comedian howie mandel. he's the author of "here's the deal, don't touch me" howie talks about his obsessive-compulsive disorder in his book. i'd shake his hand, but as many of you know he doesn't do that. you don't want to shock the world and shake my hand? >> no, i don't want to shock myself. >> larry: why won't you shake my hand? >> i don't want to be triggered into one of my obsessive-compulsive, whatever episodes. >> larry: is that a germophobia? now they're saying don't shake hands. >> well, this h1n1 thing is the world has come to see the world my way. but no, this is actually a very scary time for me. and i'm very neurotic, i have an anxiety disorder. that's what this is. and i spent a lot of time joking about it on television and people make fun of it. but the truth is and i reveal revealed -- unwittingly in this book how serious -- i'm terrorized by the fact that i may get something on my hand. and i can't tell you how many times -- and i spent many years and people have seen my shake hands on tele

is everything ok howie? you don't answer, they can automatically send help to your exact location. i think i'll ride with you. the award-winning malibu. from chevy. and it is so frustrating. (announcer) do you want to give afrin a try? ok. i can breathe through my nose immediately. afrin has made me happy. is that a silly statement? (announcer) afrin. why suffer? so, at national, i go right past the counter... and you get to choose any car in the aisle. choose any car? you cannot be serious! okay. seriously, you choose. go national. go like a pro.

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tomorrow night howie mandel, more of suze next. >>> suze is a twitterer, she twitters at the atsuzeorman show. >> we follow you. >> and i follow you, larry, as well. >> larry: do you enjoy it? >> i do enjoy it. i don't know if you know, if you do tweet me, i am the one, nobody else tweets on my site but me. i try to answer every single question that somebody asked me and the reason that i like it so much is that it actually keeps me in touch with what does america want to know, what do you need? what are you feeling? and it all kind of comes out on my twitter site and i love it and i do it almost every day. >> larry: pretty good ego trip, though? >> suze, if i have the cash available to pay off my mortgage is it a good idea to do so? i have heard people say that i need the mortgage interest deduction on my taxes and that doesn't make sense to me. >> here's the thing, jeff, it all depends how old you happen to be. if you are old enough that you're going to be keeping this home. let's say you're 45, 50 years of age, then i personal think it's a wonderful thing to do to pay off your mortgag

is everything ok howie? you don't answer, they can automatically send help to your exact location. think i'll ride with you. the award-winning malibu. from chevy. >>> i'm drew griffin at the cnn world headquarters in atlanta. here's a look at our top stories. senate democrats say they are on track to pass health care reform by christmas. party leaders had to convince bell nelson to support the bill. that gives them enough votes to overcome republican efforts to block it. once it passes it has to go to the house and reconciled with the version passed by the house last month. >>> a brutal winter storm is blasting the east coast. 20 inches of snow through the mid atlantic through new york. hundreds of thousands are without power and five deaths have been reported in virginia and in ohio. some travelers are having to bed down in airports. flights are delayed. airports are shut down and the worst is probably yet to come. a delta spokesperson told cnn they have canceled just over 500 flights at the affected airports on the east coast. karen, this has been a mess in the air and on the gro

is everything ok howie? you don't answer, they can automatically send help to your exact location. i think i'll ride with you. the award-winning malibu. from chevy. >> larry: barney frank and ron paul remain. joining us, tanya acker, a political analyst for the huffington post, and ben stein, the economist and former presidential speechwriter and columnist for "fortune" magazine. before we get back to the total economy, what are your thoughts, ben and tanya, about the role joe lieberman is playing in this health care question. tanya, you first. >> i have to say i'm so shocked and appalled. i shouldn't say shock. but i do find his behavior fairly appalling. particularly his new stance about a medicare buy-in. he said in an interview with dana bash that he had to take a principled stance against this bill. but it seems he's really taking a principled stance against himself. he used to support the provisions because he doesn't like them now because people he doesn't like are supporting them. he is really a big disappointment. >> larry: ben, what is your read on lieberman? >> the last

is everything ok howie? you don't answer, they can automatically send help to your exact location. i think i'll ride with you. the award-winning malibu. from chevy. and it is so frustrating. (announcer) do you want to give afrin a try? ok. i can breathe through my nose immediately. afrin has made me happy. is that a silly statement? (announcer) afrin. why suffer? so, at national, i go right past the counter... and you get to choose any car in the aisle. choose any car? you cannot be serious! okay. seriously, you choose. go national. go like a pro. >>> ali velshi here in new york with breaking news coverage of what the white house is calling an attempted terrorist attack. if you're just joining us here in the united states or on cnn international, here's what we know. you're looking at a passenger jet, northwest airlines flight 253, branded delta with delta markings on it. allegedly someone frooid tried to blow it up. this flight was an approach to detroit from amsterdam. a passenger tells us what she saw. >> we were in the back of the plane and all of a sudden heard some screams an

howie 08 dead of credit to the specially of this difficult time. admiral mullen i heard you say that the underresourcing of our engagement in afghanistan over the last for five years has brought us to where we are today so that to me means that our adventure in iraq has created a set of circumstances where we have underresourced our efforts in afghanistan. is that a fair comment? >> as i indicated, i think my previous and comments, clearly the priority in the direction i have both as the chairman and chief of the services to resources iraq. we were balancing deployment, the balancing time at home. >> you could not iraq resources and resellers afghanistan as you needed to? >> that is correct. >> i look at this july 2011 date and i see it as clearly aspirational and i think we need to be honest with the american people. can any of you tell me that after july 2011 that we won't have tens of thousands of troops years after that date? >> i think that the president and we have been clear that july 2011 is the beginning of the process of drawing down in a