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we begin with america's favorite actor, two-time oscar winner, tom hanks. >> tom hanks, thanks for beinge. >> i feel like i'm the poster boy for attention deficit disorder. this is way too much. by the way, welcome -- thanks for coming to my reck room here in my home. >> we have a lot up here for you. >> i had to move the ping-pong table and the game boy out of the way, but this is where i really like to come and just rest and ponder, you know, my place in the zeitgeist. >> we don't want to embarrass you with your own riches, but i've been studying your interviews and you're always talking about the most recent project and then on to the next. >> yeah. >> we here for you, join us, put something together. i warn you it is a little bit long. it is about two minutes. >> oh, geez. >> but it pulls -- >> on cable tv? that's an eternity. how are you going to work in the cialis commercials if we are going to take two minutes? >> unavoidably long because it spans some of your work. let's take a look. >> okay ♪ it is a beautiful day in this neighborhood ♪ ♪ a beautiful day for a neighbor ♪ ♪ would

tom hanks, michelle yu, lin manuel miranda. our friend who you see there, the very artistic, inspiring, creative erica badu. we begin with america's favorite actor, two time oscar winner tom hanks. tom hanks, thanks for being here. >> i feel like i'm a poster boy for attention deficit disorder. way too much. by the way, thanks for coming to my rec room. had to move the ping-pong table and the game boy out of the way, but this is where i really do like to come and just rest and ponder, you know, my place in the zeitgeist. >> we don't want to embarrass you with your own riches, but i've been studying your interviews, and they're always talking about the most recent project and then onto the next. i warn you it's a little bit long. it's about 2 minutes. >> oh, jeez. on cable tv that's an eternity. how are you going to work in the commercials if we're going to take 2 minutes? >> unavoidably long because it spans some of your work. let's take a look. >> houston, we have a problem. this is the captain. brace for impact. i don't know

it is one of the 80 films the tom hanks has fronted.decade after decade inspiring us anew. he is a beloved actor who really needs no introduction. he is also an author, and he joins us on the beat to talk about his films, politics, and even his starring role in some songs. >> what is on your mind at this juncture where you hope we go? >> to show how far we have come. i'm 66 years old. america was an extremely different place when i was a kid. racially. in 1964, when the beatles were on the ed sullivan show, you had to pass a test, a literacy test, in louisiana in order to vote if the registrar did not know your name or did not know where you came from. and just in order to have the right to vote, you had to answer questions that came out of, that were is confusing out of something out of lateral thinking puzzles. we as america, it is a slow process we have been on in order to perform a more perfect union. >> i wanted to go to what could be called your socially conscious, historical, or some people would call the political roles. althoug

tom hanks, chris riley, welcome to the program. good to see you. this is a quintessentially american story. so why is it debuting in london? >> this very facility that we are sitting in now in kings cross is the most it is the most unique, immersive venue i've ever come across in my life. >> well, the first time we came here, we see an exhibit of david hockney paintings. now, i thought i was going to be seeing an exhibit of david hockney paintings. i didn't realize i was going to be walking into one of his paintings, as david himself was, was painting it all around you, seeing that that was possible, i immediately went to the powers that be, richard slade and everybody else said, you know, you could put people in the taurus-littrow valley where we are sitting right now on apollo 17, and it would be as though we are sitting right on the moon. have you guys thought about that? and they said, no, but would you like to think about it with us? and so here we are. >> and the two of you wrote this together. what did it take to write this? what were you tr

tom hanks, transferring her. >> i feel like i'm a poster boy for attention deficit disorder. way too much. thank you for coming to my room in my home. i had to move it on the table. again, out of the way, but this is where i really like to come rest and ponder my place. >> we don't want to embarrass you with your own riches, but i have been studying your interviews and they are always talking about the most recent project and onto the next. >> yeah. >> joining us in the summa and i warn you that it's a little long and it's about two minutes. >> geez. on cable tv? that's an eternity. how are you going to work in the commercials if we are going to take two minutes? >> unavoidably long, because it is some of your work. let's take a look. >> it's a beautiful day in this neighborhood. would you be mine? houston, we have a problem. this is the captain, brace for impact per >> i don't know how to swim! i don't know how to swim! come back. wilson! i'm sorry! i'm sorry, wilson asked >> are you crying? >> no. >> are you crying? >> can i borrow five bucks? >> life is like a box of choco

stuart: how many different roles did tom hanks play in the polar express?he movie. what is it? lauren: 6. brian: h. stuart: before jonathan morris left the studio he said four. i'm going with four. the answer is six. he plays the boy, the father, the conductor, train, the scrooge puppet and santa claus as well. now you know. we are getting ready to celebrate 15 years on the air for this show. share a message, tell us where you are from and your favorite moment from the show and send a video to varneyviewers@fox.com. neil: you can't miss m

