behind bars, but $70,000 richer. this is "piers morgan tonight." our big story tonight, america's choice 2012, the race for the white house may come down to the economy and nothing but the economy. if it does, many democrats think that could spell big trouble for president obama. listen to what james carville said on "good morning america" today. >> i'm worried when the white house and the campaign talk about the progress being made, people take that as a signal that things are fine and people, i feel, don't believe that. >> so, is the president in trouble over the economy. joining us an economist and author. henry rosen and nicole wallace, former campaign adviser to the mccain palin campaign. i think it does ring a lot of true bells. let's cut to the quick here. this election is going to be about the economy. nicole, there's a lot of

argument raising on both sides at the moment, is anybody winning that argument? >> i don't think it's an argument that either one of these men can win because it's so dependent almost entirely dependent on events beyond their control. it's dependent on the pace of the recovery and the psychology and mood of the country come election day. and i think that both men would be well served to elevate the debate a little bit. because it matters so much more than usual in this, i think, cycle that they focus on the big -- we always say that. campaign strategy, people like hillary and i say it's about big things. usually it isn't. it's usually about rapid response and who can squash the little guy and catch a gotcha moment and who makes a gaffe and embarrass them. that stuff really doesn't matter. >> let's play a clip from president obama which sort of summed the whole thing up to me. it was amusing and yet very telling. let's watch this. >> this notion that we somehow caused the deficits is just

wrong. it's just not true. it's like somebody goes to a restaurant, orders a big steak dinner, martini, all that stuff and then just as you're sitting down, they leave. >> hillary, it was a good line, got a good chuckle. another way of looking at that, the reality of the situation is, someone invites you to dinner, they order a big steak, a bottle of wine, and you're supposed to be going halve because it's both your fault, the situation that we got ourselves into, and then nobody pays. and the victim is the poor old waiter waiting for a tip that never comes, who represents the american public. isn't that the reality, a stain on all your house us. >> the problem is everybody is a lit bit right. the country actually knows, if you survey the american people, they know that president obama inherited a really bad economy. it's not a bad idea for him to remind people of that. but i do think that -- >> hillary, hillary, wait on a second.

>> wait -- >> i'm not going to wait. this is the problem. i don't think you can be a president heading towards your apparent possible re-election four years later and still start banging on as your main campaign theme, i'm not as bad as those guys were. because four years have nearly elapsed. >> no, i think he should say that. i don't think he's said that. i think what they have said, and maybe a little too often is, we're finally in a place where we can start fresh. and because we've just now recovered from the mess, now we have to move forward. and i think that everybody is right. what people want from both president obama and mitt romney is, what are you going to do over the next four years. i think president obama has laid that out to a large degree. he's talked about needing congress's cooperation which he has not gotten. he's talked about some of the incentives. >> a lot of that is probably president obama's fault.

i mean, he hasn't been very strong, i don't think, in negotiating with the republicans. and certainly with john boehner. i think that's been part of the problem with the paralysis in washington. >> i think he's got three big problems. one, elections have never been about the past. they are always about the future. two, you can blame congress but only about 8% of the public actually likes them. so i don't know who you're convincing. they have a terrible reputation. and three, the country is starving for presidential leadership. so to stand there and say i -- it's everybody else's fault is an admission that he was too weak to do anything about it in four years. and that may work in rallying his base. your base is usually loyal. they almost always come home to you, but it will not reassemble the coalition that delivered his historic victory four years ago. >> having said that, i don't see a lot in mitt romney's rhetoric about the economy which says to me the republican party collectively has really got to

grips with what they did so badly wrong before and what they need to do differently now. >> fair enough, but listen, this is going to be very much the same way for us an our side as '08 was in some respects for democrats. where they were so angry at the past eight years. it was a vote against the eight years of george w. bush as much as it was a vote of heart felt enthusiasm for obama. we are as a party so, i think, disconcerted by the four years of obama's leadership on the massive stimulus, the massive explosion of our deficit, the government takeover of health care. that's how a lot of conservatives see it. you can debate whether that's really what happened. so i think as our party, we're as animated as anybody party is in opposition for the policies as we are enthusiasm for mitt romney. >> i don't agree with anything she said. but i love her book. there is a lot of work to do. i think this election is going to be about what the big things are to come, but it's also going

