instead of jail time as i mentioned, he got probation. his attorney sold the judge on the idea that the then-16-year-old suffered from affluenza, that he s rich, spoiled and his parents didn t tell him the difference between right and wrong. fast forward to today, he and his mother appeared after this video surfaced allegedly showing couch playing beer pong. and if it s him, it could be a violation of his probation. not surprised by this. the father of a victim who survived that original crash and an attorney for others who did not, they talked to my colleague john berman. anger has to subside at some point. anger s a temporary emotion. and, you know, i try not to hang onto that, but i do feel like accountability hasn t been demonstrated yet. and i would still like to have some accountability because i need for my son, lucas, to see that there are consequences for bad decisions. do you have any updates right
if the mad man people will hire me, i will get this man coffee for the rest of my life. you re impressed? no problem. you re over ryan gosling? it s hard to do that, but he has quite an argument. certainly. he has quite an argument. moving on to bieber. once again, justin bieber is in the news. this time his mom is coming to his defense. she s basically saying, look, he s young. if i could take away free will and make this better and fix all of his problems, i would, but i have to step away. he s 19, and he s young. at the same time, bieber is finally coming out in his own defense and saying the same kind of deal. his excuse for all the things that has happened, including a neighbor who says he assaulted him, same deal. he said, i m young, get over it. i m rich. he didn t say that. i said that. but he s rich, he s young. he hasn t done anything too terrible. anything too terrible. hey. the rest is up to you. so consider an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan,
they can open up the books and spend as much time on his financials, it makes the case he s out of touch and on and on. they would love to that. that he s out of touch. he s rich, doesn t get you, and, you know, make it about his personal biography and not about the economy or anything else. they would like to do that. they also want to try to link this up. to what the argument is going to be going forward which is an argument about tax policy. right. they want to lay this predicate down to say, this is a rich, out-of-touch guy, who wants to cut taxes for rich out-of-touch guys and want to have that argument because they think they win the tax policy argument against the ryan budget and against what romney s proposing. they don t want to talk about all the people that tim times article you were reading the jobless oh, my gosh. long-term unemployment. is horrific, economy stagnant. don t want to talk about your record. want to talk about the other guy
next week he is supposed to go out with mitt romney who he said he is a much better businessman than mitt romney. they went to a pricey restaurant. they probably had hor dourves and a waiter. it was two cents extra for the blue cheese. i hate that. i love that. well you don t even put it on your food. he is like the republican pope. you have to kiss his leaves? i don t know, does he have money? i have no idea what he s. rich, bankrupt, draws attention, doesn t draw attention. he is president and not going to be president. he is going to sue you for the bankrupt comment. let s not talk about that. bill, didn t trump rose to power based on barack obama s birth certificate. what happened to that story?
although he is a straight guy, he really feels like this kind of bullying is something that s really a terrible thing and he wants to use this experience to go out and help other teens experiencing the same thing. and you know, one of the things that struck me in the middle of all of this i felt sorry for the kid, yes, he s rich, famous, he has all of these girls screaming but he want to be like a normal kid playing laser tag. he got into probably a situation that was a little scary, don t you think? i absolutely agree, my first thought as well. not only is he not left alone but everything is grown incredibly out of proportion. maybe one kid just didn t like him, next thing you know we ve got people saying they re lawyers, they want to get involved and all of the world s press reporting it. it s very difficult to be in the spotlight, particularly at age 16, particularly as famous as justin is, but if he can use this to help other teens faces with bullying, that could be a