next. >> funding for "charlie rose" was provided by the following. ♪ >> charlie: additional funding providedy these funders. >> and by bloomberg. a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> charlie: the united states supreme court began its new term, today. for the first time in its history, three three women on the bench. all eyes will be on new member justice elena kagan but because she was president obama's solicitor general she will refuse herself from cases. those cases include support for religious schools, illegal immigration, violent video games and the role of d.n.a. evidence. almost half the cases devoted to business with implications for contractors and telecommunications companies. joining me is jeffrey toobin, senior legal analyst with cnn, also a staff writer for "the new yorker" magazine, from washington adam liptak, supreme court correspondent for "the new york times," writing a series of articles about the supreme court in "the new york times." i am d

>> charlie: welcome to our program. tonight everything you've wanted to know about the bbc and more with mark thompson, the director general. >> it has been a great addition to the family of broadcasting. they were innovative, they brought sports that people couldn't get before. sky is a success story which i think has improved british television. i don't think what they do right now is a problem. i think there are questions for the government and for the regulators to look at when you have so much power vested, i mean sky, in terms of its revenue is already bigger than bbc and will get much much bigger because of the way in which paid tv is moving in that country. >> charlie: mark thompson for the hour, next. or maybe you want to help when the unexpected happens. whatever you want to do, members project from american express can help you take the first step. funding provided by the following: captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> charlie: mark thompson i

. >> charlie: why not? >> you know, they -- >> charlie: have they heard it before? >> they are very respectful of each other's personal space, to use a term none of them would use, and i think justice breyer and justice o'connor had a real alliance on the court, but i don't think they did a lot of socializing off the court. i think the ginsburg-scalia relationship is much more the exception than the rule. >> people think that they roam the hallways and trade votes and back-slap and so on, and it's really not that kind of institution at all. it's really akin to nine little separate law offices, each with four clerks busily working on the cases. they communicate with each other by writing. to the extent they persuade each other, it's not through charm so elena kagan's famous ability to bring the harvard law school faculty together, no small thing, may not translate directly to this kind of thing where to the extent you're going to forge alliances it's not on the force of your personality it's the ability to say things that might attract someone else's vote. >> charlie

where it wouldn't be called a venue. >> right. >> charlie: standing on barstools. >> right. >> charlie: trying to make them -- trying to turn down the tv so you can hear me and all this great comedy i'm doing. >> really great mix when you try to get the guys at the local sports bar to turn down the hockey playoffs so you can tell your stupid jokes. >> charlie: trying to make these people laugh. >> it's a desperate arm form to try to get into. -- it's i desperate art form to try to get into. you perform anywhere you can. old folks homes. churches. even a bus. i was doing stand-up as much as i could, wherever i could. >> charlie: talk about that in a serious way. if you want to be good, you've got to go out -- >> you have to do it, you have to get on stage, and you have to bomb, and fail, and try new things, and you have to fight disencouragement, i think is the biggest hurdle. >> charlie: is there some point where -- you didn't face this, but is there a certain -- can you say to most people "you will make it"? most people, somehow there are lucks and breaks and all that kind of stuff? >

>> charlie: welcome to our program. tonight a charlie rose special edition in the episode of the brain series we look at creativity. >> today we go to the highest human accomplishment t issue of creativity to see if we can get iight and as youe indicated we have two extraordinary gifted artists, spectacular coributors. different forms of art, sculptor and painter and they're going to help us explore the issue. >> charlie: the twelve-episode brnerie is about the mos exting scientific journey of our time. understanding the brain. the says is made possibleby a and by theigh sims undation to advance in mathmatics. fundg buz funding was provided by the following: additional funding provided by: captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. chaie: we expre the wonders of the hun bin and we've been fascinated by creatity for years and during the middle agers philosophers separated artistic creivit and it became a unique skill thatnly certain people and we now ow that creat

