his latest project is a new book featuring some of his favorite tweets. he also continues to record and perform with his banjo. we are glad that you have joined us. our conversation with steve martin, coming up right now. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where walmart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: pleased to welcome steve martin back to this program. the iconic comedian, actor, and writer is also a musician. his latest cd is called "where bird alert -- rare bird alert." he is also an avid tweeter. is that a word? >> it is now. tavis: his new book is a collection of some of his favorite tweets, "the ten -- make that nine habits of very organized people. make that 10 -- the tweets of steve martin." >> it is a good title to read, not to say. you have to kind of look at it rather than say it. tavis: especially with the lines and the circles.

tweet., some lucky lady at nyc is going to feel a couple of inches of pain tonight. shockingly the unlucky shock, the normal unshockable who fired off the following demand to anyone who would pay attention again, outrage doesn't begin to describe the reaction of the asian american journalist association to your unnecessary and demeaning tweet. of course the writer took the bait and on sunday wrote the following mea-culpe, quote, i then gave in to another part of my personality. the comedic nature that has been with me since birth. a gift from my mother and listening to my richard pryor album. i still want to be a stand up comedian. let's go to our cool cat in a bowl. >> he is too awesome to comment. >> i would be too. i don't know where to start with this story. it blows my mind. i will go to you. when an organization begins with outrage does it begin to describe our reaction? they are setting the bar kind of high. are they angry that their building burned down? how are you be outraged? >> i

during this time frame if you believe any of your tweets could be considered disorderly conduct. i don't think anything in the sort of the conduct statute allows for tweeting i actually don't remember what i was saying and since they're far enough back i don't have access to them through twitter. i don't think there's anything there that they would find of interest but apparently they do now this is a centrally a traffic take at a you call a politically motivated traffic take and why well the prosecution of seven hundred people on the brooklyn bridge there are there is there are actions that go over the brooklyn bridge sherry runs or whatever all the time and no one arrests them. what they arrested seven hundred people there was for was disorderly conduct. in act of civil disobedience and that's why it's politically charged now there were hundreds of people like. any other cases that you know of the prosecutor is trying to get twitter information from political activists. so far mine is the only one i know of connected with the bridge and now do you think but do you think that th

and that is with the hashtags fear mongering and another tweet there the n.s.a. is reprehensible fear mongering and attempts to discredit anonymous are transparent and the baseless. now i'm not i mean. not to mention the fact that why would they cut off their power that's how they stay in touch with their followers through e-mail exactly and so far anonymous has been used like to make political purpose is to make political statements why than what they target civilians where is the motivation there. it does seem like fear mongering to me i don't know the specifics of what the n.s.a. was saying but i think whatever you shut down information sharing whatever you shut down whenever you threaten. activists groups whether they be electronic or people out in the street protesting something if you threaten with a military response and physical violence on the part of the government i don't think that's acceptable we're seeing them labelled these sorts of groups as cyber terrorism and we're seeing when somebody gets off their computer and they go out into the street and

those tweets were stupid. this whole thing you were saying about the cookout, he said if your kids come to my cookout and get out of line there will be ass whippings. and then he said, oh, there is a lot of ass whipping going on. >> when are you a comedian you are not funny. when you are a regular person and not funny are you fired. >> actually when he said he was going to beat the ish that stood for interested sexy hunks. >> bill, you get gay bashed all the time and you are straight. what is your take on this? >> there should have been a legend in there. i am very private, greg. the guy bashes him? i have been trying to have a meeting for weeks to talk about productive issues. possibly over some apple tinis fnlt no one returns my phone calls. i talked to groups at mad. it doesn't mean they are not against getting drunk. the only time i can handle students it is sad are when they are drunk. >> you do realize you have no absolute right to a job, right? >> that's true. >> his i'm -- his employee can fire him. >>

some tweets to street. is this for real? is rick legit.fter santorum's string, his support has doubled. take his support from before and then you multiply it by two. according to that, rick is tied about mitt at 36%. on thursday when asked if he thinks a good idea or bad about rules of women taking front line in combat. >> i do have concerns about women in front line combat. that could be a compromising situation where people naturally may do things that that may not be in the interests of mission because of other types of emotion that are involved. >> what great group behind him. >> he wanted to clarify his remarks. >> we have men and women in combat. i think men have emotions when you see a woman in harm's way. it's natural, it's very much in our culture to be protective. israeli army has a lot of women but they don't allow them to be engaged in combat, to try to be in a position where to try to protect. >> greg: he takes a lot. let's go live to d.j. papa. ♪ ♪ >>> you can be playing in our redeye anniversary pretty soon. but he has huge

