>> larry: tonight, breaking tiger woods news, he'll apologize publicly for the first time since the sex scandal that shocked the world. is it too little, too late? judge judy is also here to tell us a little bit about that. and the other stories, is anyone too fat to fly? who should just go away? >> don't be a wise guy, i'll wipe up the floor with you, do we understand each other? >> larry: that's all next on "larry king live." good evening, tiger woods is ready to talk but on his own temples. his agent says the golfing great will speak between friends, colleagues and reporters on friday to apologize for his

behavior. full media coverage will be allowed, questions won't be. joining me analyst for the golf channel, former player on the pga tour, david corn well, known as the cleaner, making legal problems of high-profile athletes go away. and our old bud ldy steven a. smith, columnist with the philadelphia inquirer. >> it's tiger woods to a tee, he's controlling the who, the what, the when, the where and the how. he's going all the way back in 1996, he had a statement where he said hello world. from that moment on its been all with his golf clubs. i think what he does friday is going to have a huge impact, not so much what he says, but how he says it. >> larry: david, why have a bunch of people around if he's

the only one going to talk and no questions allowed? >> i'm not sure, frankly, being present and reading a statement without media present to ask questions isn't a whole lot different than issuing a statement on his website. but perhaps he can pull it off. the reason that he's in this position is that we learned, or the public learned that tiger woods was not who we thought he was. so if he issues a statement and demonstrates authenticity, remorse, as odd as it may seem, the public probably expects an apologies as sincere as the one he gave his wife and just needs to go with it and acknowledge that he is human and imperfect and not try to re-create the bionic golfer. acknowledge his imperfections and move on. and if that comes out in what he says or how he says it, then perhaps this will put the story behind him. >> larry: stephen, are you surprised at the way he's doing

this. >> absolutely, i'm shocked at his stupidity to be quite honest, to not take any questions from the media, to wrap himself by colleagues and friends, basically he's sheltering and shielding himself from the venom of vitriol and some of the interrogation or the interrogation tactics that were inevitable and more importantly that any other athlete would have to go through in this day and time. clearly tiger woods believes he is above reproach and he's not somebody that needs to be questioned. this is one of the things that shocked america because he has projected himself as being somebody that he wasn't. now you have the opportunity to make amends, you dropped the ball initially because your pr campaign was absolutely disastrous. i don't know if it was representation or whatever the case may be, but it was disastrous. you're going to let the world know that you're not going to subject yourself to the media,

that you're not going to subject yourself to any kind of inquisition at all and you're surrounding yourself by your loved ones and you're different because you're tiger, america is going to look at him and say we're the land of second chances, but you've got a lot of nerve coming at us with this nonsense and that's what i predict will happen. >> randall, do you think he's going to tell us anything about the future of golfing events he might enter? >> i think he will. i think he will apologize to the fans, to his sponsors, to members of the media, to his family, i think he'll tell us as sincerely as he can, as contritely as he can about how he plans to deal with it and then he will address his 2010 plans as it applies to golf. but there have been celebrities deal successfully with scandals

and you don't have to go back that far to see celebrity who is stayed ahead of the scandal, who spoke with the american people and stayed in front of it. you can look at celebrity who is did not handle scandal very well. barry bonds, switszer, maguire, those who didn't deal with controversy well at all. ju >> larry: david, what would you advise him to have done? how would you have handled them? >> the dye was cast with the statements on the website and many think that the harsh media coverage that he has endured is the product of media mpay back for him being inaccessible. obviously tiger has been so consistent with his media

strategy while he may wish his relationship with the media was better probably doesn't care that much. but i wouldn't go brack as far as randall has noted, i would go back to andy pettitte and a-rod who came out in front of reporters and issued statements and answered questions, and then contrast that against roger clemmen who is couldn't figure it out. tiger has followed a strategy consistently so it's pretty consistent and not just a phase that he's going through. but i do not think this is going to solve the problem or make the story go away because the media is going to continue to chase the story and they're going to continue to be critical of him. >> larry: stephen if he plays again shortly and wins again, can he put it all away? >> he can't put it all away, he can make amends from the standpoint that he can go out on the golf course and people are going to be ecstatic that he's out on the golf course because

