jay leno tries to recapture the magic following a nine month hiatus. >> i'm jay leno, your host, at least for a while. >>> this is the "cbs morning news" for tuesday, march 2nd, >>> this is the "cbs morning news" for tuesday, march 2nd, 2010. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning. glad you're with us. i'm michelle gielan. in earthquake ravaged chile this morning, lack of communication, clogged roadways and continued aftershocks are hindering relief efforts. aid is beginning to arrive. but there's also a growing immediate for security. the curfew in hard hit concepcion has been extended until noon came. lawlessness is increasing. looters moving from ransacking stores to robbing private homes. the death toll now taps at at least 723, but is expected to rise. hillary clinton is planning to visit today. mark strassmann reports from santiago. >> reporter: central chile's a landscape of ruin. communities battered beyond recognition and in many cases still cut off from relief. broken homes and lives lie scattered on the ground or adrift in the waves offshore. of the 2 million people forced o

but leno seemed comfortable in his old job. >> it's the tonight show with jay leno. >> reporter: from the opening title sequence to the freshened up theme song, everything about the new tonight show with jay leno seemed to project the energy that the other show lacked. >> he was just right in the group. >> reporter: despite his start, leno did not hold back taking shots at his employer. and he had trouble keeping first guest jamie foxx in his chair. gold medal skier lindsay vonn's appearance prompted chants from the audience. >> usa! >> leno will have to keep that up for months if he wants to bring the crowds to him. >> i think it will be closer, i think it will be competitive. i think you'll see leno work very hard because that's what he does. >> leno did work very hard for the show do-over, but perhaps it came before the openiending cre when they parodied the wizard of oz. >> we've gone back, folks. don't pay attention to what's happened in the last seven months here. >> reporter: for one night, at least, jay leno showed his audience and others in late night, there truly is no place

>> jay leno hopes to follow in the footsteps of jay leno.ing his first run, "tot night show" was number one for 14 years. tonight, the host hopes to start a new winning streak. >> we'll pick up where we left off in may. >> any improvement? >> i'll b younger, i'll be handsomer. we'll bring new elements to it, and old ones, too. >> but the controversy may have lingering effects, especially ose who favored displaced host, conan o'brien. >> i do think the conan backlash will be a factor, especially among young viewers. a lot of young viewers are really unhappy. they really, really like conan. . >> regardless of the fan response, leno will walk out to a different tune. long-time band lever kevin eubanks will be leaving in the near future. >> he's a world class musician. he's played all over the world, and i think he wants to maybe get back on the road and do some of that. >> producers are relying on olympic good will for the relaunch. sarah palin is slated for tuesday night. >> and that should be, you know a little boost to him for sure. >> jay l

. >> and jay leno's return to "the tonight show." we'll talk about whether the king of late night's ratings were deflowned or he dethrowned letterman on the first night back. you're watching cnbc, first in business worldwide. we're back after this. >>> okay. welcome back, everyone. cablevision and disney are fighting over disney rights fees. disney threat take yank abc off television this weekend if the company does not agree to hike the fee it pays to carry the channel. stay tuned on that one. pun intended. cablevision down almost 1%. walt disney up just a bit, 0.3%, larry? >> thank you, trish. >> airline stocks on the rise. analysts say the sector is on the road to recovery and poised for mergers. so the arc airline index is up 9% over the last month. hawaiian airlines seeing a big boost since last march, get this, the stock is up nearly 200%. today it is down a wee bit. ceo mark dunkerley joins us for an exclusive interview. you are merlin the magician, your profits are up fourfold over the past year, your share price is up 200%,

jay leno beat you for something because for whatever reason, jay leno has his pulse on the mainstreamf america better than anybody. i'm not even close to that pulse, i don't even want to be. but these guys want to be. >> larry: good point. back with more of -- i almost said jay leno. you put him in the room. with bill maher. don't go away. >>> i was shocked that letterman has been having affairs. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] all we ask is that you keep doing what you've always done. ♪ the lexus rx. never has a vehicle been designed to feel so natural. ♪ sure, but let me get a little information first. for broccoli, say one. for toys, say two. toys ! the system can't process your response at this time. what ? pleaseall back between 8 and 5 central standard time. he's in control. goodbye. even kids know it's wrong to give someone the run around. at ally bank you never have to deal with an endless automated system. you can talk to a real person 24/7. it's just the right thing to do. >>> i was shocked that letterman has been having affairs. i had no idea he was even running for office. [ laug

