that's what i began with. it was the first time i said, this character not necessarily has to be asian. none of these characters necessarily have to be asian. i was of mind opposite of what you are saying happened through the book. what happened was the more i started to research when i discovered warner's, ime wantedo write. i was feeling older as a person and wanted to translate that into a book. when i thought i would write about the care taking situation and wanted to write about a mother and daughter and i thought was there an aging disease? where children grow old quickly. by the time they are 7 or 8 they look like little old people because they age so quickly. the first thing i asked myself is there a version of this disease for older people. does it start later in a person's life? as i'm researching i discover warner's syndrome and that's how it came to be that particular disease in the book. i thought this works because she would have a life before the disease started to age her in the 20's as opposed to bei

i was brave. i pulled the guy out from the machine gun but i went after in part because i wanted a medal. he ended up dying. it may have been, i'll never know, because an attempt to rescue him it was me he put the killing because he was on the ground and i was trying to get the machine gun's head down to get to him. had i gone there with the right intentions i would feel less bad. >> why would you want a medal? >> i think you want one because of self esteem. i think that's what i talk about. why do people want to be recognized for what they do. there's mixed reasons. >> chapter nine is home. >> coming home is a big part of the war experience. we've certainly handled it badly in vietnam. we're learning to handle it better. but i think we have a long way to go as a culture about how to actually bring veterans back so they become members of the larger group. >> chapter 10 is the club. >> when i was a kid, all the dads and uncles were world war ii. those who had been in combat had known something i did

i was watching that part of the interruption show. and they were giving him props for his courage for coming out. especially playing the game that he plays. and so i went over and asked him if i could have -- get the rights to his story. tavis: now you're going to play him. >> i'm going to play him. tavis: another physical role. >> yeah. but i've been training for six months. tavis: rugby is a tough sport. >> and i haven't done wind sprints in 20 years. so you can imagine what i'm going through. tavis: yeah. >> actually had the -- my body broke down about a month ago. when the doctor actually told my trainer, cut everything in half. tavis: right. >> so we've got another six months of training. and going to rock and roll with it. tavis: shouldn't there be something in your contract for aural the agents and producers who are -- for all the agents and producers who are watching, a new contract, are mickey rourke cannot arm wrestle in bars in advance of shooting the next project. >> i'm never going to -- i called -- i was in germany actual

i was very -- i was cautiously excited. of course, i double-checked wit the network. mother was right. >> you were very close to her and she died a year ago from cancer. how important was she to your career? >> really, really -- you know, certainly from a comedy standpoint just invaluable. she was had a wickedly vicious sense of humor. there was really nothing on family guy or any of the other shows that could offend her. >> i was going to ask you that question. let's cut to the quip here, family guy you've ripped into pedophiles, to aids, you name it. even a perversion of the nicole simpson murder. you would imagine that there was not a mother in the world that wouldn't be offended by something you've done. you're el thing me your mother went along with ail this. >> she was unflappable. there was really nothing that phased her. she in fact, told me some jokes and some stories from her past none of which i can repeat on camera that shocked me. i was never able to do the reverse. she was -- and for that reason, you know, even over 60 she was really a valuable resource

but then one day i was supposed to be on her show, and i thought, there is no way -- i said that i was afraid i could not be on the show today. and she rang up, and we had never spoken before. she said she could not lose a guest. she was so persuasive and so nice, i thought that i had to meet her. a few months later, i was on her show in san francisco, where they were doing a live feed on the anniversary of the san francisco earthquake. this was on the 18th of april, 2006. i was in san francisco, and there was this adorable lady, with such command of the audience. she is giving instructions on how to applaud, and then she did this thing -- when i went back she said, be quiet. and so, we met about a week later in washington, one thing led to her mother. >> we were engaged on my birthday, in 2006. after we first met in april. and we got married on her birthday. this was january 2007. she is born here and speaks fluent japanese. her parents in a chain of stores in new york. the umbrellas that you put in drinks -- there were very successful eleven stores. and there was an implosion and the

