. >> when he take the microphone away and take away an audience that i loved at national public radio, i think in essence what they're saying is you're muslim. >> tonight i'll go one-on-one with him to check that honesty. kathy bates, her amazing career. >> in that moment i just knew when daniel day-lewis came on stage that my name was in that envelope. >> a passion of politics. >> that's what i'd like to say to my president whom i'm so proud of, but i want him to stand up on his hind legs and fight these rat bastards. >> and what happened in that hot tub with jack nicholson. >> he was still in the tub and i climbed down and he reached up and shook my hand and looked right in my eyes, nowhere else and he said that was beautiful, honey. >> this is "piers morgan tonight." >> juan williams made headlines when he was fired from national public radio after making controversy comments about muslims. now he's written a book called "muzzled" and he joins me to have an honest debate. >> good to be here. >> you feel you've been muzzled? >> once they fire you piers. >> you've gone on to bigger a

[applause] is a commentator for national public radio's morning edition. he has written noert "new york times", the los angeles times and several magazines. his work has won the spirit of the west award as well as the colorado book award. the book, house of rain, is craig's latest book. please help me welcome craig childs.

[applause] is a commentator for national public radio's morning edition. he has written noert "new york times", the los angeles times and several magazines. his work has won the spirit of the west award as well as the colorado book award. the book, house of rain, is craig's latest book. please help me welcome craig childs. . >> hello. i come to you from out of the desert. i'm coming to you from a landscape where once you get an eye for things, 3 grains of sand out of place draw your attention, where everything is brought to bear, where everything is hinged to a story, every drop of rain leaving a dimple in the ground. stories are everywhere out in this landscape. when you walk down into the bottom of the narrow canyons made of sandstone and you put your hands on the sand stone faces and the smooth shallow scallops that look like champagne glasses, you can feel the shape of the last flood that came through. every place in the desert is a story. every place is a passage way. it's really hard to walk very far in the desert for me because there are so many sto

. >> juan williams made headlines when he was fired from national public radio after making controversy comments about muslims. now he's written a book called "muzzled" and he joins me to have an honest debate. >> good to be here. >> you feel you've been muzzled? >> once they fire you piers. >> you've gone on to bigger and better things. >> i agree. >> fabulously successful, rich, writing best selling books. you know, it hasn't gone too badly. you haven't exactly been gagged. >> well, when they take the microphone away and take away an audience i absolutely loved at national public radio, i think in essence what they're saying is you're muzzled. they're saying i violated their journalistic ethics and standards by saying what was the truth, my feeling that i get anxious when i'm in an airport and i see people in muslim garbs given what happened on 9/11. >> let's play the exact offending quote. >> good. >> in realtime. it was a year ago this week. >> yeah. >> when i get on a plane, i got to tell you, if i see people who are in muslim garb and i think they're identifying themselves first a

and television programs including the macneil-lehrer rorkts the "nbc nightly news," cnn and national public radio. he's lace family fan. -- also a family man. married to his wife shirley for 44 years, they are one of the most admired and respected couples in l.a. and the proud parents of their son khalil. their partnership represents and alliance based on love, respect, family and friends. and they're also very generous with their success. over the past 20 years they've donate. ed and raised millions of dollars for scholarships for college-bound students, particularly african-american students and students going to their favorite institution, florida a and m university, which bestowed an honorary doctorate to bernard. recently the kinseys have also become known for the collection of african-american art, boorkss and manuscripts that document the story of the african-american community. it's called the -- called the kinsey collection, shared treasures of bernard and shirley kinsey, where art and history intersect. it's been on tour to six city as -- cities and opened at the national museum of amer

all right it's time for tonight's tool time award tonight it goes to national public radio for hurting the career of a radio host all in an attempt to quell a controversy said that there was actually no controversy at all just fake outrage being peddled by roll call the daily caller and of course fox news because of what a manufactured scandal be without fox news and i want to get back to the story see roll call the daily caller and fox all right with a story that a host of an n.p.r. talk show was acting as the spokes person for the october twenty seventh protests at the anti-war movement that's being held here in washington d.c. which we've covered on this show and simeoni was in fact participating in these protests and actually here's a clip of her expressing what exactly she was protesting for not war not slaughter not mayhem not to struction but life peace justice that's what we want that's what we're going to demand. now the implication of the stories put out there was that the host lisa simeoni was participating in p r work while being an employee at n.p.r. something strictly for

