coming up on two months since president obama started calling for moammar gadhafi to step down. not only is gadhafi still in charge, a top u.n. official who met with members of the regime this weekend said she received no guarantees at all that the violence would cease. c can or should the u.s. do more to get rid of gadhafi? thank you. let me put that to you, it seems to me in terms of the optics, that for every day moammar gadhafi remains in charge. for every day he s on the streets, bopping a city, it diminishes both nato and u.s. stature. when this all began and it was couched genuinely in
and the minders that they send with us here, they ve been trying to prevent us from going into that neighborhood. there was some very large scale demonstrations there over the past couple weeks. certainly we did see the remnants of those when we got there, we came into the neighborhood. there was still graffiti on the wall, which seemed to be anti-gadhafi graffiti. also massive security there on the ground with checkpoints, people being controlled, and clearly you could tell that people were absolutely terrified to speak with us. we tried to speak do aus couple, many didn t want to speak at all. some said they love gadhafi, they re glad things are coming back to normal. they did acknowledge there had been big demonstrations there, there had been shooting on the streets. you could see that something big had been going on. is this is something where the gadhafi government said the situation was under control. that s not totally the case. and clearly, there seeps to have been a massive cr
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 something we don t know? frankly, candy, we were talking on this network, i pointed out that secretary clinton said gadhafi must go. i was waiting for the rest of the sentence, must go where? we had to give him an exit through which he could slither and go offscene.
refuge to gadhafi if he leaves libya. as you see, are there any signs that this is a man that is about to leave libya, or is it even open to the idea of opening up his government to put more people into it? not even close, candy. the signals that we re getting from the gadhafi government as we speak to officials, there s no indication that gadhafi is going to step aside or relinquish any of his power at this point in time. that s also what the gadhafi regime is saying in public. last thursday his daughter came out at a demonstration at the gadhafi compound in central tripoli, about 3,000 protesters were there, and she held a big speech saying it was an outrageous idea to think that ga dwaf if i was going to step aside at any point in time. at that same day, we saw him driving through the compound pumping fists to his supporters.
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 himself are trying to silt this thing out and wait to see how much resolve nato actually has, candy. i know you went today to look at a neighborhood in tripoli where apparently there had been big anti-gadhafi demonstrations that were crushed by progadhafi forces, tell us what you saw. 6. yeah, the gadhafi government