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number one song on the top 100. we all know it. it's not necessarily my favorite. thanks so much for watching. good evening, america. my exclusive with the stars of country's number one morning show. politics. >> there are a number of people in the country that have turned off president obama. >> i am at peace, piers. >> many of us are close friends with others on other shows we complete against. >> sam champion, lara spencer, josh elliot. can they keep "gma" number one. and will yours truly be in the eye of the storm in and my exclusive with roger clemens, pitches again at age 50. >> just going out there and pitching and having fun.
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>> this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. the big story tonight, a special delivery from isaac. neither wind nor rain nor hurricane will keep mitt romney from the republican convention. listen to romney on fox business today. >> are you going let isaac chase you out of tampa? >> i have no comments about isaac. i will talk to the weather people about what happens there. but obviously, any plans for tampa depends on the airport being open. i feel good we will be in family and have a good convention. >> it does sound like whatever happens, there, we will get wet in had tampa as isaac gathers strength in the caribbean. and joining me now, george stephanopoulos, robin roberts,
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sam champion, josh elliott and lara spencer, the morning dream team. congratulations to all of you. everybody thought, well, they have done it before the olympics and after the olympics, "today" will get their bump. and you killed them again last week. i take my hat off to you. >> thank you. i think, piers, when you agreed to be a part of our royal jubilee coverage that solidified us and we said, we can told on to it. >> i couldn't agree more, robin. i felt that was a seminal employment, it was me there in london, giving you my personal endorsement. >> we are doing the show that we enjoy. and the bonus is that people are responding and watching.
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>> robin, when it comes to your triumph of the "today," you are the longest serving member of the dream team. what is it chemistry that makes you successful? >> you said it, the "c" work. we have reservations tonight where we are going to get a drink and have a word. it's past our bedtime much you can't fake the funk in the morning. and i believe it's because we are colleagues and friends and we enjoy each other and that comes through the screen each and ere morning. >> i feel watching you guys, everyone knows their role in a defined way, which i think works successfully for you. and talking of roles, i come to you, sam, i want to get the weather out of the way. the fear that republican convention is going to be swept away by hurricane isaac.
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is it actually likely? >> i would like to change the word fear and replace with it a healthy concern. it's a large disorganized storm. there is a lot of open water between it and florida. early in the week, monday-ish, making its way in the gulf. the keys and the west coast of florida, which would mean the right side of the storm is closer to tampa. tampa is susceptible to the big push of water. we think will be in flooding in the bay area with the storm there. and also heavy rain and wind. the variable, how close it is to tampa and what category it is when it's there, we have many, many days before we get there. but i would like everyone to watch it from new orleans all the way around to the keys. >> and obviously, although people are focused on tampa
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because of the convention, the bigger concern is what is going to happen in haiti, you have 400,000 people in tents there. what do you think of the possibility of a district hit of haiti or rain damage? >> i think there is a lot of rain. it's a disorganized rain and it doesn't have a cluster of thunderstorms now. you see as it cruises under puerto rico and it's supposed to curve to the northwest, there will be rain. and wherever there is any rain on that elevation, you have 10,000 foot mountains that we talk about in haiti, you will have a lot of rain and flooding and rains and winds. and it doesn't have to be a hurricane to be a problem in haiti. >> it's going to be tough for them, whatever happens. let's move to you, george. and politics. no one is better to talk about this than -- >> you are the full of compliments tonight. keep it coming. this is great. >> when you lose your number one
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spot, i will say what a failure you are. don't get too excited. >> we have been there too. >> rather like the television wars, you can be a winner or loser in the politics. you have been there a long time. what is your sense of what the key issues are going to be? is it going to be abortion or sit going to be swept away by the economy? >> well, the economy is issue number one, two, three, four and five. even though the other issues have come in and be have been a mart of the dialogue. what people are focused on is the state of the economy. and with this convention coming up next week, why it's so important, is that there is a significant number of people in the country who have turned off president obama, are not happy with the direction the country is going in right now.
