originally from austin, now you're in los angeles, and you are living on a sailboat of all things.h, four blocks from the beach, laundry room, sauna," all these amenities, and it was like, "what's the catch?" you click on it, and it's like, "you have to buy my boat." and so i went out there, and the boat was a -- it's a 1971 27-foot catalina, and the most interesting thing is i'd never sailed a boat in my life. so i bought this sailboat. >> you just had to learn how to sail on the spot? >> i'm still learning. i mean, it's in the slip most of the time, but i stay there in between when i'm traveling around, and it's how i managed to stay in los angeles, and it's been the closest thing to home base i've known in the city, so it's awesome. >> you recently challenged yourself to write seven songs in seven days. >> yeah. >> tell us about that process. >> a friend of mine, jessie payo, who you all just actually had in here, we were talking about songwriting and just developing a practice, you know? and jessie threw out the idea, "have you ever done seven songs in seven days?" at first, i

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there is a sailboat. it's coming clearer. joining us is the former budget director for the obama administration. vice chairman at citigroup, a veteran of these negotiations, thank you for being here on a friday night. >> good to be with you. >> peter, you have been in a lot of these negotiations. you have been in their rhythms and seen how they go. what's your take? >> i think as you pointed out, it's still early. it's december 7th. both sides would be complaining if there was an agreement in place. but you can see the pieces coming together on the fiscal cliff some increase in marginal tax rates coupled with some kind of cutting back on tax expenditures. the real concern is shifting or will shift from the fiscal cliff to the debt limit. it's not clear that the republicans will agree to including a debt limit increase in that kind of package and if they don't, we may get past december 31st only to find ourselves with a big problem in february or march. >> the obama administration has been clear they will not sign anything. ev

here's the sailboat we used this season. know that there's a ton of assembly required and it doesn't work. whoever buys this is insane. oh, this is our researcher zak's 1986 sweet toyota pickup truck that i've driven in a few bits. runs great, has low mileage -- if you consider less than a 1/4 million low. which i do not. there's no reserve on this, so i want you to keep the bids small. we haven't decided what we'll do with the money yet, but we're open to all of your suggestions. happy bidding. okay, go. captioning sponsored by comedy central ( theme song playing ) ( cheers and applause ) stephen, stephen, stephen! >> thank you, thank you ladies and gentlemen. i got to tell you. that is so beautiful. that is so beautiful. i will take that sound. i will take that sound over jingle bells any day. nation, tonight is my last episode before three weeks off. but i'm not looking ahead to the break. i've already started. (cheers and applause) >> that is not a prop. whooo! >> there are still some important stories to talk about ther

. >> warner: finally tonight, an encore look at the world's fastest sailboats and sailors. francisco will host the america's cup finals next september, but the city has already been gearing up. "newshour" correspondent spencer michels has our story. >> reporter: ever since 1851, sailors and well-healed skippers have raced through the water in ever more expensive, ever-more high tech sailboats in pursuit of the coveted america's cup. to the victor go the spoils, and in 2010 larry ellison, founder of software giant oracle, won the cup for america. ellison's prize, besides bragging rights, was to get to choose where the race would be held next. his choice was to bring the contest to his home waters: san francisco bay. ellison concocted a series of regattas all around the world-- for competing teams from 11 countries-- designed to build enthusiasm and excitement for the main event: america's cup 2013, where 72-foot boats will plough through the bay. these preliminary races featured boats that measure about 45 feet long, with carbonfibre hulls and wing sails, as described by rac

in a sailboat, you cannot turn and get out of the way. next, we're going to walk across the plaza and into the ferry building. we will have over and stop at this store, and we have not all of these phenomenal mushrooms. -- and we have all of these phenomena mushrooms. >> they have an official title and placard. he is one of our tenants. ihe started out as a beat cop in san francisco, helping out at the farmers' market. he had grown up at a farm. he started getting interested in mushrooms, and it has grown into this incredible business. >> are any of these local? >> their family farm is at moth landing. they also going to the forest, and they did not tell anybody where they're going because there are very particular. you will see a forger walking through a building with a mushroom that the found after a big rainstorm and probably bring it in here. them excellent. i have never seen some of these before. the lion's mane mushroom? some of these are great. >> i love mushrooms. i am a big portobello fan. they are phenomenal. >> and the prices a

