us. "ac 360" starts right now. jessica, thanks, good evening, everyone. breaking news, american war ships able to strike at a moment's notice, and president obama vowed to make a big decision. the latest from washington tonight we're also live in damascus. also tonight, why is this woman avoiding our cameras, you might too if your charity were raising millions as hers is for children with cancer and other deadly illnesses, spending 97% of it on everything but those children. tonight a whistle-blower explains how the operation spends your money, keeping them honest. stopping the epic fire that's stopping america's scenic treasures and the water supply. we begin tonight with breaking news. the growing military action against syria with strike options going to the president within the next few days. another clear signs of where

things are headed. >> what we saw in syria last week, should shock the conscience of the world. it defies any code of morality. let me be clear. the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians, the killing of women and children and innocent bystanders by chemical weapons is a moral obscenity. by any standard it is inexcusable and despite the excuses and equivocations that some have manufactured, it is undeniable. >> secretary of state kerry this afternoon, blaming in no uncertain terms the assad regime that may have killed upwards of 1300 men, women and children. new video surfaced, it's deeply disturbing to watch, arguably, deeply necessary for the world to see. in one heartbreaking clip, a father grieves over the bodies of his two young daughters. his nightmare come to pass.

doctors without borders has found signs of poisonous attacks. the u.s. has plans they will make public soon. out in the mediterranean, four american destroyers wait for orders to launch a cruise missile strike. a senior official tells us president obama will be presented with final options in the next few days. congress should be consulted before any action is taken. talking about military and diplomatic possibilities shortly. let's go straight to fred, the only western network correspondent right now in syria, he's in the syrian capital of damascus. what's the latest and has there been any reaction from the assad regime? >> anderson there, hasn't been any statement or anything from the assad regime, they have

reacted and they're clearly hearing the message. the foreign minister of the country has called for a press conference for 1:00 p.m. local time. assad himself earlier today, gave some sort of a reaction in general to the rhetoric that is getting more and more tough toward the syrians, assad said in an interview with a russian newspaper that he denies all the claims of syrian -- the syrian military using any sort of chemical weapons on the battlefield. he said it would be ludicrous for the syrian military to do that, considering itself has forces on the front line and they would gas themselves if they use chemical weapons. he also warned the united states about any sort of possibility intervention and the united states had started wars in the past and had never achieved its political objectives. the united states by no means buying that, we heard those statements from john kerry, one of the other things that's going on, this is a serious show of force, they have been absolutely pounding the outskirts of

damascus with artillery all day. those are the areas where the rebels say those chemical attacks took place. >> what do we know about the u.n. inspection team, any sense as to when they'll report their results? >> well, we're not sure when exactly the final report is going to be issued, they said they got some good evidence today, and they also said they've been evaluating that evidence. one of the things we're hearing from them, they're going to send that team out again tomorrow. it's unclear whether or not they're going to go to the same area they visited today or they're trying to get some of the other sites where also chemical weapons have allegedly been used. the place today, a hot zone. there's been a lot of fighting there in the past couple months, it was difficult for them to get there, they did manage to spend a good couple hours on the ground getting samples, and especially talking to people. that's something that's underrated. it's very important to get the story from people, what exactly happened on that night, and what

happened to them. what were the effects that they were feeling, the u.n. says they're very happy with the way things went aeven after that amazingly rocky start they had. first of all, the hotel they're in was mortared early in the morning, and their convoy came under sniper fire. >> we mentioned this earlier, there are four american destroyers in the mediterranean. growing coalition of allies, what is the center getting on the ground. are people preparing for military action there? >> you know what, it's such an interesting question, the mood here, i get the feeling is really changing, i've been here four times reporting on the ground, what you hear from people in this government controlled mart of damascus, where many people are sympathetic to the regime. you'll hear people on the other side are all terrorists, they're all staging this, you really see that people are starting to doubt that. there's many people you talk to who say that they're not sure who launched these chemical weapons attacks, when we got here earlier, people were saying, it must have been the rebels who did this, if anyone

