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Marines. martha: a disturbing story. william lajeunesse, thank you very much. bill: i dont think we have seen that before. this part of the world. one way to get into the country, isnt it? martha: sure is. bill: put on the marine uniform. martha: you can get things that look that authentic, even on the internet. bill: and along the way trick a lot of people. unfortunately. critics claim the white house is sending mixed messages on the mission in libya. what is the main objective and why are so m...

>> president barack obama: keep in mind we dont just have military tools at our disposal in terms of accomplishing qaddafis leaving. >> president barack obama: well continue to send a clear message. the violence must stop. muammar qaddafi has lost legitimacy to lead and he must leave. martha: all right, the first part of that sound bite, an exclusive one-on-one with juan-carlos lopez from cnn-espanol and the obama administration is struggling to define the u.s. mission in libya. critics say that...

Situation, saying wait a minute, were not going to get any oil out of libya for a long time to come. that takes oil -- continues taking oil off the market so the price of oil has gone up again. you just showed the price of oil at $104 a barrel, the news martha is this morning, its gone to $105 a barrel and the price of gasoline, since february 16th, when the libyan events began, has gone from 3.13 a gallon to 3.55, 3.56. thats where we are today. so youve got the price of oil going up a little b...

Continue to engage those forces and are being beaten back. we heard of several killed and wounded yesterday and again the day before that, locals telling us they cant go home, when they try to get back in they cant looive because they are in control there. you mentioned that cell phone video, we got that from a local resident who told us it came from the phone of a qaddafi soldier who dropped it and they found it and showed us video of that rocket attack. pretty dramatic stuff. we should also me...

>> and the question is, if lab libya, why not sudan and -- >> that was asked of president bush as well. >> and, he said id rather take troops out of iraq and into darfur where the u.s. has no vital interest of any kind and hes articulated a vision on acting on purely humanitarian grounds and hes not doing that now. >> and im sorry. go ahead. >> so much less likely to be able to hand it over to someone else, which is supposedly the plan. >> and were told qaddafi must go and that is not part of th...

By enacting a law preventing him from spending money on this project, if the congress wants to do that. now, some democrats and many republicans are arguing he treated the congress like a potted plant, because he did this at a time that he knew that congress would be on vacation. so theyre not even in washington to address this issue. bill: and the money issue will come up, and it will continue, and its not so much a legal question as it is probably a political question. >> it is. bill: you dont...

Newsroom", he says he is concerned about how things are going on the ground in libya, youve got mommar qaddafi vowing to fight on, where there are mixed messages about whether ousting him is part of the plan. here is u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton. >> weve heard about other people close tom, reaching out to people -- to him, reaching out to people throughout the world, africa, the middle east, europe, north america, beyond, you know, saying what do we do, how do we get out of this, what...

Moderate type of islam, and they would like to be democratic. >> reporter: again, they say they have the resolve, they will win or die, martha, and the battle continues here. martha: thank you very much for that, rick leventhal reporting from benghazi. so president obama cutting his trip to latin america a bit short by a few hours because of the situation in libya, the white house canceled the trip to the mayan ruins today, the president in the region for a 3-country, 5-day tour, meant to esta...

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