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faith, honor, love, and truth. angelina jolie. alley went worth with her life with george stephanopoulos. forever in america, the beyonce conspiracy theory. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. tonight a candidate on the rise. people being slaughtered by their own government and a hollywood star breaking with the pack politically. we begin with the man of the moment, rick santorum winning contests in missouri, montana and arizona. contests proving every pundit wrong. listen to a confident rick santorum just a few moments ago in texas. >> i feel blessed, truly blessed, to be here at a time when our country needs us. lots of generations don't get the opportunity we have right here to be a generation that

reclaims the greatness of our country. >> rick santorum, mitt romney, newt gingrich and ron paul are fighting for the soul of the republican party. who has that special formula for keeping america great? joining me is man who says he never endorses anybody. grover nordquist president of americans for tax reform and nate silver, founder of 538.com. welcome to you both. grover, let me start with you. this is one hell of a roller coaster ride, this republican race. are you really, as a party, any nearer to knowing who will be the nominee? >> no. santorum's confidence reminds me of romney's confidence last week and gingrich's a month ago. i think the next month of the election is probably about as clear and easily understood as the previous two months. >> how do you see the period leading up to super tuesday and immediately afterwards in terms

of its significance? could this all be over by april or is it more likely given what's been going on state by state so far that this will run all of the way to the convention? >> i tend to think it willing -- will be over before it goes to the convention. but i can't prove that mathematically. for every one of these candidates to stay in. romney is staying in. gingrich isn't going away. santorum isn't stepping out and ron paul will be there through the convention. all four of these guys, nobody is moving aside. there isn't a new person coming in. so those are the four guys. it will be one of those four guys. it will be one of those four guys. whichever one it is all the pub caps will pull behind him. so if you are a let's replace obama guy, you are less concerned about which one of these four gets it. >> certainly true. nate, let's talk statistics here.

it is very hard to predict. this mitt romney has the most money and infrastructure. having said that, rick santorum apparently today three times the money poured in compared to what he won in ai a ai aiowa. and he's clearly on a roll and looking and sounding more and more confident. from a betting point of view, where do you think this is all heading? >> it's hard to say. every time you have one piece of conventional wisdom it's right for a week and wrong the next week and flips back to being right again. i think santorum is at a disadvantage in the delegate math but if gingrich's campaign is going nowhere and if some of gingrich's voters come aboard to santorum's train, he has strength in the midwest and strength in the south which could make it even. if he win as state like arizona or michigan, states that lean toward romney, they're not perfect romney state but michigan -- romney is from michigan originally but if santorum wins one of those states, you could say it's a tossup. for right now i think romney is about a 75% favorite.

i think it's foolish to go higher than that given what we've seen the volatility in the race so far but also he does have some clear advantages. >> grover, one problem that he seems to have is with white evangelicals turning out in big turns and rejecting him. is it because he is a mormon and they feel discomforted by that or is there something else going on? >> i certainly hope it's not the mormon thing. i think we are past in that that in our history. i hope that's the case. i think this is a concern about who's the most like reagan. the reason why they are searching for the soul of the modern republican party in a presidential candidate is a decade out of -- behind the times, is that the soul and heart of the republican party is in the congressional leadership. the same thing is true with the democrats. obama is not making the

decisions about what the democratic party did in the last three years, pelosi and reid did the stimulus package rveg wrote the banking and health care bill and the plus up in spending. presidents are less important because each party is led by an ied logically cohesive group in the house and senate. whichever president gets in r or d, they sign the bills their party sends them. we are not asking them to be leaders but signers of legislation. >> nate, let's go forward to the place where a nominee has been chosen by the republican party and takes on barack obama. right now you have to be feeling confident if you are in the white house because it's all going to be about the economy. everyone seems to be in agreement with that and the economy is indisputable ly improving. looks like things are getting better. very hard for a republican candidate as this carries on to

stand up there and say you said you would fix the any and you haven't if it is beginning to be fixed. >> there's a recovery story to be told. we've seen good numbers on purchases of automobiles. but there are still some headwinds certainly from europe, maybe from action in congress, maybe from oil shocks notice mid east. it's an odd case where the economy could be impressive by november or almost back into recessionary mode. it's more of all or nothing than in elections in the past. we should remember, just like political forecasts, economic forecasts often go badly. it is almost like right when you think you are at a turning point is when you get a negative surprise or vice-versa. if you are in the white house the picture looks brighter than three months ago. obama's approval rating is up to 48, 49%. that's where bush's was in 2004 when he was re-elected. right now obama looks like he is a 60/40 favorite and maybe a 2-1

