gilligan, the professor, skipper, mary anne, the millionaire and his wife. never worked out and the show got great ratings and had a second long life in reruns, but lasted just three seasons on network tv. the three hour tour, coming to an end 44 years ago today. and that is how fox reports on this sunday, septemr 4th, 2011. i'm harris falkner, thanks so much for watching. have a fantastic week. huckabee starts now. >> tonight on huckabee, one in 110 children in america is born with autism. >> this was not the life i had pictured. >> emily and jack are overcoming the challenges of raising a child with autism and uncovering their capability. >> we so underestimate what

these people understand. >> and. >> i have napoleon's syndrome. >> she's small in stature, but big on motivation. >> you believe in your ability to achieve the goal, you're not going to. >> plus, oscar and grammy award winning writer paul williams with the stories behind some of his timeless classics ♪ just an old-fashioned love song playing on the radio ♪ >> good evening from little rock, arkansas this labor day weekend. have you missed this, breaking news from libya and hurricane irene preempted our show for a couple of weeks. we're glad to be back with you and appreciate your patience. we miss not bringing the show. and this is a holiday weekend. while we hope you enjoy the never before seen segments, i hope you enjoy time off with friends and family and observe what labor day represents.

with some of the highest unemployment rates, that linger, it's not lost on most of us. one of god's great gifts is a job, a job that not only puts food on our table and clothes on our back, a job that gives us the dignity of work. once said the greatest reward from work isn't what we get from it, but what we become because of it. i'd held a job to support myself since the age of 14. hard work is what made it possible for me to have a college education, raise a family, enjoy and own a home and even be able to enjoy things i never dreamed were possible. and the worst case of my own life, those were the days when i had lost a job and it wasn't had your how i would possibly feed my family and pay my bills. that's a fear unfortunately known by almost 16 million americans right now. if you have a job, get on your knees and thank god for the good feeling of being tired from it. and if you don't have a job,

you have my prayers, that our economy is soon going to turn around and you'll find meaningful work. labor is not our burden, labor is our blessing. and i do hope that what you do brings you some joy. well, that's my view and i welcome yours, you can contact me at mikehuckabee.com and share your views on the fox news feedback link. one of our important and close important friends around the world. what would be the consequence if our long time relationship with israel were to change. i recently asked prime minister benjamin netanyahu in an exclusive interview. >> all countries need alliances, even super powers like the united states need alliances and we have a very strong one here. i mean, it's sort of think what you'd have to do in the middle east when you don't have israel. and israel. and parts of the middle east, you don't have in israel and

you have to-- you've deployed your own troops and spent a lot of treasure. so, all countries need alliances, the united states needs alliances, but a small country like israel definitely needs alliances so i don't want to, in any way, minimize the importance of this partnership. i think it's hugely important, and certainly important for us, american support is tremulously appreciated here and this is one country where you give american support, the people are absolutely grateful, you know, they value this. they prize this. they prize their friendship with america and i don't think not only in the sense of, you know, being grateful and being, you know, appreciative of help that is given. that's clear, but in the deeper sense there's an identification with america and in many ways i often say america starts here. >> mike: i'm not sure that there's another prime minister

in the world who has a better understanding of the united states. you even had significant part of education in the u.s., graduated from high school there in pennsylvania. and looking over the course of time. >> i did the whole thing, i did the sat's, the-- >> and it's turned out pretty well for you, i would say. >> well, it's grueling time because i took my studies seriously. >> mike: what is the biggest change you have observed, because you've seen if firsthand unlike any other world leaders who have seen it from a difference. you've lived it and seen it in a way that few have. something about the united states that you've seen dramatically different over the years? >> there are changes, obviously, and open diana many-- dynamic country and one of the great strengths and it's attracted very, very talented people, people of enterprise. people who wanted freedom and there's a spirit, a spirit of

