato is using a new weapon against moammar gadhafi. american predator drones. the alliance said the drone took out a rocket launcher used by gadhafi forces outside of misrata. and...