you are just the epitome of cool, aren't you, lenny? just admit it.t out of the way. >> i don't know. >> the kind of guy we all would like to be, the kind of guy all our women would like us to be. >> i think you're doing pretty well, piers. i think you're doing pretty well. >> it's this huge presence. >> i'll play second to you in cool today. >> now you said it on the record. you've just done my street cred. to be serious, i hope the answer is yes because it gives me some succor in this relationship we have, is being so cool itself a terrible burden? >> i truly don't think about it. i think if you asked my daughter, i wouldn't be so cool. >> your daughter is cool. >> she's extremely cool, beautiful, smart, amazing. >> how could she not be given the product of her parents, two of the coolest people. >> okay, okay, i'll buy that one. >> coolness runs in the genes, doesn't it? >> a little bit. a little bit. >> so how do you attain coolness? how does someone like me, for clearly all the many talents i probably don't have, cool certainly isn't one of them.

this is one of the coolest things i've ever seen and this is typical lenny kravitz.is an album cover which in itself is cool these days, the fact it's vinyl, right? secondly, amazing picture on the front. then i turn it over, and there is your life in these extraordinary pictures. >> yeah. >> and i just haven't seen an album cover or inside cover, anything quite like this. for the theme that you have of this black and white america, there it is. and there you are, lenny kravitz, the product of a black woman and a white man in america, raised on the upper east of new york. your dad was jewish. your mom's christian. an almost unique perspective on life. >> i had an amazing childhood. i talk to a lot of people who didn't like their childhoods. they would not go back. they found it to be sad and painful. i had the absolute opposite. i had a very rich childhood in the sense of experience. >> tell me about your parents. your mom was a famous actress. your dad was a television executive. tell me about them. >> my mother was born in miami, florida. her father came from the b

but lenny, right now, how does this race look to you?nyone have treatment now 20 make, really, some kind of a change or maybe some kind of head away two weeks before they start voting? >> smur, there's some people that can do it. perry, when you look at the leads shrinking, it's not because they gained so much. look at rick perry starting to gain points again. all of a sudden, he's in fourth place, he's a factor. don't be surprised if perry does better than we thought he would in a couple of weeks and perhaps uses that bank roll that he has to try to rebuild his campaign. that's probably the one to watch. can gingerich hold on to the lead and can perry hold on to his campaign? >> wrap this thing up, maria. >> i tend to agree with lenny on this. a day is a lifetime in politics. but the if this is a drawn out battle, a drawn out battle always goes to the candidate with the most money and the best infrastructure. right now, that person is mitt romney and going into this, as lenny mentioned, newt gingerich who had seen the surge is now seein

and lenny kravitz. with cleto and the cletones. and now, in case you didn't hear, here's jimmy kimmel! ♪ it's "jimmy kimmel live" [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: hi, everyone. well, that's very nice. i'm jimmy, i'm the host of the show. thanks for watching. thank you for coming. thank you for taking time away from standing in line at target to buy your nephew a remote control flying shark to be here. hey, we have, here at the show, we have our christmas party after the show tonight, which is always a mistake. [ laughter ] not so much a holiday party as it is a festival of dry humping. dry humping and dry heaving. you know those plastic spikes you put on top of your roof to keep the pigeons away? turns out, those are a very effective way to keep your employee s from having sex on te copy machine. work parties are always a little weird because you want people to relax but you don't want them to get too relaxed. one year, after our christmas party, my former assistant, i want mention her name because i don't want to embarrass here,

lenny, did you catch that one? thing about now president obama where he was professorial and detached. they claim -- oh, they said the same exact thing about president obama. you know how he talked down to people that are linked to guns and religion. he claimed that -- he said that during the campaign trail and it still wasn't enough to overcome -- >> this is a -- >> said it with a hot mike in front of a microphone. it lived back and forth throughout the news cycle. just the same. >> hold it. >> you're always being recorded, danielle. you know this. >> this is why this race is so contentious. but we're not done. we have got more air time for you guys to sxou s to expound views here. all the candidates are trying to court the conservative vote. each says they're more conservative than the other. rick perry's push next. cuban cajun raw seafood pizza parlor french fondue tex-mex fro-yo tapas puck chinese takeout taco truck free range chicken pancake stack baked alaska 5% cash back. right now, get 5% cash back at resta

joining me now, maria cardona and lenny mccallster.nk you both for being here. >> good to be here, as always. >> good morning. >> maria, let me start with you. what do you say about the comments this morning? >> i think they're not helpful. clearly, they are purely political. i think it could help in terms of what gingerich is trying to do in terms of shoring up the right wing evangelical support that he needs to win iowa and then to continue through the primary process. it could help him win the nomination. it definitely will not help him win the election in 2012. because what people are looking for in their leaders, when they're looking to elect a commander in chief is somebody who is an honest broker and somebody who really understands the politics of the mid east peace process. and, you know, what people need to understand is that not even netanyahu would say these kinds of remarks. the majority of people in israel understand that the only way -- where they need to be for the security of israel is to have a two-state solution. that

