i want to know from sean penn if the money ever arrived in haiti. i want to talk about the works specifically that you're doing and where you think you're making the greatest progress inside of haiti. frankly, for those of us who are sean penn after fans, there is more hollywood were to come out of this guidy. we will talk more about all of that and then some tomorrow night with sean penn. you promised to come back tomorrow night? >> absolutely. tavis: until then, good night, los angeles. thank you. as always, keep the faith. >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley pbs.org. tavis: visit our website at pbs.org. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it is the cornerstone we all know. it is not just a street or boulevard, but a place where wal-mart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. thank you.

tavis: sean penn directing robert deniro in "the comedian." i respect you not just for entertaining us, but also for empowering us in the work that you do. the work you do in haiti is among the best work that yois de in the world. >> and i thank you right back. tavis: glad to have him back on this program. that is it for tonight. we leave you with a small sample in the memorable role that sean penn has given us over the years. in the meantime, good night, l.a. as always, keep the faith. >> tasty waves, cool but, and i am fine. >> you do not have to go up there. >> the whole nation is watching. >> my name is harvey milk and i am here to recruit to! i want to recruit to for the fight to save your democracy! >> i have had a lot of time to think about what it is that make somebody a good parent. and it is about constancy and it is about -- patience and it is about listening and id is -- it is of but pretending to listen even when you can not listen anymore. >> thank you for letting me. that is my daughter in there! he has my daughter in there! no!

this is sean penn the activist, right? >> that's right, suzanne. the often controversial sean penn is making headlines again but in a good way this time. it's for his charitable work. you see next month penn will be recognized by a group of nobel peace prize when einners. this year the peace summit award will go to penn. he's a founder of the j.p. haitian relief organization which managed a camp for 50,000 people left without homes following the 2010 earthquake. the agency is still working in haiti to help lift the country out of poverty and penn insists he's there for the long haul. the actor activist issued a statement saying i am thrilled to receive this tribute and to offer it to the youth of haiti, the strong women. >> what about ashton kutcher? i understand you have something about him going into space. is that right? >> for a mere 200 grand, can you believe that? he signed on to become the 500th passenger on richard branson's commercial space program. >> really? >> yes, virgin galactic. branson announced the news on his blog writing, i gave

i am not going to not go to a movie if sean penn is in it. what she did was so abhor rent i am not giving my money to any commercial venture she is involved in. >> what about a movie that stars larry the cable guy? >> you could go both ways. i know what he did, but i think his intentions were good. >> what about all of those missing sleeves. >> we won't speak for the sleeves. >> also, a couple weeks ago wasn't jane fonda calling for the sec to remove rush limbaugh from the air? >> yes, she did. she was with another lady. also not giving my money to a government who wants to silence people she doesn't like. she is going after rush limbaugh and they handed her two weeks of shows. >> juliette, you don't think this is a big deal at all fonda playing reagan. you realize you are on cable news, right? >> i do, but i am supposed to be honored. >> you are supposed to be outraged. >> we will drop that in the a block. >> bill, you also said you think this is okay that we don't have a personality cult here. you realize you are on cable news, right? >> ye

but look at sean penn who can play regan. >> bill, welcome to the program. they could have picked eight million otherke actresses including alyssa milano who is my personal choice. go ahead and laugh. >> i will. >> she is america's cup cake. anyway, it wasn't done -- it is done precisely to force us to talk about it. >> oh yes. i don't think it is a big deal. it is a a cameo role. it wasn't a full on bio pick. even if it was, who cares? we don't have a culted personality. this is going to offend mainstream conservative sentiment, particularly the memory of ronald reagan and nancy reagan to have jane fonda do this. but in the end we don't have a personality cult like they do in communist china. it is healthy. >> it would be different if we went out on the streets and tried to kill jane fonda, but we don't do that. >> it won't be a great movie because they really need shirley mcclain because she is familiar with astrology. >> she is going to be in downtown abbie." >> downtin? >> you were spear headed to play agney. >> funny. were you going to be a munchkin in

. >>> sean penn will receive an award from nobel peace prize winners for his relief work in haiti.r lyrics e sheen's x has pleaded guilty to a cocaine charge under a deal that will wipe her record clean if she serves a year of trouble-free pro bags. james cameron plans to set a record riding his submersible, what he calls a vertical torpedo, nearly 7 miles down into the western pacific. finally, richard branson says he's booked his 500th customer to fly into space. >>> asthot kutcher dropped $200,000 to go to space. >> i want to do a lot of test players. >> and news comes to us at whdh 7 news in boston where one potential juror had a really good excuse to avoid doing his civic duty. jacob is only 9 years old. but that didn't stop him from getting a summons. his first reaction was to ask what exactly is jury duty? it turns out the census messed up jacob's birthday. this kind of thing happens once or twice a year and jacob's family can vouch for that. jacob also had a summons when he was only two years old. >>> well, i'm lynn barry and this is "early today" your first stop of the day

