i'm not sure i would want my husband to send out a card like that, but i hope we're this happy when we have been married 50 years. bottom line is, this is a sweet card. happy anniversary to foster friesz and his smoking hot wife. on that note, piers morgan tonight. tonight he's a rising star who has it all. bright career, superstar wife and a beautiful family. >> you're funny today. >> dr. carey as i call her. >> plus controversial pastor martin dpris come. >> if you're married, you should enjoy one another and it helps to safeguard the marriage from a lot of other problems. >> i don't know why all of a sudden this country decided that

we all have to be against each other. >> and keeping america great. >> something that was called the home of the brave, the land of the free, we all agree that we were the same, that's what we want to be. >> this is piers morgan tonight. good evening, tonight the big story, nick cannon, battling back from a serious health scare and speaking out about the fight of his life. nick cannon, you're alive. >> yes, and you just turned my daughter into a boy. >> oh, it's a daughter, i keep forgetting that. >> you were at the baby shower, you don't remember one was a girl, one was a boy. >> my humble apologies. >> it's me who just had a daughter as well.

>> congratulations. >> thank you. how are you? >> i'm good, obviously it was a rough start at the beginning of the year. but i'm turning it into a positive. >> when i worked on america's got talent, you were super fit and you used to boast to me about how great shape you were. what went wrong? do you know what happened? >> yes, there was a few things. i feel like the thing that kind of brought it to a head was i wasn't overworking myself, working outtoo much, actually was trying to work through a cold at the time while i was in aspen with the family. and i think that kind of just -- my body went into overload. i was trying to use a bunch of cold medicines, i was already on a bunch of proteins, working out and all of that and it created this pain that i could not deal with in my back and i probably had a feeling, that's probably my kidneys. maybe it's kidney stones from dehydration, maybe it's an

infection. but after doing more tests, they actually found out that i had kidney failure. it took a while, took a few months, but through a bunch of tests and studies they found out that i have lupus nefritis. which is is affecting my kidneys. >> i have known you a while and i know from people that know you, it was pretty serious and some of the doctors actually felt it could be very, very serious. >> right. not only is lupus nephritis very serious, but it's the things that it can bring on. so i was more prone to getting blood clots and i was trying to do everything to prevent that, i was wearing the surgical stockings and so many different things while i was in the hospital.

and after i hosted the preshow for the super bowl, i started to get pain again and this time it was a little higher and i had two blood clots in my lungs and so i had an enlarged heart too. so there was a lot that really happened because my kidneys were functioning right. >> what was there a moment when you thought i'm in real trouble here? >> i tried to be optimistic the entire time. so i never got to that stage where i was like, okay, this is it, but i new the severity of the situation. so i, you know, i'm a glass is half full type of guy so i never went to that place even though i knew it was very serious. >> my glass is half full. part of me was feeling really concerned for you, and other part of me, the glass half full was thinking maybe i can get

back on america's got talent. >> i'm here to tell you you need to slow down too. >> i flew around a lot with you on the show. and you used to tell me about your schedule, and it used to make me exhausted listening to you talk about it. you have this crazy, crazy schedule. you would survive on basically two hours of sleep a day? >> i have now been ordered to get at least six hours of sleep at night. >> are you doing that? >> i have to. the doctor's like, you have to lay down at least for six hours. and not only because of my condition, but you can get a lot of swelling so i have to be horizontal for at least six hours. but i'm dealing with it. they made me quit my morning radio show. which i wasn't excited about. i loved doing it. but on the east coast, i was up at 4:00 a.m. to do a five-hour show and on the west coast i was up at 1:00 a.m.

so i wasn't even sleeping. >> you made a documentary about this, some footage. >> the whole process i've been documenting. doing this incredible health hustle. >> facing more health problems. >> some days you have good days. some days are bad days. >> nick suffered mild kidney failure. >> as tough as i want to be on the bad days. >> so, yeah, i'm directing that, i put that together. i have just been since probably my first time out at the hospital in january, i have just been having cameras on and it's real intimate and raw. >> why have you wanted to do that? >> for so many reasons, one to show people how to deal with these illnesses, that they're not alone. a lot of people see me on television talking to piers morgan and different shows. there's so many questions, how did you get this?