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but they don't really know who mitt romney is. and what they see, frankly, right now, a lot of them don't like. he's got the lowest favorability rating of any nominee in modern times. so the big job for romney, he has to fill in his biography and give people a sense of who he is, the values that drive him and how he puts the values to bear for the country. how it feeds his value for the country. he hasn't done it yet. if he is able to do that in this convention, he is going to go from being behind to having a lead, and that may be enough to take him all the way. >> how much of a problem is it for him, it's automobile about his wealth and his money. the focus of the obama attacks on him. and bane capital. >> 950 pages, yeah. >> right.
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and none of which may be that scandalous. it's just that the overiding impression you get is a very, very wealthy man, going out of his way through highly paid accounts and lowers to pay as mump taxes as he can. there is nothing wrong with that. it's legal. but when you add the fact he won't reveal too many of his tax return, do you they is fair? >> probably more than that, he is not look like us. an average voter says, he is not like me. and that doesn't mean he can't empathize with his problems. i think that is a key problem, the hurdle he is facing right now. any one of those individuals issues on their own wouldn't bring him down. you add them together and it makes him seem a little alien, and different from what most voters are going through right now.
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>> robin, you got this great scoop out of president obama about gay marriage. it was a hugely important moment. an exciting one for you. but on the wider issue of rights, you're a very high profile woman in america right now. this allegation that the republican party just are anti-women, do you go along with that? or do you think it's rhetoric that what you look at are historical positions that are out of fashion. >> what is more important, we bring the candidates on, we bring both parties on and we l the audience make that decision for them. i really -- they don't -- no one really care what is i think one way or the other with that. and we have been very good about -- just the other way, you had todd akin on and you talked with him and asked him really tough questions. and that's what i think is the real focus here. that we bring both sides on.
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we are very balanced in what we do. and i, we, trust our audiences to give them the information and allow them on to make the decisions for themselves. >> lara, huh lots of politician on your show. you had todd akin and you were fortunate. had to interview an empty chair. he pulled out. >> we are the big softball for you. just for you. >> but lara, when you see the way that the political debate is going, what do you think of it? what is your gut feeling what real americans care about? >> i believe it's the economy. that is what i care about. that is george's department and we know clearly what are roles on are the show. my family is the most important me to me. and when i come to work -- >> you are not allowed to talk
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about politics, lara. >> stay in your lane. >> we signed sort of a -- no weather for you. definitely no sports for sam. don't ask him a ball looks like. >> you should feel free to talk about politics. because i will definitely be talking to george about family. had his wife on the show. the conversation turned to pillow talk quickly. josh, you are standing there in the back, befits a man number one in the ratings as you all do. but what is the importance, do you think, the morning television? you get a run of things like the convention and the election. what do you think collectively you guys need to bring to the american audience? >> we have to offer widest range of story and sample that we can.
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i think that -- you know, the one thing you can't change is the way we move through our day. we may be plugged in in theory 24 hours a day. but face it, our day starts when we wake up. we are hitting the beach first. there is heightened importance there and so many things break overnight now. and it might be the team when you logon or open up a newspaper and you see something for the first time. and we have to be able to synthesize it for it. we have to break it down, inform and prioritize and have the trust from the audience that we can do that. we are going do what we do best. and hopefully it's that. it's inform and really offer you as thorough a look at a topic,
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an issue as we possibly can. and i know it's something -- >> well, you certainly have been successful doing that. one of the big stories, of course, involving your show this year, involved robin and your health battle. we come to that after the break and how the rest of the team is dealing with what is happening to you. ♪ you want to save money on car insurance? no problem. you want to save money on rv insurance? no problem. you want to save money on motorcycle insurance? no problem. you want to find a place to park all these things? fuggedaboud it. this is new york. hey little guy, wake up! aw, come off it mate! geico. saving people money on more than just car insurance.
