>>> this week on our world with black enterprise, we sit down with tyler perry on his latest movie, a ma dee ya christmas. >> maybe you can keep on eye on my class while i go into the meeting. >> watch your class? me and children don't get along. >> plus, this actress has more than just one life to live. she's also in a world of the haves and have notes. >> it was a blessing in disguise for me. i didn't know what it was -- >> how much of a disguise and she said no. i had to beg her to take the role. >> finally, we visit the new jersey program introducing people to a life of law and order. >> we have a debater of the year competition where we debate in front of a real new jersey supreme court judge. >> that's what's going on in our see these hands? they gripped the wheel of a humvee in afghanistan. these hands? they're here for the person who fought in afghanistan. confidential help is just a call, click or text away. >> tyler perry is today's most successful film makers. at 44 this writer, director, producer and actor continues to pump out hits, earning $78 million this year and landi

and much of it will have nothing to do with terrorists what we're doing is said you're kidding tyler perry and procedures which is gathering information about all the individuals in the world. thousands have been taking to the streets to protest against what they see is their government becoming big brother when in the wake of nine eleven the patriot act are for an end to privacy many americans thought at least they'd be safe but with recent revelations even that tradeoff is on the question in washington i'm going to check on our take. i have to a website to learn more about america's surveillance that fits and get expert analysis on what u.s. spying means for the rest of the world and of course we'll bring you more on president obama's upcoming speech later today here on r.t. . last ditch diplomatic efforts full swing to bring all key poll players to the upcoming international peace conference on syria some major issues remain to be ironed out with less than a week left before the summit kicks off in switzerland let's get the latest now from artie's irina going to go who joins us here in

warren buffett, oprah, tyler perry, bill gates started with nothing.ted with nothin so the idea it is reaing you cannot win that is where i have a problem with our present and because he says he does not belie in freedo or capitalism but what he really says bill whole philosophicalrgument is we have to move to government intervention to prevent this unfairness. john: lecter household said, americans have gotten richer. seven and a $50 but in today's dollars that is 20,0. 1947, 31,000. today it is 62,000. >> my first year out of college and 80,000 and three years jittery to of hundred 50,000 an extra 96,000. do you know, whose fault that was? might. every one of those was my fault. i am in the environment and i believed but it is not a crisis of inequality but a crisis of belief we can go into the marketplace to ing in an end to resell them the idea they cannot succeed resell them that socialism is the answer. john: i had to parents. i could go to a good high school. many people have a harder start. >> absolutely. people start from different places we a

warren buffett, oprah, tyler perry, bill gates started with nothing.th nothing. so the idea it is readying you cannot win that is where i have a problem with our present and because he says he does not believe in freedom or capitalism but what he really says bill whole philosophical argument is we have to move to government intervention to prevent this unfairness. john: lecter household said, americans have gotten richer. seven and a $50 but in today's dollars that is 20,000. 1947, 31,000. today it is 62,000. >> my first year out of college and 80,000 and three years jittery to of hundred 50,000 an extra 96,000. do you know, whose fault that was? might. every one of those was my fault. i am in the environment and i believed but it is not a crisis of inequality but a crisis of belief we can go into the marketplace to bring in an end to resell them the idea they cannot succeed resell them that socialism is the answer. john: i had to parents. i could go to a good high school. many people have a harder start. >> absolutely. people start from different plac

tyler perry started with nothing. oprah started with nothing.of ten of them started with nothing. this idea that the thing is rigged and you can't win is -- that's where i really have a problem with our president when he says this. he doesn't believe in freedom. he doesn't believe in capitalism. what he is really saying the under lining torn of this philosophical argument is we have to move toward government intervention to prevent this unfairness. >> if you look back at household income over the years americans have gotten richer in 1901 the average was $750 but in today's dollars 20,000 in 47 when i was born 31,000. today twice that 62,000. >> my first year out of college i made 18,000 dollars. three years later i was making 250,000 dollars. the next year i made 6,000 dollars and so on. you know whose fault all of that was? mine. every one of those things were my fault when it was working and when it wasn't working. yes i am in this environment i have opportunity and i believe, but what we have is not a crisis of inequality we have crisis of b

sundance, a movie with a lot of questions whether it was salable, ultimately they got oprah and tyler perry involved and it became a big movie. people keep going and looking for them. >> let's look at how technology has affected this, has online streaming companies affected sundance? >> there's a ton of companies coming into sundance, not just the big ones like that but a lot of distributors 30 or 40 new ones. video on demand that's become the biggest outlet for sundance are festival movie. mostly it's video on demand. a lot of people are in that business including netflix and amazon and yahoo but the question of whether they've changed the game or not is really not significant. the significance is so many players in the marketplace. >> what is a good showing at distance? the is it a career -- is it a career maker? >> it can be or it can be very confusing. there's very thin air and there's a real sense that sometimes movies can get overly praised and loved add sundance. you put them in front of a real audience and nobody wants to see them. it's a dangerous thing that happens at a screening

. >> garnering six nominations, tyler perry's holiday comedy, "madea's christmas."dd and not much fun. >> not the kind of review you want. >> yeah. >> also nabbing six worst picture nominations. got to love it. sci-fy thriller "after earth" starring will and jada smith. likened to a video game. i was disappointed that this got such bad reviews. it looks like it could be great. >> the reviews are not as harsh as they usually are. they aren't too mean. >> the fashion reviews could be vicious. >> much worse. >>> coming up, a first lay for the first lady. >> wee will tell you all about it coming up. ♪ vicks dayquil. powerful non-drowsy 6 symptom cold and flu relief. winter olympian ted ligety can't take a sick day tomorrow. [ coughs ] [ male announcer ] so he can't let a cold keep him up tonight. vicks nyquil. powerful nighttime 6 symptom cold and flu relief. ♪ the way we clean.ange and free ourselves from the harshness of bleach. lysol power & free has more cleaning power than bleach. the secret is the hydrogen peroxide formula. it kills 99.9% of germs and is family fr

. >> you have the tyler perry shows but other than that there really aren't other sitcoms on major networks does cosby go? >> you're right. there are strides to make in that regard. nbc may do that. it's in development. because it has a show as big as bill cosby attached, it will probably go forward. but as you mentioned, the fox show hasn't done very well this season. people gravitate more towards shows like "modern family" on abc and i have to think that it's maybe a more representation of modern-day life. >> i wonder if cosby show would represent issues in 2014. >> i'm sure they will. it's much like a character like he's played before. but like you mentioned, everything in tv, old is new again. there's no such thing as a truly new idea in television. >> he's coming back as a grandfather. we all love cliff huxstable. >> anybody in his age group coming back to television, whether he's got it or not. what i've seen from his speeches and public events, he does. i would not be surprised if he has that same energy on nbc. >> okay. brian, thank you. we'll let you get back to your keeping up wit