taken a risk, i've moved to a foreign country, i've set myself up. i was essentially the ceo of mylife.com. and those kinds of people are the kinds of people who will change the world and make companies that will employ a lot of people, create wealth, taxes and better the whole society. >> just like people like you. thanks so much, john medved. tonight, battle lines. this is lower manhattan or tahrir square? occupy wall street. what happens now? plus the penn state sex scandal. i'll talk to the newspaper that first reported the allegations eight months ago. and my interview with one of penn state's most famous graduates football legend rosey grier. also the most dangerous man in hollywood, mickey rourke. >> the director was a turd and the material was not good. >> say what you really think. get off the fence. his life on the edge. >> in heartbeat. >> and tonight for the first time he fires back at ex-wife carrie otis and the explosive charges in her new book.

>> it probably is kind of like a little bit of sour grapes, you know, chasing a buck and delusional kind of narcissistic, self-centered point of view. >> mickey rourke, no holds barred. this is "piers morgan tonight." good evening. we begin tonight with occupy wall street. thousands of protesters are flooding zuccotti park in lower manhattan tonight after a judge gave them the green light to return. but he ruled they can't bring tents, backpacks and sleeping gear into the park where they've been living for nearly two months. tonight one of the police officers says it's the biggest, loudest crowd he's seen since the protests began. poppy harlow is at the park for us tonight. what's the mood down there? it must be a rather surreal atmosphere, isn't it? >> reporter: it's absolutely surreal. i've lived here, piers, for ten years. i've never seen anything like this in manhattan. most of us haven't. there's a galvanizing element. that is certain.

i hear that across the board from protesters. there are also a lot of outstanding questions. what just came down from the new york state supreme court is a ruling that will make it much more difficult for the protesters to camp out here, to live out here as they had planned to do. they're allowed by the court with their first amendment rights to protest out here. but they stopped short of alough them to camp out here. saying it does not allow them to bring in tarps, tents, generators and basically to live here. thursday would mark the two-month anniversary of this movement. it still will. the question is what will be the future of this park? but as one protester put it to me tonight, he said, this movement is so much bigger than this one park. i think that is absolutely true. it is not only across this country. it is indeed global at this point. >> poppy, there have been two issues really in the last 24 hours. one has been the manner in which the protesters were evicted in first place. were the police heavy handed. and the apparent suppression of

the media down there. what can you tell me about both those things? >> reporter: i wish i could tell you more about how the police evicted protesters from here, but i can't because our cameras and most journalists' cameras were not allowed in here for hours and hours. i came down here at 2:00 in the morning during this eviction. this entire park was barricaded, piers. two blocks away from the park was as close as we could get. i asked hour after hour to the nypd why we were not allowed in, is this a safety issue? i was never given an answer. i still have not been given an answer. so by the time three hours later we made it through the police barricades we were finally let through by a police officer. we came to the park. they were sweeping it clean. they were just finishing up the cleaning of this park. the last i saw of the protesters were a handful of protesters that had their hands tied behind their back and being loaded on the nypd buses. the reality of this situation as

we were reporting it was that we were not allowed to film this eviction. i was told by some protesters that the police were nice to them in terms of shooing them out of the park and others that they chained themselves together, they were removed forcefully. one protester told me some chemical substance was released in the air. no way to verify whether or not that was tear gas or what it was. but there was a level of escalation as the evening went on. by the time our cameras got in this park all the protesters were out. >> i would imagine that mayor bloomberg's primary motivation was to take the sting and heat out of these protests after two months. has it actually had that effect or has it had the opposite effect? has it galvanized them to perhaps be even more protesting down there in bigger numbers? >> reporter: i think that's an outstanding question, to be absolutely fair. yes, what the protesters down here told me all day and all