. >> i am with national public radio. you initially mentioned in the amount of community people had in terms of getting barack out of office. -- mubarak of office. now looks like things are in disarray. i am wondering what concerns you the most? what really worries you that you think could derail everything? >> nothing. we continue. groups will do the best to continue the revolution. we are pushing for the common interest between the groups and all of the groups agree with how to continue the revolution. >> any other questions for the audience? >> i m. serra from the commission of security cooperation in europe. i am wondering what your approach to the caustic -- coptic christians increase in violence is? >> we supported the christian right's before the revolution. some of our members were arrested in demonstration to support christians in december before the revolution. because we are calling for equality, for citizenship in egypt. after the revolution, we are talking about the church and mosques. and trying to ban any -

mara liasson of national public radio. syndicated columnist krauthammer.ra, let's start with the plan itself. what the administration is hoping it would do. despite the fact that other mortgage adjustment efforts failed. >> this is an adjustment to an earlier plan. harp. >> bret: hamp. >> hamp. the idea is if you are current in the payment and the mortgage is guaranteed by one of the federal guarantors you can get refinancing with less hurdles. there won't be the cap or the closing cost. you will be considered for program. they originally thought 400 million homeowners would take advantage but not that many did. they hope more will do this. that might be true. what is interesting about the debate over this is mitt romney has said two things. he has -- what you heard him say was the single boldest economic statement that mitt romney has come up in the campaign. let's do nothing. be lasie fair and let the mortgage crisis hit bottom but he issued a press release today where he blasted the obama administration for not doing enough about the mortgage crisis. th

street to a global audience now he will take over as president and ceo of ntr he will start at national public radio in december. he succeeds, vivian sheller who resigned in march, after a former member was seen calling the tea party racist. >>> today, grand opening of the first student run bank in maryland congress woman donna edwards and controller, will be among dignitaries on hand for clark dale high school branch in river dale the bank will be operated by students who will provide services exclusively to students, teachers, administrators this is just the fourth student run bank in the nation. >>> minutes ago engineers made their way back out to the top of the washington monument looking at live pictures here as they continue their work they are continuing to check for earthquake damage crews were not able to inspect it over the weekened due to our weather conditions the wind and so forth once the team is finished they will go to the national cathedral to check for problems it was also damaged by the earthquake and then by a crane that fell over. engineers and architects with specialized climbi

mara liasson, national political correspondent of national public radio and syndicated columnist charles thoughts on tonight, who needs to impress and what it could shape up as? >> vy to say something about the fence and the apology. if i understand him correctly he says he wants a fence with electricity through it. he is apologizing for the sign that says it will kill you. but not for the electricity in the fence that will kill you. if i understand what he is saying. that is not exactly a position that i think is easy to defend. perhaps, it will come up tonight. it's clear that he is going to be on the hot seat. he is the guy that is riding the tiger now. he is on the way up. i suspect the other candidates, i think, the other candidates have hit romney every once in a while. the man sort of does a rope-a-dope. his numbers stay in the mid-20s. then it will go up and down. as if he is immune. he is not going to rise or fall. but they have directed their attacks at the candidates before who rose and fell, bachmanns, and the perrys. so i suspect it will be a conservative attack on cain. and

mara liasson of national public radio. nina easton, columnist for "fortune" magazine. with you. >> the most interesting thing is president obama's decision to co-op the wall street movi movement, anti-wall street movement. he could eat it or be eaten by it. the guys could have turned their wrath on him. show up in protest. instead, he made decision to coopt the movement that is leaderless, agendaless. they hate greed. that is the main message. so in order to coopt it though, he needs to elevate it. he uses a martin luther king quote. he is comparing it to the civil rights movement. i think what you will see him increasingly do is get shaped to it, as the unions were beginning to do. the allies in the union community are trying to bring their heft and resources behind it. i think you will will see them giving shape to it and provide agenda so they are part of his coalition moving forward. i think for him politically, it is probably a least bad option in a lot of bad options when you have 9.1% unemployment. economy that could tip back to recession. >> bret: are there any

