. >> is tavis smiley on pbs? is that it, or is there more coming? tavis: i hope there is more coming. we are doing so many things every day. we have the tv show, two different radio shows, and i do a show with cornell west. i have a foundation. >> do you want to do a movie? do you want to be something we would not associate you normally with? tavis: i am comfortable here. there are a lot of things i want to do, but nothing turns me on more than being able to sit i am a very curious person. i love learning. >> people don't want to o sit nt to you on a plane? tavis: i am pretty quiet, i am usually reading on planes. i love the time sitting here asking questions. >> would you say you are happy? tavis: i am happy. >> is that a state of mind or a condition? tavis: it is both. i don't think we are always happy or always sad. the word i refer more than happy is content. i want to accomplish more, but i think happiness comes and goes. >> do you think you need is content to be content? tavis: yes. you have turned philosopher on me now, larry. >> one of the g

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smiley. nationwide insurance is proud to join have this in working to improve financial literacy and working to remove obstacles one at a time. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> what an honor to have barry manilow and his piano on the set to night. it is hard to believe we have not seen a project of new music in 10 years, but that is about to change. it is an honor to have you in this program. >> i have been looking forward to doing tavis:: 20 years i have been in the broadcast business, and i have never had the honor of sitting with an artist for an entire conversation at the piano. first time ever. >> i know you were talking about this yamaha thing. my first piano nybot after i did the mcdonald's jindal -- the first piano i purchased after i did the mcdonald's and jindal, i insisted i would get a sign way piano when i finally got some money. i was in a studio apartment now. it was so huge, the piano. i slept on a couch, and i slept under the piano. when i rolled out of bed, it went under the pian

smiley. we are proud to join him in working to improve the plans to literacy and of removing the obstacles to economic empowerment one at a time. >> and from contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> we are pleased to welcome kenneth brannagh to this program. out this weekend with what promises to be one of the biggest films so far this year. natalie portman and chris hens worth, now here seen in "thor." >> through your arrogance and stupidity you have brought these peaceful realms and innocent lives the horror and desolation of war. you are unworthy of these powers, unworthy of this title. you are unworthy. i take it from you in the name of my father and his father of four -- and his father before. i cast you out. >> we know you and celebrate she was a wonderful celebration shakespearean actor. how does that and formed this? >> you have anthony hopkins, a fantastic shakespearean actor remain -- bringing tremendous brought the cost of the role of the open. -- of odin. when he says -- i cast you out -- you feel the high stakes. at the center of the story, a troubled royal family with the fates of many other people's dependent on how they

smiley. we are about to join him in improving literacy and improving obstacles to economic empowerment. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: please welcome william h. macy back to the program. he has schist finish the first season of "shameless." the show has been picked up for a second season. here is say scene. >> did you miss me? have one. >> go way, frank. >> a pen, mr. barkeep. it is disability date. >> i thought they had a guy falling you are around with a camera. >> they couldn't follow me around if they wanted to. they can catch me doing anything. what's with the crowd? crack's a layout. >> that is the problem with working. too much instability. stress. tavis: what is the message? you are scanning the government. you're a drunk father of six kids. as we saw, you get your checking go to the bar. where is the social redemptive value of the character? >> what was the first part? [laughter] that is the bad news. the good news is he as a great sense of humor. he loves his children. or at least he knows their names. [lau

smiley. nationwide is proud to join in romp iinvei fancial literacy and working to remove obstacles to economic empowerment. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions from your pbs station -- to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- tavis: mark warner is serving his first term in the u.s. senate from virginia. he is a key member of the senate budget committee, who helped organize the bipartisan group known as the gang of six. it is always good to have you back on this program. >> thanks for having us back on. tavis: is it five or six? >> we have one republican who was going to take a break, but we have congressman who wrote a letter and said, hang in there. we have got to have some bipartisan solution, so we are still at it. tavis: what is the mission? what is the strategy? how did you farmout -- how to the five or six of you get the others to see it away you see it, to find some common ground? what is the strategy? >> you hit the nail on the heads. we have seen the republicans come up with mr. ryan's budget. we disproportionately m

