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The national atomic energy expressed serious concerns about iran's nuclear program. they have ramped up their production of higher and richer uranium, the missing amount that has been detected could use to arm a war head. secretary of state hillary linton is in tunisia. we have our guest here from the hill. mr. secretary, thanks so much. let's talk about the options, i was talking to earlier -- to jim webb, senator webb was saying it's not the time to arm the rebels. we do not know who represents the rebels but we have to be more engaged, what can we do? >> i think that senator webb is right. ...

Have to examine who they are. and that is what i was saying in the first part. i had a discussion with director clapper and we need to figure out who they are before putting in guns. we should be calling on china to participate in this, not simply looking at the situation with russia, it's a way to move forward. and china has its own short comings in terms of participating in these kind of situations, whether it's iran or north korea or syria, their form of government could allow them to perform repression inside their own country. we need china to be more responsible in joining the internatio...

The ground. there is either going to be a stalemate or gadhafi is going to fall. and either of those cases present very serious challenges for us in terms of what we're going to do here in the next month or two. >> well, senator webb, you've made a distinction now between this operation and what we've seen in the past. i understand it's a useful distinction. did the briefing yesterday, the classified briefing, did that accomplish one goal in terms of informing congress? and does the presidential findings that we understand the president signed in order to permit the covert action, does that ac...

And waging war on unemployment. marc morial examines the state of black america. and i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. with cia operatives already in libya, could the u.s. be wading deeper into the civil war there? the rebels say they need weapons and they need training to counteract moammar gadhafi's richard engel reported he saw that firsthand. >> reporter: on the front line, we saw some of the rebels try and fire a mortar without securing it, so it went wildly off in the wrong direction. and i couldn't believe it, we saw them aim a rocket, what we thought at gadhafi's force, but ins...

Wrong direction? we are wading into something -- i mean, it sounds funny, but it's deadly serious, as you know better than anything. >> well, again, it comes back to what is it that we want to accomplish in libya? you and i had a discussion about that last week that the security council authorization, which, by the way, had five key abstentions on it, basically went to protecting civilians with this no-fly zone, and we've seen a good bit of mission creep here, or talk about mission creep. and i think we need to be really careful looking into the future. >> and looking to the future, senator, w...