the time where nick clooney did a rally. have people that are not alone, they have ten commandments and sculpture on the loan. you will could not find people saying a bad word about them. luke like the kind of democrats who could just pull off a win in that kind of southern district. he had this dark family secret which is his son of george clooney. >> i remember nick clooney saying that he was sort of painted as a celebrity, as a hollywood type coming to kentucky, that really bothered him. >> it must be tough getting your own father being hammered for being your father. >> you said you could not campaign for your own father in kentucky because you thought you heard his cause. >> coming up -- >> there is no conservative or liberal point of view, there is only right or wrong. it is the first genocide of the 21st century. when heartburn hits fight back fast with tums chewy bites. fast relief in every bite. crunchy outside. chewy inside. tum tum tum tum tums chewy bites. when you have a cold, stuff happens. ♪ { sneezing ] shut

his father nick clooney who was a journalist, was hugely influential in the way he saw the world. >>y father raised me with the idea that you have to look out for people who can't look out for themselves. that's your job. if you don't do that, you have failed. >> we are here on earth, to help those who have less power than we. and to challenge those who have more. both of those are important things to do for a citizen. >> a star outfielder in high school. clooney unsuccessfully tries out for the cincinnati reds. then completes nearly two years of college but drops out in 1981. that's when he makes a pivotal move to los angeles, in pursuit of an acting career. even with his hollywood connections, clooney starts at the bottom, and success alludes him for years. >> here's a guy from kentucky sleeping on a friend's couch, trying to work his way through hollywood, but he's always kept that small town -- he's a small town guy. he had been in a bunch of pilots, all of which had failed. people talk about that as if that means clooney wasn't that good. if you keep getting pilot deals at a net

i think his father, nick clooney who was a journalist, was influential in how he saw the world. >> he raised me you have to look up for people who can't look out for themselves. >> we are here on earth to help those who have less power than we and to challenge those who have more. both of those are important things to do for a citizen. >> a star outfielder in high school, clooney unsuccessfully tries out for the cincinnati reds then completes two years in college but drops out in 1981. that's when he makes a move to los angeles, in pursuit of an acting career. even with his hollywood connections, he starts at the bottom and success eludes him for years. >> here's a guy from kentucky, sleeping on a friend's couch, trying to make his way in hollywood. he's a small town guy. >> he had been in a punch of pilots, all of which had failed. people talk about that as if clooney wasn't that good. if you keep getting pilot deals at a network it means they know you're a celebrity and they're waiting to the find the right thing for you. >> a decade after he moves there, the city erupts in violence

co-anchors yesterday, when you say clooney to me, i love doing this stuff, you say clooney to me, i think rosemary and nick i don't know what that is >> george's father was a local anchor in cincinnati clooney iscincinnati.rose mamary clooney, a huge singing star a huge star a few years ago. actually before my time. i was kidding my co-anchors, they were looking at me like what >> my reaction is similar. >> were you alive for the 1987 crash? you weren't even alive, were you? >> i was alive, but only two and didn't care much about the stock markets. >> i guess -- do you believe a man stepped on the moon or is that american propaganda i was there for that, too. >> i do, because dad hosted the itv coverage of it it's a great piece of the archive. >> archives. any way, i was not alive for world war ii you know what's sort of -- >> really? >> you know what's fitting, wilf we have these two dueling stories, the fed story and the tax reform story they're so interrelated. it's like we needed the fed as a bridge to -- from the financial crisis to better times, and here we are, we're starting to -- you know, tax ref

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