tonight a conversation with dick van dyke. he is out with a new memoir. this past weekend, the book made its debut on "the new york times" best seller list. we are glad you could join us. >> all i know is his name is james and he needs extra help with his reading. >> i am james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference, you help us all live better. >> nationwide supports tavis smiley. we are proud to join tapas in supporting educational literacy it -- to join tavis in supporting educational literacy. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> pleased to welcome dick van dyke back to the program. the comedy legend is celebrating 60 plus years in show business with a new memoir, already a "the new york times" bestseller. we will get to the wonderful stories in the text, but first, a small sampling of his economic work. >> 0h, rob. >> i would be thinking exactly what you are thinking. >> darling. oh, r

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nobody ever said dick, you can do better.aid anything. >> what do you think your great talent is? >> i don't know. i really don't know. working under pressure, i think. because i auditioned for our -- "bye-bye birdie." did a little soft shoe. he said have you the part on the spot. and i said, mr. champion, i can't dance. he said, we'll show you what you need to know. i learned to dance during rehearsal. >> you have always been good g about being able to do stuff on the spur of the moment. >> i have been a physical comedian even as a child. i did my impression of stan laurel. >> what did you think you would be when you were younger? >> a failure, total failure. i knew -- i had no head for business. i am lucky i got into something i didn't have to grow up. >> when i read your book, the impression i got. you called it. "my lucky life in show business." you had a few ups and downs. broadly speaking had you a great life. i-couldn't believe you had gone through 50 years in the business. i couldn't really find much evidence of vice.

and dick van dyke joins me now. you're like santa claus to me, dick. >> really? >> you are.every christmas in britain i follow a sort of familiar regime. i get a bottle of wine after christmas, either christmas day or the day after. i sit down with a roaring log fire. it's normally freezing cold in england that time of the year. and i sit down and i watch either "chitty chitty bang bang" or "mary poppins." can you still do that god-awful cockney accent that you did? >> i can do the bad one that i did. >> yeah. >> but i've had 40 years to lay blame around on other people. >> let's have a little flash of it. >> i don't think i can -- what would be a line? >> don't pretend to be me. >> i can't get it -- see, i can't leave hs off. and i tried and tried. i had a vocal coach, a coach who was an irishman, mccann or something. pat o'malley. and i wondered all the months of shooting that moifrks w ing thi my friend julie or somebody say dick, that stinks? nobody said anything. >> it was a pretty comical accent. >> i know it. >> you've been to the east end of london. have you been to

dick berggren is standing by. >> dick: all right. clint bowyer. you mad at anybody over what happened? >> can't wait to get out of here. nature of the beast. there is no room to race at the end. i knew when a caution come out, all hell would break loose and it did. i got such a good run there. i felt like i passed four or five cars about come off there. had plenty of room. i don't know somebody got in kevin and knocked him into me or something. but real abrupt to come down. i have saw he got wrecked, too. how about regan smith? at least something good come out of it. proud of him for winning. proud of bb&t, trying to manage everything and stay out of trouble all day long. we did. get caught up in a wreck. >> dick: thank you, clint. >> chris: everybody happy for regan smith, who at the age of 4 got in the go-kart and his mom wasn't keen on the idea because she said he just learned out to walk. turned out pretty good. a lot more to come in darlington. stevens point.e from clarence: ok, you know the grapes at the grocery store? clarence: well, someti

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so from-- where did the musical, you know, concept come from, if you're motivated by dick gregory? dick gregory was a speaker. he was a man who organized movements. why did you do it through music? well, my earliest recollection of music is always in my household. my mother listened to motown, stax, atlantic, from roberta flack, aretha franklin, stevie wonder, you know. "chuck, do your chores." and you've got music playing, just, you know, seeping into your bloodstream and ear stream. and my father liked jazz here and there. but i was mainly into sports. i was into the organization of sports, and a lot of black folks made strong inroads into sports, and that captivated my interests. and the whole hip-hop thing that hit me in the middle of the 1970s got me into the music, because it was the technical aspect of it. technology. two turntables, a mixer, a microphone. i was totally confused. i was like, "why do they need two turntables? in case the one over there breaks down?" [laughter] "this person is very prepared." but that struck me as being, you know, something to get involved wit

