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Organized this and take them to malta. there are some 600 americans registered with the embassy there in tripoli. meanwhile, moammar gadhafi continues to be defiant, says he will fight in libya until his last drop of blood. the aclu and a muslim group are suing the fbi for an alleged illegal surveillance. a federal class action suit will be announced today. and it claims an fbi informant infiltrated a california mosque and randomly targeted muslims for surveillance violating their first amendm...

Resource, you have it in places experiencing unrest right now. and as you said the demand just continues. wheres the end game here? >> well, the key variable here is spare production capacity. and to put this in context, libya produces about 1.6 million barrels of oil a day. most of that is in saudi arabia. so the loss of libyan supply could be offset, but the -- but the downside is that that would also shrink the amount of spare capacity. so the worlds ability to deal with another disruption wo...

Visited high ranking libyan officials at invitation of the libyan government. fran, hi. so you met with gadhafi. do you think that he will survive this threat? this threat to his power, i should say? >> well the real question is how long will the military sustain him? what we have seen in egypt and tunisia and it was quite different there, but that without the support of his military and security forces, he cant survive. the fact is he is very strong-willed, very opinionated, difficult to negoti...

Cnn. we applaud your ability. remarkable you have gotten into libya there. take care of yourself. taking a turn back here to the u.s. tonights big political story is in wisconsin. where republican governor scott walker refuses to blink even after a week of gridlock and angry demonstrations by teachers and other state employees. within just the last hour, governor walker insist heed wont give up his fight against the state employees unions as he tries to force concessions to close a $137 million ...

Problem is that we saw the president hosni mubarak of egypt resigned after 18 days of protests, peaceful protests. and the worry is that colonel gadhafi is not going to step down easily. that he is, sort of the former romanian president of the arab world, somebody that will go down fighting all the way. >> witnesses say libyas government used war planes and helicopter gun ships against crowds of protestors. in london people are telling chilling stories as they arrive on flights out of libya. >> ...

Venezuela. im still here. >> a brief but extraordinary statement. and i want to begin immediately with ben wedeman tonight in eastern libya. ben is the first western television reporter to enter and report from inside libya during this crisis. ben, whats going on? what can you see? what do you know? >> reporter: well, what i can see, piers, is that the eastern part of the country seems to be under the control of anti-gadhafi forces. as we were driving in from the egyptian border, we did not see ...

Move the ball forward. this is our way of running with the ball. >> how about here in washington? were also facing potential government shutdown. >> right. it is the same question of overreaching. to me it is interesting. because i wonder, if the republicans are making the same mistakes the democrats made. because theyre not talking jobs, jobs, jobs. that was barack obamas problem. why arent the republicans talking, jobs, jobs, jobs? >> right. this is one of the big political debates we will be ...

>> thank you. >> greta: hear from one of wisconsins 14 democrats. is she going to hang tough? how about the other 13? >> also breaking news at this hour, catastrophic events are unfolding in oil rich libya. hundreds are reported dead. where is libya leader lead -- qadhafi? ú@ ok.

Immediate economic impact on the world market. i can see already an in asia this morning oil prices are up. i think the main thing we should look for is whether the first thing the american government has to do is protect its citizens in libya. i would have to say im worried, given qadhafis past that he would consider seizing americans as hostages. i assume, i hope, the state department is working on that. thats a very unclear part of the situation. >> greta: in terms of qadhafi, looks like he h...

>> all right. colonel gadhafi did appear briefly on libyan tv and made a quick statement. we will play that. i will ask you a question on the back end. [ no audio ] >> i am not in france or venezue venezuela. i am still here with all these dogs. i am still here. >> so, gadhafi appearing saying i am here in tripoli, not in venezuela. then the video goes to black essentially. what are people there saying about gadhafich is there? is there a hopefulness this is the end for him or too fearful to hop...