how are you working through this? you're going to see all of this. i call it the incredible health hustle. >> 17 million americans have some sort of chronic kidney condition. >> a lot of people don't even know they have it. and that's kind of what world kidney day, and kidney month, they're trying to get the message out there, to get tested, it can come from high blood pressure, it can be hereditary. the thing about kidney disease is that people don't really know they have it, because it disguises itself as fatigue. so people like you and me, you think oh, i just need to get some sleep. but it can disguise itself as fatigue to you need to go get yougs checked out. >> how's mariah doing? >> we feel like we have been in hospitals for like almost two years when you think about

obviously everything that she went through being pregnant with twins and her having, you know, it was a difficult pregnancy for her and then, you know, like right after that, the top of this year, i'm in the hospital as well. but she is such a pro, she knows all the home remedies, she knows when i'm supposed to take my medicine. >> is she pleased that you're horizontal next to her? >> we're both horizontal next to each other. family is first and, you know, it's a thing where i get to wake up in the morning and i get toed feed my kids with my wife where before i would be at the radio station. this is better, this is great. >> you mentioned that, whitney houston died, as you know a few weeks ago. i covered the funeral for cnn.

you tweeted tell our loved ones how much you love them while they're still here, i wish i could have told whitney how much i loved her one more time. tell us more about that? >> it was funny because when we heard the news, i was in my hospital bed. and mariah took it extremely hard because not only was that someone who was her peer, it's also a close friend. just to be able to -- i know what she was dealing with, and how people just started to come and let her know how special she was and how to keep her head up, it's like everybody needs to hear that. you know, we want to send the flowers while the people can still smell them. >> has this whole experience for you made you re-evaluate your life? >> absolutely, 100%. i don't way it put me on a

ticking clock because i don't think to think like that. but you want to spend each day making sure it counts. you know what i mean like, not wasting any time, but also not letting negativity and all the things we might focus on that are really trivial, i want to focus on people getting -- there's a legacy of more than just he was a funny guy. i really want to leave this world a better place than before when i got here. >> i don't want to upset you or distress you, but how is america's got talent without me? i know for you it is a massive personal loss. >> it is a quite different show. that's all i'm going to say -- there's a lot of people -- not a lot, i'm lying, there's a few people who miss you and i'm one of them. we had an amazing rapport and wantering back and forth. it's fun. it's a family fun show.

so to see what he's going to do, he's filling your shoes quite well. he references you quite a bit. he says you were a great judge. he's a fan of yours. >> any other complements? >> not really. >> i'm glad you're back on track, because i was genuinely worried about you. >> you texted me, called me, you were one of the few people who actually reached out and was really concerned. i appreciate that. >> nick cannon, good to see you back on track. coming up, what would jesus do? tonight sex salvation and progresso. it fits! fantastic! [ man ] pro-gresso they fit! okay-y... okay??? i've been eating progresso and now my favorite old jeans...fit.

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tonight sex salvation and the struggle for america's soul. he's taking heat from the right and the left. he's one of the post polarizing spiritual leaders in the country. his new book "real marriage". the truth -- >> i brought it as a gift. from one irish catholic boy to another, i brought you a bible as a gift. i know you get a lot of christian guests. >> not even kirk cameron brought me a bible. >> absolutely everybody has gone party right and left. the right is way too graphic and explicit, and then on the left. who is this guy? saying that women have to be submissive, succumb to their man's advances and all of that. >> i don't know if i said that. >> you did saya. what was the idea behind that. >> as a pastor, i answer a lot

of questions, i do a lot of counseling and finally writing down a lot of things that we have been teaching, my wife and i grace, a as well as a lot of our own story, mistakes we have made and -- >> you translate from friendship into sext. unusually for a man of cloth, you're clean on it. >> if you're married, you should enjoy one another. and it heads off a lot of problems. >> i had sex until i became a christian. i became a christian at age 19. i'm not trying to throw stones at people or pretend that i've done it all right. i was sexually active and i became a christian, and reading the bible i realized i should brnt sexually active and so i stopped and i have been faithful to my wife now for 20 years by god's grace.

>> your wife grace, you have this dream after you get married in which you -- >> i have weird dreams, sometimes i see stuff, supernatural stuff. >> tell me about this particular dream. >> it was something that had happened when we were first dating and she was only 17 years of age. i found out some things later in the marriage like my wife had been sexually assaulted. we hadn't put together those details. sometimes when you're married for a u few years, some pieces come together. >> you had a dream where specifically you could envision her making out and you confronted her having after the dream did this happen earlier in her life, and she said it did, you said if you had known that you wouldn't have married her. why is it okay for you and not oak for her? >> this is where we're going to get to jesus, he died, he rose, he forgives me and he helps me and i hope to keep changing and doing better.

