Last several weeks. The around under repeated shelling, the neighborhood where the embassy is, shelling, violence, rival militias battling it out for control. The government had libya growing increasingly fragile, increasingly unable to control the situation. So this somewhat became inevitable, i suppose. There had been a lot talk about it over the last several days, and they decided finally that the americans really had to get out of the country for a while. The state department is making the point, the embassy is not shut down. They say it is relocated to neighboring countries, that the diplomats will continue to carry on their work, but make no mistake, the complex, the compound, is shuttered and the americans will not be going back until the security situation improves. All righty. Barbara starr, thank you so much. Dig deeper and bring in ed royce, a House Republican from california, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Congressman, good to have you with us. Good mor
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