did this. now it really seems that people are thinking about this differently. and, of course, they're afraid of the u.s. getting involved and more involved in this war and somehow tipping the balance in all of this. it's a fear that's going on, these people have been living in this sort of civil war situation for a long time, they also know that the u.s. could change things on the ground very quickly if they choose to do so. >> more now on what happens next, with national security analyst and former bush homeland security adviser, fran towsend. also, bob baer joins us, senior fellow at the brooking s institution. and john king as well. fran, listening to secretary kerry today, it seems like the u.s. is determined to do something? >> absolutely. let's remember anderson, there were reports in the spring that there had been a small scale use of chemical weapons, and the assad regime very much in keeping with their method of

operation tests and then nothing happened, and so then we see this large scale attack, and frankly atrocity. i don't think there's any doubt, when you hear the language secretary kerry uses that they're talking, they're looking at one of the options as being one of these missile strikes. in order to try to take out the delivery systems, that the systems used to actually deliver the chemical weapons, that's really only a first step, and the question is, will they be able to put together a coalition that includes our arab allies, so there's international support for this that would allow you to take it further? one strike of missiles we know is not enough. after the east africa embassy bombings, the clinton administration did that, and it didn't do much to stop the terrorist attacks on 9/11. >> your sources are telling you, expect a military operation one a week? >> not weeks plural. i wouldn't say within days, but days plus. looking inside the time frame of

a week. conversations within the administration, as you noted. the president has asked for a finetuned set of options, he is told he will have that within a matter of days. his phone calls to the leaders of france and great britain. they want to move quickly, they want to know what the others are willing to bring to the table. they do not want assad to think this is a bluff by any means, which is why you see those war ships moving into the region, and all indications are, they're moving on a quick time table, to fran's point, will we see an emergency meeting of the nato allies or will the u.s. make sure it gets the blessings after an attack? >> what do you expect the military operation to look like? >> i think it's going to hit the obvious targets, armored units, artillery positions, maybe presidential palace and damascus which is an easy target. i think it's going to be more of a deterrence.

let bashar al assad if he continues to use these weapons we'll keep hitting. otherwise they would run with this and keep on using chemical weapons. >> this is a nasty civil war, and unfortunately, i don't think this administration wants to get into it, we have to. >> do you believe there's any chance -- i mean, the assad regime is saying, it's the rebels who are using chemical weapons, if anybody? >> do you believe there's any chance of that? >> you know, i know some of these people, i couldn't imagine them combining the chemicals, delivering the stuff, these kind of casualties have to be, you know, done by military units, no, i don't believe it at all. >> a senior administration official told cnn the goal wouldn't be to change the situation on the ground but to punish assad for chemical weapons. is that enough in your opinion? does that make sense to not change the calculus on the ground? >> it's a mistake. the president has been very

reluctant to get involved, public opinion has been against it, there's not a lot of support on the hill. here we are again, time and time again, we get dragged further and further in. we have to see as bob just said, that we don't really have a lot of choice, we are involved whether we want to be or not. the problem -- this could be a vietnam type problem where we back our way into this, if we don't come up with a plan about how to win. it can't just be one and done, we have to come up with a larger plan to topple assad, it has to be part of a regime change plan. >> that's part of the concern about the capabilities of anybody who would replace assad. we've seen obviously al qaeda groups in syria, the opposition is fragmented in a lot of ways and a lot of the opposition fighters are these al qaeda linked groups. as the regime changes, it's something this administration wants to provoke. >> look, let's go back to the example of libya, we had the same concerns with the rebels in

libya. they were fractured, not well organized, it was important enough to topple gadhafi that we came in, we did initial strikes. we hesitated after we took out the integrated air defense system. it was not a sophisticated one, before we went after the heck annized units. the units that would deliver weapons. we saw the rebels in libya suffer from that. it can't be a one and done as mike just said, you have to go in, the strike -- cruise missile strike is worth doing to buy some time, you need to come in behind that and take out the integrated air defense system, a much more complicated mission in syria, so you can target the heck annized units. >> do you have any concern that the rebel movement that's in syria, that's fighting is a lot more diverse than it was in libya? >> i do, but my bigger concern, you are right to raise that, i think it's a legitimate concern,

the fact is, we have to remember, the only people who really benefit from the current chaos in syria is al qaeda, the longer you have this ungoverned space, we know from the example of afghanistan with the taliban going back to the late '90s, al qaeda can take advantage of these situations, not only to get access to weapons, but in order to plan, train equip and fund-raise, to then project their power outside of syria. >> bob, you also have the concern, though, say assad does fall, say the military collapses there, you have some rebel groups to take over, if you have the slaughtering of alloites and the regime -- what do you do now to stop a slaughter? >> you're exactly right, anderson, we need a peacekeeping force to go in there once the regime falls to separate these people. we also can't stand by while they slaughter the alloites and

