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focusing their attention on mitt romney. paul is standing by. im wolf blitzer. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com as controversy swirls around him, republican front-runner, herman cain, went behind closed doors with republican lawmakers on capitol hill. just a brief respite from the storm that has blown over previously undisclosed sexual allegations. earlier today, cain suggested some sort of conspiracy is at work, but he insisted he...

Libya. so the transitional government has an enormous challenge to bring different tribes together and bring really diverse population together, get its economic bag back in order and try to bring rule of law to a country that really hasnt known any law other than gadhafis law for 42 years. >> how big a player was he in the terror world? pan-am was the obvious example, ronald reagans counter attack against tripoli in 1986, as an external factor elsewhere in the world? >> he really had several di...

90% of contribute ptripoli. one of his three captured sons has escaped. lets he get the late frst from libya and sara sidner. first tell me whats going on there in zawiya. >> reporter: we were hearing a lot of loud booms, a lot of what sounded like mortar fire. there was definitely small arms fire. it sounded like this was a firefight and we went and checked it out. and we think that we have confirmed, weve only talked to one of the rebels who has not been down at the square, but we th...

resistance from pro-gadhafi forces. correspondents are reporting on the ground. cnns sarah sidner is hunkered down in green square and matthew chance is in the citys hotel, the same hotel where senior libyan officials just fled moments ago. our first correspondent in tripoli, nic robertson, he is in our washington bureau and national security contributor, fran townsend is in new york and zain verjee is following international reaction from left knee done. dan lothian is with the presid...

chiliian mine? 31 of the 50 miners are asking for a half million dollars each. they say it isnt about money but about safety. the miners say they want to make sure something like this never happens again. and minnesota state government could be back up and running in just a few days. minnesotas democratic governor cut a deal with republicans to end the two-week long government shutdown. the deal involves selling bonds rather than raising taxes and making up the budget deficit. lawmak...

wait. >> bullets kept flying as our team sped away. >> okay. were leaving this area. theres gunfire all around us and we believe that gadhafi forces are doing a round about movements so we are rushing out of this area. >> this reminds us just how dangerous and desperate the life has become for the libyan people. were going to talk to ben live from libya later. india police say it is going to take more to pinpoint who is behind the triple bomb blast in mumbai. it killed 18 people. no ...

Dangerous gutsy move which these guys do every day. they are always putting their lives on the line for us. you know something, we were talking off the air just before you came on here and you said something that i think is rather profound is that this was a victory in this war but so is what your son was involved in as he led the effort lets roll. >> well, the passengers and crew on flight 93, they launched a counter attack. it was a victory. it saved further destruction whether it was the capi...

Dangerous gutsy move which these guys do every day. they are always putting their lives on the line for us. you know something, we were talking off the air just before you came on here and you said something that i think is rather profound is that this was a victory in this war but so is what your son was involved in as he led the effort lets roll. >> well, the passengers and crew on flight 93, they launched a counter attack. it was a victory. it saved further destruction whether it was the capi...

Forced to execute a limited withdrawal. the private first class ordered his squad to take up more defensible positions and provided recovering fire. although having been wounded in the shoulder, the private first class gathered his supply of grenades and ammunition and returned to his original position to face the enemy alone. as the hostile troops concentrated their strength in his placement, he fought fiercely and courageously delivering deadly accurate fire into the ranks of the on rushing en...

>> i agree. this is really some great theater to see these republican senators out there after what the house members got out on the road the last few days. make them come back and pony up to it or distance themselves from it. here is the other thing. what does muddy the waters mean in your opinion? what do you think their strategy is right now? >> well, to deflect attention from what they are doing in going on the counter attack. thats really what it means. what is most interesting is every pol...