who is piers morgan? >> kid rock is the quintessential all-american rock star. this guy by his own admission has taken every drug known to man. he's slept with most of america, and he's fought everybody that gets in his way. when he turns 40, there's another side of kid rock i find equally compelling, and which i hope to unravel for you tonight. this guy, as a human being, is

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we invited piers morgan to join us and he declined. i want to play some tape of louise mensch talking about this on cnn and morgan's very aggressive response. >> i said what i said in the committee, wolf. i'm afraid right now i'm going to say i can't comment about it outside of the committee room. >> i call on you to show some balls, repeat what you said about me and go buy a copy of my book "the insider." >> she made very specific claims. later on she repeated them even to me giving tutorials in phone hacking, how i hacked people myself. how my staff had broken stories of phone lacking. she has absolutely no evidence on any of this. she based it on what she claimed i published in my own volume of diaries. >> paul, let me let you be the arbiter. also he believes piers morgan knew about the hacking. morgan puts out that the guy has already gone to jail. how much of a problem is this for piers morgan? >> well, i don't think it's a problem because louise mensch is wrong. it is not in his book. he does not mention hacking. the whole basis o

"piers morgan tonight" starts "piers morgan tonight" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> tonight, washington in turmoil. >> we cannot borrow more money. we have to balance our budget. >> we're running out of time. it's time we get serious about finding a compromise. >> americans outraged. >> they can't seem to get it together and compromise. >> we have adults who have been elected to office, and yet they play worse than 3-year-olds. >> i'd fire them all. >> what would it take to get a deal done? i'll ask the white house and the republicans. plus, what this crisis is already costing you. and adam levine, rock star, maroon 5 front man. he's sold more than 15 million albums. he's conquered tv on his first season of "the voice." >> christina takes things to a whole new level, right? you can level with me. >> i can't on national television. >> but tonight his biggest challenge yet. i'm getting him to do something you've never, i mean never seen him do before. >> this is so dumb. i don't know why i can do it. >> that is incredible. >> the amazingly multitalented adam levine

parliamentary privilege to repeat something outside of parliament doesn't give me cloak of privilege. >> piers morgan is joining us on the phone right now. i want to give him a chance to respond to that very direct allegation you made against him and his reputation. piers, go ahead and respond and tell mrs. mensch what you think. >> i'm amused by her cowardice in refusing to repeat that. what she did is a deliberate and outrageous attempt to smear my name, cnn's name, and the daily mirror's name. and to have the breath taking gal to sit here and calmly say i can't repeat that because i haven't got privilege is an outrage. and i call on you now, ms. mensch, to show some balls, repeat what you said about me and go buy a copy of my book "the insider" and see where in that book these claims that you made today in a televised committee, watched all over the world, where that claim is in that book? because it isn't there. >> all right, mrs. mensch, do you want to respond to that? >> as i've just said, i made the claims in the select committee. and people will look at them. >> it's not in the book, though,

british soldiers torturing prisoners in afghanistan or iraq, i forget which, and that people, piers morganey have a robust culture and cross lines. one thing you can say since there are so many of them. a good thing they all compete and frankly check and balance it. >> nobody put it better than that great political analyst hugh grant. a great line. only three weeks ago all of our politician ins this country were sucking up to rupert murdoch drinking champagne on his lawn at a summer party so it's almost comic today they're competing in parliament to say he's a terrible person. they were afraid of him. >> the reason to dislike the tabloids if you remember, both british and-- >> there's a paragon of morality. >> you want hipocracy i'll give you hipocracy, robert greenwald in the huffington post says that, you'll love it, the danger, when ever enlarging corporations take control of the public's right to know. let's see, that wouldn't nbc, cbs abc and public radio, oh, no, that's the fox news channel. that's the great evil. want to comment? apparently not. >> and as-- >> not only that, but we

this is "piers morgan tonight." >>> donald trump says america's economy could be going bad from worse. he joins me tonight on the

this is "piers morgan tonight." >>> donald trump says america's economy could be going bad from worse. he joins me tonight on the phone. donald, how are you? >> hello, piers. >> first of all, congratulations on becoming a grandfather again. your lovely daughter ivanka and a baby girl ella rose, i understand. >> that is true. we're very happy about that. >> tell me, if we were trying to prescribe an economic future or young arabella that you would feel comfortable about, what would you do. >> first you have to get the debt down. the whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. we have to create jobs and rapidly. because if we don't, things are going to head in a direction that's going to be almost impossible to recover from. so we really need jobs now. we have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. there is practically not a company that doesn't do business with the united states that is making a very big profit. china is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year. and they just revised that recently, i

