i would emerge a few hours later and say, this is what i have got. a cathartic experience for me. over the years, i have become a little more analytical. today, my approach is a balance, and intuitive process where you allow yourself to empty your mind a little bit and let stuff come in so that you can experience what is going on around you in a way and translate that into musical experience. >> it is interesting you talk about emptying your mind. there was a brain imaging study published where my colleague, charles lim, a narrow scientist, put some composers in an mri machine. if any of you have had an mri to see if there was a broken bone or cancer detection, we have a special version called functional mri, wary can track the flow of blood in your brain. we put people in the scanner and we had people mentally practice their tennis serve, catch a late meth problems, or think or listen about music. you can see which regions of the brain are active by following the blood. what charles found is by people improvising or composing, you would expect for s

i do not see the relation there. you have a choice whether or not you want to watch me based on your own preferences. if i am too big, literally, physically, for you, then you have the option to tune out. to view my weight as the overriding factor for my form of entertainment is, i think, and unfair prison with which to judge me. tavis: why did you stop reading critics? >> there was a time that i started to read the reviews because i am an executive producer, and i wanted to see what people are enjoying an not enjoying as a means to an end. there is an overriding meredith there, and i can help guide the series in a certain way, but when it comes down to me and people personally judging me, there is just no need for me to read it. i do not really care what a guy getting paid to judge me thinks. i care if people who are watching, all of the tweaks, what the masses think. tavis: everyday people. >> yes. but i think a lot of critics and a lot of people in that field have an ax to grind. and there is nothing helsing about engaging o

i appreciate it. it has been ag road, and i am still doing it, and it is great to be working with a guy like ben. we just resonate, not only musically but personally. it is great to be on the word -- on the road with a guy like ben. i do not feel old. i feel better now than i felt 30 years ago. tavis: and you do not sound old. that helps. why, to your point, charlie, why are you still doing this? you make your mark. why go to these hotels and be on the buses and at the airports? why still do it? >> if i won the lottery, i would not back out of my driveway again. i mean, i love the music. being on the road is not a piece of cake, but it is real rewarding. all of the people cannot come to my house, so i have to go out on the road and play for them. smiling faces, seeing people that come up after the show and say, "me and my wife met way back." and they have grandkids, exposing them to the music. it is great to see it being handed down. it is about the music for me. i am just glad i in the game. tavis: ben, is there s

i had a kennedy book to finish. i have a career as a writer to continue. i have other things i want to do with my life. i want to do some public service. i expected to be in and out of there in three years. i promised that i would move the materials. i promised that i would hire the staff. i promised that i would have the first legitimate academic conference there. it took five years to do it when i finish what was on my list, i left. i think that my job was to be a catalyst. i believe, from this experience that, if you want to change things in government, you have to be prepared to stay for short periods. you cannot stay for long because then you begin to compromise. but if you want to be a catalyst, go win, do the job and leave. i looked at with james polk did. he decided one term would do what he wanted to do. i am not saying i and james polk, but i had this mindset and i did what i needed to do and i would leave. that give me a lot of support. i knew in my soul i was not staying long. i just felt i had an obligation to finish what i started. the oral hi

i picked a fight with him. once he stood up, i put him in a dual choke hold. he was already passed out. i put the garrote around his neck and killed him. i put my foot on the back of his head and put the string over his head and just started sawing away. wasn't doing it as quick as i wanted to, and so i just quit. and then i just picked him up, and put him on his bunk and left him there. next morning, i went out to chow, ate, came back to my cell and waited. i feel a lot of anger towards cdc for celling me up with this inmate. i had a release date of 2019, i was going home. but also, i do take responsibility for my actions. i could have very well just beat the guy up and forced him that way to move that way. i chose to kill him. i enjoy hurting people. >> robert's violent choices sealed his fate in prison. but for other inmates inside corcoran, eve an life sentence isn't reason to give up. back on the sny yard, bryan attends a program for inmates serving life sentences called "dare to hope." >> i would like to bring on randy. >> originally a lot of us went out

i have a few comments. i work at the needle exchange at glide and i see the folks lining up outside to sleep in the cold for the following day's beds and it's highly discriminatory with people with any mobility issues, for women, for just anyone who might feel their safety is compromised by laying on the street. it's disturbing, and i would really like to see some efforts go into examining that system and seeing what we can do about that. yeah, yeah. i have personal experience being homeless, and this was before cell phones and one could spend an entire day trying to get one phone call through to somebody finding the change, finding a phone that worked, finding time, and finally getting through to the person that you need to speak to, so cell phones, yes. it's great to get these tools into people's hands for so many reasons, not just housing, for other forms of support and other things that are human rights. and then finally i wanted just -- i didn't get this impression from you but there seems to be an impr

