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and we'd like to thank our friends ping from charlie chang. stay with us, dr. amen will be back with us in the next break. now back to the amen solution, thinner, smarter and happier. [applause] >> welcome back. as i mentioned in the beginning of this show, this is not weight loss for dummies. it is for thoughtful people, but one of my favorite stories about dumb ways to lose weight comes from a television station in texas. when i arrived at the studio, the producer, with whom i'd worked before, looked thinner than the last time i saw him. when i asked him what he was doing, he told me he lost 20 pounds on a medically supervised 500-calorie-a-day diet. whoa. i don't like those diets, because they don't teach people how to live in the real world. they're a quick fix, and people usually just gain the weight right back. the day i was at the studio was the last day of his diet, and as a way to celebrate, he had two of his favorite deep-dish pizzas flown in from chicago so that he could eat them over the weekend. "you're kidding," i said. "no. why?" "you're acting l

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not why mine change. >> charlie: he was an m.p. in the army. >> he was and then suddenly he was not. he had a good time in the military. why did he leave. this book tells that story. it was also an opportunity to revisit in 1997 because i'm kind of fascinatedith how even though it was relatively recently, when you live day by day you forget how different things were. pre 2001 we lived in a very different environment. >>> he has an affair. >> yes, this is the motion romantic. >> charlie: why is it the most romantic. >> the last two didn't have no romantic entanglements. the last two he was just going from a to z. i don't want to do three in a row where he doesn't have some fun so it was the question let's put it in this and if we're going too it let's do it for real. >> charlie: then comes the girl. >> yes, the girl. and the girl is one of the typical characters, woman character in a reacher book she's as tough as he is and smart as he is. >> charlie: that's what you write about. most people say your books are tough and smart, they'

took a while to figure it out. >> charlie: why did you hang on. when they changed directions you stayed in there. >> i couldn't let it go. i just couldn't let this book go. i greally, i' a big michael louis fan to begin with. this book, i mean there are several reasons. there's the acting i saw in the character and one of our first conversations about 69 film was it felt like 570's film. it could feel like a 70's language type of film that you know when i started acting films, i was taught that we had to have a big epiphany of the character. through the years i found that to be bull. weon't change that much. what i love and what one of our first conversations was 70's where the beast at the beginning of the movie is the same beast at the end of the movie. they don't reall change. it's a world around them that changes and their perspective of the world. i became obsessed with that. sports, i never looked at it from the economic side. you think it's competition, you think it's a fair playing field. and how does the small market compete with these big market team ha t

not why mine change. >> charlie: he was an m.p. in the army. >> he was and then suddenly he was not. he had a good time in the military. why did he leave. this book tells that story. it was also an opportunity to revisit in 1997 because i'm kind of fascinatedith how even though it was relatively recently, when you live >> yes. >>harlie: that's a lot of books. >> it is a lot of books and i'm very happy about it. and people say to me, how many books have you sold. and i say actually 16. i sell one a year to the publisher and those sales figures are actually the publisher's achievement rather than mine. >> charlie: you're just the one person. >> i sell it to them and they market it and they do a fantastic job. >> charlie: how much of this do you do in terms of interviewing talking about the book. >> twice a year a couple months around the world. >> charlie: so you have a big international audience. >> yes. >> charlie: certainly in great britain. >> europe, australia, new zealand. huge in bulgaria. >> charlie: have you gotten better. >

charlie: because? >> suddenly it was a piece that changed the audience's perception of me and the business's perception of me at the same time. >> charlie: and gave you options. >> put your peg up. it's what you call a break. >> charlie: and the elephant man? >> the elephant man was another break. >> charlie: how many breaks do you get? >> that's why they say break a leg. how many breaks do you get? i don't know. how many do you need,really >> charlie: one. if you find a place to stand and you should be able to move the world. >> well, yes. absolutely. it's like yourself, charlie, you have what a brilliant invention to put everything in the black soou can't see the cameras there d start talking like a human being. what a break! >> charlie: so "the elephant man" tell me about that we didn't explore the characters. how long did makeup take? six to seven hours? >> we honed it down to seven hours. have you to remember prosthetic make up was in in infancy and david lynch who had done an extraordinary and brilliant piece called eraser head and made aaby in it which squawks and squealed slightly in the backgr

