but not larry. he issued -- he had been issued a warning -- never to cross paths with the kennedy administration again. he returned to the secretary's office bloody, but unbowed. unimpressed by all of the pomp and circumstance, unafraid to put forth an unpopular opinion if he was convinced he was right, and often, as with the bay of pigs and on many other occasions, he was right. listening to secretary eagleburger tell stories at the state department last month was not only a treat for the young foreign service officers, but for all the rest of us. it was thrilling to hear him and it meant so much to those young men and women and watching them hang on his every word was worth it to me. to them, larry was kind of a demigod, although i'm sure he would take issue with the prefix. [laughter] the only zerofso to -- the only fso to serve as secretary. it is a commitment not only by officers, but by their families. i am very grateful to larry's families for their support during his long service to our coun

larry was indispensable.s a friend, a designer and executor policies, and as our conscience. larry lifted our spirits, and noble their perspective, and helped a succession of administrations to fulfil the americas aspirations. the only foreign service officer ever to reach of the office of secretary of state, larry incarnated the values of continuity, wisdom, loyalty, and experience of one of our country's great institutions. at the same time, the foreign service cannot overcome its suspicion secretaries of state are in so need of instruction. [laughter] because they probably could not have passed the foreign service examination. [laughter] during the

larry, we all miss you on "larry king live."ould you mind -- could you take a couple calls? [ light laughter ] >> okay. you want to do, like -- my old show? >> jimmy: yeah. >> all right. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> oh, man. i'm going to cry, man. >> jimmy: don't cry. >> crying. >> jimmy: how is this -- 'cause you've seen this parody before, but -- >> no, not like this. >> jimmy: this is pretty good, right? >> this is pretty -- you got the whole set. you got this siding -- i didn't have audiences like this. >> jimmy: we do have a full audience. it's fun. by the way, the background -- that was -- was that always in color? >> yeah. no, it began it was black and white. then they colored it about three, four years after we started. >> jimmy: any reason for the color? >> they had color. [ laughter ] i guess, jimmy. >> jimmy: very good. is this cool -- welcome to "larry king live." larry's going to take some calls right now. let's take a call. tuscaloosa. what's your name and where you from? go ahead with your question, please. >> cal

my guest tonight, larry king. he is the long time host of "larry king, live!." [pronounced like jon is begging him to stay alive] sorry, that's "larry king live." i apologize. anyway, as -- no! oh, i forgot, last night on the show, i had an accident. if you were watching last night's show, in the midst of really just a passionate, clever bit, johnny [bleeped] had a little problem with the equipment. can we take a look at that real quick? [laughter] that's not good. [laughter] here's what happened. [cheers and applause] i'll show you what happened. so here's, here's what happened. [audience reacts] there you go. i want to thank my doctor over at mt. sinai for stitching me up, and i really want to thank the kid who was obviously waiting for facial reconstruction surgery, you know to, let me jump the line because obviously i had a reservation at nobu at 8:30. so it was the perfect comedy cut. it bled enough that it really, you could see it, but that i lost my arm. [laughter] so the best part about it is i got home and i was explaining to my son, who is six, going o

larry king without suspenders. how did this start, larry? >> my ex-wife, sharon, a lovely lady, i had just gotten heart surgery. we were going out to dinner. we were divorced but you're going out to dinner. she said, you look good. i used to wear have sweaters. have you ever tried braces? i had been on cnn for about two and a half years. i bought a pair and three or four people called in and said, you look good. that is all i had the year. tavis: because you were on cnn so long, most people don't recall you being on there without them. for a couple of years, you did not wear them. >> if you look at the first night with mario cuomo, june 1st, 1985, i am wearing a jacket. then i wore hats and sweaters. this was such an interesting look and then -- at your tie looks perfect. you made a perct not. i am amazed. i could never do that. how'd you do that? tavis: let me tell you a story. when i would sit in for you on cnn, i was honored to do that. i would go back in the back room to record at the opener. tonight, on larry king. i liked doing the ope

