let me ask you, what are you doing now? now that we ve got you here. well, we just because i know you ve got a great answer. jay and i just finished doing the hbo version of the play all the way that i did on broadway. about lbj. about lbj. and what s so great is before the vietnam war made everybody get mad at him this amazing man was able to take the moment of the kennedy assassination and produce probably the six months greatest governance we ve had in decades. what he did with civil rights and medicare and all that other stuff. yeah. maybe a century of political power. his political acumen was unbelievable. fdr and perhaps the founding fathers. but he was right up there. what he was able to accomplish. but knowing his political stance and where he was at that time, six months after the after the assassination, he knew he had a window of opportunity to be able to push through the civil rights act of 1964.
life of hollywood s oscar-winning writer who beat the black list. i start with dr. ben carson who calls president obama a psycho path, says the egyptian pyramids were grain elevators and prison makes you gay. he has other stories to tell. like the time he stabbed at someone by a knife and was stopped by the person s belt. he was offered a scholarship to west point. the time he protected white people during a racial riot. a professor gave him $10 for not complaining about an exam. i know you re jealous. i love life, period. howard, this is a big chance for you. many times your life you had to write the big story. what is the big story now on dr. ben the reason we are leading with him, he s leading the polls. he s at the top of the hill. he s number one. he s getting scrutiny because that s what you get at the top. he is leading the republican side, believe it or not. it is a contest between the world of politics, conservative republican politics and the media to decide
0 call them out on this coded racial language, this not so coded racial language. it was kind of a shot across the bow i think and kind of planted a flag for moderate republicans to say, hey, you know, he s right. we really do need to reshape the party and reshape its message if we hope to survive. i think it s very important what you pointed out, that he brought this up. david asked him other things, important things, but i think he made it. will he lead on this? can he lead? does he have the traction with the party to move people like christie to speak out, the more moderate forces in the party? he provides a certain amount of cover, i think, for others. now, he hasn t been a sort of inside baseball political figure, you know. he s not the kind of guy who is then going to pick up the phone and make 50 phone calls to people saying back me up here. but it was so public and so the country is changing demographically, and if the republican party does not change along with that demogr
overturned her murder conviction. she is now on a plane heading out of that country, heading back home presumably to seattle, washington. what will happen next? we will be talking about that coming up. also coming up this morning, they re back! today s professionals are going to be taking on another high profile case, the trial of conrad murray, of course, the doctor in the michael jackson case. they re going to tackle that as well as answer the question, you know, here goes, is the quality of sex more important than the quantity in marriage? apparently some people here already responding. that s right you re looking at star jones laughing her head off, donny deutsche and dr. nancy snyderman with a lot of opinions. s.o.s., somebody help me. you have the vapors. something s going on, anyway, joy is going to take a look at this is interesting how to stay on your diet when you re at someone else s house, maybe they invited you to dinner and don t want to appear to be r
playing god with netanyahu. he claims he was misunderstood. and ellen degeneres gets in my head to prank fans. laugh like crazy. ann, start laughing like crazy. just stay silent. don t talk to him. stare at him. just stare at him. we get inside her head for her thoughts an finding peace, and jesus. an ellen you ve never seen before. today, october 4th, 2007. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this tuesday morning. i m ann curry. and i m matt lauer. you can only imagine the emotions on board that plane this morning as amanda knox is traveling home for the first time in four years. that s right. we can tell you she s on this flight to london for a connection to the united states but knox was not with her family when they checked in at rome s international airport. instead police reportedly escorted her through a private entrance. it was such an emotional scene in court monday, knox broke down in tears as she learned she was