of robert mueller. fast forward to today. special council. that's our broadcast for tonight. thank you so much for being here as we come to a close for this week. good night from nbc headquarters here in new york. i'm craig melvin. george clooney is the first and only person to be nominated in six different oscar categories. and he's co founded a billion dollar business. his true passion may be his work as a global humanitarian. headlines takes a look at the hollywood star and human rights activist. twice named the sexiest man alive. >> when george enters a room, you know it. everybody turns, the room lights up. >> one of the country's most outspoken stars.

>> i mean, we have a demagogue in the white house. >> he'll put himself in the line of fire, because he believes strongly. and he shows up in a big way. >> if we do nothing, there's a chance that hundreds of thousands of people could die. >> some say he should just stick to acting. >> let me tell you something about george clooney, okay? he's stunningly uninformed. >> if people come out and say, that's a bunch of liberal bologna, i'll have to take those hits. >> he wants to make a movie no one wants to make, he says, i'll star in it for free. >> what impact will he have on an increasingly partisan nation. >> the world's policy on sudan is failing. >> he'll be more motivated than ever before. >> are we really going to be scared of the very things that have made our country great?

♪ george clooney is an oscar winning hollywood superstar of more than two decades. >> hollywood is a town that runs on power. and right now clooney is at the pinnacle of his power. >> celebrities have long lent their starpower to political and social causes. clooney, has worked to prevengt again side for more than a decade, today finds himself at odds with president trump's nationalist agenda. >> from this day forward, it's going to be only america first. >> in an era when hollywood is often vilified by washington, could clooney's influence there be threatened?

>> under president obama he could go to the white house. now, that's lost. i don't know whether it's permanently lost. >> most people don't think of george clooney as a patriot. he's a big believer in what it means to be an engaged citizen. >> do you work for fox? >> no, i don't. >> his wife amal clooney is an oxford educated international attorney who has addressed the united nations. and she works alongside her husband to solve human rights issues around the world, including in refugee camps. >> we're thrilled to be here, we believe in the private psh public partnership to address the refugee crisis. >> i'm not sure there's a more powerful couple that could make a difference. >> together they are more than a hollywood couple, they are an

international global force. at odds with trump's america first initiative. >> he's been an outspoken candidate of trump since the beginning of his candidacy. you. >> minced no words about your feelings about president trump. >> trump and cruz are making this a campaign of fear, we have to be afraid of everything, we have to be afraid of refugees, muslims, we have to be afraid of minorities. >> in the leadup to the election, clooney helped raise $15 million for hillary clinton, which the trump campaign used to cast the democrats as the party of hollywood elites. >> the only people enthusiastic about her campaign are hollywood celebrities, in many cases, celebrities that aren't very hot any more. >> trump rallying voters against

celeb relateties who turn to politics getting involved in activism is too rich with irony to even comprehend. >> we proudly welcome to the hollywood walk of fame, donald trump. >> the election of the former reality show host, raises the nikely hood that clooney's work on humanitarian issues may fall on deaf ears inside the white house. >> i don't know whether donald trump could find sudan on a map. i don't even know if he knows what's happening in places like darfur. >> i think what george clooney is saying, hang on, there's all sorts of things that may be wrong with america, but if we want the benefits of globalization, you have to be willing to bear the burdens. >> george clooney understands that that engagement with the world is critical to our security, and we make a