you want to see him win at the game of golf. you want to see him bring that elevated profile to the game of golf and everybody is going to appreciate that. but at the end of the day, this will always tag along with him and how he has handled this will definitely tag along with him and his character. i want to mention something that charles barkley pointed out, he came on the air shortly after the incident took place and he said i was trying to contact tiger, he changed his number, myself and michael jordan. what does that tell you? tiger had always prided himself on being friends with charles barkley and michael jordan, but when times get thick, you can't find him. maybe you were just pretending to be their friends, it was just convenient for you to do that. these are the kinds of things that the people of the united states look at, you are a fraud and a phony just like maguire came across that way and pete

rose and various others. >> larry: we will do a complete show on this devoting the entire hour to the tiger woods matter. one program note priscilla presley will be here tomorrow night and so will quentin tarantino. you know judge judy will have something to say on this, don't go away. okay, class, our special guest is here -- ellen page. hi, ellen! hi, ellen! hi, ellen! hi, ellen! we're going on a field trip to china! wow. [ chuckles ] when i was a kid, we -- we would just go to the -- the farm. [ cow moos ] [ laughter ] no, seriously, where are you guys going? ni hao! ni hao! ni hao! ni hao! ni hao! ni hao! ni hao! ni hao! ni hao! ni hao! ni hao! ni hao! [ female announcer ] the new classroom. see it. live it. share it. on the human network. cisco.

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presides over judge jude. it's been the number one hatch hour court show for 112 straight weeks. that's a very enviable record. let's run down things. what do you make of what tiger woods is going to do here with a press conference that's not a press conference. >> do you want my honest answer? >> larry: yes. >> i don't care. actually i don't care. >> larry: you have no interest? >> well, we had front page tiger woods news for months, if my memory is correct about three months ago. i was -- everybody was sort of more interested in his sex life than they were about their own. i got over it. now he's in a recovery mode and i can wait until friday to find out what happened. i can hang by my fingernails and wait until friday. >> larry: how much does a public figure embarrassed owe the public?

>> you and i have had that discussion before. i think when you have the gift of celebrity, we have talked about this before i think. that really is like being dusted with a feather, a fantasy feather, you get all kinds of wonderful perks. >> larry: you do. >> you have money, you get a good reservation in a restaurant, you always get the right room in a hotel, you travel in luxury. and i can tell you, this way is very nice. if you have that gift, you're supposed to treat the people who have given you that gift, who are your fans, with a certain amount of respect. they really are the ones responsible for your celebrity. >> larry: true. >> right? and especially somebody who is a hero and can be a hero to so many people to have behaved or behaved in such an inappropriate way, whether it's an athlete who takes drugs, that they're not supposed to take. whether it's a media person who

has elicit relationships, very open in elicit relationships. whether it's a politician who really is living two lives and fooling the public, it's outrageous. and i -- its a mixed bag to me whether to give them more air time or just let them fadeaway. >> larry: when you used to handle family court, and family courts takes in a lot of things, children, divorce, what do you make of people like governor sanford of south carolina who goes to argentina or, my god, edwards, what do you make of that? >> i think they're egomaniacs and i think that nobody says no to them and they have grown up in an environment where they're surrounded by people who tell them that they are the greatest things since sliced bread and they don't play by the same rules as everybody is obliged to play by and that's unfortunate.

it's particularly unfortunate in elected politicians. >> larry: because we pay them? they represent us? >> they are public servants. and for someone to go away on the public's dime to have a romp in argentina. there are 300-some-odd million people in this country, this man had to go to argentina. it's not only bad judgment, not only amoral, but such bad judgment, buy american is something even he should consider. it's outrageous conduct and it's borne out of selfishness and the ability not to hear the word no. >> larry: do you think that judge judy is held to a higher standard. >> oh, absolutely. absolutely. >> larry: and deservedly so then? >> yeah, i think that -- everyone who has the gift of celebrity, i'll give you an example.

i shop, i don't know if you go to the grocery store or not. >> larry: i have been in a few. >> a few in your lifetime. any recently? >> larry: yeah, i took my little son to raffles. >> and you had a cart? >> larry: yeah, i had a cart. >> and when you finished buying the groceries, did you have a car or did you have a limo? what did you do with the cart. >> larry: i didn't bring it back to the store. >> right, now that's the wrong thing. >> larry: correct. >> so i had -- just a second, so i had a case with a woman who did exactly what you did, something that i have done many times, you know look for the closest place to put it in between the cars. and you get in the car. and the car -- the wind comes along and blows the cart into somebody's car and dents it.