>> why a sailboat? >> why mark a perfect body. >> ink is hot. >> it is not. it is over.>- q. i okay, dad. i still think they are -- what is with you today? >> i am just telling you. tatoos are for long shore men and people in the military. when you get boy bands with tattoo -- oh it has been over forever. >> i have seen the dolphin on your ankle. >> you sound like prince's dad in "purple rain" when he was yelling at him as a kid jie. he was right. >> maybe you can rethink the direction of your life. >> get a real job and a haircut. >> am i right? >> you did remind me of the father in madonna's video "papa don't preach." >> you act like when you come up with a point less fact that it is helpful. >> it is very helpful. >> that's all you intoed to know about him. >> try to ignore the moron to your right. >> we are googling that. >> young people should not get tattoo. it is permanent and the girls get them on the lower back and the upper buttocks. not the dolphin, but the butterfly emerging from the cocoon of the butt crack which makes sense because we have all had butterfli

>> you see the tail, piers, sail on a sailboat. going 60 miles an hour, that tail will help them turn. >> amazing. probably the ugliest, the warthog. here he comes. >> they say the wildebeest is leftovers. >> ugly animal. you love animals, but you must agree this is a particularly ugly specimen. >> yeah, he's something. the wart hog. see the warts on his face? these warts, when he gets full grown, the warts get over his face and helps protect him when he fights sometimes. plus, his teeth -- would you call teeth, grant, ivory come down his mouth like two knives and those things are important for him to help protect himself if a lion were to attack. a lot of lions, that cheetah, for example, the warthog is the main source of food. he spends 60% of his life on his knees eating grasses and tubulars and that kind of stuff. the warthog also is important for other animals. >> how many milk do they drink a day? >> drinking a lot now. >> he's weaning. >> see that tail? that tail will stick up like this. grant will show you. if you go to afr

. >> reporter: george had been popping the question on a sailboat they bought together. >> we got marriedn the swoop out of mystic. beth, amy and ann are george's daughters from his first marriage. erica is dawn's daughter from her first marriage. her other daughter tina was out while we were at the house. they're a blended but very close family with 11 grandchildren. >> we built this beautiful house in the adirondacks, the dream was, chronological dream, it was going to be dawn's house, because i was going to die. i'm much older than dawn. it was going to be dawn's house, dawn's grandchildren, all these children could use the house on the lake and it would be wonderful. we built rooms downstairs for kids and it was going to be dawn's house ultimately. with all the children. all the children. and now it's me. i can't -- i don't think i can do that. >> i want to reiterate to you, george, you have these beautiful daughters and son in laws and grandchildren and everyone will be here to take care of you. is that right, ladies? >> of course. >> my job has always been to take care of other peop

george had been popping the question on a sailboat they bought together. >> we got married out of mysticd aim are his daters from the first marriage. erica is dawn's daughter from her first marriage. her other daughter tina was out while we were at the house. they are a blended but very close family with 11 grandchildren. >> dawn and i built this beautiful news the adirondacks. our dream. the dream was chronological dream. it was going to be dawn's house, i would die. i'm much older than dawn. it was going to be dawn's house. dawn's children, all these children can use the house on the lake and it would be wonderful. we built -- downstairs for kids. it was going to be dawn's house ultimately with all the children, all the children. now it is me. i don't think i can do that. >> reporter: i want to reiterate you have these beautiful daughters, son-in-laws, grandchildren, everyone will be here to take care of you. is that right, ladies? >> yes. >> my job has always been to take care of other people. >> reporter: it is all right if some people take care of you for a while. >> reporter: georg

. >> reporter: george had been popping the question on a sailboat they bought together. >> we got marriedrter: beth, amy and ann are his daughters from his first marriage. the other daughter, tina, was out while we were at the house. they are a close but blended family. >> the dream was, chronological dream. it was going to be dawn's house. i was going to die. i'm much older than dawn. it was going to be dawn's house. all of the children and the grandchildren could use the house on the lake. we built rooms downstairs for kids. it was going to be dawn's house ultimately, with all of the children. all the children. and now, it's me. i can't -- i don't think i can do that. >> reporter: but i want to reiterate to you, george. you have these beautiful daughters and sons-in-law and grandchildren. and everyone will be here to take care of you. is that right, ladies? >> my job is to take care of other people. >> reporter: it's all right if someone takes care of you for a while. >> stop being so stubborn. >> reporter: george still taught at the middle school where they met. in the middle of the da

