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Afghanistan today. we have had nearly 300 killed. we feel we have done more than our bit in term of defending the atlantic alliance. its not just this bp thing. it comes after a number of signals that we havent really had the same kind of feeling with the 44th president that we had with most of his predecessors. there was the returning of the bust of winston churchill. the farcical exchange of gift where gordon brown gave barack obama an antislavery versus and got dvds that didnt work. the way t...

one week from tonight weve got mick jagger here for the hour. right now we welcome back former first lady laura bush to "larry king live." we spent many hours together. her new book is "spoken from the heart." a terrific read published by scriptners. you see its cover. you were such a private first lady. wasnt this hard for you to do? >> it actually was not. it was really great to have a chance to do this. i wanted to be very candid, i wanted it to be revealing. and i knew there were a...

bp says its expecting the latest attempt to be the one that does the trick. capping out of all that oil gushing into the gulf of mexico. workers have managed to insert a four-inch tube down to the spill site, capturing some of the leaking oil and pumping it to a ship on the surface of the gulf. after weeks of bad news, theyre calling it a positive step forward. >> we ran the -- they call it the riser insertion tube tool. and they ran it up night and started to get oil up to the surface...

Have going to be troubling to a lot of people. >> the argument was she wanted everybody to be able to serve in the military. how is that antimilitary? >> she took a strong line against the dont ask, dont tell policy. she was basically continuing the policies of her predecessors. i agree with mike. i think this is going to come up. the question of obamas relationship with the military, something i write a lot about in my book. there was a show down over perception of insubordination during the de...

>> larry: well, "clevelands" pretty good, but thats an offshoot of -- >> yeah. >> larry: but you took "the simpsons" and went raw, right? >> yeah. i mean, you try to take whats good about your predecessors and take it to the next level. i think theres, you know, originality is important and at the same time when "all in the family" came out, there were a lot of great shows that followed that were taking a cue from that show. oh, look how well they did this. this is new. lets do more versions of ...

Years -- actually its sort of a cult nit its own right. it was created by a friend of mine. but, yeah, "family guy" was, you know, my first. some would say only hit. >> larry: well, clevelands pretty good but thats an offshoot of -- cleveland. >> yeah. >> larry: you took "the simpsons" and went raw, right? >> yeah. i mean, you try to take whats good about your predecessors and take it to the next level. i think theres, you know, originality is important and at the same time when "all in the fami...

Spending and borrowing. had administration and its predecessors, republicans and departments, have fallen into that -- democrats have fallen into the credit card mentality, greece would be a lesson to all of them. >> but that -- stop spending is like asking an addict to stop smoking crack. really do become addicted to programs, especially entitlement programs, of course the united states just passed a new one. but if you keep borrowing more and more money as a government, to you crowd out the pr...

President, are you listening? secretary napolitano, remember us? if you or your predecessors have had something to close the nations back door, we wouldnt be in this fix. where u.s. citizens are left to wonder whether theyll be asked for -- you know, that averages out to about 70% of arizonans. thats a lot of support for this law, john. >> theres a lot of support for the law. certainly, in arizona, but you have to realize, this is also rallying the democratic basin, specifically hispanic voters....

>> yeah. >> larry: you took "the simpsons" and went raw, right? >> yeah. i mean, you try to take whats good about your predecessors and take it to the next level. i think theres, you know, originalalty is important and at the same time when "all in the family" there were a lot of great shows that followed that were taken a cue from that show. look how well they did this. this is new. lets do more versions of this. >> larry: do you think to yourself, im gutsy? >> not -- not really. i guess maybe ...

Mafia is not dead. it is a life and kicking. modern mobsters may be less colorful, they may be less flamboyant, less glamorous than some of their predecessors, make no mistake, they are still terrorizing businesses, still using baseball bats, still putting people in the hospital and they are still sworn to a life of crime. >> in truth, despite the popular fascination, it was never really about the thousand dollar suits. it was and is about murder, mayhem and money. joining us right now is joe ...