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Oust him. gas prices soaring in american consumers and businesses are feeling is the pinch. what will it mean for the still struggling u.s. economy? plus, a controversial congressional hearing on muslim americans and radicalization. some are comparing it to a witch hunt. we'll hear from the lawmakerer behind it. breaking news, political headlines and jeanne moos all straight ahead. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." the eyes of the world are on libya right now. we're following the latest developments this hour. among them it, nato is now conducting what are called surveillance f...

Forward. they have to problem not only to their own people but to the international community that they are capable of governing, that they would be capable of bringing about a democratic government in this country. but they also realize that they are still dealing with a very chaotic situation bearing in mind that most of the people who are involved in the opposition leadership have very little experience actually governing or putting together the type of democratic government that they are trying to establish. >> are they also appealing for weapons and a no-fly zone? is that in the conversat...

To do about the forces, the ground forces that are really doing the killing. the planes don't seem to be doing that much damage compared to what's going on on the ground. >> makes a fair point. >> makes an excellent point. people need to understand that an american intervention does not necessarily mean an invasion, and it does not necessarily mean the use of -- of heavy-handed american methods. we should consider -- we fought a proxy war with gadhafi in 1997, the so-called toyota war where gadhafi invaded chad and the united states tilted to the defense of chad and provided the chadians with ...

United states and its allies on a no-fly zone. joining us now the well-known diplomatic troubleshooter bill richardson, the former new mexico governor and the former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. and former energy secretary. mr. ambassador, thanks very much for coming. you want to be called ambassador or governor. what do you like? >> call me bill, after traveling together in north korea, you can call me anything you like. >> we'll talk about that on another owe case. libya right now. somebody at some point is going to have to go to tripoli, look gadhafi in the eyes and say, colonel, it's over, ...

That those regimes are more open, but what will it say to wobblers, people on the fence, if america's friends in a time of crisis, they go down and america's enemies come out stronger. >> you wrote this at cnn.com. you said america's credibility is on the line, do you agree? >> you did not see the same rebel forces in iran in 2009 that you're seeing now in libya. >> they were not violent. >>-ins a civil war in libya. >> both sides are armed. >> and when you look at the history of civil wars in various countries, it's about the people there driving this and not us, so i think -- certainly i thi...