but that is a gift that we can all play a role in. that gift that you can aspire and achieve, but we have got to reach children early enough and we have to keep looking. we've got to keep protecting and investing in programs like trio and gera and youth challenge and career academies, things that reach people to me as early as possible, at middle school and try to embed in them that aspiration that, expectation that so many of us are you just blessed with. that is not an expectation that will necessarily be there for a child born into a family where no one has ever gone to college. but we have that power. we have the power through the programs we do, through the excellent teachers who inspire, through the after school programs that will inspire children not just in a particular moment or a particular course or particular scorecard, but about what they can be. colleges can play a role in reaching down early into the neighborhoods where they -- where they exist. and helping those children come to their campus, see what is possible. have

this week's ask allison question is about gift giving, now that we're talking about the gift of the cherryrees. our question deals with modern day. we'll get to that coming up. also, we are continuing to ask you to send in your beautiful photos of the cherry blossoms. you can send them in to myweatherphoto@gmail.com. holly morris is at the paddle boats this morning. what have you got, holly? >> reporter: i'm trying to take a picture and make the most of my location as well so i can send it in. really, i'm just trying to capture the moment, because this is some of the most beautiful that i've ever seen in terms of the blossoms, and i've done a few festivals in my time. coming up, the people from the national building museum are here, because they're all about family day, or should i say days. they're expanding it this year. we're going to tell you all about it and how your family can take part, live, later. >>> holly, sounds good. we want to get to our trivia question today. it's cherry blossom themed. the first cherry blossom trees came by boat and that boat arrived in what port in 1912? w

, by accident of our birth, we have a gift. and that gift is a very high expectation that we will go to college. and i have watched friends and relatives. i have seen how children have gone off looking the wrong path. but that high expectation that they are almost born with is like a magnet that pulls them back on the right track. and so many of them, so many of the children of upper middle class families, whatever their problems, come back because of that expectation, because of the opportunity. but so many other children are born without that gift. but that is a gift that we can all play a role in. that gift that you can aspire and achieve, but we have got to reach children early enough. and we have to keep looking. we have to keep protecting and investing in programs like europe and trio and youth challenge and career academies. things that reach people, to me, as early as possible. and try to embed in them that aspiration, that expectation that so many of us are just blessed with. that is not an expectation that will necess

public schools about this particular gift card program.we have gotten no response. >>> a couplous a mission to reunite victims of this month's devastating tornado in kentucky with some of the property they lost. dozens of homes were flattened and debris scattered as far as 65 miles away. that's where the henslies of ohio found part of a magazine. >> that is what christmas is all about. if this world ever needed hope instead of hate, is it now. boy, not just at christmas but now. they need hope now. >> the henley's also found an aarp card. when they found the owner's home, it had been totally leveled by the tornado. >>> now on to a much lighter note, a great story, a soldier's dog jumped for joy literally when his owner comes back from afghanistan. take a look. >> daddy's home. [ happy bark ] >> it just doesn't stop. that's chuck the boxer. his owner served eight months in afghanistan. chuck clearly remembers him with love. the video has gone viral with more than 1.3 million views on youtube. dogs are amazing animals. they really are. look

vendors are selling paypal gifts on -- papal gifts on street corner as they arrive in central mexicosee the pope. maria says she's too busy to leave her factory. a bishop will hand deliver her gift to pope benedict. monica villamizar, cbs news mexico. >> it's the pope's first trip to these countries and as many as 300,000 people are expected at sunday's mass before pope benedict leaves for cuba on monday. >>> nice weather. >> unbelievable. >> oh my goodness. >> you have to get outside today. if you haven't been outside today. shame on you. >> if you can get down there do it now within the next few hours because the cherry blossoms are peaking right now and then you know you might still get a pretty good view on monday with temperatures in the 60s. they won't be in the # 0s, 80s, going back to the 80s, average high is 58. an incredible march and running way above average. one of the armets marches on record the -- warmest marches on record the way we're doing. expect lots of sunshine for the rest of the afternoon. temperatures and this is for reagan national. going to warm to 80 by 3:

did you open the gifts in front of everyone? >> a ton of gifts. say -- i mean i felt yesterday that if carrie bradshaw from sex in the city were to have a baby shower, this would have been it. my baby has garment bags of designer clothes. it's amazing. >> jimmy: are you going to have to dress the baby in those clothes and send pictures? >> that sounds fun. i'm going to dress her up, of course. >> jimmy: do you feel weird about getting all those clothes because it's not like babies need designers clothes. >> i didn't get like the diaper genie. >> jimmy: what's the worst gift you got of all the gifts? and who gave it to you? >> the worst gift? there was a bad gift. there was -- well, not bad. it was her first like, dallas cowboys play book, but it's my ex all through it, so i don't know how much i can tell her about my ex. >> jimmy: that seems like a weird gift. >> it's like, and this is the quarterback. >> jimmy: make sure that person isn't invited to the wedding. >>. >> i do want to teach her about football. >> jimmy: why? >> well, not to play it.

and the gift is a new stained glass window as a diamond jubilee gift for the queen. it will be formally unveiled a little later on but we can give you a sneak preview because we visited the studio in north london where it was made. >> the stained glass was something that we thought would work well. it came about because in 1977 the house of commons then got together and organized a phantom below big ben for the queen's silver jubilee. and in 2002 for the golden jubilee, a sun dial was put in near the house of lords. but it looked as though nothing was in the pipeline about 15 months ago for the queen's diamond jubilee as a gift from members of both houses. >> here's a unicorn which is looking pretty gorgeous really. >> it is looking splendid. i like the way it looks a bit fierce. it's supposed to, isn't it? >> it's supposed to. you don't want to mess with these things. it's a wild animal. >> this is a very traditional technique. it hasn't changed for 800 years. you take two pieces of glass and join them with a piece of lead. it's like a jigsaw puzzle. when you're ban

everyone wondered what is she going to do with all those wedding gifts? we have the answer for you today. she has decided to keep the gifts, but she says she's going to donate twice their amount to a charity. >> the estimated value of them. >> $200,000 to the dream foundation, a charity that helps adults facing life-threatening illnesses. >> if most of your gifts had come from a registry, i guess you would know the value. mine didn't come from her registry. >> if they didn't come -- >> yeah. >> how would she know? >> i sort of gave her a lifetime supply of my favorite -- she loves candles, so i gave her those huge kringle candles, the gardenia. >> oh. >> i don't believe in giving expensive, expensive things to people that already have everything. i wanted something she knew -- then i made a nice donation to the dream center in los angeles. different from the dream thing that she's giving this to because i know she's spent a lot of time bringing things to the people down there that are helped through the dream center. people don't know this. she gets flak,

give him the gift of patients, care for all people, but above all, the gift of wisdom here that surroundis occupation with men and women dedicated to public service. fill him with your love so that he is not afraid. for as the scripture says, but perfect love cast out of fear. finally, we pray for ourselves as citizens of the city we love it. drive from us and our elected officials all cynicism and slavish ideology. in your mercy grant us just and honest, rep. all men. -- and honest government. -- amen. >> please welcome the color guard in the san francisco girls chorus. -- and the san francisco girls chorus. where are they? [laughter] [laughter] [applause] >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. and into the republic, for which it stands, one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. ♪ [chorus singing] [chorus singing] [chorus singing "star spangled banner"] [applause] forward. halt. forward march. [applause] >> you may be seated. i moved a little bit ahead of schedule by introducing all of you. i was supposed to do that at the end of tha