enterprise and a spirit of achievement which i think marks the united states and still does, it's a-- it has great problems, you know, the east is rising, but i wouldn't write off america, they're going to be these two great, two great centers, the united states on one side, and of course, asia on the other side. and i believe-- don't worry about the world in that sense. i think they write the united states off. they're wrong. i think it's a great civilization and i think that china is coming up along with india and these are great civilizations, too, they will honor the rules of competition. the economic competition, political competition, it will be a changed world, but it will be, not necessarily an unsafe one. i'm not sure it will be less

unsafe than it was in the cold war. we don't have to go back and have nostalgia for the cold war. that's another bipolar world. i'm not worried about that. but i worry that between east and west is this radical globe of militant islam that honors no rules, that is willing to, you know, kill people with happy abandon. you know, just bomb people, bomb the innocent, and even do so with complete disregard for the survival of their own people. i haven't seen many soviet suicide bombers and soviet union had its problems, right. i was no fan of the soviet union, but when the soviets have to decide, you know, between their-- to choose between their ideology, between their

zealotry and their survival. they always chose their survival. they were very clear on that score. you can't be sure with militant islam. so to me the greatest danger facing the world is not this change in the world. not the changes within america, not the changes in asia, i think, i think the world is generally moving in a better direction, a greater freedom, greater enterprise, greater information. but in between east and west, something of great danger is developing. and if militant islam gets nuclear weapons, or nuclear weapons get a militant islamic regime the first second is pakistan, we will be in great peril and the second challenge of our time. i'm confidence if we over come

this. we will-- >> mr. prime minister, i appreciate your time and-- >> i appreciate that and every person in israel appreciates that all the time. >> it's been a rn hoo. >> thank you, mike. >> mike: one in over 110 children born in america is diagnosed with autism. the figure is stunning, so much about autism we just don't know, coming up, chuck colson and his daughter emily share the remarkable story of her son max. and covered something that every family needs to hear, whether you have an autistic child or not. it's very reason. plus, it's two times stronger when wet versus the leading competitive brand. new charmin basic works for my bottom line. and my bottom. new charmin basic.

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but what we do know is that raising a child with autism presents some real challenges. not just for the parents, but for the siblings, the grandparents, even the friends. emily colson's 20-year-old son max is diagnosed with autism at age four. emily has pioneered an innovative communication system to help max and authored a magnificent book, called dancing with max. emily and her father, former special counsel to president nixon, chuck colson. chuck, emily, so glad to see you. thank you very much for being here. emily, first of all, max was diagnosed at age 4. how did you know something was different or unique about max and did you suspect it even before the age? >> very much so, i could tell from the very beginning, he cried all the time and didn't hit any of those marks we look for with kids, he didn't crawl when he should have. didn't walk when he thud have. didn't make any gurgling

sounds. >> what was the first raeshg, everybody hopes it will be a perfect child and story book life. it wasn't a story book life. >> no, it wasn't. i became a single mom was max was just 18 months old. so on the heels of divorce, max was diagnosed with autism. no, this has not the life i had pictured. i thought i would have more kids and just thought everything was going to go along perfectly and it was a pretty dramatic shift. >> chuck, this was news, i'm sure not only tough with emily, but tough for you and your wife patty when you found out that max was an autistic child. what kind of reaction did you have and what did you even know about autism at that point? >> i'd heard the term and knew nothing about it at all. i was devastated because every as you well know, governor, wants the best for your children and especially for your baby girl so this was a

hard thing for all of us, you, but i learned to marvel at her toughness in being able to handle it. she was willing to do anything to help max and i saw what you know is a sacraficial love. in one sense it was a tough experience for all of us, for the family. it was a blessing, i mean, a joy, to see how her faith grew and how she persevered to help one child and a wonderful story what's happened to her life since, you know, out of the tough times, often as you and i both know. come the best things. >> mike: let me go back 20 years ago. were you angry? was there a time you were angry at god and yourself and the world and said this wasn't fair? >> well, max was nine and autism was so severe we could barely leave the house, we were homes. the toughest time i would come downstairs, putting max to bed hoping he would sleep an hour or two hours and i would sit

