here we had a case where nicole richie and cher got up to the podium and uttered the f word and the s word. fox wasn't paralyzed in knowing whether that comported with its standards or. they had an unself play system in play. they tried to bleep out the word, and they missed it in both cases. in later instances, they omitted it. they understood in that kind of program where there was a number of children in the audience -- >> but your position would be substantially different, it seems to me if you were coming to us saying we have made very clear you can't use the f word and you can't use the s worth, and there are a few other words you can't use as well. but that is not what you have done. what you have done is the commission says in addition to the words you can't use, unless it is in a patriotic context, there is this vast miasma of unspecified things and that if they per contain in some way to sex or sexre torii -- correction corey tore functioning, can bring fines on your head. why doesn't the vagueness of that, the capacity resulting from the vagueness and the catastrophic possi

stay with us, because nicole richie, joe madden, and j.lo are next. >>> hello. i'm charles barkry.astating earthquake in haiti. i'm asking, please, give anything you can to help the people of haiti. thank you very much. >> larry: thank you, charles. jennifer lopez is back with us in los angeles. nicole richie is here, supporter of unicef and a bark of unicef's raising funds for water and sanitation product. and joe madden has stopped by, goodwill ambassador for unicef. his twin, benji, wanted to be with us tonight, couldn't make it. he'll be tweeting, urging help for haiti throughout the show. joe, how has this affected you? >> it's hard to watch, you look at a country with haiti and almost half the population is kids. to just think about, you know, what they've already been through, what haiti's already been through, but what the possibility of what now they're looking at for the future is -- that's why i think something like this is really important, trying to stop that second wave disaster of what could happen in the next couple of weeks. >> larry: because you know it's coming.

please join in and do whatever you can. $$$$$$$$$$$ >> larry: want to thank nicole richier being with us. you're going to join us for our finale. you're going to be on set. since the start of our show two hours ago unicef and the red cross have received almost $5 million. it will help those babies in haiti that you've been looking at live. we can get the $5 million. come on. we're almost there. make the last push and help the babies and their parents. i want to thank you for your interest and your support. don't forget the disaster in haiti is going to have repercussions for years. the also the phones are going to stay open through anderson cooper and right through the two-hour repeat of this show atmy night. 2:00 a.m. eastern time, 11:00 p.m. pacific, the phones will remain open. we're this close to $5 million. here's seal to get everybody ready. ♪ oh yeah, my, my, my yeah ♪ people get ready there's a train acoming ♪ ♪ you don't need no baggage you just get on board ♪ ♪ all you need is faith to hear the hear the diesels humming you don't need no ticket you just thank the

here we had a case where nicole richie and cher got up to the podium and uttered the f word and the s word. fox wasn't paralyzed in knowing whether that comported with its standards or. they had a self-play system in play. they tried to bleep out the word, and they missed it in both cases. in later instances, they omitted it. they understood in that kind of program where there was a number of children in the audience -- >> but your position would be substantially different, it seems to me if you were coming to us saying we have made very clear you can't use the f word and you can't use the s worth, and there are a few other words you can't use as well. but that is not what you have done. what you have done is the commission says in addition to the words you can't use, unless it is in a patriotic context, there is this vast miasma of unspecified things and that if they pertain in some way to excretory functioning, it can bring fines on your head. why doesn't the vagueness of that, the capacity resulting from the vagueness and the catastrophic possibilities resulting from the imposition

the idea of live programming that is crucial for mirs amendment purposes, that nicole richie get her utterance out to the audience in six seconds rather than 10 seconds. >> are you prepared to give up your claim that this is profane based on your brief in which you say it is duplicative of the definition of decency. >> i think the court has to reach it -- >> are we done with profanity as a claim against the petitioners here? >> aim -- i am not prepared to give it up yet. i think what we explained -- >> if you duplicate indies eans, then it is superfluous. >> the commission found these broadcasts profane, but i think for present purposes the court doesn't need to reach that question. . and perhaps more so for the >> if technology exists that would permit families that are absolutely in can't on not having their children -- intent on not having their children here words that they do not want them to hear, if the technology exists to label those families make sure that they could not see these programs, why should those families that want to impose the highest level of restriction on br