tomorrow, we're in jacksonville, florida, ahead of cnn's presidential debate. it's the final debate before the sta state's crucial primary. a lot on the line tomorrow. we'll by down there jax tomorrow out front. on that note, here's piers morgan. >> tonight, my exclusive in-depth interview with the one and only alec baldwin. nothing is off-limits, his politics -- >> i do want to run for office one day. >> -- 30 rock. >> every week i look at the script and go you've got to be kidding me? you want he to what? talk to a peacock? >> his movie career. >> everybody said it's just an honor to be nominated but you really do want to win. >> and that little problem he had with "words with friends." >> we can be playing a smart word game rather than watching reruns of nbc sit-coms all the time. what kris osborn could be more of a waste of our time. >> alec baldwin, unapologetic, and very, very funny.

but i must ask you, piers, have you been properly in love? i was instructed by your staff to pose this very question. >>al an lek baldwin, piers morgan interview starts now. if you're alec baldwin, life is pretty damn good right now. the man's at the top of his game, starring in "30 rock," making movies even hosting the new york philharmonic radio show. he's so busy, apparently he doesn't have time to run for mayor of new york city. he's not afraid to say what he thinks or to leave a plane when he feels annoyed. it's time for me to have some words with a friend, alec baldwin. welcome. >> thank you, good to see you. >> now, we're going to come to that remarkable moment of you live tweeting your own ejection from an airplane a little later and also your dramatic new appearance because for all the

slightly chubbier end of the cable fuss anchor market like myself you have been the standard bearer of how not to be in the gym all day and be on camera. now i see they svelte new alec baldwin in front of me. you've ruined everything. >> you know, it's interesting because earlier this year i realized that i worked out all the time and i wasn't achieving the results i wanted to. and i became aware of the fact that it's as much about what you eat and what you don't as it is about exercising. i gave up eating sugar. that was a really, really big thing for me. >> we'll come to this many transformation later. i'll have to do something about it. let's talk about the state of the union. president obama made this big speech last night and some core themes were that america remains a great country. that america remains a country that is referred around the world still.

it must go back to perhaps bakes. president obama said the following in the speech. >> during the great depression, america built the hoover dam and the golden gate bridge. after world war ii we connected our states with a system of highways. democratic and republican administrations invested in great projects that benefited everybody from the workers who built them to the businesses that still use them today. >> and that, surely, is the crux of the problem here. is that america's been. tough times before. you know, we're not in the great depression now. we're in a recession. it's not as bad as it was in the '30s. and the a that america got itself out of that hole before was to build big things, to i guess inspire people at the same time as creating jobs in its own country. >> well, i think the united states, and i've said this kind of broad banner i've waved this banner before in this kind of conversation where i say america

is great in direct proportion to when we do great things and when we fought wars it was clear lo our enemy was and that they were people who needed to be stopped from their aggression and so for the. in the last several decades you know, since through the sixts and '70s and now during this period in the middle east, i'm not quite sure that the wars america was fighting were the best idea and the amount of money and the amount of american lives and the amount of innocent civilian lives abroad that were killed, especially in the middle east is troublesome to me. >> do you think that president obama has the gumption i guess to carry through what he said in his speech? do you think he's actually going to start commissioning those kind of dreamy inspirational projects which will get the whole world gaspinging in awe? >> well, i'm hopeful that he will, and that hope is based on the notion that presidents, regardless of party, have more flexibility or a perceived

flexibility in their second term because there is no possibility for re-election. many people play their cards pretty close to the vest and they play a rather conciliatory game if not a kind of a zero sum game, if you will, especially when the other party is in control of the congress in their first term, and in their next term, they kind of let it rip. they really let it fly on a philosophical basis because they don't have to the worry they're running for office again. >> when we look at the republican candidates down to four now, i've done a little montage which i thought might bring a smile to your face of some of their greatest moments recently. watch this. >> marriage was based on a man and woman, has been for 3,000 years, is at the core of our civilization and something worth keeping. >> any kind of sexual activity has no place in the military. >> we can start with his idea to have a lunar colony that would mine minerals from the moon. i'm not in favor of spending

that kind of money to do that. >> how many people would use heroin if it was legal. >> i bet nobody. oh, yeah, i need the government to take care of me. i don't want to use heroin so i need these laws. >> quite a good time to be a comedian, i would have thought, alec. >> well, my friends who are comedians are certainly spelling it out that way, but listen, i think the republican party is in a tough place. i want to say this in a kind of a nonpartisan way. i think the republican party is in a tough place. they seem to be mimicking the way the democrats were 30 years ago or so where the democrats were sorting out who the nominee was and they were battling in the primary period. when it was over, they took their ball and they went home. they didn't share the remaining coffers that they had from their campaign and donate it to the national party and donate it to the winning candidate. when they didn't win, they got a

little petulant and went home. the republicans seem to be running that program now. i've listened to gingrich on fox say things about romney which are going to be very, very hard for him to retract if romney is the nominee, which i still assume romney will be the nominee. i mean gingrich said the phrase dishonest. he characterized romney as being a dishonest man which is the worst thing i think that either party could say about their own nominee and the other person, let alone the member of your own party. i mean if romney's the nominee, how gingrich is going to back away from that statement, i don't know how. >> but i think that's a screw interesting point, isn't it? it's also about the state of political discourse in america right now, not just between democrats and republicans. but between republicans and republicans because once this battle gets for real, once one of these guys wins the republican race and takes on barack obama, all he has to play, assume it's mitt romney. all he has to play repeatedly is newt gingrich calling him