in this rocking chair and stare at the wall and i wanted everything to stop and i wanted to stop feeling and it was actually at that point that it all turned around. that i made a decision, that i couldn't live my life that way. i didn't know how we'd survive another week like that. and i made this decision that i would wake up in the morning and say, this is my last day alive and that i would believe it and i did. the first day i did it, i was scared to death and i thought, i woke up and said this is my last day alive. what would i do with it, would i care if my son has a tantrum out. would i care about the stares from other people and would i give my son the best day he could ever have. so we went out and we failed and we went out and we failed and failures and all we keep going back and the wonderful story about max and our church and so important to me, because there are all of these families home on sunday mornings and i don't think our churches realize how

significant the problem is because we're not able to cross the tresh hold to get there to say we need help. i started to bring max back to church a few years ago, we had been five years at home, and i thought there's one thing he loved about church when he was young, he loved it to be over. when we went back when it was over. >> mike: it's not just autistic children, emily. >> so we went back at the end of church, we called it backwards church. and a man came up to max and asked him to help stack chairs, so max started helping out and at the end of the service came back to max and put his hand on the shoulder and said, max we could use you on the grunt crew, the team that cleans up the church afterwards, he was so proud to be asked. it just took that one invitation, and for six years, we went to backwards church and max became a central part

of our children. then, this past fall, something wonderful happened. because max got a little braver and crept into the church at the end. i was so proud of him and leaning over him saying, max, great job sitting and being in church. the lights came up the music ended and max shot out of his chair and shaking hands with everyone, good job sitting, great job being in church. and i thought now, this is a greeter. so, max is now the first person people meet when they come into our church and i think that says -- [applause] >> all are welcome. >> mike: and something that happened to us when we were two years old, you know what, max can. and next we're going to see how this came through and it happened it eight years later. much more to this story. like the trip around the world you never took. but there's one opportunity that's too good to miss. the lexus golden opportunity sales event.

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(applaus (applause) >> tell me about this idea that you had that you could use pictures. >> right. >> mike: to communicate with max, but also to give max a voice he's never had before. >> well, it's wonderful. because god gave me the gift of art before i ever had max. when i realized that max learned visually i began to draw pictures for him. he was about nine and those were tough days and i started to translate the world into pictures for him. so that he could understand cause and effect. he could understand sequencing of events and very quickly, began to dictate what he wanted me to draw. he became the art director and he started to tell me about his memories and fears and things bottled up and once he saw his words land on the page and become tangible and concrete, his language just

poured out. >> mike: this is a time when he was apparently very afraid of refrigerators. >> yes, it was. >> mike: i mean, most of us kind of like the refrigerator and go there often and our favorite place in the house. >> yes. >> mike: max wasn't that fond of refrigerators. >> the interesting thing is now he's obsessed with refrigerators. back again in 2001 he asked me to draw him walking past the refrigerator. >> mike: and the captions here for us. >> afraid of. he dictated, so max and mom went to cvs in march field. max saw the refrigerators and now he tells us that he it made the sound of christmas bells and he then he tells me it sounded like christmas bells because the bottles were jiggling and i helped him with that, i to he willed him that. and then he asked me to draw this. max walked past the refrigerators, he could never

do that, he could never go past it. max and mom passed a little refrigerator on the way out. we were all done with cvs and everybody is happy in the end. now, he looked at these over and over, this drawing, and he conquered his fear of refrigerators by looking at these drawings. >> mike: so by being able to see visually the experience that he had. >> yes. >> mike: resolved the experience he then could move on. >> it gave max a voice, which is so powerful. >> mike: to read this one which has to do with the blue card, and two of you do that quickly. and follow us through this now. when max was two years old. >> this was a turning point for us, because this was one of the early picture talks. >> mike: uh-huh. >> and we hadn't really figured out the power behind these. max was sitting in the bathtub and he starts telling me he wants pictures of joanne's blue sports car. i didn't know what he was

