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>> democrats to to be careful too so they don't look like they are running benghazi. >> they are not running them. that is one of the weird things about this process. the republicans are running all the committees doing the investigation but the energy is on the democratic side. it shouldn't be about interference. the president poisoned the well making the equation to his own legitimacy. >> the financial implication is something to keep an eye on. does this administration, does the president respect the presidency enough to match his words, his tough words for russia and foreign policy stateme...

About -- raising questions about where we go from here. what do you make of that? >> as much as i like richard, i disagree on just about every point. let's look at it in terms of where we were a week ago. where we had a week ago we didn't have a u.n. resolution. then we get a u.n. resolution that is supported by remarkable coalition of countries, including lebanon and colombia, nigeria, other countries. and then saturday, the first troops, the first planes are in the air. that's only 3 1/2 days ago. in 3 1/2 days we have stopped gadhafi in his tracks. prevented a massacre in benghazi. we are m...

>> thank you, mr. anderson, thank you very much. >> a voice from misurata. now the latest from arwa damon in benghazi. and in tripoli, david kirkpatrick from "the new york times." arwa, you were on the front lines hours ago outside abdijaya. what did you see there? where are the rebels? >> reporter: well, anderson, they're only a short distance away from the northern gate, but that is where they appear to be slightly bogged down. the air strikes have allowed them to advance this far. they've been trying to break through gadhafi's tanks. the artillery that he has, this barrage has been raining ...

Haven't. we've also heard various reports that weapons have been coming from egypt and some other countries. we've been asking the opposition leadership, their military leadership about this. they're denying that any sort of government is sending them weapons, that they are receiving weapons from the outside. what we do see is opposition fighters alongside the main routes here going from benghazi to abdijaya trying to put together whatever weapons they've managed to recuperate from gadhafi's forces following the air strikes. you see them on the side of the road trying to put together the damag...

Better be prepared to step in. could be the arab league or the french. but you are ultimately going to need an awful lot of military help on behalf of the opposition. if you succeed, you're going to need probably some kind of peacekeeping force. the one thing we could probably predict, if the opposition ever does get rid of gadhafi, then their one common thread will have disappeared and for all we know, they're start fighting among themselves. gadhafi never allowed an army to really grow up that has a national reach. this is -- even if we're successful, this is going to be extraordinarily mess...