it's not even a hulk hogan situation that got hacked. it's been on the internet. donald trump himself seemed very proufd it. he has a beautiful wife and she has a right to pose wherever she wants. you have donald trump, instead of coming o out and saying, listen, i'm proud of my wife. this is what she did in her career. i'm proud she made the cover of gq and goes to attack heidi cruz reminds me of when osama bin laden and 9/11. one had nothing to do with the other. poor heidi cruz ends up a victim in all of this. and the media has been covering it as a tit for tat and donald trump was clearly in the wrong and ted cruz had nothing to do with this. >> cruz has seized on this. >> and he should. of course he should. >> ad as well he should. >> megyn kelly tweeted, seriously? donald trump has taken plenty of shots at her. but the reporter story now, there is one in your paper, democratic strategy is to portray trump as an unabbased sexist. trump's critics see the latest a ain a troubling pattern. and then trump in his twitter response said the press is going out of its

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get him, hulk! come oulk! here comes the hulk! oh! hulk's the man. [deandra] i have a question, though. what's going on with hulk hogan's hair? it's blond and yet it's silken like that of a chinese man. ah, yes. that is hulk hogan's signature look-- blond chinese hair and the skin of a hot dog. it's awesome. the whole thing's fake, but it's really awesome. fake? what the hell are you talking about fake? it's not fake. those guys got bashed and bloodied. i've seen guys get pounded in the ring. it's still fake, though, dude. charlie, charlie, i was there once. i saw a guy pick up a trash can,

that verdict in the hulk hogan case, that was almost a year ago. gawker, indeed, as designed, went bankrupt, disappeared off the face of the earth last year. in the meantime, last year, peter thiel took on a prominent role in the donald trump presidential campaign, including speaking at the republican national convention, while gawker was in the midst of firing all of its staff and its founder was filing for personal bankruptcy. after trump won the election, peter thiel reportedly got to work helping to staff up the new administration and helping organize meetings for the new president and the tech community, his old allies in silicon valley. at one point, peter thiel potentially floated himself as a potential supreme court nominee. oh, really, that wasark day. even tugh he hn't taken on a formal job title in the new administration, he did give the new president one very granular, very specific, very human gift. he gave him his lawyer. he gave the president that lawyer who he used to disappear gawker, the one he used to invent this novel aggressive

here comes the hulk! oh! hulk's the man. [deandra] i have a question, though.t's going on with hulk hogan's hair? it's blond and yet it's silken like that of a chinese man. ah, yes. that is hulk hogan's signature look-- blond chinese hair and the skin of a hot dog. it's awesome. the whole thing's fake, but it's really awesome. fake? what the hell are you talking about fake? it's not fake. those guys got bashed and bloodied. i've seen guys get pounded in the ring. it's still fake, though, dude. charlie, charlie, i was there once. i saw a guy pick up a trash can, smash it into a guy's head. blood went everywhere. okay, what is going on here? oh. right here he's going into a state of hulkamania. okay, now when he's like this, nothing can hurt him, okay? it's like a seizure of strength. yeah, yeah. what have we got here? "hey, sexy, i can't get you out of my mind." who's that addressed to? who's "soldier of fortune"? he's just this guy i've been chatting online with. whatever. so that would make you "desert rose"? yes, it would. wow. what a couple of losers. oh, oh

hulk smash, sorry. hulk-- hulk blank, hulk sorry.ut all right, so anyway, that's the wrong way to govern. was's the right way as republicans would like to govern? >> some republicans have suggested they may block spending pro posals in protest sparking fears of yet another government shutdown. >> impeachment would be a consideration. >> jon: see, you done govern through executive order. you govern through shutdown and impeachment. but riddle me this, batman, how do you impeachment hearing when you've shut down the government. ha, ha, ha. newspaper spin, newspaper spin. don't-- let me explain something. but of course saying would you shut down the government in protest didn't mean you would be the one shutting down the government. whether does bobby jindal governor of louisiana make weird magic. >> i done think the government should shut down the government. >> jon: the. >> the president would be shutting down the government. >> absolutely. >> you do want republicans to fit him to the point that it could shut done the government. >> i

. >>> plus the incredible hulk. what made him switch from obama to romney and what happened when he found out about that let's just call it a very personal home video, shall we? hulk hogan live. >> hogan! hogan! hogan! >> this is "piers morgan tonight." >>> good evening. our big story tonight, 28 days to go until the election. mitt romney's on the move. in the newest cnn poll conducted after last week's debate, the president's lead in the all important battleground state of ohio has narrowed to just four points. that's within the poll's margin of error. so neck and neck. no surprise therefore that both candidates are in ohio tonight. the challenger taking aim at the president just a few minutes ago.

