. >> chris hold on, i go to john murray, pop culture expert, he actually knew whitney houston. at are your thoughts right now. >> i've been up most of the night and though whitney wasn't a friend, she was somebody who i interviewed and met several times, i have a wonderful photo i just posted on my facebook page in memory of her tonight. it's such a travesty, even with all the highs and the lows of her career, and things like bobby brown and other things people are talking about tonight, she was probably the greatest voice of all-time. she really is the singer that all young artists aspired to sing like. any time you hear a female vocalist talk about their inspirations, whitney houston is the first one that comes to mind, and so, so many triumphs, so many firsts, so many best selling millions of records and a great legacy tarnished by the discussions of alcohol and drug abuse, and so many other lows that she encountered in her career, truly, truly a tragic loss and definitely an artist gone too soon. >> from your perspective do you think that's how we'll remember her, we'll reme

let's talk more about the oscars with entertainment journalist john murray, and, john, let me ask you are people disappointed that billy crystal is hosting again, or is there some enthusiasm there? >> well i think, deb, people are disappointed that eddie murphy isn't hosting. they were excited about the fresh perspective he was going to bring to the show. billy crystal has done it before. he is going to execute in great form. at the end of the day, it's hollywood's most magical night. people will be dressed in their sunday's best, or whatever their stylist picks out, and it's about hearing those famous five words "and the oscar goes to." >> what are your predictions for tonight? are we going to see any big upsets in this? >> i don't know about big upsets. i think best picture is definitely going to go to the artist. it has wonderful momentum going into the weekend. people are really excited about this film. i say put your money on "the artist". for best actor, i say jean dujardin, but i think he is also going to win for "the artist." he won the sag award, which is always a great indic

back with me are thurston, john murray and toure. the naacp image awards were last night.ost. congratulations to hill harper who beat us both. i'm sad we weren't there because we missed this tribute to whit n ny houston. ♪ >> that was yolanda adams singing "i love the lord," the song whitney houston performed in "the preacher's wife" sound track. you know, we talked before about kind of the complicated legacy. we were talking about the voice, the power of the voice. but the fact is, the other part of the legacy has been a great deal of criticism about whitney houston. there was a time when the question was, is she sufficiently part of the black community? is she sufficiently part of the black experience? but then there's the criticism around the kind of long legacy issues of drug abuse or drug use and the divorce and all of -- the reality show, all of that. how is that ultimately going to impact our memory of houston, or will we just remember the voice? >> i think the music is going to resonate the most. i think when it's all said and done, it will be the thing that carrie

entertainment journalist and pop culture expert john murray joins me now. thing that we see with michael jackson and even today with elvis presley is that the sales of the music for years and years could be even bigger than when the celebrity was still around. do you think that will happen with whitney houston? >> absolutely gary. we already see the music is on a fast track to being a main stage, to moving lots of units. gary, there was something i noticed yesterday, in addition to the music taking off, which there has been for the last seven days, there was an outpouring on social media of people saying, you know what, i'm going to get up and go to church tomorrow. i'm going to return to church tomorrow in honor of whitney houston because whitney houston, upon her death, committed a worldwide revival and a look at the black church experience, which was quite unusual for people who had never seen anything like it before. >> so many people aren't familiar with the african-american church experience, and that was the first look for a lot of people. it was cer

on the other hand he counted among his closest friends ardent liberals, john kenneth kamala murray contend, alann steen, people whose ideas were dear friends of this. no, he gave no quarter in debate the law but he was not mean-spirited. he did know where the line was between being very tough and very passionate on an issue and being mean, personally mean. many people who profess to admire him, even emulate him, rush limbaugh, for example, says the other than his own father william f. buckley jr. was the greatest influence in his life. i wish that there would learn from him about that line. anything else? >> we are ultimately social. we seek companionship. the worst thing we can do to each other is isolate or ostracize. so the third industrial revolution is interesting

