bill: as you may know, megan anchors a two hour live broadcast at 1:00 in the arch called america live . yesterday she spoke with anthony wiener about taxes. fib work all my life and i pay my taxes on my income and then i die and i want to pass on what would be great if it were a $5 million estate to my kids, why should i pay the government and why should there be a 35%, 55% tax on that. you aren t paying anything in that case because you re dead. the estate is, left for my children. the only question is look. no, answer my question. how is that fair? megyn, you ll have to let me answer the question. we ll have a conversation that gets us anywhere. go ahead. only question here is not whether or not there should be a tax on that. the question is where the limits should be and how much. no, i ll ask the question. you re not answering. tell me how is it fair?
oldest president ever elected. cards up, please. roll the tape. we can t afford to believe that we will never be threatened. there have been two world wars in my lifetime. we didn t start them and indeed did everything we could to avoid being drawn into them. but we were ill prepared for both. had we been better prepared, peace might have been preserved. bill: ronald reagan is the elected president. question 2, royal memorabilia always popular. at a recent auction might have gone too far, however. auctioneers hope to debt $9,000 for what item formerly used by queen elizabeth ii. a, her dentures, b, her underwear, c, the toothbrush and d the hairbrush. cards up, please. roll the tape. a florida man listen to this, auctioning off a pair of underwear that once belonged to queen elizabeth. see that on the news? actually, you know where they were found, on stage after a justin bieber concert. bill: good line. they were wrong!
know? you brought was it an appropriate question? bill: i wish that you and all the other celebrity interviewers wouldn t ask those questions. you think that s what i am? bill: i think you re a journalist but you do a lot of celebrity interviews. so do you. bill: i don t do many. we don t have a lot of the pinheads on anymore. they don t have a lot to say. it makes me queasy that a person likeprah winfrey has to answer those kinds of questions. she doesn t have to answer. on the special, you will hear gayle king jokingly comment about it, you know. bill: i wish we didn t have to do that. i think she was happy to be able to talk about it. bill: she was pleased? yes, i think she was. bill: now, on your fascinating people list, you have the jersey shore crew. that s snooki and the situation. would you please explain to me and my audience, vast audience, why these people are fascinating? this was, i think, mtv s largest, most successful reality show in history.
secret and i said, tell me about your sexuality years ago, i pushed ricky martin and it was a mistake because he was trying to keep it a secret. if you were trying to keep it a secret, bill, i wouldn t ask you. promise. bill: trying to keep what a secret, that i m gay? if you were trying to keep it a secret. bill: am i gay? if i am, i really have been on the wrong track for all these years. here s my point. wait a minute. you asked me a question. she talks about her relationship with gayle king and you know, they are best friends so i asked her about that and she started to cry and then she talked about it. and i asked her about stedman who for the most part i didn t even know that their relationship bill: he s the attorney general of the united states. have you ever seen him and holder together? yeah. like i say, he s taller. he never has talked rarely talks about stedman. but i haven t finished. so why do you ask me if you
bill: segment tonight this evening at so:00 p.m., barbara walters hosts her annual most fascinating people special on abc. before that, she has another show featuring oprah winfrey. when those dumb rumors come up that you are gay, what do you say? well, i have said we are not gay enough times. i am not lesbian. i am not even kind of lesbian. and the reason why it irritates me is because it means that somebody must think i m lying. that s number 1. number 2, why would you want to hide it? that is not the way i run my life. bill: here now is barbara walters. you think that was an appropriate question asking her about that kind of stuff? yes, i do. i believe that i do. if she were trying to keep it a