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>> what happened to "friends" star matthew perry?oto. >> and then partying the night before the arrest. >> doesn't have to go to the office christmas party so i got myself together. >> did she lie about their suicide attempt? his conflicting prison interview. >> i never thought of taking my life. >> he took pills ambien. >> plus inside rh's life toda her angry neighbors. >>they want to commit suicide? they should have done it. >> as martha stewart sounds off

matthew perry. hilary swank. >> me and you? are you joking?. yes. >> reporter: whom the seavers adopted. favorite leo memory? >> he could mimic anybody. >> he brought a great light touch to the set. >> that was big hair. >> reporter: and as the seavers come together to re-create that iconic photo from the show, i can't help but feel a pang of nostalgia. missing a family, that i and all of you knew so well. really great to spend time with them. and here's a little-known fact. or maybe you do know this. i thought it was cool. alan thicke was a successful tv composer. do you know he wrote the theme to "different strokes" and "the facts of life." >> and his sons are in the music industry. >> i did not know that. >> want to get out of my inner monologue there. >> so, everybody, this continues. the fun continues tomorrow. part two of our "growing pains" reunion. lots of on-set secrets. and on friday, we have the cast of "the princess bride," back together, such a terrific movie, as our '80s week celebration continues. as you wish. >> thank you very

he seems to be pretty happy right now with the rise of herman cain because it crowded out rick perry. matthew, thank you. >>> we're going to turn now to america's housing crisis, and the discouraging news that more people are losing their homes to foreclosure. a jump of 14% since last quarter, the first uptick in a year. experts say it's a sign banks are swiftly punishing homeowners. and that's the focus tonight on our "bringing america back" report. as you know, we here at abc news have been taking up this cause. looking at ways americans can change course and get back on track. so, "20/20" anchor chris cuomo went in search of ways to help americans desperate to keep their homes. and he found one man giving everything he's got to that mission. >> reporter: when michelle varne took time off work to care for her dying grandmother, she fell behind on her mortgage payments, about $2,200 a month. michelle says she was struggling when a bank of america representative old her what seemed to be fabulous news. she was approved for a mortgage modification, reducing her monthly payments by almost half.

perry. i find inexplicable... matthew's theory is probably as good asfully. he's taken out some of the toughest t.v. ads in the last couple days on romney care i have ever seen. if he believes those adds-- that's what they're spending money on-- why he sat at this table tonight and given several opportunities just totally passed. he just didn't rise to the occasion. i'm not trying to get a food fight going. i'm saying this is wha he tells us by his spending is what he believes and instead he's talking about medicaid waivers. it was absolutely inexplicable. and i think one of the reasons romney did so well was because he was invested. they did ask him question but with one or two exceptions they didn't ask very good ones or pointed one. >> i think one of the things... i mean, romney i think he systematic, he goeshrough ese things like a baseball player. hi doesn't hit home runs or triples but he hits a bunch of singles and tries. he still hasn't in any way energized any passion in republicans. this didn't do it. he has become i think the head candidate of the

"hardball" with chris matthews is up next. >>> rick perry goes birther. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews out in phoenix, arizona. leading off tonight, birtherism reborn. in the last few weeks, rick perry has dropped to single digits in the polls after enjoying a double-digit lead. so how did he boost your approval ratings when every debate sends you further in the dumps? you dig up an old, moldy, discredited charge that still has resonance with the right wing, birtherism. rick perry says it's not definitive that barack obama was born here in the u.s. rick perry and birtherism, the last vestige of a desperate candidate who hopes to survive that tops our show tonight. >>> also, which republican presidential candidate back in 1996 called the flat tax, quote, a tax cut for fat cats? and which republican presidential candidate now says, quote, i love the flat tax. the answer to both questions is -- you bet, you guessed it -- mitt romney. romney is just the latest member of the republican parade to shift the tax burden from the wealthy

we asked our matthews meter this week, 12 of our regular, including gloria and kelly, will perry's attacks damage romney enough to help the obama campaign next year? it's close. these things think like going after romney on having a guy mow his lawn without proper papers. >> he needs condo fees and not worry about mowing his lawn. these things actually go to the heart -- chris: what do you mean condo fees? >> then you're not hiring your own lawn care. i think the undercurrent is that these are the things that make people uncomfortable, does he change due to political expedience, has he been inauthentic and if you can put that into a perry funded ad, people have a memory for that. >> it's 2008 all over again and that's exactly what barack obama's people are doing, too. they're reminding people of the romney of 2008, rick perry is reminding people of the romney of 2008. mitt romney is saying that's old news. i'm moving on. chris: can they use his smooth business against him? he's has wonderful elocution, he's so well educated. >> the white house talks about mitt romney the way george bush's