i know piers morgan addressed it on the show last night.getic of terms for rupert murdoch saying it's a man that's built a courageous empire and sad to say in this instance. >> in his book, he brags about how to hack into phones and i'm stunned that no one -- forget about piers morgan. i'm stunned that the media hasn't followed this timeline and say, my god, he's joining us in '94 and '95. >> that's not okay. >> this is not the definning feature of this story. it's a story that's been around for four years. people never actually focused on this thing. the reason they have is reporting out of "the guardian," people have been unwilling to let this go. and a lot of help from "the new york times" for picking it up. >> mike barnicle, this is in piers morgan's book saying in effect, this is being done when he was there in '94 and '95. he hasn't been asked to explain why you hack to people's phones. where's the media on this story saying forget about rebecca brooks. this goes back at least 15 years because piers morgan is bragging about how it's d

, i was like who is piers morgan. the quintessential rock star. this guy has taken every drug known to man. slept with most of america and he's fought everybody that gets in his way. when he turns 40, there's another side of kid rock i find compelling, which i hope to unravel for you. this guy, as a human being is as fascinating as he is a rock star. >> morgan. >> mr. rock. ♪ a cowboy baby >> are you kid, are you bob, are you mr. rock? >> doesn't matter to me. my good friends call me bobby. my stage name is kid rock. whatever you feel comfortable with. >> you just turned 40. is there a point you have to change your name from kid? >> god, if i had 100 bucks every time somebody asked me that. not at all. >> i get the idea you enjoy not being a kid, but enjoy the wild side of life. you like being a rocker. >> i enjoy having a good time. that's true. >> how wild does it get? >> probably wilder than i'm willing to discuss right now. >> do you know how much you have consumed over the years? >> no. i'm not going to be a, you

"piers morgan tonight" starts right now. >>> six days until freedom. a judge throws the book at casey anthony, but with time served, she will two free next week. >> her release date has been calculated as july 13th, 2011. >> tonight, i'll ask the prosecutor what went wrong. >> in the real world, people within the their child to live. and casey clearly didn't. >> i'll ask the expert ifs the jury did the right thing. >> the jury wanted to say, show me, show me how she was killed. and show me the motive. why she was killed. >> and what happens to casey anthony now? this is a special edition of "piers morgan tonight." >>> casey anthony will walk free next wednesday. today in court, the judge threw the book at her, sentencing her to four years for lying to police, the maximum sentence he could impose, but with time served, that comes out to just six more days in prison. it's the most controversial end to a murder trial since o.j. simpson, and understandably, all eyes are now on the jury. here's what one of those jurors told abc news about their decision. >>

that's tom arnold and this is "piers morgan tonight." >>> good evening. a dramatic day for rupert murdoch. hours of tough questioning coming to a sudden halt with this. murdoch slattered with a shaving cream pie, thrown by a man identified as johnny marbles. murdoch's wife, wendi deng, leaping to his defense. more questions to rupert and his son james. louise mensch accused me not one but twice of boasting in a book that i had gotten scoops when i worked for the daily mirror. >> piers morgan side open until his book, clearly published before this whole controversy broke, that he had hacked phones, he said that he won scoop of the year for a story, and he actually gave a tutorial on how one accesses voice mail by punching in a set default code, and clearly from the account that he gives, he did it routinely as editor of "the daily mirror." >> absolutely wrong, mrs. mensch. i never hack aid phone, never told anyone else to hack a phone. here is what i actually said in the book "the insider." apparently if you don't change the standard security code that eve

piers morgan starts right now. >>> one man knows more about broadway stardom than anybody on the planet and that man is here with me tonight. >> hi, piers, it's me. >> andrew lloyd webber is a musical genius with biggest shows in the past 30 years. everything from "phantom of the opera," "evita" and "cats". >> i came up with, after a while -- it's kind of a tango. ♪ >> and the singer who is storming the charts, no not lady gaga, 11-year-old jackie evancho. ♪ >> this is pie"piers morgan tonight." >>> if you've seen a musical in the past 30 years it was probably one of andrew lloyd webber's creations. he's a lord. the greatest accolade of all. lord lloyd webber. >> you try saying lord lloyd webber late at night. it trips up the best. i thought you did brilliantly. >> you just have been to the "spiderman" premier which has gotten so much criticism in the last few months. >> i'm not privy to it but the producers involved in it are many people who come from rock. and my guess is that the thinking behind it and it's not bad thinking at all my guess is that they really are thinking of this as