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>> lenny mccallister, merry christmas. >> lenny on christmas day? >> merry christmas!istmas, t.j., and congratulations. you know we love you, man. i appreciate being on with you. it's been since 2008 where you and i have had an opportunity to just talk about the political issues of the day. but i want to focus on something happy for you before i let you go. so first of all, merry christmas. congratulations. now you know this is how i roll. right? you know this is how i roll. right? >> yeah, we know. >> but for you, t.j. holmes, january 6th, 2012, because you're nye friend and i love you -- got to do it. whoa pig suey. go razor backs. >> that's huge. >> lenny? lenny? number one, t.j. tells me you're a very nice guy. because me and t.j. were together last night and i was killing you and he was defending you. so we -- he says charles, you're going to like lenny when you meet him because i was killing the right wing at dinner last night. i was killing you! >> you know what? charles, they deserve it. over the last several weeks they've just been turrible! you know this as m

. -- lennie. lennie, who was with us in beijing. because of your extraordinary work, violence against women as part of the beijing platform. because of your work in coalition with other groups around this country, over 15,000 battered and sexually abused in the court woman -- and the. women are here and free of their abusive spouses. thank you very much, lennie. and sarah. is your mom here? she is also related to someone on the school board. sarah, who runs and it works on signature products, coaching boys into men. i encourage you to look at that's not cool.com, which is about stopping dating violence. this is an organizational award, i get to do this. and for rachel, who has been at the organization and who has been my partner as we build in the federal part of global clhu to challenge the notion that violence does not have to be part of the human experience. i thank you, rachel, and i think all of you for this award and for the work that we will do together in this city, and are presidio, to create a future without violence for o

this is the time every saturday where we see lenny and maria, our good political friends.e got them down to atlanta, got them in the billion. it's really good to have you guys here. >> it's great to be here, t.j. >> we just saept saw this. romney, he took some questions. and it's perfect to tam talk about romney right now because we got into it again in the makeup room where you were asking the question, does romney even matter at this point? is he even in the game? what are you talking about? i said of course he is. the guy has been at 20% for the past five years. >> and that's the problem. and even with what some of his comments were, what's the first question he got inspect herman cain, asked about contracts with newt gingerich. he's avoiding contrasting himself with newt gingerich right now. he had a chance to go mono ee mono with gingerich. when you're staying satisfied with that 20% and he's kind of, you know, a little wishy washy about iowa and we're already looking at gingerich ahead in iowa, gingerich will probably win south carolina and gingerich is smoking him i

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>> dunn -- >> lenny, what was your headline for the week?unfortunately i have to agree with her, but the tyranny, quote/unquote, is not over. it's blocked punt. how the gop lost their position in 2011. >> okay. we'll talk about that payroll tax cut extension. but let me start, maria, with you on what has had in virginia. how can this happen that two major candidates, both of whom have led the field at some point, end up not on the ballot in virginia? >> the only thing i can think of, t.j., is amateurism. and it's so interesting and appalling, frankly, that somebody like newt gingerich who, as you know, has been a career politician, has been in this town for decades. and not only did he start running really early, but he was one who supposedly was very furious about this. you know, he didn't surge at the beginning, but he had a recent surge. but you would think that somebody like him would be prepared to show up on the ballot in all 50 states, especially the state where he lives. this is appalling. i think it's a big deal. you know, the nomin

does it show a sign of desperation, lenny? negative and surprisingly enough, talking about the moderate wing of the republican party makes jon huntsman look good. he won't come out of nowhere and win iowa or place there. the endorsement of new hampshire and now conservatives looking saying maybe we have overlooked huntsman too much with him not going negative and being stronger in these debates and kind of being steady with his campaign, these type of things make somebody like a jon huntsman maybe get that one more look before we really go towards super tuesday. >> let me let robert weigh in here. >> lenny, the bottom line to the issue is, newt gingrich would have gone negative earlier if he could have avoided to and much more than a slight reference in an e-mail if he afforded to. obviously he failed to respond to the attacks confronted but speaks to a bigger issue in the republican party. the reason not seeing any of the candidates galvanize more than 20% of the electorate, the reason they're so divided amongst themselves is

