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Interviewed him and talking to george stephanopoulos today. it's bizarre to see the fracturing of this man's representatives who by the way could be accused of just been opportunists of seeing the wind blowing against gadhafi and now are jumping ship, because they've been represent thing guy for years, for decades. >> it highlights the problem. this is a regime with no institutional existence or loyalty. it's a bunch of people around gadhafi who run it. these people, the diplomats around the world, they probably have no contact. there's no institutional construct, so they're spinning off. but ...

Nuclear weapons program, but there are fears, for instance, that he still possesses chemical weapons. he still has some warships that he could deploy. i mean, really, the possibilities are endless. and that really is what concerns people. because gadhafi is clearly in a corner. he's, as i said, isolated domestically and internationally. he's seen that some of his traditional allies faded away. in fact, i spoke with one of -- a senior intelligence officer until just last week had been one of his oldest allies. he had actually taken part in the 1969 coup that overthrew the monarchy. and he said,...

Could be accused of just being opportunists of seeing the wind blowing against gadhafi and now are jumping ship, because they've been representing this guy for years, for decades. >> it highlights the problem. this is a regime with no institutional existence or loyalty. it's a bunch of people around gadhafi who run it. still ahead, a live report from bahrain where new protests and a funeral were held today after the brute wall killing of unarmed protesters. also, new zealand, the death toll rising after a earthquake as rescuers are racing to find survives. we'll talk to bear grylls, host o...

Through the ranks of the foreign ministry during the time of hosni mubarak and therefore he was previously associated very closely associated with the regime. now he seems to be jumping ship and going to the other side. so there are beginning -- we're seeing sort of defections of people who were associated with the regime now going over. and there's also this committee of so-called wise men of businessmen, politicians, journalists who are acting as intermediaries between the protesters and the regime and the regime realizes they have to deal directly with or at least indirectly with the protes...

Seeing overseas in greece and other countries in europe about what happens when you get a debt. a national debt that ends up being almost as big as your annual economy, your annual grosse pointe woods. so there are the deficit hawks who are saying, look, we've got to address it, there's about 670 billion dollars, if we do away with the bush tax cuts for the wealthy, that would help to balance the budget. again the other side of the argument. we shouldn't be raising taxes when the economy is in such a state. i suspect we'll see a real debate about this, during the campaign. i don't know if a we...