>> i was seeing, you know, the burned-out shells of buildings. i did see, you know, crack heads who lived across the street from me in a burned out shell. i did see my neighborhood played out larger than life on television about being, like, the worst place in the world and nothing good could come of it, because that's where crime and prostitution and all these awful things were, and so that's what i saw, you know, as a kid. >> hinojosa: what does that do to a kid? >> ( sighs deeply ) >> hinojosa: i mean, profoundly, what does it do to you when you, every day to get to school, you've got to walk by the crack addicts, andhe garbage that's not coected, and the broken sidewalks, and the... >> it makes you feel as though there's something wrong with you, just inherently. like, you know, god wouldn't have allowed you to be born here unless there was something wrong with you, and i spent a lot of my early years, you know, trying to figure out, "how am i going to get out of this place?" and for me, it was education. and once i did, you know, i went to th

but it's one way or another i was going to have to give it a go so i was properly kitted up but i was starting to wish i'd just gone and taken home a craft again. i. mean i was. theo's i'm ready. for it is all a good laugh so please please. come because i got. a couple of false starts but eventually i managed to stay upright. ok i know you like. but i'm still much. what you managed to control your balance this is an amazing experience and soon i was ready to join the go for a group effort. and we're ready to rock. and. that will. be fine. but if you are trying this for the first time it's best not to get overconfident. oh. well. well that's a fairly intense introduction to skiing but i think. everything's still intact. rest but unfortunately my recovery was to be short lived. still aching from there on the ice but apparently my new friend has another thing that he wants me to try something about. tunnel runs. it sounded rather ominous but once again because of promised i was going to enjoy myself. and i think you get so what are you going to. go. ok so super super super super screw it

i was excited. i mean, he -- i saw him in paris once. it was the best concert i ever saw. >> he was honored that people wanted to see so as much as maybe 34 or 50 shows were like, oh man, this is going to be crazy but the smile on his face showed me that he felt honored that people wanted to see him. >> let me ask you a different question. did you ever see him taking drugs of any kind? >> never. >> seems to have been a very closed world. what we're hearing from all this trial that's happened and from interviews of people, involved is that there were two michaels. there was the michael people thought they knew and there was the guy who chronic pain from the terrible pepsi accident and then to counter this, the terrible insomnia he used to get mixed with the pressure he had and then got more and more in sleeping medication ending up with demerol for the pain and the propofol for sleeping. you put it together and he was leading two lives. there was a nighttime michael jackson that you guys i assume didn't see. >> did not see. and honestly, m

i was like you. i think it was an herb-induced sketch. tub." and when i heard, i was like, "james brown in the hot tub?" they were like, "no, listen. it's james brown in the hot tub. that would be funny --" [ laughter and applause ] >> jimmy: james brown in a hot tub. i mean, weird, right? >> yeah, and i didn't -- back then, i hadn't smoked a joint, so i didn't get the joke. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: then you figured it out. and did james ever call you on it? >> james brown actually loved it. james brown actually told me -- i did this horrendous film once that he did a cameo in. a movie called "holy man." it wasn't that bad, but it was pretty bad. [ laughter ] and i saw him backstage. he told me, "you should do my life story." and i was like -- well, i said, "people would be laughing." he said, "no, no." he said -- he goes, "they'd be laughing if you was playin' around, but if you were serious, people will take it serious." he said, "and get all that in between stuff." whatever that means. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: that's pretty good. >> he sai

in the mid 90s i was about 55 years of age. i can't recall. she was younger than i was, i do know that. but i really can't recall? >> 20s or 30s? >> it would have had to have been late 30s, early 40s is just a guess. that's a wild guess. >> how did you first hear she was making a claim against you? who told you? >> the politicoism no. in the 90s. not the latest round. >> got it, got it, got it. my general counsel came to my office and told me that she had made a claim. and i said, okay. what do we need to do? >> what did he say she claimed you did. >> he used the term sexual harassment claim. >> you didn't say, like, whoa, what did she say i did? >> no, i said, what do you mean sexual harassment. she made some claims of sexual harassment. now, he may have told me what incidents she might have included in the claim but all day, i have been beat up and trying to recall what the things were and evaporate been able to recall a lot of them because that's why they got dismissed -- it was no basis because it was simple stuff. i can't remember. >> do y

