your seat again. >> when anderson's away, the toes will play, i suppose. wolf, i did see another shot of devito's toes, they had prosciutto on them and his dog ate it off his toes. lovely. >> we'll leave it right there, poppy. thank you. that does it for this edition of "360." thanks for watching. "larry king" starts right now. tonight, breaking tiger woods news. he'll apologize publicly for the first time since the sex scandal shocked the world. too little too late? judge judy is here to tell us what they thinks about that and the other outrageous stories everybody is talking about. is anyone too fat to fly? are americans getting the politicians we deserve? what about sarah palin? what about barack obama? who is right, who is wrong.

>> don't be a wise guy because i'll wipe up the floor with you. do we understand each other? >> that's all next on "larry king live." good evening. tiger woods is ready to talk, but on his own terms. his agent says the golfing great will speak before friends, colleagues and reporters on friday at the tpc sawgrass resort in florida to apologize for his past and apologize for his behavior. full media coverage will be allowed, questions won't be. joining us brandel chamblee, analyst for the golf channel, former player on the pga tour, david cornwell, president of dmt cornwell. he's known as the cleaner, making legal problems of high-profile athletes go away. and our old buddy stephen a. smith, columnist with the "philadelphia inquirer." brandle, what do you make about

the way he's going to do this >> it's tiger woods to a tee, he's controlling the who, the friday? what, the where and the how. to the extent that he won't allow questions. you go all the way back to 1996. he had a statement where he said, hello, world. from that moment on, it's 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 apology as sincere as the one he gave his wife. and then he just needs to go with it and acknowledge that he's human, imperfect, and not try to create -- 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 us. >> larry: stephen, are you surprised at the way he's doing this? >> absolutely. i'm shocked at his stupidity, to be quite honest, because it's idiotic to do this the way he's going about doing this. to not take questions from the media, to surround himself by colleagues and friends. basically he's sheltering 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 because of him, his representation or whatever the case may be. but it was absolutely disastrous. everybody knows that. now you have another chance to make amends. but before you do that, 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 whatsoever. and on top of it all, you're surrounding yourself with friends and loved ones. certainly the things that most other athletes, high profile individuals have to go through, oh, no, you're different because you're tiger? america will look at him and say, we're the land of second chances but we're not bobo the fool, you have a lot of nerve coming at us with this nonsense. and that's what i predict will happen.

>> brandel, 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 relates to golf. i do agree most heartedly with everybody on this show thus far that there has been celebrities deal successfully with scandal. and you don't have to go back that far, to kobe bryant, magic johnson, former president bill clinton, just to name a few, who stayed ahead of this, who stayed ahead of the scandal. who spoke with the american people and stayed in front of it. conversely, you can look at celebrities who did not handle scandal very well. players like pete rose, barry bonds, mcguire, spitzer, just to name a few who lied, who did not deal honestly with the public. who looked insincere. and i think that's what he's trying to do. that's his main goal on friday is really just to put a face on

the words that we read on the e-mail, which rang hollow to a lot of people. >> larry: david, what would you advise him to have done? how would you have handled him? >> the die 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 payback for him being inaccessible. obviously, tiger's been so consistent with his media strategy while he may wish his relationship with the media was better, he probably doesn't care very much. but i wouldn't go back as far as brandel noted. i would go back to andy pettitte and a-rod who walked out in front of a phalanx of reporters and issued statements and answered questions. and then contrast that against roger clemens, who 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 there are people who will be ecstatic that he's back on the golf course because we know he's the best player in the world. 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 point out something that charles barkley pointed out that extremely important here. charles barkley came on the air shortly after the incident took place, and he said, i was trying to contact tiger. what does that tell you? he changed his number. myself and michael jordan.

tiger had always prided himself on being friends with michael jordan and charles barkley and vice verse ra. but when times get real 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 of america look at and they say, wait a minute. you are a fraud and a phony. and that is how you are coming across. just like mark mcgwire came across that way, pete rose came across that way and various others. >> larry: following the announcement friday morning, we'll do a complete show on this friday night devoting the entire hour to the tiger woods matter. thank our guests. one program note priscilla presley will be here tomorrow night and so will quentin tarantino. you know judge judy has something to say on this, don't go away. ounter... and you get to choose any car in the aisle. choose any car? you cannot be serious! okay. seriously, you choose. go national. go like a pro.