night is that it has galvanized the movement. a lot of what you're seeing down here are supporters who have been watching, have come down to support it. time will tell if they do have this in them for the long haul. but this has reinvigorated the movement. >> poppy harlow, thank you very much. now we'll bring in a retired police chief and commissioner of the philadelphia police force. former commissioner of the new york police department. he's been in law enforcement for more than 40 years. john timony, what's your reaction to what's been going on in this park for the last 24 hours? >> well, it was predictable that eventually this would come to a head. clearly the mayor was concerned regarding public safety, the health and welfare of the surrounding area but also of the people that are inhabiting the park. and so, you know, as this dragged on, it really did become

a public health issue, and those people in the park needed to be taken out so that the authorities could go in and clean up the park. and they were given an opportunity when the police arrived last night, and some people availed themselves of the opportunity to get up, pick up their gear and leave. others didn't and chose to be arrested. >> i want to play just a clip from mayor bloomberg today explaining his decision. >> right. >> no right is absolute. and with every right comes responsibility. the first amendment gives every new yorker the right to speak out, but it does not give anyone the right to sleep in a park or otherwise take it over to the exclusion of others. nor does it permit anyone in our society to live outside the law. >> that's mayor bloomberg today. obviously the courts have agreed with him. >> correct. >> i'm concludes there are social issues there involving people that live near the park having to put up with these protests and so on.

yet at the same time the protests are legitimate and they have a right to do this. in your experience, is this going to be sustainable now? do you think having cleared the park once -- >> right. >> -- the new york police department will be able to keep some kind of control over this? >> it remains to be seen. this wouldn't be first time -- new york city's had a long history going back to the 1880s in thompson square park where decade after decade where police and inhabitants of the park have clashed over a variety of issue. most recently in the late '80s regarding housing in the east village. here, the issue is different. it's a nationwide protest. it looks like the message isn't clear, although i think there's a consensus that it has to do with wall street greed and the pains that the country's been going through for the last two years vis-a-vis the economy. however, as this has dragged on, not just in new york city but in oakland and philadelphia and

others where other elements have joined the protests, not with the best of intentions, with agendas, there have been documented cases of criminal activity. over in weekend in philadelphia a young woman was raped. new york has been documented with case after case of assaults. there have been issues with people recently released from rikers island being directed to or suggested that they go down to the park. you get fed there and a whole host of thing. so it's become much more complicated than the original protests which started off with, i think, overall general public support. 60 days ago. now there's -- i think a pretty decent amount of public antipathy towards the protests right now because it seems like they've gone beyond reasonable and once it starts getting into the area of public health but also criminal activity, there's a problem. this is not the vast majority of

protesters, but there's a certain segment within the people, the denizens of the park that have come in with their own agenda including assaulting fellow protesters and things of that nature. >> police chiefs all over america who have faced protests in their own cities looking at what the new york police department did last night, from an operational sense, i get the feeling it was a pretty successful mission. in and out very quickly, cleaned the park, job done. >> yeah. if you look about a week and a half ago in oakland as the police announced their intentions, the mayor first announced her intentions, the police followed suit. and as they moved to clear the plaza in front of city hall, they were met with missiles, bottles, all sorts of objects. and that turned into a pretty ugly eviction process, if you will, only to be restored by the mayor, by the way, the next day, which didn't make any sense at all. in any event, last night the new york city police department

used, you know, used the time where the least amount of people would be in the park, 1:00 in the morning. you don't want to call it a surprise attack, but certainly a surprise visit, if you will, which minimized resistant and ultimately minimized any injuries to officers or protesters. >> chief timmeney, thank you very much. >> thank you, piers. when we come back, the penn state sex scandal. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 let's talk about the personal attention

