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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 think is really different is a lot of republican politicians, as you say, are embracing it. still ahead on "hardbal...

There? what are they used for? >> 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 and can watch who comes out of that toyota land cruiser and can fire a small missile, a pos...

What we are saying is we have predator drones that are authorized since thursday to fly over libya. i'm looking predator drones. mission creep. may end up with american boots on the ground and libya a third war. isn't it getting out of hand? >> juan. you are exaggerating wildly. now, come on, now, sending -- keeping two drones at a time over the besieged city of misurata does not mean the 1st airborne core is going to land in tripoli tomorrow. i don't believe we are going to see u.s. boots on the ground. it's not going to happen. we may see french and british boots on the ground in addition to...

>> all right, cnbc's sharon epperson. good to have you ironing it all out for us. thank you. new internet video emerging from syria shows demonstrators facing brutal crackdowns as the protests grow larger than ever before. this is the city of hung. gunfire rings out. hear it there? in the town of yasim, this video shows tens of thousands of people chanting slogans, 75 people were killed across syria yesterday, the bloodiest day of protest since the uprising began more than one month ago. in libya, the rebels have pushed gadhafi's forces out of the center of misrata. the city with some of t...

Insurance building. will that change this conflict and the dynamic in general? no, it doesn't appear it will. it's unclear the rebels can hold the central part of misrata any better than they held territory outside the benghazi. we've seen a pattern time and time again where rebels take an area with the help of nato air strikes, and they've intensified over the last several days in misrata along with the use of american predator drones. in other places after taking territory, the rebels have lost it in a fairly rapid order to the gadhafi troops once again. >> as we take a look at syria, which ...