talking about, but as he began to tell me more and i grabbed the paper i realize he's almost ten when he's telling me this. i realized it was a baby sitter that took him out when he was just two years old. now, when max was two, he had no language. he was like a human super ball. you wouldn't think he could hear you, but he remembered in perfect detail the baby sitter that took him out. she wasn't supposed to. >> mike: so read for us then the captions, we'll watch it on the screen. >> when max was two years old. a baby sitter named joanne came to play with max if mom had a meeting. one day joanne put max in her blue sports car with no seat belt. i started to draw the seat belt, he said no. joanne drove to her blue house in the town. and then joanne drove back to our house, then mom came home and joanne left to go back to her house, max was safe. >> mike: now, what's remarkable about this and you

talk about this in the book dancing with max. this was stunning, happened when he was two years aled. eight years later you draw the picture and go and find the house by a gps unit. >> max. >> mike: the human gps. >> the human gps. >> mike: tell the story because it's stunning to he zoo the intelligence in max. >> we so underestimate what these people understand. four years ago, max said he wanted to drive past joanne's house and i asked, do you know how to get there. yes, he did. so he told me, go left, go right. go down this street. and we came up to a blue house. now, i didn't doubt him. except that later on, about a month later. i was going through some papers, some old addresses, and there was joanne's address. and exactly as max had told it. >> i want to make sure i understand this. he had not been to that house since he was two years old. >> no, no. >> eight years later he does the story and four years after that. he comes along and is able to guide you right directly to her house, from yours.

>> yes. >> not having been there since he was two years old. >> no. >> and these people are unusually gifted, governor and they have a memory, they can't wipe anything off the memory, a curse and a blessing. but if you can help them get it out. if you can help them understand what's going on inside of them. then you're giving a voice to the voiceless and that's really what emily has done. >> chuck, it's obvious that the picture therapy has been revolutionary not just for max, but others that learn how to communicate. let me ask you a personal question. how has this changed chuck colson. >> oh, my. i'm the type a person out to rush and save the world and have been since i was a young man and max is the first person who's come along who stops me cold, he's not interested in my theological knowledge and what i spent time teaching. you've got to get down on the floor and on your knees to

understand max on his terms. my understanding of people who are hurting and in need and i have come to appreciate a totally different kind of love than i'm used to and max gives love unconditionally. you feel his love immediately and when you pay some attention to him. it's just a joy, but you have to stop and get out of your world and into his world. and that for me, has been a life changing lesson. he's humbled me a lot and it's been good for me, great for me and i'm so proud of course of what emily has done and max is being used by god. >> mike: it's a magnificent story and not a story to bring you down. it's a story to lift you up and also to tell you, that child who autistic is a remarkable child, a gift of god and filled with incredible abilities and knowledge and come out in very different ways and that's the story that i think is so powerful. you share it in such a magnificent way, and emily, thank you very much for being

here. >> thank you, governor. >> mike: and i'll always enjoy having you here, thank you very much. i know we've been preempted because of breaking news, you might remember the students from joplin missouri, whose homes were destroyed in the tornado there. that weekend we placed for auction on ebay, a fender stratcaster guitar signed by the ventures, and the money from the guitar and sales from the cd, went to joplin, over $12,000 was raised for joplin music students and we want to thank you for helping kids who want to play. and like the song said, don't know much about history. do you know that the children in america aren't getting the most important points in our country's history? when we come back, how your children can learn our