kareen wynter has his story. >> it's "the jay leno show." >> reporter: jay leno recently signed off fromrt-lived prime time gig admitting the show was a bomb. >> it seems like just yesterday i was telling nbc, this is not going to work. but no. >> reporter: will his late-night return also be a bust? leno's back on "the tonight show" after a highly publicized shake-up. >> we have exactly one hour to steal every single item in this studio. >> reporter: that pitted the comic against conan o'brien who bitterly left the network when he was forced out of his time slot after just seven months. >> i've had an opportunity to work in television. some of what television networks do, like i said, it defies logic. >> reporter: comedian d.l. hughley says leno can get back on top. >> like l.l. cool jay said, don't call it a comeback. he's been there for years. if anything, he was on a brief sabbatical. but i think he'll hit the ground running like he always had. >> reporter: hughly says viewers want to see leno back in the chair now that the nbc controversy has cooled. thanks to the ratings success fro

jay leno beat you for something because for whatever reason, jay leno has his pulse on the mainstreampulse, i don't even want to be. but these guys want to be. >> larry: good point. back with more of -- i almost said jay leno. you put him in the room. with bill maher. don't go away. [ engine revs ] [ male announcer ] it is, the most advanced automobile we have ever created. a car that can help awaken its driver if he begins to doze. keep him in his lane if he starts to wander. even stop itself... if he becomes distracted. if you want to see the future of the automobile, look at where the e-class is...today. this is the 9th generation e-class. this...is mercedes-benz. see your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for exceptional offers through mercedes-benz financial. ddon: ...no matter where youf walmart's $live.-day generic prescriptions... don: plus get free shipping on over 3,000 other prescriptions. don: call 1-800-2-refill for your free home delivery. save money. live better. walmart. >>> i was shocked that letterman has been having affairs. i had no idea he was even running for offic

we're talking about last night's jay leno deal.e big controversy later, jay is back in late night. as nbc's rafael seth shows us, he's looking comfortable and saying there's no place like home. >> it's "the tonight show with jay leno." >> reporter: from the opening title sequence -- >> tonight jay welcomes jamie foxx. >> reporter: -- to the freshened up theme song -- everything about the new "tonight show with jay leno" seemed to project the verve and energy his short-lived primetime show lacked. >> thank you very much. >> it's a very lively show. >> he was just right in the groove. >> reporter: despite the good start, leno did not hold back from taking shots at his employer. >> when it comes to going downhill, nobody's faster, okay, except nbc. but other than that -- >> reporter: and he had trouble keeping first guest jamie foxx in his chair. gold medal skier lindsey vonn's appearance prompted patriotic chants from the audience. >> usa! usa! >> reporter: leno will have to maintain that kind of energy for months if he wants to keep

when conan replaced him he lost half of jay leno's audience.lin on, the cast of jersey shore and olympic skier lindsey vonn. he's trying to get people to tune back in and forget about everything that happened with conan. i would expect him to discuss this and make some jokes about it. >> wow, well, i can't wait for the sarah palin segment. i think that's doing to be the one to watch. in any case, julia, out in los angeles, have fun out there tonight. thank you. >> thanks. >>> it is now time for the fastest three minutes of news. we go down to the wire. ready? hit the stock. >>> we start in france where the cleanup is under way after hurricane cynthia smashed through sea worlds flooding towns. today rescuer workers trying to get to people stranded. it hit belgium, portugal spain. >>> a suburban cleveland officer flying over the guardrail. the dash-cam shows a car spinning out of control after being hit by another car on the roadway. amazingly the officer is expected to be okay. >>> next, a lawsuit over o.j. simpson's soot jacket and pants. today

the tonight show is new with jay leno. >> jay: kevin?

