we want to get straight to nic robertson in tripoli. nic, what are you hearing?is is coming from the rebels, from the rebel leader in the east of the country saying a cease fire from their side is an offer if the following seasons are meet by the gadhafi leadership and that is the removal of snipers and militias from the government troops around the towns of misrata and other rebel holdouts in the west of the countrying that the siege of misrata itself must be ended but one of the goals of the cease fire they say must be regime change so this is a conditions-based cease fire coming from the rebels and this is the first time we have heard talk of a cease fire like this so far, carroll. >> if that stipulation is in the works that regime change, how likely is it that gadhafi's side will agree to a cease fire? >> reporter: i don't think anyone can realistically expect and certainly not moammar gadhafi to go at the point of a gun. if the language is such that both sides can agree and this is still some ways off, then both sides can agree a language for deescalating th

nic cage arrested, dog the bounty hunter comes to the rescue.the dog's haircut and how he still has it after all of these careers. can we go back to the mugshot of nicolas cage? who took this, somebody lying on the floor. like look at nic cage, you could see like the lights above on the ceiling. i don't know. >> he was in the corner. >> there you go. >> who took that? were they on the floor? >> needs a little nap. >>> "30 rock" it's coming to an end as we made a lot of light of around here of course. jack, who is played by alec baldwin he's dated just about everyone and sometimes the pick who they picked to date jack is funny. and condoleezza rice apparently is the next heartthrob for jack on "30 rock." >> fascinating choice. >> in the episode apparently he gets upset when she dumps him to date vladimir putin. and approached clinton to star in the 100th episode of "30 rock." which his people immediately turned down. >> it would have been great to see him on the show. >> the wedding is less than two weeks away on the 29th. and apparently "the huf

i want to bring in cnn's nic robertson on the phone with details from tripoli.us what we know about the conditions that are spelled out by the opposition. there could be some negotiations here. >> reporter: what they're saying is that the government must stop its attacks, must pull back from its sieging around misrata and other towns in the west, must remove its snipers, militias and mercenaries from the conflict. but ultimately regime change. what we're hearing here and something we've been hearing for a while in the background and i have to say this is something we've heard in the background but i have had it from a senior source that this is still something that's being considered by the leadership, that ultimately, when gadhafi feels that he's tidied up the mess in his country and straightened everything out, he can see a future here to fade into the background. when i said this is probably not a whole lot different to regime change, the sources said, that's correct. this is essentially the same thing. the reality is, there's a huge gap and a lot of diplomat

apparently, nic and his wife were arguing loudly outside an a apartment building.r apartment. it wasn't their apartment. how drunk do you have to be to not know whether or not it is your house? or how rich do you have to be to not know whether it's your house? he also made a scene at a tattoo parlor. the last time nicolas cage got this drunk, he ended up naming his kid cowle. so maybe the weirdest part of the story is he got bailed out of jail by dog the bounty hunter. for real. dog the bounty hunter posted his $11,000 bond. see, stars really are just like us. the valley music and arts festival was held in california this weekend. this is a huge annual rock concert. thousands of people gather in the desert to see like arcade fire, kings of leon, duran duran, the strokes, kanye west was there. it's a big deal, especially around these parts. here's the story from our local fox news. >> nicolas cage, famous for playing the bad boy on the big screen, plays a real-life sting for the security camera. what happened when the cops yelled cut? >> and all good things must com

on the ramped up security comes at a bad time for france and i asked nic sentiment is high and there is a dash to grab nationalist votes to at next year's presidential election the country's far right leader tells r.t. why her country's at uno. rule of pens as multiculturalism ends in war she's predicted not. out of france's presidential elections next year but the pen the first words of your party program are let's liberate france liberated from water but. i want to free france from the e.u. straitjacket the european union wants to force a hundred and fifty million immigrants on ice over the next thirty years they say we're not having enough babies let's encourage people to have kids as they do elsewhere in the world rather than wait in the immigrants the e.u. is expanding at france expense we no longer control our own territory our own currency or our own laws we don't decide who comes in or stays in our country they impose directives on us about even consulting people all this is heading our economy and discouraging foreign investment secondly we must liberate the french from the

course nic i want it is something that no one understands i spoke to a man who was to become a suicide bomber to sacrifice his life i asked why he wanted to do it he didn't understand but i told him islam is encouraged in the chechen republic are you not allowed to build mosques or to take the hard struggle. are you banned from wearing the hijab or observing the soldiers why do you come out and say i fight in the name of allah we are all muslims everything we do is for the good of muslim people and religion where i am an abiding muslim myself i live by the laws of islam which what is happening between us you didn't answer me or you most of the people who chose to become suicide bombers are mentally retarded there is usually blind or deaf they find these people completely disconnected from the outside world and use them because of what is happening in our republic the caucasus russia and all over the world. doesn't have anything to do that can and greece are more socially secure absolutely welcome the vertical bull is absolutely not it used to be true yes there are rumors circulating no

