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Columnist for "time" magazine mike murphy. and former white house secretary for president clinton dee dee myers. welcome to all of you. lets talk libya, tom friedman. what are we to make of this? could this be politicized any further? >> its totally politicized at this point. other than a civil war in beirut for 40 years, these are incredibly messy situations. people dont show up in uniforms. you can have a flash mob turned into a plan thing. you can have plan people inside of a flash mob. to me...

Want to begin with libya, the civil there. it is moammar gadhafis troops and tanks battling ragtag opposition forces, and we have amazing new pictures i want to show you from a gun fight in misrata. that is just in a second, but beginning today a new front, a diplomatic front. 40-plus world leaders and diplomats, they are all there in london today for one reason, that being find common ground on libya and hammer down a plan. secretary of state hillary clinton is representing the united states th...

Attending this conference libya can never go back to the way it was before this uprising? >> reporter: i think that is a fair assumption. hillary clinton is making her way back to the airport now and back do the air force base. this is a whistle stop for many of these dptds. what david cameron said ahead of this meeting is he wants to ensure political and diplomatic unity to the maximum for the future, a different future, for libya and for the u.n.-led coalition in the country at the moment. and...

>> drummond was eventually rescued by the ski patrol 30 minutes after making that phone call. imagine being buried under snow like that, must have been the longest 30 minutes of his whole life and now, i dont know if hes so much of a snowboarder, wolf blitzer, joining me now. no way, you ski? >> no skiing, no snowboarding. like to walk. walking is nice. >> walking is good. >> skiing, not so great. >> you got some laughs in the studio here, wolf. what do you have coming up on "the situation room"...

In her own apartment and then the emt posted a picture of her body online. her parents are now fighting back, and facebook sunday fire. im brooke baldwin. the news is now. new waves of terror in libya. witnesses say men are invading homes, telling people to run for their lives and then pulling the trigger. now, moammar gadhafis forces are looking for a new fight. also a disturbing suggestion by nato. al qaeda may be infill trarting the rebel ranks, so does the u.s. really know the opposition...

Somewhere between benghazi and tobruk. youve just spoken to the mother of the woman who claimed she had been raped by members of gadhafis militia. what did this mother tell you? where is this woman? >> reporter: well, shes about 300 miles east of the rebel capital of benghazi and tobruk, which is the easternmost portion of the libyan coastline, right near the border. like much of the world, she, too, saw those disturbing pictures on television on saturday, and it has sparked outrage for this mot...

There? some are saying we arent litting gadhafi hard enough s. that what youre hearing there in washington? >> yes. the prk republicans are taking the president apart over libya, all going in different directions. thats one of the reasons the criticism hasnt gained more traction. youre hearing some republicans like john mccain and others say the president should escalate the mission, do more to get rid of gadhafi. thats not what youre hearing from possible presidential contend contenders. they s...

Released, free to do what she wants, that this is a criminal case and the government is investigating. her mother rejects that. she calls those lies. she says if indeed her daughter is free, where is she? lets see her. allow her to speak to the media, the international media. that obviously is not happening. >> reza, help us also understand, because according to nic robertsons reporting, this young woman is engaged. but in libya -- and i spoke with an eyewitness libyan several weeks ago cho expl...

Libyan forces, and a lot of questions being raised whats going on? are the rebels getting the kind of air support from the nato coalition and some of the arab league countries that they really need right now if they are going to beat back gadhafis forces? this is a tenuous very sensitive moment of whats going on in libya right now. the rebels had been making significant progress over the past week, but that looks like its ending, at least on this day. were trying to assess whats going on. i thin...

>> cnn did not shoot this video but witnesses describe especially heavy fighting there today with libyan tanks shelling residential areas, calling the scene, and im quoting, absolute carnage. i want to go live now to libya, to arwa damon. arwa, i know your travels took you to ras lanuf earlier today with the opposition forces. talk to me about what you saw, and was that at all anything like what we just saw in the video from misrata? >> reporter: yeah, brooke, the oppositions are really getting ...