>> larry! >> larry wins! >> you won the bar for us! >> larry wins! >> all right, larry! >> i have a shattered kneecap. >> dee, we can start again, right? >> never talk to me again, you goddamned street rat! >> look on the bright side, deandra. at least you're not ranked last anymore. >> who's last now? >> charlie. >> that kid really needs to learn how to read.(" >> may 31, 2011, from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show" with jon stewart. ["daily show" theme song playing] [cheers and applause] captioning sponsored by comedy central >> jon: welcome to "the daily show". my name is skwraoufrplt we're back, baby! we've got a nice one tonight. jimmy fallon is going to be a guest on the program. i'm so excited. stephen colbert got his ice cream flavor. tonight with jim by we're going to -- with jimmy we're going town vail my new flavor. it's called awesome heath bar (bleep) all y'all dhip. yeah that's right. [laughter] i don't have ice cream. [laughter] we were off last week because we prefer not to work. [laughter] we decided to come b

invasion in 1989, larry eagleburger was the man. as brent mentioned, when we needed someone to persuade prime minister shamir not returned fire against iraq during desert storm, when saddam hussein was sending scuds into israel, eagleburger was the man. larry did it all with that rise sense of ironic humor that never waned. even during the most trying moments. when he was attempting to convince shamir not to retaliate against iraq, an action that could destroy their international coalition against saddam hussein, larry began to meet resistance. shamir was unhappy with what he perceived is the linkage between u.s. assistance and israeli promise not to fight back. as expected, larry came with a solution that unique by washington standards. he took a fall. he told shamir this was his idea. his cable to be said, if my solution does not meet with your approval, please wait until i get back. i need a plane to come back on. his approach worked. powder dry. her i was fortunate to have first right deputies at the white house and treasury or

kraimer and larry has created a romantic hero, a la larry, who is the romantic hero of his play.ne of the most extraordinary things about ned weeks being a stand in for larry is that you see both sides. larry so not romantic about himself. you see why, what he created, why he created it and how brilliantly he did and you also see why they got rid of him, why he was thrown out. and larry went frommhc, gay mens health crisis, and went to form act up, a more political based thing. and you see both sides. you see what there is to love about ned weeks you see what there is to not love. and that's what makes the play so psychologically interesting. >> he doesn't project himself at all. >> rose: and he is a great american character. he is a great amecan character. just in the sense that he goes, this is wrong and i'm not going to stop until somebody deals with it. >> i'm not going tobe embarrassed if you don't approve. >> exactly. it's ferocious and it's fearless and uncompromising and frequently people like that are not necessarily applauded but what they accomplish is astonishing. >>

will larry take charge? is he really a grown-up? can he move them through this period and compete with facebook? >> people talk about this as the votes of people in facebook art touchy feely people. there engineers too. >> i sort of -- [talking over each other] >> might be a generational thing. mark zuckerberg and the internet is a full generation younker than larry and sergei. there inger than larry and sergei. there in there yeadon 30s. they are ceo page. can they successfully integrate those products? now they understand how important it is -- in their previous efforts they didn't treat that with the same priorities as they are treating it now. you saw as facebook became more successful facebook is the giant. now google is the attention focused, very keenly on this area and google has assets to bring to bear. they know a lot about people who use it. they know a lot about their contacts. going to try to figure out when you search for something you will see one of the folks in your social circle likes the results that came up on yo

i'm going to brazil, moscow. >> larry king world traveler.ightly game? >> when there's a big story. when they kill osama bin laden, yes. i want to be in. when there's a royal marriage, i don't care if i miss that or not. it depends on -- i'm a professional. we had to do shows like that. i would go in and do them. you don't like everything. but once the light goes on, hey, you give it 100%. >> how is piers morgan doing in your time slot? you reported earlier he's not that dangerous. >> i went on and told him, when you promote something and say i'm dangerous, you better be dangerous. he's very good. i don't see dangerous. i told him, when you overpromote something, you can never live up to it. if i'm a special on alzheimer's, and i tell you this is the ultimate special on alzheimer's, the greatest special you've ever done. you can't equal that. >> you say bill o'reilly, sean hannity at fox don't have to be dangerous. >> well, their guests are props for their -- fox is a forum. it's a forum for the republican party. msnbc is a forum for the demo

