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To get away with. he's a student. he's watching what is happening. gadhafi at this point is digging in. he's not going anywhere else. i think he recognizes that the resolve of nato to remove him from power is not there and as long as it's not there, he's going to push the initiative and try to regain total control of libya. >> so we're talking about prolonged stalemate. is that what you assess? >> it's a prolonged stalemate unless nato snatches it up. obama has said that regime change is not the objective of u.s. involvement in libya. it's a humanitarian mission and if the mission is not to ge...

With the senate majority leader, harry reid. you know, the united states has frozen $33 billion in libyan assets, gadhafi's money, basically, here in the united states. u.s. taxpayers so far spent about 6 to 700 million launching tomorrow hawk cruise missiles, fighting the gadhafi forces on behalf of the rebels, if you will. should the u.s. keep a running tab of how much it's costing american taxpayers to liberate libya and deduct whatever it costs from that $33 billion? would you be open to that? >> not on the united states should do this, nato should do it, france should do it, countries are...

That's already $160 million. >> so the bottom line is we can carry this out in the context of the existing pentagon budget. we'll konltd to work with that. and as you said, it's obviously a very legitimate set of questions. we think it's a good opportunity to continue the conversation. it's important to bring the country along. obviously the president is solely has this responsibility to deploy the troops overseas. he thinks it's important to bring the congress along on this effort. we'll continue to work closely with the speaker on it. >> what about the idea i have. you've frozen $30 billion ...

You are going to have to find out where to find those dollars somewhere else budget. we don't have anymore money to give you. >> reporter: the obama administration says it is not asking congress for anymore -- any more money yes. for now, they can fund military action in libya with existing funds, a spokesperson says but how long that will last, depends on unanswered question and that is how long the military operation in libya would last. >> my proposal, i don't know if anybody wants to listen to it i will say it, my proposal is there is $30 billion in libyan asset these the president of the ...

Some of their signal-jamming planes to disrupt colonel gadhafi's ability to communicate with his forces. >> here's what i've been thinking about, as far as the money is concerned. keep a running tab how much of this is costing the u.s., the nato allies and some of the other arab countries who might be participating and once gadhafi is gone, and presumably sooner rather than later, you take the money from him, his sons, the billions of dollars that they have stollen from the libyan people, it's an oil-rich country, as you know and you reimburse the treasuries of france, italy, spain, the uae an...