bill bradley is... i mean, how can you be better than bill bradley? you were going to come to duke and went to princeton, became ncaa all american and then became a roads skoal or and then become an nba all star and then became an olympian and then a united states senator. >> i like the way this clock is ticking. >> charlie: i'm just sitting there saying, oh, my god. how great it is to be bill bradley. you know? so congratulations fo being bill bradley. >> my goodness. that's the nicest anything has said to me today. >> charlie: you get it all the time, don't you? >> no. >> charlie: if you walk out on to a basketball court. let's assume it's an empty gym. somebody throws you the ball. you are behind. out of 25, how many would you sink behind the key? >> i'd take five to warm up. then i think might sink out of the remaining 20 maybe eight. >> charlie: eight. and at your best, how many would you sink? >> wel when i was in gh school, i would... had a routine where i had hit 25 in a row from five spots. >> charlie: before you would go home. >> if i get to

a conversation with bill bradley. he is out with the new text about ideas for solving america's biggest challenges. it is called "we can all do better." we remember music icon and donna summer. she joins us here on this program for the occasion of for first new collections of songs and almost 17 years. we're glad you have joined us. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where walmart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: i am pleased to welcome bill bradley to this program. he is out with a new text about ideas of how to fix our broken political system. the book is called "we can all do better." he joins us tonight from new york. the title of the book suggested there is a role for each and every one of us as americans to play to make this nation a nation that will one day be as good as its promise. i agree with y

"we can all do better" senator bill bradley joins us now. welcome. here with us senator ... >>good to be with you steve ... >>so how can we all do better? >>i was looking at two wars on the other side of the world and the economic conditions in this country i thought to myself we can do better not only economics and policy but we as individuals how much we read how much we find an ourself the selflessness part of our being and how we take care of our health ... >>there's one man who shines shoes at the pittsburgh children's hospital and after every tip he got heat created a fund to pay for health care for poor children and that amounted to over $100,000 after several years of his labor ... that's one example i state ... >>and the influence of money in politics is one route of many evils you discuss ... >>we know what's happening because of this ... the things we need to do for middle-class americans are not have being there is no lobby ... and that's the backbone of citizenry and that's where the action ought to come from ... democracy is not a vicar

and i'm going to talk to bill bradley about how. but first i'm no assassin, but i do have a few questions about character. good morning. i'm melissa harris-perry. yesterday in the afternoon a little cheer went up here in nordland when we got the news that the ncaap joined the growing chorus of equality and voted on a resolution in support of marriage equality. finally. the organization focused civil rights, is supporting the rights of everyone who wishes to marry. it's quite a show of character and i'll have a little more on that later in our show. but actually character seems to be in the news a lot but not always in a good way. lately we've been hearing about character assassination and i'm a nice guy, which makes me feel like i'm about to watch a soap opera like this. >> as sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives. ♪ >> okay. the reality is that these accusations of character assassination are not part of a soap opera. they're about the angst that mitt romney feels about how he perceives president obama's campaig

but you going down, bro. >> joining me now is another basketball star, bill bradley.s a rm toer presidential candidate and host of american voices on xm. welcome. >> good to be with you, piers. >> what did you make of charles barkley there trashing it out against mitt romney. we're going to beat you like a drum. did you go along with that? >> sounded like a lot of people i knew on the court. >> what it did do, ironically, is lead us perfectly to your central premise of your book which is in all this kind of partisan trash talking can lead to where it seems to any observer that very little gets done as they trash each other. tell us about that. >> one of the reasons i wanted to write this book is to give people hope. we have had problems in the past, depressions, wars. but we've overcome those problems. at the core the american people are good. they're good people. and that we have political institutions that are flexible enough for us to address our problems. what we need are politicians to put country ahead of party and tell people the truth. >> you see, what a lot o

. >>> a lot has changed since bill bradley ran for president. >> forget it we're on our way to victory. >> tonight he's here to talk about one of my favorite topics. keeping america great. >>> and the last time suzanne somers was here, things got interesting. >> feel my lips. feel my lips. >> they feel real. >> i'm looking forward to it. she's back with what she says is the secret to the fountain of youth. >>> plus only in america. why american airlines grounded two very frequent fliers. this is "piers morgan tonight." >>> good evening. breaking news tonight, the foiled terror plot to bomb an american airliner. a senior u.s. official says al qaeda is responsible and the device was intended for use by a suicide bomber. also the would be bomber is quote, not a threat anymore. listen to leon panetta. >> what this incident makes clear is that this country has to continue to remain vigilant against those who would seek to attack this country. and we will do everything necessary to keep america safe. >> we got a big story tonight. the campaign's reaction to the plot and the hot buttons from

