but i said i would get it and i said i would be there.y. >> and i said to the lady, i got a million coming, and i was wearing crocodile boots, cowboy belt. i had long hair down to here. >> jimmy: how old were you then? >> i was 24, 25. >> jimmy: 24 with a million dollars. >> and i got the million. and the guy from -- that came out from behind the door, and he said to me, excuse me. are you jerry weintraub? i said, yes, and i have a million dollars coming. and he said, yes, you do. and it's here. what are you going to do with it? i said, i'm going to take elvis on the road. i said who are you? he said, i'm the president of the bank. i said, well, give me my million. he said, you're gonna take elvis on the road? i said, yeah, why don't i leave here and be the accountant on the tour. >> jimmy: so you took him with you? >> no, i didn't take him. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: another story i love, cause now you started working with elvis, right. you book him in miami, sold out thing, because elvis was just big, that's right at the time. >> right. >>

i said, john, i took care of everything. you did? what did you do? i said, i fired ferguson. uld you do that? i said, because he was in charge of the airplanes and the venues and the sound systems and all the things that, all the things on your list that are wrong. he was in charge of all of those things, i got rid of him. and he said to me, everything is going to be all right now? i said, everything is fine now. he said, great, that's great. we went in, he brought the whole band in, all the roadies, he had a meeting with them, he said, jerry took care of everything, everything is going to be fine, he fired ferguson. and they all gave me a big round of applause and i was the guy and i was fantastic. and that night, john and i went out for dinner. and john was a sweet, sweet man. and i said to him, you know, i really feel terrible about ferguson. he said why? i said, he's got a wife and three kids, it's almost christmas, we didn't give him any severance, it's not like you, it's not like me, we don't, we don't do our business this way. we got to do something for ferguson. he sai

this time i said, hell no, i am suing everybody. the police, the state of new york. the public defender came to me -- this is the craziest part of the situation. the public defender who is there to defend your constitutional rights -- she came in to see me with plastic cause and a surgical mask. i saw her walking around with all the rest of the brothers. i thought maybe she had something that she did not want to give us. [laughter] that is righteous. i respect that. whenever you have to do. then she got me into the interrogation room and she said to me, you say you have education. where did you go to school, high school? public-school of new york. this does that add up. i skipped two grades before college. where did you go to college? how did you pay for college? you went to grad school? how did you pay for law school? what did that have to do with my case? i was just going with the flow. finally, she said to me, it is my professional obligation to inform you -- not only as an attorney but as a registered nurse acting as a dentist -- you may have a bipolar disorder.

the back of my collar and pulled me -- she said, "i told you, that is for white folks." you learn at a very early age. she said, "honey, are you hungry?" i was not hungry, but i saw what those white children had. those are the little things that stick in your mind as you grow up. and another thing you learn about trying on clothes in the department store. all of that was going on in my mind at a very young age. what really set it off -- i had two teachers -- during february, we did it for the whole month because we figured we had been cheated out of our history of america. only two names were in the encyclopedia, and that was booker t. washington and george washington carver, but she lectured about the contribution of frederick douglass, w.e.b. dubois, and how jackie robinson had broken the baseball barrier. and we remembered the opera singer who was not allowed to sing in the hall and had to sing in lincoln center. all the discrimination and the local in justices. like, everything was separate and unequal. the school was inadequate. we could not go to the hospitals. they

i said, i got to get this guy on my show.ba booey, fa-fa-fooey, i said, call up charlie. you know how to appeal to him. tell him howard is a warlock warrior and that i am prepared to go on the air with him and do battle because i was sued by cbs, as you know, and he's about to sue cbs. and i will commiserate him and support him and i will be there for him. and sure enough, he bought my [ bleep ] and we had him on the air. but -- i got to tell you, jimmy, i got a plan. >> jimmy: okay. >> because we're on sirius satellite radio, you know i have two 24-hour channels and i control the channels. i'm in charge of these channels. and i have said to charlie, i tweeted him, i had my producer call him. i said charlie, what we want to do is this. we want to put a microphone in your house. anytime you feel like going on the radio and doing a radio show, we'll break into our programming and you can have control of the airwaves, carte blanche, go on the air, and have charlie radio, 24 hours a day. because there's nothing better than that.

