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Administration. i think the, look, shes -- >> she did. >> right. i think its not going to be that credible. she has -- shes going to have to run the campaign being linked to the iraq war and the libya war. both wars that have turned out very badly. i think thats going to be tough. >> and obamas foreign policy -- >> let paul -- paul, i want to remind viewers, you support a pro-hillary clinton super pac. >> im for -- id be for hillary if nobody paid me. okay? im for hillary. i love her. i think sh...

E-mail. she gave 55,000 pages worth. is it security accountability? what is it for you? >> the politics of it is interesting to me. its beside the point. im a national security guy. i have been worried about benghazi from the start. i think its a bipartisan scandal that goes back to the libya war, which was not just an obama initiative. he was pushed into it by high ranking republicans who wanted it as well. this was a policy decision that was made to abandon a counterterrorism alliance we had w...

Losing the focus of our system and becoming less formal. we went from presidential orders to memorandau. >> and the president has been very blunt, if you dont do what i want, i will act unilaterally. with the new majority, they should be able to use that, in my opinion too, stop a lot of what the president wants to do. right? >> many of the changes that he ordered were ordered by him unilaterally. he did not get appropriations or approval. the libya war was funded entirely out of discretionary f...

Its mind-boggling because, if you, separate out whatever intelligence we may have had, we knew during the libya war, because the defense department made this known, that libya per capita, sent more jihadists to iraq than any other country in the world to fight against american soldiers. martha: yeah. >> and the capital of the jihad in libya is benghazi. in fact, we brought qaddafi in from the cold so to speak not only because of his abandoning the nuclear weapons program but because he was givin...

this is a crew speeding away from the rixos hotel in tripoli where gadhafi loyalists, the gunmen who had been holding these men and women captive for five-plus days. now and only now can they tell their story. we will hear it coming up. something here, the cnn crew, among dozens of international journalists, as i mentioned at the rixos hotel, between 30 and 35 journalists were held inside for five-plus days trying to negotiate the release according to our matthew chance, every hour, ...

Happen? i was surprised how it hijacked the whole story. >> at one point i saw panetta on nbc saying they were going to rethem now. the white house said thats our call. because of conspiracy theories people dont believe 9/11 happened. i think the arab world must have been a factor there. i think they released this void yo because he was in a man cave channel surfing and diminished. >> is there anything to the notion that the administration, by sending the president to ground zero, then he goes t...

Well be following up on this topic a lot more later on during the show. moving on to libya. two new developments in the libya war. moammar gadhafi is seen in public for the fir time in quite a while. video shows him visiting a school in tripoli, one he says nato had on its target list. the african union agrees to meet with both sides. ben joins us by phone just outside of ajidabiya. >> reporter: accords to eyewitnesses there was a three hour battle between opposition fighters and loyalist, sev...

In benghazi, the rebels celebrate as the libyan military calls for an immediate cease-fire. allied forces say theyll wait and see if this time that promise is genuine. good evening, im wolf blitzer in washington. we want to welcome our viewers watching on cnn networks around the world. this is a cnn special -- libya war. tonight were live from five continents as we cover the military movements, the political back-and-forth and the diplomatic steps being taken against moammar gadhafi and his re...

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States, but, of course, around the world. this is cnns special coverage of the libya war. the decision to launch military strikes against libya, came after a high level meeting, almost a summit meeting that took place in paris. there, the leaders laid out the plans to enforce u.n. resolution, 1973, which called for a cease-fire and a no-fly zone. partners are playing a major role in the enforcement. cnn senior international correspondent jim bittermann is in paris, the french capital today. and,...