gary, who is she donating the gifts to?so what kim did is basically estimated the value of all the gifts she got, which she is guesstimating around $100,000, then she doubled that and is giving a $200,000 donation to the dream foundation that helps kind of with people who have long term illnesses it is a great foundation to donate to only problem people are upset she is not giving the gifts back still they are saying listen you are keeping all these gifts, i believe she had somewhere around 40,000 people at her wedding each person -- 4,000 gifts at her wedding, so the math is a little off on her guesstimating of $100,000 there but it is for charity but kim kardashian will always upset some people. >> photo leaks two separate posts claim to show actresses, in the buff but the stars says the not then what is the deal. >> i know they are both saying the photos do not belong to them olivia mun is saying these photos going around are photos she twittered before show her in lingere and bikini the nude ones she is claiming are not

i think it's a great gift. i think this is a perfect american gift. more. we built it very well. it's going to last for years. their grandkids will be cooking on the thing in 50 years. >> special thanks to chris engelbrecht and his staff of one and the folks known as "the gift team" at the state department's office of the chief of protocol. that is our broadcast for tonight. coming up next week here on "rock center," it's not just a tv show. it's a window to a long-gone american lifestyle, and as you might have heard, "mad men" is returning to the air after a layoff of almost a year-and-a-half. and they have allowed us behind the scenes to learn how they lovingly recreate the booze-filled, smoke-filled '60s. >> these are herbal cigarettes, filters cut off. how they can smoke them and look like they're enjoying them is beyond me. because they're disgusting. >> it's good and bad. don't miss that next week. that's it for this week. >> live, local, late-breaking. >> that evening, everyone. where big story

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is this a gift to democrats? >> it's a gift to democrats.s a gift to the gop candidates like mitt romney actually. he just didn't take the gift. because what he needs -- what he needed to do is was show independents and moderates he's not going to be crazy, and this was a prime opportunity for him to step up as a leader and say what rush limbaugh said was bad. that was a gift to him and he didn't take it. of course, it was a gift to democrats and president obama took it by making the phone call. you knew he was going to do that. you knew certain pundits were going to bash limbaugh and make it all about the gop. i was disappointed at the leaderships, that the four men who want to be president, could not take that gift as well because that was their opportunity to say, i am for all america, i'm gending women's reproductive rights and what rush limbaugh said was wrong and they didn't take that because they're scared of him. >> okay. so, will, i agree with you, we should be probably talking substance, right, on this. that should be the overall t

. >> she is a gift, isn't she? the pregnancy, too. >> the gift that keeps on giving. my first line was, i said even rick santorum said time for an abortion. but some you can't say. i get through everything with comic. everything. >> i know. that's what i love about you. >> it's worked for me. when whitney houston died, terribly sad. i have one joke i cannot -- >> please tell it. >> i have not said it out loud yet. it's too soon. i said i saw whitney at the grammys and she looked beautiful. she was in mahogany from head-to-toe. it's a great joke six months from now. six months from now. >> not appropriate right now on this show. no, no, no. >> not appropriate now. >> that's what i love about your comedy. being a creative person, you can't jump to the result i will offend people. >> never. >> you can never do it. kills it. >> on the red carpet, what if you immediate meet these people? that's not my job. my job is say what i think, not worry what they are going to think, what the audience is going to react to. >> do you ever feel bad? >> terrible. terrible. >> deep down

get a $10 gift card for half price. now, good morning maryland. >> 20 minutes away from 6:00, thank you for joining us. season premier of dancing with the stars was last night. before it was over, it was called the most competitive season yet. they fox trait trothed to 26 out of 30 shockingly high. julia white and kimson got the same score for the same dance. no one gets eliminated tonight. that happens next week after 12 teams get to dance again. >>> amazon will be selling $10 gift cards for $50 today for anyone that visits amazon local.com. this is an on line retailers answers to sites such as groupons and living social. they are looking to draw in new and existing customers with the discounted gift cards. hoping that customers will check out the company's offers from spas, restaurants and other businesses as well. >>> first day of spring, that means it is time to line up for your special treat today. where you can get your favor italian ice treat and it's not going to cost you a thing. details straight ahead. >>> aft