i don't believe you can tweet. >> most of my tweets are done by somebody i talk to. >> udick tate it.> that's right. >> the secret comes out. >> it's no secret, i said that all along. i said that all along. i set up my tweet account. didn't say i was a master tweeter. >> that tom sherwood. barry was so determined to show our tom sherwood he could handle the social media network, he sent out a tweet right as the show was ending. the tweet, thom sherwood. it sent out a flurry of responses and retweets. way to go. >> isn't it the case because you are the queen of all tweets. isn't it the case a lot of stars and politicians have other people tweet for them? >> they do. but there is a huge responsibility when it comes to twitter and your reputation. a lot of times like former mayor barry was saying, they let somebody else -- they dictate it. >> don't give it verbatim. >> it really isn't. i think it's hilarious. he's hilarious. >> i don't think you can do it. anyway. one ning i can tell you for s e one ning i can tell you for s e sure, you should be tweeting denny's new sizzlin' skillets ar

, i see a tweet from you. >> uh huh. >> jimmy: so, andrew, andrew sends a tweet saying, "can josh gadhat i'm embarrassed about is we did not bring snacks. >> jimmy: oh my gosh. yes, we did, we saved you there. >> i know, i know. >> jimmy: everybody grab a piece. >> everybody gets a piece of that. but yeah, we should have, we could have planned -- it happened so quickly. who knew the power of twitter. >> i have pretzels in my back pocket. >> jimmy: you do? [ light laughter ] >> yeah. >> jimmy: do you really? >> gummy bears. >> no, that's my other suit. >> jimmy: that'd be funny if you actually did just carry around a couple of spare pretzels, yeah. just snacks in your pocket. >> yes. >> jimmy: but then i tweeted you right back. >> you did, you did. >> jimmy: i said, "of course, come on over." >> yeah. >> jimmy: and now you're here. >> i know, well we thought, it was, i heard it was broadway week, and i thought, you know, josh and i just felt a little left out, frankly. >> jimmy: oh my gosh. this is insane. >> we're on broadway. we just, our feelings were maybe, like a little hurt. >> j

not only that, but you are under this pressure to tweet and tweet and tweet. >> right. that's the danger, and you just have to be careful, and you have to be mindful, and you also need to know that there are consequences. those tweets, as clever as you're going to be, at some level you're going to be held accountable in the public statements. >> it's not just twitter. pat buchanan has not been on msnbc for months. he wrote a book about race and immigration that said some things that shouldn't be part of the national conversation. one thing we've agree odd here is if you have a role on air and it is a privilege to be on the air, anything you say in any other forum could be used against you because it's not a right. you have to leave it there. >> shouldn't be a surprise. words matter, right? >> no matter where and how they're said. >> coming up in the second part of ""reliable sources" "whitney houston, how she went from a media sweetheart to a tragic figure, and the guy the press was all but ignoring, rick santorum, has a triple triumph in the campaign. why were the pund

when we come back, tweeting into trouble. david carr of the nor"new york times" on how far journalists can go in the twitter world. you know when i grow up, i'm going to own my own restaurant. i want to be a volunteer firefighter. when i grow up, i want to write a novel. i want to go on a road trip. when i grow up, i'm going to go there. i want to fix up old houses. [ female announcer ] at aarp we believe you're never done growing. i want to fall in love again. [ female announcer ] discover what's next in your life. get this free travel bag when you join at aarp.org/jointoday. the calcium they take because they don't take it with food. switch to citracal maximum plus d. it's the only calcium supplement that can be taken with or without food. that's why my doctor recommends citracal maximum. it's all about absorption. >>> tweeting can be dangerous to your journalistic health. it became even more obvious after cnn suspended roland martin for a couple tweeter groups during the souper bowl. is the problem pundits keep crossing an

i set up my tweet account. didn't say i was a master tweeter. >> barry was so determined to show our tom sherwood he could handle the social media network, he sent out a tweet right as the show was ending. the tweet said, tom sherwood. the two word tweet sent off a flurry of responses and retweets. conditi condition. >> i wouldn't want him asking me all the tough questions, i don't think you can do it. i can do it, i swear. >> chuck does all my tweets. you can direct it towards him. >> not true. not true at all. >>> we will be tweeting about the wind for ok, guys-- what's next ? chocolate lemonade ? susie's lemonade... the movie. or... we make it pink ! with these 4g lte tablets, you can do business at lightning-fast speeds. we'll take all the strawberries, dave. you got it, kid. we have a winner. we're definitely gonna need another one. small businesses that want to grow use 4g lte technology from verizon. i wonder how she does it. that's why she's the boss. because the small business with the best technology

