jerry springer is getting his 20th year. when thaw watch these things, be honest, jerry, do you ever wish you had stayed in politics? >> every day, i mean i love these political things. i always knew from day one that i would never make my living in politics. >> i didn't enjoy jerry's show, but i think i will vote for springer. >> therefore i am announcing today my candidacy of the office of -- >> ttt, it says wait, what happened. it is the apocalypse, is jerry springer smarter than all those currently in the white house? >> i love this stuff and it's like religion to me, and i don't want to make money on religion, so i have no problem separating the two. i am hired to be an entertainer of a crazy show and that's what i do. i enjoy when i do it, that's my job. it doesn't mean they don't vote. we all behave differently on friday night when you're out with your friends than you do sunday morning in church for example. you behave differently at a funeral than you do at a bar. you talk differently to your parents than you do to y

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jerry springer on the latest numbers.g of faking it the florida legislature, taking one of those one size fits all koch brothers alec >>it is an independent progressive voice. and i love that. [[vo]]she's a political trailblazer. >>people like somebody who's got a spine. [[vo]]determined to find solutions. >>we need government to ensure that people have freedom. [[vo]]driven to find the truth. >>what's really going on? >>> going on fox news to complain about how fox news treats the president of the united states. first because this is the spot where we try to make similar pushbacks against the heehots, first, during the super bowl an anti union commercial ran in washington, d.c. it was the usual three-card monty game trying to convince people that collective bargaining is their endmy. this is a picture of mr. berman who has turned out to have made the commercial. he owns a house valued at $3,300,000. this is a guy portraying a disgruntled union worker. that's right. it is mr. berman who saved a little money by portraying

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studying the antics of this family, i felt they were the kind of people that would would be on jerry springer slowing chairs at each other if they were around today. tragedy sometimes befalls families who partly deserve it. sam was shot through the bowels and died on the second day at shiloh. alec was killed in a friendly fire incident outside baton rouge. of course, two todd sisters lost their husbands. mary's husband, of course, was murdered while she was holding his hand. if you move to just after the war itself, three of the todd girls die in childbirth. and two todd boys die during the war or immediately after in what i'll call hard living. but what i mean to imply is that this is a family who suffered for their sins. this is a sad family. a train wreck, really. and what i decided is that they are, in a sense, suffering the partly deserved self-inflicted misery of the civil war and its aftermath. all right. you wouldn't want a story of 16 todds today, and so i'm just going to tell you two of their stories. and their impacts on the lincolns. one, who had a negative impact on mary lincoln

. >> or going on the jerry springer show. >> you would consent to match.com with a idea of finding a friendly mate a psychological profile of yourself? >> maybe. the world we're starting to live in now that begs the question, when and where should i put that kind of information out. google by the way --. >> myspace.com it's a favorite of students. >> it is. >> what about google? >> i think consumers are learning through search engines that where i put personal information on to a page of a web site, that information can be found and brought forward in a search. i think that more consumers should understand that because we should take care and protect sensitive personal information about us. that is something we can do and over time we can become more educated. >> we're going to get to this question right now, and -- or in a moment, and that is at government, the role of the government, particularly, is there a zone that the government could prescribe that a -- a hacker or a corporation, a corporate hacker, could not get into? it would be zoned off and if you did get into it, you woul

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. >> trisha's mother made a desperate appeal to trisha on the jerry springer show. >> hang in there and know we love you and we're doing everything we can to find you. >> despite huge media coverage and their pleas for answers, none ever came. >> it's like she just vanished into thin air. >> trisha was never found. >> young college students, they need to be aware. >> kristen was a zellar as iwu when trisha disappeared. >> we were advised to stay in our dorms if you were a girl. >> a week after trisha's disappearance, they needed to go to the marsh grocery store. >> you thought it would be safe and you would be fine? >> exactly. not far at all. i can see the campus. what's going to happen? >> it was getting dark by the time they left the shopping center walking the same route tricia would likely have taken. >> we were maybe halfway up the road when heather turned to me and said, did you happen to notice that brown van? and i said, no. >> then the van passed again, slowly. >> we still were not alarmed. he came by again. >> a third time? >> a third time, yup. really slow this time. looking