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now i'm going to turn to a man who has some unique insights into the culture of penn state. rosey grier went on to a career with the los angeles rams. he joins me now. thank you very much for coming in. obviously, everybody connected with penn state must be going through all sort of emotions at the moment. very, very, very grim time for penn state and football there. >> i think it's time for people to realize that it's time for all of us to fall on our knees and pray. because there's so many things going on in our society today, if ever there was a time for men and women everywhere to begin to pray and to thank god for us being here, but also to protect ourself, protect our children and protect each other, this is the time for that. i mean, if ever there was a need for men and women everywhere in the world to turn away from

their own sins and turn to the power of almighty god, you'd see a change in our society and a change in the world. >> when were you at penn state? >> i was there in 1951. joe paterno was just beginning his second year as a coach, and he came from bob brown, university. he's a coach. >> tell me about joe. >> joe was a good coach. he was an excellent coach, an excellent man. i've admired him over the years. i just think that this time that what happened is when you try to protect something that man makes, man try to protect his own creation. but god protects all of us from ourselves, and i think that's what happened. when you have a big organization like this, that is bringing in lots of money to the university, all these scholarship that come in, they have a tendency to protect. that's where they did the wrong thing. >> but there's protection and there's protection.

what has stunned people is that somebody like joe paterno, a legend, a man who stood for all the good things -- >> yes. >> -- about america, about sport, everything. that he would have allowed this sort of thing to go unreported to the police seems unfathomable to people. >> yes, i think it was a surprise to me because i think that honestly he made a mistake. i think that it should have been exposed right away. they would not have this problem today. you cannot hide the truth. the truth will step forward when you least expect it. and that's what happened today is that now we realize all of these things that have been going on and no one was checking on it. and if you pass the buck to someone else, someone has to take it. someone had to do something about it. i think this time that when it was exposed it exploded on the public so quickly that no one could do anything about it. >> it's a tragedy, obviously for joe paterno. not how he wanted to end his time there. but i have to say, i don't have

sympathy for him right now. my sympathy rests entirely with the families of these young boys and the boys themselves, many of whom now will have grown up in the terrible scars of the abuse that they suffered. >> the thing that i'm so much concerned about is that to reexpose these young people to the same thing. that's why i say it's time to pray. because prayer will change a lot of our situations, and i think we need to realize -- and i keep saying that because people don't understand that the power of prayer does change things. and you cannot let things go on unless you're willing to face it and stand up and say, that's wrong. in is right. and the only thing is right when we turn all our caress over to the father. >> what would you say to joe paterno now? have you spoken to him? >> i have not spoken to him. >> what would you say if you got the chance? >> i would just say that i pray that the lord will bless you and keep you and bless all of the people around you and help you

stand strong and learn that god does forgive wrong things. he does that. that's why jesus died on the cross for the forgiveness of our sin. we have all sinned. >> rosey grier, thank you very much. >> thank you. who knew about the penn state scandal and when did they know? my next guest the editor of the paper that work the story eight months ago. david neuhouse, this has gripped america now, the scale of it, the horrifying detail, the apparent mass cover-up in the name of what appear to be success at football and commercial greed. when you first got wind of this, did you ever imagine it would become as big as it's become? >> i think it was as big a shock to us in one sense as it has been to everyone. we spent about a year nailing down this story. our reporter sara gannon first heard about it shortly after the investigation began. but when we published the story

in march of this year, we knew about two victims. we knew about the most recent one, the first one to come forward. and also about the police investigation in 1998. i think it was a surprise -- well, we heard more recently through our sources, but it was a surprise when we heard that it had extended to eight victims. and obviously we're seeing now more come forward. >> watching jerry sandusky last night, i thought it was one of the most pathetic things that i've seen in a long time. when you are asked, are you sexualliy attracted to young boys and it takes you 17 second to answer, you're basically hanging yourself, aren't you? >> you know what was startling about watching that, i had the exact same reaction, piers, to that moment. but what was startling is jerry sandusky wrote an autobiography in 2000 which was amazingly called "touched: the jerry sandusky story."

and in it, short of the showering, he described every single thing that he said last night. he talks a lot in that book about hugging kids, about loving to be around kids. he's very attached to the kids. he touches the kids. there's some chilling things in that book. and it's only when you put them together with the allegations that you can see that perhaps what he meant. >> well, i'd like to know what he means by horseplay with naked 10-year-old boys in showers. i mean, that's completely outrageous. that admission in itself to me is an open admission of guilt to not what he's been accused of. but the wider issue for penn state is how much the greed element here of the commercialization of football, the amount of money that was swimming in to penn state, how much did that come into play and preventing people who were otherwise apparently good people like joe paterno from going to the police about these terrible crimes?