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lenny, maria, good way to wrap it up.y, good to have you guys in town with us this weekend. >> thoroughly enjoyed it. >> thank you so much. >>> coming up on the bottom of the hour now. we aren't done talking politics. trying to get candy crowley to come down to atlanta to see me some time as well. hasn't worked, but still we'll talk to her in just a second. she has some pretty big guests coming up on her show in about 30 minutes. stay for that. >>> also, lot of people out there just don't like going through the searches at the tsa. well now listen. there is an 84-year-old grandmother out there that says she was strip searched by a tsa agent. she was trying to get to florida. that's what happened to her. >> do i look like a terrorist? i'm going to be 85 years old and i weigh 103 pounds. >> she doesn't sound like much of a threat but the tsa is telling a different side of this story. >>> also this morning, a christmas tree. simple enough. right? it looks like one. but this is not a christmas tree. oh, no -- that's a holiday

thank you, lenny.you maria. >> thank you, mom. >>> we've got developing news to tell you about. you know they say home sweet home but maybe not so much. we are taking live pictures from panama city, panama. it's been 22 years since manuel noriega has been to his home. he's been in france. next, find out why his france back home may not be such a good one. >>> let's get you updated on the top stories. passengers relieved from the denver to los angeles flight. forced to make an emergency landing in grabbed junction, colorado, after one of its two engines failed. 125 passengers and crew, none were hurt. >>> a blood bath could be imminent in the security of homs in syria. the government warns of an all-out assault. still, the threats did nothing to stop syrians from protesting today. an opposition group says that 23 people were killed in protests with opposition forces. >>> an earthquake killed two people in southern mexico. people as far as 100 miles from the epicenter felt the quake on saturday. as many

>> i asked him yesterday specifically about lenny brewer. >> did he say lenny brewer green lighted it>> lenny brewer new gun walking had taken place. >> and someone made a really bad decision. we don't know who that, quote, someone is. that someone could still be making decisions today that are equally as stupid. and everyone con seeks the attorney general and members of congress, everybody says it was a really bad decision but no one has yet, at least -- do you know who authorized that? >> no, ma'am. >> don't you think that's weird? >> i think it's beyond weird. >> i mean, isn't it incumbent upon the attorney general to find out who did it, how high up? because this has been going on for ten months. >> but notice what he does. notice what happens. he appear points an inspector general. greta, you are an attorney, you know if you do something false in front of a judge, don't appoint someone to investigate it, you correct it immediately. he's hiding behind the inspector general trying to buy time saying let's wait until the investigation. >> how long does that take? >> the next electio

and they can focus on their message now. >> lenny, is he really out of it?ays he's starting this cainsolutions.com, this campaign to get his message out. he's still pushing for 9-9-9. newt gingrich today came out right away responding saying that herman cain -- with complimentary words. saying herman cain helped push the dialogue. is that his way of saying, herman, how about me? are you going to endorse me or we still think you matter? >> he doesn't need herman cain's support. but that was definitely an invitation. >> even though there may not be that many left. many of the supporters had already gone to newt from cain -- >> but they're going to also possibly fall into that undecided bucket. they may go to newt and may not like the recent quotes. they're nothing wrong with newt saying, you're here, stay here. this is why you stay here, your guy pushed the envelope a little bit, he contributed to this process but now that you're with me, i can tell the ball and continue going forward with it. >> what it really reminded me of is sarah palin. >> me, too. >> tha

with lenny mcalister." expert. thank you all for joining us. there's a lot of us here. we're going to get it all in. let's go to our guy -- we can call him our our. l.z., when i talked to my producers, i said, why are we still having this conversation? is this conversation even worth having? >> he still has supporters, as we saw today during his final rally, right? he still has supporters. that means his endorsement still counts. that also means that because he suspended his campaign, he's able to use those dollars to push his message and endorse a candidate that he thinks is the best fit for the presidency. he's still a factor even though he's suspended his campaign. >> lenny, do you see a difference -- as i'm driving in, i'm listening to conservative radio. they say, why don't democrats get away with a public sex scandal and republicans don't? anthony weiner, david woo resigned. on and on and on, but there are republicans candidates who are still in office now or who lasted longer. is the treatment really