i'm jay leno. i'm your host at least for a while. >> he's using the same studio he used for his prime time show. he'll have several other medal u.s. athletes on the show later this week. >>> we have some good news if you're concerned how taytion is doing in his new home. >> he's enjoying his spread in china. here's the little guy playing in the snow at the china conservation and research center. his keepers there say he's responding pretty well to commands in chinese. they say he's eating the new bamboo and has discovered a new treat, panda bread. >> tai shan he done write or call. like he forgot us. >> drop us an e-mail. >> something. get a check on our forecast. here's meteorologist tom kierein. >> give him a break. he's a little jet lagged. here, we have mostly cloudy start this morning. temperatures in the mid-to-upper 30s around the metro area and some of the rural areas of virginia shenandoah valley a little below freezing. for the rest of the day maybe a little sun this morning cloudy during

. >>> and it's just like old times for jay leno. making his controversial duties but not without jazz from the network that made it possible. and that's coming up next. >>> and to break, a live look outside, the latest weather, traffic and updates on the other side of the break. stay with us. how about over here? n-- let's go back to the left. waffling is back at dunkin' donuts. for a short time only, enjoy the return of the delicious oven-toasted waffle breakfast sandwich. america runs on dunkin'. meet kerry bolognese. he says our school budget is excessive, and sides with those who will cut millions from fairfax schools. increasing class sizes and losing our best teachers. eileen filler-corn disagrees. a mother of two, eileen is leading the fight to protect our schools from massive cuts. she'll reduce government waste and help small businesses create jobs. on march 2, save our schools. vote eileen filler-corn "i'm eileen filler-corn, candidate for delegate and i sponsored this ad." one taste and you'll understand. delicious dunkin

jay leno moves to his old "tonight show" spot, leaving the 10:00 p.m.lot (one of the show's replacing him is "parenthood." joining us is the star, lauren graham there has been a lot of juggling to come up with the best possible prime-time nbc lineup. do you feel added pressure? >> i mean, there is just so much pressure, because we are one of the first shows out of the gate at the 10:00 p.m. slot. we want to do our bosses proud, ron howard and brian grazer and the memory of the amazing movie they made it is a great cast, and have supported us and promoted the showb. it is wonderful, it is about something, and funny and sad, and about family and i am justly proud of it. i think we will do ok. >> there is a lot of buzz around the show, a family drama were you paid a single mother of teenagers who decides to move on to have support of our family pretty played a single mom on "gilmore girls" but i hear this is a departure from that role. >> it is a similar because they are single moms. but being a mom is just one a trait of a character. the whole show has ma

you're back at 10:00. >> i'm not going to say i was cheering for leno's failure, because leno's a friend show several times, but it's good to be back at the 10:00 hour. >> and you're glad he failed? >> i'm not going to say that. >> sounds like somebody else on this show today. >> this is all i've ever wanted to go since i was 9 years old. growing up in compton, california, i wanted to be three things -- >> compton? >> straight out of compton. >> look at you. what you know about that? >> that's my music. not really. >> i wanted to play football for the dallas cowboys, i wanted to be a lawyer, and i wanted to be an actor. and at the age of 9, i realized that if i became an actor, i could be all three of those things and whatever else i wanted to become in life, so here i am. >> i love that. that's a great story. >> and financially, it's good too. >> it is. >> the money, you weren't thinking about that. >> so when nbc started "law & order" 20 years ago, they were afraid -- the executives were afraid that it was going to be too intense, to be doing it week after week. and yet this has turned

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biden jr. >> thank you very much. >> jay leno, everybody. and that is your friday night mash-up. >>> tonight the power of palin. the former alaska governor back with the man who made her a star, john mccain. can she bring divided conservatives together? when we come back. ♪ (announcer) we all want to stay active. we don't want anything... ...to slow us down. but even in your 30s... ...your bones can begin to change. overtime, you can begin to have bone loss. calcium and vitamin d work together to help keep your bones strong. and yoplait gives you... ...20% of your daily calcium... ...and is the only leading yogurt with vitamin d in every cup. keep your bones strong every day... ...with yoplait. in the north of england to my new job at the refinery in the south. i'll never forget. it used one tank of petrol and i had to refill it twice with oil. a new car today has 95% lower emissions than in 1970. exxonmobil is working to improve cars, liners of tires, plastics which are lighter and advanced hydrogen technologies that could increase fuel eff