and i said i don't get it. mean, there's a fight in the cafeteria at some high school in new york city, i can guarantee that the new times is not covering that. but what's going on in the "washington post" is covering every single thing that is happening and i don't get it. he looked at me and he said, i can tell you why there's so much interest. he said it's because you give good quote. [laughter] >> he said, you say the things that we know people are probably thinking in their heads, but they are trained to do better, stick to the talking points. and you actually say those things. you say that there are some teachers who are not so good and need to, you know, the renewed. so that's why the press was you because you will say those things. so i thought that was interesting. i will say this, if i'm allowed to say this, as per usual -- [laughter] -- i think that there were people in the media who were extraordinarily helpful to us in the effort. and i honestly don't think that we could have done the work that we

i got beat up. they said you're not from america. it wasn't in africa that i learned about racism but here in united states. we were completely broke and i did something real unpopular at the time. four days after high school i joind the united states army. not only to serve my country but to get the,gi bill to continue my education. then i saw young men and women from all across america. from farms and ranches and it matedm made me realize the strength in this country is not from commonality but our great diversity. i had a younger sister named gift of god and christa was a special girl because she suffered from severe epilepsy. she never once complained. she never said across word and it could or would take her an hour or two to line um... up her clothes and do our homework and get her lunch b bag ready. i'm the five minutes bed to - bus kind of guy, you know? well krista saw the baseball movie called field of dreams. very inspiring movie that takes place in the corn field in iowa and decided for her 23rd birthday she wanted to go s

i said, today i choose not to rob you. let me do this. i could go on and on. i want to respect the time. let me talk about expectations. on the research i have done, what kind of teachers are assaulted by youths? what behaviors were they exhibiting? some people say comfortive. and people say intolerant. you know what it is? teachers where low expectations tend to be assaulted the most. you don't have respecto for someone. the work that i have done started with with a primitive of respecto. i expect something from you mihoe. because i respect, you are always angry. no it's the fire in me. the day i stop being angry is the day i stop caring. let's talk about collaboration. i did the best practices paper. sb 95. we have programs throughout the state. they had money. funding. staffing. facilities and yet they died on the vine. you know why? because they couldn't collaborate. that's the elephant in the living room. they came from different paradigms. let me conclude with this. i talk about hope. growing up. seeing some of the things i saw. i learned a very importan

i did not think anything of it, but she said that people should know about your story. i sent it to somebody. the editor from "the new york times" called me and said that it was a lot of racy for them. but people just kept running in, i got letters in from brothers and death row. we are reading your article. we are glad what you are saying. they will not believe us. you have all of these degrees. next week, mike wallace calls me for an interview. i was talking to ms. colvin earlier. she said the media has a certain way to take people and put them up and you do not hear about everyone else. as if these are isolated incidents. so they called and his producers were like, we want to interview. we want to interview you on your campus in cambridge. i said, my brothers would like to, too. we have been putting this case for five months. basically, i said we are not going to do it. this is bogus. my porter rican red-haired cousin, he has funny hair. he was there, too. so we came back and they decided to do it with everybody. when that story came out, i started getting harassed. t

like i said, both good and bad. would absolutely say that because of the national attention that week i for the affaires, we got a lot of support. i don't think we ever would've gotten a $65 million in foundation support for the efforts of the entire national organizations unless they believe what we're doing here but have a national impact and that would not have happened were it not for the press and media that were involved in the effort. so i would say good, not so good on the not so good side. there is a lot we could have done better. >> up late to turn it over to questions. i was hoping to get michelle to answer one more thing on this issue. i thought we had such an inch in conversation about the whole time cover. that by the way back there is the of time covered. >> the one we were supposed to be using. >> as opposed to the one with the room. and i said what are you thinking? in hindsight, what would've made it different? what if anita dunn had been with you at the time. no, you may not do this and i don't kn

i'm michael i said. finally standing. this is ben. he shook our hands. i'm patrees. i am worried that it might make me squirm. i found it hospitable. that it put he more at easy. we're glad you came. patrice smiled. ben caught my guy. he began to rearrange the forskin. it seemed to swell. when he removed it, he said, i open it's okay. i'm sort of a kiss pig. no problem. as i caught my breath. ben removed. he reported getting a big laugh. i should tell you something. i am used to this moment arising. i tried to make it easier for him. we always play safe. so it's something else. we waited for the penny to drop. i do your momma's hair. this simply did not compute. ben looked up at him completely open mouthed. what he murmured. i do his momma's hair. in this moment of raw revelation. the obvious pride she showed in her new hair dresser. i thought you were a woman. how did you about who we were? >> she has a picture of y'all in her room. y'all by waterfall. she talks about you all the time. jesus said ben. what are the chances of this? patrice shrugged. why didn't you say

