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>> that is a dream world you live. you want your oil, you want your resources. otherwise, where was the help for the muslims for the last 40 years? you propped up gadhafi and mubarak and you armed them and you didn't care about atrocities. how come suddenly you have -- >> sir, look. sir, with all due respect, time runs short, but i think it's been pay tently clear for 40 years the united states has been the enemy of moammar gadhafi. he's a terrorist and abhorrent to us. i have to ask this, for all your chatter about how i want sharia law, you want to go back to the rule of islam, why do you li...

Power. she would not go that far. what she said is once we go in, once we start taking action, we change the environment and she intimated that it may be possible that those around gadhafi change their minds. do you think that's likely to happen, that people who have propped up gadhafi for years, some of them for generations, that they might look at this and go, maybe it's time to forego our support of this man? >> you know, secretary clinton is a very sophisticated diplomat, very experienced public policy person. i think a lot of this is fuzzy, political rhetoric to disguise the fact that we ...

Without too much foreign involvement. >> understood. ben, we'll stay in close touch with you. ben wedeman on the ground for us in eastern libya. the obama administration has taken a cautious approach towards the libyan prices. gradually raffling up gadhafi and his regime. even as libyan opposition members dismiss rumors, there was some tough talk today from the u.s. suggesting gadhafi can run but cannot hide from international justice. listen to what the state department spokesman, pj crowley said. >> look, we want to see gadhafi leave. we're not his travel booker. there's nothing preventing...

The politics are dicey. it's in the clear who would benefit and who would lose politically. i talked to a democratic source this morning who said that poll was a little bit premature because about only a third of the country even have it in their consciousness that there is a government shutdown looming and that when people see this, it could be a different story especially if the president weighs in because what democrats have been relying on is history and history did show the last time this happened, last time republicans are in charge in the mid-90s, the republicans by and large were to bl...

Narrowly missed a cnn crew. they're in a vital hub of the oil industry. and another target. at the white house, there is a new debate behind closed doors. the obama administration is considering whether to cut diplomatic ties. and two u.s. navy warships are on their way to the region positioned for a possible humanitarian role. but in a rambling three hour speech, gadhafi warned against any military action ge by the united states or its allies. >> thousands and thousands of people would be killed if america or the atlantic intervene in our country. >> ben wedeman is on the phone.