. >> political editor for the associated press and the white house correspondent for national public radioh you. this is -- it's a whisper of an issue that's talked about a lot when it comes to mitt romney. this is the first time it's come up front. i guess what surprised me is two weeks ago pat robinson had called mitt romney an outstanding christian. i thought that's a signal being sent. >> at some point they thought this was coming up. but it was how and when romney was respond to it? when he spoke afterwards, he didn't say a word about it. you remember in the last campaign romney gave a big speech about his mormonism. there's no plan to do it this time. >> the fact he's de-emphasizing iowa and south carolina show he's not doing a big speech on his faith? >> i think perhaps the larger issue is he's intent on hammering home about the economy and job creation. so sure. look, the mormon issue is an issue. it is driving his strategy in part. but i think the larger point is he really does want to be known as a candidate who talks about the economy and jobs and not do what he did last time wh

>>> the national public radio has tapped the former sesame street executive to become their new president and ceo. he was managed, he managed the sesame workshop for 12 years. he replaces the former head who stepped down from a post back in march. can you may remember this, controversy over an undercover video. in it, another mpr executive called the tea party racist and scary. >>> hollywood meets the virginia politics tonight. governor bob mcdonald will host a reception for the acclaimed film maker in town to cast extras for his new film, "lincoln." it is being filmed in richmond and extras will earn about $80 a day for up to 10 hours of work to appear on the big screen. >>> a new survey finds more and more cameras that are refusing some vaccines for the children or delaying others because of safety concerns. >>> it could be the great pumpkin of virginia and it is on display here. i'm anny hong in barryville with that story. >>> and don't forget we are always on at wusa9.com. stay with us. we'll be right back. [ speaking french ] [ speaking french ] movie buffs! this film is tres bien, b

national public radio kelly mckeefrs returned from the region. thank you for joining us. traveled to some of these countries and have seen so much hope not transformed into real democracy. egypt the latest example. only last night, 60 minutes had a horrific story of torture, recent torture of protesters that are trying to force the military to let loose of their grip and lead to real democracy. now we see in yemen one of the countries that you visited where we heard false reports that president saleh is going to leave, isn't going to leave. what's happening in the rest of the region? >> i think in egypt, the moment of euphoria passed and for a moment, they were jealous of the dictator. they did the work and won. they see the project of rebuilding the country and sort of joining together the divisions within society is really difficult, but as these other revolutions that haven't finished as it were, as they kind of continue to move on, you have repressive regimes doing everything in their power to stay in place. seems like as they learn from mistakes of the previous dicta

mara liasson of national public radio. bill kristol from the weekly standard.nd fox news political analyst, juan williams. well, after two years of searching, u.s. intelligence and special forces finally got their man. drone strikes friday taking down this guy, anwar al-awlaki, the american born cleric who was so effective in recruiting jihaddists over the internet. brit, how big a victory in the war on terror? >> i think it is big. if you are looking around the world for an al-qaeda lder who steps into bin laden's role although perhapses in a some what smaller capacity this is your guy. i think credit is owed to everyone involved in this from the president on down. part of what is interesting about it is one of the problems of the whole struggle against terrorists has been the asymmetrical nature of this. they are able to do with smaller caliber weaponry, crude methods but deadly effectiveness because of the fact that people are willing to give their lives. we now have a response to that with the drone attacks. you don't hear them coming and all of a sudden yo

skipping over the podium, marilyn of national public radio and vice chair to have speaker's committeeipping over our speaker for the moment, jerry, washington bureau chief to have buffalo news. jill zuckman, director of public affairs and a guest of our speaker. patrick host, a freelance reporter and vice chair of the press club's young members committee. katherine, reporter for the chicago tribune, washington bureau, and matt, president of the advocatus group. [applause] we last invited secretary ray lahood to speak at the national press club luncheon when he was the newly-minted secretary of transportation. he was one of two republicanses in the new democratic president's candidate. to say it's been a rocky road would overstate history, but lahood's tenure as secretary of transportation has not been without some bumps. in the past three years, industry segments made headlines frequently. faa partially shut down, republican governors sending back stimulus money intended for high-speed rail projects, toyota projects recalled worldwide -- fighting success my i may add -- successfully,

