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We were working for libya. if we discover that there was anything inappropriate that we did, we will take all appropriate measures to remedy it. >> plenty of others made millions off gadhafi. rhonda udome's lobbying firm got more than a million dollars a year to push for it to be taken off the list of terrorist sponsors. it was all registered and above board. >> critics say you knew about his history, about the chance he could maybe never change and you made a deal with the devil. >> i didn't make the deal with the devil. the bush administration made the deal. i didn't do that agreement. the b...

To send in agents to learn about the rebels and assess their needs. clinton's special representative, the state department's christopher stevens seen here in 2008 in tripoli is on the ground in benghazi scoping them out. >> we sent somebody in to get that kind of on the ground assessment of their identity, of their leadership structure to talk with them firsthand and to see what direction we think they're moving in. we've seen some positive sign signals. >> reporter: recognizing the rebels a senior official tells cnn raises serious issues. it would acknowledge that libya is now a divided count...

September. cnn's senior congressional correspondent dana bash joins me life. $38.5 billion to you and i that sounds like an awful lot of money but in fact it's just a drop in the bucket. was it worth the political jockeying? >> who knows. we'll see at the end of the day because it was very, very intense, deb. it was down to the wire negotiations last night with only about an hour and a half left before the clock struck midnight and major parts of the government going to shut down a small group of negotiators from the white house and the senate majority leaders and the house speakers' office sh...

That's deceptive. >> despite not being a traditional lobbying organization should have registered under the lobbying act than the traditional lobbying law and in this case they were working to bring intellectuals to libya who had foreign policy ties in america to elites where there was dick cheney, people in the state department, the defense department and really wanted these intellectuals to influence policy on libya. >> reporter: we spoke with eamon kelly a partner with the monitor group leading an internal investigation into the firm's dealings with libya. what do you say to the critics who...

Protest the release of the lockerbie bomber from a scottish prison. another firm called the monitor group made several million dollars in its dealings with libya. according to documents posted on-line, the monitor group charged the libyan government $250,000 a month between 2006 and 2008. in return, according to the documents, the firm sent academics to meet with muammar gadhafi. some of them wrote articles about the libyan leader. the son saved on the thesis for the phd.. the monitor group wanted to include a biography for muammar gadhafi. the firm proposed helping gadhafi set up its own secu...