no of course nic i want to do something that no one understands i spoke to a man who was to become a suicide bomber to sacrifice his life i asked why he wanted to do it he didn't understand but i told him yes lamas encourage the chechen republic are you not allowed to build mosques or to take the hardshell would you ban from wearing the hijab they are all observing the soldiers why do you come out and say in the name of allah if we are all muslims everything we do is for the good of the muslim people and religion they were i am an abiding muslim myself i live by the laws of islam what is happening between us oh you didn't answer me or your promoted the people who chose to become suicide bombers are mentally retarded they are usually blind or deaf they find these people refer to be disconnected from the outside world and use them because of what is happening in our republic to caucasus russia and all over the world. what seventy seven knots is full interview with the church and in our next hour here. where the. headlines around the world pro-government forces have thought it was a pro

jackson there nic amendment was adopted in the us it certainly mutations on trade relations with the soviet union well the fact of jackson vanny on the soviet union is questionable it does have an impact on relations between russia and the us today . although there. and has been regularly we since one thousand nine hundred four it remains in force now one of the collapse of the soviet union russia sees it isn't justifiable tree discrimination stand in a new way of its accession to the w two year old china was also subject to jackson granted but it was removed from the legislation overturned years ago. but were you you were present at one of the settings you saw here i testify or use this device so all of these facts when the amendment was waived mean that it actually doesn't work today i mean that i mean it is defacto not functioning so what's the problem let it be i mean i mean what's what's wrong with the. with sort of the traditions with having those those old red telephone poles on the streets of london i mean that's just a traditional law no not at all because you see a. person

spy nics budget is being spent for the pre as a swedish based think tank they did a study to determine how much the world has spent on its military budget and the total dollar amounts one point six trillion that's a lot of money when it comes to the military but where the real shocker comes in as when you see this and see very calculated how much each country has spent on the military the u.s. johnnie's the area they spent six hundred ninety eight billion dollars in the past year alone to you we thought so too now see very also determined that the u.s. has an eighty one percent increase in military spending over the past decade that means the military budget has almost doubled since two thousand and one and it sounds like a lot but wait until you see it when you put it into the comparison with the rest of the world here's the us with a massive at stake in the total global military budget meanwhile the second highest is china and all the u.s. takes forty two percent of that one point six trillion you'll notice that china the second well their total amount is only around seven percent i

. >> and nic, what do you make of the high level defections we're seeing from the regime?t. someone like moussa koussa will be attuned to what's going on about the regime. there will be decisions that he's unhappy with and he may well have decided that's this was the time to jump ship, the former foreign minister and there will be others that look at his decision and wonder if it's time to jump too. there's no doubt it gives concern to gadhafi but will not bring him tumbling down overnight. others will be looking at this and that will be a worry for him. >> nic robertson, thank you. >>> addario, one of the journalists captured by pro-gadhafi forces in libya spoke about her hair rowing experience. >> a guy reached over from the front seat and started carresing my hair, like a mother would a son or daughter and he started touching my face, very gently and saying this phrase over and over. i said to anthony, what is mort? what is he saying? anthony said, he's telling you you're going to die tonight. and i just -- i mean, what can you say? >> don't miss the second part of an a

, she's not paid her taxes and also have nicolas cage, oh, boy, he owes $13.3 million, come on now, nicome on. >> yeah shocking. sinbad he owes $8.5 million. >> wow. >> i don't know what he's spending his money on. clearly it's not his wardrobe and also dionne but let's play a little bit more "pray for you." because we love that song. ♪ >> and now the royalty fees that we just paid can go to helping her pay the taxes. >> good. she needs the cash. >> yeah you never know. maybe a business manager thing you don't know. >> who knows? >>> need some management for kobe bryant's mouth. >> my goodness. >> he dropped a gay slur on national television. he was angry at a play in a game. you heard about this. the famous laker and afterwards he was fined $100,000 by the nba but he also said that he was going to speak to gay and lesbian rights groups. and in order to try to take the incident and turn a positive spin on it. and talking about promoting tolerance. a league, a basketball league. gay and lesbian players wants kobe bryant to come play with him and to prove that he's sincere. >> which i thi

nic robertson will be joining us.ben wedeman and reza sayah and fouad ajami is live here in "the situation room" from the johns hopkins school of advanced middle eastern studies, excellent views and analysis of what's going on. jimming zogby will be joining us as well with a book on arab voices. a full two hours coming up. >> the a-team lining up now, wolf blitzer. we'll be watching, and still to come here, how secretive is the obama white house? remember they promised not to be? they just won an award for being transparent. there's actually a hitch to that. joe johns explains what we're talking about in the "political pop." stay there. we could've gone a more traditional route... ... but it wouldn't have been nearly as memorable. ♪ >>> so president obama recently received an award for transparency, you know, the idea that of open government, but that meeting was completely closed to members of the media. joe johns with some "political pop" for this friday. joe, transparency, closed door, transparency, closed door. ex

captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> in the business sector, he has been involved in nic interactive and became the head of business operations. he has been a venture capital investor and had his own incubator fund operating out of washington, d.c. to help nurture small and young digital-related companies. he is also somebody who has had a distinguished education background. at harvard law school, he was senior editor of law review at the same time that president barack obama was president of law review. he became chairman in 2009 and was nominated by president obama in 2009. since then, he has done a very outstanding job as chairman. i have a number of questions related to which he has done as chairman. but i would like to ask you a couple of personal questions. you have worked for a lot of smart people, people with me be very high iq is. you work for chuck schumer, barry diller, justice souter, justice brennan. you work for barack obama. who was the smartest of those people? [laughter] >> i have three kids. and no favorites. [laughter] >> ok, they were all smart. i do s