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." >> dick couch, what is a seal? >> a.c.l. is a member of our special operations community. they are home-based in the coronado, california and in little creek, virginia. as you probably know, the came from the frogmen of world war ii and they have evolved right up to the present as maritime commandos. >> when were you with a.c.l.? >> i was on active duty from 1967 through 1972. primarily then it was all vietnam. most of our deployments were to vietnam, and just like the deployments today in afghanistan, ours were in vietnam. >> were you an officer? >> yes i was. i was a platoon leader and an assistant platoon leader and i was privileged to lead 125 -- fine young navy seals. we primarily did actions against the viet cong and infrastructure in vietnam. >> you have at least 12 books you have written? >> it actually is 14. >> how many of those are novels? >> seven of them are novels and the rest are non-fiction. they relate to navy seals, but also i have written on army special forces and i just completed a book on the

. >> dick cheney did. >> the base of your party, you don't want to give credit to the president at any other time. no one would say that george bush cared about his daughters and wife if you care about fire- eating democrats. it is a certain maturity on the part of romney and pawlenty and daniels -- >> and the lack of character and a part of palin -- >> and newt? that is that, i am of the show -- off the show. [laughter] >> why are we still in afghanistan? >> this is the longest war in history. there is no end in sight. we are not even paying for the board. is on at the national credit card. -- it is on the national credit card. it adds $100 billion a year, $8 billion each month, to our debt. >> that is congressman jim mcgovern of massachusetts, a democrat, who along with republican walter jones of north carolina has sponsored the afghanistan exit and accountability act, which would set a firm time line for withdrawing troops. a couple of months ago, a poll said that 73% of the american people want us out this year. >> i think they will stick with the timeline that the president set. y

dick tells about the memorable roles.mary poppins," "chitty chitty bang bang". >> he has this infectious smile. always happy. >> generations love him because kids are still watching his movie. some remember the dick van dyke show. everybody reacts to this guy. >> looking forward to it. >>> we want to begin with the appeal trial of amanda knox. the american exchange student is back today. knox is serving 26 years in prison for the murder of her former roommate, tara. good morning. >> good morning. >>> amanda knox went before the court again today to proclaim her innocence. she said at 23 years old, she was far too young to spend the rest of her life in prison for a crime she didn't commit. >> reporter: appearing eager to have her day in court, knox saw friends and family and thanked them for attending the session, including her father. her defense team is growing more confident as the weight of the dna evidence appears to be leaning in knox's favor. in court, the chief of the murder squad who was questioned about the polic

dick cheney is back. little lighter but in fighting trim. >> i needed to get lighter, too. >> chris: thank you, sir. always a pleasure and honor to talk to you. >> thank you, chris. >> chris: and again, our thanks to the former vice president. up next, our sunday panel on president obama's big victory in the war on terror. and whether he has turned a corner as commander in chief. host: does the buck stop here? sfx: buck's blustery exhale. host: could switching to geico 15% or more on car insurance? host: does it take two to tango? ♪ >>> bottom line is our strategy is working and there is no greater evidence of that, than justice finally being delivered to usama bin laden. >> chris: president obama addressing troops at fort campbell, kentucky, friday and making it clear the war on terror goes on. it's time now for our sunday group. bill kristol of "the weekly standard." mara liasson of national public radio. paul gigot of the "wall street journal." and fox news political analyst juan williams. bill, how do

dick berggren is standing by. >> dick: all right. clint bowyer.ou mad at anybody over what happened? >> can't wait to get out of here. nature of the beast. there is no room to race at the end. i knew when a caution come out, all hell would break loose and it did. i got such a good run there. i felt like i passed four or five cars about come off there. had plenty of room. i don't know somebody got in kevin and knocked him into me or something. but real abrupt to come down. i have saw he got wrecked, too. how about regan smith? at least something good come out of it. proud of him for winning. proud of bb&t, trying to manage everything and stay out of trouble all day long. we did. get caught up in a wreck. >> dick: thank you, clint. >> chris: everybody happy for regan smith, who at the age of 4 got in the go-kart and his mom wasn't keen on the idea because she said he just learned out to walk. turned out pretty good. a lot more to come in darlington. stevens point.e from clarence: ok, you know the grapes at the grocery store? clarence: well, sometime

