barbra streisand will not be singing at a fundraiser in california. she performed at a 2008 fundraiser for him. she is performed at fund raisers going back to john f. kennedy. the white house gearing up later today 35 thousand stroirzs expect to do take part in the traditional south lawn which includes games music and dancing. the theme let's go let's move. >> your wallets your values. people at one liberal down is facing as they are faced to approve oil drilling for face bankruptcy. >> oo this is poornt story let me explain why. for the nation's largest sources of oil is right there under pacific southern california. yet we haven't drilled a new well offshore in about three decades in california. fermosa beach where gas prices are 3.30, 3.40 a gallon they can do that but they have to get in bed with an oil company. >> 2 square miles of sun and sand. if there's controversy do they vote their environmental conscience and go broke or approve oil drilling on city land and get rich. >> $400 million. >> sheer greed that this situation ever started: >> 50 y

. >> barbra streisand.ell you, i adored -- and new barbra streisand for years, since she was 19 years old and she came over from brooklyn to manhattan back in 1960, i was doing a show about television series, talk, entertainment, and more. we heard about a talented woman who was singing in greenwich village and i invited her to join us on the year. she came on -- i remember this so well -- and she sang "a sleeping bee"from the house of flowers in a heartbreaking way. then she began to take yourself very seriously. difficult, temperamental, people were just beginning to realize how extraordinary she was. and now interesting to talk about. the first time she came on, she had on a granny dress down to hear and she had a bunch of keys. i asked with the keys were and she'd come up "oh, i sit around." [laughter] i have to go home to brooklyn after swinging at bon soir. in any case, our paths did not cross again for some time after that. and she was a glorious voice. i asked her if she wanted to come on "60 minute

and i love barbra streisand's response. you invite me on your show to talk and say i'm self-involved? [ laughter ] >> barbra streisand didn't mind the 40 million people watching that side of her, right? >> you'd have to ask her. >> wide world of news could do that kind of news and interview world leaders. >> and, again, we said it a couple of weeks ago, "60 minutes" is still doing it, which is incredible. anybody that stayed after the masters like you said, they still know how to do it. and just nobody, nobody has that consistency through the years. and it all started with mike wallace and don hewitt. harry reasoner. >> morley safer. >> leslie stahl. >> wow. >> yeah. >>> all right. we've got a lot more to talk about, and some news to cover as well. coming up, tom brokaw will be here. also, mayor cory booker. the secretary for housing and development shawn donovan, and andrea mitchell. but up next, mike allen and the top stories coming up in politico. >> he's been important for a 15th of a century. >> yes. but first, let's g

. >>> and barbra streisand turns 70. >>> here's what's coming up later on this morning on the "today" show. and rosy o'donnell joins the "today" show for an appearance. a boy band from chicago will provide live in the studio. keep it on this channel for continuing local news, weather, sports and more. i'm lynn berry. thanks for watching "early today", just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. have a good one.

>> yeah, barbra streisand. >> he stole the barbra streisand story? >> he did.topped talking to him, he wouldn't know i wasn't talking to him. >> how did he steal a story? he would hear you might be working on it? >> yeah. i was telling someone in the recording studio and he was there. he was waiting to get in to do his recording. and he ran off. and then the next thing i knew, she agreed to do it with him. i guess he called her. >> wow. >> that'll teach her. >> it's interesting. when i got there i was surprised. even when you print out they will go over to make sure no one else sees it. is that just a -- >> no, it was just mike. but you know, we're telling that story. i loved him. i totally loved him. and i was -- i laughed. i laughed after about two weeks. >> right. but he and don hewitt used to have fights. there used to be fights at "60 minutes," like screaming matches, didn't there? >> yeah. they didn't talk at each other. they yelled at each other. only occasionally did it get so bad that they weren't really talking with each over and you worry about the f

. >> barbra streisand: absolutely. are you kidding? stahl: he first met barbra streisand in the 1960s, when she was a guest on a talk show he hosted. three decades later on "60 minutes," they crossed swords in one of mike's most controversial interviews. >> wallace: i really didn't like you back 30 years ago. and i don't think you liked me, either. >> streisand: i thought you were mean. i thought you were very mean. >> wallace: you know something? 20 or 30 years of psychoanalysis. i say to myself, what is it she's trying to find out that takes 20 to 30 years? >> streisand: i'm a slow learner. and why do you sound so accusatory, too? >> wallace: i'm not accusing. >> streisand: are you against psychotherapy? >> stahl: and then, there's shirley maclaine. she got the full wallace treatment in 1984. >> wallace: you really believe that you lived lives before. >> shirley maclaine: oh, yes, mike. i do, there's no doubt in my mind about it. >> wallace: and you really believe in extraterrestrial... how, do they come visit you on the porch? "now

