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>> do you feel like because you have the -- because you get to use humor as your medium, that you can say harsher things than you could in a serious way? >> i think humor always works in that way. i think humor always allows you to, in any situation, to say harsher things, including in my regular writing, and the writers of "veep" can be really funny and really, really harsh, and also use words, of course, that cannot be used on this network. because it is hbo, after all. its not television. >> ...

>> plastics talked to the president. white house doesnt want us mentioning oil or corn starch or plastics. just wing it. >> front and back. very little romance. >> thats the entire speech. whats left here. ive got hello and prepositions. >> just wing it. thats a clip from the new hbo show "veep." joining us is frank rich. he has a new piece called sugar daddies. the old, rich white men that are buying this election. congratulations on this. its great. >> thank you. its been a lot of fun and work...

The hangar size nearby was very, very authentic. even the sign of andrews air force base are the real signs. >> while in theory they werent doing anything illegal, the  production was not without risk >> we start the shoot and we  pull out a 747 and it was just  like that holy [ bleep ] moment is this really happening? and all of a sudden helicopters start flying about. police showed up. there was no shortage of creative tension that night. >> if w...

tomorrow. desperation in syria as reports of more government atrocities mount. syrians swarm the newly arrived u.n. monitors. and a new warning from the u.s. to assads regime. plus, a perfect game for number 41. well bring you the final pitch that led to last nights victory. and later, "the new york timess" nick kristoff joins us to talk about his column. good morning, everyone. im randi kaye. its 8:00 on the east coast, 5:00 a.m. on the west. a lot to tell you about this morni...

Board, america was still a segregated culture. and this was too many white american parents in suburbs saw rock-n-roll as, quote, black music. even if white guys, big white guys like bill haley, were singing "rock around the clock." but, you know, you had "black board jungle" had that as a theme song. teenagers would tear up theaters where it played. you had, as mike barnicle said, elvis the pelvis as a lot of parents derisively called him. and you had jerry lee lewis and little richard and char...

>>stuart: he told you how to work the public and gave you professional advice on how to work the people, work the medium of television? >>guest: yes, yes, yes. >>stuart: with a smile? >>guest: with a smile absolutely, because who knew better than he did? i am so saddened on the news. i truly am. >>stuart: gloria thank you for joining us today. a great pleasure to have you. thank you for your memories of dick clark. more memories of dick clark after this.

the longtime host of "american bandstand" and one of the founding icons of rock n roll. also, a cnn exclusive. wolf interviews the secretary of state and defense. hillary clinton sends a tough new message directly at north koreas young leader and well very hear blunt talk on syria, iran and afghanistan. wolf blitzer is on assignment. im candy crowley and youre in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com we are following the breaking news this hour, the death of the...

>> if im understanding you, through the experience of the loss of the destruction that the realization of the permanence manifests. >> it took seeing the absolute opposite of what i had hoped. we all hope. thats the great thing about people, we have almost these irrational ideas about who we can be. religion from the earliest and primitive types have always given us a heaven. its the next stage because it takes us away from worrying about the fact that we are terminal. what i discovered in findi...

In china and no u.s. business will compete against that. but there are trends where u.s. businesses are bringing their work back here in the u.s.. >> in the end of the day, it is capitalism. >> it is also buyer beware. two extremes . burrcracy kiming us here in the united states and the lack thereof is potentially hurtful in china. somewhere thatthere has to be a happy medium. >> is it easy tore do business here than there? >> no upside in total rimp. i am from the give me liberty or death schoo...

House in 2001. while in portugal, increasingly reclusive and going blind, she kept a tight rein on her son. >> she didnt give him much responsibility. he didnt have much responsibility in the house. that was surprising for me because, as a child, we were taught that he was going to be the leader, the next leader. i think she saw him still as her little boy and not as the man he had become. >> although pedophilia was banned, under karen zerbys command, wife swapping remained the norm. >> there wa...