do not know if i was a college or a vocation. -- if i was -- if it was a calling for a vocation.you can make a record for a lot of reasons. people say, "you want to get rich? " when i made this record, i thought i could make enough money to go back and make another one like this, because i had so much fun doing it, and i remember when i started my career, my dad was driving a forklift in stockton. my mother was working at a potato chip factory, and i have no connection -- do you have show business background? tavis: i do not. >> i do not either. when you start off, if you want to get a job at the post office, there are steps, but i did not know how you get on stage. there are pictures in here when i wid so inside the book, pictures where i am so naÏve, i threw hay all summer, and i had a cool looking microphone, and i am one thing painted silver, and i had a guitar. i thought i am almost in show business. i have got a guitar and a microphone. i am almost there. all i need is an audience. i had my friend take pictures. i want to do this. tavis: speaking of show business, anything

i was beaten once by a principle to the point where i was numb. some of those conditions, and everything i do in the private sector, is child's play compared to the things as a child. tavis: i spoke at a conference the other day. black enterprise magazine asked me to speak. i spoke to this audience of people about some of these issues, succeeding. one of the issues the comes up is the extent to which as an african-american, some believe you have to surrender your soul and a compromise yourself. you have to put aside your own culture if you want to make it in the culture of business. what has your journey been regarding that? denying who you are as a black man to be accepted? >> interesting the way you put that. there are compromises you have to work. i am a believer in diversity. i have found that as i navigated through my career, often i would have to make choices i would have loved to make from a heart in terms of people i want on the team. the objective is to get to the ceo suite. you cannot make a lot of waves. you cannot be the bull and the c

>> i think she was abused. i did take pains in the book to point out that i did spend some time meditating over the idea that my mother had once been very innocent just like everybody else. i had this sort of vivid dream about that one night and i took it to heart. i was trying to find a way to not be angry about my life anymore. you know? >> as you got older, what was your relationship with your mother like? >> well, i -- i called her and said i'm in therapy for trauma and child abuse and worse. and she dropped her southern accent and in a very husky tone and deliberately and permanently said "don't ever call here again" and hung up. >> what age were you then. >> i was already on "saturday night live i "so i was getting up there already. i think the thing that i wanted to write about was when a victim to some kind of abuse agrees to stay quiet about it. that's kind of what happened in our house. you think that it's because, a, they could make it much worse on you but, b, really, your mom might abandon you if yo

the writing was brilliant and held up. iook at the life a little bit and discovered this man who we thought of as a bidder was a lousy aviator. his engineers were constantly clearing out the cockpit. there had not been a life in a long time. nobody had dove into all of the pieces. there are unexplored corners of the story. i was the editor of a publishing house, i meant to hand the idea on to a biographer. i could not seem to let go of it. i left publishing to write a book. >> simon and schuster, how many years? >> only a couple of years. doing fiction and nonfiction before that. i was fortunate in terms of that book. i was starting it at the point where people -- the beginning of his life, french aviators were still alive. those at the end of his life were still around. his girlfriend were still around. hitting a product at the right moment, i was lucky to be on the scene. >> was there a biography you had edited that made an impact on you? >> i had spent a lot of time on an orson welles biography which i adore. i adored her

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i think i had done "angel heart ". it was a tough film but it had integrity and a really great director and actors in it and then i waited i think about a year or two or something like that for something that i could respect to do again and nothing came around and i bought a big house that, whole number and i had a big car and all that [ bleep ] and a big entourage that was useless. the next thing i know, the accountant is screaming at me, you have to go to work, so i took this piece of crap that i hated, "the marlborough man." don johnson was in it. he was fantastic. but the director was a turd. i hated it. i said i can't do this anymore. i wasn't behaving the right way. i wasn't being professional, i wasn't accountable. there were no consequences, no rules. i thought before i just -- i had completely burnt all the bridges but i thought maybe i didn't. so i thought maybe i should take a little hiatus so i don't ruin it all. it was already ruined. >> how did it go, the boxing? >> it went good. we had a dozen fights over five

i was expelled from the legislature. i ran for the seat i vacated and ran for that seat. -- and won again. i was admitted for the legislature and served there for the next 20 years. i ran for congress. my best friend, john lewis, also ran for congress. you know the results. i decided to move to washington anyway. i have been here ever since. i am happy to be here tonight. >> it seems to me that historians and popular culture have done a pretty good job helping the nation understands what the lives of black southerners were like over many generations. there haven't been nearly as many stories about the lives of the jewish southerners'. . did jewish southerners have experiences that would make for good stories? if so, why don't we know more of those stories? >> apparently, we do. i have been making a good living telling those stories for a long time. [laughter] what is interesting in retrospect is that there were black people and there were white people and there were jews. we were kind of like white people, but not exactly