the christians as well. we need to separate these people. fran is right, the longer we let this go on, the nastier it gets, the more it will spread, and it will take down lebanon, move into jordan and it could move into the gulf. it's just the way it's been going for the last year. >> and mike, we've already seen that spread. obviously beirut, we're not sure if that's directly linked. we've seen the spread of it? >> actually, those bombings you mentioned, i point legislation to al qaeda in syria. it's our job to build up the moderate syrian opposition. we together with our allies, that's what we should see as our goal here, whether we put boots on the ground, don't put boots on the ground, every step we take should be designed to build up the moderate opposition. >> this is not the first time we're seeing evidence of chemical attacks in syria.

why is it different for the president this time around, is it the scale of it? >> the last time it happened, the administration said it was a small scale attack, the president used some verbal gymnastics to say he didn't have to cross that line. or they didn't have the international coalition to enforce him crossing that red line. many called the president's credibility into question, saying, youen cat draw a line and not enforce it, this time, the scale of this attack, the fact that the president's credibility has been questioned in the past, because of the circumstances on the ground and because of the frustration with the russians, you have secretary kerry and secretary hagel, they know what it's like to be in a war. they know what it's like to have their government tell them, this is a limited intervention. they are reluctant warriors, but you have a new national security adviser, a new more aggressive united nations ambassador, because of their frustrations and size and scope of the evidence they're looking at, this president -- look at secretary kerry's rhetoric

today, a complete turn of events where this administration has been. the president will be behind him. >> there are no good options here, this is not -- i mean, this can be -- this can go wrong in so many different ways. >> anderson, i'm really pessimistic about syria, i lived there a couple years, and the hate that's built up all these years are now coming out, we've never seen anything like this. even the lebanese civil war isn't approaching this amount of destruction we're seeing there. and this is going to be -- a long term problem, and it's going to take a lot of resources, normally i would say stay away, let it burn. but in this case, as i said, we've all said it's going to spread if we don't stop it now. >> bob baer thanks for being on. let us know what you think, follow me on twitte twitter @andersoncooper. let's talk about it during the commercial break. we've been doing a lot of reporting on so-called charities that claim to raise money for

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if your tweets and e-mails are any indication. we've identified the worst, the rock bottom when it comes to how little out of each dollar raised it spends actually helping those it claims to be raising money for. in this case, children dying of cancer, and other deadly illnesses. that's right, dying children. drew griffin tonight keeping them honest. >> reporter: three former employees of the kids wish network say to work here at the charity we rated as america's worst, it appears you have to know how to lie. we found that out the moment we knocked on the charity's door. >> is miss lanzitella in? >> that's her car there? >> that's true, but she's not here. >> she runs kids wish network. after waiting in the parking lot for two hours, it turns out she was at work after all. >> hi, miss lanzitella.

drew griffin with cnn. >> hi, drew. >> can we ask you questions about all the ratings that have come out. >> no, i'm sorry, there's been so many misleading reports that have been made that we asked our attorneys to take a look into anything and i'm not going to be doing any interviews. >> well, we -- >> thank you. >> it is understood they don't wish to answer any questions. they all involve how this tiny charity has taken in over $127 million of your donations over the last ten years. yet according to the charities own tax filings, it has used less than 3% of that money to fulfill the wishes of sick children. you heard right. less than 3%. we've looked at your own tax returns and determined that less than 3 cents of every dollar raised in cash goes to actual programs or children. can you at least tell us if your own tax filings are true?

and that's the case? >> i'm not going to interview and i'm not going to discuss that. we've made a statement and it's on our website, and we've answered all the questions. >> reporter: in fact, she's never given an interview. the charity's website statement says, we are very aware of the high costs involved with fund-raising, and are doing everything we can to allocate more and more dollars to programs and services every year. while exploring the lowest cost fund-raising opportunities. but less than 3 cents out of every dollar? >> that's not true. we're very -- >> that's true. that's what's on the tax returns. >> we're very proud of the good work that kids wish network has done over the last 15 years, we've helped hundreds of thousands of children, and that's what we're going to continue to do. >> year after year, kids wish network continues to collect millions of dollars in donations, $22.8 million in one year, according to its most recent tax filing. how do they raise so much money?

