reporter: there are about 250 people in the audience and they are all selected by linkedin. we re told that they are either linkedin employees or members of linkedin who submitted questions and all those questions were chosen by linkedin itself. some of them will be asked by audience members and some of them will be asked by the ceo of linkedin who will be there with the president. jessica, we know that obviously mr. obama, he relied quite a bit on social media and turned to social media quite a bit in 2008. is this a sign do you think he s planning to do the same thing for 2012? absolutely. that s one of the tricks of campaigning these days. he ll be doing it but the difference is this time around so will the other guys. so he doesn t necessarily have the only advantage he has an advantage but not the only one. the other piece of it is fund-raising. as you mentioned, he had four fund-raisers yesterday. he told people to shake off the d doldrums, don t give up. they h
is he eating? is she sleeping? well, you know, it s been very tough for her. you know, especially these last three hearings. it s been, you know, everything against her. so, you know, with literally her life hanging in the balance of what the decision is in the courtroom, it s very tough to sleep. she has been thinning down a bit too. were you, kurt, in court today when that lawyer called your daughter a sex-loving she-devil? yeah. you know, it was this particular lawyer, you know, even during the first trial essentially did the same thing. it was extraordinarily hard to listen to. it was even harder for amanda because, you know, she hears it all in italian and can understand it where i can only understand bits and pieces of it. i can see her wincing periodically. it was very tough for her. what i find very hard to believe is how this person can start calling her that when he s never even talked to her, never met her, and never really knows who she really is. that s t
i m going to do this one more time. but after this i get paid. right? this is piers morgan tonight. morgan freeman is a man of great stature, a man of great talent, and as i ve come to realize, he s also a great man of his word. a few months ago he promised he d join me in the studio face to face for a one-on-one interview, and here you are, morgan freeman. yay. an actor keeping his word. yes. i m stunned. yeah. we won t talk about how it came about. we won t. i know it s got nothing to do with me. everything to do with one of my very attractive booking team. right? yes, yes. i must admit. the most stunning woman i ve ever met. don t say that. it will go to her head. please. please don t say that. i also said when i interviewed you down the line remotely by satellite that you appeared to be remarkably youthful for a man of your, let s be honest, fairly advanced years. and here you are in the flesh and you re even more youthful in the flesh. what is the s
she s played everything from the president to thelma in thelma and louise. i loved commander in chief, which was the great series you took part in. it was like my west wing fix and suddenly i woke up and it was gone. what happened? that s what happened to me, too. i woke up and my show wasn t on anymore. were you disappointed as i was? devastated. if it was ever brought back, i have the whole publicity angle worked out that it was have maybe a profile shot of me at the desk and say, look who just got re-elected. the weird thing is, i reckon after watching that, you were more presidential in that role than many of the presidents i would say over the years, like martin sheen. both of you were very electable in those roles. right. in your case, i know you ve become this great standard bearer for all things women, but in that role, that was doing it for you, i felt. absolutely. is that how you felt? absolutely. it was funny how many people would say, i would
would never be able to take time off what i big project has to get done on deadline. funding the government, that s a big project with a very important deadline. and consider this. according to expedia.com, the average american worker gets 18 vacation days a year. 18. and they only use 14 of them. did i mention that since january congress has only been in session for 125 days? plus they divided 112th congress promises to be the least productive in recent memory. since january only 14 house measures have been signed into law by president obama. and look at this, had when democrats controlled the house last year from january to june, 466 bills and resolutions were passed. by comparison over the same time frame this year only 207 bills or resolutions got approval. they spent more time bickering than getting anything actually done. yet house lawmakers sure do get paid a lot. rank and file representatives earn $174,000 a year. the speaker of the house takes home $223,500. now, com