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Arizona congressman with the house armed services committee. thanks both for joining us. >> criticism is coming in from both sides of the aisle, democrats and republicans, representative dennis kusinich action calling it grave without congressional and ron paul saying it's insulting the authority to impose a no-fly zone copping from the united nations and not congress. beginning with you congressman mcdermot, should congress been more involved? >> i think the president has handled this very well. first week he was occupied with getting americans out of libya. then he went to the united nations...

Apparently, is the libyan transitional national council? >> i don't think recognition, frankly, is going to make one bit of difference. one way or the other. nor should we, and we need congress for this, arm these people. we don't know who they are and libya is a black box and i don't want american weapons showing up sold on the black market, used against innocent civilians or against the u.s., ultimately. we have to keep our eye on the objective i is note libyan opposition. it is whether or not in a reasonable period of time we can bring enough military pressure to bear to force those around ...

Been unknown. his statement to the nation have been by telephone, those telephone speeches replayed on state television. as far as the fighting on the ground goes, across libya, there is still government forces in action around the city of misrata but the breather for the rebels in the stronghold of benghazi. tanks belonging to khadafy were wiped out by french warplanes and there are reports that fled the rebel stronghold now feeling safe enough to return to that. that is the situation right here. we have a quiet night right now. 40 minutes ago, the whole city was thundering as anti-aircraft f...

Alive, after nine days, in fact, the 16-year-old, clamored out of the ruins of the house an flagged down the rescuers, and helped to save the -- his grandmother and both, considering nine days under the rubble, in relatively good condition. so that is one good thing, out of this. and as you note the debt toll grows, heather, overall, death and missing figure is now topping 20,000, and the fear is, that the actual final death toll will get in that range as well. back to you. >> heather: what a great story the rescue, a true miracle. thank you so much, greg. >> gregg: a "fox news alert" the soun...

Freedom and democracy, not so much about the military action but the president has been monitoring the situation on the ground in libya. >> gregg: what do we know how he has been monitoring the developments? >> reporter: we're due to get a briefing from his national security advisor in an hour or so. i anticipate we will learn more about how the president is keeping tabs. but this morning, first thing he had a conference call on a secure line with secretary of state hillary clinton, bob gates also general carter hamm that is leading the efforts on the command in the situation in libya. the pre...