perry has a following. the fact that matthewaid that he didn't do well in debates, again, he is going to grow as a candidate if he wins the nomination. romney is going to grow as a candidate. herman cain is going to grow as a candidate if he wins the nomination. >> is cain, does he have sticking power? >> i think the problem is, cain, attractive though he is and intelligent, his 9-9-9 program, i think he has a low ceiling. >> can i ask haley a question? >> please. >> haley, george will, in the last five election cycles the republican presidential candidate have received 79% of their electoral votes from the south. that -- weigh that against the fact that these elections have to be won or loss in the north, obama has to carrying three of four of these states, ohio, pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin. all of which elected republican governors in 2010. now, do you think that rick perry is a good candidate to win those states in the north? >> look, he's had a very good record as the governor of texas. been governor for a long time

matthews examines one issue in particular. >> i initiate it was clear that romney and perry have their problems with the issue of illegal immigration. pushing that debate further is michele bachmann who was advocating construction of a double fence along the entire border with mexico even at a cost of $21 million a mile. >> the united states government has failed the american people and as president of the united states i will uphold the law of the land and build the fence. >> she says illegal immigration is costing taxpayers. >> when i count the people about this issue, i don't sense racism what they are concerned about is losing economic competitiveness and they are worried about the tax burden that this is putting on the state and local governments. >> she says it's about tax dollars and fairness, but in the past decade as the issue has arise own on the right gop has suffered from a loss of hispanic voters. president obama picked up 80% in 2008, in sharp contrast to bachmann, nancy pelosi was meeting with hispanic business owners to talk about what they need from the government to be more successful. >> the mission to learn what

perry and we enjoy having you on. thanks, wayne. >> tonight on "hardball," chris matthews takes a closer look and a special edition of his msnbc show. the debate is what it's called at 7:00 p.m. eastern. now to developing news in the trial of michael jackson's doctor. a live look at the l.a. courtroom where a representative from sprint is testifying about a cell phone record. moments ago we heard from a technician from at&t testifying about conrad murray's calls the day michael jackson died. earlier today, the emergency room doctor who allowed the paramedics to pronounce him dead said murray never mentioned he gave michael jackson propofol. she was grilled over the conversation she had with murray while she was trying to revive the star. >> i was trying to find the precise question and the precise answer. you are not capable of doing that. >> i am not capable two years later giving the precise number of questions i asked at the time and my answers, no. >> what do we make of the phone calls here? >> this may be a little bit drier than the other testimony that we heard looking at cell phone roars, but here's why it's i

perry. they just wanted a winner. there are exceptions. kevin is one. matthew was certainly one. most people who run campaigns, particularly presidential campaign said this is just an extraordinary undertaking, i dot think, i think es too late to do it. >> -- >> charlie: kevin, do you think tha was his reason. >> blawbl it was too late to do it, in fact too late to do the thing. >> i haven't spoke request the governor. i think i actually see the governor is the rare politician who doesn't believe all the high. part of his personality is people are trying to get him to do reasons of things for their own reasons and not for his. i'm very much on the other side of his. two things i would say to chris christie if he asked me, he didn't. if he one is you don't run for president when you're ready. you run when the country's ready for you. the countr is ready for an outsider like chris christie and he could have won. the second part sounds like a joke but i don't mean it like a joke but i think ken langone referred to it earlier if he had a better chance of beating presidentbama than th

matthews in washington. leading off tonight, what's in a name? a lot right now if you're rick perry. when the news broke this the weekend that perry had hosted guests at a camp known as a racially charged name, his camp tried to get rid of the story. good strategy until herman cain called name of the hunting camp just plain insensitive. it's the latest hit for a campaign that has discovered it's a lot easier to launch a campaign for president than to sustain one. and that's something chris christie might want to take note of as he decides whether to get in the race. could it be that republican primary voters will decide he, chris christie, is too liberal for them? maybe that's one reason christie's having so much trouble saying yes. also, those wall street protests beg the question, why isn't there a tea party on the left? columnist e.j. dionne says the dominance of the right in the political debate has been bad for president obama and bad for political moderates too. and a lot of people cheered when a u.s. drone took out anwar al awlaki, the american citizen who had joined al qaeda.

