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a bartender, didn't want her drinks watered down. >> and inside syria, cnn, breaches the borders and witnesses firsthand some of the slaughter. people grabbing children off the streets to protect them from snipers, wholesale violence and assaults in neighborhoods, we will get you inside and show you what's happening. >> we finally have a deal here. late last night word that a payroll tax cut is now in place and lawmakers are using a word you haven't heard for a while. it is called compromise. >> what was that? >> compromise. >> i'm sorry. i'm not feeling it. also, you've heard all ...

>> to say it is unamerican, i'll tell you what's unamerican. what's unamerican is to take these tax breaks at a time when conocophillips and the other oil companies are making records, at a time when oil is over $4 a gallon at the pump and over $100 a barrel. when they argued they needed these subsidies when the price of oil was $17, and they needed to encourage exploration. >> now, for the record, the current average for gas is now $3.98 a gallon. that's 2 cents higher than yesterday. and almost 20 cents higher than last month. this as we charge into memorial day, which will be the most expen...

The whole world has shifted. >> yeah, it is a strange world. we went from "meet virginia" and selling a million records and" drops of jupiter "and millions of records and now they don't talk about that. it is about singles and it reminds me of motown days where it is about a song that affects people's lives. but it seems like our album is doing well on itunes too. >> i was going to say, does it make it harder for you to think about creating albums as opposed to -- i mean maybe you don't have to just single, single, single. >> i actually asked that question today to the guys at columbia. i was ...

Albums? the whole world has shifted. >> yeah, it is a strange world. we went from "meet virginia" and selling a million records and" drops of jupiter "and millions of records and now they don't talk about that. it is about singles and it reminds me of motown days where it is about a song that affects people's lives. but it seems like our album is doing well on itunes too. >> i was going to say, does it make it harder for you to think about creating albums as opposed to -- i mean maybe you don't have to just single, single, single. >> i actually asked that question today to the guys at columbia...

For instance, karate kid, you made so much money and made so much history with that series of films. aren't you doing it again with will smith's son jaden and here you go again. >> the kid is great. he is so wonderful and so i went out to see will the other day. had lunch with him because we were talking about selling it and merchandising it and we were going to take it up to a convention in las vegas which we did. and he said to me, you know, we should go over and say hello to jaden, that is his son. and we walked in the classroom and i was talking to jaden and having a lot of fun with him an...