we love larry king. in fact, we'll have larry king on "morning joe" tomorrow. he joined the roundtable discussion on "realtime with bill maher" on hbo friday night. they were talking about all kinds of things. larry's greatest concern was about the temperature in the study yes. . >> turning the tables on you, larry king. >> finally. >> tuscaloosa, your call. >> by the way, the air conditioning in here -- >> yeah. >> who planned this? >> why? are you cold? >> am i cold? >> throw a log on it. this is freezing, bill. >> get larry king a shawl. please. i want mr. king to be perfectly happy. >> it's cold. >> i don't mean to complain. >> time nor new rules. >> we're going to warm it up for larry we visits us on "morning joe." still ahead, while you're awake, your crackdown texts and morning joe is moments away. [ man ] i'm some guy you just met. you listed this midlife crisis on the internet. and three emails later, you trusted me with a test drive... [ chuckles ] how hard can this be? [ engine turns over ] and if you don't have the right motorcycle insurance, you co

tavis: i love larry king. you're the best. >> you're the best. tavis: the new book is called "truth be told." memorable moments, funniest jokes and a half century of asking great questions. larry, always an honor to have you on this program. >> thank you. he's leaving, folks. tavis: up next, a conversation with actress lucy punch and her role in the film "bad teacher". stay with us. lucy punch has established herself as a rising star in hollywood following her role opposite anthony hopkins in the woody allen film "you will meet a tall, dark stranger." she is now in "bad teacher" with cameron diaz. here now a scene from "bad teacher". >> here she is. elizabeth halsey. i am so excited we're going to be across the hall mates but i am so sad because your relationship ended. >> who are you again? >> amy squirrel. >> squirrel? yeah. you know. don't worry, you were kind of a lone wolf last year and so busy planning the wedding. >> i found him in bed with somebody else. >> oh, my gosh! >> it was another man. >> shut the front door! tavis: lucy, nice to h

larry -- "larry crowne." >> my name is miss tainot, t-a-i-n-o-t, not tie-not. each of you will address the class for the first time and tell us something that you already know how to do. >> ms. tie-not? tay-not? taebo? >> really? >> jon: please welcome back to the program tom hanks. [cheering and applause] thank you, buddy. how you doing? >> thank you. >> soak it in. soak it in. >> thank you very much. thank you. >> jon: nice to see you. >> thank you very much. thank you very much. >> jon: you look very sharp, very dapper. >> thank you, thank you. jon jon this movie, this movie, tell me about... you look very good. >> are you ever cutting to camera three? if you're not, [bleeped] the tie. i don't care. >> jon: give him three, chuck. look, look, look. oh, no, that's not working. can i tell you something, though? i like it, though. it has a certain... there's a debonair quality to it. you don't look disheveled. no matter what i do, i look disheveled. you look very sharp. >> tommy cleans up good. >> jon: tommy does clean up good. tell me about this "larry crowne."

the oil family. >> i want a divorce. >> two decades later, larry hagman and his television wife made a dramatic comeback in beverly hills. there were on their way to an auction house where larry hagman's personal memorability was up for sale. his cowboy hat and cowboy boots and a saddle. some of this worth a half million dollars. >>> larry hagman, linda gray, and patrick duffy are part of a new cast that is a pilot to revive the series. it was ordered by tnt and there will make a decision this summer. the cast may have a second opportunity. >> i used to be the big fan of i dream of jeannie. >>> 66 degrees outside. >> morehead in the next hour or. coming up, a final farewell from the front lines. >>> coming up, the district in scandal. the man at the center of a hiring program the mayor's office is ready to testify. the connection between the two. >> another republican gets ready to join the crowded field of white house hopefuls. >> and two new drugs that could provide new hope to cancer patients. "good morning washington at 5:00 a.m." starts now. >> live and in hd, this is "good morn

larry pratt thank you so much for joining us tonight. if you will you think that was larry pratt founder executive director of gun owners of america and when we come back we have this one time it will have an eleven year old girl who would make a better commander in chief than obama and share of richard back on the supremacy of the county sheriff states and you're watching out of versus the man. so. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right. i think. well. whenever the government says they're going to be safe get ready because of their freedoms. welcome back to adam vs the man are you concerned that our commander in chief has never fired a gun well don't worry because this one time at boot camp. then why did you go on my blog go. tell your account. now that i think you are right i was. like i think you're right you are right. you know jeremy work on. adam seriously dude the same perhaps as yesterday i just i was have to do too much for your i'm such a dork. i know it's a it's a mold it's not real of and for some let's drop i