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heartland, kentucky. >> born in lexington kentucky in 1961, clooney is the second child of nick and nina, a local news anchor and a stay at home mom. >> thank you very much for that live report. we apologize for that technical problems. >> i had a cart they would put up that said we are having audio difficulties. once in his life, 2 years old, he ran down the steps and said, ma mama, i'm having audio difficulties. >> his dad was one of the most famous men in kentucky in the southeast, he was the nephew of an extremely well known singer, rosemary clooney, and his uncle jose ferrare. he was exposed to people who had

a measure of fame. >> george clooney is the product of his parents. his father nick clooney who was a journalist, was hugely influential in the way he saw the world. >> you have to look out for people who can't look out for themselves. that's your job. >> we are here on earth, to help those who have less power than we. and to challenge those who have more. both of those are important things to do for a citizen. >> a star outfielder in high school. clooney unsuccessfully tries out for the cincinnati reds. then completes nearly two years of college but drops out in 1981. that's when he makes a pivotal move to los angeles, in pursuit of an acting career. even with his hollywood connections, clooney starts at the bottom, and success alludes him for years. >> here's a guy from kentucky sleeping on a friend's couch, trying to work his way through

hollywood, but he's always kept that small town -- he's a small town guy. he had been in a bunch of pilots, all of which had failed. people talk about that as if that means clooney wasn't that good. if you keep getting pilot deals at a network, it means they know you're a celebrity, and they're just waiting to find the right thing for you. >> a decade after he moves there, the city erupts in violence. >> i got my friends, i said, let's buy some brooms and buckets and let's go down and help put out some fires. i think that was the first real sense of, where you could rally some troops together and get a lot of people and they'll show up, that was important. >> after the riots subside, clooney shoots the pilot for a new medical drama called "er".

>> i credit a lot of the shows early success to a speech that george made in his trailer. he said i'm the veteran of 22 failed pilots, i know exactly what makes a show not work. i don't know what makes one work, but i have a theory. we're all going to be nice to each other. they're not going to be any division between foreground, background, cast and crew. we're going to do work that we can all be proud of. we were all young enough and naive enough to go, okay, george. whatever you say. >> at its peak, more than 35 million people watched "er" each week. and george clooney is its stand out star. >> in year two, i drew the lucky star to write the special episode for george clooney. and so i thought, i'll put him in a tuxedo and have him save the kid. >> my brother got trapped. >> come on. >> make him an action hero. he takes his tuxedo coat off,

he's climbing fences. he has the suspenders, he's in the water, and he was kind of like a -- almost like a james bond type hero, but with a kid, saving that kid's life, it just really sparked people's imagination about the range and the talent of george. >> but as clooney's success expands to include movies, his personal life becomes tabloid fodder. after the 1997 car crash that kills diana, princess of wales, clooney calls a press conference and lashes out at the editor of the national enquirer. >> you bought and paid for one of the greatest news stories of the year, and for your success you should be held accountable. the princess of wales is dead, and you have gone on television and washed your hands and placed blame and you have deflected responsibility. you should be ashamed. thank you.

>> this is about a period of time where we've lost somebody who i really liked and really admired, but i look at the situation and i think, if i don't say it now, and if i don't try to encapsulate what we're doing or where we are right now, then i'm maybe not doing the right thing. my father thinks i should do it, my father called me up and said, don't come back and look me in the eye if you don't. >> in response, paparazzi refused to take his photo at the premiere of his film "the peacemaker." >> they boycotted me, that's fine, i'm a big kid, i can take that. >> clooney soon finds himself on the defensive. >> i got famous from doing a television show, not from being photographed by self-employed photographers, by people who take pictures and sell them. you show up at a premiere, i'm doing my job. people have to be responsible for what they say and do, that's what i was doing when i was talking at the press conference. defended the paparazzi as hard

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have you seen any previews of batman? >> no, i haven't seen anything. >> people magazine's sexiest man alive in 1997. the film batman and robin is a bomb. >> this is demonstrated again with batman and robin. here's a guy best known for his

good looks and they put him in a mask. >> i think he learned more from the failure of batman and robin than any actor and a failed movie could learn. >> it was the hardest thing to say, there are things about this that are fascinating. >> famous for his practical jokes on the set of er, he cements his reputation, as one of hollywood's most prolific prankst pranksters. >> he told the story of having a bunch of stationary made up with brad pitt's name on it. he found this book that was called like acting in foreign languages, and he bought the book. has the brad pitt stationery, writes a note, dear merrill, i found this book to be very helpful in my work on troy. i hope it can help you too. love brad pitt. sends it off to meryl streep.

