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Well talk with dr. fouad ajami and jill dougherty. first, the latest from inside libya. cnns ben wedeman, first western journalist inside libya and to make it to the liberated city of benghazi. the second larmgest city. ben, what was it like when you arrived in benghazi today? >> reporter: it blew our minds, anderson. we arrived in the mid afternoon and we showed up in the center of town where there were thousands of people already demonstrated. when they saw us arrive, they just exploded with c...

Sons was a become guest at the state department. heres what hillary clinton said back then. >> i am very pleased to welcome here to the state department. we deeply value the relationship between the united states and libya. we have many opportunities to deep b and broaden our cooperation and im very much looking forward to building on this relationship. >> thank you. >> europe and the u.s. receive oil from libya, but its not just politicians who have been friendly to the gadhafis, a number of am...

The springtime, if you will of the arab people, and will they be defeated and will this battle turn against the decent people in favor of this barbarous man and genocide? >> i was in rwanda and the patriotic front and the difference is cell phone cameras and brave people getting the story out, and not just ben wedeman in benghazi, but as you pointed out, libyans, themselves, risking their lives to tell us and show us the images of what is happening so that the world cant say that we dont know wh...

The mans passport shows hes from nigeria. other mercenaries coming from chad and elsewhere. we are also getting new video of did libyan soldiers. this video showing rows of dead soldiers. you can see their hands are bound behind their backs. we cannot independently confirm this. these soldiers were killed for refusing to fire on libyan civilians. right now, americans are on board a chartered ferry waiting for weather to clear so they can leave tripoli for malta. bad weather has made that impossi...

Can this work? i mean, can gadhafi hold onto tripoli and basically kind of clean up the streets, keep people in their homes and then, i guess, launch an attack against benghazi down the road? >> thats the scenario. you hold your breath for these libyan people and hold your breath for their courage and moral clarity. sometimes when i listen to these people who trust you and call, that anonymous woman from libya and you compare and contrast her moral clarity with the delirium and the barberism of ...

The inventory and start to see how the prices are moving up? >> im not sure it does, because, again, if you are keeping -- what you want to do, is you want those foreclosures to move forward, you want the -- you havent let the real estate market bottom out and you need to let it bottom out and price get down to the point where other people get in and start buying those homes and the prices start creeping up. that is what we need and have been afraid to take off the band aid for two years, and, t...

Libyans to compensation and an apology. lie -- lie natural ritchie isnt the only one to perform. so did beyonce. this is video from youtube on the island of st. bart, the lavish party last year for gadhafis son. she performed. so did usher, according to state department cables published on wikileaks. the year before that, mariah carry was paid a million dollars to perform for gadhafis sons. hes the one who promised this weekend to unleash a river of bloods on libyans. we contacted all of their r...

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Because we know and were documenting it every single day, and that is not -- it wasnt the case so clearly in rwanda. >> the people of libya are showing more courage than we are, and more moral clarity than the president showed tonight. i think some of his statements, although perhaps tempered, what i was looking for was for him to say we will not tolerate it. we will stop this. go a step further and say we will do what it takes. we will help the libyan people to become free. we helped fortify th...

In the square made when they were under direct attack, and they made these metal barricades and had sticks and stones and were banging all through the night, sending the message to mubarak and their attackers that were strong and were not afraid and were not going to be defeated. we keep hearing this phrase over and over again, the idea that fear has been defeated. a man i talked to in libya kept saying that to me. last night he insisted that we show his face because he wanted to send a message ...