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>> larry: judge judy sheindlin presides over tv's top rated "judge judy." it's been the number one half-hour court show for 700 straight weeks. what's that, 12 years? >> 13 years, yeah. >> larry: 13. my gosh. congratulations. >> thank you. >> larry: that's a very enviable record. let's run down things. what do you make of what tiger woods is going to do here friday 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? do you think? >> you and i have had that discussion before. i think when you have the gift of celebrity -- and we've 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, if you're lucky, you get to travel a certain way. it's really lucky. having lived both ways, 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 behave 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 -- it's a mixed bag to me whether to give them more air time or just let them fade away. >> 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 no one says no to them. and they've grown up in an environment where they're surrounded by people who tell them they're the greatest things since sliced bread, and that 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? >> right. >> larry: they represent us. >> they are public servants. and for somebody to have the audacity 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 guy had to go to argentina. it's really not only bad judgment, not only amoral, but such bad judgment that i mean, buy american is something that even he should consider.

anyway, i think it's outrageous conduct and it's born 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 when you -- 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've been in a few. >> in your lifetime. any recently? recently? >> larry: yeah, i took my little son to ralph's. >> 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? >> larry: i drove. >> what did you do with the cart? >> larry: i didn't bring it back to the store.

>> right. now you see? 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've done many times. look for the closest place to put it in between the cars. as long as it wouldn't hit mine. >> larry: you smile for the tmz camera. >> 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, florida. i'm shopping in publix. i have a cart full of grocery, i put it in my trunk of my car. i go to take the wagon and put in it between the two cars where i've -- and a couple of people

were 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. >> larry: so you took it back. >> 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 in the life of the always interesting judge judy. but my husband looks the way he did 20 years ago. well that's great. you haven't seen him... my other can is ringing. progresso. hey can you tell my wife to relax and enjoy the view? (announcer) progresso. you gotta taste this soup.

the 5th of september, 2008, who took the car? who took the car? >> nobody took the car, it stayed in my possession. >> that's what i mean. you took the car. don't be a wise guy because i'll wipe the floor with you. you understand me in i ask the question, you give me an answer. this is my place, you go play someplace else. take your hands off your hips, i 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 ten americans detained on child kidnapping charges. kept the two there who had been there before the earthquake. what do you make of that ruling? >> 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 some question 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. you know, the confluence of events is suspect. but i don't have all the facts. i don't think anybody has all the facts. >> larry: another story getting a lot of buzz which we now know the facts. filmmaker 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: mm-hmm. >> how do you feel when the person sitting right behind you has the flu and is sneezing and coughing all around you? >> larry: you don't feel good. >> do you think that they're being inconsiderate by flying? that because this one person decides that they have to get from point a to point b, 250 people are exposed to the flu.

it'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 the choice is what happens if you have the little old lady sitting next to him and having him encroach upon my space and the woman saying to the airlines, 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? >> no, i'm not. what i'm defending, larry, is -- it's not really defending. i don't think that 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 similarly, i think it's inconsiderate that if you weigh 350 pounds and you're going to encroach upon the two people sitting next to you, you're not obliged to say, well, i'll buy enough seats so that i'm not

inconveniencing or making somebody fly scrunched up for six hours. >> 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. i think it's probably much ado about nothing. maybe he has a movie coming out. >> larry: he does. >> oh, is that something? >> larry: we'll be right back with judge judy, don't go away. it can happen anytime, when you least expect it... a regular moment can become romantic. and when it does, men with erectile dysfunction can be more confident in their ability to be ready with cialis. with two clinically proven dosing options, you can choose the moment that's right for you and your partner. 36-hour cialis and cialis for daily use. cialis for daily use is a low-dose tablet you take every day, so you can be ready anytime the moment's right. >> tell your doctor about your medical condition

