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Working -- honest, they were hard working, determined and a lot of heart. were there some bad apples in the bunch? probably. there usually are in any military organization, but these guys were committed to the cause. they wanted what we had, democracy and freedom. megyn: were they citizen soldiers or were they, for the most part, civilians who had just taken up arms? >> mostly civilians. they had training from former members of gadhafis military trying to teach these guys to learn how to fight. ...

we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." gunfire, honking horns, celebrations in cities across libya, marking the death of gadhafi. were following all the breaking news this hour. the man who ruthlessly ruled the country for 42 years was killed today outside his hometown of sirte. he was 69 years old. president obama said his death marks the end of a long and painful chapter for libya. >> one year ago,...

to be gadhafi. reports of his capture and killing came soon after the rebel forces had announced that they had taken control of sirte, his hometown. the gunfire there libyans didnt wait any time for confirmation of gadhafis death to start celebrating there in sirte. libyan rebels fired into the air as you can see a great deal of celebration there and excitement. the burst of gunfire echoing through tripoli as well as people are filling the streets. i want to bring in our own barbara st...

Socialist. he believes in big government. he believes he knows more than we do and should help us redesign our lives. it is the opposite of freedom. >> do we need to discuss? okay, no. jon huntsman -- >> i will tell you. barack obama and the sort of mushy progressive but moderate extending bush tax cuts and tripling the number of troops in afghanistan is not left wing. its not the opposite of freedom. the opposite of freedom would be oh, i dont know, gadhafi. thats the opposite of freedom. now t...

That and barack obama the opposite of freedom. you can go ahead. sir, why cant you just say, i disagree with his viewpoints instead of bringing up hitler and saying hes opposite of freedom. gadhafi is the opposite of freedom. al qaeda is the opposite. >> i think people are smart enough to know this. >> why does he keep saying stupid things like that? >> because thats who he is, clearly. to me, the interesting thing about that clip, its one of many we have of newt gingrich sounding the same, he d...

You tell me. donald trumps right wing buddy and the new york mayor who says hes birther mad. f-16s trying to kill gadhafi. from norway. no way. finally, haley barbours not running for president. who is? we start with the backlash against the republican medicare kill. howard fineman is editor of "the huffington post" and david corn is washington bureau chief for mother jones magazine. both are msnbc political analysts. let me take a look. see the latest footage. you can be sure someone will have ...

Targeted sanctions. were looking at different ways to make clear to the syrian government how appalling we find this behavior to be and to encourage them both as we have by speaking out against it but in other means to stop the violence and to move towards serious reform. administration official said sanctions could include freeze on assets of senior officials and a ban of business dealings with the u.s. no timetable has been given but wall street journal is reporting the white house is drafti...

To libya with nato unleashed its heaviest air strikes yet. the target, moammar gadhafis compound. this is new video just into cnn. look at this. this is a significant hit. cnns fred pleitgen reports that it is one of the residences, or homes that gadhafi often used within his compound. now nato says it was a command and control unit used to kill civilians in other parts of libya. a libyan government official says that todays strikes were an attempt to kill their leader, kill gadhafi, but state t...

Libya. you have what the libyan officials call an assassination attempt in libya against gadhafi. is this going anywhere at this point? >> at the moment nato cannot say were going to kill gadhafi, the fact theyre bombing his compound. lindsay graham said you have to make gadhafi wonder every day when he goes to bed, whether hes going to see the next day. theres a part of me that cant help but wonder whether this is not also part of what nato -- theyre trying to send a message and the message is ...

Activities, its bombings of his forces. so i think what hes going to try to do is hes going to try to proceed sect sert and west and cede maybe the western part of the country until everybody gets bored and goes away and then deal with it later. >> gregg: president obama has said were not going to kill gadhafi. could nato? >> i think nato could. there are things inside the united states law and procedures where we have not, after our incidents in south america, 20, 30 years ago, we dont assassin...