>> well, our reporter sara gannon did a story last friday. it's actually still on our website pennlive, where she traced these allegations both through the grand jury testimony and her own sources back to 1995. and the terrifying thing is that there were countless opportunities to investigate this guy. there were eyewitnesses twice, a boy came forward once, there were countless other adults who witnessed uncomfortable behavior. and basically no one wanted to believe anything bad about this guy or just simply looked the other way. >> completely outrageous. david newhouse, congratulations on some excellent journalism. without your efforts we may still not know about half of this stuff. i salute you for that. >> thank you, piers. coming up, from the number one movie in the country, "immortals" mickey rourke. for the first time ever he reacts to explosive charges from his ex-wife.

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mickey rourke has done more in his life than most men could ever dream of, in fact even have nightmares about. he starred in diner and now the immortals. then he became a professional boxer. a man of many and varied unusual talents. he joins me now. how are you? >> five-year break. >> five-year break. >> yeah. i'm really good. >> i've always wondered why would you -- in the middle of this dazzling film career, want to go and get beaten around the head?

>> the acting wasn't something i was having fun doing any more or liked doing. i just saw too much -- at that time i saw too much gray and the politics and the mediocrity of it just wasn't something i respected at the time. >> you always loved boxing, haven't you? >> i started out fighting before i was acting, actually, then got hurt and got into the acting. but i had just done a film -- i had just -- i think i had done "angel heart." it was a tough film but it had integrity and a really great director and actors in it. then i waited i think about a year or two or something like that for something that i could respect to do again and nothing came around. and i bought a big house, that whole number. and i had a big car and all that [ bleep ] and a big entourage that was useless. the next thing i know is just the accountant's screaming at me, you have to go to work. so i took this piece of crap

that i hated, harley-davidson, the marlboro man, i hated every second of it. don johnson was in it. he was fantastic. but the director was a turd and the material was not good. then i just hated it. i said, i can't do this any more because i wasn't particularly behaving the right way and i wasn't being very professional, very responsible. i was unaccountable. there was no consequences, no rules. and i thought before i just -- i had completely burnt all the bridges, but i thought maybe i didn't. so i thought maybe i should take a little hiatus so i don't ruin it all. it was already ruined. >> how did it go, the boxing? >> it went good. we had a dozen fights over five years. we had like nine wins and two draws. and six knockouts and we did good. freddy roach. >> fantastic character. did you ever think you could have been a proper contestant?

>> i never say would have, could have, should have. i accomplished what i needed to accomplish going back at the age that i could accomplish. that's about all i could accomplish. >> what about that feeling getting into the ring? >> i needed the discipline. i needed some sort of regimen in my life. i didn't have that. i didn't know what to do with myself when i got up in the morning. i didn't know what to do in the afternoon. i was up all hours of the night. i needed -- i was burning the candle at both ends. i needed something to center me. the acting wasn't doing it. staying on my motorcycle for years on end wasn't doing it. it was time for me to park the bike and just -- i don't really like to use that word reinvent myself because i didn't look at it that way. i needed to do something different. >> the last time i interviewed you was actually for british television. you had just come to the end of "the wrestler." there was a bit of buzz about it, not much at the time. i was asking what every interviewer asked at the time, whatever happened to mickey

rourke. what went wrong? you looked at me and said i just made the biggest movie of my career. this is the one to bring me back. i didn't know to be sure to believe you. i hadn't seen it. but you had the absolute conviction that "the wrestler" was your comeback movie. boy, was it the comeback movie? >> i did the movie at a time when i still wasn't very bankable. and i really couldn't -- i wasn't getting jobs that easily. i was starting to work again, but nobody was putting big dollar on my head to do something. and my agent called me and told me about this young filmmaker, this director who -- i won't call you a son of a bitch, he sent me a text today. he's a real tough son of a bitch. he wants everybody to think he's a walk in the park to work with so he can attract the talent, but he's hard work.

