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Isn't professor fouad ajami great? i'm so glad he agrees to be on our program every night, because i learn something from him every night. 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 will be coming from. we spoke earlier, tom friedman and i, about addiction, oil, and how the libyan revolution may end. tom, just looking at libya first, knowing what you do about gadhafi, do you think he's going to be able to ...

Segment. you get to choose the news. libya's government is intensifying its brutal crackdown on protestors. state tv showing video of them being rounded up in tripoli. the streets are deserted. people are scared to come out after leader muammar gadhafi called on supporters to attack anyone suspected of being with the opposition. his hold on power is confined mainly the to the capital and the western part of the country. the oposition holds cities across the mediterranean coast in red. that includes libya's second largest city, benghazi. that's where ben wedeman is. he's the first to report...

So president bush and prime minister blair made a deal with moammar gadhafi and made it seem that the iraq war has paid dividends. i say this with a heavy heart, because i was a supporter of president bush. but i think that was in error. then came further years of indulging this terrible man, moammar gadhafi. and we now see the harvest of the bargain we've made with this character. >> it's interesting, fouad, because with mubarak, the bush administration had this sort of name and shame policy where condoleezza rice made a public declaration in cairo critical of the regime, and yet there you se...

That. ben wedeman, thank you for the reports. coming up, can't talk about libya and the entire 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 killed on pan am flight 1032, 22 years ago. [ male announcer ] achievement: embra...

Throughout it, all the regime has been trying to blame outsiders, especially america for the uprising. just moments ago, we got a statement from libya's superior ministry calling on people to turn in their weapons and tell them who gave them hallucinating pills. gadhafi says american drugs are being used to poison libyan minds. the ministry is promising anyone who gives themselves up will not be harmed. joining us now is brian flynn, who lost his brother john patrick on pan-am 103. also professor fouad ajami. and jill dougherty at the state department. jill, this ferry was supposed to depart h...