this is "piers morgan tonight." >>> good evening. we begin tonight with america's debt crisis. it's not just republicans versus democrats. it's now house republicans battling among themselves over speaker boehner's debt plan with days to go until the august 2nd deadline. is there still a real chance of a deal? joining me now from the white house briefing room is gene sperling, director of the national economic council and assistant to the president for economic policy. mr. sperling, thank you very much for joining me. where are we with this? i mean, is it an intransigent stalemate? is there hope of a deal? where would you put your money right now? >> well, i don't think there's any question we have a degree of stalemate right now, and there's no question that the clock is running. but there's also no question that there is time for a bipartisan compromise. and this is what the president went on national tv a few days ago to say. and it's what we're saying and trying to do in every way possible. we need a compromise that does three things. it should do a down payment on the defi

piers morgan starts now. >>> tonight donald trump. >> america is doing so poorly. the leadership is very poor. we're doing very poorly. >> donald trump, how he would solve the debt crisis and what he would do to give america grace. and remember the uproar over obama's birth certificate? how smiley says that was race basing. i'll ask him why. he says the 2012 white house will be the last in history. and why the white house itself pays too much attention to wall street. >> if you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't look for barack obama. >> we'll have a conversation with tavis smiley. this is "piers morgan tonight." >>> donald trump says america's economy could be going bad from worse. he joins me tonight on the phone. donald, how are you? >> hello, piers. >> first of all, congratulations on becoming a grandfather again. your lovely daughter ivanka and a baby girl ella rose, i understand. >> that is true. we're very happy about that. >> tell me, if we were trying to prescribe an economic future or young arabella that you would feel comfortable about, what w

he was watching and tweeting after the member of parliament addressed him: . >> did piers morgan sortf nail is there? >> he has a stake in this fight. he's accused of being involved in or sanctioning similar practices because he wrote in his book how you do the phone hacking, if he wasn't doing it himself or people under him, a common practice on fleet street. a shot at gambling in the casino, this is part of this very aggressive down and dirty newspaper culture in britain where everyone knew it hospital operated that way and now there's a chance to use that culture against rupert murdoch. >> if you look at abc's news conference, they didn't explain the situation. it was like this paragraph on their website, and it didn't really explain what the situation was, that he'd really written a book and sort of mentioned it and it didn't explain to the american people what was going on. >> one of the things that's disturbing is the notion that okay, government should police crimes, they have you had not police the media and media culture and you're seeing the ideas bubbling up in britain and

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this is "piers morgan tonight." >> piers: bill, welcome. i feel -- you are such an institutional guest for larry before. it's the first time to have you here. >> it's great to be back in the time slot. >> piers: i thought about the ways we could start this. i think there's probably nothing more pertinent, i would say, than the state of america's deatdeb debt. >> sexy topic. >> piers: it's the key issue to me. if america goes bust, that's it. >> it's astounding to me that we're actually having an argument over whether america should pay its bills. >> piers: i totally agree. >> it shows you where the insanity has gone. i don't think people realize it because they don't follow it, especially the people who are pushing to hold the line. so what if the debt ceiling -- i think they think it's money we haven't spent yet. that if we just cut it off, starve the beast, everything will be fine and we'll get our fiscal house in order. no. this is money we already spent. george bush and the republicans, they sat down and ordered a lot of food. then they

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we've invited piers morgan on this program.ts and sit down for a serious interview on this subject. but the media also have to be careful about rushing to judgment. speaking of which, john snow, an anchor at london's channel 4 tweeted a false rumor this week that cnn had suspended morgan. he retracted it but not before others had retweeted it. and louise mench, the member of parliament, who claimed piers admitted in his book he knew about past phone hacking. she says she's sorry for mangling her facts and morgan accepted her apology. >>> it looked like a standard tv report on a local golf tournament. the footage aired on wpri in providence with eric murphy providing the play by play. talk about a triple bogey. it was all faked. the players were reenacting their shots after the fact, which, as southern rhode island newspapers reported, the station failed to disclose to viewers. news

select committee and people will look at them. >> all right, let's continue our conversation with piers morgan. he's joining us live right now. she clearly piers did not want to say in public what she said behind closed -- behind open doors while the whole world was watching. but she has parliamentary immunity so she's not going to get into a fight with you on that. is there anything else you want to say before i move on to some of the substance of what was done today? >> well, only that -- i mean, she made some very specific claims and, in fact, later on she repeated them even apparently to me giving tutorials in phone hacking, how i hacked people myself. and she has absolutely no evidence for any of this, and she based it on what she claimed i had published in my own volume of diaries. well, you've seen the entries now, wolf. and i've read the entries to her earlier. there is no such thing. the only entry in my book referring to phone hacking was when somebody warned me that my phone might be being hacked and advised me to change my pin number. so i was pretty outraged actually. when somebod

