texas governor and future josh brolin role rick perry. and i am not the only one who is sporting a texas long horn. >> the new infatuation is rick perry, governor of texas. i'm very interested in rick perry. >> who's your dream candidate to get into the race? >> i would love for rick perry to get into it. >> this man needs to be president. >> stephen: (as last speaker) i complete... ahem. i completely agree. this man needs to be president. we haven't had a texas governor in the white house for almost three years! think of all the uncleared brush we've built up! (laughter) and, folks, perry may be going for it because on august 6 he is holding a rally called "the response." >> this is governor rick perry and i'm inviting you to join your fellow americans in a day of prayer and fasting on behalf of our nation. with the economy in trouble, communities in crisis, and people adrift in a sea of moral relativism, we need god's help. i sincerely hope you'll join me in houston on august 6 and take your place in reliance stadium with praying people

the brolin from a drug rehab center can all of them had criminal records against them. they, too, became victims in this grand scheme. tavis: how does it feel to sit here after the ordeal and still not have complete closure on this because you cannot, at the moment at least, get a full pardon from the set of illinois? >> through the grace of god, in the situations like mine, like theirs, to be used to bring attention -- yes, i hurt. i did not get to go to high school, go to the prom, play football, all of those things that i desired to do. but reverend jackson has given me an opportunity to head up this project here. i feel like a soldier in the military. i get to go behind enemy lines and bring those home and give my voice to those who do not have a voice. this is my way of healing. there is no curriculum to deal with what we went through in any institution. tavis: let me ask one last question for you, john. how does a teenager process the state wanting to give him the death penalty? how does a teenager psychologically process that? i ask that because we know there are

products and be a third-party shippers and only have to do is sit in my basement and watch the money brolin. and the software that goes along with your credit card and creating your store and the tracking is exactly like what exists today for the sales tax. >> could that lead to even more offshore businesses such such as the bomb was? so you don't have to worry about the sales tax issue. >> there is concern about that but it's not very much because of the stuff has to go to the customers and to the extent that someone is able to bring something to the united states without going to customs i suppose that could happen that the overwhelming majority becomes through customs, so there has to be some -- the federal government actually has a hand in helping the states administer that sales tax, not a very good hand but there is some discussion that there would be something that we would want to make sure doesn't happen to the islamic what about the argument as raised by "the wall street journal" editorial page and others that an overstock of calm to doesn't require the same services the local gro

>> josh brolin. >> he is josh brolin. look at him. he's josh brolin playing george w. bush.merica ready for another texan, joe? >> i think america is always ready for another texan president. i just don't think they're ready for this one. >> jim vandehei, thank you so much. we'll see you soon. >> i'm sorry, come on, now, man. i love texas. and i mean that. i love texas. but this -- >> this is the silly season. it's the silly season. >> rick perry is imitating josh brolin imitating george w. bush. i just don't think that's going to happen. look at that. it's -- >> yes. >> by the way, i will say it again, we met him on the air. i liked him very much. he's a cocky guy, he's very confident. we had a lot of fun with him, willie, right? >> nice guy, good swagger to him. >> he's got a big old swagger and got the g.w. imitation down. not in 2012, i don't think. >> it's like you need a whole bunch of fake candidates and then some real candidates. we can follow the fake ones right up to the end. ÷x >> announcer: this past year alone there's been a 67% spike in companies embracing the

sterling" where josh brolin is playing a senator who was going to filibuster the debt ceiling because you use the phrase must pass. this was always called a must-pass bill. everyone knew, even the people who were going to vote against it as a stunt, that it must pass. so no one actually got in the way of it. they were just in -- you know this is outrageous. but they always made sure that they were going to be 51 senators who voted for it and just enough house members. so, you know, this is unimaginable but here we are in unimaginable space. i reason i knew it on election nightcy listen to the tea party. i knew they don't know what the debt ceiling is. when they find out what it, is they're really not going to likejohn boehner is going to be stuck where he is now. >> i keep thinking about john boehner herding cats. but in this case -- >> you know, that's the senate majority leader job. that has always been a group of independent people. the house has always run like a soviet institution. there was never any suspense. it was never -- this is the kind of thing would happen every once or

lo, tom hanks, josh brolin and more. >> they're coming over here and sort of like royalty to us, as well. we look at them as our "a" list star, even greater than that. we don't have our own royalty here. who can you think of as royalty in the u.s.? paris hilton? >> reporter: the most anticipated british invasion in years. >> i expect they'll outshine every other tar there because it is a magical fairy tale. people in l.a. are hugely exc e excited. >> reporter: this is going to be a very, very intense trip over the next three day, probably thought a lot of sleep like they did in canada. william's been here before but kate has never been here before in terms of security, it'll be handled by the los angeles police department and the state department which they expect a lot of big groups and they've actually told us that this seems almost like the president of the united states is coming here and it's getting very, very close to that even, george. >> wow. a fun weekend. bob, thanks so much. sam is having fun in central park this morning. >> because it's friday concert time, george, elizabeth