and i was like -- you sat next to me, and i was shaky and sweaty. >> yeah. >> jimmy: and then, i was ant to be on "saturday night live? good." and then, you came over, and you were like, "how you doing?" or something like that. >> oh, really? >> jimmy: oh, my god. and then, he just started ripping into it. he turned it on. and it was like -- and it was just like watching two -- two great stars. >> oh, man. he was the greatest. he was the funniest. i'm so happy you got to see two sides of him in one second. >> jimmy: in one second, yeah. he was that fast. >> that's what he was like. i know. we were walking around new york. we had the day. and just every restaurant i look at i go, "i ate there with farley. i ate there with farley." [ laughter ] so funny. he was the best. >> jimmy: he is the coolest. a lot of -- i know spade kills it in this movie, by the way. >> yeah, spade -- david. >> jimmy: "jack and jill." you've got to see this movie. gosh, i have it. i was crying last night. >> i'm so happy, buddy. >> from start to finish, i was like, "oh, my gosh." >> yeah, yeah. >> jimmy: so, th

was in shock. ianger. he struggles to get free of the wreckage before dripping fuel can ignite the helicopter. >> i'm going to die if i don't get out of this quickly, if it catches on fire. >> he quickly shuts off the fuel lines, then amazingly, he crawls out of the chopper, shaken but only slightly hurt. >> he actually wasn't even hurt that bad. a few cuts on the face and couple of teeth knocked out, i understand. >> the chopper has not faired as well. >> the helicopter was totaled, completely totaled. unusable. >> within an hour, a rueful dennis is not just walking and talking, he's giving the news conference he had always hoped to avoid. dennis, the safety evaluator, has to assess his own performance and realizes where he had gone wrong. he had forgotten one adjustment to his program and had fallen victim to the high-density altitude at the airfield that day. >> as soon as i started to ma maneuver, i thought this helicopter is performing fairly normally, so i ran in at the normal height, at the no

plans one way or another i was going to have to give it a go so i was probably kids you know but i was starting to wish i'd just gone and taken hold across to them. ok you know as that's really. really. hurt is all of your life so please please. ok i got a good people but. mrs lee there were a couple of false starts but eventually i managed to stay upright. ok i know you like she wasn't out. but. god still might. want you manage to control your balance this is an amazing experience and soon i was ready to join the going for a group effort. and we're ready to rock. this little elf in the teeth that will. be flying. but if you're trying this for the first time it's special to get over confident. well that's a fairly intense reintroduction. but i think. everything's still intact. the rest but unfortunately my recovery was to be short lived. or still taking from it out there on the ice but apparently my new friend has another thing that he wants me to try something about. it sounded rather ominous but once again goes a promise i was going to enjoy myself. for although you may think you get

the timing was just so split second. because i knew there was a man under there, i know i yelled, oh, my god. >> inside the store, jim and the other gas station employees hear the impact and laura's cries for help. >> i just heard her yell, oh, my god, he's pinned. >> jim leaps into action, but the scene outside is even more dire than he can imagine. the gas pump bursts into flames with alex trapped underneath. the fire fueled by leaking gasoline. >> and when the fire hit, knowing there was a man there, the first thing i thought of was getting that fire extinguisher. >> and when i came out, laura was headed back toward the door with the fire extinguisher and handed it off to me. the fire was starting to come up so i jumped on top of the fire and tried to knock it down the best i could to get the guy out from underneath it. i used up almost all the fire extinguisher and then put it underneath the pump and blasted him with it. >> following emergency procedure, another sales clerk, kelly chapman, shuts down the power and as captured

>> i was not at the bridge. this was in 1965. i was with the alabama state teachers association. we supported the movement, provided resources for the movement, were actively involved -- are local chapter in alabama was led by reverend least -- by reverend reese. they came to the alabama state teachers association and we went to washington to elicit held -- to elicit help from the national association -- the national education association to get involved and ensure that our members got the right to vote. >> we showed to the club from 1963, the school house incident. here is george wallace in 1967 talking about that incident and a little bit on the new riots that were occurring after it >> if i said we are further obligated to oppose any where we find them. a little over three years ago, we stood at the university of alabama. we oppose the entered -- we oppose the enemies of freedom. to use that stand to say that those in high places in washington cannot reconstitution. we warned of the coming lawlessness that would sweep our nation and adversely affect our citizens. >> the worst r

