take that, steven colbert. president obama has always been accused of being too fast. they still give him the nobel peace prize, and he accepted it. lastly, if you take the nobel peace prize money [unintelligible] i consider some of you my peers. [laughter] because i use the campus newspaper. i think journalism [unintelligible] i was going in the year of the course, that is why i am a naysayer person -- your of the course. that is why i am a naysayer. -- a year of the horse -- your of the horse. that is why i am a naysayer. thank you, very much. i became a usc as some -- i became a u.s. citizen in 2008. america is number one. that is true become -- true because we won the world series every year. after becoming a u.s. citizen, i immediately registered to vote for barack obama and joe biden. you're welcome. [laughter] after giving him elected, i figured i sure run for president myself -- after getting him elected, i figured i should run for president myself. it probably made a difference, but it is really hard to tell. now, we have a president who is half black and half

as did steven colbert. >> you've got the e-mail, the web browsing, music video, you can shield your eyessun. and just look how quickly it makes delicious salsa. bam! >> reporter: and in the mother of product placements, the latest "modern family" episode revolved around the ad as a birthday gift. >> not so hard, but touch it. touch it, but don't touch it. >> reporter: starting at 500 bucks, the ipad is not a heavy-duty computer. there are a lot of tasks it won't do. if your thing is web surfing, getting e-mails, playing music, video or games, many tech writers say it's perfect. >> i'm really impressed by it. i haven't let it out of my hands the entire time. >> reporter: when i look at the electronic gadgets i carry in the course of the day, laptop, cell phone, blackberry, various blue tooth headsets, cameras, do i really need the ipad? i do not really need the ipad. do i want the ipad? yes. just like all those people lined up tonight, george lewis, nbc news, santa monica. >>> good for george for being honest. we'll take a break. so many arthritis pain relievers -- i just want fewer pills

i even said it to steven colbert. [laughter] was line of questioning was not so different from what you're on capitol hill. but anyway there is no evidence, none. what does it take to change the consensus, two of the opinion of people like you away from perhaps being worried, that's why you're here tonight, to begin convinced this is an enormous problem and making it the largest banks smaller is essential. in 1902 teddy roosevelt, the president of the united states, decided to take on the northern securities which was a massive monopoly, railroad monopoly trade by jpmorgan and some of his colleagues and when teddy roosevelt did that nobody understood why he was doing it. nobody thought he had a chance. the senate was called the millionaires' club for a reason and actually there was no seeley about why this was a good idea. all of the modern antitrust thinking came after roosevelt decided to confront jpmorgan. jpmorgan came to the white house. he was upset. and he said if we have done anything wrong with regard to the

i even said to steven colbert. [laughter] whose question is interesting, his line of questioning wasn't so different from what to here on capitol hill in some quarters. [laughter] but anyway, there is no evidence. none. what does it take to change the consensus? what would it take to move the opinion of people like you away from perhaps being a little worried. that is why you're here tonight to be convinced this is an enormous and pressing problem and making the banks smaller is essential? in 1902, teddy roosevelt, the president of the united states, decided to take on number securities, which was a massive monopoly, railroad monopoly created by jpmorgan and some of his colleagues. and when teddy roosevelt did that nobody understood why he was doing it. nobody thought he had a chance. the senate was called the millionaires' club for a reason and actually there was no fury about why this was a good idea. all of the modern antitrust thinking came after roosevelt decided to confront jpmorgan. jpmorgan came to the whit

so along with comments from chuck todd or jake tapper or ed henry or steven colbert, you'd get a steadyt of pitches for the likes of starbucks, best buy, virgin america and bravo. well, colbert did ask biz stone if he had some kind of plan. >> are you going to make money off of this? >> yes. >> how? >> we're going to become a strong, profitable independent company. >> the move comes as some media holdouts are joining twitter's 105 million registered users and talking about it on the air. >> we're ready to go. here it is 8:58:43, it's out. yes, there it is. see. i give up, i was wrong, young and foolish. >> i'm katie couric. thanks for watching. good night. >> i asked my 24,000 followers what they think of the new advertising policy and here are some of the responses. scott easeman, i have no issue with it. twitter is a free service. they've given us a great service. time to give back. another way to trash a good thing. it's all downhill from here. jack state fan, there are already a lot of sell-promoting selling tweets on here already. that's true. people like to promote themselves. the

guest: i was on with the steven colbert and he said we need to keep nuclear weapons because we needed to have the power to destroy the world. what if someone else wanted to destroy the world first? we needed to be able to do it first. it turns out you can pretty much destroy the world with about 100 nuclear weapons, 100 nuclear weapons and set off, let's say, in the south asia that would shrove boat berthed in clouds, blocking out the sunshine, -- i wish route to the earth in clouds, blocking in the sunshine. 100 will do it. we have 10,000. one of these weapons destroys a city. how many do you really need? can't you get down to a few hundred? that is the goal for this decade. we can agree to cut down these weapons. not blindly follow some idealistic past, but for the reasons that many strategic advocates are up -- strategic experts are advocating. it could prevent terrorist -- is in our security interest to prevent terrorists from getting these weapons. it is in our security interest to have as few of these weapons as possible. host: an article in the "washington post" this morning --