thank you. >> larry king and mika brzezinski agree, mika is always complaining how cold it s >> i'm notrmer after a couple of vodkas for her. >> that's true. >> you were this big? >> that's my dad. >> favorite all-time guests? >> isn't he amaze? >> brightest men i have ever interviewed among the 50,000, brzezinski way up there always on the ball. >> thank you. >>> a little ahead of his time. >> always. yes. that's true. most of it -- >> we had him on and i asked him the wrong question once answered leaned forward like, this and he goes, "you know, you are stunningly superficial." >> i had to explain to joe that was a form of affection. >> larry king is with us here of course, legendary host, also the author of the new book "truth be told." and let's start with -- we were talking off-air, when i was in pensacola, florida a lot of times, i would turn on mutual and i would listen to you, you really had your big start in miami with just a phenomenal radio show. >> yeah, it was the first really national network radio. started in 1978, prompted me to move from miami to washington. so first ca

as mika explained, we're in a box policywise.don't have maneuvering room to start doing stimulus promz on the fiscal side. the only policy option when you have gridlock in washington is steady as you go and hope the economy picks up speed. there's a reasonable chance of that. >> if you were either advising the president or if you were the president yourself at this point, that would be your only option, steady as it goes? >> you have to distinguish between being president and god. if i were president, i don't think have you a lot of maneuvering because of the political reasons pep could propose a jobs bill, some things -- >> so, what if you could pass anything you proposed, what would you -- >>fy were god, i would rearrange a lot of what goes on here. i would reanarng the nature of our federal spending, more devoted to investment, infrastructure, things that great jobs and productivity in the future, and i would deal with the deficit but i wouldn't deal with it tomorrow. it's more of a next year problem in terms of when we cut it

mika brzezinski with her successful morning show didn't think she needed help either until -- >> i got a sense of what the guys were making on the set. i looked around one morning and i realized i was the lowest paid on the set. and in one case by far. >> reporter: brzezinski details her own uncomfortable but ultimately successful battle for equal pay in her new book "knowing your value." she didn't wage a legal battle but engaged in hard-ball negotiation. >> i think we apologize too much. we worry about whether or not we're liked by our employers. let me just tell you, men don't worry about these things when they go in and negotiate for themselves. >> reporter: and she has another tip. >> only do an ultimatum if you're ready to walk. and i was. >> reporter: berezrzezinskbrzez unpleasant discovery highlights a key problem that promotes salary inequality, salary secrecy. a new study finds 60% of private sector employees are discouraged or forbidden from discussing their pay. that may be why in the private sector the pay gap between men and women is a stunning 23%. in the federal governm

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he says mika see know is failing in atlantic city. he takes off his glasses and goes mark my word.oing to be number one in two years. to a bunch of come medians. we had no idea. >> indisputably he is endlessly entertaining in all guises. >> he's a smart, smart businessman. he knows what he's doing. running for president, not running for president. celebrity apprentice went up, right? genius. >> tell me about the late night wars. my perspective on it is, i really like jay leno and i really like conan. whenever i met either of of them they were unfailingly courteous, very nice to talk to, very generous with their time and so on. i'm sure you're the same. when you get a situation that arose the way that it it did and it creates problems between them how do you feel about that? >> it's almost like watching your family fight. you go, well, you're going to do it. just get it over with and it's going to be uncomfortable at the table. pass the peas. >> where do you think the real problem lay in all that? >> i don't know. >> what was the catalyst? was it the simple as when jay was number on

>> mika bling -- you could bring the glass case, but you would have to bring the people who were subject to discrimination as a consequence of that unchecked discretion. we should not lose sight of the fact of evidence of results from this that are extraordinary. >> this is the law or the fact, giving -- given the trading the central management knew, and the fact about what people say and how they behave -- and given the results, the central management knew or should have known, should central management have withdrawn some of the subjective discretion ordering to stop these results? >> this is a fair way to put this. >> is this something that every woman here shares in common. >> they have all been the subject, to this very broad discretion. >> the district does say that -- some people get a windfall from the back pay. >> the judge did not find this. what he found was that the formula, and the formula we tend to use is a regression analysis and we permit the comparison between each woman, the amount that she was paid, taking into account performance in seniority, and you'll find that th