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treatment for cancer to lead to other serious medical issues and that's what i'm facing right now. it is something that is called mds, milo plastic syndrome and you look and go, what? i was doing the same thing. >> robin roberts, suffering from mds. that was an extraordinary moment in television, least not for me. i had just seen new london. you had seen the picture of health. and now you have a shocking
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health problem. for you, the moment you were told this, i know you are a very strong character. but it must have knocked you. explain what it was like when you were told the news. >> we had a wonderful venture with our president. when we became number one there is a great photo of us, happy into in the studio, and he put the date, april 19th. when i look at that date, i just don't think we became number one. that is also when i was officially told of my condition. it was one of those surreal moments with the world colliding. and i waited a couple months to tell -- i loved seeing you in london. and people treating me as robin. and i knew that my life was going to change. and i wasn't ready for that. but i also feel that being in
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the public eye -- my mother says, make your message. and the message here is about being a bone marrow donor. i didn't know about being a bone marrow donor. and my sister right now, in my apartment here in new york, she is beginning -- continuing to prep work. her stem cells are going to be collected next week. and we have linked with this wonderful group called be the match. and they have seen an increase in people -- we had a drive at abc. and to see the number of people who are understanding that they can save a life. my sister potentially is going to save my life. this bone marrow transplant that i'm going to have, with my sister being the donor, the doctors say this could be the for me to get people on the registry. that is part of the show. yes, we talk about politics and
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yes, weather. >> you should tell people, the average daily registration for the match is 300. yesterday, we did a piece, 1200 people signed up. registered to be a donor in one day. >> they registered notch not just went to the website. but 1200 people based on that story. a story of a woman a mother of two, erica, and a total stranger, christopher, on the register and now her leukemia is now in remission. and we are all wearing wristbands and a friend made. and i am close to the time where i have to leave the program for awhile and go through with a transplant. >> i mean, you sound remarkably tough about all that.
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are you scared in yourself? >> after you have gone through breast cancer as i did in 2007. and unfortunately, this is because of some of the treatment. saved my life. not telling people not to get treated. that was my battle then. this is my battle now. and i am at peace, piers. i really am. it is what it is. it's a privilege to be used an as a messenger and it's a privilege to be able to motivate people and join the registry. yes, i had a tough day today. i was at the doctor most of the day and they were drawing blood and i had a c.a.t. scan and getting down to the nitty-gritty and there was a moment there was i am by myself in the hospital and i just broke down a bit. i am told what lies ahead.
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but then i see everybody -- we come into your studio and there one is cackling about something and her heels are clicking. that is why i come to work. you have to show, we all got something. you don't know what your neighbor is going through. you don't know what the person sitting next to you is going through. and we are all living with something. you can live with serious illnesses. you can live. i'm not a survivor. i'm a thriver, and thanks to the people that are surrounding me now. >> george, i mean, an extraordary thing to happen to the team. not just robin, but obviously it affects all of you. a time when you have a huge high of the ratings try yum ups. one of robin's great moments, adding to the obama scoop and so on. you are hit with this. she is a remarkable woman. >> we talked about it -- we
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found out just a little before the day that robin announced to the world. and when i reflected on it, i was completely dumb struck and completely in awe of what robin was able to do. because through this all -- this was a period of several months where you found out something with you wrong and you were dealing with it, she came to work every single day. smile on her face, committed to do the job. not letting anyone else be burdened by what she was dealing with and do it for the viewers, not just professional. a sign of strength of character that it is -- it blew me away and this is something that she was determined not to bring the rest of us down. she was going to deal with it and she is going to keep on doing it and come back.
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>> i did it in part or that moment. i just saw the pictures there in the corner and that is just moments before that picture was taken, we were told it was official. >> yeah, there it is. >> yeah, that is it's all about. >> you have a very special chemistry. i can see it. these things make you stronger i'm sure. we are going to take a short break. i'm going to come back and lighten the mood a little. you have been kicking "today's" butt and you would like to discuss it in more detail. >> okay. odpppz
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♪ >> just moments ago, we were videoing our costumes from "gma." >> we were never like that. >> making the most of it. george, you nailed it. come on.
