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Leaders in benghazi, the second largest city in libya, as the real, the official true government of the new libya, the new libya? >> reporter: yeah. the government is getting really frustrated. the deputy foreign minister told me just last night that they are really frustrated, told me again tonight as well, still really frustrated. still haven't had their nominated ambassador to the u.n. recognized and fact-finding missions from britain, france, germany, holland to come here and see if there have been any aerial bombardments of civilians and find out if there's massacres and try to answer the...

Government supporters cheering in the streets today, but there are now unconfirmed reports that rebels have retaken the main square there. after days of heavy fighting, it's almost impossible to get through to anyone in zawiya for any independent confirmation of what's going on there. today gadhafi is also sending a new warning to the united states and its allies as they consider imposing a no-fly zone over libya. he promises that all libyans will fight back against what he calls an act of aggression and an attempt to control libya's oil. >> translator: it will be clear aggression. it will als...

And you will find that has a very remarkable effect on their desire to fly. second of all, the four bases around tripoli are the areas where the air assets are located. so you're not talking about covering all of libya. the maintenance of the aircraft they have is not particularly good. they're not a formidable force. we are the strongest nation in the world. we should be able to take care of the air defenses as well as the air assets without see much difficulty. for ten years we enforce ad no-fly zone over iraq. yes, it takes assets, but we were successful in doing so. >> here's what bill dal...

Responsor of the house bill to cut that funding. >> we'll watch to see what happens. it's a magnificent building right near the state department. >> yeah. can you see the aerials, but that's part of the whole debate because some people say that's a lot nicer of the building for the institute of peace than it is for the state department. >> thanks very much. moammar gadhafi's rants, accusations and conspiracy theories, so what's behind them? we're going inside the mind of the libyan dictator, and senator john mccain pushes hard for a no-fly zone in libya. we'll speak with him. le announc] som...

>> reporter: wolf, we got turned back about two miles down the road. that seems to be that the oil minister was going to speak to the journalists back at the hotel, and the news he had was that libya's oil output has been cut by half and wanted to address some of the issues about the explosions in ras lanuf at the oil facility there, so it got turned around and got put back on again. but we were told that there's no point in us going there in the middle. night. it will be too dark and won't be able to see anything, and it's far better to go in the morning. it's not clear if we'll get to go at ...