i can drive you. i feel fine. as racy as ever. i don t think you can say this on prime-time cnn. we re just going to have to have a sort of slew of bleeps. let me apologize. tonight, the one thing you never thought you d see him go. she said, you okay with talking about it? i said sure. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. our big story tonight. oliver stone. on his first oscar more than 30 years ago for midnight express. churning out hits ever since. platoon. born on the fourth of july. jfk. and wall street. opinionated on everything. i m pretty sure he ll have some tough answers. oliver stone. hello, piers. welcome. i m very excited. i ve been a huge fan of yours for a long time. i don t normally say that. it s a very american thing to say that. we re british. we tend to hide our feelings. i love the provocative undercurrent towards them. i love the fact you in your own life are as provocative. you don t really take prisoners, do you?
so let s get to it. as you heard here, about 90 minutes ago on cnn, the president said that the federal government has gotten too big and complicated. that s not a revelation but he says he can fix it by streamlining, consolidating, simplifying. he said a leaner government would create a leaner and better national security. congress didn t consolidate on its side so now the department of homeland security reports to over 100 different congressional panels. that s a lot of paperwork. that s a lot of reports to prepare. that s not adding value. it s not making us safer. well, congress will have to approve a rewrite and republicans promise a careful review of that. military investigators say that they have tracked down and interviewed at least two of the marines seen urinating on corpses in afghanistan. the video has gone viral. today the deputy commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan issued a directive, reminding troops, and i quote, we must treat the living and the dead wi