interview with michael phelps. this is piers morgan tonight. good everybodying, the games in london will be some of the most spectacular performances in history. a remarkable 22 medals. i sat down with michael phelps. as you see, he speaks from the heart and holds back very little. so michael, welcome. you told me if you re ever tired, you get a bit grouchy and you can be very short. so how are you feeling? i feel all right. grouchy? tired? you ve been answering questions all day. and if i just repeat the same old nonsense, then you re going to give me less time? i ll just be like a tape recorder. london is my hoechl town. what s extraordinary is every american athlete, when i asked e asked them to describe a role model, almost every one of them said you. with that comes responsibility. are you aware of the status you have amongst your peer group? and what do you feel with that responsibility? i mean, sometimes i feel it. i like to think of myself as a normal person
very funny. all right, that s enough. off you go. we ll be right back. get off. russel brand. who knows what miegt happen. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. imagine a world in which a first lady divorces a philandering commander in chief and loses to a less experienced rival and then becomes secretary of state. ridiculous. well, not quite that ridiculous, but this is the world of political animals. who better to play that secretary of state than sigorney weaver. she grossed $4 billion worldwide. she s played the toughest female character in movies of the alien film. welcome. thank you so much. i m very flattered. i m delighted to be here. the $4 billion woman. that must make you feel great. i actually didn t know. now i ll know how to greet myself in the morning. that should be your number one thing on your calling card. i ll have a t-shirt made. what more do you need to know. let s talk about politics. this tv show that everyone is going crazy f
plus, unprediktble, dangerous, outspoken and very, very funny. all right, that s enough. off you go. we ll be right back. get off. russel brand. who knows what miegt happen. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. imagine a world in which a first lady divorces a philandering commander in chief and loses to a less experienced rival and then becomes secretary of state. ridiculous. well, not quite that ridiculous, but this is the world of political animals. who better to play that secretary of state than sigorney weaver. she grossed $4 billion worldwide. she s played the toughest female character in movies of the ali alien film. welcome. thank you so much. i m very flattered. i m delighted to be here. the $4 billion woman. that must make you feel great. i actually didn t know. now i ll know how to greet myself in the morning. that should be your number one thing on your calling card. i ll have a t-shirt made. what more do you need to know. let s talk a
coburn and others join together on the debt commission, voting for a package of cuts and some tax reform ideas, i think there can be and will be as we go forward. you know, politics is a business where, you know, people have interests and you try tore pursue them. if there are going to be cuts and there will be cuts they should be across the board and they should focus in on where there are unneeded revenues. when secretary gates say we can cut 100 billion out of the defense budget we should take him up on it. the hard part on cutting defense is the nice hardware. they like to make submarines in connecticut, and engines up in massachusetts. everybody likes to build some special thing that s essential to the military. it s hardware. that s right. it s also the basis, of course. we shouldn t cut the pay for our soldiers. it s not in the young people in
congressman, a man with 100% ada voting record for like ten years now. you can see cutting a deal with some people on the right to try to bring fiscal sanity to our defense budget? i think there will be deals cut. when you see dick durbin and coburn and others join together on the debt commission, voting for a package of cuts and some tax reform ideas, i think there can be and will be as we go forward. you know, politics is a business where, you know, people have interests and you try tore pursue them. if there are going to be cuts and there will be cuts they should be across the board and they should focus in on where there are unneeded revenues. when secretary gates say we can cut 100 billion out of the defense budget we should take him up on it. the hard part on cutting defense is the nice hardware. they like to make submarines in