why is this truth about hulk hogan, a b or c or d level?ed an image on talk radio, you know, through his wrestling and a celebrity's ability to control that message. if you're a free journalist you don't necessarily always want to go along with a celebrity publicity. >> whether you believe this or not and you and i have discussed this, i've had my issues with gawker, right? and i know you personally. i like you. i don't necessarily agree with everything that gawker does. but where does the right to privacy end and the first amendment that you -- what they are doing in this trial is weighing the first amendment, the freedom of speech, against the right of privacy. and one would think that most people in this country would go into a closed door in an intimate moment and have an expectation of privacy. what's not to be understood about that? >> well, first of all, let's just remember that this case has actually come to the courts before. a federal judge and the appeals court itself have both found that this story was newsworthy, that was justi

hulk hogan in the 1980s and 1990s was well known as a wrestler. he was probably the highest-profile star they had. i don't know how you quantify that. but that's how it seemed to me as a skid. but a wrestling career can't last forever and even though he was a huge deal in the '80s and '90s, maybe even a little further than that, he had faded from the spotlight for a while when in 2012 he briefly became famous again for not wrestling but, forgive me, for a sex tape. the web site gawker, which was proudly pro fine, they did a lot of celebrity coverage and good serious journalism but gawker in 2012 desided to publish snippets of a tapenhich hulk hogan could be seen having sex with someone who was not his wife who was, in fact, somebody else's wife and no, i'm not going to show you images from the tape, you can use your imagination or not, i don't know if you've eaten. it existed. hulk hogan had his personal lawyer threaten gawker and tell them they needed to take that tape down but gawker didn't take it down. but then lucky for hulk hogan it turned o

she was married for 24 years to hulk hogan. she tells the story of that marriage in a new book called "wrestling the hulk." linda joins me now. it's a fascinating book. he's a fascinating character. you know, i mean, my knowledge of the hulk is even in britain this guy was huge, physically, on television, as a box office star. how would you sum up marriage to the hulk? >> well, we were married for 24 years. and you know, it was great. i mean, honestly, i never dreamed that we would end up having the lifestyle that we did. when i met him, he was in the "rocky 3" movie, and i thought that he was an actor playing a wrestler because in california back then wrestling wasn't even on tv, and i didn't know what it was. i was like, you wrestle? like what is that? so -- but you know, soon after we started going out. we got married, and i went on the road with him, and i learned. i realized what all was involved. and it's quite a job. i mean, especially working with the wwf. that was a huge empire that, you know, became even bigger. rock

have. >> pelley: pro wreck her hulk hogan -- wrestler hung uh hulk hogan. 48 hours correspondent erin moriarty has the story. >> reporter: the $25 million in punitive damages are on top of the $115 million awarded on friday. >> it's turned my world upside down. >> reporter: terry bollea, better known as hulk hogan, accused gawker of violating his privacy four years ago when it posted a portion of a sex tape. >> given the key evidence... >> reporter: nick denton, who also testified at trial, is the british-born, oxford-educated founder of gawker media, a company valued around $83 million. in the days before the trial, he defended the hulk hogan story as newsworthy. >> gossip is the version of news that the authorities or the celebrities or the officials don't want people to know. it's the unauthorized version. i think people have a right to know the unauthorized version as well as the authorized version of this. >> reporter: nick denton has vowed to appeal both the verdict and the damages, which if upheld, could put him out of business. >> pelley: erin moriarty, thank you, erin. and we

hulk hogan joins me now.fore we get into politics and life in the universe, a certain story has bubbled up, involving a certain videotape. >> yes, sir. >> how are you handling it? >> well, the big white elephant in the room we can't avoid. you take a deep breath. you have to make sure you're honest. you address it, and at the end of the day, pray to god that the people close to you like your friends and sometimes you don't even know if they are your friends, your children and your wife know who you are, and you get on situations like your show and when asked, you know, at the end of the day, you know you realize it was a horrible choice. i am accountable and any excuse i make, whether it was a rough time in my life, the people there were my friends and they made me -- none of that matters. >> have you ever been in anything quite like this. you having sex on a video that people are watching. >> never. i've been through a lot of stuff with the federal government, the '80s, the steroid controversy. the divorce,

this for instance was the hulk hogan theme song. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> hulk hogan was an all amere karngs can, heommercials to eat right and take their vitamins. he was a good guy. if you are going to have good guys, you need to have bad guys. on the way other end of the spectrum from hulk hogan, among the greatest villains, the million dollar man, he was supposed to be hated by wrestling fans, hulk hogan's theme song about being an honorable american. this was the million dollar man's theme song. ♪ ♪ everybody's got price everybody's gonna pay because the million dollar man always gets his way ♪ >>> ted d icibiase would stick $100 bill in his mouth after beating him in the ring. >> you are a pretty young boy to bounce a basketball $10015 times in a row to kick the ball away after the 14th bounce. and by not paying off, ted di a dibiase you broke his heart. >> as heroic as hulk hogan was, that is how villainous the million dollar man. today is his 58th birthday, happy birthday, mr. million. that troublesome rich guy leg g leg a see. >> i like being able to fire people that provide services to me.