i had a case like that. and the woman said it's not my fault, it was an act of god, the wind blew the cart into the car. i said, yeah, but for your actions and being careless, it wouldn't have happened. well, fast forward about a week, i'm in naples the, florida, i'm public, i have a cart full of groceries, i put it in the trun of course my car, i go to take the wagon and put it in between the two cars and a couple of people were standarding there athere -- standing there and looking at me, where is she going to put her cart? >> larry: oh. >> so i said to myself, you know, you are held to a higher standard. you're supposed to do the right thing. so i took it back and put it in the assigned spot for carts. so you are held to a higher standard. >> larry: an interesting story as always in the life of

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only have attitude, not you. >> larry: i don't think i would appear before you. >> that would be a wise judgment. >> larry: judge jude, okay, earlier today a haitian judge freed eight of the detained americans detained on child kidnapping charges. kept two of the people who had been there before the earthquake. what do you make of that rule ing. i don't know. i don't know. >> larry: you don't know something? >> i don't know. i don't have the facts. i know that if he kept two there must have been something that he had, especially since one of the people, one of the

representatives had a warrant outstanding for his arrest, did he not? >> larry: yes. >> for trafficking in people, in human trafficking. that's sort of odd. the confluence of events is suspect. but i don't have all the facts. i don't think anybody has all the facts. >> larry: kevin smith is kicked off a southwest airlines flight after being seated. he says he was deemed too fat to fly. what do you make of discrimination against fat people on airlines? >> you travel commercially occasionally, larry? >> larry: yes. >> how do you feel when the person sitting right behind yo that because this one person decides that they have to get from point a to point b, 250 people are exposed to the flu. that's inconsiderate, right? >> larry: right, yeah. >> well, if i buy a seat on a plane, i expect to be able to put my behind in that seat and not have somebody encroaching on my seat. i expect that. that's what i pay for my seat for. so the airline has made a rule, that if because you suffer from

obesity, you have to buy two seats. it is my understanding that this gentleman -- >> larry: he was stand by. >> this gentleman always bought two seats. that's what he said, and his quote, if i read it correctly, and you know my mind is not what it used to be, was he always buys two seats because he can afford to buy two seats. but on this particular day, he didn't buy two seats because he evidently wanted to get from point a to point b and he didn't have time to make a reservation for two seats so he was flying stand by. so he understood that he should have bought two seats. but he didn't. he only bought one. so what happens if you have the little old lady sitting next to him and having him encroach upon my space, and the woman says to the airline, listen, i thought you had a policy that if you

couldn't fit in one seat, you had to buy two. >> larry: you're defending corporate america? >> what i'm defending, larry is -- i don't think we show enough respect for our fellow human beings. i think it's wrong if you have a hot cold or the flu to get on a plane and say the hell with everybody else, i want to fly from one place to another. and i think it's inconsiderate that if you weigh 250 pounds that you're not encroaching or inconveniencing or making somebody fly squinched up. >> larry: so you would rule in favor of the airline. >> if they had a rule. it's not as if he didn't know the rule. he knew the rule. >> larry: correct. >> he bought two seats. on this particular occasion, he either didn't have time or they didn't have two seats.

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among all 1/2 hour court tv shows. judge judy, it's always good to have her with us, and we do two or three times a year. i have to ask you a question, sarah palin? >> i think she's an intelligence woman. i think that she has -- i think she's a religious woman. i know she's a religious woman. i know she believes in what she believes in. i have reservations as to whether she is presidential timber. i think that that requires somebody that's unique and i don't see that, but i think she's an intelligent woman and i

think she's a nice person. and i have never met her, but i could see that i could have lunch with her and have an interesting lunch. >> larry: the animated series, used downs syndrome, sarah palin slammed the show and she's also called on the white house chief of staff rahm emanuel for using the word retarded. is she overreacting? >> i think that sometimes, yes, i think she's overreacting. i think that sometimes men and women say stupid things that once they come out of they mouth they wish they could take back. but i don't think that necessarily is a demonstration of what they are. we sometimes say something and say i wish i could grab that back and you can't. i think rahm emanuel would have liked to take back that word, but he can't. i ran a nuclear power millions of people don't have jobs. more than half the mortgages are under water. b why are we fretting about it? we have such big things to fret about, why are we involved with

this p.c. bologna. we're finished with it. we don't regurgitate the food. when i do repeats, i get nasty mail from people, and i say, they're right. but we have to occasionally throw in a case twice. >> larry: have you ever finished a case where you said later on, maybe that night at dinner you say, maybe i was wrong? >> i don't like to think of being wrong. >> larry: in 700 weeks have you ever been wrong? >> i probably have been wrong, i probably have. not in the 700 weeks, but probably as i sat as a judge in the family court i'm sure there were cases that should have been decided the other way. but i really give it my best shot. i try to get the information.

