he like qaddafi appeared to still be standing. is there not much talk about this libyan war from the white house, or from the pentagon. about it many important to remember that u.s. taxpayers pay 3/4 of nato s operating costs for this mission and other nato missions. martha? >martha: thank you very much for the update. you may have heard. white house spokesman jay carney warning again that they are now just 6 days until the federal government starts to run short of cash. we have competing bills in congress as both sides try to make this issue their own way. so how is this getting across to the public? spoathe to the public? pollster frank luntz joins me. it s not getting across to the american people. we see disapproval numbers for congress higher than it s been in a long time.
describes it. we are generally in a stalemate. so with the strikes over time moammar qaddafi s forces are continuing as additional pressure has been brought. reporter: britain is the third nato member to recognize the libyan rebels known as the transitional national council. britain is expelling libya s representatives from the embassy in landon. but the rebels say they would be okay if libyan president qaddafi remains in libya. more salt in the wound for nato. the pan am 103 lockerbie bomber appeared at a pro qaddafi rally tuesday. he like qaddafi appeared to
prison in scotland. last night he appeared on libyan tv, there he is right in the middle there with the beard, at the pro-gadhafi rally. amy kellogg joins us live with more on this from london. hi, amy. reporter: hi, martha. a lot of outrage here in the united kingdom as well. the foreign secretary said that seeing the lockerbie bomber out and about two years after he was released from that scottish prison on the grounds that he was just about to die is only likely to further intensify the anger and hurt and outrage of many people, particularly the family members of the victims of those terrorist, of that terrorist attack. now, libyan state television showing al-megrahi at a pro-gadhafi rally in libya. he certainly doesn t look spritely, but he is, in fact, a free man. no video is simply released by chance in libya, this was a
the square by armed intelligence libyan security to get back to the hotel, because the situation got so out of hand. martin? gadhafi has released a defiant message, but the presence in libya remains the central point of contention in the conflict, doesn t it? it does. neither side seems to be shifting on it. you have gadhafi here again in a radio statement saying he is not going anywhere and daring nato the continue to bombing, and then on the other side, the opposition says they will negotiate nothing until gadhafi leave, and he says he is not going anywhere. so until the impasse is breached in some way, there will be no e no negotiations, but we heard from the prime minister that there are meetings outside of the government, and he would not tell us what they were for
get to the bottom of this. he continues to insist his twitter account was hacked. the congressman says he does not want to make a federal case out of it. the congressman sat down with cnn s wolf blitzer this afternoon. did you send that picture to that college student in washington state? i did not. she says she never got it and doesn t know me. i certainly don t know her. this seems like it was a prank to make fun of my name. when you re named weiner, that happens. got 40,000-some-odd twitter followers. this seems like a prank that has an enormous amount of attention. this is the picture. i m sure you ve seen it by now. is this you? i can tell you this. we ve hired a firm i ve seen it. a firm that we ve hired to try to get to the bottom of it. i can tell you this, that photos can be manipulated. photos can be of one thing. changed to look like something else. we re going to get to the bottom of what happened. maybe jon stewart last night had it right, unfortunately