like an episode of "jerry springer." who is the mystery father this time? jimoh? magnum?ired don juan of chimps. merv, the rep for monkeying around with the ladies. perhaps in the true case of the circle of life, mason who died last month. father beyond the grave? or has lightning and conan struck twice. the veteran of two vasectomies showing a lot of interest in the new baby. >> sometimes these things just happen. >> reporter: as the unnamed fuzzling nuzzles away, those paternity tests happen. and pregnancy tests as well. could there be others? >> the music was a nice touch. >>> coming up, father fires back. the dad who bhasted his daughter's laptop sparked up a huge debate about parenting. come on back. lose those lines, for up to a year! juvÉderm® xc, is the gel filler your doctor uses to instantly smooth out lines right here. temporary side effects include redness, pain, firmness, swelling, bumps, or risk of infection. ask your doctor about juvÉderm® xc. so i used my citi thank you card to pick up some accessories. a new belt. some nylons. and what girl wouldn't need

i first interviewed jerry springer. improvisors to act out. we had four improvisors who were so funny, they would jump up and improvise this circumstance of his life and it was fascinating. we had david hasselhoff, the osborne kids, vienna williams. we did eight of them. they're in the can, as they say at abc, waiting to be unveiled. so they're either going to be a huge smash or never be seen again. but they were fun. >> steve: you know something about impromptu performances being a legend at the second city. >> i refer to myself as that. yes. it's awfully tough, improv. wayne brady, guys on a series called "trust us with your life." >> gretchen: they were so good. >> create a scene in a minute. rickey injury -- gervais saying stop this. >> steve: his movie trivia. >> gretchen: can you read the tease out? >> eric: over here. >> do not miss fred willard in horatio in hamlet. no, it's fat tuesday. what better way to celebrate than to listen to the great sounds of new orleans music? first let's check in with bill hemmer fo

martin springer is accused of modeling two girls in his classroom and mark berndt is accused of committing lewd acts outwent 3 children. >>> jerrys lawyer -- on 23 children. >>> jerry sandusky's lawyer filed motions for copies of secret grand jury material including the phone numbers of the phones accusing sandusky of sex abuse and also investigative notes and psychiatric records. the attorney says he needs those phone numbers to look at the victims' phone records. >>> new details tonight about josh powell's final days, the father who set his house on fire killing himself and his two young sons in washington state. police say powell withdrew 7,000 from a bank the day before he set the blaze. they don't know what he did with the money. he left a voicemail for family members saying he couldn't live without the boys and didn't want to go on anymore. powell made headlines when his wife disappeared two years ago. he was named a person of interest but never charged. >> what he's done is just unimaginable for any man to do and when -- i believe he was responsible and when he was quiet, that was another red flag, that he knew something,

springer pleaded not guilty yesterday. he's the second teacher at the school facing child abuse charges. >>> prosecutors in pennsylvania want former penn state coach jerryndusky ordered to stay indoors as part of his bail conditions after complaints that he was watching children in a school yard from the back porch of his home. >> that's a difficult one. >>> now, a crisis in syria where opposition activists are saying more than 50 more people were killed overnight in the government's assault on the city of homs. the pictures tell a lot of the story. opposition human rights observers say that three entire families were killed when military troops stormed through walls of their homes. again, those are opposition groups giving us those reports. we can't independently verify them or confirm them. but what we can do is show you some live pictures that speak for themselves perhaps this morning. >> these are live pictures now from a mass funeral in darwa. thousands of people gather for daily prayers. america's u.n. ambassador susan rice telling him on cnn your days are numbered. the pentagon is reviewing military options concerning syria now. barbara starr is