-- with a series like hbo -- with series like hbo's "the wire."e is a preview of his new program, "treme." >> people think there was a conspiracy with the levees. >> wide displaced so many working-class folks, black and white -- why displace so many? it was a national disaster, a hurricane, pure and simple. the flooding of new orleans was a man-made catastrophe, above epic proportions. tavis: david, good to have you on the show. the title, "treme," comes from? >> one of the oldest african- american neighborhoods, just in the back of the french quarter. it was the first location in which there were african- american homeowners. tavis: 7 on that title, for all of the things it could of been called -- why settle on that title? for all of the things it could have been called? >> this show is about the cultural heart of a very unique place, a very unique american city, and treme is also generally regarded to be the birthplace of jazz, where jazz music had its origins. tavis: tell me how one goes about designing, creating a show that is unapologetically

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kevorkian, the focus of the new hbo movie.e'll talk to some of the stars, susan sarandon, john goodman, barry levinson and dr. kevorkian. susan sarandon talking about life and death. >> i've been with people who doctors have upped their morphine at the end, now he. that happens all the time. nobody really talks about it, but that happens. they say at a certain point, okay, this is the choice. >> we'll have more ahead. >>> plus, a new twist in the case against american amanda knox found guilty of killing her roommate in italy. >>> before the break, dr. jack kevorkian told me physicians who don't help terminally ill patients die are cowards. he also participated in more than 130 assisted suicides. he said now that he's out of prison and not on parole, he said no one can stop him from legally doing it again if the law changes. hbo has turned his life into a film. al pacino plays kevorkian. it also stars susan sarandon and john goodman and was directed by barry levinson. they joined me earlier. barry, why did you want to make a fi

on hbo.and 13th at madison square garden. please welcome ricky gervais, everybody! ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: fantastic. thank you for being on the show. >> oh, my pleasure. >> jimmy: i appreciate it. happy april fools' day. yeah. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: do you celebrate that? >> it didn't really take off like christmas, did it? >> jimmy: no, no. [ laughter ] not a giant holiday. >> no, it's not. it's a few lame, sort of, pretend stories in papers and a few practical jokes, but, no, it doesn't really -- but if you're going to do it, do it with a bit of jeopardy. let's have pilots doing it. [ laughter ] "oh, my god, we're going down. no, april fools'. no, we're fine, we're fine." or midwives going -- "oh, it's a frog." you know? that's just -- [ laughter ] >> jimmy: the doctor say you've given birth to a frog, "congratulations." >> exactly. do it properly, not, like, a cup of water over a door. rubbish. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i've never done -- i've never done april fools' thing that m

hbo is another division of cnn's parent company, time warner. >> action!ing is still continuing for labor episodes, so we caught up with creator david simon and actor wendel pierce in the french quarter. i wanted to start out with something, i read a quote from you. either we have something to say or we don't. what do you have to say? >> it's about culture. the last show, "the wire," was about how power and money route themselves in an american city. this is really about what we're capable of as an american people. americans are decidedly an american people. we're only going to get more urban as the century goes on. and we're very ambivalent about that. there's a lot of negative connotations associated with city living. but i actually think that's really the question for the next century, is how we're going to live together, compacted as we are in cities, multiculturally, you know, this is -- new orleans is the triumph of the creole, of -- we're the mutts. we are the beautiful people who are americans. and new orleans is a triumph in that sense. >> if you

did not occur to me that one of his colleagues pointed out that when "curb your enthusiasm" came to hbo, he said that they just told that, that is larry david. his own wife says that her husband is a brood -- is a brood and there is nothing that she can do about it. -- is rude and there is nothing that she can do about it. he was never rude or mean too little people, to the secretary, to his many, he was wonderful with them. he was protecting and caring about people believe him. the people above him made him angry. he would find himself in situations where he is in meetings with wall street big shots and he would say things that would cause the meetings to come to end and the big shots would say they would never sit in a room with him again. it got to a point where his colleagues would just stop their jobs to follow him wherever he was going because they want to see the show. they know that he is one to be needing someone important on wall street and something as one to happen that they will want to see. it is like watching a car crash. you cannot watch, but you can't not watch. >> he d