favorite. and i would not have said that a couple of months ago. he's a good wave of news lately. >> certainly one thing i can predict is that you cannot predict anything i would say. grover norquist, nate silver, thank you both very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> tonight in syria, reports of desperate residents behind closed doors afraid to leave their homes shelled and bombed by government forces. cnn can't independently confirm claims from either side because the government restricted access to the country. joining me now is nick crystal. he had reported from war zones all over the world and he says he is shake on the the core about what he is hearing in syria. and -- woodrow wilson center. let me start with you, nick. of all the things you have witnessed about through the years and heard about and reported on, what is going on in syria a. i know we can't get in the way

we'd like to. what is your sense of the apparent atrocity going on there. >> we have a government that seems to be devouring its own people. it is firing artillery on its own cities, civilian areas and most recently seemed to have dispatched militias that have been killing families, men, women and children in their homes. the thousands and thousands of people have died already. it looks as if we are heading toward a civil war with. >> nick, instantly you tweeted out earlier to your followers, you were coming on the show. what should america be doing now? a very pertinent question and there was a huge range of responses i was looking at. from all that you read when you got those responses, what do you think is the best response? what should america be doing? >> i wish i could say that some of our followers produced the

magic solution, but the basic tragedy of international relations, you know, piers, there are more grand problems than grand solutions. in syria, we have, well -- these catastrophes were described as the problem from health he. there sant great solution or much the u.s. can do. i think we can encourage some military factions within the government to thinking of defecting or a cue deta. and one thing to give us a greater moral authority to russia when it supplies arms to syria and that the is for us not to supply weapons to bahrain as it cracks down on its own democratic uprising in that country, our ally. >> robin, let's turn to russia and china and their position in this. they are condemned across the board from sarkozy to angela merkel. all saying this is appalling

what they have been doing. what do you think? what is their game? what is the answer to how america should deal with their game? >> what we are seeing happening in syria is a new alignment. you have russia, china and iran helping syria and arabs, europeans and the united states on the other side. the problem is that russia has enormous interest in syria, both in terms of arms sales and commerce. and both china and russia, frankly are worried about the people power . the chinese have a population in the west and they are facing street demonstrations in moscow. the idea has repercussions for what is happening there. the united states has real limits on what it can do with either of them but it can keep the noise up in terms of saying this is unacceptable in the 21st century and it can work with the serial opposition which is disjointed. there are three parts of it. you have the exiled opposition, that includes a wide away ray of

groups. internal opposition of coordinating committees and the free syrian army which is made up of the dedektfecters. they do not speak with one voice or have one plan. as long as you don't have an alternative that is beginning to crystallize it will be hard to get people in the military in syria to defect, to get beyond that -- the rule of thumb is you have to have 30% of support in order to stay in power and assad still has that 30%. >> one of the big problems, it is huge humanitarian crisis going on now, getting worse by the day and we are not seeing many journalists on the ground. the footage is sporadic. not like' egypt where we were living this thing as it unfolded and we could see what is going on. will journal itselves get in to syria? >> no. but this is where turkey plays an important role. the turkish prime minister is

coming to have talks. turkey talked about creating a humanitarian corridor, getting supplies through the country. it is harder than it sounds. this is one area where there would be support for an american role providing food, medicines and humanitarian goods to help those who are taking refuge along the border, inside turkey or to get them in to other parts of syria. >> nick, i know you have been trying to get in to syria. what do you think the about the situation involving the media there. >> it is hard to galvanize the media to care about a crisis when you don't have a lot of footage on television screens. there are individuals in syria that have been doing a heroic job with their cell phones and capturing that video and taking it, at some risk to themselves and trying to post it through, in some cases the cell networks of surrounding countries near

the borders. if they are caught doing that, they will be arrested and risk execution. i -- boy, i admire their courage. in absence, frankly, of cnn and the "new york times" and a lot of other international immediate ya, it's a lot harder to get that kind of international critical mass of attention at the u.n., in arab league capitals and especially to create that kind of pressure on moscow and beijing. >> we will keep it going collectively. i thank you both for coming on tonight. >> thank you. >> thank you. when i come back i will talk to jon voight about the man he wants to be president and about being a republican in hollywood. ♪ [ slap! ] [ slap! slap! slap! slap! ] ow, ow! [ male announcer ] your favorite foods fighting you? fight back fast with tums. calcium rich tums goes to work in seconds. nothing works faster.