charlie is in a scare nun dumb, charlie i know you -- a scare conundrum.harlie i know you have an an version to the chinese -- >> i don't have an an version to the chinese. i have an an version to chinese communist. >> a dictatorship that murders its own people, no religious freedom, owns our debt -- >> tracy they could quit buying u.s. treasuries they could go to italy and united states and say bye-bye united states. who do we have to back us up? no one. >> they can do whatever the heck they want bus there is no checks and balances in that system. i'm afraid of china as much as charlie. there's no auditing system. there's no fda they make it up as they go and we sit here and believes every number that comes out of that country when most are made up and guesses. there's no system. there's no system. why do we go off their numbers and trust everything they say? >> well, they are buying our debt now, we'll see. >> coming up, cash for chunkers works? you heard me right one big private company successfully paying employees to shed the pounds. did it just prove

charlie is one of these people.d be get a team of people who understand and can assess him and do what they tell you to do. i suspect it will mean three months. >> larry: cbs going to put up with that? >> they may not have a choice. i think what charlie needs to do from a professional standpoint is exactly what he's doing. he's not trying to be anything other than what he is. and i think one of the reasons why he's not suffering the same fate as perhaps another entertainer and celebrity is he's the bad boy. he's doing the best he can. he doesn't try to preach something else. his image is not taking a hit because this is his image. >> it's interesting to me that magazines and the press take such aim at the women with the same condition. charlie and lindsay not that different. >> mel gibson may disagree. >> the fact is, we really reserve a special sort of aggression for women that suffer from these conditions. >> no, lindsay lohan, but she's half his age and she's a very tragic story and she's probably the most analog

>> larry: tonight -- what's with charlie sheen? according to reports, he was found naked, allegedly trashed a hotel room at the plaza, while on probation for domestic violence. tv's highest-paid actor headed back to work. should hollywood finally turn its back on a bad boy? and then -- want an nba championship ring? los angeles laker star ron artest is raffling off the ring he got last night. and he's here exclusively handing over the one of a kind gem. he'll tell us what his therapist has to do with it. it's all next on "larry king live." >> larry: ron artest later. but first -- new york police were called to the plaza hotel at approximately 1:30 tuesday morning. they found a 45-year-old man there and took him into the hospital. police say no charges were pursued as he was classified as an emotionally disturbed person. a law enforcement official tells cnn the man was charlie sheen. there was also a woman in the room. joining us to talk about all this -- dr. drew pinsky. he's the host of vh1's "celebrity rehab with dr. drew" and th

>> charlie: welcomome to our program. tonight, a "charlie rose special edition." in the 11th episode of our brain series, we look at the deciding brain. >> neuroscience is capable of giving us insights into phenomena that we would not think would be in science -- morality and economic decision making. >> charlie: this is bridging humanity and science. >> it's bridging two things and this is the beginningment we now have some methodologies, we have some strategies, we have some beginning insight. this is just opening up. i think it will make an insight on how people make decisions and also for making new kinds of diagnoses and developing few kinds of therapeutics. >> charlie: the 11th episode of the charlie rose brain series underwritten by the simons foundation coming up. it's about the most exciting scientific journey of our time -- understanding the brain. the series is made possible by a grant from the simons foundation. their mission is to advance the frontiers of research in the basic sciences and mathematics. funding for "charlie rose" was provided by the fo

. >>> tonight on "nightline," the trouble with charlie. extraordinary scenes as police respond to a call at new york's plaza hotel to find actor charlie sheen half naked and incoherent, his room damaged, a woman in the bathroom. the consequences so far? zero. how do celebrities get away with behaving so badly? >> park it. bmw yanks 130,000 vehicles today after a "nightline" investigates shows a dysfunction in one of their models. >>> and, the best-seller. his tales of criminal conspiracy and legal daring do have sold hundreds of millions of copies and filled countless screens. so, how does john grisham do it? we've got the "nightline" interview. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," october 26th, 2010. >> good evening, i'm terry moran. and we're going to begin tonight with fame and consequences. in new york, charlie sheen, the actor and bad boy for many years, was arrested, taken into custody at the plaza hotel here in new york after his