the full unedited tom hanks runs about 40 minutes at msnbc.com/summit. you can see them all. thanks for spending time with us here on "the beat." "the reidout" with joy reid is up next. >>> tonight on "the reidout" -- >> it is the shame of north carolina. a giant power grab by republicans strips powers from the governor, attorney general, and other state-wide offices simply because they were won by democrats. governor-elect josh stein, who is most affected by this political atrocity, will join me. >> also tonight, president biden's blockbuster day of pardons and commutations, more than 1500 nonviolent offenders get a second chance. and biden says he's not done. plus, how unitedhealthcare grew into an insurance monolith and left a lot of patients feeling mistreated along the way. >>> but we begin tonight with a dream of a boy from queens, new york. this boy wanted so desperately to impress those on the other side of the east river of manhattan, to be accepted byilities elites. one way to do that was to be featured on the covers of major magazines, most especially, to be "time"

i've had the honor, along with tom hanks, to be an ambassador.self and caring for her husband, ben, who served in the army. this is an extraordinary story of love and unwavering faith in the face of great challenges. >> without our faith, i know for a fact that he would have given up a long time ago. >> when we first arrived to interview michelle, their home was quiet. >> ben is not here with us today. >> just hours earlier, ben had been rushed to the hospital with a collapsed lung, one of the many devastating impacts of his als. but michelle insisted we come so she could share their story of love, faith and resilience. >> ben and i worked together for six years. one day, it just happened. >> their love e story ben at work, where they bonded over their shared military service. michelle in the air force, ben in the army. ben even sharing with michelle the sd he suffered from two hours in iraq. they married in 2018. but just 11 months later they received devastating news. >> the neurologist said i think you have als. ben had never heard the word al

i get a nomination for an oscar, putting me up against brad pitt, joe pesci, anthony hopkins and tom hanksosing status among those guys. next thing you know, i'm in the house of gucci, which is a hot film. great people, like adam driver, lady gaga, jared leto, and my dear friend jeremy irons is in it. it didn't get the reception that others got, but it made good at the box office. plus, it was directed by one of the all—time greats, ridley scott, who i really took to. someone so gifted and so much fun to work with. we were in hollywood last night. we went looking for your star on the walk of fame. poor guys! couldn't find it. you were disappointed. what is going on? well, i haven't looked lately, but i don't... ..i don't remember them ever putting a star. there are a lot of people who have, but there's also a lot of people who don't have a star. if hollywood's committee are watching this interview, would you be quite up for one now? of course. there we go. yeah, sure. come on. al pacino wants his star on the hollywood walk of fame. in the book, chess comes up a lot. i used to play a lot of

and then after the book came out, tom hanks and steven speilberg many years later bought the rights tog job of putting that together. there was probably over 1,000 people that were involved in writing, directing, putting that all together, cost tombs and you know, so we're all very proud that our father's story was told in that series. >> carley: your father get to see the success ever the series? >> no. actually my dad had passed away -- actually was tragically killed about a year before the filming began. we were able to enjoy all the activities that were involved in putting the series together. my wife and i had a chance to go to hatfield, england to meet the actors and in the case played my dad and then all the other actors who i knew the real guys that they were portraying so it's been a humbling journey to go through this whole process it's wonderful that what your dad did will be honored tomorrow. a solid season as well. what's your prediction? >> go army, beat navy. >> carley: that's a good prediction. that's all you will say. usually the president attends the game. i'm sure he

stuart: how many different roles did tom hanks play in the polar express? it helps if you have watched the movie. what is it? lauren: 6. brian: h. stuart: before jonathan morris left the studio he said four. i'm going with four. the answer is six. he plays the boy, the father, the conductor, train, the scrooge puppet and santa claus as well. now you know. we are getting ready to celebrate 15 years on the air for this show. share a message, tell us where you are from and your favorite moment from the show and send a video to varneyviewers@fox.com. neil: you can't miss my e-mail, cut out letters on construction paper. we are following the dow trying to stop a 10 day losing streak. it could stop that at 10 today. the bounce back is not convincing. in the meantime and that would include santa, a few days away, a strike by some teamsters workers, those working for amazon saying enough is enough, give us a break and do it now or things could look dicey on christmas day. what is going on here? >> strike here at amazon center, strikers behind me, develop into this

child actor and it and i auditioned to play tom hanks as a boy. i did not get the roll.tarts emanating from this unplugged slot machine in the hatchback. and it starts playing -- and its playing and playing and i am like, i scored. i got a haunted slot machine. i scored. i thought this is going to be amazing. and i bring it home and i am trying to understand, maybe there are some battery that remains. it's old. and i get it home and it turns out the poor woman who sold it to me had opened it up to show me how it worked and the mechanism worked and she forgot her cell phone and it. and was frantically calling for me to pick up. [laughter] and i was so disappointed. >> stephen: adrien, lovely to see you again. thank you so much for being here. "the brutalist" is in select theaters on friday and nationwide in january. adrien brody, everybody. we'll be right back with ben schwartz. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ can your pad absorb everything and stay fresh? always flexfoam can. it's the only pad made with a flexible foam core that locks in blood and sweat while the top stays dry. keeping y