>> younger people, well, it's all right for you, you had all this sex until you were 19. then you got born again and so you sort of sewed your wild oats and you became the born again virgin. but you're trying to punish them. >> ultimately sex is best reserved for marriage and if you look at the stat it is ticks of sexual assault -- >> there's a lot sexual assault in marriages. one in three ends in divorce you wouldn't contest that? >> marriage is in a rough state. >> and the main theme of keeping a marriage alive is lots of sex. >> friendship, that's the big idea. >> and lots of sex. >> friendship is really the foundation.

>> but this book is full, and i don't want to go on about it, but it is full of sex. >> it talks about pornography and and sexual assault. so the talk isn't just about how to do circumstance due solei. >> you said that women should play a more submissive role in the sense that if the man wants to have sex at any time. >> i don't believe that. >> you say zblachlt what we say is a couple should serve one another in the context of friendship and that means sometimes he serves her, and sometimes she serves him. i don't mean that a man should be boorish or bully or boss his wife and if he gives an order, she's supposed to go ahead and do that. because that's very abusive. >> do you believe a woman's place is in the home looking after the children? >> i think it depends on the woman, on the family, all the different variables. i'm a pastor, i have a church

they lead, and when you're dealing with people, there's a lot of complex variables. we have five kids, and grace is able to stay home with them and that's what she wants to do. and i'm very grateful for that, but many cannot afford to do that? >> i hold a protestant view that i love and appreciate catholics, i wouldn't hold that position. >> a critic would say, again, you changed your position >> a critic would say, again, you changed your position because you realized that you could haven't contraception as a catholic. >> i couldn't get married as a catholic. that was more of an issue. >> should you be so bending with your religious positions? >> well, for me, honestly it goes back to the bible and i'm trying to look at biblical principles and be faithful to the scriptures.

i couldn't have become a priest because the vow of lifelong celibacy wouldn't work for me. so i don't think that sex in all cases is -- >> let's talk about some of the contentions of this. kirk cameron. >> we'll ask you after the break. >> okay. dad, why are you getting that? is there a prize in there? oh, there's a prize, all right. [ male announcer ] inside every box of cheerios are those great-tasting little o's made from carefully selected oats that can help lower cholesterol. is it a superhero? kinda. ♪ on december 21st, polar shifts will reverse the earth's gravitational pull and hurtle us all into space,

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the canadian nudist arsonist cult has decided that the name jesus christ is code word for getting high on mushrooms so then you can get naked and is the things on fire. i guess if you're going to join a cult, join a fun one. >> i mean, you're not your average pastor, are you? >> i have fun. sometimes i get it wrong. >> do too many people in the world of religion take it too seriously? is that part of the problem? >> i think we should take jesus seriously, we should take the bible seriously, we shouldn't take ourselves so seriously. >> are you a -- >> how do you disagree sometimes with people that you love. that's a very difficult issue

for everybody, but for a pastor in particular. >> because you reach tolerance? >> i believe we should love our neighbor. >> you keep hammering it. what do you mean by tolerance? >> tolerating people that may have a lifestyle for a belief that we don't agree with? >> you have to. because when jesus says love your neighbor, he knows you're not going to like all your neighbors, but you should accept them and love them. >> i think he thought were perfectly normal christian views, but he did it in a way that was very bigoted toward gays. >> to be honest with you i haven't seen the whole thing. >> what have you heard? >> i saw some of the twitter and the blogging, but that sometimes that's not the best snapshot of the full context of the conversation. >> being gay is a sin.