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huckabee. [applaus [applause]. >> a recent nationwide test, americans students are less proficient in history than any other subject in school. fourth graders didn't know why abraham lincoln was important in history. and 75% of high schoolers cannot name the first president of the united states. that's why i've been a part of a new project called learn our history and joining me is the company's co-founder and ceo brad saff. glad to have you here. >> governor, good to be here. >> mike: by full disclosure indicate i'm a part of this. a mutual friend introduced us. i was so taken by what you wanted to do. i got involved and never intended it to be controversial and it fascinates me. you were a successful business guy doing, you know, hedge fund stuff on wall street and

decided, i'm going to go do this thing with kids and history. why? what was the motivation? >> well, really, governor it started with my parents and how i was raised. and when i was very young, my family would go on long car rides together. and my brother and i would sit in the back seat and our mom and dad would regail us with all of these incredible stories about america's history. stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. george washington, abraham lincoln, the heroism of world war ii and i came to be a great patriot. over the past few years, it's started to bother me that that sense of patriotism doesn't exist for many of the young people right now. i wanted to create someone that would go i have everyone the chance to have that same experience like i did in the back of the car and i realized that for that to happen, it had to be fun. >> you cite all of those statistics that show that kids aren't learning history. >> yes, scary. >> because they're not engaged and why we created this animated series and got together with animated

historians and a series of group of kids who have a homemade time machine and go back in incredible times of our history and makes america a unique place. >> mike: we've got a clip of one from the world war ii video. a sample of what kids would be able to get and learn. >> and if not those british, why are we shaking hands with hitler, i thought hitler hated anybody who wasn't german. >> wilhelm do you know what deal he made. >> agreed to let hitler take the land from czechoslovakia and wouldn't expand further. >> chambers is going to let hitler take land that didn't belong to him. >> that's known as appeasement. giving a bully hoping he won't come back for more. >> not a very effective strategy. >> governor, i'm so glad you played that clip. it illustrates what we're trying to do in the video, help kids realize that history is relevant to the present. standing up to hitler is the

same ago standing up to terrorists and bullies and kids can make the parallel what happened in the past to what's going on in the world today to what's going on in their own lives. >> there was a lot of controversy the last couple of weeks and one of the videos, about 75 playing. one was on 9/11, how do you tell the american story without it. kids weren't around then. they don't have any personal recollection, but ended up controversial because some people said that you're trying to cash in, and make a profit off 9/11. were you surprised by that criticism that came? >> you know, i was surprised because, i mean, i don't think anyone asked michael moore that question when he made hundreds of millions on 9/11. the video was not controversial at all. the time travel and kids go back and see what happened on 9/11, but more video, answering why. why are we so attacked and why are we so hated and time travelers go back to afghanistan and meet with a young muslim girl who explains how terrible the taliban and al-qaeda are and give them women no rights, they can't go to school. there's no freedom for

religion or anything else, and no democracy. we compare that to what happened on 9/11 and the aftermath. >> one of the things i love about the series and the reason that i'm involved in it is because i think that kids need to know that america is a great place and need to know their history in a positive way and i really want to say thanks to brad and say thanks to his parent, instilling in him a love for america and america's great history. and go on history.com for information, learn our heron.com. [applause] an accident doesn't have to slow you down. with better car replacement ailable only with liberty mutual auto insurance, if your car's totaled, we give you the money for a car one model year newer. to learn more, visit us today. responsibility. what's your policy?

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(applaus (applause) >> well, she motivates people to lose weight and get healthy as the trainer in t v's biggest loser and losing it. written a brand new book how to build an exceptional life. please welcome, jillian michae michaels. [applause] >> oh, hello, good to see you. >> thanks for coming back. >> thank you for asking me back. >> mike: well, you just keep doing stuff. you know? every time i turn around you've got a new project, a new television show or something going on. how do you find the energy for it? >> wow, how do i find the energy, i feel like i should plug something here, i can't think of anything. you know, i think i'm just extremely passionate about what i do. i love what i do. and so, you know, when you find meaning in your work you