here is a fraction of the gifts that were reported.rnor jerry brown acapulco septembered three -- accepted three gifts and one was a $325 beer stein. newsome had gifts including a teddy bear worths $100. there was a trip to ted lou rt worth more than $3,000. and the los angeles senator accepted $5100 in travel expenses for a trip to china. >>> a more bidly obese livermore man who wants to regain his health says response has been overwhelming since he posted on youtube. >> robert gibbs weighs more than 600 pounds. he says he has been overweight his entire life. by 8 he was 150 pounds. within 24 hours of up loading his youtube video he received 200,000 hits. robert who turned 23 today has been hospitalized for weight problems before, but he says this time will be different. >> this birthday i am hoping will be better than the rest of them because i finally asked for help and i am getting it. >> robert is among 18 million morbidly obese americans. that means they weigh at least 100 pounds or moreover weight. >>> a spectacular public debut

metro employees accused of buying meals, expensive gifts and personal items, all on agency credit cards. >> the allegations are detailed any report just released by metro's inspector general and first obtained by the "washington post." sherry ly has more on the fallout. >> reporter: riders dissatisfied with metro's aging system and fare increases now have another thing to add to complaints. in a 13-page report, metro's inspect ore general details dozens and dozens of questionable credit card purchases over a 15-month period. the total, nearly 10,000 dollars. >> i think that is one part of a much larger problem. a lot of things about this make me mad. >> reporter: the report was first released following a request by the "washington post." large portions are blacked out including names, gifts at one employee hundred chen included two digital cam corders, cutting board sets, 49 gift baskets and that is on top of $18 for the restaurant and food, all it was forbidden under metro policy. >> hopefully, they instituted things so it won't happen again. >> reporter: in a statement, the manager sa

the whole gifting thing -- people were sharing things. it would have been in bad taste to sell things. one year, firewood. they desperately want offsite to do it. we did not think it was evil, but we just thought it was tacky. and we stayed true to that sort of thing. it would be too much to expect, we are going to make it not commercial. that is how people are going to bond to our brand. not even rupert murdoch would come up with that. we just did that because it is what made us feel good. now we are thinking, with the burning man project -- it is interesting. my partners and i are thinking beyond our lifetimes. it is a bit of a legacy project. which is really interesting, an interesting exercise. that makes you feel differently about the present. so what would make something that durable? what would keep it alive that long? we have been alive and have grown for a quarter-century. it may not be hard to imagine an entire century at all. now we are found in an institution that will house and generate culture, and function as a community. w

it marks a century since the gift of 3,000 trees from japan to the united states. these trees have remained a sin become of a bond. they do have a certain attraction. >> it's really nice. i mean from far off, you just see that row of pink, so it's really pretty, you know. it would be better if it's a bright day and everything, but it's very invigorating when you go out there and you get the sense of, oh, wow, everything is spring now. >> at 5:00, there will be a festival featuring music and more remarks, and the attendance of the members from the japanese government down here to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the gift of the cherry blossoms to the united states. >> all of the clouds may be the perfect back drop for the daytime fireworks. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. i think they will be. in any case, it's a good place to be today, just wear a jacket. >> good advice. >>> a little disappointing to see all the green already. >> i know, you know. but it's still pretty. >> they were beautiful while they lasted. >>> nine minutes after the 9:00 hour. speaking o

we just said, everything is a gift in our city. you cannot buy or sell anything. there is no advertising. you are not surrounded by this nattering pandemonium of commercial messages, which is so relentless. and lo and behold, we discovered, had a certain point in a community, when everyone is giving, -- people began to have experiences that were revelatory. they began to feel like they were in touch with that unconditional reality, which perhaps in their youth they identified as their life's goal. it creates a world in which -- just saturated with meaningful encounter. and it seems to have been contagious because people have now left our event and they have left our world and they continued to do activities. they did not go to a festival and say their appetite. they came back and tried to change their world. that is why we are starting this burning man project. we think there is a law that we can do together. try it sometime. try living for eight days without buying, selling, listening to an ad, and tell yourself, disco to give things to people. see what that is l

even in failure, there is a gift. find the gift and believe in yourself. >>> thanks for watching.uir will be right here tomorrow night. see you monday. captioned by closed captioning services, inc.