i was up all hours of the night. i needed -- i was burning the candle at both ends. i needed something to center me. the acting wasn't doing it. staying on my motorcycle for years on end wasn't doing it. it was time for me to park the bike and just -- i don't really like to use that word reinvent myself because i didn't look at it that way. i just needed to do something different. >> the last time i interviewed you was actually for british television. you had just come to the end of "the wrestler." and there was a little bit of buzz about it but not much at the time. and you said to me -- because i was asking you -- every interview was asking at the time whatever happened to mickey rourke, where did it all go wrong? and you looked at me and said, i've just made the greatest movie of my career. this is going to be the one to bring me back. i didn't know to be sure to believe you. i hadn't seen it. but you had the absolute conviction that "the wrestler" was going to be your comeback movie. and boy, was it a comeback movie. >> well, you know, i did the movie at a time wh

when i was beating the [ bleep ] out of him. i was talking to him. bleep ]. i was doing the beating. jimmy was doing the talking. anything i do, jimmy does, too, you know what i'm saying? i don't believe i'm taking medication for myself. i believe i'm taking it for jimmy. jimmy is a [ bleep ] right now. you know? >> corey's brother william has also had a setback. while working his job detail, he was caught entering another inmate's cell. >> yes, sir, there is. >> he has now lost his chance to an early release to a halfway house. >> when he entered the other inmate's cell, it was 3:00 in the morning. in the particular housing unit that inmate allen was in, those doors are not secured. they are not locked due to the nature of what kind of housing unit that is. they are not supposed to be going into another inmate's cell at that point. at the time when he was in that particular housing unit, he was on a detail that detail was the night detail, that's why he was awake at 3:00 in the morning. however, he chose to take advantage of the situation by enterin

what was his insight intoer? >> i think he recognized her genuine ambition to b taken seriously as an actress. >> rose: and her vulnerability. >> and her need to be supported. in 1956 which ken has described so well but it was an incredibly important moment for milyn when she arrived in london because she had ambitions to change her destiny and she had come from london having moved from l.a. to new york now married to arthu miller. >> rose: who comes with her. yes. with milton green she set up her own production company. she was aahead of her time in the hope of improving the par she was offered and she was coming to london t work with the great olivier and all these thing she is thought were going to help change her career d change the perception of her. and really underneath the love story that is our film is the sad tale of all all these aspirations went wrong and she was disappointed. >> rose: but she left this film to make, as you point out, one of the greatest films she ever made. >> yes, that's the irony. but i

and i was also very sensitive to the land around me, and i grew up in a region that was rapidly beingeloped, and where what used to be horse fields and meadows were being turned into strip malls and condominiums, and corporate headquarters. just watching the rape of this land, feeling like there were forces at play that were so much bigger than anything i could control. at a very young age, i started to really lose interest in a lot of the strappings of popular culture. all these messages about the kind of person i was supposed to be. the world around me was way more interesting than a television show. and what everybody talked about on the bus to school was movies and celebrities, and i just didn't care. i wanted to talk about love and loss and life, and the meaning of human existence, and spirit, and unity, and freedom... and that was just not what 12 year olds were talking about. i grew up in a really dysfunctional, neglectful, and pretty abusive, alcoholic family, and i was not supposed to talk to anyone about what happened in my house. the kids at school wanted to talk about "gre

i was happy. it was just a great feeling. it seemed like at the time one of the happiest moments in my life. i had got this guy stopped. and i survived it. >> as davis' shooting spree comes to an end, one of his victims, michael carroll, is struggling to survive. >> my son had just turned 5 two days ago. like he could not have a dad all of a sudden. like that was a really powerful thing for me. >> to everyone's surprise, carroll pulls through, as do the five others who survived the shooting in ennis but there's a long road to recovery for carroll. >> getting shot was easy.e shti wehs 165 pounds. after his recovery, he's down to 112 and his rage is overwhelming. >> the more i sat there and hated him, even though he was in a small jail cell and i was out in the open, it was still giving him the power over me. >> on the day the 46-year-old davis is sentenced to life in prison without parole, carroll confronts him in the courtroom. >> i made sure to tell him that if he had all thought like he had done anything to hurt the people i