they are a big boy. i would argue it has reached a point where because of the asymmetric information i told you about not everybody is on an even playing field. i think more needs to be done to prevent that kind of behavior. the second example i would give you is a very powerful one. for helping me make my decision. the european sovereign crisis, which is still boiling but we may remember last summer or the summer of 2011 when it looks like portugal, spain, italy were teetering on bankruptcy. i would go to trading meetings every morning and our traders would have a very negative view on the european banks, yet we were being asked to go to some of the biggest investors in the world and try to convince them why the european banks were such an attractive investment, purely because we did not like the investment and wanted to sell the banks but we knew somebody else -- needed somebody else on the side of the trade to buy the banks. if we were just talking about some arcane investment that did not affect anyone

i went to a factory, and then later i learned how to be an electrician. manual work. tavis: so when you are a 10, to your point, you are working in the factory, but as i read in your book, that is a lot better for you. the experience of doing that is better for you because at least you are doing something for the benefit of somebody else. tell us how you process of being in that factory as a nine-year- old, 10-year-old, working on radios, etc.. >> being told i was nobody, and then going to the factory. the workers were quite kind to me, and radio was something that we all had at home. they were broadcasting their messages. so being able to turn on the first radio that we build and to know that i actually made that, and that is the one being used by everybody, i felt a sense of accomplishment. tavis: at such a young age, who was nurturing you? i in trying to imagine 8, 9, 10, and you are building radios, and you were taking care of your little sister. both sets of your parents are gone. eight-year-old, nine-year-old, you are still a baby. who is doing that for you durin

>> eric: i do have a smoking hot wife. leave it there. see you tomorrow. peace out. ♪ ♪ >>> welcome to "red eye." i'm greg gutfeld or as i am known in kenya, president obama. let's go to tv's andy looy vee for a pre game report. what's coming up on tonight satisfies show? >> seth macfarlane makes it through the show while avoiding any controversy. just kidding he is being called racist, anti-sametic and sexist and homophobic. and want to add in a bottle of soda when you on ready a pizza? if you live in new york city you will thought be able to. if you don't live in new york city, i commend on you your choice. and meatballs made of horse meat? some say yes and others say nay. greg? >> hour hay -- or hay as a sidedish? >> i will be here all week. >> i am not sure about that. >> we'll see jie. go away. >>> let's welcome our guest. if thoughtful commentary were a cruiseship many couples would spend their honeymoon on her. recent.com contributor, great place, and he is so smart that mnsa takes tests to enter him, jaime weinstein. he is one of the authors of the

thing i can do is throw a quick 41 on the place because we can -- because i cannot find a 47 or 848 to do it. i would like you -- or a 48 to do it. i would like to think about some injured county transfers. -- enter-county transfers. there are a lot of restaurants that have a million dollar construction costs and cannot find a license and are freaking out. licensing has gone to about 128,000 this month. we assume they will surely go to 150,000 and probably more. we need some more liquor licenses. >> to that, in part, i would say that is a structural problem, and largely driven by our statutes. this governor is very pro- expansion of business. and in favor of things that make this city and state great. there is mileage from your local representatives on this. the governor is going to be supportive of whenever you want to do in the city of san francisco. -- what ever you want to do in the city of san francisco. >> i own a corner bar and i'm basically in the same boat. i am an entrepreneur and i want to open another bar and not got a lease in hand. i'm in danger of losing the lease beca

an article on the front page, i got on a roll. i wrote a newsletter which was called "mr. bullish". trade unless i could explain what it would do. when you trade, you must trade with confidence. you could be traded out by the market. if you want to trade with confidence. ask yourself. would you update a stock recommendation on your voice n mail? yeah, i actually did that. every single week. i had that level of conviction of my pick of the week. you have to have that. i was putting that money where my mouth was. and work i was getting and legal work for a professor who moonlighted during criminal defense case. and a publisher tried to get me to write a piece. i didn't call him back and i got three issues of trades of the week and he wanted to give me half a million dollars to manage. and he had confidence in me. which was real money back then. almost immediately i lost a ton of it. you can't trade a huge ton of money at once. you can't put it all to work at once. you have to have an entry point that was reasonable and knowing that you would be good whether it worked or not i violate