it's a great joke. >> what was it like working for mark walberg? >> i don't care for him. >> he leaves er in 1999 and devotes himself full time to his film career. with a renewed sense of purpose paving the way for a string of clooney classics. >> i'm an artist. >> seriously. >> you might as well do it under your own terms, micked films you want to do. there's a limited time you get to do this anyway. when i come out and talk about them, i don't have to be embarrassed. >> clooney is a bona fide movie star by the summer of 2001. awaiting the release of "ocean's 11." then the nation is devastated by the september 11th terrorist attacks. within a week, clooney organizes a star studded telethon that raises $150 million for the united way. >> as far as the entertainment

industry, we're all still american citizens, first and foremost. everybody wants to contribute, everybody wants to be a part of it. >> it sparks a well publicized feud with bill o'reilly who accuses the united way and by extension clooney of improperly distributing the funds? >> i'm not saying anybody's stealing it, i'm saying it's in the bank getting interest while most of the families don't know what's going on. you know how these celebrities are and their publicists, you say one crossword about them and you're on a list. let me tell you something about george clooney, he's stunningly uninformed. >> did he say i was stunning? >> no. you know, i was mad at him. but i'm taking it back. >> clooney responds to o'reilly in a letter. calling his accusations nothing

but a lie. >> he started to use facts about the fund and calling it a fraud. >> the two spar again when clooney organizes another telethon to benefit the victims of the 2004 tsunami. >> it has also rekindled a battle between two of america's best known personalities. one that has been simmering since a 2001 telethon for the victims of 9/11. >> the actor invites o'reilly to participate in the telethon. the effort raises $18 million. later that year, clooney tries to clarify the impact of o'reilly's previous attacks. >> he drives you nuts, doesn't he? >> he drives me nuts because it's irresponsible. and it hurt us, because people cancelled their checks during the telethon, it makes a difference and it hurt us.

and it hurt the credibility of the united way. >> clooney later organizes another telethon for the people of haiti. ending his feud with bill o'reilly. a few years earlier, when he speaks out about the 2003 iraq war, he faces an on slaught of accusations. >> i was put on the cover of a magazine and being called a traitor for saying, maybe we should ask some questions before we go to war. if i'm going to demand the right for freedom of speech, i can't say, don't say bad things about me, take your hits, i'm a grown-up. if people want to say, hey, that's just a bunch of liberal bologna that's thrown in there, i'll have to take those hits, i disagree, because i feel like, all i'm saying is, let's have those questions asked. >> the personal attacks hitter

closer to home in 2004, that's when his father runs for congress in kentucky and is faulted for his son's political views. >> this had is bible belt kentucky, the town where i saw nick clooney do a rally, you have people, they have not just a cross on the lawn, they may have a fiberglass ten commandments sculpture on the lawn. you couldn't find people to say a bad word about him. on paper he looked like the kind of democrat who could just pull off a win in that southern district. but he had this dark family secret, which was that his son was george clooney. >> i remember nick clooney saying he was painted as a celebrity, as an almost hollywood type coming to kentucky, that really bothered him. >> it must be tough watching your own father being hammered for being your father. >> you couldn't campaign for your own father. >> right. >> in kentucky. >> because you thought you would hurt his cause?