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>> you are a very rare specimen, aren't you, john, because you are a republican in hollywood. >> yes. >> there aren't many of you. >> listen. i think i'm honored to be here with you. >> thank you. >> piers, you have become a voice of truth for americans, and i thank you for that. >> i really appreciate that. >> it's interesting your speech there because we share the divide you are on. the one thing i have been trying to push is try tock positive in a tough situation for america because america remains a great country. this is a tendency to talk the country down so nauch people forget that. the challenge is to keep america great. not how to fix a broken horror story, is it? >> i would say the thing to do is to keep us strong. we have become perceived as a

weak nation throughout the world recently and that's unfortunate. so -- maybe i see it a little differently than you. >> here's what i would say to you. as a brit, who was in britain for most of the bush years. >> yeah. >> my sense is that america has become more popular around the world, but the -- fravrm for example, i think that barack obama is more popular than bush was and the down side is one of the reasons for that it does not seem as strong a country as it was through the foreign policy actions of barack obama. >> i agree. i think that there's a lot to be asked for from this president. i think we're -- you know, that's why i'm out there. that's why i was in pensacola

working for mitt romney because i see -- you know, i see this as an important election and i'm very excited to be backing mitt romney, by the way. for the first of the reasons would be the most important is that he is a true american. he loves america. his entire family has always followed the true american way of hard work and success, and we're losing that a little bit. >> tell me about mitt romney. you obviously know him quite well. my sense of him. i've interviewed him twice and i'd love to interview him again. >> you will. >> can you put in a good word? he won't come in again. i feel frustrated for him. he doesn't want to put himself in to personal interviews or want people to see what he is like. rick santorum who i sat down with has become personally engaged with the electorate. they are warming to him

personally and it's helping him. it doesn't help mitt romney. he is seen as an aloof robotic figure. >> he is quite reachable this guy. he's a fellow that shoots from the hip. a charitable fellow as you probably know. and he's warm, honest. he's got great virtues. but you know, he's in a tough spot, too because he knows he has so much time. he has to appear at different places and he's looking to present his views in the proper way with. i'll talk to him. >> have a word with him, can you, jon? last night was fascinating politics because nobody predicted that rick santorum would win all three states, particularly colorado where mitt romney has always done well before. if you are mitt romney, what do you think has gone wrong, albeit temporarily, what do you think he has wrong and what should he do to fix it? >> let me say this. my view of last night, it is a

little bit of mass hysteria. we had the situation where the obama care -- it was revealed in obama care there was an attack on religious freedom. everybody was quite upset about it. the church was up in arms as they should have been. and we have santorum, who is a devout catholic and everybody knows that, and he became a rallying point for those people. people surrounded him. i think that was the bump he got last night. >> santorum today interestingly he has gone straight to a church. he has been photographed in there making this incredibly inspiring speech from the pulpit and then he walks among the people of the church and they all came together and do a group hugging prayer. quite an extraordinary scene. i haven't seen in a presidential candidate ever. a what he is saying i'm the conventional religious guy here and mitt romney because of his mormon faith isn't one of us.

it seem me deliberate. >> maybe it s. i think the evangelical base surrounded him and pick him out. we will see what happens down the road. by the way, i think this thing is very short lived. i think the obama administration, david axelrod will turn it around quickly because the catholic vote, the electorate is 27% of our electorate and they are going to want to appeal to it. so they will turn this around and that will go by the boards. >> what do you think is the biggest misconception about mitt romney? >> i don't know. i hear so many things about him that aren't true. i see all of this stuff. to me, he's -- the more i get to know him, the more i like him. he's strong. look -- just let's take mitt romney as a candidate and say what recommends him and you take, just of all the things he's done.

people say we don't know him. we know him kmeetly. he's been running for president. he was governor. he did the thing with the olympics. take the olympics thing for an example. look at what he did. he came in to a big mess. there was thievery and corruption and they called mitt to save the day. he came in and rolled up his sleeves, made a plan and what he did was he organized 700 -- he put 700 people under his employ. 700 people. 26,000 volunteers and went in search of a budget, the money for a budget of 1.32 billion. and in doing that, he set a record for private financing from a source, from gathering private financing for all of the olympics, both summer and winter, right.

