he was a great fan of muhammad ali. as i told erin burnett, a man next to a table had bid on a cruise of like $250,000 and invited james to go with him, and he said, of course i'll go. he was exuberant, lively, very, very sad to hear. i had my heart attack when i was 53, so i've outlived that for a long time. heart attacks do occur in your 50s. he did, sanjay, he loved his food, and he was not -- he didn't push back from the table. >> larry, when he went from being a very good, don't get me wrong character actor to a superstar as tony sparano, what did that mean to him? >> well, he was very appreciative of it, but he always remained, john, a character actor. he did a successful broadway play a couple years ago. he re-created the role in hollywood, a four-character play, a comedy play, he loved comedies. he was the classic character actor, who was thrown into stardom in a role that was unbelievable that he -- he was so tony soprano. when you see someone embrace a role like that, he was tony sparano. he totally enveloped

in a separate attack three rocket propelled grenades former residents of pakistan's found that muhammad ali jinnah. was more unrest in libya city of benghazi where special forces have clashed with armed gangs outside a military base in the east of the city six soldiers have been confirmed dead so far earlier on friday a group of men forced their way into a different army compound to steal weapons tension between population and military has been on the rise in benghazi was the ousting of colonel gadhafi two years ago. a growing number of israelis strongly against their government's policies towards palestinians are refusing to serve in the army sometimes choosing prison instead not on blank is one the conscientious objector who spent almost half a year in jail for refusing to pick up a gun ati's paula slayer looks at what lays at the heart of their discontent. there should be some way out not like this just going to prison david bland son spent a hundred and seventy eight days behind bars he broke his radio record for the number of times he was really wasted and triage by law every israeli c

separate attack three rocket propelled grenades hit the former residence of pakistan's founder muhammad ali jinnah. there is more unrest in the libyan city of benghazi west special forces have clashed with armed gangs outside a military base in the east of the city six soldiers have been confirmed dead so far this comes a day after a group of men forced their way into a different army compound to steal weapons tension between the population and the military has been on the rise in benghazi is the ousting of an old gadhafi two years ago. a blast at a second chemical plant in louisiana in as many days has killed at least one person and injured seven others the accident occurred as explosive nitrogen was being moved but kind of mopping from the international action center told r.t. that companies and politicians often accused of turning a blind eye to a disaster when profits are at risk. louisiana is what's called a right to work state in the united states right to work being you know euphemism for being that workers are not allowed the form of close shop contracts and so there's that there's

listing all the greatest sports heroes all the greatest hockey players of all time in leaving out muhammad ali i don't know sports i don't know sports i might be wrong but but you get the point yeah well let me ask you about this prism n.s.a. scandal because here's really the worst crisis in a constitutional crisis and history of america it violates everything in the constitution and the bill of rights put forward by corporations working with government. to effectively. they've done a coup there's been an overthrow in government as to most tehran and all. that we've seen and yet you've got media outlets like the new york times and commissary by the name of david brooks who justifies these actions is it because he's corrupt is he stupid is he a propaganda meister. how does how does he face absolve you've seen this what's good about it yeah i think they've got a prop up the status quo i mean you have to whenever there's a threat to the status quo you have to jump in there if you're one of these guys who's making his living who's making his entire career and everything based on the status quo you

it's like hitting muhammad ali. i don't want to go there. jim in colorado, jim?> caller: hi, jimbo. thanks for all your hard work and your analyses. >> doing my best. it's tough out there. what's going on? >> caller: i want to find out what you think about lng by the end of the year? >> i think lng is in a holding pattern. i think they have done a lot of great things but now we have to see if they can open up the plans in time. if not, the stock is going to go lower. if they do, it's going higher. we're in no-man's-land and i don't like to be there because of the cross fire. phil? >> caller: boo-yah, jim. welcome from the greatest capital of the world. listen, jim, i'm a proud grandpa, but i'm trying to figure out -- i love it, i'm getting back to even and then this weekend what do you think of fcr? >> oh, man, you know, these are bond market equivalents. i don't like the telcos or the bond market equivalents. i think you have to take a pass there. kyle, kyle in new hampshire. kyle? >> caller: hello, jim. thank you for all you do. you're a wonderful guy. >> i'm t

intelligence program that was used to is your vail martin luther king and the black panthers and muhammad ali and frisk, understands why many of us have such a premium, we put such importance on having systems to check police power. >> can i go back on one thing before you go further? this was first disclosed by james reisen in 2006. i thought, warrantless wiretapping, not a good thing. what people on the liberal and libertarian side said, if you want to do this, get a court order. here we have the supposed scandal, which was the leak of the court order. now, we've had the government go and get the court order. we say, wait a minute, that is not good enough. >> no court order. >> it is one the people of good will can disagree on. i was calling it the time for individual court orders, case by case. the administration under bush and now under obama through the nsa has implied to congress that these were relatively individualized. they, for example, said, in 2012, there were 200 or so business record requests. the reason why this is really significant as a leak, i would agree it doesn't seem to

we had a great time at dinner honoring muhammad ali. he was a big fan of ali's. we were at the same tibl. it was a black tie dinner. he felt wonderful. he had a marvelous career, a successful play on broadway. the interesting thing about him piers, he was a great character actor and character actors rare he become stars and the sopranos made him a star. he did a lot of wonderful films, plays theater. the guy sitting next to me bid 250,000 -- i think $275,000 for a cruise to the mediterranean and won the bid and said to james, you want to go with me? and gandolfini said, yeah i'll go. casually says, yeah, i'll go. he was really good. i think he was smoking a cigar and he was, of course, really overweight. we don't know what he died of yet. i don't like to speculate. but when you see a guy that size at age 51, no previous things about anything, you would normally think the heart. but the last time i saw him, he was in a great mood. >> tell me, larry, you interviewed him and you knew him. i always got the feeling with james gandolfini that the superstar status that

he was a great fan of muhammad ali, a man next to the table bid on this cruise $250,000 and invited games to go with him and he said of course, i'll go. he was lively. very hard to hear. i had my heart attack when i was 53. heart attacks can occur in your 50s, and he did, sonjay, he loved his food and he was not -- he didn't push back from the table. >> larry, when he went from being a very good charter to a super star as tony sparano, what did that mean to him? >> he was very appreciative but he always remained, john, a good actor. he recreated the role in hollywood, a charter play, funny play. he loved comediecomedies. he was classic charter actor thrown into stardom in the role unbelievable that he create -- he was so tony saprono. i mean, when you see someone embrace a role like that, he was tony say brparansparano. it's rare a charter actor becomes a major star but it happened to him. he handled it so well, john. if you would have known him, you would have liked him very much. if he was on the show with you tonight, he would go have a pizza with you after the show. >> he was the mayo