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Able to hold onto hope? >> im hopeful because from the response from the people. ive been trying to see who is interested to flee out of the country. im talking about people whose lives are at risk. nobody wants to flee out of the country. although media has been reporting people trying to cross boarders between libya and egypt. nobody wants to flee, nobody. everybody is staying home. some are even staying out, doing whatever they can for him to end as soon as its possible. >> please stay safe. ...

We have so little to lose. the regime has stripped us of that. the other you hear, and i believe that libyan said it last night, i heard this in egypt, im now proud to say im a libyan, im egyptian. these people were ashamed. they had been humiliated by their regimes. they looked out at the world, they saw the world going by, and literally one egyptian said to me, i was ashamed to show my passport. so its very clear the deep, really human impulse thats been on display here, thats been coming out....

A pathetic response and the fact of the matter. martha: those americans are at risk. now. they have been for some time and the failure of the united states to really speak forcefully in favor of those who seek freedom in the broader region is really quite pathetic. we have -- this is not as if it is this first of these crises, either, after going through the events of tunisia and egypt and looking at developments elsewhere, you think it would not take as long for them to realize, that we need to...

Unemployment benefits. that number dropped by 22,000 last week to 391,000. we want to keep that under 400,000 to get towards positive growth in this country. thats the third drop so the trend line is looking good. economists are saying thats only modest job growth. it needs to be consistent to show significant decline in the jobless rate over time. bill: gadhafi is back at it, hes cracking down in libya again. there are new reports this morning of fierce gun battles between military forces loyal...

A waiver, they would give a plea bargain to moammar gadhafi. and lets remember something about gadhafi. hes a murderer, but hes also a cunning fox. you dont rule a country for 42 years without being a very clever man. he got the message, by the way, anderson, in 2003, when the 101st airborne killed the two murderous sons of saddam. it was then that gadhafi and his family decided its time now to make a bargain with the west. hes made his bargains with england and italy and spain. hes been able to...

Happening in libya in general. >> other cities obviously are now in the hands of anti-gadhafi forces. do you think gadhafi can hold on in tripoli? >> no. >> what makes you say that? >> its because he is using last resorts. hes falling and hes falling fast. everybody is waiting for him to fall. hes trying to discourage people. hes trying to do his best to make everybody give up. hes even trying to use the weakest point of the west, which is al qaeda and giving out that al qaeda will be running th...

Nobody wants to flee, nobody. everybody is staying home. some are even staying out, doing whatever they can for him to end as soon as its possible. >> please stay safe. thank you for talking to us. well check with you again. >> thank you, bye. coming up, well talk to tom friedman from "the new york times and brian flynn, whose brother was killed in the bombing pan-am 103, and new claims that it was carried out at the direct request of moammar gadhafi. well talk with dr. fouad ajami and jill do...

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 represents for a comment why they would perform for gadhafis son and whether they had any plans to return the millions. no reply from cary, ushe...

Before where the administration has defended this law happened in lower courts and other circuits where there was binding precedent and some sort -- bill: do you sight of as political theater? >> you can be a proponent of gay marriage and still think this is political. having not taken it over the first two years of the administration, to make this argument at this time because they dont want to continue to have to make it in the future. there is no reason they could have made the same argument ...

Martha: one of the big, big picture questions for the whole middle east situation. is iran using this crisis in the middle east, to flex its muscles? right now, two iranian warships, pictures of them coming through the suez canal which hasnt happened since before the iranian revolution and now we have word, just coming into "americas newsroom," those two ships docked in syria now, okay. that scenario is going on, also, muammar qaddafi blaming the worlds most wanted man in a discussion that he wa...