this is courtesy of jay leno. if you think there is nothing funny about toyota troubles, well, take a look at this. >> on the "today" show, they did a segment on what to do if your prius loses control there is a button you press. again, this didn't seem like the solution. take a look. >> we want to reiterate some of the points that experts had given us. you've got to hold the power button down. >> yeah, see that's -- that doesn't seem right. >> and that's jay leno, everybody. that is ""the mash-up."" tonight republicans furious about the last-ditch efforts are considering to get health care passed this week. we're talking with speaker pelosi's inner circle to approve the bill without a vote. [ female announcer ] treat yourself to something special for lunch. how about a coastal soup and grilled shrimp salad combination? or maybe our new savory shrimp jambalaya. seafood lunches starting at just $6.99 at red lobster. it can take so much out of you. i feel like i have to wind myself up just to get out of bed. then...

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. >> she was on jay leno before he was on the tonight show and didn't have it again.red that clip and she commented. >> she is a share of our newscasters, has a brilliant voice. >> i want to skip to the fox news channel. can you do that one? ♪ >> oh! >> who do you like doing the most? >> cure couric is up there, number one may be joe biden. he has a great voice and is so enthusiastic whatever he is talking about him, god bless him. >> does it bother you that people know you from is? not that? or this is helpful? >> it's definitely helpful. we'll take what we can get. >> that's some help. >> a lot of people have found our original music by seeing the videos and following up. half of them are like, this is great music. i really like this. the other half are, shut, it's nothing like it. >> i like the acting involved there. that was really good. for a minute you transported me to another more magical place. >> we have to go. great job you guys, please come back. we're going to take another break. when we come bang your voice mails. >> this is what we term the blunt edge.

another question is if jay leno will bounce back. it is talking about how people get on their feet or how they are successful. can tiger woods ever regain his success. i was pleased to be invited. >> this is from your block. "my democratic friends have said that i lost my mind -- that i'd lost my mind. my republican friends are wondering what i'm up to. for one thing, senator alike browns chevy truck with 200,000 miles on it sparks new hope for the possibility of my own senate seat sunday. -- senate seat sunday. " you tell us on many occasions that you are a democrat. >> i am well known for liberal views. while i do not try to be overly political, i am. >> is that often the case for administrator of a college or university? >> no, i know many college presidents that are republican. i think that our political views are all over the map. >> i did not mean that so much. how many of them are outspoken about their own particular views. >> i think college presidents are much more guarded. in some areas they are not allowed to say something

. >> larry: what dumake of that whole letterman/leno thing? or conan?ud. >> larry: you didn't buy it. >> i didn't buy it. i think they all like each other and it was a money thing. >> larry: snoop, how skeptical you are. >> that didn't seem like a real feud to me. nobody hit nobody. nobody got violent. >> larry: now you're going back to the hood, right. >> yeah exactly. >> larry: on the street and punch, right? >> that's where i'm from, larry. where i'm from if you don't hit nobody it's not really a conflict. a quarrel. >> larry: good way to look at it. come back wan e-mail question. snoop's a presence on mainstream media. started on the soap. entertained stephen coal ber. coming up, stick around. compare a well equipped lexus es, to a well-equipped buick lacrosse. get inside each. and see what you find. if perfection is what you pursue, this just might change your course. meet the new class of world class. the twenty-ten lacrosse, from buick. may the best car win. ♪ rolling down the street smoking indo, sipping on gin and juice ♪ ♪ laid back with my mi

