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Jennifer, you know, is there worry inside the pentagon that -- just a -- well, of, i don't know, being sued? are they worried about the aclu, are they worried about challenges like that, and is that in some way something that now they have to worry about so much that maybe it's affecting their strategy? >> well, they certainly have a lot of legal minds looking at these issues as they do at the justice department. the pentagon will say this was not our operation, this was cia-led and done in conjunction with the joint special operation command, but it was a title 50 operation and there are diff...

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, every minute of every day. the end came today when a cnn producer persuaded the local commander that...

need folks to leave. i've been in there when planes have entered airspace and they told us to leave the capitol. during this instance, there was no such warning, there was no such direction from capitol police. it happened so quickly that the evacuation orders were given simply by word-of-mouth. by whatever office you were closest to. that was my experience just outside the senate chamber right above it. >> lisa with the latest from the capitol. wolf blitzer standing by for us in washington, d.c. wolf, i'm sure you'll be talking about this in the situation room later today. >> we cer...

But so far robert gates has been tight lipped, saying no comment when it comes to covert ops. >> i can't speak to cia activities. but the president has been quite clear in terms of the united states military, there will be no boots on the ground. megyn: this turmoil is libya is raising the bar for oil prices. crude oil prices were up nearly $2, now hovering at $106 a barrel it is the highest price since september of 2008. an alert coming in on japan. the tokyo electric power company saying radioactivity in water under japan's fukushima nuclear plant measuring an eye popping 10,000 time the gov...

Schakowsky, who has been given no clear reason for why they continue to do this. >> if we're talking about covert ops, assassinations, other black bag jobs and whatever else there is under the rocks, are there good companies that do this? i mean, is it an academic discussion of who is a good murdering -- murder for hire operation and a bad murder for hire operation? >> well, if you review all of the companies and determine that blackwater is your best company, then you know that this country is in serious, serious trouble with its national security policy. >> you've reported -- mr. prince here...