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battles, i strove to tell you only that would inspire you and keep you safe. i love you so much. >> i missed you. >> and i missed you. >> the academy award winner jon voight on screen with angelina jolie, his daughter in 2001 "tomb raider." >> how was my british accent? was it fair. >> i thought it was good. not quite as good as alec baldwin yesterday. he went -- good afternoon. but not bad. what is it like being the father to one of -- one half of the

most famous couple in the history of the world. is it weird to see how famous she has become? >> it is an unusual thing. of course she's my daughter. you know, things are -- we've gotten back on track together. >> it has been a rocky road, isn't it? >> famously and it's wonderful to be with her. we have so much in common besides our love for each other. all of the stuff of the business it's great. >> the kind of advice you can give. when you have a daughter who is misslile thing in your arm and becomes an incredibly famous actress what is the most sensible advice that you, as a former oscar winner can give her? >> well, yoon uniu know, i did best i could to try to give her advice. the best advice i gave her is by my example to try to

keep your feet on the ground. she's very good with people. she's not cowed by the celebrity. if people come up to her she is welcoming and loving and i think that helps her and she has people around her, hopefully, that are honest with her. she has a wonderful sense of humor. so she probably has people that can tease her a bit. >> are you a better dad now do you think? is that an unfair thing to infer? >> i think that, you know, i think i'm a better person. i've lived a lot of life and had ups and downs and learned a lot. >> what have you learned about yourself? >> this is turning in to a piers morgan. >> of course. you are on "the piers morgan show." >> what have i learned about myself? i'm going to answer you like ron paul would answer you. you know, i'm not really that interested in that question. [ laughter ]

>> you find it uncomfortable talking about yourself? >> it's not important. might as well use the time for other things. >> "midnight cowboy" is a movie that exploded you on the scene one of my favorite movie tlaens is a brilliant story of how you got it. tell me quickly. >> it is not a quick story. >> otherwise we might get cut off again. >> listen, i was told, i did a screen test and i was told -- with three other fellas, great actors and i was told it came down to another fellow and myself and it was give on the the other fellow. it finally came around to me for some reason because they had a difficulty making this thing work and i get a call and they said, jon, it has come back to you so be at your phone at 10:00 tomorrow morning. this is saturday morning. and jon schlessinger will call you and invite you to his place to look at you because it has been a couple of weeks since he's seen you and who knows.

good luck. of course i couldn't sleep that night. it was a rainy night that night and the wind was blowing the rain against my apartment building. i got up early. i didn't know what to do with myself. i was nervous and so i said, well, i'm going to go out and do grocery shopping. i went to the rain with my umbrella and got groceries and coming back i saw in the middle of the street this fellow who i had known who was a homeless man, black fella who said he was a boxer and he had puffy eyes and stuff like that. i thought, he's a boxer all right. he was in the middle of the street, in the middle of the street just lost and the rain was coming down and i ran up to him and said, george, george, you have to get out of this rain. you are going to get pneumonia and i said, george, listen i'm going to take you up to my apartment and give you a sandwich or something. i said, george, listen, you see that liquor store across the

street. i fw will go get a bottle of scotch and you can walk to my place and get out of the rain and he went, oh, okay. i got the bottle of scotch and went up to my place and george sat down at my place and i made him a tuna fish sandwich, a sad tuna fish sandwich. i said george, i'm waiting for a call and it could change my life because it is a big movie. i'm a big movie actor. and he said i pray you get it and i said let's go over and see if this is the fella. i had a hall wall phone and i said hello, and i hear the voice. hello jon. john schlessinger here. we are looking at your screen test and we may come your way but i'd like to see you, just for a few minutes. do you think you could come to my place and have a little chat? >> i said, that's fine, john.