of course, "your daddy and that dang bird" also tom hanks' unfortunate follow up to "turner and hoochhe best part of this story is that the two breakaway birds are named sadly, i think we all know how emu thelma and louise will meet their end. >> we can't fly! >> stephen: we got a great show for you tonight! my guests are josh brolin and kacey musgraves! but when we come back, "meanwhile"! join us, won't you? ♪ ♪ [♪♪] do you own a dishwasher, but only use it for storage or as a drying rack? get better results than hand washing, with your dishwasher and cascade complete. your dishwasher does the work for you, with temperatures up to 140 degrees - too hot for hands. some dishwashers even have a sanitizing cycle. load pots, pans and tableware at the bottom, with plastic and glassware on top. cascade complete removes visible and invisible residue, for virtually spot-free and shiny dishes. switch to your dishwasher, and cascade complete. if you're living with hiv, imagine being good to go without daily hiv pills. ♪♪ good to go binge-watch. ♪♪ good to go out even later. ♪♪ with cabenuva, th

>> martin short welcomed last night into the "saturday night live" five-timers club by tina fey, tom hankss ago carol burnett was nominated at age 91 for an emmy award for her performance in the series "palm royale." it marked the 24th emmy nomination of her groundbreaking career, but the mountain of emmy awards, the grammy, the tony, the mark twain prize and the presidential medal of freedom only begin to tell the story of burnett's impact on american culture over her 70 years in show business. "the carol burnett show" made her an icon. nearly half a century after the end of that program, the burnett remains every bit a star. carol and i got together for a "sunday sitdown." ♪ good morning ♪ >>> it's such a thrill, carol. >> thank you. >> the story of carol burnett's long and legendary career begins at the movies. ♪ good morning to you ♪ >> my grandmother and i would save our pennies and go to the movies. that was my outlet, my fantasy, watching mickey rooney and judy garland up there singing. i was so naive that good things would happen, because they always happened in the movies. so i ne

moments that were slightly stressful where he would turn to me and say something like, i cannot hear tom hanksto do. >> because she was my crew on the couch with a headset and all these wires around her. she's like, i don't know what buttons to push. >> we won by numbers you have never even heard of. we got sveventeen percent, 100 didgeridoo. >> stephen colbert is back to doing what he does best, bringing levity to a heavy time and sometimes heavy topics. >> there is such toxicity around the discourse sometimes. do you find that it's harder today to be funny about what's going on in the world? >> is a gift to us that we get to do the jokes for the audience -- it's a gift to us that we get to do the jokes for the audience and realize we are not crazy and these things are also resonating with the audience, but toxicity itself is worth making fun of. the fact of how bad things are is something you have to make fun of. >> is it the kind of thing where he leaves it all at work or do you talk about these things at home? >> we talk about it a lot. >> we have always been news junkies. >> we have alway

. >> seth: it's very good. [ laughter ] >> but you can't -- >> seth: tom hanks, right now, is like, "n't do him without an accent. he had to have an accent. so, he said, "i -- i handle elvis presley. and he saw you in the -- in the lobby -- no, in the -- in the restaurant of the 20th century fox, and he -- he liked what he saw." [ cheers ] but you know, he liked brunettes, and i was brunette then. [ light laughter ] and i said, "yeah?" he said, "well, he'd like, very much, to meet you. would you like to meet him?" [ laughter ] and i thought of the underwear. [ laughter ] and i said, "yes, i would." [ cheers and applause ] there's more. there's more. marlon found out and went crazy, because, of course, despite the underwear in his house, you know, he was entitled, i was not. >> seth: yep. >> and he asked me to come over, and he was in a rage. and he asked me to come over. and i said, "okay." [ laughter ] and i went over. and i mean, we'd been going, at that point, for, like, six years together. and he said, "how dare you?" and he's carrying on like he's completely innocent. and the bes