"piers morgan tonight" starts right now. >>> tonight, one of the hottest young stars out of hollywood. no, not that hollywood, hollywood in northern ireland. 22-year-old golfer rory mcilroy is the biggest thing in sports since a guy named tiger. a small town boy made good. now, can he help me with my game isn't. >> i'll do what i can, but i can't work miracles. >> u.s. open champion rory mcilroy in his first sitdown since that stunning victory. >> for me, i won a golf tournament and that was really the end of it. but, you know, it's a bigger story than that. >> and then one of the greatest tennis players in the history of the sport, billie jean king. how she felt when she beat bobby rigs in that battle. sexes. >> i still wake up in a cold sweat thinking i have to play that match. oh, thank you, god. thank you for letting me win. >> the challenges she faced coming out. >> i didn't get comfortable in my own skin until i was probably 51. >> and my surprising connection with her. i was a ball boy at wimbledon. >> no way. >> this is "piers morgan tonight." >>> we were talking about rory mc

"piers morgan tonight" starts "piers morgan tonight" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> tonight, a live exclusive with the man some say owns america. prince al waleed bin talal. and some of the biggest corporations, including rupert murdoch's news corp. i'll ask him about that scandal, america's economy, and revolution in the middle east. also tonight. >> time is of the essence. we are running out of time. >> if theed united states of america's debt rating gets downgraded, every interest rate in america will go up. >> two senators, democrat and republican, who think they've found a way out of this country's $14 trillion debt crisis. and a man who has strong opinions on just about everything, from casey anthony to president obama, to harry potter and the space shuttle. what will he say tonight? i'll ask the opinionated new voice of "the new york times." this is "piers morgan tonight." >>> good evening. "time" magazine calls prince alwaleed bin talal the arabian warren buffett. when he talks, the business world listens. tonight prince alwaleed bin talal joins me from t

piers morgan starts now. >>> tonight, donald trump. >> america is doing so poorly. and it soon will not be a great country the way it's going. the leadership is very poor. we're doing very poorly. >> how donald trump would solve the debt crisis and what he would do to keep america great. >>> and remember the uproar over president obama's birth certificate? >> honestly, i'm very proud that i was able to bring this to a point. nobody else was. >> i'll ask him why he says the race to the 2012 white house will be the nastiest in history, and why the white house pays too much attention to wall street. >>> and a candid conversation with tafis smiley. this is "piers morgan tonight." >>> donald trump says america's economy has gone from bad to worse and now he is joining me on the phone. >> hello, piers. >> congratulations on being a grand father again. your daughter had a beautiful girl arabella rose. >> thank you. >> if we were to describe a good future for arabella, what would you do? >> the debt limits have to come down. the whole world of debt has to be changed as far

what evidence do you have to make that kind of accusation against piers morgan?i said what i said in the committee room. but i'm afraid right now i'm going to say that i can't comment about it outside of the committee room. as mr. morgan will know, inside parliament when i speak at a select committee of parliament i am protected by absolute parliamently privilege to repeat something outside of parliament doesn't give me that cloak of privilege. mr. morgan is a very rich man. so i am sure that ferocious investigative journalists at cnn and across the news media in the united states will take careful note of what was said in the committee and look into it. that's the best i'm afraid i'm going to be able to do on legal grounds. >> well, i'm amused by her coward is in refusing to repeat that allegation now. she's not in parliament and covered by privilege. she maybe already aware, she came out with an absolute blatant lie during those proceedings. at no stage in my book or indeed outside of my book vifr boasted of using phone hacking for any stories. for the record i

piers morgan starts now. see you tomorrow night. >>> tonight, deal or no deal? >> you need to start doing things that actually can pass both houses and be signed into law. >> no democrat will vote for a short-term band-aid approach. >> the american people have said enough! >> it's time for somebody in this town to say yes. >> nothing gets washington's attention like a deadline. so what are they waiting for? >> americans deserve an honest approach. no more tricks. no more counting gimmicks. no more broken promises. >> tonight the white house the right and the left and the clock. countdown to crisis. >> we are simply four days away from one of the worst financial catastrophes that could face this country. >> this is "piers morgan tonight". >>> good evening, we start with break news. it's been an extraordinary couple of hours on capitol hill. speaker john boehner's debt plan remains stalled in the house without sufficient support from his own caucus to get the bill passed. he couldn't even put it to a vote tonight. meanwhile, this country moves closer and closer to

