legendary funny man, steve carell and david steinberg and a tribute to a real all american hero on piers morgan tonight. good evening. our big story tonight, whitney houston, fallen diva laid to rest, buried by side her father in a new jersey cemetery and about the extraordinary performance at the funeral and the song the family asked him to sing and pat o brien and talking about whitney and his own struggle with addiction and david carell and steinberg. are you a funny person by nature? as evidenced by this interview, no. clearly not. i don t light up a room. i wasn t the person who can hold court and not a stand-up. i m not proficient at that at all. that s coming up. we begin with whitney houston s final farewell. joining me now, donnie clerk on whitney s friend and a preacher on long island. one of the most extraordinary performances i have seen by any singer. i was watching it live co-anchoring. it blew me away your singing in the church. what was it like for you
legendary funny man, steve carell and david steinberg and a tribute to a real all american hero on piers morgan tonight. good evening. our big story tonight, whitney houston, fallen diva laid to rest, buried by side her father in a new jersey cemetery and about the extraordinary performance at the funeral and the song the family asked him to sing and pat o brien and talking about whitney and his own struggle with addiction and david carell and steinberg. are you a funny person by nature? as evidenced by this interview, no. clearly not. i don t light up a room. i wasn t the person who can hold court and not a stand-up. i m not proficient at that at all. that s coming up. we begin with whitney houston s final farewell. joining me now, donnie clurkin, whitney s friend and a preacher on long island. one of the most extraordinary performances i have seen by any singer. i was watching it live co-anchoring. it blew me away your singing in the church. what was it like for you
i m candy crowley. john king is off tonight. mitt romney talks with cnn, answering newt gingrich s latest attacks and weighing in whether he d vote for ron paul. also, we ll talk with a former republican who is switching parties as a matter of principle, or is it political opportunism? on the high seas what would become the biggest international crisis of the new year. a whop that will hit your car in the gas tank. good evening, from des moines. we are only six days out from the iowa caucuses, and politically, at least, the ground here is shifting. tonight, mitt romney s riding on top of a new condition cnn poll of iowa republicans, laughing off the scathing criticism coming at him from newt gingrich. cnn s wolf blitzer climbed aboard romney s campaign bus today and asked about the attack ads that romney supporters are running against gingrich. this is part of the process. i m not going to be we could all wish we had a utopian type political process but the campaign
welcome back, everyone. we told you last week how iowa state university lecturer thomas walker slammed the university s college republicans for collecting money and supplies for care packages to send to the troops. in the school s newspaper, walker said this in his letter to the editor. don t their families send them yuletide goodies. aren t g.i. s paid enough to buy what they need? necessities should be doled out to people who really need them. so is this a case of anti-military or is thomas walker just the ultimate scrooge? standup comic brad stein joins us now bright and early with his input on this. i see you shaking your head. i m going to say go. well, you know, some things just warm my heart this time of year like getting with the family and going to, you know, christmas pageants at church or nat king cole but nothing does
breaking news. the american embassy in kabul, afghanistan, coming under fire in an intense attack. word out of iran, the two american hikers convicted of espionage could soon be free. let s go ahead and start with the bold attack on america s signature presence in a war-torn country. rockets and machine gun fire aimed directly at the american embassy in kabul. gunfire coming from every corner of the building. take a listen. and we re now being told that it was a well-coordinated attack. i want to bring some more information straight from a man that i m going to talk to now. he s actually taken governor there in the embassy. i have known him for a long time. he works at the embassy and has been in afghanistan about five years now, but for security reasons, we are not going to identify him. can you hear me okay? i sure can, kyra. good morning. good morning. i sure appreciate you calling in. it seems a little quiet behind you now. when i talked to you earlier, i could actu