to be about who do you trust to be on your side? which person is really going to be for what you care about, going to care about your pocketbook, not the pocketbook of their rich friends. how unhelpful is it, that talking of being on the right side, the top democratic voices like president clinton, james carville and others are appearing to be dimetrically opposed on president obama's position on his many attack weapon, as he sees it with mitt romney romney, and his record at bain and his record with the economy. >> no, no. carville simply said that president obama should be talking about the future. and i think that's right. i think the president probably agrees with him, too. what he's saying is what are we going to do? how are we getting out of this deep hole? give us hope, give us inspiration and tell us what you're going to do over the next four years. that's something the president has been trying to do. hasn't broken through well enough and i think is going to

do more of coming up. >> the whole debate seems to be very negative. and that's a very unusual position for america to find itself and going to an election with nobody really exuding any air of positivity whatsoever. but you two have. and i appreciate it. so thank you both for joining me. >> take care. >> thank you. >> good luck, nicole, with the book. >> enough book plugs. >> thank you. now to the other big story, the jerry sandusky trial. the former penn state coach is charged with 52 counts of abuse. we've been hearing shocking testimony. following the case from the beginning, the pulitzer prize winning writer has been following it. he's also got a new book, a tribute to his son zach. get to your fantastic book after the break, but i want to talk about jerry sandusky. you said it was the biggest scandal i think in sporting history in america. i concur with that, but tell me why you feel that. >> generally it's recruiting violations, it's payoffs to kids. this is about, i feel, penn

state allowing a culture to exist in which you had a sexual predatory animal who thrived within the culture of football within that school. it's not just that he was sexually abusing children, which is awful. i believe the coaches knew what was going on and they didn't care because it's all about winning. i mean, when a coach is bringing a kid to a ball game, coaches don't see it? they don't ask themselves, what's going on. why is he doing it? i think they knew all along and i think paterno -- i don't know what he knew. i think he was out to lunch at that point. >> this is where it gets difficult for an american audience. i feel quite strongly for joe paterno. god rest his soul. he died recently. he was a fantastic coach. for decades and decades. but i think he knew what was going on and i think he covered it up. but to me it's an unforgivable crime by a man of his position, authority, responsibility.

that he allowed these kids to carry on being abused. >> i agree with you. the first incident was apparently in 1998. they did nothing. he's taking showers with these kids in penn state facilities. he's taking them to bowl games. i mean, you have to put two and two together. and i know coaches. coaches will never turn in their own. i saw it on "friday night lights." i dealt with coaches a lot. they won't turn in their own. i once described it as worse than the mafia, which i think that it is. you never, ever turn in anyone else and they allowed this problem to fester into something hideous. hideous. >> the details from the trial already are horrific. there's a pattern of -- look, the guy is innocent until proven guilty, but there's a pattern of the victims, apparently coherent and apparently credible pattern of serious grooming by a pedophile to abuse them. most of it going on with everyone aware that he was jumping into showers with them.

how many men of that age shower with boys of 13, 14? >> exactly. >> i have never heard of that. >> i have never heard of that either. it doesn't happen. coaches don't shower with players, much less shower with 9, 10-year-old, 11 or 12-year-old, however old. they don't do that. and he's using penn state facilities to do it. this goes to the culture of sports, the culture of college sports. do i want this -- i want penn state, i want this tragedy to burn in the soul of penn state forever. and i think a lot of what we've heard from penn state is, excuse my language, still bull [ bleep ]. >> the state of america, the economy, the big battleground for the election, we can see that. but what is your feeling about what has gone wrong with america incorporated? >> well, you know, i don't think we're really facing up to our problems. it happened a long time ago. we lost our manufacturing base. we have become a country of haves and have notes.