piers morgan tonight starts now. we'll see you tomorrow. >>> billy ray cyrus' life is like a country song. fact, it's like this one. ♪ my achey breaky hear talk about achey breaky heart. his divorce. two women pregnant with his babies at the same time. and of course his roller coaster relationship with his superstar daughter miley. >> as a father, i was alarmed for my daughter's safety. >> tonight, billy ray cyrus on his life, his family, his music, and of course that mullet. >> the greatest mullet in the history of music. what were you thinking with that hair? billy ray cyrus for the hour. this is "piers morgan tonight." >>> billy ray, how are you? >> i'm doing great. >> my first question, did you ever have this terrible nagging feeling if you suddenly keeled over from a heart attack tomorrow, the headlines would be, miley cyrus dad dies of an achey breaky heart? >> if that were the case, that's what it's going to read. as ironic as my life is at times, that will probably be the way i go. >> you have had an extraord

piers morgan tonight starts right now. >>> tonight, deal or no deal. >> you need to start doing things that can pass both houses. >> no democrat will vote for a band aid approach. >> the american people have said enough. >> it's time for somebody in this town to say yes. >> nothing gets washington's attention like a deadline. what are they waiting for? >> americans deserve an honest approach. no more tricks. no more accounting gimmicks. no more broken promises. >> tonight, the white house, the right, the left and the clock. countdown to crisis. >> we are four days away from one of the worst financial catastrophes that could face this country. >> this is "piers morgan tonight." >>> good evening. chaos on capitol hill tonight. john boehner's debt plan is stalled in the house without support from his caucus. this country is moving closer and closer to an almost unthinkable national default. we are going to ask some of the smartest people in washington to explain what is going on tonight. john king, jessica yellin. first, i want to go straight to the white house. president obama is beating

this is "piers morgan tonight." good evening. a little later, i'll speak with nancy grace, the woman that put the casey anthony trial on the map and became a lightning rod for her opinion on the woman she dubbed tot mom. first, the phone hacking scandal. i was editor of two major british tabloid newspapers. i was editor "nufz the world" from 1994 to 1995. and i was also editor from "daily mirror" from 1995 to 2004. for the record, i don't think any article we published was ever obtained through illegal means. b i readwrote a detailed book on experiences. i want to bring in jessica reef cohen, porter bibbing managing partner of medical tech capital partners and john coffey and kendall lesser, author of google, end of the world as we know it. this is a quiet, unprecedented, extraordinary situation. two of rupert murdoch's ceos resigns, two top police officers, gone, resigned. a whistleblower has been found dead. police have been stressing, they don't think it's suspicious. have you seen anything like quite like this? and as rupert

piers piers morgan starts now. have a great weekend >>> fasten your seat belts, america, bill maher is here. >> i'm against building mosques, churches, synagogues anywhere. i'm an atheist and think these perpetuate mass delusion. >> they gave ul this money, no regulation or strings and these guys basically stole it. every modern westernized democracy is a hybrid with elements of socialism in it. it's not evil. >> what on earth will bill maher say tonight? >> i want them to think i broke into the studio and made them mad. if i'm not doing that, i'm not doing my job. >> that's his show. this is my show everything from the president to the government going bust. morgan freeman and extraordinary 40 year career and work honoring nelson mandela, a man that hollywood calls the voice of god. i had to ask him to do this. >> this is piers morgan tonight. >> welcome. i feel like you're such an institutional guest for larry before that i -- the first time i had the pleasure of you here. >> great to be back in the time slot. >>

this is "piers morgan tonight." good evening, an extraordinary day on capitol hill today. the house passes the boehner bill and the senate properly slaps it down. senate majority leader harry reid held a news conference speaking on tonight's vote. >> senator murray asked to be excused 'cause of a family situation. all good. her husband's here. tonight a bipartisan majority in the senate rejected boehner's short-term plan. clearly, we're seeing something we've seen a lot here in the senate. this time the country's attention is focused on it, a filibuster. a filibuster to -- from william ford on this legislation. a proposal that i put forward is a compromise. we changed it even more today. we would have changed it more, but as i indicated on the floor, we had no one to negotiate with. the republican leader said he wouldn't negotiate with me. [ cell phone rings ] i don't remember whose that is. not mine. [ laughter ] [ cell phone rings ] >> your pizza's ready. [ laughter ] >> it really is a worst possible time conducting a filibuster. they're forcing us to wait until tomorrow