most of it comes from paid telemarketers, most but not all. >> my main focus was to grant wishes for children who were suffering from life threatening illnesses. >> reporter: anna spent six months as a wish coordinator. >> how did you do that? you dipped into the funds that everybody had donated to kids wish network and made it happen, right? >> no, i would call and get people to grant me parts of the wish. >> reporter: she would call hotels, airlines, amusement parks, get freebies, even rental cars and meals all donated while at the same time at another desk in this same building, someone else was also making calls to get money to pay for the wish. >> we would have one person call to get the actual services donated while another person is calling to get money donated for things that i was already getting for free. >> if you have this entire wish,

let's say, a trip to disneyland or disney world donated. where was this money going? >> that i don't know. i have no idea where that money would go. >> it turns out now we do. records reviewed by cnn and the tampa bay times show of the $127 million raised in the past phen years, $109 million was paid right back to those professional fund-raisers. and you'll want to hear about one of those fund-raisers in particular. mark brianer, the person who started kids wish network. in the past five years, the charity he started has paid almost $5 million to fund-raising companies owned or controlled by him. that includes more than $3 million after mr. bryner left kids wish network. >> my research found that they were in business with their

founder, mark bryner, and they had lied on several occasions on their 990s, their tax returns. and i wanted to make sure that people knew, so i brought the information to the board of directors. >> that they have, in fact, forgot to mention the fact that they had paid the former operator of the charity more than a million? >> yes. i took that information to the board. and i was let go. i was fired about 45 minutes after sending my concerns to the board. >> not just fired. it turns out the kids wish network reported her to the fbi claiming she had stolen privileged electronic information from company files and illegally accessed employee credit card data. two months after she was fired, her home was raided. >> there was close to 16 or 17 fbi agents that stormed my home

with guns drawn on my husband. called all of us out of our home, guns pointing at us. i'm crying because i have two dogs, not knowing what's going on many. >> the fbi came to your house with guns? >> yes, with guns in front of my children. >> because -- >> because i had a complaint against a charity that was lying. lying on their tax returns because they didn't want for people to find out what they were doing. >> the fbi's case was closed and the confiscated computers returned. kids wish network said it was planning on firing her anyway and accused her of stealing documents, even filing a defamation case against her. an attorney for the charity told cnn, there was nothing illegal unethical or immoral about the charities fund-raising. in the meantime, though, the charity admits it did pay the

founder of kids wish network millions. and says forgetting to list most of those payments on its tax returns was an error. just one more thing the current ceo didn't want to talk about. >> i'm not going to -- >> why did they give $5 million to your founder and his associated companies. >> i'm sorry, i've already made a statement and it's on our website. thank you. >> what about the $109 million -- >> drew griffin joins me. they run away like cockroaches, they run these charities and make all these promises, they claim they're doing good work. they won't answer any questions about it, if you're doing nothing wrong, running a legitimate charity, you would want the attention, you would want to be able to answer these questions. it's infuriating, you've seen this time and time again in all the reporting, what is the mark bryner, the founder of this charity have to say about all this? >> to your point, he told us, anderson, he was willing to be

interviewed by you, but only if he could do that interview live. >> great, totally. >> of course, we agreed. and he backed out. he said he wasn't feeling well, failure to list those payments of his companies was an omission, he said, just because his companies got paid doesn't mean he got any money, in fact he says he personally hasn't gotten one dollar from the charity since he left three years ago, and right now he says his businesses aren't doing business with kids wish network. >> the fbi raid is incredible, why did the fbi get involved in all this? >> you know, i don't know, anderson. we've been trying to figure that out, we've been doing these kind of stories a long time, it's the first time i've ever heard of a charity basically sikking the fbi on what is a whistle blower. we'd like to find out what the fbi was told by this charity that led them to this woman's house guns drawn.

the fbi won't tell us, the u.s. attorney's office won't tell us, they have no criminal case going on there, we've filed a freedom of information act to find out exactly what was behind this. that really to us is troubling. >> it's incredible. obviously the fbi, they found nothing there, right? >> found nothing. the sheriff's department found nothing. to substantiate any of these allegations, so the question is, what did this charity, what information did this charity share, and was that accurate information that they gave law enforcement? >> it's the kids -- what's it called, the kids wish network? >> kids wish network. >> their twitter handle is at kids wish network. i just started to tweet them. i can't believe these people won't ask any questions. three cents on every dollar is outrageous. if anyone in this alleged charity is watching, we'd be happy to do an interview with