-- have notes. the problem is i think obama thinks the way to win is to accentuate that. you know, he said the private sector is doing just fine, which, of course, is not just -- not true. the public sector makes more. i don't know if that was a gaffe. the problem is i really don't -- working class, you're getting screwed, the problem with obama is i don't see any leadership, really, at all. i just got an e-mail saying wish barack a happy father's day. wait a second. i'm a father. you're a father. why do i want to wish him a happy birthday? all these e-mails, come to the fund-raiser, sarah jessica parker, george clooney. i think it's inappropriate with an unemployment rate over 8%. i have a son who will graduate college and can't get a job. >> it's a very un-american battleground. it's almost like you were terrible, i haven't been quite as terrible. you know, whereas america was founded on this great positive can-do mentality. and obama played up to that with

the whole yes, we can campaign. this is not a yes we can message of positivity. it's, i wasn't quite as bad as the last lot. which is surprisingly negative for an american presidential race. >> it's the evil of two lessers, basically. i think romney's campaign is anyone but obama and obama's campaign is basically anyone but romney. it is depressing. i think it's going to be a low turnout election. the excitement level obama had four years ago, he definitely no longer has. >> would you vote for him? >> i lean towards him, but i have to be honest. i still don't know anything about romney. but i have to be honest, i'm thinking about romney. i never, ever thought i would. >> and the main reason for that would be what? >> he had a good first two years. he didn't sell it very well. health care reform was good, but no one knew what it was about. i believe in the economic stimulus, by i feel the last two

years, he's not a leader. >> let's take a short break, come back and talk about your book. it's profoundly moving. it's about a road trip you took with your son zach and we'll talk about it in more detail after the break. and later, my extraordinary interview with the king of late night tv, jimmy "rock star" falon. er is different

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>> we're back. with a man who is broughtally honest. buzz, it's a remarkable book. as i said, you have this son. he's how old now? >> zach is 28. >> 28. he's an iq of 70. but he has extraordinary gifts like so many other savants. when did you realize this? >> you know, i would say around the age, i don't really remember, 10 to 12. he has a phenomenal memory. it's called calendaring. if you gave him a date within 25 years and you said zach, what date did it occur on? he can tell you. >> amazing. he will ask you, when's your birthday once, he'll remember it the rest of his life. >> is it like the character dustin hoffman played in

rainman? >> yeah, it's like that. unfortunately he doesn't card count. we tried that in las vegas. where it comes from, scientists don't really know. they have some theories but they say it's the greatest unsolved mystery of the brain. the examples are incredible. >> you decide on father's day to take zach on this road trip around america. what was the intention of this? >> the intention was not to rediscover my son. i knew from the very beginning that zach was going to be very, very different than anything i ever imagined. he was born 13 1/2 weeks premature, he weighed 1 pound, 11 ounces. we knew there was going to be some type of trace brain damage. and there was. it was an opportunity for me to focus on him in an enclosed space for two weeks. and nothing is more enclosed than a rented minivan going 42 miles an hour. but i wanted to be with him alone. like i had been with my other children. i was tired of, zach is over here because he has mental deficiencies. and then jerry and caleb is over here.

i wanted to do the same things. >> there's no rose colored especially ending at the end of this. he'll never drive a car, never marry, never have children. he's not the child that i wanted. no parent would never want a child that has to go without all of those things, clearly. >> right. right. >> but what are the positives of being zach that you maybe unravelled on your travels? >> i think the positives of being zach is that he's much more complex. he has a soul. he has an interior. i saw empathy that i had never seen before. i saw powers of observation. i thought he was staring out the window seeing nothing. and not just yearning for independence, but he wants to be as independent as we can. we all want the same thing in life. we want identity. we all want to feel self-worth. frankly, he's stead ne the storm and i was volatile and dropping the f bomb and zach is a human gps. >> what did you learn about fatherhood that surprised you when you went on this trip? >> i think it's about acceptance. it took me a long time.

