but michael seemed happy. he found a lot of joy in his children. >> on the talent that michael hid from the world. >> michael loved art a lot. he loved paintings. he loved water clorz. he loved even the crayons. >> and her explosive theory about conrad murray. >> he did a terrible thing, and it might have been others involved. i don't know that. but i feel that. >> katherine jackson. an extraordinary hour. the "piers morgan" interview starts now. >>> tonight, an extraordinary look at michael jackson's private life through his deeply personal artwork. he started drawing when he was a child. the pictures among new revelations about the iconic singer. much of it kept in a secret location at an airport hangar in los angeles. some of it is here in the studio with me tonight. joining me now in an exclusive interview is michael's mother, katherine jackson. and his mentor and good friend accuracyist brett livingston strong. welcome to you both. >> thank you. >> we're surrounded by this incredible art, most of which ha

tell me about that side of michael. >> michael loved art a lot. he loved paintings, he loved water colors. he loved even the crayons. he would always draw. and when he was even in school, he would draw pictures and they took one of his drawings and put it on the front of the yearbook. >> was he self-taught? did he teach himself? >> he taught himself. >> amazing talent. >> just the talent that he had. i can't say too much more about him, only his father was an artist too. he loved to paint and draw. so i thought maybe he might have picked it up from him. but he had a natural talent for it, michael did. >> did he always paint throughout his life? was he always painting secretly without people aware of it? >> yes. because when he was just a child, when we moved to havenhurst, it had a little house in the back. and he took that little house and made it into an art studio for himself. >> what do you think the art brought him? painting and stuff, what did it give him? >> you know what? i really don't -- i really can't answer that question. but sometimes

: michael solomon, listening to what michael hastings said here.ican public who is 27%, what does he have to do? >> i don't think he has to convince anybody. he has had a really clear policy from day one. this is--the way i look at this, this is a bad ten-year marriage. it's an awful marriage. he and karzai aid said we're getting out of this marriage. they're deciding to wait for the kids to get out of college and then it's over. 2014 we're out of there, and that's what he's committed to. nothing that happens right now will change that. i fundamentally believe had that. i don't think a bad week, a bad two weeks or a bad month in afghanistan is going to change his policy. in looking at it and say it's getting worse, it's like friends saying why not get out of the marriage now? why not wait until the kids get out of college. >> michael: that's a great point that michael solomon says. we have have the president talking about marriage a different way at the end of the week than the beginning. but you've been to afghanistan michael. what is it that the

michael! >> cooper: it's hard to imagine michael phelps not being in shape.its in beijing, he stopped training and started living. >> michael! michael! >> cooper: by early 2009, phelps had a decision to make-- retire for good, or jump back into the pool for a fourth olympics and years of early morning workouts. >> bowman: i thought it was a 50/50. i really didn't have a feel for whether he would come back or not come back. >> debbie phelps: i'm like, "either do it or don't do it." >> cooper: even his mom debbie didn't know what her son was going to do. >> debbie phelps: it's like, "come on, you know, do you want this? do you want to go an extra four years?" that's a long time. >> cooper: but you hoped he would go forward. >> debbie phelps: absolutely. >> michael phelps: it was hard, because i didn't know if the passion or the fire was still inside of me. and it took a while for me to actually realize it myself. bob couldn't tell me, my mom couldn't tell me. they couldn't help me find it. >> cooper: it didn't help when, in january 2009, newspapers around the w

every morning, all through the day, i think about michael.there. but -- >> what do you think when you think of him? >> i just miss him, but being a christian and believing in the resurrection, i feel that i'll see him again. i'm sorry. i just -- >> it's perfectly understandable. you're his mother. it -- i can't imagine a worse thing. i'm a parent myself. i can't even imagine how horrendous it must be to lose a child. it's so unnatural, isn't it? >> yes, it is. and i've -- and it should be -- >> katherine jackson also makes explosive charges about conrad murray convicted of involuntary manslaughter in michael jackson's death. what are your feelings to conrad murray? do you blame him? >> you know what? i can't even describe the way i feel about him. he did a terrible thing. and it might have been others involved. i don't know that. but i feel that. you know, i'd rather not answer that question. the only thing he did -- for a person's life, four years in jail is not enough. >> that's my world exclusive interview with catholic jackson on monday n