dick luger is not like the guy who's against every war. dick luger has not been alone in raising questions about the cost in particular about the intervention in libya and whether or not that was a good idea. our past two presidential elections have largely been about democrats criticizing wars that republicans have defended. it is starting to look like it's not going to be that way this time around. joining us now is former republican national committee chairman michael steel. mr. steel, it is great to see you again. >> great to be here. >>> do you think 2012 might be different in terms of politics? >> i do. it's going to play out as an undercurrent in the debate about the cost to the american people of everything. not just the war, but the economy and gas prices. all of that's going to factor in. i think you're seeing the predicate being laid right now with the killing of osama bin laden, senator luger's comments today at the hearing, and the feeling amongst a lot of people not just democrats, for example, or those who have an aspiration

dick van dyke, you guys! oh, my gosh.ight out of the dryer. that's in the book. that's a nice thing. >> i'm going to continue with the author of the bookle telling us how to celebrate the little moments. >> boxers right out of the freezer. coldle in there, al. >> let's get up to the kitchen and not a moment too soon. guy fieri will be there. food lover, chef, "minute to win it" host. he's putting his spin on surf & turf. >> yum. >> we introduced you to "american idol" judge steven tyler and now we can say hello to one of his favorite contestants saved earlier in the year by the judges. casey abrams was voted off. good to have you. as you were voted off randy jackson said, he doesn't think there's ever been an "idol" contestant with more talent than you. that was nice. >> it was awesome, especially coming from one of if i favorite bass players. >> and you got to sneak a kiss with j-lo. >> in front of 20 million people. >> your reaction when you staved off elimination was unforgettable. what was going through your head this

dick, when did we get to einpart? [laughter] he goes, no, that's not a place, but it means exit in german. [laughter] oh! are there a lot of words with the word "fart" in them? [laughter] yes, governor, there are many. [laughter] reagan goes, can you write them down for me? dick allen jots down einfart and others. reagan puts them in his park and they are at the event with high ranking officials and it's getting boring because people are translating, and reagan pulls out the list, looks at it, laughs to himself and puts it away. -that was funny. it didn't fit. i wanted to jam it in, but i didn't want to be lost in history. you have the absence of ronald reagan, cold war, we're going to knock this thing down, joking about the word fart on the same trip. [laughter] i thought that was great. >> were you already writing a book about reagan before the shooting, or how did you get involved in the beginning? and how long did it take you to put all that information together? >> well, i was 6 years old when the shooting happen

the latest on the race with dick armey, former white house insider ron kline.ts teeth two shades whiter and makes tooth enamel two times stronger. get dual-action listerine® whitening rinse. building whiter, stronger teeth. personal pricing now on brakes. tell us what you want to pay. we do our best to make that work. deal! my money. my choice. my meineke. >>> joining me now, ron klain, former chief of staff for vice president joe biden and dick armey, former house majority republican leader. thanks for being here. we've had some activity in 2012. newt gingrich we'll talk about a little bit later, had a not very good week. but recently mitch daniels overnight sent a letter out, governor of indiana, saying you know what, my family, it can't take it. does that move the race in my way, shape, or form? >> well, it's certainly a big do disappointment. a lot of us were trying to get him to take this race on. my wife and i spent a good afternoon with him. you know, we have about 2 million activists across the country, and frankly we're disappointed. now, obviously, we

so with that, let me turn things over to dick and michishita and for sheila's comments to follow. thank you. >> thanks very much, mike. and i want to thank henry and deepa for organizing this project which has been of enormous interest and it's engaged both michishita and myself in ways that we're delighted to report out to you. there is -- can you hear in the back now 'cause you were having earlier? it's okay? yeah, it may seem odd -- it struck me that it may seem odd to some folks that we're talking about -- we're including japan on a project on rising powers. i mean, this is not the 1920s. [laughter] >> the last time i checked. [laughter] >> and it's not the 1980s when we were all agog about japan as a rising power. but it's including because at least potentially japan is a great power. it has many of the -- many of the pieces to be a great power again. and, of course, after the catastrophes of 3/11 there's the possibility that japan may be reborn yet again, or at least reinvented yet again and so it deserves some closer analysis. that said i guess i start in a very japanese fa

