is such a bad thing. we have sent an official emissary to the rebels. that s good. you now have somebody there talking to them. but overall, if the white house were to send an official envoy to gadhafi, you undercut the efforts that the turks are making, maybe the greeks are making. the white house position has been we want other nations involved. even the indonesians have been making noises. so i m not sure it hurts to get some firsthand sense of what gadhafi is thinking, if indeed he gets the meeting. if the white house wanted to call off this meeting or undercut it, they could certainly say so and we haven t heard anything from them. fareed? i don t dispute this is a complicated negotiation. what strikes me that is more significant, and i would love to hear from ann marie, because she
and princeton university s ann marie slaughter. she served as director of policy planning at the state department. nic, what is the latest with former congressman wheldon? the meeting didn t happen. he flew all the way thinking he was going to meet with gadhafi. is he just sitting, cooling his heels? reporter: i think cooling his heels is perhaps all he can do at the moment. it s certainly understandable that he s frustrated he didn t get this meeting. invited here to meet with the government chief of staff or at least moammar gadhafi s chief of staff, a very senior government official here, but it hasn t translated into that meeting he was expecting. and it puts him in a very, very awkward position. there s some sense that maybe the op-ed he wrote in the new york times before he arrived here could have put the leaders back up a little bit, coming out, getting ahead of the story a little, if you will. but this is moammar gadhafi, perhaps the way that many people remember him, compl
more breaking news out of libya. apparently, upset with some of the media coverage the gadhafi regime is getting, they are planning on expelling a number of reporters from tripoli. initially 27 were identified by gadhafi officials. those 27 were told they would have to leave the country. then that number was apparently cut to eight. we re not certain who the eight are nor is it clear why 27 suddenly became 8 or why those 8 were chosen. the regime obviously not transparent and never has been. another sign of that, former gop congressman curt wheldon is still waiting to meet with gadhafi in tripoli. that s him on the right of your screen. he was invited to meet with gadhafi. he said he came to urge him to give up power. after waiting to speak with him, he s been offered a meeting with the prime minister but not with gadhafi. mr. wheldon has met gadhafi a number of time, was part of a congressional delegation to libya in 2004. as for gadhafi himself, he sent a letter today to president ob
prosecutor of the international criminal court came out with a very tough statement about gadhafi. mainly because of the kind of images that have come out. the shooting of protesters, they had evidence that was a deliberate policy. precisely. if that s the case, they rarely come out with these kind of statements when they are not preparing to indict. when they do not have a criminal case, they re going to make a case for war crimes against gadhafi. if that s the case, it complicates our negotiations, because it means there isn t an easy exit for gadhafi, there isn t a quiet retirement home in maui that he can go to. it means he s going to be pursued by the criminal court. so there isn t a plea bargain strategy here. if that s the case, in a strange way it makes it more difficult to dislodge him from power. or at least that s my initial hypothesis. ann marie, do you agree with that this this is the absolute paradox
fareed? i don t dispute this is a complicated negotiation. what strikes me that is more significant, and i would love to hear from ann marie, because she is my training in international law, but the chief prosecutor of the international criminal court came out with a very tough statement about gadhafi. mainly because of the kind of images that have come out. the shooting of protesters, they said that was a deliberate they had evidence that was a deliberate policy. precisely. if that s the case, they rarely come out with these kind of statements when they are not preparing to indict. when they do not have a criminal case, they re going to make a case for war crimes against gadhafi. if that s the case, it complicates our negotiations, because it means there isn t an easy exit for gadhafi, there isn t a quiet retirement home in maui that he can go to. or some other african country. it means he s going to be pursued by the criminal court. so there isn t a plea bargain