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camcorders, a kindle, digital photo album, 49 gift cards, gift baskets, chocolates and cutting board of more than $1,800 for the restaurant and food, all of it forbidden under metro policy. >> hopefully they institute a thing so it won't happen again. >> in a statement metro's general assistant manager for manning said appropriate administrative actions were -- planning said appropriate administrative actions were taken. this comes at a time when metro is proposing a fare increase averaging 5% for bus and rail riders and with increased service disruptions for track work. a supervisor caught the ex weekend tours stopping the a -- expenditures stopping the abuse before it got out of control. >> $10,000, i think it's a drop in the bucket. i mean it shouldn't happen, but solving that problem wouldn't decrease the need for fare increases. >> four kindles, three camcorders, a blackberry, earbuds and more than $2,000 in gift cards remain unaccounted for. the employees are no long we are metro. prosecutors in the district and prince george's county where some of the purchases were made decli

but thank you for this marvelous gift. >> the comments of congressman gohmert of texas on the floor of the house of representatives. the l.a. times writing about the death of breitbart describing him as a polarizing website publisher who once helped edit the drudge report, found his way to tea party in recent years, exposed the story of the sext e sextulely explicit tweets of anthony weiner, suddenly collapsing near his home earlier today. he was 43 years old. this is washington today on c-span radio. >> and some other news today on wall street, the dow was up 28, closing at 12,980. nasdaq was up 22 and s&p was up 8. maryland's governor has signed a measure legalizing gay marriage. joining seven other states and the district of columbia. governor martin o'malley, a democrat signed the bill today a week after its final passage in the legislature. the law is scheduled to take effect in 2013. however, opponents are expected to petition the laut to a referendum on the november ballot. president obama has called the governors of six states recovering from those devastating tornadoes and sai

here's a few of the gifts reported. governor brown said he accepted three gifts.eer stein worth $125. lieutenant-governor gavin knew some reported nine gifts, including a teddy bear worth $100. and some of the more lavish gifts, a trip for senator ted lew worth more than $3,000. and a los angeles senator accepted $5,100 in travel expenses for a trip to china. >>> students from several universities in the bay area are marching for public education this weekend. they are calling it the 99-mile march for education and social justice. they left oakland thursday, planning to arrive in sacramento on monday. abc7 education reporter leeann melendez caught up with them in richmond. >> friday's goal was to march 23 miles it from richmond to vallejo. several law enforcement agencies escorted the students as they made their way through busy an pablo avenue. >> we have advance taking our stuff, like the heavier stuff and food and medical supplies. other than that we have stop points where the communities have been gracious enough to house us and feed us. >> they will stay at c

a democrat accuses him of accepting a gift worth $6,800 when he didn't pay the normal fee to hunt at the ranch. california law limits gifts to no more than $420 a year. >>> lieutenant governor gavin newsom has been calling for richards to resign. coming up in about 30 minutes, newsom will join our phil matier and former mayor willie brown to discuss the controversy. >>> police are reviewing a beating in the berkeley hymns. dispatch tapes indicate officers weren't sent to the home when the victim called about an intruder. officers said they didn't answer the call because their priority was an "occupy" protest march. police did respond after the victim's wife called 15 minutes later to say this her husband had been attacked. he was later killed. >>> a deadly avalanche near a tahoe area ski resort rescue crews rushed to an out of bounds area near alpine meadows yesterday when they got word of the avalanche. three skisser touched off the avalanche. one wassed aboutly hurt. it took several hours to get the hospital where the skier who was badly hurt died from his injuries. >>> regions hit