and michael hennessey will speak to statements made by mr. mirkarimi? >> i think given the burden of preparing a declaration, i feel is more appropriate to place them on someone who was working so we would use the key heresy -- hennessey. >> if we could keep the silence. it is a long night. the views on vicki hennessey. is there an objection? do we need your testimony? >> did you say it would or would not overlap with michael hennessey's testimony? >> my concern is could we get a declaration from a retired sheriff. >> is your objective to choose one or the other? i am not sure what question is on the table. >> my question is whether we need the acting sheriff vicki hennessy. it sounds like michael hennessey was listed as an expert witness by the sheriff and we can address that later. if he is testifying, do we need what sounds like overlapping testimony from vicki hennessy. whether or not you can get a declaration. >> we did not list the retired sheriff as a witness who will testify to every responsibility. we witnessed him -- listed him as t

>> my name is michael. >> jimmy: michael? very good, michael. michael, this sunday is mother's day.ing for us. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: she ends up cooking for you? >> yeah. >> jimmy: oh, my gosh. mom ends up cooking. why do you let her do that? >> i don't know. >> jimmy: what does she make for you? >> mexican food. >> jimmy: she makes mexican food. and what do you eat? what is your favorite? what's your favorite mexican food? >> i don't know. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: what does mom make you? >> enchiladas. whatever, it's different every year. >> jimmy: all right, get off my back. i'm just asking you a question. i'm not the police or anything. i'm just asking you. what is the best gift you ever got your mother, michael? >> i made her a handmade card when i was like three. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: how old are you now, michael? [ laughter ] >> i'm 19. >> jimmy: yeah, yeah. handmade card. that's cute. >> thanks. >> jimmy: yeah, does she still have it? >> i think so. i hope. >> jimmy: i got my mom a rock once. >> nice. >> jimmy: and i colored it with crayon and she still has it. >>

>> michael: forget it. agree that women are sexually freer. there is still a huge double standard. men are free to be as sexual as they want. if women want to be sexually free, they're deemed a. rush limbaugh. one of the things about that video that bothered me was his idea of empowering women is doing exactly what you mentioned, trisha, giving them the opportunity to buy into this lifestyle by exploiting their own sexuality, and i'm not comfortable with that, either. it's weird to talk about how important it is to empower women when you keep a close eye on the women in your mansion. when you don't allow them to go wherever they want to go to. >> michael: the jury will be out on hugh hefner. he's clearly a complicated guy and cenk got a look on that. governor, it's been a historic day in washington, and in america, and i know that you're going to cover it in-depth. tell me what you got. be an >> iis g foicinatingng to a fascinate fa scnvinsaaton.in g coat younvaierissaon wit corhct the po liistiscal aspects

joining me is michael, tito and marlon and jackie. welcome.> great to see you. >> it is a real thrill, because i grew up with your music and the moment i hear that i want to get up and i start -- i and i won't because you don't want to see that. but it is a bittersweet moment, because seeing the four of you together without michael, you know, for everyone that loved all of you guys, a very bittersweet moment, but for you in particular, this was your brother. how does it feel for you going back on tour on the road and michael is no longer here? >> well, we will miss him. we are excited to keep the legacy going, the music going, but we miss him so much. it is something that he would want us to do is to keep it going. and i guess that the challenge, right, guys, was to decide what music we were going to do. that was the biggest challenge. >> and the fans wanted us to tour. we were getting so many e-mails from the fans around the world, and we owe it to them as well to perform for the fans and they want to sing the songs with us, and entertain. >>

