john wayne gacy was an amateur clown who killed more than 30 young men and boys in the 1970s. illinois executed him almost 20 years ago. sport -- we'll continue after this. >>> 22 minuteses before the hour now and continuing coverage the presidenties year-behinds news conference. he announced more than a million people have signed up for healthcare insurance under the new law, and also took the plame for the disastrous launch and said, we succeed it up. the -- screwed it up. and the president said if he cared about the polls he would not have run for president. hello, a.b., how are you? >> good to see you. >> what stood out to you? >> i think that the president was right to sort of accept some complicity and blame for the rollout of health care, and pledged to do better. it was interesting that he came to that press conference knowing that he would be asked if this was the worst year of his presidency, and he refused to budge on that question. it was his worst year of presidentsive, -- presidency and not his life. the knows he needs to make some mid-course corrections but was

michele bachmann confusing the hometown of john wayne and serial killer john wayne gacy.ughter] those were, you know, kind of funny moments. newt gingrich, a southerner, of course, finishing his epic political career by taking a tour of america's zoos and being bit been by a penguin. [laughter] not necessarily the most wonderful way to end his career. and, of course, even the candidates that were not inherently that funny, a lot of people don't think of mitt romney as a funny guy or rick santorum, but we report in the book about john mccain who is often a funny guy coming to his decision about who he was going to enforce and saying to governor romney that he had made his decision at that point, it was between mitt romney and rick santorum, he felt like the republican nomination had come down to the dog on roof guy. [laughter] so there was some humor there. i'm going to spend the last couple minutes that i have left, i'm going to tell you a little bit about one story from the book that has both drama and comedy and consequence and profanity which, of course, as you can ima

john wayne gacy painted clowns.making painting. >> is that because of how you feel about the art or you cannot divorce yourself from your feelings about the case? >> i feel this way about whatever this thing is, this placard. i could imagine it outside any protest. i don't see it as a painting. i just see it as a poster or placard. >> thematically, there are things that appeal to the people. god, fun nation. >> i find is simplistic, limited, silly. it's not art. it's just a poster. and yes, it has ideas that resonate with all of us. all of us. but it seems ironic that the person who might have gotten away with something is making things about justice, when i think that's not what happened. >> one thing we have to say for sure, one of the goals of art is to make people think. this raises a lot of questions for us, theville yew that's been put on us, about why that is. fair point? >> not for me but for you. >> you're smarter than i am. you're the answers, i'm the questions. thank you very much. appreciate your doing t