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All took an i.v. treatment that was infected. what went wrong? and did they have to die on this "american morning." >> such a scary story. and good morning. its wednesday, march 30th, glad youre with us on this "american morning." to know that youre basically defenseless in a hospital. and you have no control over what happens to your i.v. bag. also, breaking new this hour, gadhafis forces right now pushing the opposition rebels back east. the libyan leader reportedly on his way to claiming co...

Briefing because we are told that there is a lot, a lot of opposition to the concept of arming rebels. listen to what one lawmaker, jeff davis, of kentucky just told me coming out. >> i strongly oppose arming the rebels because in that complex tribal patchwork that makes up this insurgency, its very uncoordinated. there are significant amount of air defense systems that are portable, that are on the ground, that we know from public discourse. we now know that there are islamic radicals who are c...

Conference in london yesterday, president obama speaking yesterday about the possibility of arming rebels. hes trying to take advantage of the situation now and continue to push the rebels while theyre still weak despite the fact that the coalition air force is still targeting his troops on the ground. >> nic robertson in tripoli for us. the latest on a fluid front line situation with ras lanuf. >> as we talk about these different cities, ras lanuf is this key port in which all of these oil pipe...

Watch what you watch. your interest and the types of shows you watch the most. is this the case of technology being too intrusive or more targeted so youll stick around? but we begin this hour with breaking news from libya and a brutal new offensive by gadhafi forces against the rebels. right now, theres a fierce battle raging for control of the key oil town of ras lanuf, thats in eastern libya. there are new pictures just into cnn showing rebels retreating about 40 miles outside that city. re...

Partly about what gadhafis forces are going to be doing. >> lets go to nic robertson for more about the fighting in ras lanuf. trying to find out just how fluid this front line is, nic is in tripoli watching these developments and also watching the gadhafi reaction from the initial offensive and now gadhafis latest pushback. we will check in with nic robertson in a moment. nic robertson in tripoli, and were watching a very fluid front line situation in ras lanuf. some of the territory that the r...

Ras lanuf. the rebels have been pushed back, made this advance forward over the past few days, then theyve been pushed back again. this was their problem before that they rushed forward, werent able to sort of maintain and hold a front line when they came under sustained attack. and what were seeing from moammar gadhafis forces now is really sustained attacks in the face of the coalition bombing, sustained attacks, not just in bin jawad and ras lanuf, also in misrata, and reports from southweste...

Intervening militarily in libya was in the u.s. moral and strategic interest. what he didnt explain, which is what people of both sides, both parties in congress have been clamoring for him to do number one, exactly what were willing to do to get rid of gaddafi, because that is one of his goals. number two, what exactly the end state in libya looks like. today, an air force one as the president went up to new york for some event including some rundraisers, jay carney said the end state is when t...

Intervening militarily in libya was in the u.s. moral and strategic interest. what he didnt explain, which is what people of both sides, both parties in congress have been clamoring for him to do number one, exactly what were willing to do to get rid of gaddafi, because that is one of his goals. number two, what exactly the end state in libya looks like. today, an air force one as the president went up to new york for some event including some rundraisers, jay carney said the end state is when t...

Zone, whatever it takes. they just want to stop the killing right now. if you listen to the ambassador, thats his argument. >> they dont want it to be organic how it was in egypt and tunisia. >> they would love it to be organic. the difference is here you have in tunisia you had a military that refused to kill fellow tunisians. in egypt you had a military who refused to kill fellow egyptians. in libya, you have a regime ready to kill the libyans. i wonder how the congressman feels about that. >>...

Relationship with russia is a good thing essentially and that the president believes that he can change the course with russia unlike his predecessors by this direct personal relationship with its leader, even if that leader is an adversary like vladimir putin. now, the white house argues, anderson, it has been tough on russia. closing the conflict in san francisco, arming rebels in the ukraine, imposing sanctions just recently. but the argument could be made that the administration has been tou...