being on the wrong side of those statistics. plus, he plays a tough, rough man, haunted by his past in the brand new film, "get low", but in real life he's got plenty to say about our country and our government. my exclusive interview with academy award winning actor, robert duval. she's been a rising star in canada, and caught the world's attention when she sang the national anthem at the vancouver olympics last winter. musical protege, 16-year-old is here with us today on the show. [applaus [applause] >> have you ever wondered, what in the world is the matter with congress? i mean, in recent weeks, we've seen some crazy stuff come from these guys. did you see when kocongressman b etheridge grabbed a because because he asked him a question and the congressman got him in a headlock and continued to berate him, who are you, why are you here? congressman, he was a citizen on the sidewalk and then if a person goes to a congressional hearing we watch them being bullied by the people who are members of congress. people who go before the committees often find that it's just a time to be virtually whipped by the words of a member of congress. it's a more embarrassing show of ego than any inquiry for facts. these are the same team in congress who don't want to have town hall meetings or face their constituents and run from them when they can. and i've decided, maybe the job is just too much for them. they're stressed out. they can't handle it. i think we need to do them a favor. if they don't want to talk to the people they work for, they should be fired and you should use the election to speak your voice, and get your attention. it wasn't many weeks ago, south carolina democratic primary candidate alvin green won the primary election and the irony was, he spent no money. didn't have a card, a campaign staff, he never went to a debate and didn't have television or radio spot, he had nothing except to put his name on the ballot and he he got 60% of the vote and a lot of people said this guy has he no experience, he's not qualified. he has not the proper experience and pedigree. you know, i'm not sure that, what the message was, was not an accident. it was on purpose. i mean, after all, the current members of congress don't read the bills they vote for. they run up huge deficits they don't understand and have no clue how they're ever going to be paid back. and won't meet the voters egrab people by the neck and belittle their guests. i think the alvin greens of the world get elected because they can't do worse. well, that's my view and i welcome yours. [applause] >> you can contact me at mike huckabee.com. click on the fox news feedback section. again, that's mike huckabee.com and feedback, send me your e-mail. we pay attention to you, a whole lot more than the members of congress do. >> this summer, a lot more people are going to be working on highways, building clean weather projects. weatherizing homes. >> the pace of the ball i said early on, continues to increase not decrease, we've gone from hemorrhaging over 700,000 jobs a month the first months we got here and turned on the lights in the west wing here to adding several hundred more thousand jobs the last several months. the fact is the recovery act is working. >> mike: well, while the government claims to be creating jobs, unemployment remains high. my first guest is helping people keep their jobs by investing in companies that are about to go under and making them profitable again. she worked hard as a young single mother to raise kids and make ends meet and today, she's a self-made billionaire. that's right, billionaire. please welcome lynn tilton. welcome, good to have you here. >> nice to be here. >> two things i've decided, number one, you have created more jobs than the government and two, you have more money than they do. >> i have less debt for sure. >> mike: the you certainly have less debt. let's talk about how you ended up today. ceo, only female ceo, one of the largest private equity firms in the world. world, but a self-made millionaire, it dependent start like that. >> no no, i was a single mother at 23, working at an investment bank with a child at home. those were survival days and truly what doesn't break us does make us stronger and i think the struggle of those years ale made me strong enough to withstand, you know, 74 companies, 120,000 employees, and a lot of people shooting at me each day. >> mike: what was going on inside of you during those early formative and you call them dark years, those years when it doesn't look like you were going to be a billionaire, but you were just hoping to be able to take care of your daughter. what were the lessons deep inside of you that you learned? >> i think i had a great childhood and raised with great values. so i think for me, i was talking care of my child in a way that i had been taken care of. providing love and confidence and protection. and just trying to keep putting food on the table, so, yes, i was aspiring to excel, but most of all, it was just having a child young made me a much less selfish person. i didn't have time to worry about me, but just about taking care of my child, at least has as well as my parents took care of me. >> mike: by the age 40 you had amassed over 10 million dollars. thought about retiring, i mean, a lot of people would say, hey, that's pretty doggone good. you didn't retire, why not? >> certainly did not have to do with money, because frankly i had saved that money and waiting for my daughter to graduate from high school and i really wanted to be an island girl. i always say my destiny was to change the world, but my dream was to be an island girl. and frankly, i just got a calling. >> mike: which island? >> i like southeast asia. i like it all the