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charlie: there it is. there we go. you see that? it's moving! muttering ) all right, we're there. three feet... halfway. come on, baby. we did it! ( motor stops ) sorry, guys. this is like 1998 all over again. hey, did you see val? yeah, yeah. a doctor. well, her talents always were in biology. i take it you both knew this woman? we were all in the same class in high school. larry: oh, yeah. i keep forgetting you graduated the same year. so you're not here to talk about val. yeah, right. you know anything about phosgene gas? a diluted form of it was released on the subway this morning. oh, my god. we're trying to figure out if it was an accident... like, maybe a maintenance worker mixing bottles together. phosgene's used in the manufacture of dyes and pesticides. it's in the chlorine family and it is highly toxic. theoretically, it could be accidentally produced by combining certain cleaning agents but that's... that's very unlikely. so, it probably wasn't an accident? charlie: what was the delivery mechanism? do you know if it was an air duct o

what you just stole today before today we don't got no money charlie you've got beans in your i mean i can't believe people are government well he's not in the government he's in the central bank which is above and beyond governments actually they control what governments do so he admits this is what monetary policy is meant to do it's meant to destroy capital now let's look at the next headline which is this coworker adam posen gold spikes after beat oweis posen demands more q.e. once to buy corporate debt yeah so gold soared on this guy speaking and as a whole list of the ticker tape coming through on bloomberg screen posen i think further monetary easing should be undertaken in u.k. subject to debate q.e. does not work then time for further fiscal stimulus corporate desk purchases and on and on and on more money printing oh you know the gold vigilantes of which i am one we're going to put these guys out of business and the gold vigilantes as we talked about on this show central banks are now buying gold you've been listening to me around the world asia europe america some some ame

we have been telling people to buy gold and we did play last week charlie munger who is what the two hundred thirty three just man in america we showed him speaking before university admission crowd of students and here's another clip from that where he was asked whether or not he owns gold and he says i have no interest in gold and then he says this if you're capable of understanding the world you know a moral obligation to become rational i don't see how you come rushing all hoarding gold even if it works you're a jerk. so i advise you to. charlie munger is basically he's an equity pimp ok he's down there in omaha nebraska in his pink cadillac and it's big for you that he's walking around omaha with warren buffett on a leash and a spike dog collar and they're like hey you know we want you to buy equities and bail us out of our bad stock positions don't buy gold that's. ok now prostitution is illegal in that state that guy should be in a cell right now with a bunch of very horny equity people who've been abused by his equity selections charlie munger is telling the ordinary person t

so i advise you to get concerned with equities charlie munger is basically he's an equity pimp ok he's down there in omaha nebraska in his pink cadillac and it's big for he had he's walking around omaha with warren buffett on a leash and a spike dog collar and they're like hey you know we want you to buy equities and bail us out of our bad stock positions don't buy gold that's for chumps. ok now prostitution is illegal in that state that guy should be in a cell right now with a bunch of very horny equity people who've been abused by his equity selections charlie munger is telling the ordinary person the one victimized by the central bankers who are destroying their currency destroying their savings destroying their capital their ability to form capital their ability to form wealth and then we go to c.m.d. see europe where they interview bankers from cazenove bank and this is what he has to say about when asked why while the s. and p. and the dow are doing so amazing this year it's like their best year since one nine hundred thirty nine how do you explain this and this is what he says i

now, charlie, this president is... understands completely that future growth in the united states is going to come primarily based on the strength of the conditions we create for businesses to thrive in this country. businesses to innovate, to expand... >> rose: then characterize his philosophy, since we've been talking about it. what's his economic philosophy? >> well, it's rooted in that basic recognition that the only source of growth is to make sure you create conditions that allow businesses in america to innovate, to create jobs, to expand their investment. >> rose: and what's his faith and confidence in markets? >> overing. but he understands as i think all americans must understand today given what we went through that it is the job of government-- and this is a central function of government. there are basic public works only government cans do. and i'll give you an example of that. making sure the financial sect sector... risk in the financial sector is a basic responsible function of government. making sure