i actually believe -- he said dick fuld, i'm not going to give away this company. in that clip when he was referring to -- the character i play was referring to not wanting to pay $360 a million for the pleasure of doing business with him, he was talking about a potential deal with warren buffett. very brilliant man, and a decent man. you know, the bottom line was he didn't feel that it was right, you know, not only for himself, but -- and for his cohorts, colleagues at lehman, but also for his investors. >> i was about to mention warren buffett. he is one of the richest men in the world. he is a genius. certainly one of the most successful business people. if you look at what happened with goldman sachs, fascinating, they are right on their knees. they could easily have gone under. they get bailed out by the government, and they also get bailed out by warren buffett who looks at the stock price and thinks, wow, i'm in here. buys $5 billion worth of stocks, which is now worth trillions more. god knows how much he made. he quadrupled his money. they are making so mu

the money that created the tea party came from the koch brothers david jones koch billionaires and dick armey a multimillionaire and they're funding so many of these groups that are pushing the tea party the big p.r. firms on the west coast and here in washington d.c. they are pro the tea party i don't see any women in the actual leadership well i think that's where you're wrong i don't think the koch brothers are funding the tea party or anybody else for that matter i have is thing to paycheck and i've been doing this since the beginning i think that dick armey has freedom works which is not the tea party movement but they do work collaboratively with tea party groups so tea parties are not funded by any particular republican group or. any particular you know brotherhood as such we are self funding and if tea party groups choose to work with those groups who can provide additional resources to help get our message out i don't see a problem with that bill we welcome funding if there's any out there for why would women work for a group. and not just the tea party but the more conservativ

and tonight the spectrum of reaction from mayor rudolph giuliani to former vice president dick cheney to the families who lost their loved ones on 9/11 and those firefighters. and why are so many saying they're worried about what comes next? tonight, target bin laden, the death of public enemy number one. >>> good evening to all of you from ground zero and as you can see when we rise above, we're standing right at the edge of the 16 acres destroyed by the plan of osama bin laden almost ten years ago. construction workers striving mightily to rebuild it. all day long, we've been looking at the people streaming by. they're still streaming by me now. some of them just coming to commemorate. some of them coming to be with each other. i just saw a sign that went by and said america keeps its promise. lives lost as we know here and at the pentagon and in pennsylvania because of osama bin laden. and we've heard so many people say they know the promise was kept and was kept by a group of navy s.e.a.l.s whose precision work accomplished an almost impossible mission. we want to head right away

and great, they're thinking first the dick cheney bit and now he's bashing reading an research.. the majority of my job and my life is still spent on the journalistic side of the endeavor, it's still spent doing research and figures out what's true and what's false and rolling it into this hopefully humorous, yet enough to piss people off clump of opinion. so that's still part of it. but the crucial part of it is what you do to provide that spark, that truly builds those ideas. and now, it can be anything, it can be as simple as a walk down the street to a park. it can be a trip to bornio to see flying squirrels. it can be a hike in the mountains, it can be seeing a homeless person on the street, it can be going fishing or tripping over a curb, any number of things that make up living life can help you build that spark and build ideas. and it's not just for me and cartoons, it works for my cartoons and for my life, but it's the same thing for novelists, c.e.o.'s, physicists, it's the same thing. you need that outside creative spark. and everything along the way, even though it m

something robert kennedy said to dick goodwin not long before he died. original there is a wonderful book called remembering america. you have to find it on ebay. i don't think it is in print. he said to him if i am elected what chance do i have to make basic changes? it is not like you get elected president and then you say here is what happens. that is what are dealt with. all these forces are pushing back on you. one of these things he said in 1966, kennedy propose that high school students be permitted to leave school for a few hours a day to work. the point of that was you could earn money for your family and you would start learning the satisfaction of work because in a lot of neighborhood they have never seen it. they see drug dealers and professional basketball players. you have to forgive the gender. they don't see men at work. imagine the teachers' unions with that proposal. i think you would hear cries of child labor. not just from teachers' unions but traditional liberals. i think it would have been a really neat experience to see what that w