. >> i with national public radio. you initially mentioned the amount of unity people have in terms of getting mubarak out of office. now or it looks like things are really in disarray and i am wondering what concerns you the most moving forward? what really worries you? [speaking in native tongue] >> i think nothing. groups will do their best to continue the revolution and we are searching between the roots and all the groups agree with how to agree in egypt. >> any other questions from the audience? >> i am curious about the staff are commission and security and i am wondering what your organization's approach to the coptic christian decrease in violence. >> we supported christian rites before the revolution. our member was arrested to support christian acts in december. because we are calling for equality in egypt. after the clashes we're talking about churches and mosques, try to than any -- [speaking in native tongue] -- but there are delayed to apply this law and this is the main reason for clashes between many p

certainly, i listened to and national public radio program from my home state of maine and the schooltion director pointed out that her school system was already meeting these guidelines. i think we need to step back and look at what is in the total interest of the child, look at the facts and not the overstatements. host: republican from fort worth, texas. caller: really enjoyed your interview with ken burns' last week. when i was in college, i did substitute teaching at the elementary level and noticed the overall physical condition of these kids. i think it reasonable to attribute their condition in part to their diet and lack of physical activity. why are there soft drinks in the schools? why are there at these high- sugared snacks available when they do not contribute to a healthy lifestyle? you just commented on the caloric anlimits. how can you control the caloric intake onto drinks purchased by the students even though they get a free meal? sometimes they bring money to school and load up on this? . thank you for being on the show. guest: thank you for your questions. part of

most americans support national public radio.hey think is important to have an independent news a voice. but the republicans do not like it -- i do not know why they do not like it. planned parenthood, once again, and the other programs, the right wing does not like those programs because they do not believe the government should fund it pregnancy prevention and health care. that is why they did not fund the health care bill. it is true. those programs help millions of american women, their birth control, cancer screening, pregnancy prevention. what you are looking at is a social agenda that is veiled under the idea that we're just cutting programs that people do not need. i had so many women, to me about how they could not get their health care services if they did not go to planned parenthood because they do not have health insurance. host: let's hear from a republican next. caller: good morning, ladies. i'm calling about the abortion issue. congresswoman, you said that the law does not allow for federal funding of abortion. th

marilyn geewax of national public radio and vice chair of the speaker committee. skipping over our speaker for a moment, jerry, washington bureau chief. patrick coast, a freelance reporter and vice chair of the press clubs young member committee. catherine, reporter for the "chicago tribune," and matt, president of the advocate group. [applause] >> we last invite secretary ray lahood to speak at the national press club luncheon when he was a newly minted secretary transportation. he was one of two republicans in the new democratic presidents cabinet. to say it's been a rocky road since may 2009 appearance would overstate history and torture a metaphor, but his tenure as secretary of transportation has not been without. in the last three years transportation issues and industry segment made headlines legally. faa partially shut down during the debt ceiling standoff, republican governors sending pakistan was money. toyota cars recalled worldwide over safety issues, fighting successfully i might add with new jersey governor chris christie over money that the departme

defunding the national public radio. promoting the use of inefficient light bulbs.madam speaker, this would be comical if it weren't so serious. let me also remind my colleagues that only a paltry 43 bills have been signed into law this year. less than half the average for a session for congress since 1991, even compared to other years following shifts in control of the house. i believe that americans want action to help our economy. now, they want us to consider the president's jobs bill now. they want us to quit wasting time on trivial issues that are only meant for 30-second political sound bites. they want us to do our jobs. but these friends on the other side just don't get it. four years ago their presidential nominee talked about country first. but in the house of representatives time after time we see the republican leadership ignore the needs of out-of-work americans. the bill before us today is more of the same. another enormous rip-off for struggling american workers disguised as a jobs bill. in fact, this time it's not even disguised very well. the under

would like to suggest that this underfunded and quite often much maligned network, pbs and national public radio, in terms of my familiarity produces the best children's, the best science, the best major, the best parts, the best public affairs and i'm told the best history on the dial. when you've got five or 600 other channels as competition, that is a pretty good record. [applause] >> we are almost all of time. i do want to ask a question. some do regard this institution as a cathedral to the first amendment. when newspapers are struggling so mightily and traditional news outlets have suffered, let's focus for a moment on newspapers. as one who has looked at newspapers as a source of material, how important is it that they continue to survive? >> it is negative is central to the survival of our republic -- it is important -- central to the survival of our republic. you would go on tours with the news from the size of a stadium filled with hundreds of reporters. 10 years later, the tumbleweeds were going through. this is terrifying. we now rely on an internet with some notable exceptions where