>> people looking at pornography is wrong. there's a long list of things that the bible says are wrong. >> eight states in the united states are legalized gay marriage. >> it's amazing because there were anti-sod my laws and anti-fornication laws on the books just a few years ago. >> but my point is, the bible is what it is, it's an extraordinarily book, which has governed people's moral and personal behaviors for thousands of years. however like everything in life, shouldn't it be dragged kicking and screaming into each modern era? my view about this is not that i don't respect christians or catholics or whoever who absolutely swear by every word in here, i just don't believe anymore who's genuinely christian should be spousing bigoted opinions about sections

of the community for their sexuality? >> when it comes to the bible, you've got three options, take it, i believe what it says, leave it, i don't believe what it says, or change it. >> or adapt it to a modern era. >> thomas jefferson, he literally sat down in the white house with scissors and cut out the partsa he didn't feel should be in there. >> more people think that gay marriage is more acceptable than don't in this country. >> we don't know because it hasn't been voted on. >> let's get to the point where there is one day a vote, if it was a joerts of americans believed in it. would have have got on it with? >> the big issue for families in america is really men who walk

out on their families. right now, the average child born to a woman under 30 is born out of wedlock. >> that's why whole point. there's so many feckles guys out there. >> they keep having kids, they have no responsibility, they're ghastly. i don't hear christian ones ranting about those guys, all they want to rant about is gay people in loving monogamous relationships with one other person who just want the same rights to get married as i do as a straight guy. >> i hammer those guys like a pinata on cinco de mayo. >> they're irresponsible, for the first time in the nation's history, a woman is more likely to be in church, college and the workforce than a young, single man. there's sexual assault, sexual abuse, abortion, children born

out of wedlock, 30% of kids go to bed without a father. >> what is harming a america like many countries around the world is just the fundamental lack of tolerance and respect for people who may not share your personal values. i just think the past is not -- in a great position to trail blaze a bit. to take this great book and bring it slightly kicking and screaming into the modern era a bit. because eventually america will >> it's moving fast. >> coming up, montel williams and a very passionate prescription for keeping america great.

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>> hollywood, politics, keeping america great, montel williams, he's a celebrity talk show legend, a health advocate, a true political animal. he was also diagnosed with ms in 1989. i know people, there's one in my family who has multiple sclerosis. it's a dreadful disease. >> it's by the grace of god, but also for the fact that i literally decided. i had a choice about 12 years ago, either live down to the expectations of doctors who told me i would be in a wheelchair four years, this disease is so devastating, you have to give up and stop working, or i could live up with to my own expectations, i'm mott saying that people who have this disease have not tried hard not to succumb.

i have embarked on a course that i think is pretty revolutionary. i have had a lot of doctors take a look at me and try to figure out why i am doing so well. >> if i didn't know the story, i would never have known you had it. >> nine or ten months ago, i would have walked in here and my limp was much more profound. a year ago, you would have seen my dragging of my left foot. i have changed my diet, i have changed my eating regimen we hear in this nation, we hear about all the pundits talking about health care, obama care, santorum care, all this craziness that should be talking about sick care because that's the only way america looks at it is through sick eyes, we can only try to fix something broken rather than to try to help people understand that if they

when i say i changed my diet, i eat differently than anything on this planet. 75% of what i eat is -- what's the biggest nemesis of a whoern has ms, inflammation? i have zone this for seven years. i finally dialed it in nine months ago and got it right. >> take me through your daily diet it. >> i start off my day, this right here is something that's is the most revolutionary new break through supplement on the plaenlt. it's called sa -- omega 6 fatty acid. that acid works on the organs in

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this every day. that's coconut water. >> that's nice. >> coconut water, watermelon, pineapple, banana, apple and a bag of baby spinach. >> there's spinach in that? >> i'm working on reducing the inflammation in my body. when you hear all these arguments about this care, that care, why don't we have somebody take charge in america. i have heard almost every single pundit quote a former president. the biggest thing we need to be doing for health care, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your children. we have five out of ten children are obese.

>> i love america, very passionate about america, it's been great for me. but when you come here from a european country, the portion sizes, the stuff you put in the food, this can't be right. nothing's right about a lot of the food that's being eaten here. and actually you're right, if you deal with it at the start of the process, rather than when people get sick, imagine the savings to america. >> in the last three years, i've been to the doctor twice, once a year i go, i fake an mri every single year to keep track of my illness. what i have put -- why don't we video a program, i don't care if it's obama care, romney care, santorum care. why are we not rewarded in some way with lesser rates. i may suffer from cancer five or six from now, but for the next six years in a row, i'm not a drain on anybody's system.