now, hulk has filed a huge lawsuit, naming him and the wife.e more tapes. >> well, you could only hope they're sequels, when you see the sex tape, it makes you appreciate kim kardashian's sex tape that much more. i hope it is like a time life thing, every month we'll get a new one, have a few months to try it out, see if we like it. what is the world coming to? he had sex with his best friend's wife, and agreed to it. now the tapes are leaking. what is happening? >> and here is the weird thing, i can understand it is upsetting, to be involved in litigation for that much money, the tape is already out there. shouldn't you go, you know what, it is out there, and let howard mediate it? >> let's escalate -- it should be bubba the love sponge, hulk hogan, altogether, it is must-see tv, compelling. >> speaking of must-see tv, people are talking about brad pitt's intense new ad for chanel perfume, here it is. >> wherever i go, there you are, my luck, my fate, my fortune. chanel number 5, inevitable. >> i really like bad pitt, but is that a bit creepy?

in fact i gather as one of the opinions it said hulk hogan said himself, yes, i banged bubba's wife, which is referring to clem. he put this in -- himself in the news arena, and thus it is a subject -- >> he put the tape -- >> not the tape, the subject. >> is that not the question though? if somebody tapes something without your knowledge -- in some states you have to have two-party consent to even record a telephone conversation. >> that's correct. >> but why can he be videotaped having sex, and they are waving the first amendment flag? >> well, the issue is did the gawker obtain the film legitly? and they did. there's no question about that. >> somebody else did? >> maybe. i mean -- >> you don't know. >> we don't know the background, and in fact, it has been fairly quiet, i gather, so that indicates there may be more to the background story than we know. but the issue is what is the control of the press? and the fact is that the press has a right we want them to publish -- >> unless it's malicious or wrong. >> well, wrong or illegal, and here you have an issue that is not illegal.

how would you cup up marriage to the hulk? >> well, we were married for 24 years, and, you know, it was great. honestly, i never dreamed that we would end up having the lifestyle that we did. when i met him, he was in the rocky 3 movie and i thought he was an actor playing a wrestler because in california back then wrestling wasn't even on tv, and i didn't know what it was. i was like you wrestle? like what is that? but, you know, soon after we started going out. we got married and i went on the road with him, and i learned. i realized what all was involved, and it was -- it's quite a job. i mean, especially working with the wwf. that was a huge empire that, you know, became even bigger, and it was rock and roll. it was like being married to a rock star. >> and, of course, as the book details, his behavior became pretty similar to that of most rock stars. i mean, let's be brutally frank. you had to go through the infidelity, the lying, control issues an all the rest of it. very similar to the kind of stuff you read about the a

that's how big the man was. >> hulk hogan? >> very large.erful man. >> you're a big guy. >> yeah, i'm above average. >> 6'4", armed, a trained police officer, inside a police car. the 18-year-old, he says, he struggled with is also 6'4", but to the officer, he seemed like hulk hogan and the officer comparatively was a child. to the officer, that young man seemed like a demon. he told the grand jury after he started shooting brown, the officer said he kept shooting shots at him because of the way michael brown looked to him after he started shooting him. he said the teenager, after he was shot, looked like he, quote, he was almost bulking up to run through the shots. like it was making him mad that i'm shooting at him. bulking up to run through the shots. officer darren wilson was afraid for his life, he says. he says that was his defense. he thought he met hulk hogan a larger than life threat he could stop only by shooting, and even then this demon he saw would keep going through the shots by somehow bulking himself up to make himself immune

hulk hogan joins me now.re we get into politics and life in the universe, a certain story has bubbled up this week about you involving a certain videotape. >> yes, sir. >> how are you handling it? >> well, it's the big white elephant in the room we can't avoid. you take a deep breath, you have to make sure that you're honest, because you have to be accountable, and you know, you address it and at the end of the day, you know, pray to god that those that love you and the people close to you like your friends and sometimes you don't even know if they're your friends, but your children and your wife knows who you are, and you get on situations like your show and when asked, you know, at the end of the day, you know, you realize it was a horrible choice. i am accountable and any excuse i make, whether it was a rough time in my life or the people that were there were my friends and they kind of made me -- none of that matters. it's just that you're accountable and be honest. >> it must be very humiliating. have yo

