i faced where i was against to i was and i opted for a smoother path appea. tavis: your father, it led to the decision of coming the martin sheen. you took your father's advice and stayed true to your roots. you come out the gate and you come out the box fast. you are a star, and just a kid, basically. how have you navigated past that kind of expectation? >> it is a very different world in terms of the media. i am not sure i would have survived the kind of scrutiny that actors are under now. frankly, i look to these kids that are coming up through the ranks and it is scary. you don't know what they will be able to handle the kind of pressure. i always had my family to be there and certainly, the many years he spent in the business, he was always a voice i could go back to and say, this is the film i have been offered, or this is the agent i am thinking about going with and i was able to bounce a lot of stuff off of him. it was a great advantage that a lot of my contemporaries did not have. tavis: what was the family business before you changed it? >> my fathe

whether or not we had a debt or did not have a debt, we should .e selling assets now appea when some people talk about revenue, double checked. >> is part of what the six are saying part of why you're sleeping well at night? are you hearing what you want to hear from them? >> we talk to everybody at the leadership. anything that comes out of the committee has to go before the entire republican house and the senate as well. there will not be a tax increase. part of the reason the democrats have decided they are going to blow the process up in order to blame republicans for nothing happening. that is the political decision. >> one final quick question for you -- a lot has been made of the supercommittee meeting behind closed doors, not having a lot of public hearings, not talking to reporters about what they are saying. yet, they're talking to you. is that appropriate? >> actually, i get half of my information from reporters they do talk to. but also speaking to republicans in the house and senate, and i have spoken to democrats on the committee as well. because people do understand th

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appeas a series conservatives must be taken seriously the first things they have to do is distance takn themselves from the likes offirh planin beck, rush limbaugh, gror norquist, and ann coulter. >> i don't know about the other. guestbut i would say not at all . small. i mean, this is like what i said about joe mccarthy. wor what's your point. like but you disagree with? i think that was not called me wha and nice. was this is hell of royals avoid talking about the issue. this iw this same slender. racist, sexist, ugly, mean. don't listen to this person. at don't be this person. danger. se danger. me. aell, our ideas.t re you do so, and if we were , despicable and smiling at don't think we would have some many fans. and a> you also wrote i about how ym cannot attack certain people such as casey pontians mother. >> guilty. guilty. >> is the liberal st. and how they -- it is sort of the reverse of what i just said. the technique so that the conservatives have their own median. talk radio. fox news where you can occasionally see a conservative. and so their approach, send out something in

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