please welcome father jim martin. [cheers and applause] hey, how is it going, jim? good to see you again. >> nice to see you. >> stephen: do you get that kind after applause when you say mass? >> every sunday. yes, right up here. you are hearing it. >> stephen: exactly. you are known to our regular viewers as not only a jesuit priest in the culture editor of america magazine and author of jesuits guide to almost everything but more importantly you are the chaplain of colbert nation. >> much more importantly. >> stephen: a great responsibility. >> heavy burden. >> stephen: i hope it didn't get in the way why when you were writing your new book "between heaven and the motion to reconsider, why joy, humor and laughterre at the spirit of human life." i'm not sure i buy that. it never said jesus laughed it. says jesus wept. shortest sentence in the new testament. jesus wept. was he weeping with laughter? >> he shows a sense of humor in parables and the stories he tells. the problem is we don't get the joke because we're far removed from first century palestine. [ laughte

father jim martin. the book is "between heaven a [cheers and applause] >> stephen: that's it for the report. good night. [cheers and applause] - jack. got a minute?

. >> please welcome the chaplain of the colbert nation, father jim martin. papaj., what's going on? >> martin appeared on the popular comedy central show the colbert report. stephen colbert calls him the program chaplain. >> what's it like to be on that show? >> in a word, fun. jesus was relatively poor. >> he may not have had much, but he was a hobo hipster. you know his dad is loaded. he was just choosing to be poor. >> he believes it's a wonderful place for a catholic priest to be. >> even if i'm on for two or three minutes, i probably reach more people than in a year's worth of homilies or all my books. >> humor and joy are means of e vanj limp. >> why would anyone want to join miserable people. joy shows you are happy in your faith. >> martin said there is bad humor that mock people or even worse, people's beliefs and when it comes to religion, some can be sensitive. >> the difference between making fun of god and just being silly about the way that we relate to god which are two different things. err on the side of safety. if you think it might be offensive, don't say it. >> as

jim martin runs a group that takes a different view from aarp, which he advertises, and martin advocates reforms to keep the program sol vent. >> the fact is with more going on the rolls, there isn't enough money to go around to provide the services we need. unless we reform the system. >> that is why the super committee has been looking at modest changes to entitlements. >> even the president said the major drivers of our debt are medicare, medicaid, and healthcare. nothing else comes close. >> budget talks argue something has to be done, in part because entitlement will bankrupt the u.s. as currently constructed because they promise $4 trillion more in benefit than they can pay for. if the programs were to collapse, the poor would be hit hardest. bret? >> thank you. the way americans feel about their healthcare coverage has become more negative in the past year. that is the finding of a new gallup survey. 47% of republicans question rate the healthcare coverage as excellent or good. that is down from 61% last november. ratings from independents are down from 35% to 29%. only 27% of dem

astros is up for sale and if businessman jim crane buys the club they'll move the astros to american league. martin brodeur is working back after a shoulder injury. pominville with the glove. the 39-year-old has still it. ilya kovalchuk scored his first goal in a month. devils put it together against the sabres winning 5-3. >>> blackhawks and canucks, meeting of the last two western conference champs, tied 1-1, patrick kane, trick willinged past goalie. they added three more in the third. blackhawks with the best record in the west winning 5-1. >>> to montreal where the price was right. canadiens price not only shut out the hurricanes, assisted on the game-winning goal, slapped the puck around the boards, bounced out to plaque nick at center, and price did it all, assist and 25-save shutout. canadiens won it 4-0. that's your early look at sports on "early today." i'm fred roggin. >>> not so fast. the fight is not over when it comes to fatherhood and justin bieber. your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >>> known as man's best friend, we know dogs are very talented animals bu

the team is up for sale and if businessman jim crane buys the club, he'll move the league. mart martinkoefl check made a nice move. the devils put it all toot against the sabres, winning 5-3. blackhawks and canucks, patrick kane, a shot that trickled past the goalie. they added three more goals in the third, john than toews his 10th of the year. the blackhawks win it 5-1. to montreal, the price was right. the canadiens' kerry price not only shut out the hurricanes, he insisted on the game-winning goal, bounced out to thomas plekanec at center, he fed michael cammalleri for the first goal of the game. price did it all, an assist ant a 25-save shut-out. that's your "first look" at sports, i'm fred roggin. >>> let's get another look at the weather. let's check in with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> you say that like you already know what the weather forecast is, and you're not interested. >> i checked weather.com. >> it's a good source, but if you want another opinion, you can get it here. good morning, everyone, temperatures are falling in we're returning to a normal fall-like weather