i was furious. told me it could be really hard, in her mind, she thought, well, you are falling in my footsteps. do not tell me i cannot do anything in the world that i set my mind out to, which as a 12- year-old -- tavis: believe they can. >> and you want to at that stage, but, yes, she did try to talk me out of it, but the household was so artistic. there was music around all of the time. there was a final round. people singing. my dad had a recording studio. i was marinating in it. >> she never stopped. she was like a laser, always writing, always singing, and always doing it loving it. we all want to achieve something, but she never looked back. that is always what she has done. tavis: it may not have been intimidating to write and produce for your mother, but take me back and tell me how the journey has gone, that is to say, try to chart your own path, writing your own stuff, perform, when everyone knows this is your mother? >> in london, thinking i could get away with that, and i would be in a

i was bulimic and anorexic. even as college gymnast, two crackers and a head of let us and a tab a day, and that's what i thought i had to live on to maintain a body weight of 100 pounds as a grown woman. so it may have to do with that body dismorphia. because i don't see myself as muscular. i'm never big enough, never hard enough i'm just tiny. i'm a tiny little gymnast. >> always tumbling, walking on her toes, doing something. in fact, her dad made her a balance beam in the back when she was in gymnastics and she lived off of that thing walking it daily with balance. >> my gymnastics coach forced me into the weight room. i didn't want to i resisted. then i just loved it. since 16, i loved to be in the gym. i love the power to know you control everything around you in the gym. it becomes your own. i was 16 when i first saw my first female bodybuilder and was like, man, i'm going to be that when i grow up. i loved it. i thought it was beautiful. >> she was always very active in sports and always wanted to be some

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but i was very lax about it. use they didn't want to spend the $600 of tuition that i cost. but they weren't on top of me, so i didn't -- >> is that a good thing they were not on top of you? >> jimmy: no, it wasn't. >> oh. that bwas the wrong answer. >> jimmy: they are in that kind of stage -- >> don't you think if he's stuck being at home next year when all his friends are at college that will the greatest lesson i've ever taught him? >> jimmy: i guess. there are always a couple of deadbeat friends that are available to hang out in the area, though. >> yeah. >> jimmy: right? >> i -- >> jimmy: cleto was one of mine. >> yes, well -- [ applause ] i may be rethinking my strategy. he wants to study music, but not like, classical music, like, guitar, like, rock. >> jimmy: yeah, you need to go to college for that. >> did you guys go to college for that? they did. you did. >> jimmy: cleto did, kind of. >> cleto: i didn't, really. they did. >> jimmy: all the great rock stars went to college. >> i don't want him to be a ro

i was in my i was about thirteen and so it was after you left the country no so in one nine hundred eighty expelled from school when i continued to try to finish school by studying from textbooks and so on and then a few teachers you know from our school succumbed i came to our house and teach us one to one so that we could register for like a second chance examination from school teachers were very scared to appear to be supporting us those of us with leaders because the depression was so much you know this is the clerk that this was. you know and so. you know the reality of the crime was that we were every weekend at funerals. of friends and activists that were killed we lived with the mentality at that time that you know our lives being lost at any time. you know somebody like me know i was still alive when the still struggling in you know for justice i often think about my life. now it's that i'm living on borrowed time because so many of my close friends and activists even people out of conflict at the struggle here in what they lost their lives. been in one nine hundred eighty six a

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i think, also, i was like -- i was literally the last girl alive that got that offer because there was -- i think a consensus among every actress my age that because that character came in midway through the movie that it wasn't a substantial enough role. i never cared about those things. i cared about one actor to learn from, one speech i would get to say. one director. so i don't think the director embraced any aspect of me, let me just say. and were it not for my brilliant and extremely humane co-star, mr. pacino, i probably couldn't have gotten out of my trailer. tavis: i get the idea of doing things because you want to learn from person x, y, or z, so for all the hell you had to endure to getting that thing made, but the director, did you get what you wanted out of the relationship with mr. pacino in terms of learning? >> oh, he taught me so much. you know, ee runs the actors studio with ellen bersten and harvey kaitel. and these were actors like them that taught me and mentored me, so there was nothing but learning from al, just the way he approached it, the dedication, his -- i