. >>> sean penn will receive an award from nobel peace prize winners for his relief work in haiti. >>> charlie sheen's ex brooke mueller has pleaded guilty to a cocaine charge in a deal that will wipe her record clean, if she serves a year of probation trouble-free. >>> james cameron plans to set a record riding his new submersible what he calls a torpedo seven miles into the western pacific. >> and finally, billionaire richard branson says he's booked his 500th customer to fly a future flight into space. that would be ashton kutcher. he paid $200,000 to go into space. >> we're so fascinated by how the rich play. let me go into a subseven miles into the pacific or fly into space. just go to the beach. >>> this comes to us from whdl seven news in boston. in yar mouth, one potential juror had an excuse to not do his civic duty. that's because jacob is 9 years old. that didn't stop him from getting a smons, his first reaction? what is jury duty? a census worker messed up jac jacob's birthday. jacob also got a summons when he was 2. oops. >>> i'm lynn berry. this is "early today." just yo

like any actor, any actor who walks and a set, i saw a picture with sean penn. if he did not tell you this, he knows it. when he goes on a set besides what laurence olivier said, when he walks on the set, he is terrified. you as a character are always searching for the truth. if you cannot find the truth, you cannot find the character. there is not enough truth. tavis: i am always amazed given how well the successful you have been musically, you still to this day have the fifth best- selling album of all time. >> they go between 3 and 5. depends on what you read. if you read "the l.a. times," it is 3. tavis: 3 or 5 top albums of all time in terms of sales. you're acting career took off before the music thing. >> long before. i started in new york in 1969 doing "hair." they gave me $12.50 a week not to do the nude scene, so the audience would be there for the second act. it worked. tavis: you took off from there. >> from "hair," i was lucky. there is luck involved. you have a natural talent but that does not make it your in the right place at the right time. ther

. >>> sean penn will receive an award from nobel peace prize winners from his relief work in haiti.mueller has pleaded guilty to a cocaine charge to a deal that will wipe her record clean, if she serves a year of probation trouble-had free. >>> james cameron claims to set a record riding his new submersable what he calls a torpedo into the western pacific. >> and finally, billionaire richard branson says he's booked his 500th customer to fly a future flight into space. it's ashton kuch ir. he apparently dropped 200,000 bucks. you know he's single now. he's got nothing better to do. >> 500 people signed up for 200,000. that's a lot of zeros. >> a lot of people with a lot of money. just for a trip to space. i'm lynn berry. this is "first look" on msnbc. stay tuned "way too early with willie geist" starts right now. >>> mitt romney is happy to be out of the south and poised, according to most polls, to win the state of illinois tonight. the question is, will the romney campaign's math argument become more compelling with a big win in a big state like illinois? we'll talk live in a seco

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he's been seen around these hallways with people like sean penn. he is very, very outspoken about his views, but at the end of this year, that will come to an end. one of congress's leading liberal voices defeated by a fellow democrat. >> many of you in this room have known me for years, and you know that i've lost campaigns before. so. there's always a tomorrow. you know? you know, don't cry any tears for me. >> reporter: thanks to redistricting lines redrawn by ohio republicans, democratic congressman dennis kucinich was pitted against marcy kaptor, the dean of the ohio delegation. >> i was the individual in the delegation that had the portrait painted of he and his wife that hangs in his office when they were married. >> the friendship devolved into a nasty campaign fight fast. still biller on election night. >> i would like to be able to congratulate congresswoman kaptor, but she ran a campaign in the cleveland media market that was utterly lacking in integrity with false statements, half-truths, misrepresentations. >> reporter: when it became

like sean penn when he testified, he has actually been getting his hands dirty and doing the work inaiti. i do not see anything wrong with them having an opinion and expressing its. host: next is ron in detroit. caller: good morning. i do not see any problem with celebrities influencing the politicians because they have a right. they are americans. we do have -- i have just art of listening to advice and i am embarrassed by of the comments that some of these ignorant people make about anything. i think celebrities have a right and in influence. people can trust them if they like them. this is our right to freedom of speech. i think we have a problem then a lot of people did not believe in that. host: front page of "the chicago tribune" -- you can see the picture. the other lead story this morning is romney moving up campaigning. republican front runner will ride friday -- a ride friday. those are the two stories. here is "the 8 risch daily news" -- -- "the anchorage dailty news" -- host: that report is coming out today. that is the front page of "of the anchorage daily news." here is

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sean: tonight on our great, great american panel, he's syndicate the columnist, rich lowry. she is a national independent editor for go vote dot-com, marjorie clifton is with us. he is the president of the penncial group, author of the next great, bold market, matt mccall is here. everyone agrees that sarah palin is know running? >> i agree. >> sean: okay. as a follow-up to the vetting we had, the president's association with radical professor bell, of harvard, introducing and hugging him and finding out he supported farrakhan, his motto is that to live to harass white people, white boys -- all terms he has used. we had sarah palin on the program. after that appearance, the obama campaign goes after this show, andrew breitbart and sarah palin in an ad. >> barack obama has never been seen in the conventional, >> sean: a person that professor bell was hugging said his motto is to live to harass white people. it's on tape and we played it. sarah palin, i believe that was accurate. why are they going after sarah palin? >> she's completely accurate. our country's moving in the right direction for a very long time, sean. all of a sudden, we have class warfare and we have a race card. everything's