martin. and you know, i don't think we're going to find a resolution next week from the super committee. >> congressman jims this afternoon. >> thank you, martin. >>> now to our play of the day. courtesy michele bachmann, the manchurian candidate. maybe she'd be better off listening to forrest gump. >> take a look at china. >> in the land of china, people hardly got nothing at all. >> no possessions? >> in china, there are no student -- there is no student loan program. >> in china, they never go to church. >> in china, there's no food stamp program. there's no afdc program. there's no retirement program, either. i'm not saying that i want the united states to be china. i'm just a piece of dirt stuck here in a rut. ever since that ol' broom dumped me here... oh, oh. oooh! will love ever come my way? oh my! ♪ i believe in miracles [ male announcer ] swiffer attracts dirt. swiffer sweeper's new, thicker cloths get deep into ridges picking up more dirt, dust and hair than a broom to help leave your floor up to three times cleaner. you sure are a pick-me-up! [ male announcer ] swiffer cleans better or your mon

. >> martin: yeah, when do we start, jim? >> jimmy: who is that character?o, no. [ light laughter ] [ talking over each other ] >> jimmy: you can do this. ready? here we go. first clue goes -- goes to kermit and miss piggy. here we go. don't look. [ whispers ] >> announcer: the password is -- >> kermit: oh, wow. >> piggy: okay, okay, okay. >> kermit: okay, let me think, here. who goes first? ladies first, ladies first. >> jimmy: yeah, miss piggy, after you, please. >> piggy: okay, this'll be easy. [ clears throat ] dummy. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: that's the clue, martin. that is the clue. >> martin: oh, i thought she was just commenting on my career. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: that is the clue. >> um -- uh -- dummy would be -- mannequin. [ ding ] [ cheers and applause ] >> kermit: unbelievable. oh, my goodness. oh, my goodness. >> martin: i pity your team! >> jimmy: oh, my goodness. that is unbelievable. [ talking over each other ] oh, my gosh, you got mannequin right off the bat. >> martin: i'm so glad you showed me the clues earlier. [ light laughter ] >>

today richard trumka and martin luther king iii called it the new jim crow, but they are fighting back attention to the law. these anti-immigration laws are un-american. it's time we stop it. joining me is jose antonio vargas, a former reporter of "the washington post" a pulitzer price winning journalist. he wrote a document called "my life as an undocumented aliens" the first time he -- what made you finally decide to come forward with your story? >> first of all, thank you for having she. it was a little surread. >> and, you know it got to a point where i couldn't do it anymore. i couldn't lie anymore. i've been in this country since i was 12. i've been here 18 years. i can't even go to mexico or canada. i've been paying taxes all of these years undocumented people pay income taxes. >> say that again. >> thank you for pointing that out. undocumented people pay income taxes in this country. a report from the migration policy center said something along the lines of $400 million in state and federal taxes. but again, these are the kind of facts that we need to get out there. got there

jim jones until the day he died. history is a tragedy not melodrama. >> what about tommy martin after the trial? was that the end of their career what happened? >> michaud had no political role little. he left politics. they went on prosecuting the cases some of schmidt will he like tommy i wasn't particularly friendly towards tommy. i didn't describe the style but if you could imagine stanley was sort of slithering through the product without was kind of tommy -- he would never say if he could say of verb he was a very pretentious kind of guy. he went on working. they felt so badly for him they furiously discussed offering him a partnership in their firm. [laughter] they liked tommy. a lot of people around the hall of justice like him and were sorry to see that he had messed up big time. it sort of wiped out all of the accomplishments and he is no longer among us. so may he rest in peace. >> we would like to remind the audience this is a program of the commonwealth club of california listening to double play of dan white got away with murder and changed san francisco with reporter and author mi

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jim acro jim, we will have more in just a few minutes. martinheck on some of the things that were said last night. >>> wall street looks like it is ready to rebound from yesterday's big fall. dow lost nearly 400 points but today the focus is on those new jobless figures that are better than expected. right, alison kosik? >> exactly. that's because the jobs picture is looking a little brighter this morning. because there is a new sign that the number of people being laid off is slowing. 390,000 people filed for first time unemployment benefits last week. that's actually the lowest in seven months. 390,000. seems like a lot of people. it is. you look at the comparison of what happened during the depths of the recession when we saw new claims above that 600,000 mark. essentially what you are seeing as a steady decline since then. but the key here is we need to see that number stay below 400,000 and you know what, that's questionable considering the state the global economy is in. european debt crisis is not under control. there is more talk of a do