i thought i would like to write about a minute i thought i'd like to write about a comical male writer, and i knew a lot about massachusetts, where i'm from, saving, where he is from, and so that's in some sense how i chose hawthorne. but as i said yesterday some of these choices, they seem conscious but they are really quite unconscious spent i just want to add one thing if i could come and that is that nobody has ever, i do believe, talk about this aspect of biography, that is a very good repository for everything that is known about somebody. i mean, like my biography was endlessly long come at least it contained all the information, not just about he did this, he did that. but also all the various studies of him that had been done. and there was no other one place where all that existed. >> it is that archival sense to it, too. >> i admire these people who are primary biographers, really assembling zillions of facts and really putting things on record. i don't really consider myself too much in a category. i'm sort of a secondary biographer. and i don't mean that necessary self-dep

i grew up in a pentecostal church. in a tradition, and whether one can sing or not, those old songs and you start to sing those songs, it is amazing how you can lift yourself up with the right kind of song. that has happened with me with a church i grew up in, but talk about those moments when you had to lift yourself singing. ave maria, that is a pretty good thing to sing, but how you live yourself with your own voice? >> i guess is god. i have faith -- i was going through low times, and she turned me on to st. jude. he is the saint of hopeless cases. i prayed a lot. i still do. walking down the street, i pray. >> st. jude is with you all the time. but i have never seen a picture of you when that hearing was not present in your ears. good -- that earring is not present in your ears. tell me about your early start, losing your mom. you're not the only one with talent, but who told you were good enough to sing and to be a group? >> my parents were migrated cents. -- my greatest sense. -- fans. my uncle was a piano player

but i was in a daze. and i went back to work like nothing had ever happened but it did it devastate i didn't know where to turn to talk to. how to tell family. i was lost. it was my mother father and we were any kitchen. and my husband says oh hi how are you what's going on and they say nothing you know i had him with me there as well when it's all me you know and he's you guys to this is what i'm involved with in my mother was cooking we came in he said he wanted to talk and he came in and my husband came in. he told us he had something to say to us and i told that i was a positive this is who i'm in a relationship with a mother started crying and my father being the man he is ask me so what does mean you lost our dresses and they're bringing you the little he said out that they said mother was going out and just life floored me that started the whole argument and i just walked out you know that put a big strain on the relationship. is different it's better than it was there isn't a whole lot of conversat

i discovered that seniors do a lot of review. >> i am a beginner, so, little by little i learn.rn a lot now. >> if you get the basics, you can learn it. it's simple. it's easy. once you know it. and that's what i want to learn, how to make my life easier and more knowledgeable with the computer. >> so, what we need right now are more people who speak languages other than english or in addition to english who can give their time during the day and who care deeply ideally about helping to close the divide. >> it's a humbling experience. it's something simple to ask in our daily life, but to someone that doesn't know and to help somebody gain that experience in any way is awesome. >> [speaking in spanish]. >> no matter how tired or cranky or whatever i might feel, when i walk into this place i always walk out feeling great. >> if you feel comfortable using computers and you have patience, we want you on our team. >> would you show me how to type? >> [speaking in spanish]. >> will you help me learn more? >> good afternoon. this is our disaster council meeting of october 26. thank yo

a u.s. representative she brings real-world business experience to washington dc. >> i am a businesswoman and entrepreneur and i think bringing some of that real world, private sector, as well as my experience running the department of revenue in the state of washington so on the public sector side, gives me a good combination to help put policy together that i think could have a real impact to get people back to work and put policies in place that support working families and equal rights. delbene also understands non-profts. she's worked with women in south america providing them access to capital and resources. >> i went into the non-profit world kind of as my desire to make a difference and give people access to opportunity and micro finance is one way to help do that that. that was mostly international effort and work we were doing outside of the united states and i think there's a kind of work that we need to do right here at home. that's really what led me more to look at policy here domestically what we can do, because we have a lot of families struggling right now. there's a lot of w

a "lunatics 2"? >> absolutely not. yes, i do not even care if we have a book. it is like going on tour with alan zweibel. very entertaining. like watching him try to find the gate at the airport. >> you make it seem like i am the rain man. >> he would be able to find the gates at the airport. [laughter] you see the parents with the thing that connects their wrists to the children. that is what i need with him. >> alan on book tour, you have to go to many different cities and make connections. you pack a small carry-on suitcase. when we met for the book tour in new york, alan had a suitcase that had wheels. it would not go in the overhead. the question was, with the plane take off? he had a garment bag. i said, what did you bring? he said that he brought, -- >> amongst other things, i brought two bathing suits. >> he brought two bathing suits. a book tour. you get a schedule. you go on all these interviews. you'll do this, whatever. what is never said it is 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., swimming. [laughter] >> i brought a black one and a blue one, depending on what col

