coach bill o'brien joins me now for an exclusive interview. coach o'brien, welcome to you. >> hey, piers, how are you doing? thanks for having me on tonight. >> you've had this extraordinary run which really nobody was expecting. it started obviously amid extremely difficult circumstances. when you took over from the legendary joe paterno with all the shame and scandal that had befallen penn state, be honest with me, what was really going through your mind? >> well, i knew that it was going to be a difficult challenge and so the first thing i tried to do was put together a great coaching staff and i think that's what we've done here. then obviously, we spent a lot of time with the players and we talked to the players about moving forward and what this university was all about, which was a great chance to get a fantastic education and play good football, and so we weren't here then, so we knew that this was a chance for us as a new football coaching staff to help these kids and help this athletic department and this university move forward. >> t

o'brien. >> my fear is that we're going to see people turning away from buying my product if the price gets too high. >> reporter: since the farm billar, the milk marketing board is concerned producers like o'brien won't know what to expect during the next four years. >> if the farm bill is not replaced or extended, it reverts back to some legislation that goes back to 1949. and that has to do with the government buying surplus dairy products. and then using those numbers to determine what the price of milk is. >> if things go back to the parity level as established then, we're going to see our milk prices double, and that means that that price is going to have to be passed onto the consumer and the consumer can see $7, $9 milk. >> robson says they hope legislators will reach a decision soon. >> in discussions on the fiscal cliff, any changes or extensions or whatever to the farm bill could be included in any legislation as passed there. >> i certainly hope they can resolve things here by the end of the year, but it doesn't look very favorable. >> and a reminder, the senate passed a farm bill in june. supporters are calling on lawma

o'brien. >>> plus, a veteran reporter struggles to the tell the story of his son's problems takes him to visit bill clinton and george bush and realizes he must dig deep sbeer his own shortcomings as a father. ron foreign yeah on the pain and promise of personal journalism. i'm howard kurtz and this is "reliable sources." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> the most memorable moment on sunday night football took place during halftime. the game aired one day after that shocking tragedy in which kansas city chief's linebacker javon belcher allegedly shot himself and hids girlfriend and nbc sforts caster bob costas decided to dough vote his talking to guns. his own feelings were quite clear. >> you want some actual perspective on this? well, a bit of it comes from the kansas city based righter jason wit lock with whom i do not always agree but today said it so well that we may as well quote or pair phrase from the end of his article. our current gun culture, wit lock wrote, ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, but here, wrote jason wit lock, is what i be

they replaced leno with conan o'brien and that plan failed miserably. >> bill: yeah, how did that workaurants open on christmas day this year but those workers giving you your big mac and fries will not be getting a dime extra for working on the big holiday. raw story is reporting mcdonald's is encouraging its franchisees to open on christmas to help a final year-end sales push but they will not pay those employees who choose to work overtime. they say they will only ask the employees to voluntarily sign up for shifts. >> bill: you know, peter isn't that just outrageous? >> read between the lines. >> bill: this is why we need unions. this is why they should be able to organize. even if they volunteer to work on christmas at least give them time and a half. >> give them an extra french fry in the meal. >> yeah, right. if you drink a lot of diet pepsi, a big change is coming to the soda. you may not really notice. they're changing the type of artificial sweetener that they use in the soda. right now, it is aspartame but they're also adding asulfame which is supposed to make the drink hol