bill. senator bradley, you suggested here that part of that, right, sort of even having a strong civil societyget engaged if we don't have living wage jobs. talk to me about the specific policies you suggest in the context of the book for how government can be involved in generating and creating living wage jobs. >> in the short term, i think that if a company hires an additional worker and doesn't lay anybody off, the fed rat government for two years ought to pay 30% of the cost for that worker. that would employ millions of americans and not one taxpayer dollar would be spent unless jobs were created. when you look at the midterm, there's one startling fact. that is nonfinancial corporations have 1.8 trillion dollars on their books in cash and liquid assets. if 20% of that was spent to hire people at the median income of $49,000, unemployment would be 5%. so why don't they? because it's uncertain. we need a rainy day fund. if we provide widgets, nobody will buy them because we don't have the confidence in them. you do tax, entitlement, and defense, and you then deal with the demand for infra

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bill bradley will be climbing the largest mountain in north america. he leaves for alaska.ll smiling? nine people have died? wall trying to climb the summit in alaska? >> that was just last year {laughter} >>gary: yes just nine people. why are you laughing? >> you have to laugh at this. >>gary: to wages, his life is on the line in the next five minutes. enjoy stay with us [ female announcer ] safeway presents real big deals of the week. or how to get great prices on things you need. we know you look around for the best deals. that's why we give you real big club card deals each week. this week a crazy low price on tide, $10.99 for 100 ounces. 12 rolls of bounty are $11.99. that's a dollar a roll! pack your lunches -- marie callender's are just 2 bucks. real big deals this week and every week. only at safeway. ingredients for life. >>gary: we are talking about bill bradley attempting to climb mount mckinley. over 20,000 ft.. this is his training on the matterhorn. his motto is show up. some of the most ferocious weather in the world. last year, nine people died while trying

bill bradley.akes us inside his politico op-ed explaining what republicans and conservatives may be facing in a split. plus, the west coast morning headlines. first, here's bill karins way check on the forecast. bill? >> good morning to you, joe. a gloomy may up in areas of new england especially northern new england this morning locked into the cool weather and just rainy conditions. covered in rain. this area of green is light rain and it's now starting to invade all of maine, new hampshire, vermont, your covered in it. the adirondacks to upstate new york, back to western new york. state college and pittsburgh a gloomy, gloomy morning for you. rain starting to end in areas of ohio. almost done in columbus and in charleston, you're in the rain shuors for a good portion of your day and wet weather in central texas. this is actually where we need it. pretty serious threat. your tuesday forecast, rainy day for much of texas and new england. we are beautiful in the middle of the country. still have af

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he is the ultimate adventurer, his name is bill bradley and he will be attempting to climb north america'snt mckinley in alaska. 20,320 ft.. last year, nine people vice while attempting to summit of mount mckinley. he joined us earlier tonight, he has a personality and he is ready to roll. >> you have to have a sense of humor or you will not do it. you check to make sure they you are in control. >>gary: you are not a guy on your own, you have three children. what do they think of that risking his life? >> my children are grown and i do have life insurance. there will not have to fall me out, throw me in bed and say i died of natural causes. >>gary: why do you need this? >> i like showing people what is possible. i am an average of talented guy and the odds are 300-one of me dying. that is if you do something stupid serious >> you try to figure out why those guys indicted you try not to do the same thing. most of the people who live died are undecided. i have a guide. >>gary: you swim, you buy, you do everything. this is not just a first run at history. >> i have swam 17 mi. in the english

now, it would have been bill bradley center left rather than it bob packwood, jack it would been fundamental tax reform. what if the president stood up and said you know what? there are some things in simpson boles i like and we may not get the grand bargain but i'm going to ask congress to take these things that there seems to be widespread, partisan agreement on and i & i'm going to work to get it done. and then actually work to get it done rather than i'll have a speech, get paul ryan in the front of the room and excoriate his as being a radical plan. if he had done that, we'd be sitting there saying he's the leader, he knows what he wants to do, he's given us a sense of the big problems we need to get america growing again, we need to deal with this deficit problem we've got. what if he'd gone in there and said here are -- he said when he ran for office i'm going to scrub the budget and end programs that do not work. what if he'd done that last year, made that a big key element? he would have absolutely taken the air out of the republican tires. and be moving ahead. and it would have all

throat -- would put a flag in the flowerpot any time you wanted to meet him deep in the garage. >> bill: bradley he wasn't sure about the flowerpot allegedly. >> allegedly. >> bill: i guess he did say it at one time. >> he admits he doesn't know. there's no way for him to know. there are two people who know. there's deep throat and there's woodward. deep throat is dead. >> bill: woodward says that's the way it happened. so, woodward as you pointed out, bob woodward did come out very clearly and said hey wait a minute. he said that but on the other hand, there is this other interview. what he now -- the part that he says in his book is either incomplete or wrong so does he survive this? >> yeah, i think he certainly survives it. barring someone like a carl bernstein coming forward and saying actually there was no flowerpot or something like that. yeah, i think he survives this. but i think what happens here is it raises -- this is not the first time somebody's raised questions about woodward's reporting and you know, it becomes a footnote on his biography or maybe it moves up and becomes a little