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welcome back. in northern california, a giant wildfire is nowhere close do being contained. thousands of firefighters are battling the inferno. it's already destroyed more than

150,000 acres. it's only 15% contained tonight. now, yosemite national park is in its crosshairs. the blaze is spread to a remote area of the park. gary tuchman is on the ground. he spent the day watching the battle up close. >> in the midst of what is some of america's most beautiful wilderness, dangerous flames continue to spread. and they are spreading haphazardly, dangerously. >> with this job, everyone gets scared. you don't have a little bit of fear, something's wrong with you, i believe. courage is having the fear and still going in there and getting the job done. >> reporter: the fire has entered the northwestern portion of yosemite national park. the tourist rich area in the south has escaped the fires. the fire is one and a half times the size of the city of denver.

this popular campground just west of yosemite was overwhelmed by a sudden rush of flames. this area utterly devastated. wooden cabins burned to the ground. you can see the charred beds in those cabins. tourists were forced to flee quickly. this incinerated car shows how devastating the flames have been. firefighters greatest fear is what they'll find inside. fortunately, nobody was found inside this vehicle. and fortunately, no one has died so far from these fires and there have been no serious injuries. so what is the most extreme concern right now. >> the winds coming back up, the strong winds, the heat coming back up, increasing, low humidities, and the fire itself, creating its own winds, it's been a monster. >> it's indeed been a monster, one of california's largest wildfires in recorded history. >> we come out here and try to be as safe as we can. >> as usual, the firefighters have been heroic in this battle,

that is nowhere near over. >> those pictures are incredible. >> the fire is not a concern for residents and tourists, it's also a potential problem for the people in the san francisco bay area, right? >> that's right. we're about 130 miles east of san francisco, and there are 2.4 million people in the san francisco bay area who get their water from a reservoir that's in the northwest corner of the park. it's a great native american name. the fire hasn't gotten to the reservoir, but the ash and smoke is above it, authorities are keeping a careful eye on it to make sure it doesn't get contaminated. there's hydroelectric facilities out there that provides electricity for the san francisco bay area, that's a great concern also. one thing i want to show you above my shoulder, a closer look, it's not a weather cloud behind us, that is the smoke from a fire. when you're under that, it's completely gray, that smoke turns daylight into nighttime when you're standing right under it. >> that is incredible, i've never seen anything like that.

we'll do our best to follow it. coming up, jodi arias back in court in prison stripes and shackles. what her defense wants before a new jury tries to decide whether she should live or die next. the vma performance that everyone is still talking about, starring miley cyrus and a giant foam finger, we're breaking down on the ridiculist. anyone have occasional constipation, diarrhea, gas, bloating? yes! one phillips' colon health probiotic cap each day helps defend against these digestive issues with three strains of good bacteria. live the regular life. phillips'.

jodi arias was back in court today, this time in shackles and a striped jail uniform for another step toward learning whether she'll be sentenced to death. she was convicted of murdering her ex-boyfriend after a sensational trial. during the penalty phase, the jury couldn't agree on whether she should spend life in prison or die by lethal injection. the judge is considering two motions by the defense. the defense wants access to prospective jurors twitter accounts. the defense is also asking the judge to ban or limit live tv coverage of the retrial. joining me now jeffrey toobin and mark geragos. an inside look at how the criminal justice system works and sometimes doesn't. not only does this jury have to accept the guilt of jodi arias, they have to accept -- they have to come up with the penalty?

