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The pentagon said today they're working to hand off control to nato by this weekend. what happened? i thought we were taking too long. in libya, after another intense round of air strikes, coalition forces appear to be making headway on breaking the grip of pro gadhafi forces and the grip that they had on some of those cities. what happened? i thought it wasn't working. in misrata, rebel fighters reported the air strikes helped them drive gadhafi's forces out of the city, including forcing his warships to flee, whereby unblocking the port. what happened? i thought it wasn't working. i thought ...

It would take for gaddafi to end the libyan crisis. national security correspondent jennifer griffin has the latest on the mission from the pentagon. >> reporter: hi, bret. the pentagon said they will not go after all of the mobile antiaircraft units that steve harrigan was just describing. early this morning, president obama spoke to and consulted with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton, as well as admiral mike mullen to discuss situation in libya. they said enforcement of the no-fly zone is taken on by the coalition partners. contribution by the coalition partners are still being di...

Meanwhile, the international coalition has suffered its first setback, an american fighter jet crashed overnight in the country's rebel-controlled east. according to the u.s. military, the war plane went down late monday after an equipment malfunction. both crew members safetily ejected from the aircraft, which is very good news. now, ever since this operation began, there have been many questions and we've been among those asking them. is president obama doing the same thing president bush did by not seeking authorization for the war? is this a split the baby approach that cannot work? did we...

Or libyan war plane has been in the sky since the u.s. and coalition war planes started to enforce that no-fly zone. but also, because misratah, lately, has been the scene of some of the heaviest fighting between rebel and libyan military forces. but everything's on hold. but it appears that the original reports, as always, in these kinds of conflicts was wrong and it was something substantially less than that french pilot had earlier reported, contessa. >> so we know for a fact that though the no-fly zone is being enforced, that here you've got libya's rebel forces on the ground struggling ag...

That there are some street gangs here in the u.s. that have more firepower and better command and control than these rebels if you look at that report from richard eng engel. the rebels, the opposition, obviously cannot go up against the libyan military without some kind of outside support. and the u.s. military still contends they're not supporting the rebels, what they're doing is a humanitarian gesture. by the way, very quickly, the french defense forces have now confirmed that one of their war planes struck a libyan military plane after it landed at an airstrip there in misratah, but we ha...