. >> larry: what did you make of that whole letterman-leno thing?h other. they all friends. it was like some made up scripted feud. >> larry: you didn't buy it? >> i didn't buy it. i think they all like each other and it was money thing. >> larry: snoop! how skeptical you are. >> that didn't seem like a real feud to me. nobody hit nobody. nobody got violent. >> larry: now you're going become to the hood. meet on the street and punch, right? >> that's where i'm from, larry where i'm from if you don't hit nobody, it's really not a conflict. it's a quarrel. >> larry: we come back with an e-mail question. snoop is a growing presence in mainstream media. he starred on a soap, entertained stephen colbert, coming up. stick around. it's great. i eat anything that i want. key lime pie, pineapple upside down cake, raspberry cheesecake... ...yeah, every night it's something different. oh yeah yeah...she always keeps them in the house. no no no, i've actually lost weight... i just have a high metabolism or something... ...lucky. [ wife ] babe... ♪ umm, i gotta

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>> jay leno having some fun at the expense of republicans who have had troubles recently with sex scandals. democrats are not immune from these problems. let's take a trip down memory lane on both sides of the aisle. >> indeed, i did have a relationship with ms. lewinsky that was not appropriate. in fact, it was wrong. >> so my truth is that i am a gay american. >> let me be clear. i am not gay. i never have been gay. >> i want to again offer my deep, sincere apologies to all of those i have let down and disappointed with these actions from my past. >> the past few days i have begun to atone for my private failings. >> in 2006, two years ago, i made a very serious mistake. >> i violated the vows of my marriage. >> i've been unfaithful to my wife. >> and we could have kept this tape going for a long time. so which party has more sex scandals? the website the daily beast did some research and they identified the top 58 political sex scandals from the past 20 years and found that the gop had 32 of them. democrats had 26 but their scandals were bigger. bill clinton made the list three differen

. >>> and jay leno reclaimed his old job as host of the tonight show nine months after giving it up to o'brien. for his first show he was joined by jamie foxx and olympic gold medal skier lindsey vonn. now back to "hardball." >>> welcome back to "hardball." president obama is expected to make an announcement. in fact, he will this wednesday about the next stones health care reform. he is going to define where he stands, as it gets closer. former dramatic chairman and former vermont governor howard dean is also a medical doctor. he has been outspoken on behalf of health care reform. generally he is a consultant with mckenna and wallbiand a contributor to cnbc. now none of that stuff has anything to do with what you're doing here. >> generally not. >> let's talk about this. you railroad on the left. you're a progressive. are you one of the left people who will try to bring down the center of the democratic party? i look at blanche, she is challenged. halter. he is launching a democratic tea party movement against the center. what do you think about that? do you think it's fair game? do y

the one that proposed today or tomorrow is about will jay leno bounce back and how do you recover what was once a successful show? anything having to do with how people get back on their feet or to become successful, we have a lot of blogs around tiger woods, can he ever regain success? i was very pleased to be invited. i enjoy writing. that's in the washington post online. >> this is from your own blog, january 21. my democratic friends are saying i've lost my mind. my republican friends are wondering what i'm up to. for one thing, senator elect brown's chevy truck with 200,000 miles on it sparks new hopes for my possibility of my own senate seat some day. my truck has 165,000 miles on it, o.k. it's a honda crv, barely classified as a truck. first, the filibuster-proof senate was a bad idea all along. you tell us on many occasions that you are a democrat. >> i am well known for liberal views. while i don't try to be overly political, yes, i am. >> is that often the case where an administrator of a college or university? >> a no, i know many college presidents who are republican or ind

sarah palin did outdraw you on leno last week.at may show that the temptations of populism have a popular appeal. what is your response? >> i have to come up with better material, i am afraid. [laughter] [applause] no, populism means different things to different people. populism, if you mean appealing to the public and to the voters, that is something we are all in favor of. we want to bring out the support of the great majority of our fellow citizens. by and large, the american people do the right thing. after they study something at some length and listened to the alternatives, they generally come to the right place. winston churchill said, you can always trust americans to do the right things after they have exhausted all of the alternatives. [laughter] that is close to what he said. i very much believe in listening to the american people and communicating to the american people -- that form of populism, if you define it that way, is fine and well. there is another branch of the word populism which i am referring to when i say