i had all kinds of obstacles, i spent a year applying for a loan, and then i found out i need a new roofn has been held up -- >> that's what we have been waiting on for 18 months. >> [ bleep. yes! all you have to do is open up! [ bleep all right! >> i knew it! >> what were the challenges of making that big project work. i understand the restaurant piece, but what did you have to do? >> i used the same principals, i always wanted to own my own restaurant. i leased these other places, i take them, pick them up, but they not my property, so if a landlord thinks you're making a lot of money, they up the rent. so i wanted to own my own restaurant. i found this building in an area that i was not allowed as a black young lady. it was segregated, so i could not go there, but now i have my own restaurant there. >> you couldn't even legally go there before, but now not only can you go there but you own a business there. >> i own a business there. >> you got an award for exprisoners working for you. >> well, my son informs the system, and when he came home, there wasn't a lot of opportunity. so i d

but i was in a daze. and i went back to work like nothing had ever happened but it did it devastate i didn't know where to turn to talk to. how to tell family. i was lost. it was my mother father and we were any kitchen. and my husband says oh hi how are you what's going on and they say nothing you know i had him with me there as well when it's all me you know and he's you guys to this is what i'm involved with in my mother was cooking we came in he said he wanted to talk and he came in and my husband came in. he told us he had something to say to us and its own that i was a positive this is why i'm in a relationship with a mother started crying and my father being the man he is asking so what does mean your dresses and the blue he said at the day said mother was going out and just life floored me that started the whole argument and i just walked out you know but a big strain on a relationship. is different it's better than it was there isn't a whole lot of conversation or close to none conversation about

it's not going to be a shock to you that i don't have a sizzle reel but i did manage to get a few powerpoint slides in so it's a good thing if i can get my next one. can you advance it for me please? so it is a safety course that i created with yahoo. we partnered together. i started asking questions the first day so my boots are on the ground and i'm in the schools and i love doing what i do, and i believe wholeheartedly and i believe it was the soft power -- yes, i love it. i think it's effective in so many ways, so i had luckily teamed up with the right people at yahoo who were really amazing and just the foresight they saw, and believed in the concept that law enforcement needs to be a piece of this puzzle and have some solutions. we have a unique part in the schools and with kids and this did get certified for the peace officer standards and we get credit for that being police officers and our training and our curriculum -- i have a slide. hopefully -- it started as a diversion program for the restorative justice and sort of a piece of the pie, almost geared towards probation and after

>> today she said i am a black woman. when she came off stage, i said, you know you just called yourself a black woman. >> i think i just identified as black. >> and it was almost like a weight off her shoulders and a huge smile. she said i did, and she hugged me and shook me a little bit, and it was pretty cool. >> it wasn't life altering, like i am from now on black. it helped open my mind up a lot, but i don't think it's going to completely, like, change everything. but it's a milestone for me. >> after poetry workshop she makes a mad dash to choir performance. she is a soprano, a featured soloist. she sees herself as ambitious, talented. will there ever be a time when the world sees her only as that? so you connect the dots with the freckles, and multiply by every curl on the nappy, nappy head, and what do you get? ambiguous. >> i apologize my race is invisible to your eyes -- >> but last time i checked it was none of your business, and >> today, we pay tribute to mayor ed koch. a tribute to his life and legacy. >> how

i am a fuddy-duddy weird owe too. i like what he said. practiced on a blowup doll and they nicknamed h lyndsay lohan. >> no, that was lyndsay lohan. >> i love lindsay lohan. can this actress put her hands in my hair? she said this is my favorite most memorable kiss ever. >> it is condescending, jedediah, to every homely, curly headed weird owe who blushes when he kisses a woman. this has nothing to do with how i grew up. i don't want anybody to read into this whatsoever. what did you think of this? >> in reality she would never go into a bar and pick this guy out. we all know this. >> are you saying there is a difference between reality? >> as a lover of nerds, every guy i dated people have said to me, this is the oddest match. this is a strange looking match. i am living proof in my own life -- >> every guy? >> every guy. >> every guy? >> every guy. >> every single guy is a nerd? >> every one. >> every single guy is a nerd? >> every guy. i don't know what is going on. >> are you a mystery. what is your favorite band again? >> oh here we