i was serving my customer here, larry, and this customer comes in my store and he goes he needs to buyco along with a lottery ticket and rolling papers. i say, yes, no problem. >> but cindy and larry notice the man is acting a little strange. >> you could tell this customer you have to watch him like a hawk and make sure everything is okay. >> he seemed on edge and maybe under the influence of alcohol or drugs. skutish. skittish. i just got these bad vibes. i was thinking he was going to grab some merchandise and run so i kind of was keeping an eye on him. >> when larry turns his attention back to the computer, cindy heads to the counter to wait on the man. >> i told him we only take cash. he said, yeah. i got cash. he goes i got only american. i said yeah. no problem. we love american money. while i was ringing in the items he handed over $50 fake to me. as soon as he put it in my hand i notice it's fake and i said it's fake money. >> when cindy refuses to take his money the man becomes irate. >> he started using filthy language. i said i'm going to call the police. he said give my mo

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. >> larry beil is next with sports. warriors introduce the new head coach. >> tiger woods >> larry beil here with warriors news. >> explain the choices. >> they are a tough crowd and grillling me in the break. the warriors are moving quickly to build a coaching staff and they had mike malone as assistant coach . he spent the last season on the bench in new orleans. jackson spent a few minutes talking about the new job with the warriors and had a long listt of reasons why golden state was a great fit for him. >> great ownership and inspired and intent and enthused and best in basketball . talking about the commitment and great highs. outstanding jobb it is a jobb that is awfully attractive and we'll be attractive to the free agents . we will win. >> espn.comand philadelphia enquirers reported that there is a elis dollar trade. no deal is close. mark jackson said he's looking forward to coaching monte. it could turn out being nothing. tip off is half an hour. tune in to after the game. care - car lin maybe you would like

please welcome back to the show, larry the cable guy!-- >> git 'er done! >> git 'er done. i'll see you at the house. [ laughter ] let me just say, sheepdog looked like right out of 1971. they were awesome. >> jimmy: they were great, right. >> i love them. i thought they were -- i looked up and i'm like good night, it's matthew, mark, luke and john. [ laughter ] look at them right there. >> jimmy: that's their names. >> they were singing. four people came to the lord backstage when they was singing. [ laughter ] it was unbelievable. >> jimmy: it was pretty good. also, it was sponsored by shampoo, so i thought hey, those guys can do crazy shampoo ads. [ laughter and applause ] >> i know! it was unbelievable. >> jimmy: man, i haven't seen you in a while. everything going good with you? >> man, let me tell you something. it's good to be here. i almost didn't make it this evening. we had a tragedy at the house. my grandma farted and caught her snuggie on fire. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: oh my goodness. that's just awful. >> it was really bad. but

larry crowne gave up on being cool. along to be cool, like larry crowne, all the smart guys amongst your nonunion crew. they wait for a woman to come along and say, i like you. you're cooler than you think are you. you're going to get a haircut and stop tucking in shirts like that and wear different pants and put on these boots, they'll alter the way you stand. >> who dressed you today? >> who dressed me? i believe i'm married to the taste maker rita wilson. >> not bad. >> she approves. she approves all of my celebrity meal train regard robe. >> you look fant. >> thank you very much. >> that's for rita. talia is this character and she takes you, the geek larry crowne, and hips you up. >> this is what happens when you open yourself up to the environment like a community college is that you will park next to somebody who will change your life somehow. she's just aa nice girl. i'm riding a schoooter. she says, you want to join my gang? next thing, i got places to go, people to hang out with a much better wardrobe. >> it's

a talent for the instrument led larry here, to julliard.t's one of the top schools in the world for the performing arts. >> when i got to julliard, i found the people that really embraced and loved chamber music. and we would hang out friday, saturday nights, and we would play string quartets and all kinds of chamber music all through the night. we'd order pizza at about 1:00 in the morning, and then we'd keep playing until, you know, 6, 7:00 in the morning, and then go out and have breakfast. >> reporter: clearly, this was years before playstation. the emerson quartet was formed out of those relationships. its members have now been playing together for more than 30 years. >> i think somehow, what we communicate to the audiences have been interesting to them, that they've wanted to see us perform. >> reporter: they certainly do. the emerson quartet travels the world, playing sold-out performances. in addition, they've been honored with an incredible eight grammys. eat your hea timberlake. >> if people want to really have a great experience