studio was going to fire him, until this scene. ( gunshot ) now about to turn 70, pacino is in a new hbo movie where he transforms into dr. jack kevorkian, and with the help of technology, gets interviewed by mike wallace. >> jack kevorkian, dr. death, is a fanatic. >> zealot. >> i'm steve kroft. >> i'm lesley stahl. >> i'm scott pelley. >> i'm bob simon. >> i'm morley safer. >> i'm katie couric. those stories and andy rooney >> i'm katie couric. those s[ female announcer ]ey savers, get ready. because right now it's rollback time at walmart. which means thousands of rollbacks all over the store. it's another way to master your budget. and another great day for the savers. save money. live better. walmart. and you're still fighting to sleep in the middle of the night, why would you go one more round using it ? you don't need a rematch-- but a re-think-- with lunesta. lunesta is different. it keys into receptors that support sleep, setting your sleep process in motion. lunesta helps you get the restful sleep you need. when taking lunesta, don't drive or operate machinery until you feel fu

we have the co-creator and one of the lead actors in a new series on hbo that is going to premiere ony night. it is called "trumay" about new orleans, post katrina new orleans. it was a fascinating discussion of, a political discussion as well. hbo, we should add, is somewhat of a sister network, all of us working for time warner. >> candy, thank you. always a pleasure when you join us. i wish i could be down there in new orleans with you but i will be watching you tomorrow. >> reporter: it's great. >> thank, candy. >>> police come hard at anti-government protesters. and when all this is over, more than a dozen people were dead, details just ahead here on cnn. >>> and if you think carry-on baggage is a cheaper way to fly, your wallet is in for a rude awakening. ceo of spirit airlines joins us next to explain why you can fly cheap, but your luggage pays full price. . >>> it is a weekend, but there is a lot going on. poland is in mourning today after an early morning plane crash in russia killed the country's president lech kaczynski. also among the 100 dead, the polish first lady and m

they said when the curb your enthusiasm came on to hbo, the larry david show, he said they stole that. that is steve. he is larry david. he runs around offending people. his wife says to me my husband is rude. he has no manors. i know that. i have tried and i have tried, and there is nothing i can do about it >> he is tactless throughout the story, but there is a pattern, which sort of endeared him to me. he was never rude or mean to little people. he wasn't mean to the secretary. he wasn't mean to his nanny. he was wonderful with them. he was protective and caring about the people beneath hem. who he was tactless to were people in power, who he thought you were abusing their positions. he would get angry. he would find himself in meetings with wall street big shots and saying things that would cause the meeting to come to an end, that caused the wall street big shot say i am never setting foot in the same room with about this man again. it came to the point where his subordinates that he was working with, the fund he was managing, they would stop their jobs for the day to follow him

me until one of his colleagues pointed it out they said that when "curb your enthusiasm" came on to hbo, the larry david show, they just they just stole that. that's steve. they said he's larry david. he runs around offending people. and his own wife says to me, "my husband is rude. he has no manners. i know that. i've tried. and i've tried. and i've tried and there's nothing i can do about it." and he is tactless. and tactless throughout the story but there is a pattern to his tactless which sort of endeared him to me. and it was -- he was never rude or mean to little people. he wasn't mean to the secretary. he wasn't mean to his nanny. he was wonderful with them. he was protective and caring about the people beneath him. what he was -- who he was tactless too were people who were in power, who he thought were abusing their positions. it made him angry. and he would get in these over and over he would find himself in these situations where he's in meetings with wall street big shots and saying things that caused the meeting to come an end or cause the wall street big shot to say i'm ne

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. >> reporter: up next, our discussion with an actor and the creator of a powerful new hbo series aboutkatrina life here in new orleans. ♪ 'tis of thee ♪ sweet land ♪ of liberty ♪ of thee i sing [ laughs ] ♪ oh, land ♪ where my fathers died ♪ land of the pilgrims' pride ♪ from every mountainside ♪ let freedom ring oh sure, we have plenty of employees that... you can label as "different." like janice. uh-huh. yeah. fashion deficient. and tom... copy incapable. it's open kimono time. looking good, dan. oh, we want to make sure all our ducks in a row. yeah. volume control syndrome. but we focus on the talent and skill that each person... brings to the team. i mean, no one's really concerned about labels. not even mine. labels get in the way. disabilities rarely do. visit thinkbeyondthelabel.com to evolve your work force. ( tires squealing ) to have bad tires. come to meinekand save $20 on two or more tires. at meineke, you're always the driver. >>> five years ago, president bush stood here in jackson square and promised that the nation would help rebuild new orleans. he used the symbolism

he is profiled in a new hbo film called "you don't know jack" which prepares next week, and al pachinoyskevorkian. log on to my blog and let us know. we will get your comments on the air later on this afternoon. >>> waxing poetic in public. why this guy is letting perfect strangers rip away his hair. why is he doing that? that's not funny, just painful. but it's a viral video that you don't want to miss. at the end of the day in sitka, alaska, everyone awaits the return of the fishing boats. their safe arrival is highly anticipated. as is something else. a shipment of natural sea salt from cargill, essential for preserving the catch. we deliver the salt on precise schedules and ship it efficiently all along the alaskan coast. saving the fishermen money and their catch. this is how cargill works with customers. i think i'll go with the preferred package. good choice. only meineke lets you choose the brake service that's right for you. and save 50% on pads and shoes. meineke. >>> the obama administration plan that was designed to stem foreclosures may not be helping millions of troubled