there was a twitter mishap which forced actor charlie sheen to change his phone number after he accidentally tweeted his number to more than 5 million twitter followers who of course dialed him up. he was trying send a private message to justin bieber asking him to, hey, justin, give me a call. well, i guess justin got the number along with 5 million other people. of course his phone went wild e got 1800 text messages in just minutes. he reportedly answered the phone calls by saying, ray's pizza or, winning! >> i hope he has the unplummeted plan. >> no kidding. i think -- i hope he has the unlimited plan. >> no kidding. >>> stanford sold out tickets for the fiesta bowl all 17,000 selling out in five days. this quite an improvement for a team that couldn't even sell out its home games a year ago. this year six of seven home games were sold out. the fourth-ranked cardinals will play number 3, oklahoma state, on january 2. that is in glendale, arizona. >> coming up. >>> 4:56 now. making the rich pay. the growing support behind the governor's tax plan. also ahead... >> the second day of "occupy'

change would be good. congress concentrates on the means of governing and not on the ends of governng. >> charlie: has the anger of george w. bush and 9 war the wad that over time the soldiers are coming home and nobody really knows in the end how long tt's going to play itself out. >> i think the anger -- >> charlie: we n't know yet. >> i think e intense anger towards george w. bush has dissiped. he's still not very popular he's popular among republicans. if he wanted to endorse somebody in this process it would be a big advantage to that person. he's still notpopular among the dependents and democrats still don't like him. d the intense anger that cause people to show up and start voting before the poll even opened in 2006 and 2008 i think these dissipated. charlie one of thehings you have to gi george w. credit for is how he's conducted himself. he has stayed back he hasn't criticize the the present he hasn't engaged on that. i think he's conducted himself very well in this process 123450eu6789 whe.>> charlie: wt the country, where do you think the country is today. clearly we had an economic collapse.

if there is he' no political will to do the chump change as charlie calls it we're in trouble. >> and ben stein is shaking his head. >> there's no political will to do anything meaningful about defense, iran or education, anything, there's no political will period. >> when you here and feel the americans are upset and hand on spending and concerned about the spending, not my spending, where do we go from here? >> we go down into either default as i said or as mr. gasperino said and spend more money and have a defacto default or-- >> or maybe possibly we have a real debate about this in the 2012 election and you pick your course. do you want the obama course, which is taxes on the rich, bigger government, you know, kick, maybe, maybe paying for it, but paying for it through squeezing businesses out of more taxes or do you want the more, the republican vision, you're not going to come to a conclusion with this type of divided government. this is different than the clinton, gingrich era of divided government and bill clinton moved to the right and gingrich moved to the center, there was,

want to change policy we've got to make sure our leaders are responding to us law or change our leaders. >> charlie: without making too much of a comparison here is that examined with the tea part and whatever that movement was, they decided to try to use the polical process to achieve what they defined as their objectives. >> exactly. they started out at town halls. they branched from there to getting involved in elections. as much as some may take umbridge with potics, the fact is if they want to make that change, they have to effectuate the change in the congress and in the country. >> charlie: mr. mayor, for com. it's a pleasur to have you on this program. hope we can see you when we're in los angeles. >> either in los angeles or new york. i know you're moving on as well in some place. >> charlie: i'm going to work around the clock if that's all right. >> you're already working around the clock. thank you. >> charlie: thank you. general judgment jones is here. he was president obama's choice to be his first natial security advisornd served in that role until november 2010. he played a major rol

. >> da vinci may have one of those that you change look at i change it. >>> charlie sheen's ex-wife, brooke mueller, led away in handcuffs. >>> herman cain suspends his presidential bid. >> reporter: this weekend was supposed to mark a new beginning for herman cain, the grand opening of his georgia headquarters, instead, cain pulled out of the race with much of the same style. music burglalared, barbecue sue pokemon was quoted. many expressed gratitude. >> he was always good humored and optimistic. we'll miss him on the campaign trail. >> reporter: saturday afternoon when cain and his wife gloria stepped off the bus in atlanta, even cain's strongest supporters didn't know what he would say. >> i am suspended my presidential campaign. because of the continued distracti distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family. >> reporter: cain acknowledged that the pain involved claims of sexual harassment and the claims of a woman of a 13-year extramarital affair. >> it wasn't a love affair. it was a sexual affair. >> caller: cain remained defiant. >> my wife, my family and i, we

definition of the middle of nowhere d the idea that some world historical change can start in this desolate place where -- >> charlie: what happened to him? >> he was a fruit seller, fruit vendor and had been harrassed by the authorities over the years and one day a policewoman in this case confiscated his cart i guess and slapped him across the face which publicly humiliated him and an hour later he poured gasoline on himself and set himself on fire and triggered this massive global world historical change but it happened in this place where you can't imagine anything like that beginning and in fact i -- it would be interesting to trace how it happened because this is not a place where people are on twitter or facebook or are cameras and it set a match to the discontent and frustrati that built up in this place that got people to start risking their livelihood and lives to go out and protest. >> it was interestin to talk to people there. i went having what i read and thinking it' been overstated by we americans with the twitter but in fact the day the same day that he set himself on fire there were protests that da