anti-government demonstrations began two weeks ago. both sides are arming civilians. now, you re looking here at the aftermath of a battle for an airport in misrata, a city now controlled by protesters. now, cnn can t confirm the authenticity of any video posted on social network sites but does find this consistent with news reports on the ground. moammar gadhafi is denying there are protests that are taking place. they love me. all of people with me. they love me all. they will die to protect me, my people. want to go live to senior international correspondent nic robertson who is in libya s capital. nic, what areas are key for libya to control? how are the negotiations going with the opposition? reporter: well, i spoke a little while ago, a couple hours
interestingly enough, on one of holly s social network sites she says she s been getting a lot of inquiries. chris, back to you. i ll bet she is, kevin. thank you so much. allen, you wouldn t leave johna if she i m just checking. i want there to be complete harmony in the msnbc family. for no amount of money, right? okay. let s talk about former vice president cheney. candid, open as he s ever been, in an exclusive interview with nbc. he shows us what s keeping him alive after five heart attacks. i wear it on a vest, and there s a control element here and then two batteries, one on each side, good for about 12 hours each. and then there s a cord that runs inside my chest to the pump on the inside, and that s what powers it and keep it s functioning. more from the exclusive dick cheney interview, next on jansing & company. [ male announcer ] introducing listerine® zero™.
politics. lester holt, good morning. what more can you tell us? david, good morning to you. i spoke to the mayor here a while ago, and he told me he had been to the hospital. he had spoken to mark kelly, the husband of the congresswoman. he says her condition remains the same as yesterday, in critical condition after suffering what the doctors describe as a bullet through her brain, at least through the head. she is in critical condition. they are optimistic, but certainly don t know what kind of recovery she will have. the suspect, jared loughner in custody. not cooperative, not talking about a motive. the fbi, david, as you know, is involved along with the local sheriff here. they re trying to figure out a motive by exploring loughner s posting to social network sites, youtube videos, rants he posted. clearly an anti-government vent, but no particular point of view that was apparent.
politics. lester holt, good morning. what more can you tell us? david, good morning to you. i spoke to the mayor here a while ago, and he told me he had been to the hospital. he had spoken to mark kelly, the husband of the congresswoman. he says her condition remains the same as yesterday, in critical condition after suffering what the doctors describe as a bullet through her brain, at least through the head. she is in critical condition. they are optimistic, but certainly don t know what kind of recovery she will have. the suspect, jared loughner in custody. not cooperative, not talking about a motive. the fbi, david, as you know, is involved along with the local sheriff here. they re trying to figure out a motive by exploring loughner s posting to social network sites, youtube videos, rants he posted. clearly an anti-government vent, but no particular point of view that was apparent. some of this stuff simply didn t make any sense, david.
with piers morgan and sam donaldson. mark zuckerberg, 26 years old. facebo facebook. good choice? very good choice. in terms of significance and the influence that he has had on the whole planet, it s been pretty extraordinary. i mean, i ve got on to facebook and just joined twitter. when you see the empowerment that he and people that run these kind of social network sites have given the pushgs ordinary members of the public, it s really quite remarkable. i think it s a good thing. i think it s empowered everybody. it s enriched people s lives. people are having more conversation i think than they used to. this sort of allegation that somehow people don t have the old-fashioned conversations. well, my children, for example, they re two of them in their teens. they are constantly now engaged in quite lively banter and discussion with friends all over the world. i think that s good. it is for the most part good. the one point i make is i think the friend, the value of the word fri