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he interviewed the pop singer several times, joined by entertainment journalist john murray.morning. thanks for being with us early this morning. we're talking about this untimely death. was it really untimely? were we watching a downward spiral unfortunately with whitney houston? >> we all know about whitney houston's history with drug abuse and, you know, and whitney, and in her infamous interview with diane sawyer talked about cocaine and several other illegal drugs. for her to die from prescription drugs, not the illegal stuff that had affected her voice, affected her career and affected so many aspects of her life, that's shocking to some. if people thought she was going to go, it would be the struggle she battled for so long. >> important difference to talk about. it was, perhaps, legal drugs and not illegal. you mentioned diane sawyer. here's a portion of her big interview in 2002 that you were alluding to. >> if you had to name the biggest devil among them for you. >> that would be me. i can tell you that i'm not a person who wants to die. i'm not a -- i'm a person wh

on the other hand he counted among his closest friends ardent liberals, john kenneth kamala murray contendalann steen, people whose ideas were dear friends of this. no, he gave no quarter in debate the law but he was not mean-spirited. he did know where the line was between being very tough and very passionate on an issue and being mean, personally mean. many people who profess to admire him, even emulate him, rush limbaugh, for example, says the other than his own father william f. buckley jr. was the greatest influence in his life. i wish that there would learn from him about that line. anything else? thank you very much. i enjoyed talking to you. [applause] >> you're watching 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books on c-span2 book tv. >> you have written a book about obama. but most people find it of the whole of very admiring book. the administration has, i guess, disagreed. they have kamala some comments about you. what is it like to be in the middle of a political firefight? when i used to being in the level of it. what do you make of what is happening? >> john, it is a little stran

on the other hand he counted among his closest friends ardent liberals, john kenneth kamala murray contend, alann steen, people whose ideas were dear friends of this. no, he gave no quarter in debate the law but he was not mean-spirited. he did know where the line was between being very tough and very passionate on an issue and being mean, personally mean. many people who profess to admire him, even emulate him, rush limbaugh, for example, says the other than his own father william f. buckley jr. was the greatest influence in his life. i wish that there would learn from him about that line. anything else? he became very wealthy. that is an example in my mind is steve jobs did not cause hardly any lobbyists. he was not at his politically. in a can of very wealthy man. the crony capitalists on the other hand is the voluntary exchange and are interested in making money out of the political system. it is not created innovative practice but having political connections and which allows them to get government contracts and set aside from the tax codes on a guaranteed debt government loans and is

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barbara boxer of california, patty murray of washington, as they spoke to reporters on capitol hill again this morning as we said, ohio republican, house speaker john boehner, who is catholic and one of 12 children, called the contraceptives rule an unambiguous attack on religious freedom no our country and accused the president of violating the first amendment's freedom of religion and then joined by his republican colleagues on both epds of the u.s. capital. senator kelly ayott is a republican from new hampshire and she spoke at the ohio clock on capitol hill. >> we've seen with the president's health care bill and the regulations issued by health & human services and an unprecedented front to rid religious liberty. if we put religious institutions and faith-based organizations in the position where they have to comply with government mandates that violate the principles of their faith it violates our first amendment to the constitution and, really, it's an affront to what we stand for as americans. i'll say this. this is not a women's rights issue. this is a religious liberty issue. and it can apply to all faiths. and i've heard from my constitu

that the murray family, janas surviving family and the judge in the case decried the apple store employees for not making that call a short time ago i spoke with montgomery state's attorney, john mccarthy about the videotaped interview that brittany norwood had done with police here is his reaction. >> i think when you look at the tapes what is shocking, is her ability to cry on cue, to go back to women per, and to -- wimper and to tug at your heart springs she is a great actress that is just absolutely apparent as judge green burg said she thought she was in control she thought she was calling the shots for several days she was ultimately that was not the case. >>> again we've just gotten dvds about 90 minutes ago brian we will look through them compile the best of and have that for you tonight in a condensed report. >> see you then. >> white house and congressional republicans on another collision course, the president headed to virginia today, the gop labeled it debt on arrival tom. >> the president came out today and said that the federal government cannot just cut its way out of its debt problems, he said this budget he proposed today will cut $4 trillion provide deficit

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john heilman and richard hos. >> i think willie would agree, one of the great movies of all time. >> any time. >> that's why i went to willie. you didn't see "groundhog day." here's the day. bill murray when he gets has day just right, finally he gets to move on to february 3rd. i hope you see the movie now. >> talk about spoiler alert. 80 years later. mitt romney sort of thought in his own groundhog day -- >> good point. good point. >> every day. >> all right. >> what's he thinking? >> very well done. >> i saw a lot of liberals yesterday saying there is nothing. it's the conservatives that are wringing their hands and sweating and going, this is the guy that we're -- whether it's "the wall street journal" or jonah goldberg, the national review, eric ericsson, i think rush limbaugh even weighed in on this thing. come on! don't make it so easy for the democrats. >> it doesn't help with the narrative. >> at least he's not rich. >> no. he's filthy rich, actually. but that's okay. >> see, that's interesting. republicans don't think can you ever be "filthy rich." >> i know, you can't be rich enough, can you? you just need more. you have to devour everything. you don't really care about th