moammar gadhafi s grip on libya appears to be ending. rebels say they control 80% of the libyan capital today, pockets of gadhafi fighters are holding out. they still control this hotel that s home base for foreign journalists. gadhafi s whereabouts are unknown. his loyalists continue to defend his compound. rebels keep rolling with no major resistance. they pour into the street to celebrate after they have taken much of tripoli. we were outside the windows screaming. everyone realized no one wants him. no one wants the dictator. most of us had our homes closed because there was fear, but there s no more fear. the end, game over. rebels stay three of gadhafi s sons are in custody today, including the son groomed to succeed his father. fighters grabbed another early this morning. he was on the phone at the time for a live interview with the al jazeera. you can hear him talking as rebels approach. translator: i m standing outside my house. i m being attacked right now. th
resolution. the war powers resolution could have never been passed and we d still appropriately been having this debate. congress has a fundamental responsibility to raise and maintain military. when the president uses that military, it s appropriate for the president to consult with the congress. the president and the aides say there are ample compromise. earlier in week, muammar gaddafi was charged with crimes against humanity by the international criminal court. but critics say leaving him no sanction ware they make it more difficult to get him to step down. france today announced it cut weapons to libyan opposition fighters this month and did so because nato member turkey opposed the move. the president says the u.s. and the rest of the world ought to send a unified message that muammar gaddafi should step down. his critics say his voice might be louder if the u.s. was actually leading the libya mission. at the white house, wendell goler, fox news.
focus on the war powers resolution. the war powers resolution could have never been passed and we d still appropriately been having this debate. congress has a fundamental responsibility to raise and maintain military. when the president uses that military, it s appropriate for the president to consult with the congress. the president and the aides say there are ample compromise. earlier in week, muammar gaddafi was charged with crimes against humanity by the international criminal court. but critics say leaving him no sanction ware they make it more difficult to get him to step down. france today announced it cut weapons to libyan opposition fighters this month and did so because nato member turkey opposed the move. the president says the u.s. and the rest of the world ought to send a unified message that muammar gaddafi should step down. his critics say his voice might be louder if the u.s. was actually leading the libya mission. at the white house, wendell
military power is quite limited. the bottom line is if you can t get rid of somebody like gadhafi as poorly armed as the libyans are, it tells you something about the organization that has million of men under arms and spends hundreds of billions on defense, you don t get a lot for it. it isn t centrally managed. each country spends what it wants and no one s specializing. when i say the whole is less than sum of its parts it s because you have all this reputation, but it really isn t the single army or air force or anything else. once the president has said gadhafi must go, and gadhafi is still there, what would you do now if you were the administration? hillary clinton at this hour is on the hill trying to explain the libya mission to very concerned senate republicans to put it mildly. what would you do now that we re there? i never would have said that gadhafi must go.
that george anthony perhaps would take the stand today as well. so we will keep an eye on what is happening in the orlando courtroom, and you see that casey anthony has beeneen cryin throughout her brother s testimony, and her mother s as well. now the house has just symbolically rejected cutting off funds for libya mission. the house overwhelmpingly rejected a measure for president obama to continue to nato-led mission against libya. 70 democrats voted with the republicans, and republicans and some democrats are angry with the president for failing to seek congressional authorization for the libya operation under the war powers act. the white house says it is not necessary. newsnation will be right back. [ female announcer ] kiss everything you know about cookies goodbye.