matthews in washington. leading off tonight, beating mitt. first it was donald trump. then um balkman and rick perry and now it's herman cane who's leading in the polls as the darling of the right. but the one constant has been mitt romney hanging around as the republicans mr. right now, if not it's mr. right. romney clobbers mr. obama in our new poll in new hampshire and is neck and neck with him in iowa, two states obama won in 2008. if obama's going to beat romney and win re-election to his second term in these very challenging times, he can't totally blame bush. he can't focus on the past. he's going to have to make a case for the future. can he do it? that's where we start tonight. plus, we've been talking about it for days here on "hardball," and now it's gone mainstream. can the democrats embrace the occupy wall street protesters? should they? if they jump in, as one person pointed out, what happens if the protesters start throwing garbage cans through the windows or worse? also, the president's jobs bill. we know it won't get 60 votes tonight to overcome a filibuster. the question is, will i

to get into how rick perry blames poverty in america on obama singlehandedly in just a moment but back to the larger issue at hand here we don't live an untouchable america matthew and yet that's something that the mainstream media really really misses. the last night's debate was all about the economy talking about the over nine percent official unemployment rate in the country the newly minted terms of the ninety nine percent versus the one percent the upcoming decisions the congressional supercommittee is going to have to make so not the one point two trillion dollars in spending cuts and it's higher taxes to play a role now despite the fact that ron paul barely got to chime in we also heard a lot of talk about the fed last night but let's talk about what didn't get enough attention. wall street and who got blamed unfairly joining me from our studio in los angeles and especially this and very a host of the young turks co-host of the heat and. thanks so much for joining us tonight. i don't know did last night's debate make you feel better about the possible future of this world or the opposite only worse when you look at the group that was sitting around that

matthews in washington. leading off tonight, welterweight championship. things got really feisty at last night's republican presidential candidates debate in las vegas. rick perry attacked mitt romney over health care and immigration. romney hit perry back, and everyone hammered herman cain's tax-raising 9-9-9 plan. well, the big question after all that republican intramural bickering is what have they got, and is this all they have got, and that leads to this. could it be that the winner of last night's debate wasn't even on the stage, and the winner was perhaps president obama? he must have loved what he heard last night. it plays right into his reelection strategy, which is, i'm better than that crowd. then, it's time for big ideas. those -- those occupy wall street protests are a reminder that we're not going to solve our big problems by doing little things, but will the public do big stuff to deal with new problems and a new study finds laws requiring voters in south carolina to show photo i.d. cards. would that disproportionately affect minorities? why do you think prepare republicans are doing it? that's the story that we're covering. we're talking about

matthew chance who was there. >>> keeping them honest tonight. a campaign controversy centered on a racial slur at a ranch used by rick perry.roke the story. perry is saying they got their facts wrong. ari fleischer, erick erickson and roland martin weigh in. >>> day five of the michael jackson trial. testimony from the doctor who tried to save jackson's life. ♪ don't stop till you get enough ♪ ♪ >>> right now guests john branca and howard weitzman. tell me about cirque du soleil, because your history with michael and this particular show goes back to santa monica pier, is that right? >> that's true, piers. i remember a night, i believe it was in 1989, where michael and i went to the first ever cirque du soleil tent show which was at the san to monica pier. what i remember about that night, we were in a van. i was driving. and why we were in a van, i cannot remember. michael had a nice car, i had a nice car. here was michael, the biggest star in the world, and we went with no security, and i was so nervous driving michael i got lost on the 405 freeway. we got lost going to the cirque show. michael was clearly captivated. he

perry may want to dial 911. his campaign is staggering. romney baby flying. why no love from the tea party? chris matthewselp us handicap the race. now back to thomas. >> thanks so much. so general motors today unveil its first all electric car. it is called the chevy spark. cnbc's phil lebow covers the auto industry. when can consumers get it? >> not for a while and it will be limited in material of distribution. it will come out in 2013 in select markets in the u.s. this is really taking the compact chevy spark which we will see in showroom already rolling into showroom. the internal combustion showroom. they'll put an electric engine in it. we don't know the range nor the price. although likely there will be a premium over the internal combustion engine and the range will be in that 75 to 125 miles, fully charged. but this is gm showing it's committed to rolling out a full line of electric vehicles. of course, they have the chevy volt which is a gas assist extended range electric vehicle. now you see the spark. we'll see more models introduced over the next year to year and a half. >> it takes a spark