. >> eric: bill bradley this morning, john kerry. >> greg: who cares?at in itself concerning? >> greg: the tea party is back. they're a little older than everybody else so they were taking a long nap, probably in the afternoon. now what we're going to see, really scary, we will see riots and the rains, the terrorist plots -- riots, the rapes, the terror it plots. oh, wait. that was the other group. >> bob: keep in mind lugar was being challenged by hig right to vote in the state. he doesn't have residency in the state. barely won that. and he couldn't name the address on his driver's license. >> eric: lugar was making calls to democrats for votes. whatever. the demographic of the tea party exactly mirrors the demographic of the united states of america. >> bob: my gosh. >> eric: go to gallup.com -- >> dana: do we have a bet? >> eric: yeah. >> dana: can someone wear a frilly shirt? >> bob: mirrors it absolutely? wait a minute. exactly mirrors -- >> eric: yes. okay. >> greg: i wonder how al-qaeda felt about the tea party. >> eric: can we let "the five" be

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former senator bill bradley very disappointed in last night's results.e has a book and joins us live. you can't play on the knicks. you're not tall enough. it's showtime for savings. excuse me, sir, how much are you charging for your popcorn? $4.00. $4.00. i'm just going to let the people have a choice. $1.00 for popcorn. come and get it. guess we'll make it two. you got it. progressive showed me my options, i'm showing you yours $1.00, fresh popcorn. enjoy the show. you should have an option, just like with car insurance. that is a really great price. >> if you're just waking up, couple of quick headlines for you. closing arguments are set to begin today in the murder trial of william balfour, the man accused of killing jennifer hudson's mother, brother and nephew. police say her former brother-in-law killed them in a jealous rage. since the trial began, more than 80 witnesses have taken the stand and it wasn't quite the fairy tale ending they had planned. dressed in their prom best, a group of teens of milwaukee, wisconsin were taking pictures in the p

check five bill bradley has a book out called we can all do better. senator from jersey is a throw-back democrat. >> i agree personal responsibility is terribly important. our politics ends up being a battle between two competing ethics, the ethic of carrying, collective action, associated with democrats, the ethic of responsibility, individual action associated with republicans. >> bill: right. >> that's what the debate is when the truth is we need both. >> bill: indeed. finally, check 6, jeopardy guy alex trebek has a question about killing lincoln telling the daily beast, quote: i have read a few beak books recently on lincoln including bill o'reilly. i would like to talk to bill about something. in his book it took abraham 20 minutes before he was pronounced dead. another book said one of the other fellows took 20 minutes to die. i have to do a little bit more research, unquote. can you take what martin and i have written about lincoln's last moments to the bank, alex. absolutely precise minute by minute what happened to hill. i want to really app

and i'm going to talk to bill bradley about how.ut character.

former senator bill bradley presents his analysis of the state of the union and offers solutions for job creation, deficit reduction and education in we can all do better. in road to freedom. the how to win the fight for free enterprise arthur brooks, president of the american enterprise institute argues that free enterprise is suffering due to the expanding size of government. former professional basketball player will alan recounts his founding of an urban farm in milwaukee that produces enough food to feed thousands year round in the good food revolution. in notes on a century:reflections of a middle east historian professor of near eastern studies americas at princeton university bernard lewis recounts his career and the transformation of the middle east from world war ii to the arabs spring. labor party parliament member tom watson and journalist martin hit man present and expos of news corp's in dial m for murdoch:news corp. and the corruption of written. in yours in truth, personal fortune of ben bradley, the career of the former washington post executive editor and provides b

. >> tonight on the great american panel, he was bill bradley's deputy campaign manager.what a campaign that was. jacques degraff. the chief executive officer of concerned women for america, penny nance and a fox news analyst, sonny jurgensen, welcome to all of you. okay, a normal election year, the president running for re-election leads his part. he is the standard bearer, but not this year. i will give you one example. heidi hidecamp, the attorney general of north dakota was asked about her president, our president, president obama. she said -- democrat -- i think he has failed in the one test america had for him, to unite the country... >> other than that, he's great. failing every test. this is a democrat! >> the first rule of tolpolitics is to get elected and the second rule is get re-elected. she is trying to get elected and those politics work for her at this time. but i guarantee you at the convention, she will be singing a different song. >> that's what i started to say, not just that, but west virginia, missouri, montana, pennsylvania, they are all running away