tonight, sean penn on his work on the frontline of disaster and the situation only wall street. and you won t believe who the police dragged off to jail in the protests. not the usual suspects. this is piers morgan tonight. pretty dramatic day for the occupied wall street protests. marches and the rest across the country and some rough arrests. thousands on the streets and police from new york to san diego struggling to coral demonstrators. new york, more than a dozen arrest and more arrested in denver and san diego, all this after protesters declared victory on wall street. and bloomberg, pulled back on the threat to move them out of the area they re occupying. we ll talk to two arrest prod testers later in the show. sean penn, many say his greatest role is that of activist. welcome. thank you. when you say what s happening on occupy wall street protests, do these resonate with you? is that the fury you ve felt about issues over the years? it resonates a great
she interviewed him again several years later. i spoke to barbara earlier today about her experience. when you first interviewed him, you interviewed him in a tent, and that was on his insistence? do you remember a few years ago he was here, he wanted to pitch a tent in westchester? yes, it was very controversial, they refused to let him. in the middle of tripoli, which is a beautiful place, with gorgeous beaches, they would love to have tourism. when you drive by there is a god. if you have permission to pass that god and can come in, there s this grassy area. and a tent in which we did the interview. gadhafi was wearing a white suit, white mules if i remember, and a green shirt. it could give you a headache. and there s a baby camel, because he says he still drinks camel s milk. this is all very weird, anderson. and then there was the house he lived in that we bombed. do you remember that? right. and he said that his adopted daughter was killed, the crib is still there.
breaking word tonight that the security council is going to meet tomorrow to discuss the situation in libya. back in 1989, barbara walters had to get a special waiver to travel to libya to interview gadhafi. when she got there, she sat down with gadhafi and an interpreter for two hours. in a tent that he used as his office. she even met his wife and kids. she interviewed him again several years later. i spoke to barbara earlier today about her experience. when you first interviewed him, you interviewed him in a tent, and that was on his insistence? do you remember a few years ago he was here, he wanted to pitch a tent in westchester? yes, it was very controversial, they refused to let him. in the middle of tripoli, which is a beautiful place, with gorgeous beaches, they would love to have tourism. when you drive by there is a god. if you have permission to pass
then. if the oil did make contact with the land and contaminate the nests and the young that are hatching now, it s going to be tough to get out there and get them just due to the high tidal activities. yeah. so, there are a there are a you know, there s some potential for some bad news here. tom, give me your best-case and your worst-case scenario? wow. the best case is that the wind shifts and the oil doesn t hit. i i m not real confident about that. the worst case is it hits breton. it goes down the coast and hits the other, you know, gorgeous beaches of the gulf, which we and all the other parties that are responding to this spill, of which, you know, are probably numbering in the thousands at this point, but i haven t got that personnel listing at this point. but i know we re doing everything we can to prevent it, but it could be a bad one. what s the what s what do humans need to think about if