>> i would have. it didn't help, he lost anyway. i would have, it was at the time hollywood versus the heartland. >> there is no conservative or liberal point of view. there is only right or wrong. it is the first again side of the 21st century. to 8 inches... ...don't know if you can hear me, but [monica] what's he doing? [lance] can we get a shot of this cold front, right here. winter has arrived. whooo! hahaha [vo] progress is an unstoppable force. brace yourself for the season of audi sales event. audi will cover your first month's lease payment on select models during the season of audi sales event. my doctor recommended i switch to miralax.on, stimulant laxatives make your body go by forcefully stimulating the nerves in your colon. miralax is different. it works with the water in your body to hydrate and soften. unblocking your system naturally. miralax.

good evening, here are the hour's top stories. another congressman stepped down in the wake of sexual harassment allegations. first term democrat denies the allegations. anita hill is heading a commission to investigate sexual misconduct in hollywood. hill accused clarence thomas of sexual harassment during his confirmation hearings in 1991. now, back to headliners, george clooney.

american troops are fighting on two fronts in 2004, as president bush wins a second term, george clooney faces continued attacks from conservatives for speaking out against the war in a rack and challenging journalists to speak truth to power. >> they have every right to do so, what we seem to be hearing from them is a lot of whining, complaining and griping. they want to get in the kitchen but they can't stand the heat. >> clooney's response is the film "good night and good luck." he writes, directs and stars. >> my father's an anchorman, i grew up with the idea of how great the force of state is. >> he felt the political correctness had reached a crescendo and that journalists were not as aggressive as they should be, in covering the administration. >> we do this, you knee, every

30 or 40 years, we get a little scared, a little beat up by somebody or something and we start to worry if it's unpatriotic to ask tough questions. >> it is his most critically acclaimed film, nominated in 2006 for best director, best picture and best screenplay at the oscars. but clooney wins that year in another category. best supporting actor for "syriana." >> it was a tough look at geo political issues. what he said to me was, he made this film because he wanted to shine a lot on what he saw as the untold story to open people's eyes to what was going on in much of the world. >> what's been going on in western sudan is again side. >> thousands have died, many more are starving, they're fleeing a campaign of ethnic cleansing, and despite recent publicity, very little is being done to stop it. >> again side has been committed

in darfur, and the government of sudan bear responsibility. >> i had just returned from darfur, and shortly thereafter, i got invited to have dinner with george clooney who, you know, i mean, i'm a human rights lawyer, i don't even think i saw many of george's movies. >> i was late to the game, and i thought, my dad's a reporter, i called him up, i said, you know, maybe we ought to get over there and see what's going on and take some cameras. >> clooney chronicles his efforts in a documentary, a journey to darfur. >> we started in south sudan. it took two days to get to the border of darfur. >> i didn't want to bring any security or any entourage. and george was completely comfortable with that. >> on the border of darfur is a refugee camp, 29,000 survivors of the massacre in sudan. >> the problem with the

government wants to kill everybody, just sudan to become arab country. >> it is the first of seven trips clooney will make to the region. >> there's no town, no business, no town. so now what you need is some plastic and some water. >> at this moment, at this exact moment, the government of sudan is systematically trying to get rid of a race of people. >> have many of them come back since then? or have they stayed away? >> no one comes back -- >> he'll sit down with folks and relate to them one on one as human beings. this is not something that most people can do. he's going to a culture completely foreign to your own, with extreme danger and just treats someone equally one on one, sao that they feel heard. >> this little tiny waif of a

girl, little elf of a young woman came over and said to me, when will you come back? and when will you stop this? and i told the translator to tell her soon. we'll be there soon. and then she sort of laughed. she was holding on to my finger, she said, that's what you always say. she wasn't even sad, it's just, it was life for her. it's not a political issue. there's no right or left, no conservative or liberal point of view, there is only right or wrong. it is the first again side of the 21st century. >> the more pain i think that he witnessed and internalized was just more energizing for him and for us. >> to go out and try to raise hell. >> there is hope. there is you. all of you here.