it's been a gift and i choose to look at it as a gift. yes, my life is infinitely difficult physically. i can't do the things that are great passions in my life, you know my unit is deployed right now and there's a piece of my heart with them and i can't be there. it's given me a new mission and i get to do this for them. >> she wants to help the mitary with her new national platform. >> there's so many things that need to be done. i think there's a responsibility to, if we're going to go to war, have a discussion of how we will use these men and women. right? they're the ones who bleed. so we don't make decisions to go to war recklessly, we have honest discussions of the cost of war. if we're going to expend our greatest national treasure, it better be for the right reasons. and then they better be well equipped. and en wn thy co home, whether not they have visible wounds, we need to take care of them and we need to take care of >> duckworth wants to make sure military decisions are made with the best information and the most discussion p

i am a mess. there is nothing i can do about it, and it is going to get worse. >> to be successful you have to have a disorder. >> woody allen syndrome. >> have i so many physical ailments that are the product of my brain, but there is nothing i can do. >> i bite my nails a lot. i have some stomach problems. every now and then i pull hail out of my head. >> i knew somebody who used to pull their eyelashes out when they were stressed out. >> not good. >> why is that not good? >> i don't know. it sounds not good. >> try it and let us know. >> eventually you run out. >> what about eyebrows? >> and then you move on to your eyes. >> my eyelashes have been compared to butterfly wings, so that makes me sick. they are gorgeous. do a close up. >> that leads to my next question. according to the survey, millenials are the more stressed generation, but according to what i typed on my paper, they are also the sexiest. how do you reconcile those two obviously true things? >> considering what you like on your fa

i have been a u.s. attorney for this area, and starting last month one of the hoosier state voices in the us house of representatives. i am proud to live in a state that spends less than it takes in, has a aaa credit rating and a budget surplus that will be partially repay to taxpayers areas the secret to our state success has been a value system that promotes a strong sense of responsibility and accountability. as family members, taxpayers, and community volunteers. for too long, the democratic majority in washington has failed to see the value in the sound model of working hard and living within your means. on their watch, we have been operating without a national budget. piling up debts that now exceed $60 trillion, and unemployment levels that remain stubbornly high. we are again at risk at having our credit rating downgraded. the spite these challenges, americans concerned about our nation spending problem may now have cause for optimism. i recent be voted along with my colleagues in the house for a

i don't know. i'm a person with integrity and i like to do what i say i'm going to do, and i expect that of my city, and right now i feel embarrassed about san francisco because what i hear is a priority on complaints about big vehicles. i don't hear a priority about affordable housing. that's the messed up priorities. affordable housing -- i mean okay shelter beds, more shelter beds. there aren't enough shelter beds for the hundreds of people kicked out of the vehicles. i have been to shelters. i would not want to sleep there. if i had a car i would absolutely stay in my car, but regardless focus on affordable housing. then get to the issue of moving big vehicles that are a problem. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. if there are no other speakers this will be the last speaker. >> hello. my name is rubin and i volunteer with the coalition on homelessness and i wasn't planning to speak but was inspired by what the gentleman said in the green hoody said. seems like there has been regarding t

was a crackhead. i know crack is disgusting. >> he was a crackhead. i was a heroin addict. >> i was a crackhead for two years of my life. my wife left me and took my kids and i was a crackhead, and i was like, ah, crack is bad, maybe you will do meth. >> meth is better. >> meth is better. >> and then i ended up here. >> go figure. >> yeah, yeah. >> i know meth is pretty addictive. how do you deal with it here? >> how do we deal with it here? jail? we don't deal with it here. >> we work out. >> we work out. and we build it up to break it down. >> in fact, we had first met boshears during his workout a few days earlier, right before he shaved his head. >> i work out pretty much seven days a week. every once in a while, i take a day off. just part of my program. every morning, i come out here and do this. i feel like i'm doing something productive, start off the day right. >> while boshears and evans have seemingly beat their habit and gained their health in prison, they told us this might all be temporary

a segment -- i i don't sing. >> jon: can i ask a question do you have time to stick around and go to the web? [cheers and applause] because this is one of those unusual nights where i can't stay. i have -- >> it's nothing against you there's -- [ laughter ] there's a gastroenter rolings that i go to on the upper east side whose office hours are meshuggenah but i'm glad you could stay. >> or if you need that colonoscopy. >> jon: you are a quadruple threat. you can sing and do a colonoscopy. it's fun to play because you are just funny man. in the movies on the talk shows. >> hey, man. >> jon: it's just good and you and melissa are really good there. >> the movie turned out very, very well. i'm very, very proud of it. >> jon: do you have 20 seconds? >> sure. one of worst experiences-life i was just -- no, no,. i was watching a tasteful movie one of high broa films i i like to go to with my wife. >> jon: i understand. are we talking about tangled? >> and a trailer comes on for a film that i'm not particularly proud of but i was in it. [ laughter ] and it will go nameless. [ laughter ] an