"father's day" is a very honest book. coming to grips with a son who's very, very different. and there were moments where it was really hard for me to accept. i came from a high-powered family. i have dreams of ambition for my kids, as we all do. but once you get acceptance, then you get appreciation and then you get joy. >> does he know or care about your professional work? or does he just judge you purely on your personal qualities as a father? >> he has some concept. but i remember for the first time ever on the trip he said dad, did you win a pulitzer or something? i was proud and said yeah, i did. then he changed the subject, how many times did you go to the helt club in chicago? >> quite fun ne a way, to not be judged by anything professional. i can see a benefit to that where actually you have to stand on your qualities. >> he's not jealous, he's happy for the success of others. there's no sense of competition.

the total opposite of me. >> you said this about him, he's the man, most fearless i've ever known. friendly, funny, freaky, unfathomable, fantastic. restoring the faith of a father in all that can be. that's a pretty great tribute to your son. >> it is. i've seen him struggle. he's now 28. he's struggled all his life to do things that we all take for granted, whether it's writing your name or holding a pencil. occupational therapy, physical therapy. and he continues to mature and continues -- he wants to be part of the world. >> it's a terrific book "father's day -- journey into the heart and mind of my extraordinary son." coming up, jimmy fallon. it's going to be crazy. brace yourselves. it's very important to understand

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today looking, for awe intents and purposes, like mick jagger. and you arrived with one of the biggest entourages i've ever seen. >> right. well, i don't even know if i came up at the same time. i don't even know! >> there are the fallonettes as i'm going to call them. this is the second biggest entourage i've seen after beyonce. janet jackson's was bigger, although maybe not as eath thetically pleasing. >> a lot of pretty girls with me in my entourage. >> are they called the fallonettes? >> they are now. they have a name for them. i have a big entourage of people. there's a gang of kids outside waiting. >> how do you jump this rock star ship? i told you i haven't changed at all. >> the album cover, entourage, the new look. >> i'm looser. >> are you now taking yourself seriously as a rock star? >> i have this compilation of music and maybe it's going to my head a lit bit.

i'm very proud of the record. i think it's a good, fun record. >> i actually love it. the whole idea that you managed to per swid these people to do this, is equally unfathomable to me. paul mccartney and you sing scrambled eggs. you're singing the original title of yesterday with paul mccartney. >> i tell this story to my friends -- >> i've seen the original manuscript. >> he wrote that song and then he went to sleep. so i go in to pitch him for this. i pre-interview him. he's the nicest human. i go into his dressing room and say hey, paul. he goes hey, jimmy, just have a little chat, you know? it will be a fun chat. we'll have fun. >> and i go yeah, we'll have fun. i said just wondering, we had a sketch. he said i would rather just do a chat.

it's fun, just do that. would you like a veggie burger? and i go thank you. how do you say no? i'm having a veggie burger. i'm talking to paul mccartney. he's one of my idols. and i go, it's called scrambled eggs. remember, you wrote "yesterday" and you wrote scrambled eggs. he said of course i remember it, i wrote it. and i go, but this is the thing. one of our writers finished the song as if you wrote the whole song about scrambled eggs. he said well, let's hear it. his head is over my shoulder singing." >> oh, have you tried scrambled eggs ♪ and then his head is over my shoulder going -- waffle fries oh, how i love your eyes ♪ i said will you do it? he said i'll do it if you do it with me. i didn't go in for a duet. just him to do this bit by

himself. >> it's a completely surreal moment. i mean, it's paul mccartney. >> he's my idol. i have every one of his albums. >> i know every b side to paul mccartney. i have a fan letter i wrote on "give my regards to broad street" album. if you hold it up to the light, you can see my penmanship through the cardboard. it says sad family. i think i got something back. when i do a bit with paul mccartney or bruce springsteen. >> spring steen, incredibly, you get him to cover willis smith's hit, whip my head. look at the image of the two of you. i don't know how this ever happened. how did you persuade bruce springsteen, the boss? >> i'm talking to him on the phone. i've done an impression of neil young. i've done it on your show. i just do an impression of neil young singing versions of topical songs. did i neil young singing fresh

prince of bel-air. singing pants on the ground. but i did a beautiful number, like -- ♪ ♪ pants on the ground ♪ looking like a fool with your pants on the ground ♪ >> it's really a heart warming song. i said i'll do neil, and you do you. and we'll just do willis smith's whip my hair. he says i have to admit i'm not familiar with that track. i said it's a really popular song. ♪ i whip my hair back and forth ♪ and i said i'm going to do it as neil ♪ whip my hair back and forth it's really haunting and said. and then you come in and sing ♪ you've got to whip your hair ♪ ♪ you've got to whip your hair ♪ you know? so i'm doing this on the phone. >> you have to have the most persuasive skills in the world.