everyone knows him as the hulk.the result of being such a public person, gawker i think is correct in saying this is newsworthy. people want to know about this. people want to know about this guy, good guy, bad guy, claims to be all america apple pie. is he a bad guy? whatever he is, we're not doing this to hurt him, we're doing this because the public wants to know. >> it's harm versus newsworthiness, that's the crux of it. >> for me, it is trying to pound a square peg into a round hole. the bottom line is what godly reason would the gawker have to hurt hulk hogan? it's not like hulk hogan excellent with the publisher's wife. so i don't see that malice that intent to do harm. it was news worthy. they ran it. it turned out to be very newsworthy. millions of people watched it. >> among the evidence hulk hogan's attorney showed site traffic to your point. gawker's internal chats at the time in which staffers mocked him. >> they did that not just for giggles, they did that for a legal reason. because in order to remove

now hulk has filed a $100 million lawsuit.ed bubba the love sponge in the lawsuit and bubba's ex-wife. howard wants to bring them on to try to mediate the thing. this is crazy. and there may be more tapes. >> you can only hope they're sequels. when you the sex tape, it makes you appreciate kim kardashian's sex tape a whole lot more. what's this world coming to? he had sex with his best friend's wife and he agreed to it. now the tapes are leaking. what's happening here? >> and here's the weird thing. i can understand it's upsetting. to be involved in litigation, for that much money, the tape's already out there. shouldn't you just go, you know what, it's out there, i'm just going to deal with it and let howard mediate it, i think? >> let's escalate. it's must-see tv. it's compelling. people will watch it and listen to it. >> speaking of which, people are talking about brad pitt's intense new ad for chanel perfume. >> wherever i go, there you are. my luck, my fate, my fortune, chanel no. 5, inevitable. >> i really like brad pitt

call liberty mutual insurance. >>> this man was like hulk hogan. >> hulk hogan?yes. >> you are a big man. >> i'm about 210, 215, but from what i have heard he is around 290. >> and we know he said that in the grand jury testimony, but now he says this across from the interview on abc with george stephanopoulos, and now, you joey, you say to paint that picture of hulk hogan compared to a 5-year-old, and brilliant for the grand jurors? >> yes, it is brilliant for the defense, because when people need an image in their minds of a situation in the car out there in ferguson, they have painted a situation of this is hulk hogan and a lot of the people on the grand jury grew up with this huge wrestler up in the ring man handling these people throwing people out of the rings, and he is up against hulk hogan, he had to shoot him, and that is the image he wanted to leave with the jurors, grand jury jurors. >> yes, and that is why i wanted to agree with eric guster, that you want to paint the picture, a you say, imminent threat, and reasonable behavior, and the threat, and t

the hulk. >> he is green. solutions project, which is, you know, accelerating the change to take the united states and the world to 100% renewable energy. >> jon: that's what it is, 100% renewable energy. that's your passion. ( cheers and applause ) a lot of guys won't-- see a lot of people are-- are afraid of what that might do to their image their career. i admire the fact that guat it not to be trite, 100%. >> thank you. >> jon: it's impress and i have you do great work and you've actually seen results. >> yeah. it started basically out of the fight against frac here in new york state, which we won. ( cheers and applause ) and-- people never win. we never win you know, but we won. we had rumsfeld running things instead so we won. out of that came an idea okay so if we don't use hydrofracking what do we do? and that brought me to stanford where i met professor jacobson and i said i saw you did a paper about hypothetically taking the united states to 100% reniewblg energy. could you do that for new york state

aspercreme. >>> hulk hogan's latest release is a sex tape. he didn't even know about it and didn't leak the tape. hogan says the woman was the wife of his best friend t time, and he was cool with it. earlier, i asked comedian dean obadal if he thought it was a stunt. first, here's how hulk hogan described the mess to howard stern. >> this is the worst thing that's ever happened to me. it's really turned my world upside down. >> well, i don't think it's a stunt. i think he had sex with that woman. what's this country coming to when an ex-professional wrestler can't have sex with his best friend's ex-wife and have it videotaped and not be on the internet? what kind of country are we getting to where you can't do this? the most bizarre thing to me honestly isn't the tape, it's the fact how it became to the public. his best friend's ex-employee was angry and uploaded it. >> i heard him saying, he was contrite like, you know, this is the worst thing to happen to me. and he's saying he doesn't actually know, he doesn't know who's behind the tape. a