a normal links regions. ok hold your cell one why i want to be a girl. i didn't think i was an outsider going in which my elder twin brother is a totally healthy get. my younger brother is ok too. in the election my father suffered from brittle bone disease but he could walk using crutches. my mother left us because she felt the problem was too much for. that my father had to take on her role in the house to. which you could use i made some progress after being taught to walk by one time the wheelchair turned over to a mishap as a result of both my thighs fractured at the same time that morning when the doctor arrived he said just don't touch him don't touch him and what could you not tell my childhood came to an abrupt end with. the will of god is omnipotent. in the initial thoughts i found my soul mate. the woman who'd shares my interests and principles. god willing we will go through life together and it he stands with the thought if we have to enjoy our trials and tribulations well but also be. but then you've given. us our first child was born on the

i think it is a great idea. ink other states should take the lead or take colorado's lead and do the same thing. >> are you high right now? >> not really. i wish. i don't smoke the pot. but i think people should be able to. i don't see any problem with it. the jails are full of people. it is smoking weed, stop. >> here is the issue. i know you were happy about this because you told me in the green room you plan on vacationing from here on in. once you legalize it in colorado, it is like you create four mexican borders to the other states. it is going to lead to legalization elsewhere. >> you are getting to a serious point. i have another one that is more local for the people in colorado. how do you keep this out of the hands of miners? >> -- minors? >> you mean people in coal mines? >> no, minors. fie beb 28th -- by february 28th they have to come up with a rule. they can't agree on the words locked and secured. if you are growing marijuana in your backyard and there is a fence and your neighbors can't see the we

i like to do my own thing. it's a kind of freedom and i cherish that. >> rose: and we all know that some days you have to work really hard. when the berlin wall fell i know i was on my feet for 42 hours. >> rose: 423 hours. >> after that i'm not sure what happened because i woke up in the backseat of a car. but yeah. >> rose: sober or not sober. >> no, no, i literally collapsed, yeah. but so what. it was the fall of the berlin wall. are you never going see it again. and some days you go places and will stay in a five star hotel and nothing will happen and whoa, they pay me to be here, you know, it's a great life. >> rose: let me talk about stories you have covered. remind me of the stories that were so meaningful to you. what are the stories that have, in a sense, if you were going to sit here this evening and say to me i want to show you what si have done, it may not be my best work, but it was the most interesting time whether it's south africa, whether it's the berlin wall, whether it's the conflict in the middle e

a culture i realize that was a lot japanese. even though i hadn't grownup in it and i was as american as apple pie in so many ways that i started to learn more about the culture and i thought, i'm more japanese than chinese in many ways. this book gave that to me. that was the greatest gift of the samurai's garden. that and the fact that somehow people kept reading it. it was the book i was worried about and i had sent it to my editor and she called. i'm telling you the gossip stuff now. i think in a way that's more interesting. i was very nervous because i didn't know how she would receive this book. she called and said to me, well, it's very different. [laughter] and then nobody said anything. i didn't say anything and she didn't i didn't know what to say different good or bad so just with quiet. she said, i think this about part of -- she talked to me about story lines. i realized wow, they are going to publish it. and we talked about it as we would talk about a man script that would be accepted. i'm thinking, i can't believe

ah, a bad word that i can't say. that starts with "f." >> michelle obama's hush-hush appearance shocks a jaded hollywood crowd. >> i was asking, was that michelle obama. >> and last night's unexpected star. my exclusive with a man people call oscar. >> and talking about guns and stand your ground. trayvon martin one year later. >> he's dead, laying on the ground. >> just because he's laying on the ground -- >> oh, my god! >> tonight, my exclusive with trayvon's parents, and keeping the faith with rumors and scandals swirling at the vatican, can a new pipe revive a church in crisis? this is "piers morgan tonight." >> good evening. you're looking at one of the most iconic spots in this town. the famous hollywood sign. what a weekend it has been in the movie capital of the world, los angeles. i can tell you about the experience of being on the red carpet with all of the biggest stars in the world. in showbiz, talking to them as they head into the oscars with panic in their eyes, with hope and expectation. it was one of t