>> no, no, no. >> blouse spring steen sees this and says, yeah, that's a good idea. >> he's laughing. he goes, i like it. maybe isle dress like '70s bruce. >> which he does. >> we're putting a beard and a floppy hat on bruce springsteen. no one in the audience knew that it was really bruce springsteen. they thought it was an impersonator. then they're like, that's bruce doing this. and then the amazing part of this. first of all, he's a rock star. standing next to him, you just feel that magnetism that those rock stars have. and we put the beard on him and glasses and hat and he looks like he's from "born to run" album cover. he walked across out of hair and make up out of the green room. and he walks over. he's got that strut. his tight jeans on. and he walks over to his manager john landau.

he says bruce, you look like when we first started working together. >> no. serious? >> yeah. if you think about it, when would he ever see bruce dressed like he was 30 years ago? >> it's a brilliant album. we'll come back after the break and talk about your other extraordinary achievements. persuading the president of the united states to slow jam the news. >> i don't know how you do this. i want to learn the art. if you are one of the millions of men

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>> it's so important to keep down costs so we keep college affordable. >> and the president knows his stuff y'all. that's why they call him the potus. which means person on top -- what is it? >> jimmy, potus stands for president of the united states. ♪ he's the potus with the mostest ♪ >> that was, of course, the president of the united states, commander-in-chief, slow jamming

the news with jimmy fallon how did you persuade him to do that? >> it was one of these weird thing we had done a sketch with the first lady. >> we're going to come to that. you basically got humiliated by the first lady on almost every physical test she put you to. >> she's very fit. >> and clearly you're not. >> it wasn't humiliation, just the joy of competition, you know? >> did you deliberately lose to her to try to get -- >> no, she had a home-court advantage. because we did everything inside the white house. and i don't know the white house. she knows where she's going. first of all, i put on my best outfit so i can work out. even bo didn't dig it. she made me change. the first lady made me change. so then we played -- we started to race up the stairs in the white house. we had a potato sack race in the east room.

so we played dodge ball in the east room. there's a portrait of george washington from -- it's, like, the oldest artifact and we're playing dodge ball. >> do you think you're enhancing the reputation of your nation and its great leader by doing a sack race in the east room? >> l. >> the goal of this was to get children to get fit and work out. >> was your goal to get some of the most hilarious comedic scenes ever seen in the history of the white house? don't lie to me. tell me the truth. >> gerald ford played dodge ball in the white house, hasn't he? honestly, here's the thing. i -- i love the president and i love anyone who's president. i'm very patriotic. and if they want me to do a thing, if i can help them out in any way, i'll try to do it so that we both win, of course, but -- >> you had a private meeting with the president before the slow jam? >> yeah. >> how does that go?

>> by protocol, they want you to meet the president alone because you invited them, so i have to be there alone. no stage manager, no assistants no fallonettes. no one is allowed -- >> blimey. >> yeah, no, no, no. that's got to be painful for you. >> my wife had to stay in, like, the room right next door. not even the room, just 40 feet away. he just wants to see you first so he can say hi to you. it's just protocol. so i had a piece of paper held out like the limo driver at airport. it said president obama. i waited for the limo to pull up. when they came up, i said, hi, i'm marcus. i'm your driver. do you want water with lemon or anything. he said this is going to be fun. we're going to slow jam. he's like, where's your wife nancy? because he knows everybody. the security already came in,

swept everything. he knows he's going to meet my wife than the writers of the slow jam news. then we're going to rehearse. he's presidential and very charming. and then we go into a room with the writers and i show my rehearsal. this is a bit we do in the news. he says i've seen slow jam. all right, we run through the cards and he's fantastic. he has great timing. great comedic timing. >> the white house correspondent dinner, it's a fantastic speech. he could go to vegas. >> i would never want to be on the white house correspondent thing. i couldn't follow president obama. he's too good. >> naturally, he's got great timing. >> he's got great writers, too. >> yeah, he does have great writers. if anyone is looking for a job and wants to come to new york. so he goes over the thing. normally i do it with brian williams. and brian williams at the end of my slow jam, i should tell people what it is. it's basically just reading the news and like an r&b sexy style and very breathy. and so at the end, brian