>> he interviewed presidents, salvador dali, jack kevorkian, frank lloyd wright, malcolm x, barbra streisand, and a ton of shady characters, and he used a kind of detective technique throughout. >> he was a really good writer and a great story teller, and he could have reeled you into the story. you wanted to know more about the character. >> his name at birth was myron in 1918 in brookline, mass. his parents came here from russia. he went to college at michigan, he served in the navy in world war ii and then into radio and eventually tv. he bravely and openly fought depression for years after a nervous breakdown and a suicide attempt brought on by a damaging lawsuit brought by retired general william westmoreland. about himself, he left us with two quotes. he said he walked a fine line between sadism and intellectual curiosity. he also asked us to remember him as tough but fair. mike wallace, gone tonight at the age of 93. that is our broadcast on a monday night. thank you for being here with us as we start off a new week. i'm brian williams. we, of course, hope to see you right back here t

reporter: leonard bernstein, johnny carson, pavarotti, janice joplin, tina turner, salvador iali, barbra streisand. >> you would love to control this piece? >> absolutely. are you kidding? >> what are you trying to prove? >> nothing. >> reporter: his take no cisoner style became so famous y. even spoofed it with comedian jack benny. ns i'm not going! i don't have to answer anything. i don't. i don't. i don't. ( laughter ) >> reporter: it's hard to believe but when mike was born in 1918 there wasn't even a adio in most american homes, ieve less tv. >> i was a pretty good kid. you know, i was-- i was-- i was .n overachiever. i worked very hard. played a hell of a fiddle. >> reporter: at the university of michigan were his parents hoped he would become a doctor or a lawyer, he got hooked instead on radio. and by 1941 mike was the announcer on the green hornet. rikeide, another pulling, the green hornet strikes again. no my family didn't know what to make of it. an announcer? >> reporter: and soon the hardest working anouncer in oaoadcasting. >> hello. i'm mike wallace with real news. >> reporter: whe

wallace is widely known as the man who made barbra streisand cry. his last interview was with baseball star roger clemens in 2008. clemens was trying to fight off accusations of steroid use. wallace's go for the throat interview style led him to attempt suicide after a $120 million libel suit. in 2005 he told the late tim russert he wanted his epithet to read tough but fair. mike wallace was 93 years old. >>> crews in virginia beach spent this easter sunday digging through the wreckage of that fighter jet crash searching for the jet's flight recorder. now the navy is hoping it will help them get some answers as to what caused the f-18 to crash. the jet slammed into an apartment complex on friday just minutes after takeoff. the pilot safely ejected from the plane and miraculouslyio ngo one on the ground was badly hurt. dozens of apartments were destroyed. one man who was forced to move into a hotel said today he doesn't blame the navy. he says they've always been a good neighbor to him. >>> well, revenge may have been one of the motives behind a shoo

>> barbra streisand you know her you love her polar rising figure because of political views. parity is a godzilla like monster, south park, the simpsons, family guy, "saturday night live"? which program parody? the answer is roll the tape. ♪ >> all right. that was south park. >> you both got that wrong, too. >> no i got it right. >> i have to pay attention. >> you are the driver. >> this is the most confusing part. >> you are ahead by one. doocy is totally out of it. check the tie out on doocy today. >> purple poke awe dots. >> you are lucky i am wearing pants. >> oh, thank god. (laughter) >> frank sinatra died in 1998, what song title is engraved on sinatra's tombstone. come fly with me, fly me to the moon, young at heart or the best is yet to come? what is engraved on sinatra's stone? roll that tape. ♪ the best is yet to come ♪ babe won't it be fine ♪ ♪ the best is yet to come ♪ come the day that you are mine ♪ >> i saw him. i never saw elvis but i saw sinat sinatra. he is so good. just his stage presence the whole thing. you got that right. >> he got it right. >> it's a ti

barbra streisand supplies the theme song. what's too painful to remember we simply choose to forget. they're trying to sweep away the accomplishment that has accumulated of this administration's brilliant foreign policy to link it to around the world. our ideals have been practiced and our ideas have won the way. not our military might. as for the big stick, i think that obama is a great man who understands how to use his stick and his carrot and i think he is a great president because of that. >> professor dyson, we have to draw to a close. ana marie cox and david corn. thank you so much. >>> next, forget mitt. is john boehner the president's real opponent? stay with us. >> this is biggest job in the world. and i've never seen a president make it smaller. the president keeps attempting to invent these fake fights because he doesn't have a record of success or a positive agenda for our country. it is as simple as this. the emperor has no clothes. if you're one of those folks who gets heartburn and then treats day after day...