thank you for your gift. motion. second? all those in favor?is unanimous. >> we are now on items six, for san francisco zoo. >> good morning. executive director of the san francisco zoo. we closed in january on a high with visitor attendance over butted by 65%, 22,000 visitors. february has been doing well, in large part, too many events. february 14, thousands of visitors came to the zoo which puts us at 30%. one of the reasons for the high attendance is the appearance jack hanna. he appeared to a sold-out, standing-room-only crowd. many had paid money to see and receive autographs from him. he focused on 20 animals from the children's zoo and call the san francisco zoo a diamond in the rough. we thank him for being here. we recently lost a male lion. the silver lining, he left behind a female companion that would have been by herself. we had the idea to copy a pride, which you often find in the wild. we carefully introduced the female to the couple next door. it has turned out to be a wonderful trio and pride. they are now napping together an

even in failure, there is a gift. find the gift and believe in yourself. >>> thanks for watching.uir will be right here tomorrow night. see you monday. >>> demolition work and alarms that went unrepaired by the owner. >> sky 7 hd catches the end of a police pursuit. how a violation turned into a felony arrest. >> a major ruling on the video evidence against sheriff mirkarimi. the defense challenges an expert witness. >> live tonight at the famous gold dust lounge. the lease is about to expire but nobody is planning to leave. >> this are the flames that roared through a three-story apartment building yesterday. tonight we've learned from a tenant the landlord may not have gotten around to repairing smoke detectors. >> and tonight some people who live there want to know why they were left in danger. the flames spread fast, racing through the complex. and everyone inside of the three-story building on dwight way got out safely, however, we're live and there is a notorious past. >>

the gift list included 41 gift cards, eight gift baskets six boxes of chocolates, for cutting board sets, two digital cameras, it one candle e. reeder and one digital photo album. >> i work for a nonprofit. if we spend money like that on each other that would be completely unacceptable. >> prosecutors declined to press charges dating, -- stating -- >> if you have that much evidence why not prosecute? >> somebody has to know something with the management. >> prosecutors in maryland also declined to press charges. purchases were made in maryland. the decision was made because of poor internal control and because senior managers did not do their job to prevent the abuse. >> thank you. coming up on abc 7 news at 5:00, a police chief on the defense of about a policy on a rest court as. he said there is no quota even though there is an memo with evidence of it. >> because of the court, a murder miwok. >> -- may walk. turn left. the passat is one of nine volkswagen models named a 2012 iihs top safety pick. not that we'd ever brag about it. turn right. come on, nine. turn left. hit the brakes. h

you're on wall street you actually your funds are negative your negative one percent the fed gives you gifts you money and then you park it back at the fed you make a one percent spread that's a negative interest rate you know it's just like the indians back in one hundred fifty years ago two hundred years ago with buffalo bill the only be rolling across the plains shooting the indians shooting the buffalo dead to starve out the. indians here blankfein and jamie diamond j.p. morgan are starving out the poor people america hoping to just die and go away just are all closed on the myth is and the propaganda is that the economy in the united states is now booming everything is recovering so all of these unbanked people they might become banked you know they might get a job one day well penta soaring oil inflation and households soaked in debt michael pentode an investment advisor is asked on king world news to respond to the claims that the economy is it is recovering he points to the trade deficit widening and nonfinancial debt is at a record of two hundred fifty percent of g.d.p. and then he

and there are very touched by the mag tiff sent gift before me.alously subscribed by many of you. should this beautiful window cause just a little extra color to shine down upon this ancient place i should gladly settle for that. we are reminded here of our past of the continuity of our national story and the virtues of resilience, ingenuity and toll lance which created it. i have been privileged to witness some of that history and with the support of my family, rededicate myself to the service of our great country and its people now and in the years to come. [ applause ] >> prime minister leads a standing ovation for her majesty in westminster hall, barrister, and the speaker of the commons. and her majesty acknowledging, what happens now is that the two speakers will approach the throne again. and the queen will present them with a poppy of the royal response today, the royal address today. the two speakers take their place for the national anthem. once again they acknowledge the [ applause ] to the delight of mr. cameron. the queen taking in th