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>> larry: we're back. would you want judge judy to settle your court case? that's tonight's question. 700 straight weeks number one among all half-hour court tv shows. judge judy, it's always good to have her with us, and we do two or three times a year. you're a savvy observer of people. i don't even need to ask the question. sarah palin? >> i think she's an intelligent woman. i think that she has -- i think she's a religious woman. wrote a book, -- i read her book, so i know he's a religious woman. i know she believes in what she believes in. i have reservations as to whether she is presidential

timbre. i think that requires somebody that's unique and i don't see that. but i think she's an intelligent woman. and i think that 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: fox's "family guy," the animated series, used down syndrome, which trigg, sarah palin's son has, she 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 they wish as soon as this words come out of their mouth they could take back. but i don't think that necessarily is a demonstration of who they are. you know, we sometimes spit something out 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 i think, again, you know,

iran is a nuclear power. millions of people in this country don't have jobs. more than half the mortgages are under water. why are we fretting about it? we have such big things to fret about, i don't see fretting about this pc baloney. something's real, something's not real. >> larry: but your show is involved with daily human events, not iran. >> yes, yes. yeah. we do it and we're finished with it. i mean, we don't regurgitate the food day in and day out. when i do repeats, i get nasty mail from people. listen, i saw that case before. and they're right. sometimes i don't apologize, 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 said, i was wrong? >> i don't like to think about being wrong. >> larry: in 700 weeks have you ever been wrong?

>> i probably have been wrong, i probably have. not only 700 weeks, but in the 15 or so years that i sat as a judge in the family court. i'm sure there were cases which could have and perhaps 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 or 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: you deserve it. >> i've 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 loved every day of the work. and this job that i have is a dream way to put a period at the end of your career. you know? i'm doing everything that i was trained to do. so the job isn't hard. i don't have to learn any lines. i don't have to do anything. the only thing i have to do is age gracefully. >> larry: and show up. >> and show up. >> larry: shooting in alabama.

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cisco? >> yes, ma'am. >> don't play with me. >> for my emotional distress. >> i don't want to hear about emotional distress. i don't want to hear emotional distress. i have my own 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 troubling disclosures about her past. where do we get this from? first of all, it's amazing. usually when you hear about somebody shooting up a bunch of people, it's a plan. what strikes you about this? >> well i don't think there's any question that she shot those three people. and i say that as a judge and you're supposed to say allegedly, the issue will be raised, well, why? i actually don't care. and neither do 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 that 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 ihop restaurant and she needed it for her kid and she assaulted the woman. i mean, this is somebody who is not balanced. >> larry: how did they get to be a college professor? >> you can be smart and not balanced. i mean, 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 ihop 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 new york city and what would you do if you ever tried them? >> larry: good question. >> i certainly don't think the trials belong in new york city. >> larry: you don't. >> no. 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 under siege by a small group of people that's 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

affording them certain rights that we give american citizens who are tried here. for instance, if you are interrogating somebody to find out whether they placed a bomb on a plane and you mirren diz 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 going to be tried were not mirandized before they were questioned. well you're flied a civilian court and you make a statement prior to being mirandized, that statement 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 it will make us look absolutely ridiculous. >> larry: the crime was committed in new york. >> you mean t ultimate act. well, 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 the co-conspirators, where they hatch the plan, none of them were on the planes in new york. their act was conspiratorial. >> larry: you and i plan to kill someone and we do the plan in california, we kill them 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. ♪ what if one little pop...

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probably going to take them a long time to get back. but i think lots of people are interested and i think 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: still. mesa, arizona, for judge judy. hello. >> caller: good evening, larry and judge judy. i have to tell judge judy, you are my american idol. love you, 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 like 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 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 little bit about politics, we heard all the rhetoric, i'm going to do this, lower your taxes, raise your standard of living, everybody will have two chickens in the oven and cake for dessert every night. and we said, yeah, yeah, yeah. just let us be peaceful and spend eight years with you. but for some reason 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. i don't think. not the reforms that he wants. maybe a little something. i think generally the american public is fed up with congress, i think they're fed up with