. >> why do you say to barbra streisand, your mother says you don't have time for anyone. >> these arenteresting questions. why do you ask them? they're interesting. >> do you ever say i'm going to embarrass them? >> no, i don't have subpoena powers. they know who i am when they come on. they know the kind of questions i asked -- actually i didn't start asking questions until he was 38 years old, but -- and i have to do certain things. i remember before you -- before you -- we lost your brother. i used to do all kinds of -- >> commercials, cigarette commercials, sent me to college. >> that's correct. i said i've got to raise the kids, therefore i'll do whatever i have to do. after we lost peter, i said i can't hide behind that anymore and what i'm going to do is in the memory of your brother, your older brother, peter, i'm going to do something that i am proud of doing and that he would be proud to have me do. >> as you look over the whole career, all the places you've gone, all the people you've met, what do you make of it? what do you make of myron lee roy wallace of brookline, massa

. >> it's a duet made famous by barbra streisand and neil -- neil diamond, called "you don't bring me-- do whatever you want. ♪ you don't bring me flowers and you don't don't sing me love songs ♪ >> where you going? where you going? ♪ you hardly talk to me anymore ♪ [ laughter ] ♪ when i come through the door at the end of the day ♪ [ laughter ] ♪ i remember when you couldn't wait to love me you used to hate to leave ♪ >> don't do it. >> jimmy: i'm not. ♪ now after loving me late at night well it's good -- ♪ >> you blew my hair back. >> jimmy: blow your hair back? >> you blew my hair back. >> jimmy: oh. ♪ for you babe >> yep. ♪ you're feeling all right ♪ ♪ well you don't roll over ♪ >> not breaking. ♪ and turn out the lights [ laughter ] ♪ you don't bring me flowers >> you're laughing. ♪ anymore [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: you got this one. >> i win again. >> jimmy: rachael harris, everybody. >> thank you. >> jimmy: "natural selection" is in theaters right now. marcus foster performs next. [ cheers and applause ] you can't touch my face. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ [ stella ] here

she only needs one more to tie barbra streisand who has had nine. >> i didn't know that. >> good songsong.  [ female announcer ] why shop at walgreens this easter? so you can avoid this. this line is ridiculous. [ man on loudspeaker ] price check, aisle six. [ clears throat ] really? yup. [ female announcer ] just go to walgreens. short lines, great parking and all their easter favorites, like reese's peanut butter eggs, m&m's chocolate candies, starburst jelly beans and oreo cream-filled brownies. plus russell stover chocolate bunnies, toys and other easter delights. shopping simplified. with walgreens, there's a way. >>> a new look and taste for burger king and now it is going public again. plus, apple could be headed toward appear unprecedented move. lauren simonetti has this morning's business beat. good morning. >> good morning. >> let's start off with stocks real quick. they fell tuesday. how are things looking today in. >> much worse than yesterday. the dow is down 65 points because the fed kind of convinced us that they may not pump more money into the economy. but t

so we want to take you down memory lane, with the help of the great barbra streisand, here you go. ♪emories, like the corners of my mind ♪ ♪ memory of the way we were >> president obama said that he designed obama care after romney care. and basically made it obamney care. ♪ scattered pictures of the smiles we left behind ♪ ♪ smiles we gave to one another ♪ ♪ for the way we were >> the tea party is a dynamic force for good in our national conversation. and it's an honor for me to speak with you. ♪ can it be that it was all some simple thing ♪ ♪ or has time rewritten every line ♪ ♪ if we had the chance to do it all again ♪ ♪ tell me would we ♪ could we >> i have accomplished something that nobody else has been able to accomplish. i was just informed that our president has finally released a birth certificate. ♪ memories, may they be beautiful ♪ ♪ and yet what's too painful to remember ♪ ♪ we simply choose to forget >> 9-9-9 replaces five taxes. ♪ so it's the laughter that we remember ♪ >> it's three agencies of government when i get there that are gone. commerce, education and the --

. >> and brought barbra streisand to the brink of tears. >> ht 4 million people have to see like do thisyear career, e wace sd as titun. richard cantu, abc news, new york. >> an institution indeed. >> aby. and yow fie somcasew ha you have to look b careikec3 end of a life but the end of a news era. jus ll har, attle more serious. >> that's right. it's hard to believe his last interview was in 2008. quite a long time ago. >> it was. he actually fought heart surgery a few years ago. stayed out of the public limelight. was up in connecticut. that's where he passed over the weekend. a long and extraordinary life. 93 years old. sleep well, mr. wallace. >>> in other news this morning -- jennifer hudson will be in a chicago courtroom later this morning. the oscar-winning singer/actress will be attending the trial of the man accused of killing her mother, brother and nephew. hudson plans to attend every day of william balfour's trial and may be called as a witness herself. prosecutors say balfour shot the family in a jealous rage because his estranged wife, hudson's sister, was dating another ma

