captions by vitac www.vitac.com billy ray, how are you? i m doing great. how you doing, piers? my first question, did you ever have this terrible nagging feeling if you suddenly keeled over from a heart attack tomorrow, the headlines would be, miley cyrus dad dies of an achey breaky heart? if that were the case, that s what it s going to read. there s no doubt about it. as ironic as my life is at times, that will probably be the way i go. you have had an extraordinarily checkered life. i was reading all about it the other day. just researching you. you ve had great highs. great lows. fair liberal dose of scandal and drama and everything else. how would you as you approach your 50th birthday. by the way, you have weathered much better than i have. as you approach it, how would you sum up your life? i would sum it up as for every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction. for me, there s never been anything in the middle. it s always been white hot or i
hosni mubarak s health is an issue here in egypt. keep in mind when we heard earlier today is that the lawyer for hosni mubarak said he was in a, quote, deep coma, he fell into that coma midday local time and that the lawyer was on the way to the hospital and didn t know whether or not hosni mubarak would ever regain consciousness. now, the hospital for itds part as you said, said, yes, he did lose consciousness. he fainted for a while earlier today. but regained consciousness quite shortly after that. they re also telling us that apparently it s not uncommon for mubarak to faint every once in a while. simply because his health is so problematic. the reason why this is such a big issue here in egypt, fredricka, is because mubarak is due to stand trial on august 3rd for atrocities allegedly committed during his reign here of almost 30 years in power. and, of course, during the revolution that started on january 25th and that eventually led to him being ousted. so a lot of pe
won t support deep cuts without increases in taxes. if you are trying to get to 2.4 trillion without any revenue, then you are effectively gutting a whole bunch of domestic spending that is going to be too burdensome and not something that i would support. david gergen is the cnn political analyst. there was a time when john boehner and president obama both talked of doing something big to change america s unsustainable economic path. what do you think? do that you think that opportunity is lost? well, a week is a long time in politics. it can be a lifetime, as you know. i think the big deal, the grand deal, the grand bargain of $4 trillion over four years is dead, it s gone. i think the chances of getting a deal at 2.5 are 2. the middle double deal, very unlikely, because the president does not want to go that high without tax increases and republicans are not going to do it. here s the question that is coming out. and that s. the house republicans are now pushing a ve
a girl who went from a farm in south africa, won an oscar, brutally honest role as a serial killer. tonight, the as you have probably not seen her before. wow, i didn t even know you fancied me. that s amazing. cherlize theron. this is piers morgan tonight. let s start with the obvious question. how do you actually pronounce your name? sharl liz there ron. that s the american way. yes. yes. it s how it s what i thought would be easier for people. what is the correct south african, dare i say it, african s way of pronouncing this? shacharlize shais theron. sexier. say that again. you obviously were raised south african and presumably came to l.a. with a broad south african accent. and then you quite consciously went and taught yourself how to speak in an american accent, right? yeah, i mean, look, it was kind of i was kind of pushed into a corner. i started going out on auditions. and the feedback was always, she s really great but can she do it in an
that outbreak probably won t help. the woman caught on tape attacking the judge sentencing her and her husband is right there watching. you re going to see how the whole thing played out. and one more bit of news in the unfolding saga that is casey anthony. as people turn out for a memorial for her murdered daughter, she plans to get out of jail in just a few hours. we re live for you in orlando tonight. plus the pictures that you have to see to believe, a giant telephone tower goes up in flames and what happens next and people scrambling for their lives as it all played out on their tvs at home. and debt talk deadline, a friday has come and gone and republicans stiand democrats st don t agree and republicans don t agree with each other. i m don lemon at the cnn headquarters in atlanta. thank you for joining us, the news starts right now. we have been paying a lot of attention to the contentious debt notion negotiations go og washington, but the fire has been across the