>>-will michael nelson. -- joshua michael nelson. >> christopher david cassidy. >> michael. >> benjamin. >> paul anthony. >> steven daniel wakefield. >> julian rico. >> daniel robert jr.. >> cody owen deacon. >> mark william. >> thomas. >> david lee. >> daniel. >> marc john williams. >> robert harris blank. >> james andrew french. >> bill. >> thomas jeffrey browning jr.. >> jason edward. >> and drew clark. -- andrew clarke. >> james carson york. >> john morton. >> jay charles. >> michele. >> jacob dylan howder. >> richard -- rachel medellin. >> cody boswell. >> the class of 2012's number one cadet in athletic performance, david thomas. [applause] >> megan. >> nicholas richard. >> brady knew some. -- newsome. >> kevin. >> kelly gene. >> brent. >> paolo. >> michael richard. >> adam jacob. >> matthew thomas rogers. >> christine marie. >> laine clayton. >> jonathan kimn -- kim. >> john. >> daniel johnson. >> sarah suzanne sader. >> andrew quinn. >> and nathan wendell. >> -- murphy. -- bridgitte murphy. >> robert. >> michael raymond mclean. >> jordan scott keefer. >> sarah boyes thomas. >> j

to the rest of the world he was michael jackson, the superstar.hing can change that. that's your feeling towards him. >> and just how you phrase that. people look at michael as the big superstar but to us, he was just our brother. >> that is what he was, our brother. >> he is a big superstar. >> and he is a big superstar. really is. >> and how did you feel about the trials and the tribulations that he went through and the accusations of the molestations charges and all that kind of thing? did it have a very bad impact on him and everything? >> i think it did, definitely. >> i think that what we do here on planet earth is that we are too quick to judge. and i think the lord put us on this earth to love one another, not to judge one another. that is his job to do, and judge people and when you do leave this plan net, you will be judged on what you have done for yourself and not for yourself, but what you have done for others, the things that you have done and not for, you know, ridicule iing people and things of that nature and that is what we do wr

on twitter and facebook.com/michael finney abc 7. >>> checking healthy living news researchers behind a new device that could head off paralysis in paishis -- patients with spinal cord injuries thchl story does include graphic images. frank walk was occasional pain two decades after a car accident but now, he's hoping to change lives of patients with spinal cord injuries and perhaps prevent paralysis. >> it turns out spinal cord if you can spare just 10% of the spinal cord, you don't have to spare 50% a little bit, 10%, the spinal cord will rewire, and find that healthy tissue sending signals through the scar. >> the solution is this scaffold designed to be implanted within days after trauma shown in this animation. he says the scaffold acts line a bridge theoretically allowing tissue to heal without hardening into scar tissue. >> then the brain and spinal cord will make use of the tissue, sending signals through the spare tissue he says regeneration has been demonstrated in animal trials. this monkey lost motor function after a surgically induce spinal trauma researchers say it regai

michael shure joined this week by trisha rose and michael hastings.een talking a lot about osama bin laden the one year anniversary, the navy seals have taken umbridge with some of the things that president obama is doing. let's take a look at this ad with bill clinton. >> suppose the navy seals had gone in there and it wasn't osama bin laden. it was the navy seals had been captured or killed. it would have been horrible for them. but he reasoned, i cannot in good conscience do nothing. he took the harder and more honorable path, and the one that produced, in my opinion the best result. >> so you have that ad. you have what is clearly a political ad because of the political season talking about the victory that obama had in calling that mission with the navy seals in afghanistan. and then you have people who don't like it. first of all, mitt romney, what is he going to say? then it gets even worse. let's listen to mitt romney. >> the idea to try to politicize this, it's taking an event that brought america together, that was the culmination of a lot o

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michael, his 6-year-old son is about to walk to dad.ittle michael has cerebral palsy, and he is walking to dad for the very first time. dad had no idea that his son could walk until he saw him walking toward him right here at this moment. this is a total tear jerker. >> the homecoming is so emotional for seeing the dad come home, and then it's so emotional in a different way. in the time that dad was gone, they were able to work with little michael. >> one of my favorite parts is when he puts michael down to say hello to a comrade, but he can't keep his eyes off his dad. >> from being told that he would never walk to seeing what we just saw, little michael did an awesome job. >> it's cool to see dad's reaction. he's surprised to his his son walking. >> and the smile on little michael's face, he's so proud, everyone is so proud, it's great. >> now we're just a few minutes away from the end of the show, and spending a lot of time on our favorite website, say it with me right now, rightthisminute.com. back to the show. booties -- >> big bu