if you for a while because you were on contract with a certain network fox news according to your tweets that i've been reading you are no longer going to be doing that just do you want to tell us briefly why is your tweet seems quite opinionated about why i. know it's look it's been a great run ten years you know it's time for me to move on i mean i've been under an exclusive contract at fox for the last ten years i'd like to be able to do other media but i had a great time and it's just time to move on that's what i'm going to say about that mike your tweets up here right now it says i don't have to deal with their propaganda anymore you want to add me thinking. well look i just think there's a big opportunity out there right now to talk about economics and policy sort of in a non mainstream way and that's what i do and that's what i bring to the table and i think you know my voice might fit better at another venue we'll see but i had a great run it's a great organization and it's time to move on my you personally mike what can i say i couldn't agree with you more about the opportunity

megyn tweeting. >> at megyn kelly.low me. >> bill: we will find out why you are not tweeting are roland martin i hope. thank you. great american news quiz the singing edition. show you some of the best american song people ever coming right back. >> back ever the book segment tonight. the great american news quiz. the singing edition. representing elaine carr. fox news martha maccallum playing for bob. win nifty prizes go to bill o'reilly.com and sign up. >> got it out of your system. >> just getting ready. >> bill: all right. now, these are the best singers, i think, that are ever graced our shores. elvis presley. >> oh, yeah. >> 18 songs. number one on the charts during his career. which was his first number one hit? a heart break hotel. blue swad shoes. c hound dog. d teddy bear. first hit? cards up, please. let's roll that tape ♪ since my baby left me ♪ i found a new place to dwell ♪ down tell end of lonely street ♪ at heart break hotel ♪ i'll be so lonely ♪ i'll be so lonely i could die. >> bill: there he is. they

. >>> some people have been wondering does marion barry really tweet all his own tweets? barry revealed all in a feisty radio interview today. tom sherwood is in our newsroom with that. i could only imagine him being feisty. no other way. >> barry is 76 next month. he did talk about tweets but first we had to take care of some distractions. >>> former mayor and current council member marion barry is running for re-election in the april 3rd primary. he showed up at wamu's politics hour friday determined to talk about issues. >> i have lifted the spirits and lifted the aspirations of the people inward 8. >> reporter: barry repeatedly dismissed questions about city ethics and criminal probes of former council member harry thomas, mayor gray, and council chairman kwame brown as distractions. >> i'm not going to get side tracked and distracted by these kinds of things. we're not going to get distracted. we have such great needs over there that i am not going to be distracted by you trying to ask these questions. >> they're not side questions. >> i think they are. >> as to a se

mariah carey had several tweets tonight.of the greatest voices to grace the earth. you might have grown up on whitney houston. i'd crank up the music to her in my car and sing of course when nobody else was around because nobody could touch that voice. >> talent. talent is always appreciated, jackie. as i was saying to larry king, it's interesting when, you know, people now you need auto tune and a whole host of computers. anybody can, if you have the right people behind you, have a music career. but not everybody has talent like whitney houston. i want to say, jacky, as you've been reading the responses from twitter there, out of the ten trending topics on twitter right now, whitney houston eight of them. we have responses coming in, bruno mars, melanie griffith. chilli says i am a mess right now. this takes me back to a sad place with lisa. so sad. the death of whitney houston, we're going to be back in a moment. do we have the music queued up for for whitney. "i will always love you." ♪ and i will always love you i will a

when i set up my tweet account. i never said i was a master tweeter. >> reporter: just after the show ended barry showed he could in fact do a tweet himself by tweeting two words -- tom sherwood. which set off a flurry of retweets and comments on twitter itself. barry had distracted the twitter world. in the twitter world, tom sherwood, news 4. >> marion barry says he does only about 1% of his own tweets. he says he has two other people who tweet what he dictates. >> new information about this year's easter egg roll at the white house. it a it's going to be held on monday, april 9th. the president and first lady michelle obama made the announcement today. the event will feature live music and games. kids 13 years and younger are welcomed to go along with their families. tickets will be distributed through an online lottery system beginning march first. >>> an all new district matters broadcast airs tonight right here on nbc 4. not tonight. it's tomorrow at 7:30 in the evening. the episode takes place or at least par

