mr. smiley, it's great to have you with us as a guest as i host this show. tavis: it's an honor to be on your program. i have to start by saying -- >> you can't stand it! tavis: how honored i am to have you do this on the occasion of these 20 years. i know you have ties older than i've been doing television. >> you're a blip. tavis: thank you for doing this, number one, but the high point of my 20-year career was sitting in for those nights when you were off and you gave me a chance to sit in your chair. >> i loved having you do it. when they asked me who do i want to pinch-hit for me and i said you immediately. why is failure important? tavis: we have to start seeing failure as a friend. >> that don't mean you encourage it. tavis: you don't encourage it but you can't avoid it, either. anyone who is successful in any field of human endeavor, if they're being honest, will tell you they've learned more from their failures than they have from their successes. the problem is, when you get to be larry king or tavis smiley or whatever, nobody wants to show the bad

mr. smiley will be at the barnes and noble today at noon signing. >> tony perkins, thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> well the argument between an above and underground metro station at dulles airport is sparked by a price tag. it is likely that those who drive the dulles toll road will pick up that hefty tab but just how much of a hike in tolls could drivers see in we'll tell you about one estimate that puts it over $19 and that's just one way. and holly is with some very special athletes this morning. holly, good morning. >> reporter: i am. good morning to you, allison. we're with the special olympics of prince george's county where they are gearing up for the annual robert janice springs game. we're in landover and you can see staff and volunteers finally getting into position. the games are about to begin. and coming up live later we'll talk with one of the athletes about going for the gold later today. >>> first let's take a look at today's trivia question. which daughter of a u.s. president appeared with elvis presley in the 1964 film kissing cousin? the answer is coming up in j

mr. tavis smiley? tavis: i am happy to have you here. there was a rumor, may be some truth to it, all over the internet that bill moyers was thinking about coming back to pbs, un-retiring. >> like rumors of my death, which happen occasionally, this was exaggerated. we have been exploring some things to do, including specials, miniseries, potentially an interview show of the smaller mold than the one we did, but we have not decided anything yet. i am still enjoying the reflection and deliberation. we're working on a four part series and we're hoping to finish by the end of the year, the time between the civil war and the election of 1912 when corporate power became dominant in the american economy and workers and people in the south had to fight back to try to win their place and dignity. but there is no weekly series in the planning right now. tavis: to your point, i know and i thought of you when this happened many months ago, but that citizens united decision must rub you raw. >> i have long had this concern about how money is in polit

mr. smiley, we'd like to thank him for his unbiased commentary, his honesty and integrity and his unwaveringto fair reporting in the tea party movement. we'd like to, but we can't because he hasn't demonstrated this yoo yet. but there's always next year. today we can thank him for continuing to point out the absurdity of the left and to help throw the tea party -- grow the tea party movement. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. ♪ >> thank you, folks. i'll see new four years when they get over tonight. four more years. see if you can find me. >> thank you, neal boortz. [applause] >> well with, while neal was reading "war and peace," i was back there and i got a text from my son who scored some mammoth points with his wife by telling me to remind me that i have to say a shoutout, a happy mother's day to all the mothers here. happy mother's day. in 2007 and with the blessing of its namesake, we introduced a new element to the m.r.c., the william f. buckley award for excellence in journalism. why? because every year there are innumerable trofies to be won by with unaccomplished liberals in an