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 secret of the morgan freeman age-defying
positioned himself very much as the grown-up in the room, the reasonable one, something that the president s advisors thought would help him appeal to the independent voters that he needs if he s going to win relection next year. we re seeing a very different tact now. a very aggressive tact, especially after the president saw dismal approval ratings following that bruising debt ceiling battle. we ve seen the president taking his message to the home turf, as you mentioned, of his rivals and calling them out by name. we saw that this past week when he went to the brent spence bridge which is the bridge spanning the home states of house speaker john boehner and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. here s what he said. the bridge behind us just happens to connect the state that s home to the speaker of the house with with the home state of the republican leader in the senate. now that s just a coincidence. it s purely accidental that that happened. but part of the reason
offduty police officer in 1989. working to stop the execution. also have breaking news on the other big story. the release of two american hikers in iran. josh fattal and shane bauer were escorted to their family. we ll begin with the extraordinary troy davis take. i want to go straight to david mattingly outside the prison in jackson, georgia. there seems to be increased activity in the last hour. apparently family members arriving, a lot of state police arriving. what is your feeling about what may be going on? well, there s a tremendous show of force here. it continues to grow as the minutes go by. i want to let you take a look at this. this is a rare sight in georgia to see this many officers in this much riot gear standing guard. they are standing at the gates of the facility where the execution is supposed to take place. they have been staring intently across a four-lane highway. i m going to show you this now. across the highway to give you a lay of the land. there a
it in order to avoid a diplomatic showdown at the u.n. this week. the whole world will be watching. but the question tonight is this. where does all this leave israel? joining me now is ehud barak. thank you for joining me. this seems on the face of it to be a very pivotal moment for israel, palestine, for the peace process. what is your take on what is happening? it s not easy at the moment. i hope and i believe that a way should be found to make it a launching pad for a new momentum to resume negotiations. no conditions in order to strike a deal. i believe that it s possible. both of us are powerful, two states, two people. i think the differences are not insurmountable. the critics argue prime minister netanyahu and yourself, you ve been angling for a peace process, for something to happen, for a treaty for a settlement now for decades. and the promises have kept coming, and nothing has happened. is it really that surprising that the palestinians are now going to the u
quick to compromise with republicans. well, today that same president delivered this warning. i will not support i will not support any plan that puts all the burden for closing our deficit on ordinary americans. and i will veto any bill that changes benefits for those who rely on medicare, but does not raise serious revenues by asking the wealthiest americans or biggest corporations to pay their fair share. the rich, very rich politics of this debate in just a moment. first, though, let s take a closer look at what the president proposed today. the president, of course, trying to influence that super committee, as i said. here s the main proposal from the president. he wants to have a mandatory spending cuts, $580 billion over the next ten years. tax revenues, $1.5 trillion in new tax increases over the next ten years. war savings. the president says he ll be saving $1.1 trillion because the united states will be getting almost all of its troops out of iraq. many of it