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boys -- >> who knew that was dan harris in the box? >> rather alarming images there of the gma team. performing as rock 'n' roll stars on halloween. >> getting to the hard-hitting stuff in the interview. >> this is harder stuff. >> i thought i was being nice to you. it's time to raise the bar. let me take you -- let me take you back to the week of april 9th. the first in 852 weeks that "good morning america" passed the "today" show in viewers. you hadn't won a week since 1995. >> it was pretty amazing. it was something that hadn't happened in so many years. you were a lot younger. >> you were probably in high school. >> yeah, maybe junior high. >> close. no, it was incredible. it happened so much more quickly than i expected it to happen.
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having the surprise on top of the victory was pretty nice. >> and matt lauer appeared on the show just after that. this is what he said. listen to this. >> times are harder there right now. it's well publicized. the ratings are not where i want them to be now. >> what do you want to do? >> i want to make it better. i want to reinvigorate the show in ways that perhaps we let up on the past couple years. >> matt lauer talking to donny deutsch who was standing in for me. why do you think you have the edge? lara, what do you think collectively has made the difference? >> i think it's what we touched on all show. we are five people who genuinely love each other. i'm the youngest of five and it's a strange dynamic.
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it's similar to my own family. i'm the youngest if my family. george is the oldest, robin is lisa, sam is my sister karen. josh is my broth keith. that is how it feels. >> now we need therapy of this. >> yeah, i can't describe how easy it's been. i really -- we stay in your lane. we know our role. we respect each other immensely and we want to be together. it's not a lie. we do also hang out. >> one of the problems for the "today" show is the changing circle of wagons there. ann curry, there 16 years, highly respected and it didn't work out and she was removed from the hot seat. when you have turmoil on one of the shows and you take out key components of the chemistry, meredith vieira come on --
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>> we got to stay number one. there is an important lesson. look what happens! when you're not. okay, so we're reinvigorated tonight, thanks very much. >> that is motivation. >> sam, as you're the resident weather guy there, they are not as happy campers as you guys. do you hate each other behind closed doors? >> i love that you picked on me for that. behind the scenes, we are friends with all of those people. and many of us are close friends with folks on other shows that we compete against. so for me, it's not one of those things where i like to talk about my friends. if they are having a hard day, a hard time, they are still any friends.
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what i like to concentrate on you -- you are friends with people you compete with on television as well. and a lot of businesses are the same way. what i like to focus on is the job we are doing and keep my friendships with them. i will talk to them about their difficult times and struggles and we all i do do and try to be supportive and come in here and do the best job we can do. for a long time, i thought we were doing the best morning show. it took time for the audience to notice what we were doing was amazing and fun and lots of information and it never stops for two hours. once you got a chance to sample it, how could you not choose that show? >> we don't take joy in -- many of us are athletes -- >> i'm a sister. >> that is a whole other show.
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it's like, you are an arsenal fan. you concentrate on your people and not others. the moment that ann said good-bye, we sent the last couple moments talking about ann curry. and with great respect. we really concentrate on ourselves and not others. >> let's not get bugged down in their troubles. and the triumph choice of a soccer team by one of you. george, you and i are gooners. >> first and last. >> we will come back after the break and talk arsenal.
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when i was 13 years old, my dad came out and -- [ applause ]
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and he died when i was 15. but for two years, i got see him as a man fulfilled. i took from him his love of story telling. i took from him the importance of being an advocate and i took from him, what it is to be a man. >> an emotional josh elliott accepting a glaad award. that was quite a moment there. i remember watching it feeling emotion for you. and clearly, you if been through extraordinary experience with your father. have him come out when you were 13 and lose him so soon an afterwards. when you made that speech, what was going through your mind? >> it was great to be able to talk about him and so fitting a way and before so many people that for whom he would be happy that i was in front of. and for the reason i was.
