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Gadhafi's forces could be on the move once again? >> reporter: there are some people leaving benghazi to the other rebel stronghold but most people are leaving the front line right now, west of ajdabyaa. town of 100,000 people. there are reports that it's a go ghost town right now. thousands of people leaving ajdabya because forces are pushing rebel forces back west. so there is some concern here and that's why, again, the criticism is being aimed at nate for for them to do something and do something quickly. >> reza reporting for us from benghazi. thank you. former u.s. congressman curt wel...

Former u.s. congressman, curt weldon, is still waiting for the face-to-face meeting with libyan's president, moammar gadhafi, it has been three days. while that part of his visit has not been so interesting. how curt weldon got to libya is. turns out a pair of powerful oil lobbyists paid for his flight. wolf blitzer uncovered that fact. >> who paid for the air fare? the air fare was paid for by the team of steve payne and brian ettinger of houston. >> so nothing to do with the government of libya. are they lobbyists or do they have business dealings with libya? >> no. i don't believe they do. ...

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Out of the country to meet her family. why did he do that? i don't know. i just know what he did and i do know and i did see him face down the government spokesman who came to us afterwards, criticized us, told us we should have never had this interview. he told them apologize to journalists. >> that's sadi gadhafi you're talking about. are there any updates whether or not she will be able to get out of tripoli? >> reporter: it's a big issue right now. i do know there had been meetings here late last night as recent as a couple hours ago. i was told one official here there was a meeting under ...

Missions that weldon is trying to carry out? >> the state department thinks it is a pretty dpood thing when the u.s. can have direct contact with countries this he have no direct contact with. you had instanceens where jimmy carter, bill richardson had gone to north korea. former president, bill clinton, going to north korea, to get out the two journalists being held. senator jim webb went to berma. they go there if they are in line with the u.s. point of view. if they are out there freelancing, it becomes very unhelpful to the u.s. government. the other thing is, when they go to these countri...