it's raining. i'll get a cab. he gives me the address. i hung up the phone and said to george, it looks good. i'm going to see him. he said i'm so glad. i said sit here. if you go outside, i have an extra coat. just you can stay here for a couple of hours. you can stay here but if you go i'd take the coat. so i leave george and see john schlessinger and john was as good as his word and he wanted to say hello and see how we were doing and we had a little laugh and we got along and he said, jon, i'll call you within the hour and let you know the decision. i said that's just fine, john. i said fine. i had a cab both ways, last money i had to get a cab and i went back and george is sitting in the same place and i saw a couple of bites out of the sandwich, nothing much out of the liquor. i put a glass out for him. i said looks good. we're going to get a call in a

second. he was excited and the phone rings. i go to the phone, jornl, come on. so george is right there in front of me. i take the phone and i'm looking at george like i'm looking at you and he said hello, jon, john slesinger here and he said looks like we are going to go with you and i said that's wonderful. we have costumes on monday and i will have somebody call you and con gachlations. thank you so much is there anything you are concerned about no, john, i said. john, i think you have done the right thing. hi will be terrific in this part and can't wait to see you on monday. thank you so much. he said well, very, very good, jon. i will see you then. i said, george, i got the part. he said, i prayed for you. i'm so glad. i'm so glad. he said i prayed for you. i knew you would get it. for some reason i said, george, what's the first thing i should do?

and george said call your mother. she would be so glad. and i called my mother. said hi, mom. i just got a great part. it's going to change my life. oh, wonderful, jon. have you called your brothers? i said no, but i will. and i think this to this day. i said this fellow was like an angel. if i was more concerned about his well being i wouldn't have been relaxed and i would never have said what i said which is i will be terrific in this part. you made the right decision. >> let's toast george. i wish i had a george in my life. jon voight it is a pleasure. the woman who has been called barbara eden on crystal meth.

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alec baldwin is said ali wentworth is like barbara eden on crystal meth. she is married to abc news anchor george stephanopoulos and joins me now. how are you? >> i'm great but i'm feeling uncomfortable because i was going to tell the same story that jon voight just told. so -- i got nothing. >> wouldn't have told it as well. if you tried to tell it we would strike you down like we did him

half way through his interview. >> that was me. i was playing with the wires. >> you are the social secretary for nancy reagan. your father worked as a reporter for "the washington post." your stepfather was a washington correspondent for "the london times." you have this media political blood streaming through you from every other fuss -- every orphus. >> are you trying to pick me up? listen, this country right now the gop race is a roller coaster ride, i think. every day there's something new which is why my husband is so excited every morning. there's a lot to follow. >> he's excited because he's waking up next to you. >> well, thank you, piers. actually, he's not. he gets up at 3:00 a.m. yes. i don't know. all i can say is i hope roseanne barr wins.

>> i love the fact she is running. she's deadly serious. >> i know she is. >> i booked her via twitter actually. she's agreed to come on and talk about this campaign of hers. >> absolutely. >> you're quite an active little tweeter, aren't you? >> i do like to tweet, my friend. i like a nice cocktail. i sit down and i just go at it. i really like it because i like to say things in kind of quick sentences and this is a great way to do that. >> is it addictive to you as it is to me? do you find it is taking over your life slightly? >> it is addictive. i wouldn't say as addictive as it is for you because you might think about a program but, you know, it's hard not to -- i'm still making the mistake where i confuse twitter with e-mail and say very personal things to somebody i think i'm just e-mailing and then it goes out in the twitter sphere. i'm learning to correct that. >> who do you think is going to

win this republican race? >> you mean where is my money? >> yes. where's your money? >> i think obama. >> do you think any of them even if they do win the nomination race could actually beat barack obama, especially if the economy continues to improve the way it is? >> i find it fascinating, piers, that you are having me on the show to talk seriously about politics because as you know i'm the go-to girl for this kind of talk. my guess -- >> i'm surprising people. i want to surprise people with you. you have a very smart political brain and i want to tap it. >> it's a tiny little thing but i hear it in there. i think romney. i think romney. that's my guess. if i had to bet say $10,000, i would say mitt romney. that's today. tomorrow i may say carrot top. >> you're a democrat, right?

>> well, yes, i am. >> you're married to a democrat? >> i'm married to somebody who is not a republican or a democrat. >> really? he's not a democrat? >> he doesn't say. he has his political talk show so he's neither. >> really? >> yeah. what are you trying to get out of me? >> some revelation. >> since when is politics lurid? you know, i think now george is neither. he kind of looks at both things. are you trying to get me divorced? >> why did you -- i love this book. >> thank you. >> i love the cover. why did you write a book like this and why did you go for this cover? >> two excellent questions.