when michael graduated from college, he first became a d.c. firefighter, but he came from a family where you were either a preacher or a teacher, and before long, he felt the call of the classroom. michael went on to win an outstanding young educators award for his work as assistant principal at an elementary school in upper marlboro, maryland. he worked tirelessly to help the whole child. he created the no child left inside program, to excite children's interests in environmental science. his students have planted more than 1,500 trees and maintained historic trails. he didn't stop there. he created a father's group and after the big blizzard in 2010, fathers got together and shoveled a mile of sidewalk so their children could walk to school. one father had not seen his son since he was born. when the son sent home an

michael: hey! oh, kevin, thank you. michael: wha4 about us? give us a hug. that's great!ike to propose a toast to our new cousins from boston to welcome them. and although i could go on and on... brendan: oh, i know that. and have... ( all laugh ) i think i will turn it over to our darling daughter kate, who is never at a loss for words. honey, would you like to lead us in a little thanksgiving prayer? yes. good bread, good meat, good lord, let's eat! anne tells me that you're going to the san francisco college of music. i was... until my father passed away. anne: well, now you can go ahead with your plans. so, you're a musician? um-hmm, i really hope to write music and maybe perform. so, anne... do we have a star in the family? we might. i've never heard rebecca sing but brendan tells me you have a beautiful voice. would you sing for us? oh, please do. yeah! all right, let me get my guitar. your dad tells me you teach a computer course? yeah. i teach at the community college in town. i'm into computers. good for you. it's a great field-- something new happening all the t

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so, michael, what did the president get out of this? >> he got a lot out of this. i think this is the victory lap of victory laps. the president clearly has been focused and determined for some time to put a definitive mark on foreign policy. he's done it with the killing of osama bin laden. he's done it again by showing up and now carving out this agreement with karzai. the problem, though, is that this is an endless proposition. 2024? i thought the president said we'd be out of this thing by 2012. i mean, you know, the reality is, the campaign of 2008 is not the reality of 2012 and certainly not 2024. so the political fallout from this is going to be i think a little bit more long lasting than even obama may want it to be. but for right now -- for right now, it works. >> it's going to be interesting to watch because this month the gallup poll is showing his approval rating is up, 47% to 45%. that's the best since may of 2011 when he got bin laden. what are the chances of another bin laden bump or is this a fraud like michael says? >> i don't think you get another

michael mcallister is going to see my video. - not the michael mcallister. - who's michael mcallisternly the top reporter on channel 8 news... and the guest instructor in my journalism class this month. do you think we can shoot some of the footage over again ? maybe i can try mething a little different with my hair. rosa, i really don't-- he might give me my big break. i could be a traffic reporter. or i could do the weather. we are expecting gorgeous sunny skies beginning tomorrow. it looks like another incredible weekend. this is rosa rivera, channel 8 news. now, back to you, michael. what do you think, henry ? henry ! i think your reporting career just ended. this probably won't help your back, but it might just cheer you up. thanks, katherine. i'm sorry. we're closed. i forgot to lock the door. is there a rosa rivera here ? henry ! stop the camera and go find rosa. sure, mr. brashov. if you are here for lunch, perhaps you could come back another time. - i just need a few words with miss rivera. - i'm rosa rivera. i'm from the property management company. we haven't received your

michael hastings, stay right where you are.er that we have a six-year-old suspended from school for singing. yes. as one of my favorite sports announcers would say, come on! how does this happen? >> i just set the phone. >> i think it's overwhelming, sexual harassment on a six-year-old. >> now we have a little segment calling "say what?" a six-year-old student in aurora, colorado, was suspended for three days after quoting this line" i'm sexy and i know it." i'm not kidding, a six-year-old student was suspended. here is the local report. ♪ i'm sexy and i know it ♪ he has seen the video and knows the lyrics. but when he told a six-year-old girl in his class that same line, he was suspended for three days for sexual harassment. >> i'm floored. they're going to look at him like he's a pervert period. that's not fair for him. >> trisha, this is the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard. >> it would be ridiculous if it were rare. two things are going on. number one, i didn't know the school district was so worried about sexual haras