can't wait to do more of it. >> mike: you know, you are one of those people even though you're petite in size, people are scared to death of you. all of those folks on biggest loser, and you've got them on the ground grovelling. and afraid of you. >> a towering personality. i have a little napoleon syndrome. i'm 5 foot 2, i don't appreciate it at all. i have a bone to pick with god. so i carry a big stick because i'm this big. >> this new prom you have, the book is called unlimited and you're not just, you've done health books and all about fitness. this is bigger than that, it's about motivating life. >> yes. >> what do we need to know? tell me something i don't know about motivation, i ought to know and my audience ought to know? >> well, i break the book down into three sections and try to give you a key point on each part. the first is identifying your passion, if you don't know where you're going, how are you going to get there and so

many people will say to you, i don't know what it is that i want to do. i'm not sure what i love. so, one of the best things you can do to identify that is being extremely present and listening to your feelings and how you respond to something and let your emotions be your compassen and your guide. the second step learning how to cultivate the self-esteem and self-worth. if you don't believe you're going to achieve the goal. you're not going to. >> do you think we should give every kid a trophy. everybody's a winner and everybody's a trophy. i've got a problem, not everybody did that well. and i think that motivates us. seriously, if i make an a. >> and that's a diplomatic way of putting that. >> mike: if i make an a i feel good about it. if i get an f and they tell me i did just as good as someone who got an a, i won't get an a. >> and there are techniques in the book i call specific practice, what that means,

okay, listen, you go the a. -- you got a c. nothing wrong, how can we improve. you're positive and you don't reprimand and scold. things you can look for with specific targeted techniques. how can we approve that if we've gotten that better. let's work on that. you keep it positive your criticism. >> tell me about one person whose life you feel you really touched and it touched you. >> there was a contestant, there have been many contestants with all due respect, but there was one, named abby reichy, lost her entire family in a car accident. >> mike: oh. >> it's something we have our things weng we can't contend with, a ernl about nightmare of mine, and working with this contestant it help her bring meaning to this tragedy and transmute it into a depth and

empathy and wisdom she's utilize today touch literally millions of people through the biggest loser, was one of the relationships that i was most proud of and that moved me the most. >> mike: well, the book is called unlimited. it's a wonderful book. if you're feeling down on yourself. who better to yell at you than jillian, right. if she's not yelling at you, she's talking to you and i hope it's a joy to see jillian michaels here, great to have you back, thanks so much. stay with us, we'll be right back. us. we'll be right back. we'll be right back. [applause] [ artis brown ] america is facing some tough challenges right now. two of the most important are energy security and economic growth. north america actually has one of the largest oil reserves in the world. a large part of that is oil sands. this resource has the ability to create hundreds of thousands ojobs. at our kearl project in canada, we'll be able to produce these oil sands with the same emissions as many other oils

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(applause) >> well, his songs have been recorded by legend like elvis presley.

ray charles, even kermit the frog. ladies and gentlemen, welcome hall-of-famers, a song writer you know, paul williams. you are one of the most prolific song writers in american history and the body of your work extend such that we could never ever cover it all, but you're now doing something called ascap. >> i'm the honored, ascap, almost a hundred years of american songs. while we're talking some little lady is writing on a keyboard, probably electric keyboard with headsets and doesn't wake the baby in the next room. and deserves as the songs become hits, she deserves to make a viable living. to me three levels of payment. first level, when you learn about yourself. it's like therapy, you know? you play it for a young lady and she goes, oh, and you go wow. she likes me.

have i gone from weird to wonderful? what's going on here, you know? and the second level of payment is where you put food on the table for your kids and you buy gas and your kids to school and all what we're trying to make sure at ascap and people can go still make a living and american living is the greatest in the country and the third level of payment and one we talked about earlier, is, heart payment. that heart payment when somebody walks up to you and says something like, you know what? 37 years ago, i have played this song years at my wedding. can i do that? >> that's what i told paul, 37 years ago my wife and i got married and the song played at our wedding was this one, written by none other than paul williams and recorded by the carpenters and went something like this. >> i love it. it's damn near professional. i love it. ♪ we've only just begun to live ♪ ♪ white lace and promises

