piers morgan tonight starts now. tonight, mission accomplished or mission impossible? he spent years on the front line in afghanistan. he joins me exclusively. also barack obama s long-lost sister. i have brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, uncles and cousins of every rice and every hue scattered across three continents. and ryan o neal living his life on the edge. the last time he was here, he said some pretty uncomfortable things about his daughter, tatum, and his long-time love, farrah fawcett. tatum and farrah i get them mixed up all the time. welcome back. piers morgan? he s back talking candidly and emotionally about farrah, tatum and his other children and his own battle with cancer. plus only in america. the most electrifying political ad you ve ever seen. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. our big story tonight, politics and the president. amid charges of him spiking the football, president obama hails the beginning of the end of the
reporter: yeah, you can add to that senior u.s. official, you can also add to that chinese state media. now remember, andrew, that this has befr benever been reported. ever since chen guangcheng fled last week after 18 months on house arrest, that has never been reported in state media. that has all changed in the last few minutes. xinhua, state-run media, is now confirming this. chen has left the embassy of his own volition, and they re demanding the u.s. apologize to china for one of its citizens being allowed to enter the u.s. embassy in beijing. so china taking a tough line here, saying to the u.s. you should never have harbored chen guangche guangcheng, but also confirming that chen guangcheng has left the embassy voluntarily. we re hearing reports that he s been taken to a medical facility in beijing, where he s getting treatment, but also crucially being reunited with his family. remember chen guangcheng has been suffering ill health for some time now. speaking to hi
who he says need to grow a spine, and the story that took him down. the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden, the leader of al qaeda. why they charge the president with putting politics ahead of their safety. and only in america. the real bin laden battle. why it s not about politics. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. our big story tonight breaking news. president obama s surprise trip to afghanistan and his speech to americans on the one year anniversary of the mission to take out osama bin laden. my fellow americans, we ve traveled through more than a decade under the dark cloud of war. yet here in the pre-dawn darkness of afghanistan, we can see the light of a new day on the hordes. the iraq war is over. the number of our troops in harm s way has been cut in half and more will soon be coming home. we have a clear path to fulfill our mission in afghanistan while delivering justice to al qaeda. plenty reaction to this m
the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden, the leader of al qaeda. why they charge the president with putting politics ahead of their safety. and only in america. the real bin laden battle. why it s not about politics. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. our big story tonight breaking news. president obama s surprise trip to afghanistan and his speech to americans on the one year anniversary of the mission to take out osama bin laden. my fellow americans, we ve traveled through more than a decade under the dark cloud of war. yet here in the pre-dawn darkness of afghanistan, we can see the light of a new day on the hordes. the iraq war is over. the number of our troops in harm s way has been cut in half and more will soon be coming home. we have a clear path to fulfill our mission in afghanistan while delivering justice to al qaeda. plenty reaction to this momentous day coming up soon. plus my interview with a man who reporter
number two, the cost of the wars in iraq and afghanistan. $1.3 trillion at this moment. a distant third, the president s stimulus plan, $831 billion. never thought $831 billion would look cheap. well, here s another powerful number. right now this country is paying $224 billion a year in interest on our debt and that number is mushrooming. it becomes an exponential problem. by 2020 we will be paying $544 billion in interest alone. if you want to see something really scary, let s compare that $544 billion to medicare. by 2020 in the year we re paying $544 billion in interest, medicare will cost a mere $279 billion. we ll be paying almost double that just in interest on our debt. now, you may say that s clearly foul and bad and terrible things, but some people believe that spending more is the best way to get this country growing again, to grow out of our problem. paul krugman said the stimulus plan was not big enough. he wants here $800 billion on top of what we already spent