. >> reporter: indeed, george had been popping the question on a sailboat they owned together. >> i popped the question on a sloop on the pacific. >> reporter: beth and ann are george's daughters from his first marriage. erica and the teenager. >> we built this beautiful house in the adirondacks, our dream. our dream was a chronological dream. it was going to be dawn's house because i was going to die. i'm much older than dawn. it was going to be dawn's house and dawn's grandchildren and all these children could use the house on the lake, and it would be wonderful. we built rooms downstairs for kids. it was going to be dawn's house ultimately. with all the children. all the children. and now it's me. i can't -- i don't think i can do that. >> reporter: i want to reiterate to you, george, you have these beautiful daughters and son-in-laws and grandchildren, and everyone will be here to take care of you. is that right, ladies? >> yes. >> of course. >> my job has always been to take care of other people. >> reporter: it's all right if someone takes care of you for a while. >> no one has ever

. >> reporter: indeed, george had been popping the question on a sailboat they bought together. >> wetic. >> reporter: beth, amy, and ann are george's daughters from a first marriage. erica is dawn's daughter from a first marriage. their daugherty nawaz out of the house. they're a blended but close family with 11 grandchildren. >> we built a beautiful house in the adirondacks, our dream. the dream was a chronological dream. it was going to be dawn's house because i was going to die. i'm much older than dawn. it was going to be dawn's house. dawn's grandchildren and all these children could use the house on the lake, and it would be wonderful. we built rooms downstairs for kids. it was going to be dawn's house ultimately. with all the children. all the children. and now it's me. i can't -- i don't think i can do that. >> reporter: but i want to reiterate to you, george, you have these beautiful daughters and son-in-laws and grandchildren, and everyone will be here to take care of you. is that right, ladies? >> yes. >> my job has always been to take care of other people. >> reporter: it

of work with charities and children and blind people and lepers and came back and ended up on a sailboat in one day in 2005, the phone connected for some reason to some island power in your brain and it was all since then. he said these guys want to write the story of my life and they don't know me as well as you do. would you like to take a shot at it quite a nice night, because it is a life, i said just a second, i'm having trouble getting the court out of this bottle of chardonnay. but i did. i said why would they do that? because i would give you access to everything in my life, everything. i thought i knew a lot, but all of his records, papers, speeches, personal letters from family members was all there. everything i could possibly want and especially the diaries. 6000 pages. 19 vendors and people like david mccullough said the reason these are valuable if they were put down as they have been. darius at the white house talking the gorbachev or saddam hussein and he took notes and then he did t. it it into this diary that ended up being 2.4 million words. [laughter] so we set sail f

. >> reporter: he popped the question on a sailboat they bought together. >> we got married. >> reporter, amy and ann are george's first daughters from his first marriage. erica is dawn's daughter from her first marriage. her other daughter tina was out while we were at the house. they are a blended but very close family with 11 grandchildren. >>cy built this beautiful house in the adirondacks. the dream was it was going to be dawn's house because i was going to die, because i'm much older than dawn. dawn's grandchildren and all these children could use the house on the lake and it would be wonderful. we built rooms downstairs for kids. it was going to be dawn's house ultimately. with all the grandchildren. all the children. and now it's me. i don't think i can do that. >> reporter: i want to reiterate, your beautiful daughters, your son-in-laws, your beautiful grandchildren, everyone will be here to take care of you. >> my job is to take care of them. >> reporter: it's all right if someone takes care of you. >> no one has ever had to take care of me. >> reporter: in the middle of the da

of work for charities and children and blind people on the purse and came back and ended up on a sailboat. one day in 2005 the phone connected to some island to our. it rained. it was al simpson. he said, these guys want to write the story of my life. they don't know me as well as you do. would you like to take a shot at it. asset -- it was a good life. just a second. i'm having trouble getting the court out of this bottle of chardonnay. but i did. why would i do that. because i will give you access to everything in my life. everything. i thought i knew a lot, but all the records, papers, speeches, personal letters from the family members to my was all there. everything that i could possibly want. and especially the diaries. 6,000 pages with the diaries, 19 binders. their reason that these are valuable is that they were put down as they happened. so at the white house or talking to gorbachev or saddam hussein. he took notes. then he dictated into this diary that ended up being over 2 million words. so we set sail for the united states. els said, how long is this going to take? i said abou