0 on always for unmanned trollers carrying puking demon babies for zombies in the subway grates. we're ready for anything on "the ridiculist." that does it for us. we'll see you again one hour from now. another edition of "ac 360." thanks for watching, "piers morgan live" starts now. this is "piers morgan live." welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. breaking news tonight. tom brokaw reveals he's being treated for cancer. i'll talk to his former colleague debra norville and dr. sanjay gupta. at the white house president obama is hosting his first state dinner in almost two years. a scandal plagued french president. meanwhile a -- will hillary clinton's private thoughts about her husband bill and monica liewinski come back to haunt her if she runs. also best actor nominee bruce dern. >> going to "lincoln" is the last thing i do. i don't care what you people think. >> you didn't win anything. it's a complete scam. you got to stop this, okay? >> i'm running out of time. >> nebraska winning his first oscar after more than 80 feature films. we begin with break news tonight. tom brokaw's cancer diagnosis. the former nbc news anchor has multiple myeloma that affects the blood cells in bone marrow. doctors are very encouraged with the progress he's making. joining me now our own dr. sanjay gupta and debra norville and tom brokaw's former colleague at nbc news, an honorary member of the board of multiple myeloma. welcome to all of you. let me start with you if i may, sanjay gupta. to get a grasp of what this is. what is multiple myeloma? >> well, it's a type of cancer of cells within the bone marrow. the bone marrow's the area of the body that's responsible for producing all sorts of different cells. your red blood cells, white blood cells. this is a type of white blood cell that just starts growing essentially out of control. and as a result, it's a type of cancer that also crowds out the other cells so people don't have enough red blood cells, don't have enough white blood cells. that's really the problem. a lot of times what happens in this is that someone may come and develop back pain that. could be the first thing. that's usually because of what you're looking at there on the screen, those sort of punched out lesions is in somebody's skull that. can develop just about anywhere on the body. that's often what takes people to the hospital in the first place. >> debra norville, tom is obviously a news legend in america and you a colleague of his for a long time. no surprise to you or people who know him well he's carried on working as if nothing's happening. he was diagnosed back in august of last summer. what do you think of the way he's responded to this? >> it's typical brokaw. my career wonder have advanced if tom brokaw had not been a champion of mine back in my nbc days. irsend him a love -- i send him a love lot of love and best wishes. i am on the honorary board of the multiple myeloma foundation. i've been a part of it since 1998. my message to tom and to anyone who has a family member or themselves suffering from this particular form of cancer is, if you have to get cancer and if you have to get multiple myeloma, god bless you for getting it today as opposed to ten years ago. when i first got involved with this particular disease, diagnosis to death was estimated at max three years. today, thanks to the research that's been done by this organization, there are now six drugs that are being used to treat myeloma as opposed to zero drugs that were in existence 15 years ago. there is so much reason to believe that tom brokaw will do exactly what he pledged in his statement today, and that is live a long and successful life despite having been diagnosed with this disease. >> well, we've got a statement here, tom brokaw said this "with the exceptional support of my family, medical team and friends i'm very optimistic about the future and look forward to continuing my life, my work and adventures still to come. i remain the luckiest man alive. i'm very grateful for the interest of in my condition but i also hope everyone understands i wish to keep this a private matter." >> he has remained very private. is that how you would recommend people getting on with it? >> probably a combination of both, piers. certainly it depends what stage cancer he has here. i mean, there are certainly people who can carry on pretty well especially if it's caught in the early stages as deborah was just alluding. to but the typical sort of symptoms besides the back pain which i mentioned or boney pain, people can often feel tired because they don't have enough red blood cells in the body as a result of this cancer. so it's probably a combination of both. he's certainly pretty dogged, he's pretty determined. but this may have been caught at an earlier stage which would be a very good prognosis for him, better prognosis. >> deb remar>> deborah, what ki is he? >> oh, god, he's the best. he's insatiable curious. i'm sure the first thing tom did when his doctor shared this diagnosis with him was to turn into a reporter and learn everything he could about it. i know he reached out to all the right people in the myeloma community and found out the good news that there is a lot going on with regard to treatment of this disease. he's also someone whose, despite the fact that he's been a television anchorman for all these many years, he's not someone who likes to have the spotlight on him. it's one thing to be sitting on the news desk as we all are right now sharing information with other people. it's a service you do to other people. it wasn't about tom being on the set, being the famous guy that everybody knew from nbc news. so i think in that regard he probably loathes the fact that this has finally become public, all these months after he's been dealing with it privately. but he will do what he always does, which is soldier on, be the graceful, elegant man who lives in gratitude as he express thad inn that statement that you shared. honestly that will be important for him as he goes through this treatment process. there's every reason to believe it tom will be able to beat this. there is so much good work going on right now. in fact, it was a few months ago i was speaking to the head of our scientific committee at the multiple myeloma research foundation who said to me that he believes in the very near future it is quite possible that myeloma will be regarded as a chronic disease much the same way that diabetes is regarded as a chronic disease. so that's certainly something that tom brokaw and anyone else who's facing this disease should take heart in hearing. >> sanjay, i had tom on the show not so long ago. he's an indomitable figure. anyone who works in this news business reverse him. stats on multiple myeloma, since 2014 there have been 24,000 new cases, about 11,000 people have died in the last year. i guess one benefit to come out of all of this, tom will be as keenly aware as we are, he will bring huge attention by revealing this to multiple myeloma. that would surely i would think, sanjay, be helpful for other people. >> i think there's no question. you can trace with a line when attention is drawn to a particular disease the type of research funding and the type of awareness that comes as a result of that. and i think certainly he will be no different. as again deborah was just pointing out, even over the last few years short of tom brokaw's attention to this there's been a lot of progress with multiple myeloma. the sort of trick to this is to be able to kill those cells, those cancerous cells and recognize that some other cells are going to die as a result of that, the red blood cells, white blood cells you need in your body, then to be able to repopulate your bone marrow. sort of taking out the bad stuff out of your bone marrow and leaving in the good stuff. that's what some these drugs have become much better at. they also do things like stem cell transplants as part of the treatment for multiple myeloma. that may be something that may be an option for him as well if he needs it. >> well, certainly everyone here at this show and every show at cnn wishes tom all the very best for a full recovery. deborah, i want to point out you're an honorary of the board of the multiple myeloma foundation. for more information on this go to toww.vrmm. thank you very much indeed for joining me. >> thank you. coming up, hillary papers. will her private thoughts to a friend damage her if she plans to run in 2016? 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