very talented. >> i imagine you're quite hard work, too. >> so i don't piss him off, they come around like darren every 30 year. he's the man. he's got a larger brain than most of us, he's very driven. he's like -- i told someone the other day he's like a great football coach or trainer. he just keeps pulling more out of you. >> let's watch what he pulled out of you. here's "the wrestler". >> you can watch it. >> i'm the one who was supposed to take care of everything. i'm the one who was supposed to make everything okay for everybody. it just didn't work out like that. and i left. >> you haven't watched a second of that nor listened to it. >> no. hear myself groveling like that. no, no. i can look at myself when i shave every day. that's enough. >> what do you look at yourself now? you had lots of surgical repair after your boxes career. what do you see in your face

now, what do you think? >> the guy did a really great job with the nose. i can't breathe out of it still. he took the cartilage from back here. i have days that i can smell, days that i can't smell. i actually like the way the nose felt and looked before the six nose operations. so it's part of it all. you know, i can't feel it. it's numb. but the hands bother me because the hands shake a little. >> is that from the fighting? >> you know, i always had trouble with wrapping my hands because my hands would swell up, and they still swell all the time. >> when your hollywood career initially all went pear-shaped because by your own admission, your behavior was out of control. >> yes. >> when you realized it had all gone. >> yes. >> what was being in hollywood, living here in a place that was driven by the business? >> can you imagine? >> i imagine it's hellish. >> can you imagine walking to work, not driving your whatever the hell it is out there, aston

martin? it's shameful. it's okay if you never made it. i worked very hard to become -- >> one of the biggest movie stars in the world. >> i worked very hard to become the best actor that i could be. and to honor that and to try to -- and to say every day how can i be a better actor today than i was yesterday? and to take all of that over several years and throw it all away, i know why i did it now. i mean. but i didn't know then. >> why do you think you did it? >> i did it because i had some issues when i was very young with authority and with physical -- >> you were abused by a family member. >> that kind of [ bleep] and it was that kind of thing. instead of being all nervous and shaky and i got hard. and i made myself stronger. and i put on, as the doctor said, all this armor and all of a sudden years went by and this armor kept building on me. and it became a weakness because

it was backfiring. i associated with the wrong people and i was hanging out in the wrong places and i was out of control with any sort of responsibility for my actions or anything like that. and so all this -- everything that i cultivated, instead of feeling shame or insignificant, it just backfired and all that armor became scary. >> in the wilderness years, when you were walking, say, into a store in hollywood grocery store or something, what was the reality of that? >> it was terrible. you go in the 7-eleven to get a whatever you're going to buy in there, cigarettes, a condom, a candy bar, you're in line with like eight people. there's always going to be some -- i was going to say [ bleep] hey, aren't you so and so? didn't you used to be? >> you actually hear that line?

>> oh, yeah, didn't you used to be -- oh, i know who you are, you're -- and they say the name and it was like [ bleep] >> what was the worst name? >> i'm not going to go there. in the old days i would have said a few names. but you walk out of there and you walk down the street, and it's like you just -- that is that sinking feeling. i mean, it's like i've said before, it's a town built on envy. when you mess up, whether you're a producer, writer, comedian, whatever, they can't wait to go like this. that's just the nature of the beast. >> who were the guys, the other actors who really stuck by you? >> well stallone helped me out, sean stuck by me. >> sean penn. >> sean penn, even sean and i had an altercation where we didn't talk for ten years. >> that i can imagine. because you're both fiery guys. >> right, right. so one day we finally -- i remember i was out of work and sean gave me an afternoon's worth of work on a film he was doing with jack nicholson.

i had some nice moments in the 12 seconds that i was on film. and just slowly over a 13-year period, they let me back in the door pretty much. >> i want to come back and just ask you, as delicately as i can, about comments from your ex-wife. >> sure. whatever you want.

