sonny bono was elected to the house after i left, but i knew him from television.d talk from time to time and would sometimes commiserate. i would ask if he had a problem with actors becoming politicians. >> sonny said that was not the problem. the problem was politicians becoming actors. that was a comment he made 20 years ago. >> back to the radio show. your producer, here is a little bit about what she does. tell us how she fits into the program? >> would you like to talk to grandy and andy? when fred says he is offended, are you offended or not offended? >> i appreciate your integrity to denounce back. >> so, jeremiah wright, what he said was not nonsense? >> you should be ashamed of yourself, but i know you're not. >> your are right, i am not. >> it is in no way offensive. when jeremiah wright talks, he says it is white america. they say the same thing of any country that is against the gospel. when anything happens there, they say it is cursed by god. it is a warped theology, but is in no way racist. >> that is a critical job. i do not know if they showed you

when did sonny west joined the entourage?>> when i made the deal with elvis to have security from memphis meet us so i can get back to california, when i called elvis who was at the office, to tell him that you wanted to meet about the meeting with the president, elvis said, and this is the type of friend that he was, he is going to go into the executive offices. nobody says no to elvis. i learn that. so what happened is that he said, gerry, go out in front of the hotel and i will swing by and pick you up on the way. he included his friends and everything. as i was waiting and i saw the limousine coming, i saw sunni getting out of a taxi -- sonny getting out of a taxi, and i said give your luggage to of ballet and we're going to the white house. >> how did the audition go? >> the audition went swimmingly. i did not know until i got a call from the gate that you guys were real. i thought that it would be an impersonator. this card says that there is someone here who look surprisingly like elvis presley. and he is wearing an in

sonny werblin in the mca office in new york was a tough, tough guy, smart. but nobody would take wasserman on. he was apparently just too intimidating, too formidable and too intimidating. c-span: didn't exercise, didn't exert himself to smile, had a dry sense of humor, little sleep, never committed anything to paper. any of those you want to explain? >> guest: well... c-span: returned all his calls (unintelligible) >> guest: right. he returned all his calls the same day, which was pretty remarkable. he never -- he didn't believe in committing things to paper. that was -- and that was something which -- you know, somebody -- swifty lazar once commented that mca was a lot like the mafia. and in that regard, wasserman was very similar to his friends, sidney korshak and others. those guys always knew that you didn't commit anything to paper. korshak would write on the back of a matchbook cover sometimes, if he really had to remember, you know, some -- some deal he'd just struck. and wasserman believed in that, too. he told me he was very proud when the governme

. >> sonny: the terps are doing ex lent from the perimeter. largely because of their safeties. when you come at them you put it on the floor so they are always a threat. any time eric hayes is shooting under 50% from the three point line. greivis vasquez also a threat from the perimeter. and jordan williams on the inside who is a scoring threat that opens the perimeter up for the terrapins. >> they've won two acc games against florida state and boston college with a tough loss at wake forest on january 12th. these two teams have never met before. maryland and longwood. we've got the starters and the tipoff coming up from college park. f e crairy f oesnst. ake-e. y lethin undr pi ere' credit fairy we will. by d time ann: thno m tovingcred bure's andfree sta forfas fn ta nesms? i bring you ariche ied sed scor andive m vinls. fs good! ..goodou. f bby? on't worry thast ter he a announced yos arts. for ten simple ways to learn how, visit americansforthearts.org >> steve: comcast sportsnet coverage of acc basketball brought to you by food lion. good neighbors, great prices. pepsi. re

sonny perdue's state of the state address. he was the first republican governor since 1870's. next, he will talk about his 17 years as governor and about georgia's state employees and his family. this is about half an hour. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> thank you all. thank you so much. mr. speaker and mr. president, president pro tem williams and speaker jones -- how does that sound? members of the general assembly, members of our judiciary, other distinguished guests, and most of all to my fellow georgians, we begin by congratulating the new speaker of the house. i have always enjoyed our past relationship, and i look forward to working with you both this year. i wanted thank you all kindly for that kind resolution. i would like to get a copy of the vote. [laughter] as previous governors, i have used this address to talk about the budget policies issues and rollout my legislative agenda. you are probably wondering why there is not a budget lying on your desk this morning. it is really there

david is correct sonny montgomery tried to stop it but it was ted weiss who stood in front of the train didn't let the act go through. and ted is a teenager and survived the holocaust so there wasn't much that the gentleman from mississippi could do to ted weiss to scare him. and for that reason vva made him the legislator of the year in '91 but i do want to correct something. the perception that creeps into the talk that american veterans, in fact, the problems have been addressed of american veterans and their families. and particularly the families of birth defects, the biggest concern right now of vietnam veterans is not our kids. it's grandkids. there's not a week that goes by that we don't have a young woman call the office and talk about her anomalies in her child -- wanting to know is it due to exposures to vietnam. the institute of medicine process that we have in place with the biannual review is a passive process so that they can only review original science done by somebody else. and currently there is not a single scientific study of agent orange of veterans funded by nih,

sonny on the democratic line in alabama. good morning.ller: i really wanted to agree with a couple of callers who activists said -- who actually set a good idea for american contractors to go down there. certainly in a disaster like this we should be assisting in any way we possibly can. it is a tragic situation. but that said, i'm not sure how long that military occupation will last down there, what are standing would be after we leave. logistically right now they are having problems getting airplanes into the airport. you said earlier the haitian government had stuff block the airport -- actually the haitian government seems to be almost absent. and we have several different military bureaucracies and ngo's working trying to call more need. çq. but this morning said this morning we cannot fly over their airspace -- cuba this morning. we need to be staging and getting them in and out without having been flying around so we have a disaster on the air. my final thought on this is, i told the support helping the people in haiti. it is a te

personally, in the car, dropped me off at the airport where i could get back to my job and then he and sonny took a commercial -- another commercial flight back to memphis. i think in his excitement about the visit, and we had a good friend, bill morris, who was the mayor back there, he was the one that got elvis as one of the 10 outstanding young americans which elvis mentioned to the president, who was one of those as well. then elvis, and i'm back in l.a., but he did make another trip and brought bill and a couple of people and he did not meet hoover. it was a lot harder to meet with j. edgar hoover than with the president. i can vouch for that. >> thank you. >> i'm just wondering, did you get to keep your job in l.a.? and how did the explanation go? >> very good one. great question. >> i did keep my job in l.a. there was no way i was going to tell them the truth. they would have never believed me. they would have fired me. so i just reported, i meant to call, i was sick, and i worked there for another few months and then elvis, he liked the way i'd set up with -- set things up with you a

. >> and now the state of the state address from georgia's governor, sonny perdue, as he sprs his final year in office, he reflects on his seven years as governor and talks about issues including mental health care spending and his proposal to change the way pay raises are awarded t thers. from the state capitol in atlanta, this is about half an hour. [applause] >> thank you, all. thank you so much. mr. speaker and mr. president, president pro tem williams and speaker pro tem jones -- how does that sound? [laughter] members of the general assembly, members of how judiciary, to the consulate core and to other distinguishes guests, and most of all to my fellow georgians, let me begin by congratulating the new speaker of the house, new speaker pro tem. i've always enjoyed our past relationships, and i look forward to working with you both this year. i want to thank you all very kindly for that very kind resolution. the i would like to get a copy of the vote count. [laughter] you know, as previous governors i've used this address to talk about the budget, policy issues and to roll out my le