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i had done a piece about a young teenager, jamey rodmier when committed suicide after being cyber bullied, posting videos of himself online telling people that it got better. and it just occurred to me it was a huge part of my life, that i hadn't had a chance to really own. and it was just one of those moments. and he remains one of great human beings that i -- has ever been in my life. so, yeah, it was great. i tell you what, it was great. it was great to be able to remember him like that. and to think how proud he would have been to have been in that had audience that night. >> that was a special thing to watch.
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and i absolute you for that. it was very, very moving. and talking of very, very moving things, josh. let's move quickly to arsenal football club. never get a chance to talk about it. and they come in threes, you, it turns out, are a big arsenal fan. and it is a traumatic hell at the moment. >> yeah, it is, we know pen percy was gone. >> when that happened, i knew it was over. >> saw the writing on the wall. >> and listen, piers, i first -- i started following you on twitter for the footty on the weekend. and it's really -- it's a wonderful and excruciating way to spend nine months of your life following your club. >> it's total torture. it is torture. but to all americans baffled by the conversation, it's like a-rod transferring to the boston
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red sox. >> that is exactly what it is. >> you got that, right, sam? >> yeah. >> the enemy, manchester united and it's like an out of body fury and distress. let's move on to happier things. george, i want to turn to your sex life, which you are dying to talk about. >> like arsenal, wonderful and excruciating. >> let's play a clip from on interview i did with your delightful wife. this is what she told me. >> what do you and george talk about in bed? >> in bed? we are both reading. >> what do you read? >> i'm reading the history of islam and he is reading "instyle" magazine. >> it's true. >> that's true. do you real "instyle" magazine in bed, george? >> of course i do.
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i have to prep for "gma." >> stay in the right lane. here we go. >> i've got to say, i do love your wife. >> me too. >> you clearly have an extremely feisty relationship. >> how do you know that? what do you think? >> i just pick up the ruins. >> i am the male in the house of women. i am not the boss. >> let me just end, robin, with with you, if i may. you are number one now. i know the ambition will be to stay there. i'm sure i speak for the team around you now. and the bigger ambition is that you come back fit and well and recovered from what you are about to on go through. i want to wish you the best from folks at cnn. and it's great to see you looking so chipper today and i wish you the best with the treatment you are about to go
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through. >> will you promise me we will go to an arsenal match? >> that might be the final straw. you don't want to go to an arsenal match now. >> wait, wait, piers, we are one match in. come on! >> thank you very much. for your kind words and your sentiment and i want to thank -- i have been lifted up in prayer, so many people around the country and the world and it has made a huge difference. and i'm focusing on the fight and not the flight. so i thank you for that. >> well, good for you. and it's been a real pleasure to talk to you. and congratulations, it's been a terrific period for you guys. and i am sure the "today" show will come back you a the strong.
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robin roberts, george stephanopoulos. sam champion, lara spencer and josh elliott. thanks. >> let's go eat. coming up, roger clemens, says he has something to prove. hey, i love your cereal there -- it's got that sweet honey taste. but no way it's 80 calories, right? no way, right? lady, i just drive the truck. right, there's no way right, right? have a nice day. [ male announcer ] 80 delicious calories. fiber one. ooo no. the hotel lost our reservation. nonsense! you book at travelocity, your reservation's guaranteed. well, i did not book with travelocity, okay?!?
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roger clemens, walking out with the yankees this 2003. one of the most dominant pitchers in baseball history. clemens acquitted of lying to congress of using performance enhancing drugs. and now, at the age of 50, returning to the game pitching to the houston minor league team. and roger klemmens in a prime time exclusive. roger, how are you? >> how you doing, piers? good here. >> i'm 47 years old. my bones are creeking. you know, i can barely run across the road and there you are, three years older than me m heading back in the banal furnace. what are you thinking?