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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 ahead on "ac 360." eight american missioners held in haiti. they are now on their way home. at this moment they're in the air headed toward miami. two others from the group they remain in custody. we'll have full details at the top of the hour. the raw politics of raw partisanship. once a big favorite, florida's republican governor charlie crist is now in danger of losing his race for u.s. senator. in the primary. to a formerly unknown. that's tonight's not republican enough report. in crime and punishment. more bizarre revelations about the past of the shooter amy bishop. including, get this, her rage at a woman and her children when told there were no more child

booster seats available at a pancake house. those stories coming up on "ac 360." >> that's wolf blitzer sitting in for anderson cooper. clearfield, pennsylvania. hello. >> caller: hi, judy. my boyfriend and i are big fans. he's a correction officer. we watch you every day after work. our question to you is, we were wondering your opinion on the welfare system in the united states. >> larry: that's a large order. >> that's a big order. you know, there was welfare reform decade 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 can stay home and not work. >> larry: they were the minority, weren't they? most people get welfare that need welfare. >> let me tell you, larry, i did a case today. and when they say, you know, one person -- you speak to one person, that represents a hundred people or 200 people. if somebody writes you a letter, that's a thousand letters. i had one case today. and i have 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 a asked the questions, as it turns out he was living with this other woman for ten years. they have a 3-year-old child. he's not supposed to be living there because she and the child get welfare. i said to him, i asked him all the questions, 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 eight bucks an hour and looking at their neighbor who doesn't get out of bed in the morning till 10:00, then does nothing all day, and say what am i busting my butt for for nine, ten hours a day to make this money? i can 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. we're not supposed to go near there because it's not pc. i think that going back to extending welfare, i would like to see the extension of unemployment because if you've 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. you can't do anything about that. but to go back to expand welfare, which is a suggestion now, i think is a tragic

mistake. >> larry: 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 california supreme court, there's no video footage. you can't show the trial about same-sex marriage, in which two lawyers opposite politically are trying the case together for the gay side of the case. >> 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 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. >> larry: so that case you don't show. >> or you obliterate a face

whatever. this is our justice system. we pay for it! >> larry: why can't we see the supreme court? >> 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. it's our system, we pay for it. why aren't we entitled to see it? do we have to travel to -- do 300 million people have to travel to washington and get a ticket in order to see where their money is going? i think it's ridiculous. >> larry: we'll be back with more of judge judy. i was short of breath, so i couldn't always do what i wanted to do.

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>> larry: fascinating, the jaycee dug ard case. phillip garrido, a registered sex offender is charged with her kidnapping. for years he keeps her, sexual abuse, 18-year captivity. now he's trying to use the legal system by saying that the birth certificates for his two daughters with her list him as their father. does he have parental rights? >> i'd give him parental rights. i'd give him parental rights, with the scissors, i'd give him parental rights. listen, i know somebody was going to come up with that argument, that he's 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's a loss of free will. so there's no issue as to whether -- >> larry: he has no parental rights? >> he has parental rights. i would like to see the idiot judge, i would like to go face-to-face with the idiot judge who grants him visitation with those children. >> larry: would you allow his defense to present the case before you, judge judy? >> he's entitled to have a case presented. >> larry: you'd slam it in his face. >> he's entitled, and there is no question that he is mentally unbalanced. you have to put him away forever. >> larry: all right.

>> forever. >> larry: chicago, hello. chicago, hello. >> caller: i'd like to say that i think you're terrific. thank god for judge judy. you say exactly what we're thinking. we were raised the old fashioned way. and i wonder do you think there's 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 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: but violent crime's down in america. by percentage. >> that's 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 because 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? no, do you feel safer than you did ten years ago? >> larry: i don't think about it. i don't feel unsafe, though. >> i didn't dismiss the concierge who stands in my lobby and doesn't let people upstairs. i didn't say, i feel a lot safer. you don't have to be here. and i still live behind a gated community. and i didn't say to the guard at the gated community, 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 or 15 years ago. >> larry: me, too. >> i as a person don't feel more comfortable that the crime rate is down. >> larry: i don't look behind me on the street. >> did you ten y