way over there, but-- >> i figured you're a billionaire you could pick any island. where would a billionaire go. >> the one thing, i don't live like a billionaire. i work 18 to 20 hours a day, seven days a week, so-- >> wait a minute, hold it, you say you don't work like a billionaire, i thought they were working hard and how they were billionaires. >> i'm still doing it, okay, and still doing it every day and frankly the only reason we talk at all about money in my world or what i've accomplished it's a reflection of my success, because it's really not who i am. but, how do you argue with someone trying to make the world a better place, who's making money, too, right? you can prove it's mutually exclusive concept. you can make money and make the world a better place every day, on the same journey. and so, when we talk about the money i make, i hope it's just a reflection of that success and not who i am, because i'm trying to walk, touching people's lives. i mean, i won't be remembered how much money i made, but i hope i'll be remembered for how many familiar littles were better because we kept them employed by buying the companies that would otherwise have been liquidated. >> we come back from the break, i want to talk about the very thing. how do you keep people employed. is what the government is doing now for recovery really working and we're going to find out what the government maybe should be doing and how is lynn making it possible for families to stay employed? that's what you're going to find out when we come back. stay with us. 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(rings bell) bell works. love that bell! regions recognizes the unique needs of families. and we want to make sure you have exactly what you need - from the right checking account, to a mortgage, to loans for just about anything. those are for the kids, mike. so if you're ready for a bank that can give your family the financial freedom you want, switch to regions. >> we're not trying to push financial reform, because we begrudge success that's fairly earned. i mean, i do think at a certain point you've made enough money, but you know, that part of the american way is, you know, you can just keep on making it if you're providing a good product and providing good service. >> well, you remember that statement by president obama, he said at some point you've made enough money. lynn, is the president right? is there a point at which a person should be told by the government you've made enough money, that's all you should make? you can't make anymore? >> i don't think that's his place. i mean, i take umbrage to that and i also think you have to separate from how people make money. and i think a lot-- i think that was said to the investment bankers of the world, but, but frankly, you know, there are people who are game changers and you know, the bill gates of the world, and steve jobs of the world who created technology and changed the way we live and how do you tell those people they can't make money off of their incredible inventions or people who make it, use their own money? i mean, i put my money behind everybody else's money. and the big dollar amounts you're talking about, most of it's in my business behind everybody else, and there's a difference than when you're playing with the 11 trillion dollars that the country put behind big banks and big investment banks to save them during this down turn and then paid very large bonuses for that. so just blanket statements cover people that don't deserve to be buried under them. >> let's talk about, how does a person make a lot of money like you have? do you do it by just guessing right or you bought companies and then would make them profitable. how do you do that? >> well, for us, and like i said, i think this has been somewhat of a miracle journey for me. i think it's meant to be for this moment in time to show people what needs to get done to save employment in this country. we literally buy companies that other people toss away, what they call the heap of creative destruction, they're unprofitable. they don't deserve to live and we actually take the same companies, a lot of them iconic american brands and we rebuild them. we invest cash in them. we rationalize, we have to cut expenses and sometimes we have to cut people and you know, reduce some to save many. and then we actually go in with the combination of rationalization and innovation, cutting to what you can live off, and good lesson for all of us. >> you mean, the government might learn something from that. >> maybe, maybe, i'm happy to help. i've volunteered many times, and then innovation and most companies die because they've lost their innovation, which means the only way to brief new life into this company is through innovation. >> give me an example of a company and what we became familiar with. what we did and how did that save the jobs of people that work there? >> when you look at the helicopters, which is howard uses old helicopter companies and talking about weight on my shoulders and you know, it had been bought by mcdonald douglas and hadn't produced a helicopter, and i was too foolish to know that you couldn't rebuild an aerospace company. the first thing we had to do was really from scratch, we started. speak to every-- pay off the debts, and speak to every supplier, get them back on board and go out and speak to customers about what they were looking for. give the confidence and begin to build the helicopters and begin to bring the helicopters into modern times by, you know, changing blades, you know, changing in the cockpit, you know, innovating on what people needed so here was a company that hadn't produced a helicopter in three years and in 2008 we deliver 53 helicopters, we were, you