david simon that's been in the series for hbo on post-katrina new orleans and the battle to come backmething to me in an interview which struck me that great countries don't abandon their great cities. is there a feeling in detroit that a great country has abandoned a great city. >> i think there's a lot more hope in detroit. there's no doubt. the analogies between new orleans and katrina. they had a natural disaster that was immediate. our hurricane has been an economic hurricane. but the impact on the citizens has been similar in the loss of population, the loss of jobs. and really the hollowing out of this great city. but it's fantastic and it's not that detroit has to be the same size, they're trying to right size the city. so they're doing unique things, like urban farming -- taking a lot of the vacant land and turning it in to farming, which is sort of an interesting thing when you think about a city -- but abandoning cities is absolutely not the option. michigan and detroit, the only thing that separates detroit from michigan is a comma. >> let me turn to politics -- one of our

. >> i had the old "chris rock show" for a few years over at hbo. >> jimmy: that's great. [ cheers and a little bit. especially when i come out and do these shows and i'm, like, promoting something. i go like, "man, i guess i could do that again." but my kids are small. in about three, four years and the kids aren't going to want to hang out with me and maybe i'll take a job again. [ laughter ] right now, you know, just -- >> jimmy: they don't want -- >> i just want to hang out with them and keep them off the pole and keep them out of rehab. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: smart guy. you got to do that. >> off the pole. you go to work, your kids are on the pole, man. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: that's what happens. >> that's what happens. that's what happens, man. >> jimmy: yeah, yeah, yeah. i hosted the mtv awards, you hosted the mtv awards. >> i did it, i did it. >> jimmy: i followed in your footsteps. >> i did it -- i did it one year, i said a joke about suge knight and people thought i would get smacked that night, yeah. [ laughter ] you never did it with suge around. [ light laughter ] you had

and i understand you have done a role as bill clinton coming out on hbo. guest: yeah, at the end of may. it's called the special relationship about the relationship of bill clinton and tony blair, prime minister of the united kingdom. it covers the years from 1996 to 2000. those are the sizzle years. host: what was that like? guest: quite daunting. quite a challenge. and i hope i did some justice to it. host: dennis quaid and dr. charles denham and the website. guest: safetyleaders.org. host: that does it for "washington journal," see you tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. . . >> the senate convenes with general speeches at 2:00 p.m. eastern, with a vote scheduled at 5:30. you can see the senate live on our companion network, c-span2. the house will be back tomorrow at 2:00. live coverage here on c-span. now more about the nuclear summit from today's "washington journal." host: josh rogin writes for " foreign policy" magazine, covering the nuclear security summit this week. what does the administration want to get out of this? >> largely determined well in advance

our baltimore high school is located in west baltimore in spite of the open-air drug market shown on hbo market, our students are multiple years below grade level, declining attendance, yet we graduate over 80% and everyone has some pose secondary pageand placement. recently wrote be put together a new product which is our national service corps members which lets us put a team of 10- 15 idealistic 18-24-year-old in the building and each one has basically a group of 15-20 students to shepherd who have early warning indicators of thing off track, of having a low attendance the middle grades, of having failed in middle grades. quietly come every day, are you in school? to do the homework done? but still it at lunch. -- let's do it at lunch. sarcasm does not work. the continuing nagging and nurturing is felt by hundreds of students to stay on track. teachers cannot do that alone. they cannot do hundreds. we add on community schools, a case managed social workers. there's also highest need kids were the effects of poverty are so strong if you have an answer, he cannot educate them. a student

house guests that the heads of states brought along the ukraine, and mexico have agreed to eliminate hbo and dispose of it denies states and russia race seem to be signing agreements everyday the plutonium disposition agreement which was 10 years in the may gain has been stalled for many years but it eliminates plutonium that could make 17,000 nuclear weapons say i ata will help us monitor that agreement there were a number of other initiatives and probably one of a anecdotes to the whole conference was how you have 47 heads of state and milling around bringing foreign ministers and ambassadors and members of their cabinets as that deal with issues of non-proliferation there are many side meetings with good work done and it was clear wobble baller presided over this for a day and have made eloquent and forceful statements but this was an issue the heads of state most of them believe was important but it took the united states and president obama to put the issue into the forefront of their minds and convene them together. . .