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Hes irrational, and he just, he switched sides. he went over to the anti-gadhafi forces. so even his oldest allies seem to be jumping ship. >> ben, thank you very much. youre doing a great job there. please keep safe and keep reporting for cnn from inside libya. now i want to welcome my special guest for this evening, hugh hefner. hugh, do i call you hugh? hef? what do you like to be called? >> hef. >> hef, what do you think of whats going on in the world right now? youve been through so many th...

Youre doing a great job there. please keep safe and keep reporting for cnn from inside libya. now i want to welcome my special guest for this evening, hugh hefner. hugh, do i call you hugh? hef? what do you like to be called? >> hef. >> hef, what do you think of whats going on in the world right now? youve been through so many things, the cold war, the vietnam war, the end of the russian revolution. what do you make of what were seeing now? >> very exciting. and i think quite unexpected. i think...

Of. good evening. breaking news at the top of the hour on "360." the u.s. announcing evacuations in libya. the u.s. sending a ferry to transport americans from tripoli to malta. not clear if the ferry can land and not clear if americans can even get through the streets of tripoli to get to the ferry. reports of government gunmen shooting people in the streets. this is what it sounds like in tripoli on and off for the past 48 hours. [ shouting ] [ gunfire ] >> well talk to a libyan woman caught...

>> tonight, hugh hefner on his life behind closed doors at the playboy mansion. and the latest on the chaos in libya. this is "piers morgan tonight." good evening. well talk with american icon hugh hefner in a moment. but first, two big breaking stories tonight. cnn can project that rahm emanuel is the winner in the chicagos mayors race. he was the presidents former chief of staff. and in libya, some more dramatic signs. well run straight now to ben wedeman, cnns man inside libya, who just fil...

>> its just a very, very good time to be alive. >> tonight, hugh hefner on his life behind closed doors at the playboy mansion. and the latest on the chaos in libya. this is "piers morgan tonight." good evening. well talk with american icon hugh hefner in a moment. but first, two big breaking stories tonight. cnn can project that rahm emanuel is the winner in the chicagos mayors race. he was the presidents former chief of staff. and in libya, some more dramatic signs. well run straight now to ...

Counterattack against the eastern flank of his opponents here in the eastern part of the country. so it certainly does appear that after that speech that tensions are increasing. piers? >> yeah, ben, i saw earlier the footage of you talking to some of the local libyan who is seemed outraged by what was going on. whats the mood of the people there? do you think they believe, as the egyptian people believed, that they can actually get rid of gadhafi finally? >> reporter: well, i think they do. the...

Youre doing a great job there. please keep safe and keep reporting for cnn from inside libya. now i want to welcome my special guest for this evening, hugh hefner. hugh, do i call you hugh? hef? what do you like to be called? >> hef. >> hef, what do you think of whats going on in the world right now? youve been through so many things, the cold war, the vietnam war, the end of the russian revolution. what do you make of what were seeing now? >> very exciting. and i think quite unexpected. i think...

>> yeah, ben, i saw earlier the footage of you talking to some of the local libyan who is seemed outraged by what was going on. whats the mood of the people there? do you think they believe, as the egyptian people believed, that they can actually get rid of gadhafi finally? >> reporter: well, i think they do. they do feel that despite his rhetoric, despite his violent reaction to the protests, that essentially he is gradually losing ground. hes seeing that the eastern part of the country is no l...

>> yeah, ben, i saw earlier the footage of you talking to some of the local libyan who is seemed outraged by what was going on. whats the mood of the people there? do you think they believe, as the egyptian people believed, that they can actually get rid of gadhafi finally? >> reporter: well, i think they do. they do feel that despite his rhetoric, despite his violent reaction to the protests, that essentially he is gradually losing ground. hes seeing that the eastern part of the country is no l...

>> reporter: well, at the moment, i think people are really bracing for the possibility that certainly after hearing that rather incoherent but threatening speech from libyan leader moammar gadhafi that he may be trying to launch some kind of counteroffensive against the eastern part of the country. he made it clear that he is going to hunt down and execute his opponents around the country. and the problem, of course, is that this eastern part of the country is outside of his control. now, we he...