i said, yes? the man with him said, well, ma'am, you know that brother malcolm don't talk to white people. i said what? he said, that's right. i said, i didn't know what to do, so i said, well, what do you want? they went on to explain that they wanted to place some copies in our paper. i said that to darrell, they want to place a copy in our paper. darrell said to me, well how much is it, and are they willing to pay? he said how much is it, and are you willing to pay? [laughter] we told him, and they said, we're not paying anything. they're not paying anything. so finally, darrell said, i don't have enough space, and i will have to edit it, and i repeated that, of course, for which i was told, one of them said, we can't have you do that, no, we can't have you do that. it was at that point that i turned to darrell and said they don't want to do that, and we stood there silently for a moment, and then when a smile on his face, malcolm says, i will edit it myself, and that's how -- that's my malcolm

(laughter) but anyway, i signed a cd for him, and i said, "i want to see the day, i want to be around it's a platform for people like me, artists like myself, to get my music, my gift, to you. and so your gift should be to donate to your local public television station because you're making a statement. it's as important as you all vote out there. so support public television, please. i wrote mombassa in kenya. of course, the city of mombassa is in kenya. it's right on the coast. but we were in nairobi, and i went out to visit the children there that i sponsor through world vision . so i started the song after i got to know the family that i sponsor. i started to write the song in the back of the smelliest old four-wheeled drive i've ever been in. and my heart was just overflowing with love for these people. ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (momba

i don't get it. and he looked at me and he said, i can tell you why there's so much interest. he said it's because you give good quote. [laughter] >> you say the things that we know people are probably thinking in their heads but they're trained to do better, right? to stick to their talking points and you actually say those things. you say that there are some teachers who are not so good and need to, you know, be removed. and so that's why the press loves you because you will say those things. so i thought that was interesting. i will say this. i don't know if i'm allowed to say this or not but i'm going to say it. [laughter] >> as for usual. i think that there were people in the media who were extraordinarily helpful to us in this effort. i honestly don't think that we could have done the work that we -- that we did without some of the media actually backing up 100% of the way and when things kind of spiraled out of control with what people were thinking and what the blogs were saying for the voice of reason and i couldn't trade that -- or wouldn't trade that for anything bec

and so i said, "oh, i'll go to northwestern." i even applied to the naval academy, and had met with my congressman, and i was a lieutenant colonel in the rotc. >> hinojosa: you were a good kid, and yet you could have easily just become a dropout. so when you look at these kids now who end up in your juvenile court, and they have dropped out... >> i understand now the connection. i understand what the difference is if you have an education and if you don't. because i've gone back to chicago. i've gone back to the projects where i grew up. i've looked for other friends who didn't go off, and they're not there. they're either dead or in prison or living bad lives, so many of them. and that frightens me, you know, because i know the connection between education and having a future. >> hinojosa: but how often, judge harris, does it happen where you know that you're looking at a really smart kid, and yet the kid doesn't get the connection? the kid thinks like you, like, "school, somehow i'll figure this out." you know, "if i drop out of

and i welcome what senator mcconnell said. let's have that conversation. but i don't think that it needs to be the necessary starting point for deficit reduction because there is no connection between the two. then i heard senator mcconnell say that the president has not shown leadership on medicare. i respectfully disagree with senator mcconnell. the whole debate about health care reform was lowering the cost of health care. you cannot balance the budget of america with 13 million people unemployed and without addressing the skyrocketing costs of health care. and so president obama worked with congress, house and the senate, to reduce the growth in the cost of health care. one area was in medicare. and time and again the senator from kentucky and his colleagues came to the floor and gave critical speeches saying -- quote -- "the obama plan is going to take $500 billion out of medicare." day after day after day, $500 billion out of medicare. well, if we are seriously talking about budget deficit reform, if we're talking about medicare reform, we are talking

