mercy. yet, there s consequences for what we have done. if i ask you about abortion, what would you say? every baby should live. do you like interviewing or do you find it a mine field? i like it. tonight, the olesteens. we re still praying for you. my favorite guest, never afraid to tackle the tough questions. such a lively conversation the first them they were, i invited them back. what better time to revisit than now. now, you re here, because you have this great new book. every day is a friday, how to be happy seven days a week. you were two of the happiest people i met anyway. how can you get any happeniier? i think we all can if we learn what to ignore. i think we can be improving and growing and being happier. why fridays? because when i came to new york in particular, i was horrified that on fridays my staff all came in dressed like, you know, people on the street. because it was apparently dress down friday. and i was like, what does that mean? ap
i love this. i thought you knew this. i didn t know how weird you were. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. whoopi goldberg is a gift that keeps on giving. smart, opinionated, very, very funny. one of my favorite interviews of the year. things got interesting very quickly. here it is. how are you? i m good. i m fascinated by my own image. your wall of shame we have here. hall of fame or whatever you want to call it. i think it s fame. i m never ashamed. really? no. you ve never been ashamed about anything you ve ever done? no, i don t think i ve ever done anything shameful. that in itself is shameful. why? isn t it? i don t think so. shouldn t you have done some things in your life that are utterly shameful? publicly or privately? let s go private. something we don t know about. i m sure something would have been shameful or ways that i ve did things. feel free to share. well, no. i don t generally talk about the trapeze in
kyra? but in the next half an hour, we should see the senate come into session and this deal could pass within maybe one or two minutes. it could be that short as both the senate and the house are expected to pass this legislation. this payroll tax extension deal using a procedural move that basically allows them to pass legislation without having to call all of the members back into town. so, according to both democratic and republican leadership aides on the senate side, they do expect that things are moving towards a passage on the senate side and then, of course, all eyes turn to the house where the house expected to follow up with a vote and at the top of the next hour and, according to a house republican leadership aide, leaders do expect that this bill will go through, which means that both the house and senate both chambers of congress will have passed this two-month exteng, but, again, we caution with this procedure it only requires one member to stand up in the cham
less than one year ago on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning. it s friday, december 23rd. i m deb feyerick an with alina cho on this american morning. good morning to all of you out in. so glad you re with us. up first, an early christmas present for 160 million americans. the house is expected to vote today on extending the payroll tax cut that divided washington for weeks. house republicans caved yesterday after a lot of arm-twisting by president obama who stead was the disgust of the american people that broke the log jam. boehner saying his side still wants a one-year extension but saw the political reality. we have fought the good fight. i talked to a number of members over the past 24 hours who believe that, hey, we don t like this two-month extension, we don t like this reporting problem in the senate bill, and if you can get this fixed, why not why not do the right thing for the american people, even though it s not e
tom brokaw anchor man anchor man. tonight i ll ask him about this generation of the end of the war. we re ending the war with a final march towards home. this is an extra ordinary achievement. this is politics. the protests at home and around the world. and his new book, the time of our lives, what he thinks america needs now. this is what we can learn from our time. top of the hour, this is piers morgan tonight. tom broe ka s one of my journalistic heroes. he says exactly the saying, the nbc anchor of nbc news for 22 years announcing his retirement in the wake of 9/11. he s now an author the time of our lives. tom, welcome. piers, it s really good to be here. and that business about me being your hero, you re going to get over that by the end of the hour, i promise. i doubt that very much. you re actually the perfect guy to ask this question. i your book with great fascination and also with an eye how this year, 2011, is going to rate in the news becaus