the one we are going to be posting i think today or tomorrow is about will jay leno bounce back? how do you recover what was once a successful show? anything having to do with how do people get back on their feet or to become successful -- we had a lot of blogs around tiger woods, can he ever regain his success? so i was very pleased to be invited and i enjoy writing. so that's twice a week in the washington post online. >> here's from your own blog from january 24, 2010. my democratic friends are saying i've lost my mind. my republican friends -- yes, i have one or two -- are wondering what i'm up to. for one thing, senator-elect brown's chevy truck with 200,000 miles on it sparks new hope for the possibility of my own senate seat some day. my truck has 165,000 miles on it. ok, it's a honda crv, which is barely classified as a truck -- and you go on. but you then get serious and you say, first, the filibuster- proof senate was a bad idea all along. >> yes. >> first thing, though, you tell us on many occasions that you're a democrat. >> well, i am well known for liberal views. an

they had a jay leno figure and the band leader, the sidekick kind of figure on this japanese show wased woman. she was sitting naked on this black leather couch. tenever they went for a commercial break they would flash this naked woman for two seconds and she would sit there and say in english, hurry on down to my house, bases. habody else but me. why did she say that? why was she naked? totally weird. e'sut this in my piece. t was so bizarre. and tv guide's editors read this story about japanese tv and they take that one line out and make it the lead line of the story and commission this picture of this incredibly buxom like japanese women are not, sitting on a leather couch. that was their picture for my article and it says by thomas r. reed. it was in tv guide. my dad called me up and said don't put my name on those filthy articles any more. i was innocent. so i changed it to t r reed and i have been t. r. reid ever f mce. many of my fellow reporters call me that a lot of people call me tom too. either one is fine. >> host: who were your parents and what did they do? ormiuest: my

and they had at the time -- they had this jay leno show, the tonight show in just that. -- japan. called "11 pm" and they had a jay leno, you know, figure and the band leader -- you know, the sidekick kind of figure on this japanese show was this naked woman and she was sitting naked on this black leather couch, this is so bizarre, and whenever they went for a commercial break they would flash to this naked woman for about 2 seconds and she would sit there and say in english, she said, hurry on down to my house, baby, ain't nobody home but me. why did she say that? why was she naked. totally weird. and i threw this in my piece for tv guide because it was so bizarre. and tv guide's editors read this story about japanese tv and, of course, they take that one line out and make it the lead line of the story and then they&fz commission this picture of this incredibly buxom like japanese women are not sitting on their couch and it said by thomas r. reid. it was in tv guide, a pretty popular magazine. so my dad calls me up and says, don't put my name on those filthy articles anymore. i w

and jay leno started his routine, we'll see it now.nk god for joe biden. >> in my lifetime, i've been fortunate. i heard presidents say good things. i heard john kennedy say ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country. i remember ronald reagan saying, mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. on this day, we heard what joe biden said to our president. this is real. he said it -- take a listen. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states of america, barack obama. >> this is a big [ bleep ] deal. >> i love the president's response, too. oh, thanks a lot. >> as jake tapper pointed out, yesterday, because this does affect federal withholding tax, he could have been saying, this is a big fica deal. >> you're the first to point that out. >> maybe we misinterpret things. >> maybe we have dirtyinds. we know that. >>> we have new details coming up about sandra bullock's troubled marriage. how she's handling it all ap and how she found out. (announcer) e sinus triple threat. (announcer) not just sinus

even jay leno, i mean, that's a study i was talking about.let's start a food show. >> i want to do a reality show looking at the food we eat and how disgusting most of it is. >>> welcome back to "morning joe," it is, everybody. top of the morning. >> that would soar off the nielsens. >> we need to have this conversation. joe scarborough is off. harold ford jr., msnbc political analyst and chairman of the democratic leadership council, joins us, as well as "the washington post's" jonathan capehart, mike barnicle, me and willie geist. the e-mails are coming in, i'm sure, in support of my jihad against junk food, right, chris? >> yeah. patrick in arkansas writes, mika reminds me of nancy grace, just not as sane. >> oh! >> obesity, while an issue, is certainly not the mass killer you're making it out to be. you remind me of a teetotaler at a vandy game. >> first of all -- >> we don't look kindly on those. >> -- i think it is killing us. don't know about a mass killer right now, but it is decimating our country's future. and you're wrong, patrick.