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it was basically a wedding gift for us. >> amazing wedding gift. >> yeah. like, gosh. >> i don't know what i would say. francis says the entire experience was surreal. she says it was bizarre that the queen and her husband, prince phillip, knew their names. royal analysts are calling it public relations genius. she certainly made a lot of people happy. a rude awakening for people not long after they had gotten sleep in virginia. a 3.1 earthquake rattled the same region hit by last august's bigger quake. last night's tremor was in fact another of the hundreds ofafter shocks since that august earthquake which none of us will ever forget. >> no, no time soon. >>> you know what? it's not the time to plant flowers, but they were planting things at the white house garden today. you can plant trees. the rule is, you can dig a hole in the ground. >> you know how tempting it is because it's been so nice. >> michelle obama had kids from schools and planted cherry trees and local schools, they were all over the country from chester, pennsylvania, to new york and north

here is a fraction of the gifts that were reported. governor jerry brown acapulco septembered three -- accepted three gifts and one was a $325 beer stein. newsome had gifts including a teddy bear worths $100. there was a trip to ted lou rt worth more than $3,000. and the los angeles senator accepted $5100 in travel expenses for a trip to china. >>> a more bidly obese livermore man who wants to regain his health says response has been overwhelming since he posted on youtube. >> robert gibbs weighs more than 600 pounds. he says he has been overweight his entire life. by 8 he was 150 pounds. within 24 hours of up loading his youtube video he received 200,000 hits. robert who turned 23 today has been hospitalized for weight problems before, but he says this time will be different. >> this birthday i am hoping will be better than the rest of them because i finally asked for help and i am getting it. >> robert is among 18 million morbidly obese americans. that means they weigh at least 100 pounds or moreover weight. >>> a spectacular public

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>> well the gift is the fact that we're doing the show together. >> jimmy: that is the gift. >> but it'snother thing with stealing my swagger. his gift that he got -- >> i didn't steal your swagger on purpose. >> you got the car, it's my car. it's getting a little single white female. >> it's the same car or he took yours? >> he didn't take mine, but it's the exact same car. >> it wasn't my idea. >> i feel awkward about it. >> jimmy: do you see ashton as a role model? [ laughter ] >> no, no. just kidding. definitely for like this punk'd thing we're doing, he's the master. so i'm looking up to him as far as that. >> jimmy: were you old enough to watch this show when it was on the first time around? >> i was like three or four. >> jimmy: something like that. >> wow. [cheers and applause ] >> i need a walker now. >> jimmy: the young prince and taking over. and you were a fan of the show? >> yeah. my whole life i've always been a prankster and always loved the show. so i thought -- >> jimmy: how'd you guys meet? how'd you broach the subject to start with? >> i was an early adopter of this th

when they said, this is a gag gift for civil war buffs, let's call it what it is, it is a gag gift for the confederate buffs. >> if you look at it as a tribute then you shouldn't have a tribute to john wilkes booth. >> a bobblehead in and of itself -- a bobblehead is a tribute. >> a bobblehead is a thing. a bobbleheaded john wilkes booth doesn't hit close to home. one of katherine hepburn, that hits close to home. >> is he portrayed heroically does he have a villainous bob? >> it is a bobbing thing. >> if the john wilkes booth is served in the happy meal. >>> up next, what will ian michael black have to say about his new book? probably that you should buy it. >>> well, you know him from the state steel law. and he is a new york times best selling author. i think we have a picture. his book is called "you are not doing it right, tails of marriage, sex, death and other humiliations." when an interviewer hasn't read the book he often starts with the title. why the title? why does it need why "you are not doing it right." >> the title, greg and i know you have read it and i thank you for y