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he came up to me on a walker. he's caucasian, i'm glad, i don't care, he put his life on the line because he believes in america. and i look at all those guys who are over there and look back at us, you want me to die for you and you can't even communicate with each other respectfully. i find that the most despicable, disgusting piece of journalism i have ever seen and i don't know if there's an apology that's great enough because i do have three daughters and though i may say things about people they don't like because of this political stance or that political stance. i'm never going after somebody's -- nafgs somebody's child. >> you mean rush limbaugh? >> the one i find extraordinary,

they can talk about all the other incidents that have happened, but a guy of that experience and that popularity, to call any woman a slut or a prostitute, i find absolutely breathtaking. >> somebody asked me to comment and the only thing i could say was abomination, and we can go back and listen to all the politicos say this person said this, this person said that, nobody said this about this person's child who says my opinion is x. >> what seems to have happened, is an american's right to free speech has been abused so much it seems to me that actually it ought to go hand in hand with tolerance. >> what ever happened to the first three words of the constitution? we the people? we're in there together. i don't know why all of a sudden this country decided that we all

have to be against each other i did 22 years in the military, put a uniform on my back and was willing to take a bullet for anybody in this country, period, didn't matter if they were black, white, it didn't matter. and that's what bothers me about this, because we can talk all the trash that we want. neither one of the republicans that are running ever put a uniform on. this is the first time in american history that we have a largest percentage of elected official who have put on a uniform, have the nerve to send our children off to die. and we got hawks right now begging to fight syria? out won't be santorum's child, it won't be romney's four boys. it won't be yours or mine. we're going to leave it to that

less than one-third of a percent to protect this democracy, and while we're doing so, we have to look like a democracy that calls people's children whores and prostitutes. are you crazy? we're supposed to be setting an example for the world. are we not? that's the way i feel. >> if you served in the military, what is the difference in perspective to those who haven't? >> how about thank you for your service isn't enough? words roll off of people's lips. too easily. actions speak way louder. >> i want to have one more say with you. i love the passion you're bringing to this. >> i'm sorry. >> i do want to talk to you about how you fix america economically as well as all this. i love the passion you're showing, this is what america needs, we'll come back after the break.

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>> ms. bachman said in some speech, we should all slit our wrists and ford a blood covenant. those are her words. i was joekingly on my air america show, i said, if you're going to do thad, move it up. >> why? >> how stupid is this? we're going to splet our wrists because woo want to help people be passionate. somehow, that's been equated to what rush limbaugh said to say, which to me is part of the problem. the network that did that is the network that doesn't understand what news is. you can tride to find an analogy between those two, i don't know where you're at. >> a lot of people said about michele bachmann is if you're going to have an opposition on something, you can say it without bigoted things.

i don't want to call her a bigot. that's not the issue. it's the way you express yourself about the gay community or whatever. if you start to speak in a bigoted manner, i'm afraid you have stumbled into the position of being a bigot. >> and that comes back to what i was talking about earlier. for me, maybe it's hard for people to understand a person who spent 22 years in the military who feels compelled to now still serve. i can't look at another person and not look at them and not think that they're the american i was willing to die for. gay, straight, or whatever. >> that's a theme, keeping america great. i like the public theme that that has. america remains a great country. what should it be doing to fix itself? if you were an economic political doctor and you could treat america, what are the things that need to be done?

>> america has been in a national depression. that's why you do salacious things when you're depressed. overindulge in drugs. in spending, you overindulge. we need to work at the core of why we had the problem. first off, excuse me, i'm sorry, again. when we flip the paradigm of what a hero was, i'm not knocking people that have talent, but we're going to have a shortage of engineers. we're going to have a shortage of doctors, of nurses. america, the leader in this world, is not going to be in that position in four, five years. let's look at doctors alone, nurses alone. we're not educating them. how do we expect to stay in this position that you say we need to be in or we're in, excellence, if we don't have another generation waiting to fill those positions to create excellence. >> the aspiration of being a excellent now taking over almost anything else in life for young people?

>> there's not one thing on television that doesn't reward you and try to make you a excellent for being the garbage man to the rattlesnake biter to the one who bit you, everybody. i saw housewives in a trailer park advertised the other day. really? i'm not knocking people. i'm not trying to say anything -- wait, i was born in the ghetto of baltimore. i'm not trying to knock a person's status in life. i'm just saying that we're now going to applaud a show, housewives of the trailer park, really? and that's what people are living up to and want to be? skip school just being what the term was that was thrown out so easily by rush limbaugh. make millions in appearance fees. come on. people can say, montel, you kn