know, top in customer support, and it's listening to the customer, hearing what they have to say, but most of all, he's just a team of people with passion, perservance, and willing to stand shoulder to shoulder to create that force of nature that rises from the abyss. we don't work together as a people anymore. we're always worried when we wake up about our sfs. when people stand together, i stay good people together make great things happen. taking a team of people who will believe in the journey. >> mike: well, lynn, to be the ceo of 120,000 employees, it's pretty remarkable. i'd say you've come a long way from the 23-year-old single mom working to just put food on the table, but you know what? you've taken a lot of risk. you say, wow, billionaire, pretty cool, but you took extraordinary risk, some of them worked out pretty well, you are rewarded for having taken the risk that worked, but if they hadn't worked, the question is, would the government have been obligated to bail you out? and the answer is in the private sector, historically, no. and i just hope people can understand, yes, what you have done is remarkable display of the power of old-fashioned capitalism, but it works when the government gets out of the way, and doesn't try to micromanage and manipulate every aspect of it. great story, lynn, and thank you for sharing it with us today. >> it's been a pleasure to be here. >> lynn tilton, thank you very much. 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"to kill a mockingbird," and the new film get low. come to go theaters in august. he's a thinking man and plenty of opinions and not shy about sharing them either. i was honored when he invited me into his home recently for an interview. >> and asked you, did you do the right thing? >> i felt that i did the right thing. yes. >> mike: in the movie "get low" there's a recurring theme that i've seen in the apostle. in tender mercies and it the theme of redemption, a person who is flawed, but deep down has qualities. the is that a person that we see robert duval as? >> could be, but i don't think about it that much. maybe i'm attract today things like that because i feel for those things, but they just happened to be, you know, i played stalin, not redemption to stalin. you know, when these kinds of movies come along that i, i respond to them and like them the "get low" is it my wife's favorite film since the apostle. the movie the apostle, you were given nomination for academy award and should have gotten it, in my humble opinion, but again, it was this character, sonny, who was a good man that made some bad mistakes. is that one of your favorite movies. >> yes. >> and why? >> well, it took so long to do and i think the american preacher is, it's a true american art form, the american preacher an if i had done it in hollywood i would have had to look down the whole thing. you can't patronize something like that. it took me so long to get it off the ground that it's part of our culture and something na was very, very important to me. >> but you treated faith and religion more respectfully in the movies that you're written and in which you've betrayed characters. hollywood tend to maybe portray people of faith and religious people as either kooks or charltons. >> yeah, and they send to fly over people and tend to patronize the interior of the united states, the south and so forth. and i can remember one time i was in-- a guy had his own car service in new york city and driving me around and said when he was in the army and the service in the deep south. he said all the guys that lived in the little creeks and valleys up in the mountains, constantly outscored the new yorkers on the aptitude tests, so, there's something there that's totally legitimate and valid that maybe the two coasts patronize and the people with extras who were of the-- of those religions and so if i said, somebody give me an amen. and they know what to do. and didn't know what was next and give you a moment of what i can do. >> so when you could put those people in there, sometimes when you put the real people in there they'll put the professional actor on notice. i put my wife in my tangle movie and she stole the show. she never acted before. if people step across that line as nonactors wanting to do that, what you do and you get them to a point, certain point of relaxation and they're as good as a professional, sometimes better. >> we know the successful robert duval. in the early years there was a struggle. >> a struggle. >> mike: one of the stories were you a roommate with dustin hoffman when both of you were going through hungry years and how. gene hackman downtown, my brother, me, dustin hoffman, had a jewish cantor, and my briere was a singer and we'd go around town and we'd fixed up the apartment, dustin, he never got over it. we met some girls and invite them up. why don't you come over, we've got new linoleum on the floor. (laughter) >> we sued to give great parties and you know, at times you will always remember, but it's strange because the country is so big it seems like, you go here, you live here and i hardly see those guys and then we were with each other daily, but there was struggle at that time. >> oh, yeah, did the struggle help you be a better actor. >> yeah, there was a struggle, but always a dream and always the aspiration that accompanied the struggles. isn't america about dreams though? >> oh, absolutely, absolutely, it's a great country and i always look at america like a big giant kid. with a lot of talent, and power that makes mistakes, but great potential. and i think, to me, if this country went down, it would be a dark world. >> there is a lot of polarization in america. >> a lot. >> more than i've ever seen, what do we do to f