williams usually goes "oh, yeah." and president obama turns to me and said oh, yeah. i said come on. give me more. i said can you give me a little -- he said i'm not gonna. >> he knew i was going to try to ask him to do it. he said no, i can't do that. there's certain things at the white house -- i know from my years at "saturday night live" not to go too far over the edge so it's insulting anyone. so there wasn't much of a change to the script. >> your jokes are never terrible. >> thank you so much. >> they're not all funny, they're just not all terrible. "saturday night live" i have an issue with this guy. >> it's my favorite thing. >> you loved it last time you were here. >> he did it and he's fantastic. >> i don't speak like that. >> yes, you do. >> no, i don't. now, now, tell me what -- i --

what -- president -- president how do you -- how do you -- oh -- ahh. and then glass shatters somewhere. [ laughter ] no, he does the best impression of you. i told you last time, i think we were in commercial break. i said you've got to see this guy. he did a sketch that was cut. next time, all year long you're going to be -- >> he's even mastered my coming after the break. >> it's a very high voice. it's phenomenal. >> what it does is makes you paranoid. i watch it and start to perform like he does as me. i'm morphing into his version of myself. >> you know who did that with me in a good way. jerry seinfeld was on "saturday night live." i do an impression of jerry seinfeld, and it's okay. it's not great by any means, but he's a nice enough guy, he raised his impression to match my voice. so we did a bit about the gap.

selling pants, beach pants. who buys these beach pants? no guy wants to wear them to the beach. it's ridiculous! i'm yelling. >> and he's looking at me saying this is not what i sound like at all. he's saying i know, you love the gap. you take the shirt off, they refold it, i love this place. it's that type of thing. i'll never forget that. >> before we go to the break. before we go to the break! before we do that -- >> what is -- what -- >> if you had three minutes left in your life and could only impersonate one person, your last impression. >> why would i impersonate someone with three minutes left in my life? >> it's hypothetical. don't be so american literal about this. just go with the flow. >> i'd want to spend time with loved ones, but i would talk like this the whole time. i love you! we're down to 2 1/2 minutes.

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get to see a lot of what we do. i remember the first time we went viral. we don't plan on going viral. we don't know if something is going to go hit or not. justin timberlake and i did the history of rap. the next day it exploded on the web. >> you are late night, but there is a growing little buzz around town that maybe it's time you were on a little earlier on nbc, like 11:30 or something. >> that buzz is not coming from me. i like being where i am. it doesn't matter to me. >> would you turn down "the tonight show" if you were offered it? >> no, i wouldn't turn it down. >> is it the holy grail? >> no. >> really? >> i don't think so. >> hasn't it always been the holy grail of talk shows in america? >> i think someone said tonight

show with johnny carson, that was his show. this is the tonight show with jay leno and that's his show. if it's ends up being "the tonight show" with jimmy falcon, i'm going to change my name. i think it's cooler. i don't know. time slots don't matter to me, especially that late at night. if you do the show, work hard, keep your head down and have fun with it. >> i want you to get you to sing. one of my favorite bits is when you get together with the doors. you perform reading rainbow and apparently it gets completely out of hand. i'd like you to play out this show with reading rainbow with you as jim morrison. >> so this is as if the doors were to sing the theme song to reading rainbow. >> this starts off we're just goofing off in my writer's room. we're just going like -- ♪ ♪

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good night moon, good night stars ♪ good night air ♪ good night noises everywhere ♪ there's a wok et in my pocket and a horton in a who a very hungry cater pillar, oh yeah. ♪ butterfly in the sky, i can go twice as high. take a look, it's in a book, a reading rainbow ♪ a reading rainbow ♪ a reading rainbow ♪ >> i genuinely fear for his sanity. >> the great jimmy fallon.

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