i'm not motivated by anything other than trying to do the right thing at the end of the case. so i'm able to sleep comfortably at night that i'm not motivated by anything political because somebody's paying me money or somebody's threatening to take my job away, i'm really only motivated by doing the right thing. >> larry: have you enjoyed fame. >> yes, i have. i say that without shame. >> larry: have you deserved it. >> i have been really blessed with two wonderful careers that i enjoyed. i had that family court career, and even though it was dirty and grungy and, you know, the company wasn't there to serve the judges, the judges were there to serve the company, i loved every day of the work. took a lot of aspirins, but loves every day of the work. and this job, that i have, is a dream way to put a period attend of your career. you know, i'm doing everything that i was trained to do, so the

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cisco? >> yes, ma'am. >> don't play with me. >> what about my emotional distress? >> i don't want to hear about emotional distress. somebody is going to have the last word here and i guarantee you it's going to be me. >> larry: judge judy. alabama professor amy bishop accused of killing three colleagues in a shooting rampage. many disclosures about her past. usually when you hear about somebody shooting up a bunch of people, it's a man. what strikes you about this? >> well i don't think there's any question that she shot those three people. and as a judge, you're supposed to say allegedly, the issue you will raise is why. i actually don't care. i need the people who survived the three people that she

killed. but what's amazing to me is to hear somebody with a pathology that has been there for 24 years, i mean wasn't it in 1986, there's no question she shot and killed her brother, whether it was an accident or not, will probably never be determined, but from what facts are coming out now, it's clear that the story wasn't completely told in 1986. >> larry: correct. >> and then there was an incident that was reported -- not only reported, but for which she was given a sentence of anger management, which she probably didn't complete where somebody took a boost, the last booster seat in the house in an i-hop restaurant and she needed it for her kid and she assaulted the woman. this is somebody who is not balanced. >> larry: how did they get to be a college professor. >> you can be smart and not balanced. she's clearly intelligent, she

has an intellect. i honestly don't think that if they did a criminal background check on her they would have discovered any of those things. the incident in the i-hop was probably sealed because it was a misdemeanor, she was never charged with a homicide in 1986, but equally disturbing to me is the case in new york where someone who was a convicted sex offender was hired as a superintendent of a building and given keys to apartments. i believe that was the circumstance. and people, employers who are placing their employees in a circumstance where they can place other people at risk are going to find that they're insurers of the safety of the people who rely on them. and so in colleges this woman would not have been found out, but others might. >> larry: let's take a call from

montreal, canada for judge judy. >> caller: i would like to know what you think about having the terror trials in your city and what would you do if you ever tried them? >> i certainly don't think the trials belong in new york city. >> larry: you don't. >> and i have serious misgivings about trying them in a civilian court. i think that we are in a circumstance in this country where we are under siege as are many countries around the world that are under siege by people who are intent on creating chaos. and i think that we have to be careful. people who are in that circumstance should not place our civilians at risk by affo affording them certain rights

that we give american citizens that are tried here. for instance if you are interrogating somebody who find out whether they placed a bomb on a plane and you mirandize them first and give them a lawyer, the chances are you're not going to find out whether that's going to happen. and it's my understanding that the people who are go to be tried were not mirandized before they were questioned. when you're tried, it's important that if you make a statement prior to being mirandized that it won't stick. i don't necessarily think that will make us a panacea around the world of justice trying these people in civilian court to make us look absolutely meticulous. >> larry: the crime was committed in new york. >> the ultimate act. the conspiracy was not. the ultimate act may have been in new york city.

>> larry: don't you try where the act occurs? >> not necessarily. the act of co-con conspirators, none of them were on the planes in new york. they were act was conspiratorial. >> larry: if we do the plan to kill someone in california, but we do the plan in detroit, we're going to be tried in detroit? >> if the conspiracy was hatched in one jurisdiction and someone else committed an act in another jurisdiction, i believe that both jurisdictions -- >> larry: can claim? we'll be back with judge judy who always forces us to think. don't go away.

