with us now is deepak chopra. hen you see michael there, there are conflicting reports, he looks healthy, he looks fit, he looks raring to go. talk to jermaine jackson and members of his family, they say there's lots of outtakes where he looks completely different, where he looks exhausted, he looks frail, he looks fragile. what was your understanding of his physical condition through this period? >> well, piers, i wasn't there at those rehearsals, i talked to some of the people later, the producers, who said he was pretty strong, he was pretty vigorous. those periods of rehearsal are quite long and exhausting to anyone, but a person who's about 50 years of age, that's pretty good. i also talked, at some point, to the nanny who took care of his children, and she said he was a really strong person. now, i can't comment on what the family's saying, but in my interactions with him on the phone, he was very enthusiastic, his voice sounded good, i didn't think he thought he was in a state where he was going to die at al

actually, another prime example is deepak chopra. >> ah, yes, deepak chopra, doctor, philosopher, peace. he, too, has taken an interest in alex king. it all started when kathryn took alex to his peace conference in barcelona. they were asked to speak. >> at the age of 12, i was very naive. i became entangled in a legal system. >> just a few months out of prison and here he was. >> i'm just so grateful for the opportunity to expand, be something more than what i was. >> deepak chopra asked alex to talk to young americans about non-violence, and he has. he's visited high schools and given talks, steering clear of probing questions, mind you, about his conviction for murder. >> what happened to make you get incarcerated? >> what happened to make me incarcerated? well, let's say i was put in a bad situation and i did not make the best of it. and so, yeah, i made some pretty bad decisions. >> alex's foray into public service almost makes up for a huge disappointment he's faced since his release. he can't get a job. >> it was very difficult because he came out very excited about working and w

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>> deepak chopra, leonard mladinow, thank you very much. "war of the world views." i commend it to anyone who wants to have a huge argument with almost everyone they know. thank you. >> thank you. >>> i'm mid to upper >>> i'm monita rajpal. riot police battle coptic christians furious about the burning of a church in the southern part of the country. >>> libya's revolutionary fighters say they are close to capturing the last strongholds of ousted libyan leader moammar gadhafi. they say they are on the verge of taking the port city of sirte. >>> a spade of killings at a port on the mekong river has interrupted cargo trade between children that and thailand. at least 12 sailors were murdered in what may have been a drug traffic attempt. investigations are continuing. >>> severe weather in new zealand is hampering efforts to corn taken an oil spill off the country's north eye land. authorities are trying to pump the remaining oil off a ship that struck a reef last wednesday. 30 tons of oil has leaked from the vessel. those are the headlines from cnn, the world's news l

more on all of this with deepak chopra who also shares my concern about heaving the old out with the

. >> deepak chopra, leonard mladinow, thank you very much. "war of the world views." i commend it to anyone who wants to have a huge argument with almost everyone they know. thank you. >> thank you. >>> right now on cnn -- power to the people. one protest sparks another and another and another. angry and frustrated americans taking to the streets all over the country. >> everybody is suffering except for this very small group of people. >> why is one man's protest another man's mob. >> i for one am increasingly concerned about the mobs occupying wall street. >> where is the love from the tea party? >> and bloody battlefield. we take you inside an intense gun battle in the fight for libyan liberation. >>> plus, war is hell. and there's been ten years of it. now a war widow needs your help. >>> a man of god and an icon makes news on same-sex marriage. >> you are either for equal rights or not. >> the reg rev joseph lowry turning 90 and taking a stand. it's all here on cnn. >>> hello, everyone. i'm don lemon. you are in the "cnn newsroom." we're going to start tonight wi

back at occupy wall street deep deepak chopra led a rally and on wednesday there was progressive roger tea party co-founder carl denninger. >> we've got to say no to big money to the politicians. we will elect you. >> this has to

back at occupy wall sreet deep deepak chopra led a rally and on wednesday there was progressive roger hickee and tea party co-founder carl denninger. >> we've got to say no to big money to the politicians. we will elect you. >> this has to stop. we've built a 30-year pyramid scheme, and it's collapsing around us. >> after the show, our numbers swelled to 92,000, and then a wave of support sparked our first high surf alert. just one week in, our first threshold, 100,000 co-founders join in to begin the crusade to get money out. remember, this is only the beginning of what we need to do this. do stay with us. ride the wave. build the wave. tell your friends about get money out and help us draft this constitutional amendment through the fall. raise your voice and the issue of money and politics will the front and center by the time we get to the conventions in 2012. that's going to do it for us, and "hardball" begins right now. >>> built union strong. big labor joins the fight against wall street. let's play some "hardball." good evening. i'm michael smerconish in for chris matthews. lea