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We renegotiate deals, we are renegotiating great deals, we are renegotiating, as an example, the f-35 fighter plane. i have saved hundreds of millions of dollars, so i don't like that. >> put it finer point on that, in obama's administration, during the first eight months, the white house has offered less support missions than the obama administration either during the first eight months or the last eight months. you can see that here. the acting secretary will now be done right. he had been running the office of disease prevention, so the search is now on to filter cookie cabinet posts. remem...

Essential travellers is sometimes an appropriate and necessary use of resources. in the first eight months of this administration the white house has significantly reduced the number of military air white house support missions." okay. that doesn't quite get to the point here that secretary price was traveling to conferences around the world, which we are told were actually quite appropriate. previous secretaries have done similar things. the difference, don, they traveled commercially, not on private jets and not on military aircraft here. so again, by not disclosing all of these initially, i...

Reports. they are following them very closely. t.j. >> sorry about that. apologies to our brass. the u.s. at every opportunity making sure the world knows this is a nato led campaign there, still what has been in the past days and weeks, even, the u.s. role in this operation since essentially handing over operations to nato? >> well, the u.s. has been conducting some support missions, refueling, that type of thing. behind-the-scenes the u.s. is very involved in this campaign. what nato has really been focusing on in recent days and weeks are these gadhafi command and control communications fac...

>> my pleasure. in libya the u.s. ended combat there. u.s. air force and navy craft will continue to fly support missions including surveillance, reconnaissance, electronic jamming and refuelling missions. combat aircraft are prepared to respond to assist the nato combat operation over libya if requested. joining me live from washington, d.c. military analyst, retired general barry mccaffery. are the nato nations that will continue any enforcement of the no fly zone capable of doing what the rebels seem to need them to do? >> hard to imagine with the prepond rens of conducting the strikes ov...

Only fly support missions, things like aerial refueling and satellite and intelligence gathering missions here. no longer will u.s. combat jets take part in bombing here, enforcing the no-fly zone. that will be a big change. we're not sure how it will impact the battlefield here, but it's something we'll be watching over the next 24, 48 hours to see if it has much impact or if they'll be able to carry the heavy loads in enforcing the no-fly zone. gregg? >> gregg: that american decision may prompt gadhafi not to take the cease fire deal. thanks very much. >> heather: across the middle east, pro...