i mean it was a nightmare. but what obama inherited from the bush administration is, you know, we all remember, is just an absolute global catastrophe on every level. and i think he's done an astonishing job beginning to turn that around. and like lincoln there has been an enormous amount of criticism of our president, our current president from the left in terms of -- that comes from an impatience of, you said that you were, you know, going to do this and you said you were going to do that, why hasn't it happened. and the fact of the mat certificate that when are you elected president of the united states rather than king of the united states, you have to work with a very unwieldy machinery. >> something that an ra lamb-- abraham lincoln really understood. >> and you know -- 50 years later, people are still misreading his motives. they still misread all the statements that he would take with all of its slaves in chains as being, you know, a drew expression of his desire this man who signed both the he man's nat

i did respond with a letter to mr. clark. i did not send a knowledgeable representative. i followed the attorneys advice. it's suggestive and contradictory provided to me by my city attorney and finally after respond to go request that were thoroughly received by the city attorney. i disagree with the task force finding that i have inadequate responses and a lack of intent to comply with the sunshine ordinance in the future, unquote. i would be more than happy to answer any questions. >> thank you. public comment on this matter? >> my name is robert clark. i'm a witness to the fact that mr. lazar did not stay for the meeting that he claims he was at. my brother was talking and he ran out of the meeting, took his representative with him and they never returned to the meeting. that's why the meeting was postponed for another month to give him an opportunity to be there. that it's an outside right lie. i don't know about his other question, but all the ones that my brother and i have filed against him, he's been found in violation. if he just responded to the questions we wer

i think we can do that. here's aopera. ♪ it's not easy for me because i do have feelings for tiara! ♪ ♪ and anytime someone is sad emotionally vulnerable ♪ >> ♪ right >> ♪ the last thing you want to do is add to it ♪ >> ♪ right. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: this from is from matt polanski. "hey, jimmy, i love pickles." that's not a suggestion at all. "they are so good. can you bring out someone who has never tried a pickle before and have them try one on your show?" actually, one of our writers here at "late night" has never tried a pickle. that's true. his name is deetch. he's 29 years old. one of our best writers. we're going to bring him out tonight to try his first ever pickle. come on out, deetch. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: now this -- this is totally true. this isn't a bit. you've never had a pickle before? >> no, i've never had a pickle. >> jimmy: i mean, how is that possible? >> just -- i didn't really eat a lot of green stuff when i was a kid. >> jimmy: you didn't like green stuff?

it is a gateway when you're coming up market street. i think it makes a lot of sense. again, i would support looking at a legalization process for an existing off-site kitchen. maybe that is something staff can talk about whether you considered this versus the blanket allowance. >> i think as staff, we considered the ordinance thats was before us, which very specific in a geographic area. * and in talking through the specific issues associated with cafe floor, we were just exploring whether or not, a, we were comfortable with drape creating a legal nonconforming use, whether there was a way to avoid that situation. and then secondly, whether we could craft something that was narrow enough that would not create sort of unintended consequences, but would be more broadly applicable to the west side of one block of the city. and that's how we came to that tentative solution and i'm sure we're open to talking more about that. >> did you at all -- do we have any sense of the issue around illegal or secondary or off-site kitchens? do we have any sort of knowledge or informatio

child after being honest but it's a little. i didn't want a few moments on the forms registering her as disabled until she was three years old. i felt unworthy of society because my child was disabled i didn't want to me that she was an invalid. but whenever i rolled to the promo with all of the lines flat on her belly everybody knew there had been another fracture. oh are you. ok here i've got a present for you it's a russian doll this time too but it is of a different kind it's made of crystal. thank you thank you for the description it's quite heavy yeah i have your than my cast. i wish. as a rule i come here to meet the parents of other children suffering from austin genesis imperfecta and list. god when our daughter was born we had no idea what would become of her doctors predicted a very poor outlook but they said the child was unlikely to be able to walk and faced a very bleak future with dr natale below has spent years treating children afflicted with the disease and that she was the one who came up with the idea of sitti