one is harper collins came to me and said we think you're very funny. would you ever write a book? i actually had this book in my head for years. i said absolutely and i have the idea. now the cover was -- i went to the photo shoot and we were going to do a parody of alice in wonderland. i said it would be funny because my people drink a lot of tea. i would love to be in a bathing suit cannon balling in to a cup of tea. i'm not known for my body. you will not find me on the cover of maxim anytime soon. >> you look pretty damn good on the cover here i must say. >> thank you very much. there's a tiny bit of air brushing but i don't usually say let me get in a bathing suit and take pictures. but to me that was funny so that trumps whatever indecent. >> didn't you once get in a bathing suit with henry kissinger. >> i was in a sesame street

bikini and henry kissinger came to the house quite often because my step father was covering the nixon and kissinger administration. so henry kissinger would come and use our pool and i would hold on to his neck and he would take me. we would do laps turtle style. unbeknownst to me he was bombing cambodia. who cares, he had a wide back. let's talk more of these weird stories from your early years. >> i will have a cocktail. >> also, i want to talk about the blind date that set you up with your husband. i want all the details of that. [ nurse ] i'm a hospice nurse.

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see you at home. i love you. i shaved my legs and made you a steak. ♪ happy birthday baby >> that was a moment that maybe george -- i don't know if he regrets it or not. i'd rather like it if my wife did something like that. >> he liked it. he liked it.

>> he looked quite excited by it. >> i'll never do it again but i think for that time it was well done. >> now, somebody's tweeted here. you'll like this. this is one that says oh, my god, ali wentworth on piers morgan is hilarious. he's a dork but she's a scream. >> oh, that was me. [ laughter ] >> you are not a dork at all. i'm just a political animal. >> you don't have to say that. you are a political animal. let's go back to the blind date you have with george. you get set up on a blind date. who set you up on this? >> i was at a party and an old girlfriend of his. i set her up with my brother which was a fiasco and she said, let me set you up with george stephanopoulos and i said no, thank you. because i was from that world and i didn't want -- it didn't appeal. i was sniffing around to be

mrs. hugh grant. finally i was in new york a few weeks lair and george said would you like to have dinner and i said what about breakfast and he said how about lunch and we met at fred's which is at barneys and listen, i was really not thinking george stephanopoulos was the one but after a mayonnaisy crab salad and great conversation. by the end of the meal i would have gone to the courthouse and gotten married and it wouldn't have seemed ridiculous. >> i imagine life with you is always entertaining but occasionally dangerous. would that be accurate summation. >> dangerous because of my knife collection or dangerous how? >> probably tendency to get on desks and come raging toward you like a hung ary hyena. >> only for televisioning that i do that. i'm really quite tame at home. you know, i do entertain him. i will give you that.

in every room of the house. [ laughter ] >> you want to elaborate? >> how much are you going to pay me to elaborate? that's my next book. >> chelsea handler says ali has written a truly hilarious book. it is incredibly funny, laugh out loud but she also says she is a good kisser. what's that about? >> well, i am. i don't like to brag. >> how does she know? how does chelsea know. >> piers, it's how i say hello. >> would you mind if we do this in the studio next time then? >> i was hoping you would ask me. it is lonely and cold back here. >> tell me one good reason why people should buy this book. >> because it will make you laugh and it is entertaining and from what i have been told it's a good read. people say they couldn't put it

down. you actualthere's a ote from yo mother on the back saying "i would have turned down the pee and fart references. >> well, she has a point. wait until the audio book. >> it is a great book. everyone should go buy this t. thank you for coming on. >> thank you, piers. tonight, only in america, the mother of all conspiracy theories. you may remember when beyonce told me this last summer about her baby plans. >> i need to have a baby. >> i didn't even ask the question. >> of course, beyonce answered the question when she gave birth to blue ivy a month ago and this week she bounced back in fabulous form attending husband jay-z's concert but made a terrible mistake. she looked just too fabulous. so fabulous, in fact that a vast conspiracy theory has been

raging on the internet that she faked her pregnancy never had a baby and must have used a surrogate. wow! this is clearly a massive scandal that must be investigated. so putting my reporter hat on it i investigated it and walked to me mirror and asked me one question. you became a father yourself two months ago is it remotely possibility that beyonce never had a baby and i said don't be a bloody idiot, piers. of course she did. investigation concluded. conspiracy theory solved. beyonce was pregnant and she did have a baby. oh, and while i'm at it, elvis is dead, man did land on the moon, no there are not a bunch of horned extraterrestrial aliens running around area 51. you are welcome. that's all for us tonight. "ac 360" starts right now.

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