all of you. church groups, students, all of you speaking with one voice. every one of you. >> he created an organization called not on our watch, he has dug in to deep important social issues and put his life on the line to do it. >> this was america and america's moral responsibility in the world. >> clooney, and holocaust survivor ali vezel bring the plight of sudan to the u.n. security council in 2006. in a bipartisan gesture, they are invited by george w. bush's u.s. ambassador to the united nations and clooney's political opposite. >> i want to thank professor vezel and mr. george clooney for their participation in our security council meeting today on the situation in darfur. i think they both made very powerful and important statements. >> i appreciate that ambassador bolton was willing to do this,

because it never really happened before. >> mr. clooney, can you tell us? how can a hollywood star make a difference on the world stage? >> i don't know. hollywood has always been involved in some ways in bringing attention to a lot of issues. we used to sell war bonds, we've been doing a long time. we're fairly good at getting cameras to show up, you try to be informed on some of the issues you take on. >> whatever heat john bolton may have taken for bringing an actor to the security council, if i think through meetings of the united nations security council that have been carried live in their entirety. i can think of a couple examples in the 70 year history of the security council, one of which was when george clooney went to the security council to talk about sudan. >> it can't be, why should americans care. why do human beings care, that's what we are initially. we have to look at absolute cruelty and say that if there's something we can do about it, we have to stop it.

are we going to stand back in ten years and try to convince ourselves that we didn't know? we do. >> clooney is named a united nations messenger of peace in 2008. and the next year, he brings his campaign to end the again side in sudan to the obama white house. >> i just met with the president and the vice president. and i urged him to make the tragedy in darfur one of their top priorities in foreign policy. >> the whole world knows that the government of sue damage is a murderous barbaric government. they know that because george clooney won't let anyone forget. >> it's worth the criminal record. >> when people ask, where were you? i want to say i was standing on the right side of history. hey julie, i know today's critical, but i really need...

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clooney's five-year campaign to end again side in sudan, shows progress by 2011. the referendum for which he lobbied is hell. in south sudan votes overwhelmingly for its independence. >> people had never believed they would get the opportunity to vote on whether or not they would become a nation. there was just this palpable excitement in the air, you could just feel the birth of a nation. the will for it. >> people were dancing in the streets for weeks in south sudan, because they had their own country. but history doesn't end, unfortunately. >> despite the successful referendum, violence continues. the volatile border region between sudan and south sudan,

draws clooney back for another visit in 2012. >> it gets to you, it gets in your soul, you get to know those people, if you're lucky enough to have been born in the place and the family in the world i've been born, in you want to share whatever luck you can with those people. >> this trip brings clooney closer to the active war than ever before. >> we showed up in one village and there was 150 people had come out, and then all of a sudden everyone started running. >> okay, we're moving, we're going. that one's a rocket, it just sailed over there. >> it was close enough to feel it. it was close enough to make you -- to wake you up. >> in an attempt to rally congress, senator john kerry, then chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, calls on clooney in 2012 to testify about sudan. >> these people every single day

of their lives have to deal with fear. not just of the future in terms of starving to death, but actually, actively being killed. >> we wanted him to bring the focus on the issue. unfortunately, there are hearings of consequence that take place every day in the halls of congress, and nobody knows it, it's like a tree falling in the forest. so george guaranteed that the tree, if it fell was going to be heard. and it was. >> still, violence in sudan continues. clooney and human rights activists john prison der gast, decide to use the power of his celebrity to focus the media's attention on the issue. >> i remember getting a call from john prendergast saying, i just talked to george clooney. he's willing to get arrested. we'll do it. >> clooney, his father and a group of congressmen and activists all blocked the doors of the sudanese embassy and invite the press. >> we are here to ask a very

simple thing. for the government to stop ran donlly killing its own innocent men women and children, stop raping them and stop starving them, that's all we ask. >> blocking the entrance to the sudanese embassy gets clooney arrested with news cameras rolling. >> that one moment in time when people ask you, where were you, and where did you stand? i want to say i was standing on the right side of history. >> our hands are bounding together behind our backs. and he hops into the wagon, we're all crowded. and he looks at all of us and says, evening boys. back in kentucky we call this friday night. i said, i know, i leave you alone for a few hours and look what happens. >> clooney pays a $100 fine and a misdemeanor charge for crossing a police line is disposed. >> two years later, the same south sudan, the newest country in the world, divisions within