defunding the national public radio. promoting the use of inefficient light bulbs. madam speaker, this would be comical if it weren't so serious. let me also remind my colleagues that only a paltry 43 bills have been signed into law this year. less than half the average for a session for congress since 1991, even compared to other years following shifts in control of the house. i believe that americans want action to help our economy. now, they want us to consider the president's jobs bill now. they want us to quit wasting time on trivial issues that are only meant for 30-second political sound bites. they want us to do our jobs. but these friends on the other side just don't get it. four years ago their presidential nominee talked about country first. but in the house of representatives time after time we see the republican leadership ignore the needs of out-of-work americans. the bill before us today is more of the same. another enormous rip-off for struggling american workers disguised as a jobs bill. in fact, this time it's not even disguised very well. the unde

and of course, national public radio that seffs receives so much of the taxpayer money reported november 1 of 2001, that al-awlaki -- well, he was contrasted to osama bin laden as one of the, quote, moderates who wants to solve the problems and someone who can build bridges between islam and the west, unqueet. well, interesting stuff. it just doesn't seem that we seem to learn our lessons very well. we also that -- know that this attorney general not only had the justice department involved which included a.t.f. involvement in selling guns to criminals, mexican drug cartels that killed at least one and there may be others, but this justice department dropped the charges against the individuals that were in the groups that were named co-con spiritors in the holy land foundation trial that was tried in dallas, texas. 11-1 verdict. one person held up the verdict and they tried it again. and the bush administration's justice department intended that if they got a conviction of the five people charged with aiding terrorism, that they would then move forward. and in fact, the assist ant u.s. a

would like to suggest that this underfunded and quite often much maligned network, pbs and national public radio, in terms of my familiarity produces the best children's, the best science, the best major, the best parts, the best public affairs and i'm told the best history on the dial. when you've got five or 600 other channels as competition, that is a pretty good record. [applause] >> we're almost out of time but i won't get fired if i go over. you mentioned this institution as a cathedral to the first amendment. at a time when newspapers are struggling and broadcast -- traditional broadcast outlets have also suffered during the downturn, part of that it's the digital transmission and part as the economy, let's focus for a moment and newspapers. as one was look at newspapers as a source for material are the years, how important is it in print for digital form they continue to survive? >> it is essential to the survival of our republic. it is important for our survival that they survive. when we began to do publicity tours and you would go through a big u.s. city and the newsroom was filled wi

certainly i listen to national public radio program a week or so ago from my home state of maine, andhe school nutrition director pointed out at a school not too far from my home that her school system was already meeting the guidelines. so i think we need to step back and look at what's in the total interest of the child, and look at the facts, not look at some of the overstatements we've heard from some quarters. >> host: fort worth, texas. >> caller: good morning, greater. i really enjoyed your interview last week. a few years ago when i was in college i did some substitute teaching at the elementary level, and notice the overall physical condition of these kids. i would think is readable to attribute their condition due in part, their diet and lack of physical activity. why either soft drinks in the schools? why are there these high sugar snacks available in the schools when it's known that they don't contribute to healthy lifestyle? and you just commented limits on meals are there. how could you can roll the caloric intake on food drinks that are purchased by the students? even t

there was seen to be a few countries a scaping public radio the prospect of more pain to pay for national debts let's return to new york to find out whether the occupy wall street campaigners think they'll win their battle against the bankers. i'm here at. this week let's talk about bet i think what we're really protesting is you know the failure of the system to respond to you know a kind of higher calling for you know our country you know we can be subjected to. you know one percent of the one percent those are the real bad guys you know who make over five million ten million dollars a year for doing that well i do feel that the country is in a very serious serious situation but it just the united states or is it a global issue it's a global issue but the united states says that the center of all of the most important issues right now that we're going to hear from spain to repeat to spain where we have people for life. and one of the he's a values all of us are doing. i mean thirty five percent of our wealth by one percent of the population if you're going to be that wealthy you should

i heard on the radio this morning, the national broadcasting system, public radio, that during the bushrs we lost 8.6 million jobs. we've only gotten a little over two million of those back. but -- about two and a half million, frankly. it wasn't long ago that a president was in office for eight years could boast if he wanted to do that, about creating 23 million jobs. that's what republicans have given us. they refuse to ask to rich to contribute a tiny fraction more to secure our economic future, even if it costs more jobs. in recent days republicans showed new interest in the gulf between rich and poor that has moat slated thousands to occupy parks across the country and make their voices heard. apparently they believe the staggering income inequality makes a good talking point. while democrats fight for jobs for the middle class republicans fight for tax breaks for the 1% of americans who don't need our help. i'll bet if you could ask these very, very rich people would you be willing to give .7% more to create millions of jobs, i think most of them would say yes. where are my republ