>> here comes larry bird. >> reporter: and a man with opinions on everything from larry bird's divinitye basketball jesus. his autobiography drive, we refer to the bible in my house. >> reporter: you don't think that's at all -- to call larry bir the basketball jesus? >> no. >> reporter: he calls lae prone james' former facial hair -- >> the beard is awful. >> reporter: to the coaching ability of gene hackman in "hoosiers." >> -- decide to use him as a decoy, like, what coach would do that? >> reporter: simmons has been writing his sports guy column for espn.com. before that, he wrote it in boston. he was a pioneer on the web. one of the first web-only columnists. did you invent the internet? >> please al gore did. i was one of the first people who kind of realized hey, this is different than newspapers. how do i use this to my advantage? i had to figure out a way to write that column in a way that i could pull readers to where i was despite the fact i wasn't going in locker rooms. i started writing about all the stuff me and my friends were talking about. arguing about sports movies. t

thank you, larry.d of the nation's education system is asking congress to make changes to the no child left behind law before the next school year or he will do it himself. secretary arne duncan is prom e promising promis promising to waive parts of the law for states to push measures i wants. including student achievement, explaining charter schools and overhauling lowest performing schools. it was passed in 2001 and requires states to test students in math and reading and punishes schools which follow short of the objectives set forward by the states. the law labels too many schools as failures but narrows curriculum and waters down standardized testings. we will have to watch and see what happens there. >>> still ahead on today in the bay, nick o'kelly is here with a look at the forecast that is warming up into your workweek. >>> good morning to you, take a live look, a little bit of a gray start too this morning, but a warmup in the distance. by thursday, might need a short-sleeve shirt. >>> this m

we are going to the set of "larry crowne." >> i think you're always nervous if you kiss julia roberts. >> that's really hard in order to keep from laughing. >> cut. >> shooting the kissing scenes were the hardest part for tom and julia. the two have been good friends for over a decade. >> as professionals do, we brushed our teeth. we had poor taste. but solid imagination. >> what's wrong? >> tom, who both coroast and directed larry crowne had julia in mind from the start for the role of speech teacher mercedes, but getting her to sign on took a little convincing. >> we've become friends over the years. he said listen, i'm asking you to look at the script. see if you want to do it. my feelings won't get hurt if you don't want to do it. really tell me honestly what you think. >> behind the scenes of the film out july 1st there was a lot of dancing by tom and laughing by julia and the rest of the cast, including cedrick, the entertainer, and seen tom's wife, rita wilson, a blond. >> tom is determined that i will leave this protection and measure all protections hence force on this one. i

we'll remember the days of larry, curly and mo. and more.st the headlines for this sunday morning the 19th of june, 2011. the white house will neither confirm nor deny a statement by afghanistan's president karzai that the united states has begun peace talks with the taliban. but rebel assaults continue. yesterday men wearing camouflage fatigues stormed a police station near the presidential palace killing nine people. the syrian government has launched a wide-scale crackdown against dissidents in towns along the turkish border. tanks and buses full of soldiers have been seen streaming into the area. dozens of people have been detained. some say the soldiers have been burning homes and businesses. a five-hour computer outage on friday night and early yesterday forced united airlines to cancel dozens of its flights this weekend. the carrier says things are slowly getting back to normal, whatever that is these days. congresswoman gabrielle giffords is spending the father's day weekend at home in tucson, the first time she's been back in tucson

there is one exception to that rule, and that would be larry bair. i hear that your ringtone is "we are the champions," and that one is ok with me. speaking of larry, the giants were pleased to share with us the world series trophy. [applause] the giants have brought so much to this city, sharing with us this incredible trophy. it is just outstanding. it will be at the giants' boost today when we have a break -- booth today when we have a break. you can take a few photos. but do not take it home with you. you'll be hearing from me from time to time today, so i will keep this short. to kick off our events and provide welcoming remarks, allow me to introduce our newest rock star -- mayor ed lee. has shown that he is a natural for the job. i have been closed to him for decades. he is the head of the human- rights commission. he went on to become the city purchaser. mayer brown appointed him to be the director of public works, and he spent several years as city administrator. i never would have thought that ed lee would be mayor of san francisco. because