the leadership, all because of corruption were too much to bear and they went to war with each other. >> after the collapse of the south sudanese government, clooney and prindergast shift gears. forming a new organization, called the sentry. >> let's create a nonprofit entity that digs in to the finances of these war criminals, that chases the money, chases the assets, wherever they hide it, we're going to find it. it's the old al capone idea. >> i don't think it's melodramatic to say george clooney has helped saved lives. he's drawn attention, money and influence. there are people alive today who have george clooney to thank for it. coming up. >> no question, george clooney was a catch. no question, amal was a catch as well. i gotta get up

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despite his humanitarian work over seas. in hollywood, george clooney is still a bona fide movie star. his films are not always box office bonanzas, but he occupies a rarefied status. between 2007 and 2011, he receives oscar nominations for his roles in michael clayton, up in the air and the decendents, as well as his adapted screenplay for the ides of march. captures an oscar record. >> clooney is the only person who's been nominated in six different categories. he's been nominated for supporting actor, actor, adapted screenplay, original screenplay, screenplay and director and producer. that's a feat that not even orson welles or warren beatty

managed. >> with a collection of holmes around the world, clooney and long time friend rande gerber build side by side in mexico. they create their own blend of tequila. tequila. >> as you do when you spend a lot of time in mexico, you drink a lot of tequila. we met with disuntilerries, told them what we wanted. it took about two years to perfect. i think it was 700 bottles later, they sent us one, we tried it, it was absolutely perfect. >> they name their brand, casamigos. it becomes the fastest growing tequila company in the world. >> if you like casamigos, it has been sold to diagio for upwards

of $1 billion. >> in a statement sent to cnbc, we're not going anywhere, we'll still be very much a part of casamigos. >> his financial life secure. there's a significant romantic shift in 2013 for the 52-year-old george clooney. >> all of a sudden, he was just head over heels and smitten. >> it was really kind of cute to see george as a giddy teenager. >> no question, george clooney was a question. no question, amal was a catch as well. >> oxford educated, attorney, practiced 15 years at the highest level. this is a first rate legal mind. >> i believe in international justice. i believe it's important that you don't just turn the page without people being held to account. >> the partnership between amal and george is extraordinary

because they reinforce each other. amal asks really penetrating interesting questions that make george and i think about the work we're doing. >> in venice, italy tonight, the wedding that some thought would never happen. george clooney tieing the knot with amal. >> it was close family and friends, it was really special. it was absolutely beautiful. >> clooney for so long one of the biggest pranksters in hollywood, suddenly finds himself the butt of trophy husband jokes. at the 2015 golden globe awards. >> amal is a human rights lawyer who was an adviser to kofi annan, and part of a three person investigation in the gaza strip. tonight her husband is getting a lifetime achievement award. >> i just wanted to know, what

did you think of tina and amy's jokes about all the achievements your wife has achieved. >> i didn't even think that was a joke. >> two years after their wedding, the 2016 presidential campaign grows increasingly contentious, especially over issues of immigration. >> donald trump called for a total ban on muslims entering the united states. >> in berlin, the clooneys meet with angela merkel to discuss the refugee crisis. >> mrs. merkel has been leading the global response to the refugee crisis. it's important to give recognition and support for what she's done, it's also important to take a message back to the u.s. which she wanted to do during the election year. >> they also sit down with a group of syrian refugees. >> my own family is from leba n lebanon, they also ran away from a war. i hope that as you say, you will be able to go back to a safe and free syria. >> the clooneys later announce a

partnership to open public schools for 3,000 syrian refugee children. >> refugees are people who have fled war. and i think that one of the things that george and amalclooney are committed to doing is helping share those stories, so that people understand the stakes. >> clooney was vocally opposed to candidate donald trump and doesn't hold back his opinions about the president since the 2016 election. >> we have a demagogue in the white house. the one thing you look at as americans and it is sort of one thing that i'm always very proud of, we tend to do a lot of dumb things over periods of time. we're also pretty good at fixing them. now we have donald trump, which is hard to imagine. it's -- it sort of catches in your throat, we'll fix it, we have to. >> clooney has good reason to be concerned about the future.