♪ a kiss for luck and we're on our way ♪ ♪ we've only just begun >> you know, it doesn't hurt to have your song sung by karen carpenter. >> mike: no, doesn't hurt. in 1974, a great song and still a great song in 2011 and people are still singing it at their weddings. [applause] >> roger nichols and i wrote the song. he wrote the music and lyrics. and had the beginnings of a bank commercial. that was originally a bank commercial, yeah, american ingenuity. >> mike: another one you did and recorded it, a big, big hit for a little band called three dog night. >> three dog night, remember this one. i wrote this song. you have to trust the lord. i wrote this song for the carpenters. they hated it.

they didn't listen to an all the way through. okay. my mama used to say the lord will slam one door and get you to open other. and carpenters, wish they'd done it, but-- ♪ just an old-fashioned love song playing on the radio ♪ >> three dog night ♪ and wrapped around the music is the sound of someone promising they'll never go ♪ ♪ i'll never go ♪ you've heard this before that slowly rambles on ♪ ♪ no need bringing them back they've never really gone ♪ ♪ just an old-fashioned... >> a wonderful song. we've got to do at least one more. i don't think we can close the segment talking to you, one recorded by many people, but the person for whom it really took off was not even a human. >> exactly. >> mike: and of course, i'm

talking about kermit the frog. >> oh, yeah. >> mike: whose big hit was a song of such hope, such optimism and in a world today when we see congress fighting and not able to agree what day it is, we could use a rainbow connection. >> you know, orrin hatch is one of my best friends and orrin hatch and i have written a couple of songs together and orrin talks about his great friendship with ted kennedy and sit in congress, or the senate and yell at each other, whatever and ted kennedy would go over to warren and say, how did i do? [laughter] >> and there is an essence of that, there is, you know, when you boil it all down. what our lives are about is about love and service i'm the luckiest man in the world, i'm a grateful man and i thank god every day, and 21 years sober, been a part of my life. >> mike: wonderful, congratulations. [applause] >> and i'm real open about that and all, but this is my favorite song and i wrote it with kenny asher, one of the

nicest guys in show business. and there's a line in it, that i think fits nicely on this show. ♪ why are there so many songs about rainbows ♪ ♪ and what's on the other side ♪ ♪ will rainbows are visions, but only illusions and rainbows have nothing to hide ♪ ♪ well, so we've been told and used to believe it ♪ ♪, but i know they're wrong, wait and see ♪ ♪ and some day we will find it, the rainbow connection ♪ ♪ the lover, the dreamers and

me ♪ ♪ well, who said that every wish would be heard and answered ♪ ♪ if wishes are morning stars ♪ >> my favorite line ♪ well, somebody thought of that, someone believed it ♪ ♪ look what it's done so far ♪ ♪ and what's so amazing, that keeps us star gazing ♪ ♪ and what do you think we might see ♪ ♪ got to keep looking ♪ some day we will find it, the rainbow connection ♪ ♪ the lover, the dream er, and

me ♪ >> on both sides of the ais aisle. >> mike: that's wonderful, paul. thank you. oh, what an honor to have you here. paul williams. >> thank you. [applause]. >> next week marks ten years since 9/11. and friday september 9th, century 10 a is holding a tribute concert for american heroes featuring carl skully. for information on the benefit concert, go to since you went away.org. hope you had a great labor day weekend. until we are back in new york. good night and god bless. you should know about pradaxa. an important study showed that pradaxa 150mg reduced stroke risk 35% more than warfarin. and with pradaxa, there's no need for those regular blood tests. pradaxa is progress. pradaxa can cause serious, sometimes fatal, bleeding.

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