smiley with every question and every answer, nationwide is proud to join tavis to improve literacy and empower one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: pleased to welcome robert kennedy junior to our program. he has dealt his life to environmental issues including the fight over coal. he has featured a new documentary about coal which is called "the last mountain" playing in theaters in select theaters. >> we are cutting down the ap lashian mountains literally. >> absolutely gigantic. >> blowing the tops off the mountain to get at the coal. >> coal is sort of a layer of cake, layer of coal, lake of rock, layer of coal, lack of rock and keep this process up until they reduce the mountain to rubble. >> they detonated explosives every day. and explosive power the size of a hiroshima bomb once a week. tavis: this documentary is about coal, but at the center of this documentary, sits an uncomfortable conversation in this country that we have to have about corporations versus democracy or put another way, when corporations take over the space that democracy ought to occupy. talk to me about

smiley. we're plant -- proud to join him and improving literacy and removing obstacles to economic empowerment. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ tavis: scott carney is a journalist whose eye opening new text is called "the red market." nice to have the on the program. >> thank you for having me. >> i want to start with a question. your body, you have calculated it on the underground market. it would be worth about a quarter of a million dollars. would my body and be worth? >> you have to be look at the above ground marquette first. we have blood, skeletons, ligaments. for my -- man, maybe the sperm. you are famous and so may be worth a little more. every market is completely different. when you are selling on the black market, it is about how much you can bargain for. it is like selling a used car. when i am selling a kidney, that broker who is doing the transaction is going to want to buy it for as cheap as possible. it will sell it for as much as they can get it. tavis: at least a quarter of a million dollars. in all seriousness, i am trying to get a sense of what kind of position

smiley. with every question and answer, nationwide works with tavis to have an economic empowerment one step at a time. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> sheila bair is the chairman of the fdic that has served under presidents bush and obama during one of the most tumultuous times in american history. she steps down after winning bipartisan praise about her handling of the banking crisis. delighted to have you on this program. >> i am happy to be here. tavis: because it is breaking news, i will not be surprised thank you cannot say anything about it. bank of america announced plans to set aside $14 billion to pay investors who bought securities assemble for mortgages that later soured. without talking about the case specifically, what should the american people make of this move? >> i can only talk about this decision. i never comment on operating institutions. i think it is important for all banks that have involved in the origination and servicing of these troubled mortgag

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smiley. with every question and answer, nationwide insurance is happy to help tavis improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: i am pleased to welcome sugar ray leonard back to this program. he became a household name after the summer olympics in montreal, he went on to become one of the most well-known boxers. he is out with a memoir about his life and career. it is called "the big fight," about life in and out of the ring. >> always a pleasure. tavis: that me jump in and deal with this and then get to the other stuff. when i first saw the book and read it, my first question was, why? why would sugar ray feel the need to talk about molestation as a fighter? why? >> that question has been asked and at times i questioned myself why i revealed as much as i did. you know, chavis -- tavis, there are things that i can't close to my heart, to my quest for over 30 something years. -- there are things that i kept close to my heart, to my chest, for over 30 something years. there was not a day that went by, whether i was i

smiley. with every question and answer, nationwide insurance is happy to help tavis improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: always pleased to welcome the king of talks, larry king to this program. i am the one against to ask the questions tonight. there is plenty to ask banks to the release of this terrific new text, "truth be told -- off the record about favorite guests, memorable moments, funniest jokes, and a half century of asking questions." could you make that subtitle any longer? [laughter] >> subtitles' are big now. i want to make a historic announcement. my first television appearance in 25 years in which i'm not wearing braces. just for tonight, i'm going back after the next appearance. i thought that this was such a special show that people can see that i wear other things. tavis: prove it. i want to see this. oh, my. larry king without suspenders. how did this start, larry? >> my ex-wife, sharon, a lovely lady, i had just gotten heart surgery. we were going out to dinner. we were divorced but y

on china." with his reading. >> yes. difference -- >> you help us all live better. tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy a time. pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] >> dr. henry kissinger's long career includes his time as u.s. secretary of state, during which he was awarded the nobel peace prize. he made a historic trip to china, which ushered in an era end a relationship that continues to grow in importance and complexity. his new book is called "on china." thank you for your time. let me start with some basics. how much of the way we view china and the way they do business has to do with this huge and gap between the numbers of people -- 300 million americans, and 1.3 ha billion chinese people -- how much of the way we see things differently has to do with the number of citizens? >> china is too vague, and -- ibg, and it has a huge population compared to any other country, and governing hough and 1.3 billion people -- governing 1.3 billion people is a huge task, so some of the problems have to do with the difference in numbers. some house to do with

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