ted turner. welcome back, ted. >> good to be here. >> how does it feel to be back? >> good. >> does it? >> yeah. >> are you still proud of cnn? >> absolutely. >> do you still watch cnn. >> i watch it. you bet. >> you like what you see? >> i like most of what i see. >> you always said about cnn, the news should be the star. >> well, that was the philosophy that we started with. but it really was the only place open for us because all the other news networks, cbs, nbc and abc, they emphasized their stars and we didn't have any stars. we were lucky to have employees. >> if you had the competition that's around now in cable when you first started, in other words, if there had been a fox news with right wing star anchors, msnbc had rachel and the others. would you do anything differently? >> i'd have to really give it a lot of thought and a lot of study, which i have not done because nobody has asked he to do it. i value my time greatly. i'm working on nuclear weapons, trying to get rid of them and working on the climate and getting us to change over to clean energy and

ted turner. welcome back. how does it feel? >> good. >> does it? >> yeah. >> are you proud of cnn? >> absolutely. >> do you watch it? >> you bet. >> do you like what you see? >> most of it. >> you always said about cnn, the news should be the start. >> that was the philosophy that we started with, but it really was the only place open for us. all the other networks emphasized their stars and we didn't have any stars. we were luck to have employees. >> if you had the competition and if there had been a fox news with right wing star anchors, msnbc had rachel maddow and the others, would you do anything differently? >> i would have to give it a lot of thought and study which i have not done. nobody asked me to do it. i value my time greatly. i'm working on nuclear weapons and trying to get it to change over to clean energy and stabilize the population before the world is so overcrowded. i am working on things where i can make a difference now. i don't have any input on a regular basis here. >> do yo

. >> ted turner created this network and never has been shy about speaking his mind. >> the money is ted turner has been called captain outrageous. >> i lost my fortune most of it and had a billion or two left. >> hoary rewrote his own version of the ten commanders. >> jane fonda said this about him. >> i'm so proud of him. he has done so much good work in the world. >> former president george w. bush. >> i want to stay connected to the veteran community. i won't be a public person. this is a rare interview for me. >> the wounded warriors and keeping america great. this is piers morgan tonight. . >> two big introduce. the first is with ted turner, but also an outspoken man and what he thinks of television and america and his life. a rare interview where george w. bush talks about keeping america great and the cause closest to

. >> ted turner has never been shy about speaking his mind.onight, he tells all. >> the moneyed interests are taking over the country. >> mouth of the south. >> i lost my fortune, most of it. i have a billion or two left: you can get by on that if you economize. >> and a man whose ex-wife says this about it. i'm so proud of him. he's done so much good work in the world. >> george w. bush. >> i want to stay connected to the veteran community. i'm not going to be a public person. this is a rare interview for me. >> this is "piers morgan tonight." >> good evening the first ted turner, a tv pioneer. but, also, a very out spoken man and a rare interview for president george w. bush. if anyone knows about keeping america great is a former american president. >> after 9/11, millions of

. >> ted turner has never been shy about speaking his mind. moneyed interests are taking over the country. >> now, for the south. >> i lost my fortune, most of it. i have a billion or two left: you can get by on that if you economize. >> and a man whose ex-wife says this about it. i'm so proud of him. he's done so much good work in the world. >> george w. bush. >> i want to stay connected to the better of community. i'm not going to be a public person. this is a rare interview for me. >> this is "piers morgan tonight" . >> good ef ening the first ted turner, a tv pioneer. but, also, a very out spoken man and a rare interview for president george w. bush. if anyone knows about keeping america great is a former american president.

. >> if you take a ted turner a donald trump or a warren buffett, you take a bill gates.had -- i think what the president and mitt romney are saying, they had help along the way, from teachers coaches and publicney and government employees and infrastructure that enabled them to be -- to enable their drive to succeed. >> yeah. >> you know what's interesting about this is whatever the truth about it is romney believes he has found an attack that works by just taking that line out of the context that you played and re meeting it. he must believe it's successful. he had an ent yesterday and in the background, it said, you did build it" and trying to drive home the message. the obama campaign recognizes this and has been trying to put it in context. this is something that's going to play out. the question: can the 2u8 context of the statement get through or is it the attack line? it's the push and pull in a presidential race. >> yeah. >> it becomes the defining issue in this campaign. for the moment, there is a lot of back and forth. >> yeah. >> he was on the war room with je

at cnn, at some point ted turner, owned the bulk of the stock of the company and no long her a managementdone the same thing at microsoft. unfortunately the management units that the white house don't understand what management is all about. and, frankly, they are just trying to distort the situation because they are shamed of 8.2% unemployment and the fact that they have ignored the workers of america for the last four years. >> or maybe they are trying to ex-plate the situation because it seems like bain is sticking. i mean, obviously they are coming back around to something from a pr perspective alone. seems to be problematic. hang on. one second. let me ask this quick question -- good that's the unfortunate thing for me. i think -- we are trading in the currency of public relations because the truth is whether or not mitt romney was there making management decisions in 1999 or 2002, you are operating on the presumption, if some job was outsourced and rational economic decision was made, then that's bad. we immediate to progress to the debate which is the conditions in this country, so

this guy, ted turner here in atlanta, he buys land at the city can get the money back for not growingood on the land. that is money that could be used for people who cannot help themselves. >> what you think about potential changes of welfare to work programs? caller: if people can find jobs, that is fine. i think most people want a job. everyone thinks the people who are poor are just doing what they do because this is what they do. there are people who are really disabled. i see them every day. there are people hurting. i think the average people should stop attacking those people. host: mitt romney's tenure at bain capital is a conversation. president obama, he was on state of the union and the address is time for 1992 to 2002. [video clip] >> the story is that he was the sole shareholder of the company and took no interest in any of the decisions they made. they can make that case. if we know that the boston globe, bloomberg news, have called the reporting that call these assertions into question. they could release the board, the could release the minutes from that time. other re

turner field in atlanta. the special event was hosted by fox sports and the atlanta braves. finally $54.1 million. that's how much "tedbear pulled in at the box office this weekend. it beat the stripper movie by about $10 million. gretch? >> there's a new movie called "brave" that was really good. >> that was fourth. >> thank you, brian. forget big brother. nowadays, it's more like big parents. more moms and dads are getting tech savvy to spy on their kids. >> reading every text and watching their every move, sometimes with g.p. s., lori andrews is a lawyer and author of "i know who you are and i saw what you did." i'm reading this and it looks like -- the research looks like it's important to know what your kids are doing on line and everywhere else but to keep their trust. how do you keep their trust and still know what they're doing? >> it's a tough call because many times parents haven't provided the people skills to children by just monitoring them as opposed to talking to them. and it's often too late by the time you see something on line, a british study of 1,000 families found that it didn't decrease the risk