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Isn't professor fouad ajami great? we talked about oil at the top of the program. the price today briefly hitting $100 a barrel on news out of libya. tom friedman of "the new york times" might put it, we're all as jumpy as an addict who doesn't know where his next fix might come from. i spoke with him earlier. tom, just looking at libya first, knowing what you do about gadhafi, do you think he's going to be able to hold onto power? >> that's really hard to predict, anderson. one thing we know about these kinds of regimes, they're a whole group of cronies and military officers deeply invested i...

See her meeting with gadhafi in libya the first secretary of state to ever do that. >> i think we go back to what we were talking about. that low point in 2004 during which the western leaders, who waged the iraq war, president bush and prime minister blair had decided that they would give a waiver, they would give a plea bargain to moammar gadhafi. and let's remember something about gadhafi. he's a murderer, but he's also a cunning fox. you don't rule a country for 42 years without being a very clever man. he got the message, by the way, anderson, in 2003, when the 101st airborne killed the t...

It represents the aspirations of people who are seeking a better life. as one libyan said, we just want to be able to live like human beings. we just want to be able to live like human beings. it is the most basic of aspirations. that is driving this change, and throughout this time of transition, the united states will continue to stand up for freedom, stand up for justice, and stand up for the dignity of all people. >> president obama today. but keeping them honest, the u.s. and europe has a lot to answer for in its willingness to turn a blind eye to what gadhafi has done to its people over ...

Get their hands on. >> let's hope it doesn't come to that. ben wedeman, thank you for the reports. please stay safe. join the live chat at "ac360." you can't talk about the region without talking about oil. tom friedman talks about an addiction to oil. keep it coming and keep it cheap and the world will turn a blind eye to what's going on in the region. that's what he said our policy basically has been over the years. we'll talk to him coming up. more insight on libya's uprising from dr. fouad ajami jill dougherty on the evacuation of americans. and brian flynn, a man whose brother was kille...

Call to break our addiction to oil. the egyptians, libyans and others who are risking their lives to topple their oppressors, it's not about oil, though, but a lot more. that's part two of my interview with tom friedman. the thing i keep thinking about is the sound, the demonstrators in the square made when they were under direct attack, and they made these metal barricades and had sticks and stones and were banging all through the night, sending the message to mubarak and their attackers that we're strong and we're not afraid and we're not going to be defeated. we keep hearing this phrase ove...