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second of that, aren't you? be honest. >> well -- >> going to work -- >> it was a while ago but we worked together for the fir time since two days ago. >> did you, kim basinger from "9 1/2 weeks". >> yeah. >> tell me about that. >> it was one of the producers mark kenton, he called me and said, would you like to work a couple of days on something that kim's going to be -- do a couple days and with the director from nigeria. something called "niger delta" and he explained the character to me. just two days. i can handle that. i'm sure she can handle just two days, too. >> had you seen each other since? >> once. once. >> how extraordinary. >> yeah. >> when you met up again this time, how did it go? >> it's always nerve-racking. this was a long time ago and i wasn't -- i was a little wilder then, you know? i didn't understand her issues

or where she was coming from nor was i interested. it was just, you know -- >> so when she first saw you again this time, was it affectionate? >> it was tearful. >> you shared a lot. a lot of fruit went down. >> yes. they said that, yeah. yeah. i can look at that now and it's a very interesting sort of almost like another lifetime experience, you know, it happened so long ago that movie. >> i mean, it was around that whole time -- >> there's not a day that i'm not out in a club or a bar walking down the street that some guy will come up to me, oh, man, i got laid because of you or did you -- i said, no, i didn't. so i hear about the movie. i often wondered does she.

>> are you proud of it? from an acting point of view? >> i have never been until in the last couple of years kind of acknowledged it. because for some reason it wasn't the kind of movie i thought i should actually do with my time. >> a few years after that, you met up with carrie otis. >> yes. >> and she's written this memoir where is pretty explosive. having said that, every time ooip i've interviewed in the past you openly said that the marriage was explosive. >> yep. >> what was your view of the book? >> i don't have any desire to read it. to me, that's something that happened over 20 years ago. and, you know, just from what i've heard about it and what have you, i think it's probably kind of like a little sour grapes, chasing the buck and a delusional kind of narcissistic self-centered point of view. okay?

anyway. what's the next thing you want to talk about? >> no, but it's fascinating. because i have discussed this with you before. >> well, i'm just saying, if you're going to write a book, then, you know, and you want to influence or help people, you know, in a certain position, a lot of people there's things that you know what i'm talking about here are taboo. >> despite everything. >> yeah. >> would you still, if you're honest, say that she remains the great love of your life? despite all the chaos -- >> not -- i think it's as it was put to me, you are in love with the idea of who you wanted her to be, not who she really is. and i -- >> do you think if you both hadn't been quite so messed up at the time. >> oh, of course. oh, yeah. >> do you ever wonder about that? >> no, i don't have to wonder. that's a fact. if i didn't have the physical abuse and she didn't have the thing with the [ bleep ] her father, who the hell knows? you know what i'm saying? but i can't talk about what

happened to me with my stepfather and happened to my brothers because it's shameful and hurtful. and i feel very small talking about it. the way i've read about that kind of stuff is you pretend it never happens. so if you want to write a god damn book and help people, talk about what the real problem is, not the bull [ bleep ] you want to be a spokesman for a disease you never had. you know? you feel me? >> i think i'm feeling you, mickey. >> okay. >> tell me about women now. because you've become, since "the wrestler" -- >> i know nothing about women. >> have you learned nothing about women? do you understand them better? >> no, they're stronger than us. when they close the door and it hits them in the ass, they're gone. you can get on your knees and your belly and grovel like a -- you know, like a little pig, they ain't coming back. but we couldn't live without them. hey, listen, it would be a really terrible place if it was just me, you and these camera guys. >> it would be a terrible place.