and i said, first i need to hear you rap. and he rapped and i said that incredible.d, she says he wants marvin gaye and -- and he's like, what are you doing? i said, i'm trying to put the r& b sauce on it. and he said, sing it. and after it sung it, said this song ain't got no sauce on it. and i left and did a bad movie. i came back after my career was on life support. and when i got back, i went to miami and they said, you know that song you fronted on. it's number one right now. and it went from that to -- ♪ she took my money when i'm in need ♪ so from that, that's how i got back into music. >> jimmy: that is really unbelievable. you don't know kanye at the time. i like how he is ordering you around after about five minutes after walking into the house with his back pac on. >> yeah, but, you know what? he was a kid then. and he was a little nervous about his career. jay-z was there. puff was there. and you know, now -- >> jimmy: yeah, you get all the big guys to sing on the album. justin timberlake is on there. with you. >> yeah, j.t. >> jimmy: and t.i. >> yeah, t.

i said to my wife -- is daytime, about 12:00. there were people going in with the popcorn and the lights were still on. i thought, "that is the big movie business." it is the glamour of hollywood. it is a box, and people are sitting there. nobody cares. i am being cynical, but it is true. it has become a conveyor belt. personally, at this grand age, i find that comforting. you cannot dig down into the seriousness of success. i have had a good time with it. i can be cynical, i guess. tavis: 1 like to look at it -- one way to look at it is that you have gotten comfortable with it. you could be bitter about that, given how seriously you take your craft. you take your craft seriously, but the rest of the business is a conveyor belt. you could be angry about that. >> i am not. i work hard, but i do not take it seriously. i learned my lines. am i being honest? i think i am. i work hard it. i tried the best i can to give 130% if possible. but it is all -- it is absurdity. we are talking about the philosophy of life. life is a mystery. wh

and i said be funny. tavis: and that decision, that's paid off obviously. >> that's funny because people ask me wife, oh, you must laugh all the time at home. no laughs. [laughter] just have sex apparently. and make 1-year-old twins. tavis: i don't know how i missed this the first time. maybe the conversation was different but i'm noticing in this conversation since you have been here a couple of time that's your recall was excellent. you must learn lies easily. i say your recall is excellent because every story you told from way back as kids, you remember the name of every character in your stories, every real-life person. your recall is pretty good. >> yes, it's interesting. i do remember that except i have no idea where my car is parked right now but i do remember that. i really have a selective memory. i do remember that but -- and books. do you know that i -- i'm a co-owner of a book store? tavis: co-owner here in l.a.? >> skylight book store. anybody go. tavis: have i been there many times. >> i hav

i said what was your motivation. well bush's troops were occupying baghdad and we knew we weren't going to win and i wanted to get the best deal while the u.s. still had significant influence over this government. makes sense. you had motivations over those lines in afghanistan today. here's what i think is in front of us. the taliban will try to reassert themselves in the south which is key, understand, because it's their birth place and their strong hold from which they have gained all their strength. that in my judgment will fail. as a result of that, their eyes are going to be open pretty wide in terms of what their alternatives are. that will open up the opportunity from some negotiations and discussion. what remains in front of us, though, is also the network east of kabal. we need to reinvest some of the forces from the south up into the that network. that will not take place until the end of this year and 2012. in 2012 it will bring most of that network quite down still remain in our plate from a security aspe

i said no, no, politics isn't for me. and anyway, i think you will care about these pictures 30 years from now. [laughter] >> go figure. strange as it might sound, the experiences i write about in this book, and yes, even my modeling days, they add up to a life that i wouldn't trade for anything. it's often like that, as you know. you all know that. you know exactly when talking about. i'm just like you in those thoughts. we look back and we see how even the rough times that we've had, all those rough experiences have actually shaped as for the good. they have made us who we are. and i tried to get that across in my book. it's a store that millions and millions of other people could tell. with different scenes and seniors and different details about being poor and feeling trapped and wishing you could just get up and run away from it all. to some kids whether they're in boston are south central l.a., that's all life seems to offer sometimes. let me tell you something. you know, i know for fact that i am a better man for ha

and i said what's going on? he said malcolm x is here. i don't think he called a malcolm x. i'm not sure but he had a proper name. but he said he's here, and i said yes. and the man with inside man, you know that brother malcolm don't talk to white people. and i said what? and he said, that's right. i did know what to do. so i said well, what do you want? and they went onto explain that they wanted to place some copy in our paper. and i said back to darrell, they want to place a copy in our paper. and darrell said to me, how much is it and are they willing to pay? and i said, he said how much is it and are you willing to pay next. [laughter] we told them and they said we are not paying anything. they are not paying anything. so finally darrell said i don't have enough space, and i'll have to edit it. and i repeated that, of course, for which i was told, they told, one of them said, we can't have you do that. no. we can't have you do that. and it was at that point that i turned to darrell and said, they don't want to do that. and we stood there silently for a moment, and then

