harvard physicist. a look at the way your mind works and doesn t. fascinating conversation with nobel prize winner daniel kahneman. a big birthday but an awkward time to throw a big birthday bash. i ll explain. first my take. it s the start of the new year and we will do predictions on this show. i thought i d try my own hand at some before asking others to risk their reputations. and in the spirit of keeping myself honest, i m going to look back at what i said and wrote in time magazine at the start of last year and see how i did. it s always risky to stick your neck out and humbling to look at your predictions but here goes. the only indulgence i allow myself is to start with areas i did well. i said i thought china would moderate its foreign policy behavior recognizing its assertiveness and arrogance over the last year had caused jitters throughout asia. i think that happened. i said the taliban s momentum would be broken in afghanistan. it has somewhat. i said the d
campaign event for congresswoman gabrielle giffords. eight people are killed. was anybody injured? did you say gabrielle giffords was hit? she s hit. she still has a pulse. reporter: the congresswoman was shot in the head but survives. she was lucky. when i saw the trajectory of where one hole was and the other was, i was like, my gosh. reporter: because it was so far apart? yeah. it went through a lot. reporter: three and a half months later, the first public steps in the congresswoman s remarkable recovery. in 2011 i tried to put a spotlight on big hits on the brain. trying to find evidence that football puts young people at risk and professional players as well. in february, david deweson committed suicide, and he left his brain to scientific research. when the findings came back, his brain had tell tale signs of chronic injury. as stories like this rolled in, the nfl tried to put in new rules to protect players. ah! reporter: then it was march. i witness
geepg good evening. i m ali velshi sitting in for erin burnett. republican presidential candidates have just over a week left to prove to iowans that they re the first to win the nation s contest held on january 3rd. polls show the race there is still very much up for grabs, but there was only one candidate out today with an official campaign event and it wasn t one of those top three. it was rick santorum and he went hunting with an important guest. dana bash joins us now with more. who is this special guest that got rick santorum out on a campaign event today? he s congressman steve king, a very prominent republican from the state of iowa whose endorsement is coveted big time. he didn t endorse santorum today and i spoke with him by phone as he was driving in the car, ali, to this hunting event with rick santorum. he told me he d planned to endorse months ago. he wanted to back one of these candidates to try to have a big impact in the iowa caucuses and he still to this d
things of which he didn t agree. and a holiday special. the best of our getting to know series. i didn t want to be a nun and i didn t want to be a congress wam. i m candy crowley. and this is state of the union. the politician of the battle over the extension of the payroll tax goes something like this the president, one, republicans lost. may not have been politically the smartest thing in the world, but let me tell you what, i think our members waged a good fight. we were able to come to an agreement. some democrats suggest the payroll tax cut battle was a turning point for the president they feared had lost his magic and his chance for re-election. republicans worry their tea party win, which wanted to fight this one out, has become a weight. earlier, i spoke to one of the longest serving republicans in the senate, dick lugar of indiana, who faces a tea party challenge in his re-election bid. let me talk a little bit about this new deal that has been made
tonight you ll see her as you never seen her before. that s very good. do you know how many times i dreampt of having a taco and beer with you? this is piers morgan tonight. let s start with the obvious question, how do you actually pronounce your name? charlize theron. it s what i thought would be easiest for people. what is the african way of pronouncing it? charlize theron. i much prefer that. say it again. charlize theron. you were raised south african and came to l.a. with a broad accent. you quite consciously went and taught yourself how to speak in an american accent, right? yeah, i mean, look, i was pushed into a corner. i started going out on auditions. the feedback is she s great but can she do it in an american accent? my english was poor. i make a lot of grammar mistakes. my mother lives two minutes away. she speak african to her? yeah. speak african to me. well, i mean [ speaking foreign language ] wow, i didn t know you fancied me