so i would read dick and jane all the way up to julius caesar. when i came to a word difficult, he would say work with it little sister. he wouldn't jump in and tell me. he would let me work it out so i did. i learned to jump into words. that built my confidence, grandmother and ggrandfather were from the old school. i can remember borrowing $25 from my grandmother. i was taking out my checkbook to pay her. she said no, darling, don't give me a little piece of paper. what did i give you. i said a 20 and a 5. so bring me that. they went to the light company and paid their light bills. they went to the department store and paid whatever. they went there once or twice a week to take care of business. the process of going through things, my grandmother would take me to the library. all along the way there were places where we couldn't go to the andrew jackson hotel, we couldn't go to morten's cafeteria. there was a paramount theatre, we had to go in the back door, separate water fountains. it was a very negative experience. when i got to the library,

mitch daniels did -- >> dick cheney did. >> the base of your party does not want to give credit to the president of the other party at any time. the one to say that it george bush even cared about his daughter -- you don't want to say george bush even cared about his daughter or his wife. so a certain maturity on the part of romney and pawlenty and daniels. >> i the lack of character on the part of palin -- >> and newt. >> if the bad guys were in pakistan and yemen and elsewhere, why are we still in afghanistan? >> this is the longest war in our history. there is no end in cite. to make it worse, we're not even paying for the war. it is on the national credit card. over $100 billion a year, it $2 billion each week. >> that is congressman jim mcgovern of massachusetts, a democrat who, along with republican congressman walter jones of north carolina, has sponsored a bipartisan afghanistan exit and accountability act, which would set a firm time line for withdrawing american a couple of months ago, a poll revealed that 73% want us out this year. >> i think they will to stay on the timetab

also from the right, dick armey in the "wall street journal," from freedom works, behind the tea party movement, writes this -- "medicare reform has risen to the top of the national agenda and will be the defining issue of next year's elections. any serious gop presidential candidate must be absolutely clear on this issue. kicking the can down the road is no longer an option. a candidate who is timid on entitlement reforms is not qualified to be president." is that your view? >> yes, it is my view. i agree with that, and i do believe -- look, you cannot ever fully balance the budget and pay off the debt unless you address the drivers of our debt, our health care entitlements, our entitlements. and so, we need a leader who is willing to talk about these things and actually do these things. we don't have that leader in the white house right now. we don't have these leaders running the senate right now. and yes, i agree with dick armey and matt kiby in that op ed, which is, if you want a leader to fix america's problems, you've got to deal with these entitlement issues before they get out

stay tuned, dick cheney, former vice president coming up right here on "america live."on't want to miss that. also the news cameras have been trained on ground zero all throughout today. crowds gathering at the very sight where thousands of people lost their lives on september 11th. here is what it looks like when that news started to hit this part of new york last night. [hoorah ] hoorah ] martha: a lot of enthusiasm. bill hammer has been down there all morning, and he joins me once again, hey, bill. >> reporter: it's an extraordinary day, martha. everybody in new york city has a story as it relates to 9/11. you're about to hear two of them again. this is ryan w-rbs yker. ryan works on the big tower, okay, when he was 13-years-old he took a job down here to clear out a lot of the debris that was down here at ground zero. he's been working here for ten years. what does today feel like, ryan? >> a lot of emotions. real high emotions, good to see the people, and the city really needed it. >> reporter: how did you feel when you herd the news. >> i felt great. it just feels

. >> then he just out of the blue came out with -- he asked me if i knew a guy named dick halligan.that point i said, yeah, that's my father. >> i lifted up my sunglasses. i looked him dead in the eye and i said, you know, that's my father, too. >> reporter: dick halligan died nine years ago. while each knew of a half brother, that was all they knew. is fate something you believe in? >> fate. miracle. whatever words you want to use to describe it. yeah. absolutely, i believe in something beyond me. >> reporter: the pair continued catching up this morning on "today." >> every day we've talked at least once or twice. took us half our life to meet, but it's been exciting, to say the least. >> reporter: and what do you know? after 38 years of not knowing one another, they're already starting to sound like brothers. >> you know, he's got quite a bit of issues. he's got a face for radio. but, no. there are a lot of similarities. there's a lot of mannerisms that i see from my father that i see in him. and we do have a lot of stuff in common. >> except for the hair. i mean, if i had hair, i