. >>> sandra bullock's marriage came up when joy behar stopped by "the tonight show" with jay leno lastight. joy compared it to her own 27-year relationship. she said after all those years her own man still surprises her. >> it shows you that you never know what a man is up to. you know what i mean? you live with him. i'm with a guy 27 years, and, you know, you wake up one morning and the other day i woke up and i was river dancing in the house. just out of nowhere starts river dancing. >> and what do you think brought that on? >> drugs. >> drugs? >> catch "the joy behar show" at 9:00 p.m. eastern right here on hln. tonight's guest a celebrity panel of former child stars including one day at a time's mackenzie phillips and the brady bunch's christopher knight. >>> an average bishop asks for forgiveness over the alleged actions of a priest. the catholic church confronts scandal and verbal fireworks ensue. what a panel of experts had to say about that scandal on "larry king live." >>> a lot of it is historic right now. it's unprecedented. we're dealing with something that's been classifie

to the fellow in broward county, it's going to be just a gift from good to jay leno and david letterman have the parliamentarian rule on this. there's the chance that the political ridicule would be great over the next month or so. as far as other issues, i think you've got to say card check is dead. a big issue for organized labor. i don't see it going anywhere now. a big issue for walmart. i think cap and trade is pretty much dead. i think anything that involves a carbon tax or any kind of a tax is absolutely radio active right now. no politician wants to be identified with a big tax. there might be an effort to impose upon utilities different energy efficiency standards, but any kind of a robust cap and trade bill, i think is pretty much dead. i do think there'll be a financial services bill for many years. the industry wants one, voters want one, and more importantly chris dodd wants one. i think chris dodd is at a point where he'll sign on anything for a legacy, for a bill that will have his name on it. and his maneuvering in the last couple of weeks on a consumer protection agency

i'll be watching jay leno or something and making e-mail and it says hey, dodd and shelby are meeting right now. and they're trying to cut a deal. and so i write something up and i send it out and our web team posted immediately at midnight. so that has changed how we do our jobs and were under a lot of pressure, a lot of deadline pressure especially for breaking news. i live in fear of the tory because she's -- she breaks a lot of stuff. and it should break something i'm in trouble. so then i'm up till 2:00 a.m. >> victoria, do you want to comment on that? >> i was at the deadline pressure is alive and it leaves them a lot less time to think and analyze and be as thoughtful as they'd like to be. it's just the pressure of the business anymore and there just isn't the same time there used to be. i've been a reporter for eight years and even in that period of time, it's incredibly sped up even since i've been a politico which is 2.5 years. everything just increasingly gets faster it seems like every day. so i think it's good to keep in mind that reporters don't necessarily have the time

it is going to be a gift from god to jay leno and david letterman to have a parliamentarian ruling on this. even if we do get a bill, there is a chance the ridiculed would be great over the next month or so. as far as other issues, there is a big issue of organized labor. a big issue for wal-mart. i think happen trade is pretty much dead. i think anything that involves a carbon tax or any kind of taxes radioactive now. no official wants to be identified with a big tax. there might be an effort to impose different efficiency standards, but in the robust cavan's trade bill i think is pretty much dead. -- robust attack against trade bill i think is pretty much dead. -- robust cap and trade bill i think is pretty much dead. christoph's maneuvering on a consumer protection agency has -- chris dodd's maneuvering on the consumer protection agency has led me to believe he will do almost anything to get something done. i do not think there is going to be a financial-services still the industry would have of a problem with, so we see on so many of these issues, either the agenda being watered d

sarah palin did outdraw you on leno last week. that may show that the temptations of populism have a popular appeal. what is your response? >> i have to come up with better material, i am afraid. [laughter] [applause] no, populism means different things to different people. populism, if you mean appealing to the public and to the voters, that is something we are all in favor of. we want to bring out the support of the great majority of our fellow citizens. by and large, the american people do the right thing. after they study something at some length and listened to the alternatives, they generally come to the right place. winston churchill said, you can always trust americans to do the right things after they have exhausted all of the alternatives. [laughter] that is close to what he said. i very much believe in listening to the american people and communicating to the american people -- that form of populism, if you define it that way, is fine and well. there is another branch of the word populism which i am referring to when i