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Back sirte and ras lanuf. >> zain, confidential documents show that moammar gadhafi has spent millions of dollars over the years to improve his public image. he payed the monitor group, a u.s. pr company $3 million a year to help craft his desired image as a statesman and performer. starting in 2006, think tank analysts and former government officials were given free trips to libya for meetings, discussions and personal meetings with gadhafi. it was aimed at modern idesing the libya economy, adding, quote, we were not working for gadhafi, we were working for libya. china has broken its silen...

I went to a fish market. i go there all the time. this is one place in tokyo where you can always see an american tourist. we didn't see anybody. business is down some 80%. the fishermen faced off with tepco expressing rage, very rare in japan, saying tepco is killing the fishing industry. wolf. >> thanks very much for that. we'll stay in touch. food concerns are spreading across the united states as well including at top restaurants. coming up at the top of the hour on john king usa, what one chef is doing to keep radioactive food off your plate. plus, concerns president obama will lose sup...

Too much. >> we expect to hit 120 million. >> reporter: steven runs american cross roads, a republican group founded by karl rove. >> we created american cross roads to be counterpoint to what the other groups have done very effectively for the last several elections. >> reporter: democrats say they are trying to catch up. monica dixon's new group will work to keep the democratic in safe hands. >> we didn't do a good job supporting our candidates against this barrage of money spent against them. this cycle, we're engaged. >> reporter: the law limits contributions to candidates 5,000 max per el...

Briefed vice president dick cheney after returning. pearl wouldn't go on camera but denied briefing cheney. paul blumenthal from the sunlight foundation says if pearl briefs cheney, that part of the work could be illegal because it's not a registered lobbying firm. what did the group do that was deceptive? >> not being a lobby iing groupn this case, they were working to bring intellectuals to libya with ties in america to elites whether dick cheney or people in the state department, defense department. they wanted them to influence policy on libya. >> reporter: we spoke with a partner of the m...

Stopped working for the government in 2009 to release the bomber from a prison. another firm called the monitor group made a lot of money. according to documents online, the monitor group charged them $250,000 a month between 2006 and 2008. in return, according to the documents, they sent academics to meet with moammar gadhafi. they adviced gadhafi's son safe on his thesis for his ph.d. the firm now calls it a mistake. they proposed helping him set up a security council. did they skirt u.s. law in its dealings with libya? one person who went to libya for the monitor group, richard pearl