>> they do, but -- >> how unusual is this? >> arizona has an unusual system. think about how difficult and expensive this is going to be. a lot of people find it counter intuitive that the death penalty is more expensive than life in prison. the government is going to have to put on basically all its evidence again, they're going to have to show this jury why they think jodi arias deserves the death penalty. the defense will put on its case. this thing could go on for weeks again. it is just an endless process that should have ended in a plea bargain. >> this doesn't always happen. it's usually the jury comes up with the penalty? >> yes, it usually is, and arizona has this unusual system of one redo, it's this jury doesn't reach a death penalty decision, it will be life in prison, it won't go to a third jury. this is going to be a huge undertaking to try this case. >> this motion for the defense

calling for cameras to be banned in court, i can hear howells from the world of cable tv. given the number of jailhouse interviews that jodi arias did, do you think the judge is going to grant that request? >> i don't know if she's going to grant the request to keep cameras out. i think that, you know, this is a case that's drawn all kinds of interest. and she's going to have a very difficult time trying to impanel any kind of a jury. i would echo what jeff said. if there was a test case for why you should just have life without, this would be it. why go through this thing again. other than to get ratings on tv. why put everyone through it, why put travis alexander's family through it, why not just give her -- you give the defense a choice. if you will waive your appeals

we will take the death penalty off the table. that gives you some finality, you don't have to go through 10 or 20 years of endless appeals. death penalty is gone, and you're done with it. as far as cameras, i think one of the things this judge did is postpone it because she would like to try to encourage both sides to get together and cut a disposition in this case. >> also the idea that the defense wants access to the prospective jurors twitter accounts. >> i've never heard of that before, it makes sense. >> absolutely, people are very candid on twitter, people get information on twitter, they also put forth their own feelings. so if you have jurors that have expressed some sort of opinion about this case or even criminal justice issues in general. it does make sense to me that you would want access to it. >> in cases you've heard about, have you ever heard about as

part of voir dire, jury selection, people's twitter accounts being opened up? >> no, i've never asked about it, but for years now, we've been doing during jury selection, we look for facebook and twitter accounts, we look for anything, any kind of social media we can find, and it becomes an issue. a lot of times because you'll see people tweeting and doing other things during the trial, in fact. clearly for jury selection, if you don't look at the twitter accounts, i think it's malpractice per se because you glean so much information about who the jurors are. >> interesting, thanks very much. jeff toobin as well. a boy kills his grandmother, moments after playing a violent video game. why he will not face charges. amanda knox decides if she will return to italy to face retrial of the murder of her roommate. peace of mind is important when you're running a successful business.

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the gasp heard around the world. miley cyrus at the vma's. [off screen] give me a kiss! [speaking mandarin] what do you think? do you like it? [off screen] happy birthday! can you see that? [speaking polish] [off screen] did he apologize? [off screen] thanks, micah! [off screen] bye, guys. bye. see ya. oh my god!

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time now for the ridiculist, i hesitate to bring this up, it's been everywhere today, at this point it's the el fan the in the room. ladies and gentlemen, miley cyrus did something positively shocking at the npr awards last night. oh, it wasn't the npr aw5rds, it was the mtv video music awards, the kids call them the vma's. ♪ >> it's an affront to stuffed animals everywhere, that's what people are upset about right? ♪ >> that was just the beginning.

the vma's are known for their magnificent acts. it's kind of like when salvador dali did don kehoety. in this case it's miley cyrus and robin thicke. ♪ i know you want it ♪ you want it baby ♪ you're so good girl ♪ i know you want it ♪ i know you want it baby >> never seen the finger used quite like that. that's right, miley cyrus pretty much flipped the bird, a giant foam one if you will, to all that is decent and proper. it was provocative, shocking. people are outraged, outraged i

tell you. that, of course, is the whole point. it's all so form u laic. the only way miley cyrus could shock me at the vma's would be to actually seen. remember her performance at the teen choice awards five years. ♪ everybody's looking at me now ♪ ♪ who's that chic who's rockin' ♪ shot she's got to be from out of town ♪ >> people lost their minds over that as well. personally, i prefer this version of the song. ♪ >> now, that is a collaboration. look, to be honest, i missed the whole vma's because i was watching breaking bad, then i spent the rest of the night trying to figure out the ricin. i still don't understand what happened. i had to pop an ambien to get to

sleep, i was so worked up about it. if it actually got your goat. maybe it's time to stopwatching the vma's, they're not going to change their shtick, trust me. if next year miley cyrus is still performing, she's going to get up there and have a live colonoscopy or something. i ask you, who is getting the last laugh? that does it for us. we'll see you again one hour from now at 10:00 p.m. eastern. "piers morgan live" starts now. welcome to our viewers around the united states and the world. into the wild, did an arizona teenager go missing because of this hollywood movie? >> you have to get back in the world, get out of the house, that lonely workshop of yours. get back out on the road. really. you're going to