rick: gordon jomroe, what do you make of the cease-fire announcement? i think qaddafi is playing for time. he watched the international community sit on the sidelines for the last 31 days. i think he thinks if he puts a cease-fire in place, that he can hold off on military action. we ll just have to see. rick: this is not the first cease-fire that has been called. there have been previous cease-fires that have been called to give the rebels a chance to surrender. they did not want to surrender and they had been holding out hope for support from the united states, arab countries and nato. hopefully they will get it soon. rick: if qaddafi is trying to buy some more time. now this u.n. resolution that
coming up, a dramatic turn of events in libya this morning, people, the united nations voted to implement the no-fly zone and then, the government of libya, leader, muammar qaddafi suddenly announces he wants to put in place a cease-fire in his country. but not before they killed 25 more people in miss rat ta, could that affect any potentially u.s. military plans? live at the pentagon with the latest and, during the commercial break go to our web site, a fabulouses web site, che fabulous web site, has the president gone a good job handling the libyan situation, we have 116,000 people who weighed in on this and most say no. go to the web site, you weigh in and tell us what you think and we will be right back with more, right here in america s newsroom on a busy friday, folks. we ll be right back. ale announc] escape convention. introducing the most fuel-efficient luxury car available. the radically new 42 mile per gallon ct hybrid from lexus.
but when you get him out you have a regime change. any plan for regime change there has to be an idea of how the sussex would be carried out and what the responsibilities would be in that. and my jenna approac general ape supportive of the president s military operations. before we slide into them it would be helpful if the american public would understand, not just the immediate humanitarian concern, but what the longer objective is and how it relates to other crises that are simultaneously going on in the region. megyn: mr. secretary, do you believe, because secretary of state hillary clinton has come out and said no one is taking qaddafi at his word on this
cease-fire. they ve seen him break promises in the past and that includes a town that s been the scene of heavy fighting over the last couple of days. and hours before the cease-fire was announced, it began with a barrage of fresh tank fire and shelling. resident say that that shelling continued after the cease-fire was announced. according to reuters, at least 25 people were killed, and, remember, this is after qaddafi declared a cease-fire. the rebels, opposition forces, say they definitely support that no-fly zone, but there are still questions about whether or not it will be observed and whether or not qaddafi will observe this cease-fire. we ve had different accounts to the south of us. benghazi has been quiet, but
there were some celebrations overnight. people were excited about this no-fly zone. and, quickly, the question becomes, if qaddafi is cooperating with a cease-fire, does it slow down the no-fly zone itself? does it stop italy, france, britain, from sending folks here to take out targets. megyn: we should hear more on that from our president in less than an hour. rick, thank you. there are new questions today about the severity of the situation in japan and what happens next. coming up, we ll speak with a leading expert that spent a decade fighting for nuclear safety reform. the former head of the u.s. nuclear regulatory commission. questions about how the u.s. has handled the situation and whether the new action may be too little too late. alan colmes in 3 minutes.