be careful what you post online or in a tweet. christin ayers shows us why he is in trouble over one tweet. >>> reporter: his name is mike rood, a sergeant with oakland police department in trouble over a single tweet. >> we were made aware of a post on twitter by one of our police sergeants that was controversial. >> reporter: it was directed at the president of ultimate fighting championship whose website had just been defaced by "anonymous." his response, get those hacking blanks. i'm a cop in the bay area. i would go at them with both guns. >> fighting words that quickly set off "anonymous." >> there's been a lot of traffic on facebook and on twitter regarding the comments. >> reporter: the tweet went viral. a rallying cry sparking an avalanche of complaints from across the country on the richmond police facebook page. in his tweet, he expresses his desire to use firearms to deal with problematic people, says one complaint. i fear for the safety of the citizens of richmond. >> we're taking it under consideration and just seein

word searches turned up the following tweets from kids. i will bring a gun to class and shoot you, expletive, with a hash tag, stop over achieving, tweeted one user today. i want to kill everyone at school right now. you're all annoying. and another girl apparently tweeting about her bullying of a boy, said, i feel like, and she named the boy here, he would bring a gun to school and if he did, i would be the first one to get shot. i'm mean as, she used an expletive to him, lol. i asked high school kids today if they would tell anyone if they saw tweets like these. >> you don't know. that's the thing. i feel like it depends how well you know the person. like if you know the person and they are joking around, like oh, i'm going to kill all you, if you know the person well enough to know that they are kidding, you are serious. it's all right. >> i think it's important to know who the person is, if they are naturally, a person who gets in fights a lot. >> by the way, i did attempt to contact all of those kids who made those tweets and they are

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and the tweets you had up, there was no typos or misspellings in the tweets. and i feel like people -- women saying that stuff are so up there they wouldn't be able to type coherently. >> greg, i just want to p oi nt something out. a lot of people were not happy the grammies let him perform again. beyond the performing, the fact they gave him an award whichen aicials him to tweet -- which enables him to tweet, hate all you want because i got a grammy now says everything you did didn't matter. they just validated him. i think a lot of people were upset about this. >> stevie wonder was in the house, but didn't perform. who is running the grammies? how do you not have stevie wonder perform, but have you chris brown perform? >> he was in the beatles? >> stevie wonder? >> he was the drum who backed out. >> we idolize people who do things wrong. >> why are we idolizing singers. >> why should be idolizing teachers. >> yeah, right. >> but he got a slap in the hand and taken away for a year for beating the crap out of a woman. andrew dice clay got a lifetime ban for sa

tweet during the show. >> reminds us, we will be tweeting during commercial break that. >> we'vew. g that. >> we'veot g a good job for you with great perks next. >>> this just in, a military jury in hawaii has found a marine not guilty of hazing a santa clara native who later committed suicide in afghanistan. lance corporal carlos orozco was charged with assault, humiliation and cruelty stemming from the incident. two other marines have been tried for beating lance corporal harry lu. one was convicted, the other found not guilty. we will have more on the story tonight at 6:00. >>> it used to be nasa was looking for candidates with the right stuff. now it wants people simply to get stuffed. it's a job, right? nasa wants to hire six taste testers as it prepares for its mission to mars. hundreds have already applied for the gig. here are the details. the good news is it's in hawaii, that's nice. the downside, maybe it's an upside for some of you, is that you spend four months of the assignment cooped up in a fake mars habitat. while nasa wants to know is whether its astronauts are bet

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sergeant mike hood tweeted that he would go at hackers with "both guns". after that website for the ultimate fighting championship was hacked. >> reporter: it's a tweet that has made its rounds all across the web. a tweet from richmond police sergeant that case gets those hacker, expletive. it was a tweet sent last thursday to ultimate fighting championship president, dana white, whose away had been hacked after his company voiced support for antipiracy laws. today, the comments are gone, but the group unanimous has posted a video to youtube, showing the hundreds that were on there. they claim there were a thousand complaints within an hour. the department would only say they took down the messages and removed the ability to post after being bombarded by those comments. >>> richmond police say they are investigating to see if there were any policy violations. they have not issued a suspension yet. >>> we're seeing rain passing through the north, and there's a possibility it will hit us in the morning. >>> coming up -- the gop presidential nomination, one s