that's a good one. >> i don't know. , i'm glad -- you know, every time i come on your show, i'm always exposed to, like, great -- >> jimmy: great new words? >> -- great new people who are really working on new things i've never, you know -- >> jimmy: yeah. >> so eye-opening. >> jimmy: so fun. well, we love having you on here. how is everything over in l.a.? how's it going? >> oh, everything's great. in fact, i had something happen to me that i couldn't wait to tell you about. and i thought right when it happened, i thought, "i gotta -- i gotta tell jimmy." it's the ultimate l.a. story, probably the greatest thing that's ever happened to me in los angeles, and i'll share it with you. i went out to dinner with a young actor named b.j. novak, who you might know from "the office." [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: very talented. >> we were working on a movie together, and we play brothers. and i thought before we go to make the movie we should go out and get to know each other. have a bite to eat, have a drink, converse. so,

i do have a lot of confidence in the president and i think that he ultimately has to make a decision. what i think what is important is that they are relooking, as i understand it, as what can be done, what needs to be done. exactly so as not to arrive at the position you're talking about. i think they're very much aware of that. i think also secretary kerry is very interested in what is going on. he's going generally into the region. i think he understands the issue and i think that this is an evolving situation. >> rose: benghazi. what happened? >> i think that what happened was that this was a dangerous place to be that, in fact, there's been an awful lot of testimony on this. secretary clinton testified, secretary panetta testified that what happened was that they thought-- and i believe this-- that they thought it was a spontaneous kind of thing that then actually there were aspects of it that had been planned. i think that they have done everything they can to sort out what happened and let me just tell you, everybody knows me knows i loved being secretary of state except on aug

i don't care about this. she has asue. >> i don't have much more time. >> when are you going to have kids, andy? >> never. mom charged with child endangerment. >> why not? >> it is not my thing. >> after hiring strippers for son's 16 birthday. >> it took 40,000 years to get you here. they ran from sabre tooth tigers and levies back in the day, and then we finally got andy here and he goes, i'm done. >> i am as the passover joke indicated i am jewish. we didn't run from the sabre tooth tigers. we negotiated with them. >> and now this have -- now have have a charming place in florida. >> you brought up the scene in "animal house" when the woman land in the bed and the kid says thank you god. it was played by a 17-year-old who became a pastor in eugene, oregon and now teaches track. he is a passionate christian man and went from joking thank you, god to saying it every day. >> nicely done. >> i am familiar with that guy. he is a great guy. >> are you really? >> no, i looked it up before. i am obsessed with that scene. >>

i think it's a mindset. ou claim black that's what you are. >> i think there's a understanding particularly in racialized society, you have to be seen as black so when we walk into a room they know i am black but might question what you are so it has to do with do people see you as black? if people don't see you as black, you're not black. >> danielle says at first glance, very few people see her as black. >> i have always felt like i am a black woman. >> danielle joined the one drop project in 2011, about a decade after the two women met in grad school. danielle's mother is white, and her father is black. he died when she was a teenager. >> i made so many assumptions about danielle. i thought she was that type of light-skinned chick, that she thought she was cute, too good and that she was standoffish because she didn't fool with us regular folks. what was going on she had an experience growing up in the middle of pennsylvania in a mennonite community -- >> pennsylvania, 92% white. danielle felt like she did

was a supervisor i voted with mr. avalos and increased the property transfer taxes and created a lot of money and it's good and it can be $120 million. some years it's $8 million so it's a volatile source of income, but what was done by mayor lee and consensus with a lot of stakeholders let's take the properties between 1 million, and 5 million so there is an on going source. the last time the voters passed a bond like that was in 86 and it failed twice because it required a 2/3 vote and the trust fund did extremely and i think it would be good to have a presentation because i am aware there is a mix of housing. some is focused on low income and some is work force housing and i understand they want first responder housing for firefighters and police to live in the city and i think it would be good to have a presentation on prop c and i think you can advocate for individuals at the level you're describing and the importance of developing housing for them. i do want to say they think the excitement we created around barb

i was speaking a lot to oscar, reeva. texting. i last saw them as a couple in january. in january. >> the last time you talked to oscar about reeva, he is saying now very firmly they were in love, he had rarely felt happier, nothing wrong with the relationship. was that your understanding? >> 100%. when i saw them together in capetown, they were in love. oscar is a loving person, as well as reeva. by no means did i think their relationship was in jeopardy. they were loving and very sad, it was a big shock to us to hear what happened, to wake up that valentine's morning and hear the shock. to all south africans and many people around the world. very loving and their relationship was smooth. >> oscar had a number of guns at his home and there are reports that he enjoyed drinking. perhaps a little too much on occasion. just describe to me what oscar was like away from the cameras. was he a big drinker? somebody prone to having temper tantrums, for example? we saw one at the olympics. did you see that side to him? >> never in my company. as a person, oscar very happy, lovin