i want to note the correction that this was not to and 10. next, we have leonard watkins who got a chance to speak. is he here today? he did speak at the last meeting so i let him know he did not have to come back. next we have martin all live and then sarah -- next we have martin olive and the sarah shrader. >> we have been established since 2004 and in the medical cannabis movement since 2002. i am a staunch advocate for medical cannabis. but i was involved in the 2005 medical care of this act and involved with the working group before we formed as a task force and we have served diligently. we attended all but one meeting and involved in three of the subcommittee's. i also asked the rotating chair at my last meeting and we received -- we submitted to the annual report. we look forward to any questions you may have. >> any questions? thank you for your time serving on the task force. >> thank you. >> hello, thank you for your consideration today for my reappointment to the medical cannabis task force. i am here representing americans for saf

i could accept that it was not going to be the life that i had. it was a pretty good life. i like it. i knew it was not going to happen again. out of this, what am i going to have that i can shape, that i can claim for myself so i can continue to do what i do to be productive, to care about the things that i care about and continue to live? that happened perhaps six months or so after the hearing. i had to figure out really what my resources cannot my talents were, what i could do, and what my options and opportunities were. and what kind of support i would be getting to move forward with this new life that i had a chance to shape. those were all things that i had to really sit down and account for. the other thing that i had to do was to say, you know what? it was an important event. it is helped to shape my life, but it is just an event. it is not me. it is not who i am. so, i had to get back and understand who i am and why i was on this earth in order to move forward. >> i want to turn to your story. i want to say that i feel's about the term -- feel possessive about the

i will describe them. the first was written by [inaudible] a song that has almost nonsentence words but it's your time to be with god and your moment alone with whatever you need. i hope you appreciate this one. [music] ♪[applause] >> thank you. so the next piece, it's beautiful. this is yiddish a beautiful song that was given to me by george rosenside who is an amazing person. and this next piece was the same composer composed in paris and called the yiddish and a great -- it's so beautiful. yiddish the wealth of my treasure much the kreet urs -- from it's yiddish. so many true, simple and core people wandering through countries and over the world where truth -- [music] ♪ [applause] this next piece is actually, this piece and the next piece going into it actually have a really nice story about it. the next piece is very, very well known by people who know yiddish folk songs. now, in this piece, this was said so it was classically it's not the same tune as most people know it. know the piece. so, it's very beautiful. it

in the whole panel was pretty much white. i got asked by the supreme court judge at that time it was the chair of the broad selection committee now this is still apartheid africa took place of the old and not only was it a puppet it was when the resistance was a bit speak it was you were known to be a part of oh yeah i mean i was i was you know a student leader had a reasonably high profile in my city but not you know national profile and the question was you know if you had made the minister of education i would you stop the education problem so was. that with all due respect that's a very very eve cristen because that assumes education system we separate from the overall political crisis we have which is the lack of democracy and so on and the thing was i was really relaxed i never thought it was kid it was quite surprised that he got the call that i did offer the old scholarship which was the seventy six so i called who told my brother if. these people had been stupid enough to offer me the scholarship. so that i would i did

i don't thk he was specific. i think that he doesn't likeo engage in that kind of across the table grab you by the neck tie let's make a deal here debate. that's just not his style and more and more people are commenting on that. mechanics of his own party, admirers of his wanted him to step up more than he did. it was always just alittle bit elusive about what it was that he had in mind. he wanteto bring everybody to the grand bargain, what did that mean. recently he seems to have found what appears to be his voice fr 20012 going out there and taking on the republicans. >> charlie: and the executive orders which suggests action. >> we can't wait. my guess is that down stream we'll hear him saying i tried to get something done last fall. and they wouldn't cooperate with me. unemployment stayed gh as it probably will. higher than we'd like. certainly he will be able to say it's their fault. >> charlie: he run against congress or what. >> my guess is harry truman is a bit of a model. >> charlie: they try to find a

and i was wrong. so gene sperling sent me a message and said senator mcconnell said he was going to filibuster it unless we agreed right then to all their budgets that they'd run on. so turns out he couldn't raise the debt ceiling, and i was wrong. see, it didn't hurt too bad. [laughter] and that's one way we get less ideological politics, if people find errors they make and fess up. >> moving a bit out of washington, um, one of the things that you do frequently in the book is to cite examples of kind of where you think this sort of appropriate partnership and shared responsibility between government and the private sector is working at the state level. maybe you could talk a bit about your theory of that and also share some of the examples particularly from your time as governor of arkansas, sort of what worked then and then also what has continued to work and not worked subsequently in arkansas. >> well, first, i think we americans are used to people at the state and local level hustling business, tr