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, right above the door, all are welcome. i could go in the front door. i could remember the librarian, she had a bonnet on the back of her head. very sensible shoes. i look at librarians today, that is how they look. she always spoke in a whisper. didn't talk out loud in the library. whispered. she was so kind to me that i loved librarians. when they ask m

i said i would get here in four minutes and 30 seconds to talk about ideas. the concept we have, we call i2c, which is in innovation and invention community. it is not to expand it any further than it already is but to come up with something that is a center to attract a lot of the south bay i.t. firms and create jobs in lincoln to the mission and the enormous number of employees that want to live there and do not want to drive to the peninsula. are steps would be immediately to stabilize the historic buildings at risk. our first step would do -- would be to do an evaluation on historic buildings and make sure we do not lose them because they are a huge income and cost generator. we would do a master plan, perfect the master plan, and extend the master plan. we think it is under -- it is important to understand the larger scheme of things. we would immediately embark on building a 500,000 square foot speculative building to form an economic hub and create an attractive leasing environment, much as the ferry building did for the waterfront here. and as with th

i said, there is no way to know that. well i know for a fact you don't need it.ike i wanted to talk to my dad about his penis. week 34, i don't have the double wide vagina i was hoping for. with just six weeks to go. instructions for peroneal massage. lock hands. apply lubricant. extra virgin olive oil. hold the thumb in place for two minutes or until it becomes numb. slowly massage over the vagina. it's best done with a partner. instead, i take a back door approach and use my finger. i have a lot of stretching to do. week 41, 3:45 p.m. it feels like i have to pee and poo. she says long contractions indicate early labor. she says call in a few hours. >> dana comes over. she feeds her tea while i'm having contractions. i am in active labor. i am surprised you're so calm. i say, i'm surprised you're so calm. 11:30 p.m. dana drives to the birth center. i tell her right now i am not sad to do this. this is a solo expedition. i dark brown blob of slim e falls out. the mucous plug has to fall out. it's the mucous plug. i am in awe of dana. 1:30 a.m. i am naked. i modif

you hear what i just said? it thought it was a chicken. it grew up dreaming chicken dreams and thinking chicken thoughts and entertaining chicken am bigs. am i talking to you? in fact it was even made to feel sthamed of his eagle features. eep though he didn't know who he was, the chickens in the barn yard absolutely now -- knew who he was and they said to each other, boy, we got to keep this little bird thinking that he's a chicken because if he ever finds out he's an eagle, he'll rule over us. as a result, the little bird became ashamed of his eagle fought -- features and heritage. they made fun of his eagle beak because she had tiny narrow chicken beaks and of his talons because they had weak, scrawny chicken feet. he even became ashamed of his darkness. y'all ain't done none of that, right? and the beauty and rich heritage of his eagle feathers. at one point in his life he even considered cosmetic surgery. he thought about cutting off half his eagle beak and dyeing half his feathers to look more like a chicken. ironically, his greatest

and i said to myself, you know, this doesn't make sense. is, i'm a real deadbeat when i am off the air. i'm not funny. i don't do anything funny. i sit in my room and stare at a wall. you, on the other hand, are a scream and a riot. >> jimmy: yeah. >> and it was really great to see. you're very outgoing. and i said, why would anybody waste their time being funny if they're not on the air? seems like a huge waste of time. but you were into it. >> jimmy: i'm jimmy the jokeman, your court jester. >> you really are. >> jimmy: we did have a lot of fun. >> we did develop a terrific friendship. and jimmy is a great friend. he really is. he's one of these guys if he comes to my house, the next day in the mail i get a gift. i always get a gift. you give me fabulous gifts. we went fishing one time. >> jimmy: we did. with being chased by a swan. >> and jimmy is an amazing guy. he knows how to use all the technology. he's got the ipad. and he goes to some website where he can get fishing gifts. the next day after we went fishing, i got beautiful lures