Nightly News | February 26, 2011
>> as we noted at the top of the broadcast, the white house is taking hard lines against libya. mike vicara has more on this.
>> reporter: good evening lester. for the first time since this uprising in libya began, the president is publicly calls for the ouster of momar gadahfi. today he spoke with the chancellor and the president told him during a conversation conversation -- and shortly after that statelet, speck of state, hillary clinton , had a similar statement calling for him to leave now. and you mentioned last night. the white house announcing sanction shuns. people were waiting a long time for the announcement. freezing the assets of the colonel.