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Troops are keeping up their assaults in western libya. explosions heard in tripoli where we find our colleague david lee miller ing live for us. -- streaming live for us. >> reporter: it is a few minutes after midnight. perhaps over my shoulder you can see the lawn sprinklers have gone on at this hotel in tripoli from where we are operating. don't be fooled, the situation here is anything but calm. earlier tonight there was anti-aircraft fire in the capital overhead we could hear nato jets. you can hear now the anti-aircraft fire. see some from our advantage point, at this hotel. we should poi...

Still sweeping through the arab world. when you look at the footage that we were just seeing from libya, from the civil war going on there, loyalists and rebels fighting one another. it is amazing to think 150 years ago that was going on in our country. americans were turning guns on each other, just as we see in the world today. >> rick: i love the history of this country is so rich that we can continue to learn new lessons about a conflict that took place a century and a half ago. i would encourage our readers to do as i am and pick up a copy i of 1861, the civil war awakening. >> enjoy the ...

And i imagine in two days it will be relished to a rhetorical weapon now and then on the campaign stump. >> i don't think it hurts him in any way. if the republicans want to bring it up, it is fine. the idea that obama is the only one who doesn't allow reporters into fundraising is silly. he was meeting with supporters, i think it was a fundraiser, it is totally appropriate for it to be closed. >> arthel: kirsten powers, jason rowe, thank you for your comments. >> thank you. >> thank you. switching gears. libya rebels advancing towards the strategic oil town of brega, no doubt taking advanta...

Describe as a medieval siege. the suffering was on the minds of thousands of people that demonstrated today in the rebel-held city of the -- the rebel sted of benghazi. >> reporter: a very energized crowd here at this demonstration in the opposition capital of benghazi. the demonstration, to show support and solidarity for the rebel fighters on the front lines and the people of western libya. places that are still firmly in the control of regime like the capital of tripoli, misrata, where there's fierce fighting over the past several weeks. for the most part these rebels still optimistic thing...

Welcome back to "news nation." plan rejected. libyan rebels strikeç down a cease-fire proposal and demand moammar gadhafi leave the country. war on women. i'll talk to a former president of planned parenthood about the republicans efforts to strip funding from the organization. political plans, olympic cold medalist carl lewis set to announce he's making a different kind of run. plus today's "news nation" gut check. should a school be allowed to force kids to buy lunch at school to make sure they're eating healthy? in libya rebels have rejected a cease-fire plan offered by the africa...