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>> thats what happens. >> some people have to understand of what happened here. first of all, the embassy in cairo, without any approval, put out a statement saying and the ambassador was killed over in b benghazi, a totally different place. then mitt romney doubled down on his statement. >> obviously sympathizing with those who had breached our embassy in europe instead of condemning their actions. its never too early for the united states government to condemn attacks on americans and to defen...

B benghazi on friday. severe weather continues to grip large portions of the u.s. >> weather completely different what youre seeing over there right now in london. across parts of u.s., were expecting another day of severe weather. in fact, the storm prediction center has issued a high risk for severe weather for once again today. it happened yesterday. only the third time this year that we have seen this. on the radar, were still dealing with tornadoes for parts of the tennessee valley and do...

Turn everything over to the rebels, whoever they are. were not going to do that. and as a result of that, the most likely event seems to be a drift towards kind of a biforkate ebifo biforcated country. theres a cease-fire now. gadhafi still has his forces. if theyre not moving towards the rebels, probably not going to bomb them. so theyre going to be sitting there. and theres this eerie, something of a cease-fire. and then you have a country thats divided more or less in two. >> number one, colo...

Quote, all necessary measures it to protect civilians in libya. no country opposed it. china, russia and three other countries abstained. were joined by mark ginsburg, former ambassador to morocco. mark, my friend, it looks like the language here is stronger and more suggestive of a war front. are we going to stop gadhafi from taking bghazi? >> it looks like it. it looks like an initial wave of british and frieench air force power supported by probably the logistic of qa ittar, jordan an essenti...

Its been almost entirely a matter of artillery and tanks. >> marc thinks were going to go for that -- were going to stop the people on the tanks from moving forward as well. >> exactly. in the end the real battle here is over benghazi and gadhafi has more or less amassed his troops to take it over. he may, in effect, authorize a humanitarian corridor for people who want to leave benghazi to leave and there may be no attack. >> mr. ambassador, what would be the purpose? what would be the purpose ...

Of benghazi, which is under attack, and other areas from attacks of mercenaries. it seems like a comprehensive resolution. >> its unprecedented given the fact the russians and the chinese decided to abstain. there are ten countries that support us. you have the arab league basically endorsing this. the question ultimately is who is going to do the heavy lifting here, chris? is it going to be the french who recognize the new libyan provisional government? is it going to be the brits? is it going ...

Hope. it could perhaps give its nato, arab league and you bring in egyptians and saudis to actually do it, but the ability for international forces to bomb a no-drive zone, if you will. gadhafis forces to prevent it from getting to benghazi. >> those are all the logical measures that need to be looked at and improved internationally before the united states does anything. chuck, i want to be clear. im not saying the united states should not do anything in libya. i was asked to look at the lesson...

Measures. >> now, its my understanding that the russians at the united nations tried to put up a cease-fire resolution and its basically been rejected. so, you believe thats a mistake. >> it depends on what the wording is in the cease-fire resolution. i think you have to tie all of these diplomatic measures together. if you were to put a cease-fire resolution up and say, call for cease-fire, wait three weeks and see what happens. well, thats a mistake. were going to reject that. but starting wit...

They are mostly in western tripoli where hes defending his strong points and a real concern would be the city of misarata with people easily within reach of his armored capability. >> were just getting this tonight. all necessary means to defend the civilian population. gadhafi said late today, he said it a few minutes ago hes going in and killing people in b benghazi. this might cover people who live in their houses. your thoughts? >> chris, the most effective means that can be used is being do...

Country across here, quite substantially bigger than the west. whats also bigger is the city of benghazi. you see it at the top. b benghazi and parts of libya are under siege. thats about three times as many oil wells in the east as there are here in the west and you see the west is down south of tripoli which, of course, is the capital and where moammar gadhafi has his power base. according to the consultant group, foreign companies produce about a third of libyas oil. they define the biggest p...