. >> reporter: the film, starring tom hanks, arrived on the big screen back in 2004.the movie used then-cutting edge motion capture technology and computer animation to mimic the book's painted illustrations. >> hi, welcome aboard the polar express. >> reporter: and for years now, it's become a rolling stage. >> genuine tickets to ride. >> reporter: this is the behind the scenes car. >> behind the scenes, the post-production car. >> reporter: mike may designed this production along with those on more than 60 trains around the world. a million and a half tickets are sold annually. revenue that's become a lifeline for small historic railroads. >> been a really great combination of taking entertainment and theater and history and merging it all together. and gets kids involved and -- does a great thing for route preservation. >> reporter: a ride comes with a visit from santa. and of course -- >> hot chocolate. >> reporter: over 20 years, the polar express has served a lot of hot chocolate. the franchise is a commercial engine. this year, pottery barn has a line of themed

you know, tom hanks was so right there was no crying in baseball. and i always felt there was crying in news. you know, how people run to the ladies room. i don't do that. heck of a guy. so he said to me the first day. he said let's go have a cup of coffee and said, now you're going have to start reading the newspaper. and i, i, you know, then later on he because i wanted to cover stories to burnish my reputation as a reporter reporter, he said, you you should stay in the studio and read the teleprompter and go out and cover the stories. it was, i thought, oh, this is not working out. and then you do what morrie was president of national academy of television's arts and sciences. so after i was fired and they offered me another job in york. i was the chapter president in new york, chapter. and morrie said, you know what? you should present him with an he's getting a big award and. you should present not a chance. and he said, no, you ought to do it. so i did it. and he he was so happy. so he picked me up off the floor and held me up there, you know,

tom hanks and i are doing our thing and see you tomorrow morning. >> safe travels. >> thank you. >>>where they are gearing up for a very busy time. they're shipping packages worldwide. up to 800,000 packages go out from this facility every day. we will take you behind the scenes next right here on "today." oughboy) i'm thankful fr grandma...'s crescent rolls! hoohoo! (♪♪) (♪♪) (♪♪) hey, grab more delectables. you know, that lickable cat treat? de-lick-able delectables? yes, just hurry. hmm. it must be delicious. delectables lickable treat. ♪ despite last minute stress, ♪ ♪ few were delivering except walmart express. ♪ ♪ stockings were hung by the fireplace with care, ♪ ♪ knowing in about an hour ♪ ♪ stuffers would soon be there. ♪ ♪ faster than that reindeer with a red nose ♪ ♪ yeah! ♪ ♪ fast like bust rhyme's legendary flow... ♪ fasta, busta! let's go! ♪ there's nearly no end to the nice things you can get: ♪ ♪ legos, headphones, cosmetic gift sets. ♪ ♪ pearl barrette, remote control jet ♪ ♪ luggage, watches, pajamas ... you bet! ♪ ♪ use walmart for all your last minute needs, ♪ ♪ y

we're talking about tom hanks is on that list. i love it. wow. that's very good cake. >> i trust al here. >> real good. >> you should send that red velvet cake to us which is great, from georgia. >> that's right. unfortunately, it went out of business. >> oh, my gosh. >> well, eat your cake. let the merriment start to rise again. >> oh, merriment. i get it. nice. >> yes. it is another destination this week for the bright and festive lights and holiday fun in st. charles, missouri, where it's chili, uncle al. michelle lee is there alongside the mayor. we'll send it to you all in st. charles. ♪ prepare him room ♪ >> reporter: good morning! yeah. we have been out here all morning long on historic main street. this is really one of the merriest places in the country. we have the mayor dan with us. how special is this? >> this is absolutely wonderful. we're honored to be the merriest city in america. >> you will just put it out there. >> starting 50 years ago. and, no, i was not here then. it has grown every year. and this year we're a

. >> it's the late night guest cam, please say hello to tom hanks.here he is no one could go on the david letterman show and try to steer it towards a point of view, or push something in particular. >> he just wouldn't stand for it. you're on to do one thing and one thing only be as funny as the rest of the show. you know, we could get in a two shot here, dave. >> we could actually send the crew home, couldn't we you know, as a comedian, you want the biggest audience that you could get for dave, he knew a lot of things that he would do. >> were going to alienate people and he didn't care. he wanted his thumbprint out there and that's the most important thing. it's time for small town news paul. >> excuse me. paul, do you have any have any accompanying music here for small town news paul shaffer, ladies and gentlemen, the show making fun of itself and turning itself inside out that way was something kind of new. >> i mean, don't we look like guys that you'd see hanging around together? >> absolutely. would you like to hang around with me? nope how are

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tom, founder and ceo. we just had paulson on, not jim -- not hank paulson, not pat paulson. but john paulson.at and maybe a correction in the meantime. what are retail clients and their actions indicating to you at this point, tom? >> at this point, joe, they are saying, i mean, they had a good year. this was a great year for retail customers, obviously. i would say that general consensuses, they are maintaining a long bias. i think that is pretty obvious across the board. customers are at this point, retail customers would rather be long and in the market than not be in the market. >> december is usually good. it's supposed to be good. it was not good. was that normal? and healthy the last month? >> healthy, yes. maybe it wasn't as normal because the rest of the year had been so strong. i think a pullback was you know, i don't think a 1 or 2 or 3% percent pullback is a bad thing or a surprise to anybody. if you look at the entire year, it's a pretty impressive display this year. so, i think the little tiny pull back in december didn't mean anything. >> what are going to be the most important