>> larry: back with judge judy. another call, boston, hello. boston, are you there? boston? >> caller: oh, i'm sorry, i never hear, hi, larry, hi, judge judy. >> larry: go. >> caller: i never hear too much of your opinion on the haiti relief situation and how we're doing there. >> larry: the whole haiti situation. >> i think everybody knows it's going to take a long time. haiti wasn't in good shape economically before the devastating earthquake and it's probably going to take them a

long time to get back, but i think lots of people are interested and lots of people are committed. we had a tragedy in new orleans and it's taken a long time for new orleans to get back. >> larry: mesa, arizona for judge judy, hello. >> caller: good evening, larry and judge judy. i have to tell judge judy, you are my american idol. i love you and love your show. in your opinion, how do you feel president obama is doing overall considering all the crises facing our country? thank you. >> larry: i know you liked him very much and supported him. >> i liked him and i voted for him. i think that he made lots of promises to lots of constituencies. and for some reason different from other politicians, everybody who believed in him, believed that he was going to do and could do what he said he was going to do.

unfortunately, i think he overextended himself and he's got himself into a position where he's disappointed a lot of the people who did in fact support him and that's unfortunate. most of us who were skeptics for a good deal of our lives after we got to know a good deal about politics, we heard a lot of the rhetoric, i'm going to do this, i'm going to lower taxes, i'm going to raise your standard of living, everybody's going to have two chickens and have a cake for dessert every night. and we said let us be peaceful and spend eight years with you, and we thought this was going to be different. and it turns out that we have the same problems that we had before. they're getting a little bit better maybe. but there's a lot of disappointments. he's not going to be able to get through health care. not in the form he wants. i think something. i think generally the american public is fed up with congress, i think they're fed up with

their own institutions and their even jurisdictions and their own states. public servants don't recognize that that's what they're supposed to be, they're there to serve the public, they think they're there to serve themselves. and i think america who had high hopes for change isn't seeing the kind of change that they anticipated. i think that it's going to -- i just have a sense that it's going to take a long time for us to recoup from this recession, and until that happens, nobody's going to be a hero. >> larry: why is there so much a acrimo acrimony? >> i think they're as well meaning and as well intentioned as the democrats. they have a different sense of what government is supposed to be and instead of respecting

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>> larry: we're back. we'll return with judge judy in a moment. wolf blitzer sits in for anderson cooper tonight. wolf, what's the lead? >> larry, breaking news on "a.c. 360," eight american missionaries held in haiti for 19 days, they are now on their way home. at this moment they're in the air headed toward miami. two other americans, they remain in custody. we'll have full details at the top of the hour. and the raw politics of raw partisanship, once a big favorite. florida's republican governor charlie crist is in danger of losing his race for senator. that's tonight's not republican enough report. and in crime and punishment, more bizarre revelations about the past of the alleged shooter amy bishop including the rage on a woman and her children when

she was told there were no booster seats available at a pancake house. that's ahead on "a.c. 360" at the top of the hour. >> larry: that's 10:00 eastern, 10:00 pacific. let's take another caller. >> caller: my husband is a corrections officer and we watch you every day after work. we were wondering your opinion on the welfare system in the united states. >> larry: that's a large order. >> it's a big order. you know there was welfare reform decades more ago and i think that it was successful. as somebody who sat in the family court and who saw the welfare abuses, and how generationally that negatively impacted on people, and it negatively impacted on people

also who saw other people not working and they were working for minimum wage and they said, what do i have to work for? i could stay home and not work? >> larry: they were the minority, weren't they? most people on welfare need welfare? >> let me tell you, larry, i did a case you know, one person -- you speak to one person that represents 100 people or 200 people, if somebody writes you a letter that is a thousand letters. so, i had one case today and i had one every time i tape. there was a guy who was being sued by a woman for something and he had lived with another woman for ten years. and as it turns out, because i ask the questions, as it turns out, he was living with this other woman for ten years, they had this 3-year-old child, he is not supposed to be living there because she and the child get welfare. so i said to him, i asked him all the questions, but before he could figure out where i was going, he was nailed. now, that's one case.