i am asking the board to support the efforts that larry bradshaw mentioned to you. i hope that the board of supervisors would encourage them to sit down with you and work it out. i was from the housing clinic. i was a community organizer. i walked the streets and i know what these nonprofits do. i know that their work is hazardous. it is unbelievable what they provide to the city in terms of value. maybe it is time to look at the very rich in this city. they make it so that tourism and commerce can happen. they allow you to extend invitations. it is some of the work of these community groups and the public services of the public employees. it is time that the wealthy take a look at this. everybody is giving to preserve

i know larry bird must be dying looking at all these white guys get all marked up like this. wow.ext! jimmy kimmel. now that's a tattoo. that's a manly tattoo. that's classy. i love you. oopsy, that's all the time we i'm iron mike tyson with "tattoos with tyson." ♪ >> jimmy: when i was a young boy, i always dreamed that one day mike tyson was kiss me on the back, and now it's finally happened. hey, we have a fun show for you tonight. later on members of the portland trailblazers and philadelphia 76ers go head to head to head to head in a tournament of friendship that we call the teammating game. and when we come back, i'll it is down with kids to talk basketball. so stick around. blueshirt: hey america, it's summer. and just because you're on the go, doesn't mean you can't stay connected. whatever you're thinking of doing this year... ... we'll help you find the perfect device to make it better. we'll set it up, get you streaming and even show you how to use it. which means you'll spend less time fiddling with it... ... and more time using it. vo: make summer better with great pri

thank you, larry. >>> we have an all new "meet the press" coming up at 9:00. here's scott mcgrew with what's in store. >> reporter: coming up on "press here" in just a bit we are going to talk with the go pro founder. he made a tiny video camera that can capture just about anything and we're going to talk about gasoline with the western states petroleum association. all kinds of stuff you probably didn't know about oil and oil prices coming up on "press here" in just a bit. >>> also this morning the alameda county fair is up and running, rides, games food and it's historic as well. tommy is joining us about a unique attraction at the fair. good morning to you. we're talking mutton busting, right? what is mutton busting? >> mutton busting is where you take children 6 and under and under 60 pounds and put them on the back of a sheep and we let them ride for six seconds or try to ride for six seconds. >> so a teeny tiny version of the rodeo? >> yeah, bull riding, yeah. pretty close to bull riding for children that are 6 and under and under 60 pounds. >> and who a

starting july 1st, you can see opposite tom hanks and julia roberts in the movie "larry crown," cedric the entertainer is here. and then, this guy is fascinating, he's a scientist, an inventor, and an author who will enlighten and, probably frighten us with his theory about computers and humans becoming one. he believes it will happen soon. it's the subject of this documentary "transcendent man," ray kurzweil is with us. one of the things that ray says is that, not too long now we'll be able to create anything we want, any object using inexpensive terribles. so, if you want a plane, you can program that into a machine and have a plane. that sounds dangerous, doesn't it? you can even possibly have your own oprah. i don't know. we'll find out. and finally the latest band identified by our friends as the most buzzed about online. this is their new album, "hell is what you make it." breathe carolina from the bud

i am larry king. it is part two of my conversation with tavis smiley. in a few weeks, he is out with a new book about mistakes he has made along the way and how those mistakes have impacted his life. the forthcoming book is called "fail up." we are glad you have joined us. my conversation with tavis, coming up right now. >> all i know is his name is james, and he needs extra help with his reading. >> i am james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference -- >> thank you. >> you help us all live better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment, one conversation at a time. >> nationwide is on your side >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> back now with part two of my conversation with tavis, celebrating 20 years in broadcast

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we still have larry king with us. >> larry's sticking around for a couple minutes, because we're talkingt is the single most important issue facing america today, and we've got some of your responses. >> that's right. @topcleric says, "bad money management by uncle sam." >> "get off the deficit stuff, it's a red herring, we need infusion." >> and one from twitter, "the biggest thing is jobs for people who want work but can't get it. it's depressing." larry king, you've talked about all these issues. >> kids who misplace your clicker. >> speaking from the dad of an 11 and 12-year-old, right? >> you know why? the problem with the deficit is, it don't call you. the ci