you don't have to tweet back to every, single person that tweets you. >> is that right?y: it's certainly nice of you to do. >> thanks. >> jimmy: you're like the white kanye west. this is ridiculous. >> i'm not good at tweet still. >> jimmy: it's not the quality. it's the quantity. that's what they say. >> then i'm kanye west. >> jimmy: you are. it's been a long time since "cougar town" was on. >> nine months. >> jimmy: nine months? >> yeah. >> jimmy: and the new season starts -- >> february 14th. on valentine's day. you know? we need you to watch. >> jimmy: you have a very loyal fan base. the show has -- people are almost participatory in the show, where they're drinking along with the show when they watch. >> i need to get back because i feel -- i've gone off the wagon. i've been on the wagon. i need to get back to work. >> jimmy: you guys drink at work. yes, you hit the microphone. you're drunk right now, aren't you? you didn't let cocoa drink wine when she was on the show, did you? >> is that bad? >> jimmy: i think it is. you have to wait until they're 9. yeah. we hav

looking back on it you can pretty much match tweet for tweet the facts but it's careful to be important, too. >> another tweet that struck us and you say it caused or expressed a lot of emotion. here it is. it says, i think we all need to thank our amazing staff and police. they did a great job. especially mr. hall for chasing the shooter out of the building. were a lot of the students talking about this? >> for sure. we saw a lot of tweets about coach hall and the math teacher. that was one of the first thank you to the police, thank you to these two teachers. that was the first step in healing, it seemed, which is almost immediate given how previously the shooting happened. they were around 10:00 or 11:00 in the morning. clearly the facts spread quickly. >> how are they tweeting in an effort to heal? >> you know, a lot of them change their profile pictures both on twitter and facebook to the school's logo in solidarity with each other. just like they're wearing their colors when they go to the i have vigils on school. they're supporting each other. inviting each other to each other's

no bullying by way of a computer or twitter or tweet. >> if convicted he could face a 10 year prison sentence that case has sparked a national discussion about bullying of young gays. it also led to the "it gets better" campaign >>> enterprise rent a car will support federal legislation that will increase oversight of how rental companies imagine safety recalls the company previously opposed new oversight consumer groups pushed for the law after a 2004 accident involving a renter cal that killed two sis first in california. the -- the car had been recall but enterprise didn't fix the problem. two years ago a jury award 15 million dollars to the victim's family. >>> new study shows the number of families living in extreme poverty in the u.s. has more than doubled in the pass 15 years. nearly 1 1/2 million families say they lived on two dollars a day or less, per person for at least one month in we have len 11. up from 636 -- up from 2011 up from 36 in -- that is still almost double the extreme poverty rate in the mid 90s that study was released by the researchers at the you have michi

that rose to the top. >> so that was re-tweeted a lot. >> yeah, and that's not what i want people to think i am about. i can turn it off. and it's a good thing to go in there and see what you are being effective about, and then turn it off if it's wrong. >> how do you use that information? you will stop talking about dogs? >> no, if i want to be influenti influential, if i have a green roofing company, then i want to make sure i am tweeting heavily about things that are helpful in that industry, where people will see me as an expert. if i am tweeting effectively and doing facebook about that, when you look at my klout score, it will say i am green or something like that, and if something erroneous comes up, like pizza, i can turn it off. can you go and see what anybody is influential about. if i go into green homes and click on that, then i can see who are the top tweeters and social media people in that area as well. >> which is great if you are marketing your own company, right? so you go in and say you sell dog ware, and then you can go in and say who is influential in dogs and co

david i want to read you your own tweet, which i thought was the tweet of the night, congratulations.right. >> panhandle results not in so final numbers will tighten. and you were saying that they were going to tighten, and they have tightened. 46 to 32 now. so give us what is happening on the ground there. >> the romney campaign has been paying very close attention to the political optics. there was a time when it looked like 16 to 18 initially, and the romney campaign said let's not wait until the 9:00 hour let's go ahead and when the networks have already declared this let's go ahead and surf that commitment with the idea that maybe a lot of people would tune out of the coverage but at least it's a decisive ploy. but one thing i wanted to point out that the obama campaign is certainly looking at, and that is the national poll of independents. back in december mitt romney among independents had a 21% positive opinion, and 22% had a negative poll. and the latest poll had 22 positive, but 42%, almost twice as many on the negative side. so what that does for obama campaign says this pr