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. >> janis joplin, tina turner, salvador dally, barbra streisand. >> you would love to control -- >> absolutely, are you kidding .. >> what are you trying to prove? >> nothing. >> his take no prisoners style became so famous he even spoofed it with comedian jack benny. >> i am not going! i am not answering anything! >> it is hard to believe, but when mike was born in 1918, there wasn't even a radio in most american homes, much less tv. >> i was a pretty good kid. i was an over achiever and i worked very hard, played a hell of a fiddle. >> the university of michigan where his parents hoped he would become a doctor or lawyer he got hooked instead of radio. and by 1941, mike was the announcer on the greenhorn net. >> ride with another thrilling adventure. the greenhorn net strikes again. >> the family didn't know what to make of it, and, an announcer? >> and soon the hardest working announcer in broadcasting. >> hello, i am mike wallace with real news. >> hello, everybody, hello. >> when television arrived in the 1950's, mike was everywhere. >> variety shows, game shows, dramas, commerc

. >> barbra streisand. i tell you, i adored -- and new barbra streisand for years, since she was 19 years old and she came over from brooklyn to manhattan back in 1960, i was doing a show about television series, talk, entertainment, and more. we heard about a talented woman who was singing in greenwich village and i invited her to join us on the year. she came on -- i remember this so well -- and she sang "a sleeping bee"from the house of flowers in a heartbreaking yway. then she began to take yourself very seriously. difficult, temperamental, people were just beginning to realize how extraordinary she was. and now interesting to talk about. the first time she came on, she had on a granny dress down to hear and she had a bunch of keys. i asked with the keys were and she'd come up "oh, i sit around." [laughter] i have to go home to brooklyn after swinging at bon soir. in any case, our paths did not cross again for some time after that. and she was a glorious voice. i asked her if she wanted to come on "60 m

luciano and janis joplin and tina turner and barbra streisand. >> what are you trying to prove?> nothing! >> reporter: his take no prisoner style became so famous, he even spoofed it with comedian jack benny. >> i'm not going! i don't have to ask for anything! i don't! >> reporter: it's hard to believe but when mike was born in 1918, there wasn't even a radio in most of the american homes, much less tv. >> i was a pretty good kid. you know, i was -- i was -- i was and overachiever. i worked very hard. played a hell of a fiddle. >> reporter: at the university of michigan where his parents hoped he would become a doctor or lawyer, he got hooked instead on radio. by 1941, mike was the announcer on "the green hornet." >> ride as he races to another adventure. the green hornet strikes again! hello! i'm mike wallace with real news. ♪ ♪ hello everybody >> reporter: when television arrived in the 1950s, mike was everywhere. >> it's proctor and gamble's golden fluffo. good evening. i'm mike wallace. the show is "nightbeat." >> reporter: first broadcast in 1956 that mike remembers fitting

. >> celebrities have often said, barbra streisand likes to be shot showing her left side. >> donaldiah carey. >> which way does he comb his hair? >> that explains the combover is on the left. >> left to right. >> i don't know. >> does he have a good side, donald trump? >> absolutely. >> how about celine dion? >> celine dion? can we have that picture? >> also the left. >> and what they're saying is when you get a picture taken or you meet someone you should casually kind of just turn slightly -- >> but that -- >> so they're turning. >> keep turning. keep turning. >> keep turning. >> he's got every good side. [ laughs ] [ laughs ] [ laughs ] [ laughs ] that's awesome. you can read that? ♪ [ female announcer ] the accufit digital system, exclusively at lenscrafters... is about 5 times more precise than manual measurement techniques. lenscrafters. ever since i can remember. my name is paul fabry, and i grow oranges in florida for tropicana. my grandpa taught me that there's no orange like a florida orange. they're grown in just the right soil... with the perfect amount of sunshine. see,

we've learned barbra streisand will not sing at a fundraiser for the president next month in californiandraiser for him and she's performed at fundraisers for other democrats going all wait back to the 1960's. president obama has seen a drastic decline in money from hollywood this time around. he took in $2.8 million in 2008 but it plummeted last year to $1 1/2 million. those are your headlines and i believe that would not include the super pac money. >> right. >> ♪ people who need super pac money ♪ >> i thought she retired. when you retire, you can't sing. >> she's not going to be singing for him. >> let's talk about the economy a little bit because should the president continue to campaign on the economy? should that be the central focus when unemployment now is still at 8.2%. many people still out of work obviously. and gas prices so high. well, maybe that's why the focus has turned more to what's been deemed this war on women by the republican party. and it appears that in some respects, it has worked for president obama because in the last month, the polls have swung back in his fa