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From the ground? >> reporter: no. they are following the news reports reich everybody else. not only at pentagon, but at nato because they don't have boots and eyes on the ground. they have to gend in large part on what they're hearing indirectly through the rebel sources that report back to their leadership in benghazi. and the media reports. there are reporters actually with the rebels inside the compound there. if in fact, the rebels have taken control over that entire compound, that could deal a serious blow to the command and control efforts of the libyan military because that pretty much...

Gadhafi and his family, i'm talking about forces in the field. it's been a month now that they've been out there under attack more or less from nato air power. they're still there, they're still fighting at least in a disciplined way, in materials of aborting and evading nato air power. what's motivating them? who are those guys and why are they still in? >> one of the things that we've seen over the past couple days are reports that the u.s. and others are looking for some place for gadhafi to go. some place in africa. do you see signs that -- is this contingency planning? do they know someth...

There are no indications that he's willing to relinquish power. the other thing i'm hearing, they actually feel more secure many their position right now than they did for instance three weeks ago, for the rebels who are advancing. at this point in time, from gadhafi's point of view, the front seems to be fairly stable, at least the rebels aren't advancing anywhere close to where it could be dangerous for moammar gadhafi. there's a lot of fighting going on, that there's not any big territorial gains being made there. it seems like at this point in time, the gadhafi government and gadhafi himse...

Humanitarian terms, i think those of us who looked at it realized in addition to whatever humanitarian mission we're going to carry out. this was our intervening in a civil war, that we have picked a winner, we had to stay in it until that outcome was guaranteed, and if we didn't, we would suffer the consequences of being the loser. and i think that's where we are now. we have a very uneasy quill lib prey yum, the battlefield is not shifting very much, and here we are looking at our options as to what more could or should we do? >> what are the options? >> they're not good, they're quite limit...