13 or 14, that i wanted to be one of the top ventriloquists. larry: that was a goal? i think when i was 15, i decided, i want to be known as one of the great ventriloquists? larry: who s your favorite venn industri ventriloquist? it was all about character and everything, and to become as a household name like edgar bergen did, that was the old. of course paul lewis and jerry nelson were big influences on me as well. i decided when i was 15 or 16, when people thought of ventriloquism, i wanted them to put my name up there. larry: and america s got talent is what did it for you? yeah. i was in my 40s. i was doing fairs, festivals, little small town stuff. in fact what was funny about it
might be offensive and so i have always got that filter going on in my head, whereas a puppet can get away with a lot more. so a puppet can say and do things that a person can t. so i think i m just a little more free, my brain is a little more free. larry: how do you regard the muppets, because that s not ventriloquism? without the muppets i would not be where i am. larry: why? because watching the muppets and sesame street showed me just how life like puppets can be. jim henson would never see the puppet in a box. he always would hide them, he would only show them when they perform. that s one thing that i m really careful about. when i m on stage, it s something i wish all venn
greensbo greensboro. the tank was about half full when it ignited. the fire is now out, but the crews are still on the scene in case of any flare-ups. fortunately, no injuries have been reported. accused killer joran vender sloot may be trying to cut a deal with peruvian officials by using information about natalee holloway s 2005 murder in aruba. the dutchman reportedly told investigators he knows where holloway s body is buried but he would only speak with awry ban authorities about that. venn dar sloot is charged with killing a 21-year-old peruvian student and is being held in a terrible prison in lima. nbc s michelle kosinski is in peru with the latest from there. good morning again, michelle. reporter: hi, alex. yeah. every day the peruvian press comes out with some new details quoting their inside police sours. so the detail du jour is that joran vender sloot had asked to be moved back to aruba in exchange for that information related to the natalee holloway case. that s unco
and threw open the borders of europe. the one still defending the pointless afghan conflict b and even now planning brand-new disasters around the world in lebanon, iran, and yes, in russia. these are people who made america weaker, poor, and sadder. the group whose failures got trump elected in the first place. you think by this late date, they would be completely unemployable, picking up trash by the side of the turnpike somewhere but they re not. they are hosting cable news shows and holding high positions of influence at theti state department. they run virtually every nonprofit public policy institution in washington. they are still in charge of our national conversation and naturally, they hate the idea of rethinking or correcting any of the countless blunders they ve made over the years and that s one of the reasons they hatein trump because he calls them ony those blunders. being trump, he can t always explain precisely what he means to say, sometimes he getss details wrong or
very un-american. venn a few hours later at a joint press with israel s prime minister, mr. trump was asked about former security adviseer mike flynn who stepped down after series of reports with conversations with russian embassador over sanctions, president defended flynn and blamed resignation on the media. i think it s really a sad thing that he was treated so bad ly. in addition to that, papers are being leaked, it s criminal act, it s been going on for a long time, before me, now it s really going on. growing number of leaks have concerned members of congress as well. last night house overnight committee jason chaffetz he has instructed inspector general to learn how classifyied material