there are a lot of abuses. i feel sorry for people who look at their neighbor, people who are working for 8 bucks an hour and looking at their neighbor who doesn't get out of bed in the morning until 10:00 and then does nothing all day and said what am i working -- busting my butt for for nine, ten hours a day to make this money? i could figure out a way to scam the system. so i think, and i find that problematic. and i find that nothing is being done to rectify that. you are not supposed to go near there because i think it is not pc. i think to going back to extending welfare, i would like to see the extension of unemployment, because you have in if you have been working and because of the economy, you can't get a job. >> larry: yeah. >> they should expand that entitlement, because that's part of the recession. can't do anything about that. but to go back to expand welfare, which is a suggestion now, i think is a tragic

mistake. >> columbus ohio, hello. >> caller: hello. i was wondering judy's opinion on the supreme court not allowing video footage of the trial in california? >> larry: the supreme court turned down -- the california supreme court, there is no video footage, you can't show the trial about same-sex marriage, in which two lawyers, opposite politically, are trying to the case together for the gay side of the case. >> yes, i know. yes, i know. i believe in open courtrooms. i believe in citizens of this country pay for a very expensive judicial system and they are entitled to see how it's functioning. there is no reason, other than -- other than legal dysfunction, for courts to be closed to the public. i don't see it. i mean, if you're dealing with perhaps an undercover officer whose identity may be placed at risk -- that case you don't show or you obliterate a face, whatever. but this is our justice system

we pay for it. >> why can't we see the xport? >> we should be able to see the supreme court? why not? i don't understand why not. it should be on c-span, like everything else. >> larry: i know. >> it is our system. we pay for it. why aren't we entitle to see it? do we have to travel, 300 million people have to travel to washington and get a ticket in order to see where their money is going? i think it is ridiculous. >> and we will be back with more of judge judy, we will try to get her to speak out a little after this. [ engine revs ] [ male announcer ] it is, the most advanced automobile we have ever created. a car that can help awaken its driver if he begins to doze. keep him in his lane if he starts to wander. even stop itself... if he becomes distracted. if you want to see the future of the automobile, look at where the e-class is...today. this is the 9th generation e-class.

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>> the jaycee dugard face, phillip gar reed, deregistered sex offender was charged in her kidnapping, years, he keeps her, sexual abuse, 18-year captivity. now, he is trying to use the legal system by saying the birth certificates for his two daughters with her list him as their father. does he have parental rights? >> i would give him parental rights. ha ha. i would give him parental rights with a scissors i would give him parental rights. listen, i know somebody was going to come one that argument, that he is the father and therefore, he has a right to see the children. some lunatic was going to come

up with that argument. this man did not allegedly kidnap her. she was 11. she didn't go voluntarily. she didn't voluntarily have a child with this creature when she was 13. not voluntarily. and she didn't -- after a period of time, there is a loss of free will. so, there is no issue as to -- >> larry: he has no parental rights? >> well, he has parental rights. i would like to see the idiot jud judge, i would like to go face-to-face with the idiot judge who grants him visitation with those children. >> would you allow his defense to present the case before you, judge judy? >> he is entitled to have a case presented. >> you would slam it in his face? >> he is entitled. and there is no question that he is mentally unbalanced. >> larry: correct. >> you have to put him away

forever. >> larry: all right. on that one, too. >> forever. >> larry: chicago, hello he? chicago, hello? >> caller: i'd like to say that i think you're terrific. thank god for judge judy. you say exactly what we are thinking. we were raised the old-fashioned way and i wonder, do you think there is any hope for today's society and their lack of common sense? thanks so much. >> larry: you think that's society-wide? >> well, if we -- if we don't stop making excuses for people who behave badly and act inappropriately and have kids that they can't afford to take care of and can't take care of emotionally and the woman who took her 3-year-old because he soiled his pull-up and put him in scalding water two weeks ago. >> larry: violent crime is down in america, by a large percentage. >> well, well, larry, that is an interesting -- they do studies all the time. just because the study says

violent crime is down could it mean that the reporting is down? could it mean that somebody's not making the arrests? could it mean that somebody says do a wink? just 'cause we want to keep the statistics down? i don't know. do you feel safer? >> larry: i don't feel unsafe. >> do you feel safer? >> larry: i'm not paranoid. >> do you feel safer than you did ten years something that i don't feel any safer. >> larry: i don't feel unsafe. >> i didn't dismiss the concierge who stands in my lobby and doesn't let people upstairs. i didn't say, you know what i feel a lot safer, you don't have to be here. and i still live behind a date gated community and i don't say to the guard, you know what you don't have to be here at night, very few people come in and out at night, i feel perfectly safe. i still do everything i did 10 and 15 years ago. >> larry: me, too. >> i, as a person, don't feel more comfortable that i did the crime rate is down. >> larry: i don't walk down the street looking behind me either. >> did you ten