from viewers like you, thank you. >>> always an honor to have itzhak perlman on this program. he's a 16-time grammy winner and the recipient of national awards from three u.s. presidents. he's just wrapping up a ten city west coast tour and head to israel in late march to conduct the philharmonic there. he joins us to talk about his music making and so much more, including becoming the third genesis prize, congratulations on that mr. perlman, good to have you back on the set. >> thank you very much. nice to be here. >> let me start off with -- i didn't ask your permission to ask you this. i'm going to ask you anyway. >> you can't ask me, sorry. >> if you want to slap me, go ahead. so we all remember, so fondly and so beautifully your performance at the obama inauguration in 2009. so you know where i'm going with this, right. >> oh, i'm afraid i do. had you been asked to perform at the inauguration that had the greatest turnout of any inauguration in the country's history -- >> any. >> any. >> the greatest ever. >> had you been asked, would you have? >> no. but it's a moot poin

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