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>> that may be the questionry heard the most, piers. i'm telling you, this is a little hometown team here. the sugar land skeeters. work with some but a former manager of hitting coach of others, who is now the manager with the sugarland skeeters, we were talking back in april about certain players coming here to play during their first season and at the end of the conversation, gary said why don't you run and work out and come pitch a game for us some time before the summer is over. and bee laughed it off. and all 15 or 20 e-mails and texts later, here i am. >> is the rocket firing on all cylinders? >> the rocket is almost firing on all cylinders. i'm not going to stay on the launching pad. i will definitely take flight
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and we'll see what happens. the other day i threw and i threw pretty well and maybe overextended myself a little bit but i was trying to find out where i was at so i hopefully go out here and don't embarrass myself and help these guys a little bit. it will not be anything like five years ago, because i'm not close to be up to par or have i trained. there's a difference i've been working out and i've been throwing. >> you are obviously a ferocious competitor. nobody is buying it in the way that you're telling it. everyone assumes if it goes well, you'll get the scouts down there, everybody is going to be charging down to see if the rocket has still got it and if you have, i suspect you're only doing this because you know you can sling it down as fast as you can use to. they're going to say come on with checkbooks and relaunch you back in the majors. this is what the game plan isn't it? >> everybody is saying that. for me to do that, piers, i would have to start in april.
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similar to my comebacks before, when i tried to retire the first three times and i tell people i would have stayed retired if i didn't get a phone call from somebody that i really care about and they meant something to me in the game and i felt i could get back out there and help them in a positive way. i like the teaching aspect of the game the most right now. but it would be, you know, again, i'm not going to be anywhere close on saturday to where i was five years ago. i would need a great deal more time to get out there and be able to some what power pitch. even get my fast ball close to 90 miles an hour again. i feel fairly young. everybody is telling me that 50 is the new 40. i say that, but check in with me on sunday. i probably will lose a couple of inches in height and be in an ice tank somewhere. my body responds well to ice. that's the good thing. >> final question. do you feel a little part of you
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just wants to go back out playing, after all that happened to you, all the scandal, all the court case, you got dramatically acquitted in the end of lying to congress. is part of you thinking i don't want my career ending on that stuff. i want to come back out and show people what i'm still made of? >> a great question. i did that, piers, i did that when i came out of retirement three times. didn't have anything to prove but wanted to make sure that when i did go back to help the clubs to pitch for, last with new york that i was able to go out and do it right and make somewhat of a good showing. as far as everything that happened in washington, we did it the right way. you know, things that happen in life and some things that you can just shrug your shoulder and wa them off. some of the things you deal with head on. and when anybody is attacking you or your family, i think you would be the same way, you stand up for what's right. and we did that and finally
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we're in a very fair setting where some great people could listen to the facts. and so it worked out great. i was extremely happy about that. and again, you know, i don't have to defend myself at all. and this is not defending myself. this is going out and pitching and having some fun and hopefully i'll get through it. everybody says are you nervous? i want to go out and stay healthy and make somewhat of a good showing. we have something plan that might be funner in the future and maybe we'll talk about that again. we'll see what happens. >> best of luck. i think it's a huge tremor of excitement going through baseball right now. i wish you the best, roger and thanks for coming on the show. >> thanks, piers. i appreciate it. when we come back, only in america. the dumbest burglar you will ever meet in your entire life.
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for tonight's "only in america", meet america's most stupid burglar. jonathan kirby. he's 56. he decided to risk a possible 38 year by raiding one more home to steal someone else's hard-earned
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possessions. that was just the start of the appalling error in judgment. this wasn't any other hold, but the current los angeles abode of my wrapper friend l.l. cool j. mr. cool j. and his wife and children were in the house at the time. he's not absolutely massive, he's learned to look after himself on the mean streets of new york. mr. kirby met mr. cool j. in the kitchen and a fight ensued. following this fight, and i use the word in the loosest possible sense, the report states that mr. kirby was left with a broken nose, broken jaw, broken ribs. mr. cool j. was not injured at all. he then detained his victim until the police arrived. the same police have decided not to press any charges against the star of "ncis los angeles." this was pretty dam cool.