>> finally tonight, the world's most anticipated newborns have arrived. george and amal clooney have welcomed quinns, a daughter named ella and a son named alexander born this morning. the couple joked in a statement announcing the birth, george is sedated and should recover in a few days. >> now a father, clooney again takes a hardline against the paparaz paparazzi. >> george clooney going after photographers who clooney says snapped unauthorized pictures of his newborn twins. the photos printed in the french magazine apparently taken at his home in italy. >> clooney and his wife furious, saying the paparazzi scaled our fence, climbed our tree and illegally took pictures of our infants inside our home. >> in october 2017, dozens of women accuse movie executive harvey weinstein of sexual misconduct, ranging from

harassment to rape. weinstein denies any nonconsensual conduct. clooney's relationship with weinstein dates back to 1996, when the producer gave him his first starring film role, several years later, his first directorial effort was a weinstein film. as a result, the star comes in for his share of criticism for his relationship with the producer. but clooney doesn't hold back his own condemnation of weinstein. >> i want to know what kind of ad dollars were spent from the weinstein company and miramax, because we should have flown this. this is violating women, this is assau assault. this is silencing women. >> are you angry then? >> i'm furious. yeah, he's mean to work with, i knew that for a fact. but the idea that he's, you know, committed these kinds of

atrocities, i want to know who knew? >> advocate, actor, husband, father and friend. clooney continues to put his money where his heart is. in addition to providing public schooling for 3,000 syrian refugee children, in 2017, clooney and his wife donate $1 million to the southern poverty law center through the clooney foundation for justice. and to those who know him personally, george clooney has never forgotten where he came from, and who helped him along the way. >> you know, i have a story that has never been told before. and it pretty much sums up who george is. there's a group of guys that we call the boys. george had called me and the boys and said, hey, mark september 27th, 2013 on your

calendar. everyone's going to come to my house for dinner, everyone has a seat. sitting in front of each of us on the table is a black bag, you know, luggage. george begins to say, listen, i want you guys to know how much you've meant to me and how much you mean to me in my life. i came to l.a., i slept on your couch. i'm so fortunate in my life to have all of you. i couldn't be where i am today without all of you. so it was really important to me that while we're still all here together, that i give back. so i want you all to open your suitcases. we open it up and it's a million dollars in $20 bills. every one of us got a million dollars. every single one of us. we're in shock.

what is this? he goes, i know we've all been through some hard times, some of you are still going through it, you don't have to worry about your kids, you don't have to worry about school, you don't have to worry about paying your mortgage. one's working at a bar in texas, at the airport. you know, trying to just support his family, rides a bicycle to work every day. these are guys that took care of george. and now he's giving it all back. and george said not only that, i've paid everyone's taxes, so this million is yours. i don't need a million dollars, i pulled him aside, i said, i'm absolutely not taking this million dollars. i'm just going to make one announcement. if randy doesn't take the million dollars, nobody gets it. okay, i'm taking the million dollars. and donate it. this is who george is. that was september 27th, 2013.

now, cement 27th, 2014 he marries amal. that's good karma right there. >> we're all in this, all of us together. we're only as good as -- we're only successful as a human race by how we look out for the people who can't look out for themselves. ♪ erin was like my heart. all these years i was searching for her. all of a sudden, i realized, what's going on? why are they late? something definitely was wrong. he said, your family was in an accident. and my whole world just dropped out from underneath me. >> the scene told the story. >> what did you find? >> something i don't want to see again. >> a deadly crash on a dark