>> well -- maybe not for him. >> are an easier guy to go out with, to date, to be with? >> to date, not necessarily, no. but the thing with me right now is as time goes by, everything a's not so sacred. it's not so important to get all upset about little things -- oh, i like that picture. my agent hated that outfit. and he said, you wonder why you lost the academy award. >> the academy award system, i would imagine that beneath all the sort of stuff that goes with mickey rourke and the stuff that sometimes you play up to, that underneath there's a very serious actor. would you see affirmation from the academy as an ongoing great thing for you? is that the ultimate? >> listen, just to get the second chance, they're letting me back in the door, i'm

grateful to that. in any profession that you do, lots of professions, you don't even, you know, you don't get a second chance again. sports or whatever have you. it's over. i'm in a profession, i get a second chance. i get to work hard because change has been hard for me. and i am a certain kind of person. i've got to always watch myself. i'm never going to be -- it's never going to be like everything's okay now. it's never going to be okay. so i can blow it all in five seconds. >> do you still feel that? >> oh, yeah. i could blow it all in a heartbeat. >> do you still drink much? >> it wasn't the drinking. drinking was never my problem. >> what was your problem? >> my anger. >> and does that still flare up? >> sure. not -- i mean, i'm able to, because i work with someone, to deal with repercussions and be in a profession and taking on responsibility and being accountable if he said something to me right now under his breath that was disrespectful, you know, i might think a few seconds before or i might think --

>> you would still hit him. >> i'll get him later, absolutely. but i wouldn't charge under the table right now. you know? >> should i be feeling a little nervous here, mickey? >> i would do it in a diplomatic way. no, i'm just saying you have to plan things out. that didn't come out right. >> i need to take a break just to calm things down here. i'm feeling a bit physically threatened. >> geez. >> now you're wound up. we'll talk can about politics. >> you better call sean and tim robbins. they have something to say about that. this new at&t 4g lte is fast. did you hear sam... ...got promoted to director? so 12 seconds ago. we should get him a present. thanks for the gift basket. you're welcome. you're welcome. did you see hr just sent out new... ...office rules? cause you're currently in violation of 6 of them. oh yeah, baby? ...and 7. did you guys hear that fred is leaving? so 30 seconds ago. [ noisemakers blow ] [ both ] we'll miss you! oh, facecake! there's some leftover cake. [ male announcer ] the new htc vivid. stay a step ahead with at&t 4g lte, with speeds up to 10x faster than 3g. ♪

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stuff with following bin laden and the other hussein and this guy and another guy that went, the guy in iraq. it's not -- i'm not -- to be honest, i'm not qualified to give you an opinion because i don't -- i'm not that well informed about what's going on and every time i try to -- >> piers: you learning a bit of diplomatic tact in your old able, mickey? >> yes, i am. yeah. no. i don't want the -- you know, guys who have the different view on politics or things that i have to challenge me on that stuff. i'm not that patient to listen to them. >> piers: do you think actors should spout off about politics? >> i'll let you read my mind. >> piers: what -- professionally, couldn't be going better four. personally, what are the ambitions? there's a wild rumor you got engaged recently? >> i didn't get engaged. >> piers: are you with anyone in any serious way? >> up in of your business, piers.

>> piers: i thought i'd ask anyway. you can reserve your right to fifth me. >> i will take the fifth. >> piers: are you happy? >> you know what it is as time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that getting older sucks. you know, i hear all this crap about, oh, you can age with dignity. really? that means like you're aging gracefully or something? no, you're dying, man, everything is dropping, falling. in the beginning, it's hard -- harder, faster, stronger, then it's softer, slower, older. i never heard somebody say give it to me, baby, older, slower, softer. give it to me heard, stronger, faster, right? so it is a process of i'm not -- i'm not accepting it you know, laying down or standing up. like nothing i can do about t and it's like -- i mean, you look in the mirror around it is like, hmm it is all going to [ bleep ] >> piers: speak for yourself, mickey.

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