dishonest. this man who wants to be president, wants to be the president in the race is a dishonest man. i mean, as you say, i couldn't imagine a worse slur. >> what's happened now in the primary period, and you have a very, very kind of you know strident group of people seeking the nomination for the republican party now. and you're having a lot of -- you have the fox news channel amplifying all these kinds of statements on their behalf. you have a lot of anyone but obama rhetoric, and you're going to hear this all the way to the end until the convention. and but then that's going to end. and they're going to have one man presumably a man, unless there's a brokered convention where we have a woman step forward on behalf of the gop, but you're going to have one man running against obama. and then it's going to become more real and you're going to start to seep obama listing in his commercials. no point of running any advertising right now. let this the sort itself out.

then you'll have an opponent and obama will begin to categorize for everyone what he's accomplished. when you look at what obama's accomplished in office, there are quite a few wonderful things that he's done. >> there are. i get a sense that a lot of americans don't fully appreciate what obama has done for america's reputation abroad, for example. >> i agree with you. listen, the war for all intents and purposes is over. the war as we know it in which a large number of american soldiers, men and women,ings were in imminent danger by the tens of thousands on a daily basis over in iraq. that's over. there are still people there. and this is a hornet's nest that we kicked and we're going to have to stay there, unfortunately, for probably and i definite period of time. but i think that obama is responsible for finally bringing the bulk of our troops home. obama is responsible for stabilizing the economy. i mean, i look at the republican party and i look at men who are the standard bearers of wall

street. i mean, not that obama is someone who has abjured wall street money in his campaign but i look at these men like rom who are just -- they might as well as put his picture on monopoly money, he's so pro wall street. you look at the dow, the dow is in the high 12,000s now and they'll never give this guy credit for it. he has done some wonderful things for this country. >> there will be watching saying look at this guy, he looks razor smart tonight. he's lost weight. he's talking like a president and yet, when you were given the chance to confirm if you would run for mayor of new york city, you finally said you wouldn't. there are people like me going, but why wouldn't you alec baldwin? let's take a break and find out the answer. the employee of the month is...

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vaccinated for hpv so they can enter into meaningful sexual relationships. >> alec baldwin playing rick perry. obviously, it seems to me you get just a little more pleasure out of tormenting them comedically than you would from doing the stuff yourself, which is a bitter disappointment to political fans of yours like myself who would love to see you run for office. >> it's interesting you say that because i was at work today. we were shooting today and everybody is in this frame of mind now as we're coming towards the end of -- we have half the season to go and then we have presumably some kind of season next year which everybody thinks might be our last. we were all saying we're never going to have it this good again. i enjoy the opportunity to say that. that i will never ever in my life ever no matter what happens, never have a job as good as the job i have now. that's a part of what makes me

think about running for office or not running for office. i have friends of mine, you know people in the political world and you know more of them and more intimately than i ever will by virtue of your many positions you've had in the media. the ones i know, very prominent people who i won't name but some of them have held very high elective office. nearly all of them try to dissuade meet from running from office. they say don't do it, you can have just as much influence in certain areas from your vantage point to you and so for the. i believe what i've been doing for the last 25 years, i've been heavily involved periodically, i mean intermittently because of my career with campaign finance reform and anti-nuclear power in this country and several different issues. most of them environmentally linked. and i don't have a government position. i don't have an office. i don't have a budget. i have to do all of this on my own and raise money privately from people to do that.

it's been a dream of mine to hold office so i would have some of the power to do some of the things and try to create some of the reforms that i've wanted to do. >> from the way you're talking it seems to me this is not something you've completely ruled out. you've not decided to go for new york mayor at the moment. could that change in the future? >> that's a possibility. that's a possibility. the only reason i say that is because right now, the timetable i'm on workwise, careerwise, contracts i've signed, and obligations i have would make running for mayor, for example, very, very difficult. i mean, it isn't something i could do, possibly. i see people running for mayor. to be very plain speak. there are people who are running for mayor who i'm overwhelmingly indifferent about most of them. there's a couple if they made certain changes they'd be okay and there are certain people running for mayor i'm appalled that they're running for mayor and appalled they've raised so

much money and pauled they're taken seriously considering some of their past actions and records. >> when you see arnold schwarzenegger become become governor of california, you must say i could do at least a job an as that. >> you'd be reading my mind if you said that. i would agree with you there. yeah, i would agree with you. but california, it's a very unusual place where they have that kind of very kind of hysterical referendum procedure and they ousted davis and you know, the whole pathing that led, if you know the story, of issa and the way that they deposed gray davis, that path and how it opened up the door for schwarzenegger schwarzenegger was a very unusual set of circumstances. but for me, i do want to run for office one day, but what it would be and when and how is still something that i'm trying to think very seriously about because a, i'm not done doing what i'm doing now.

i've got at least a couple more years of this kind of work i want to do on the drawing board. and b, in political -- in the political world, two years is an eternity. i mean, whoever thought in the new york political world that spitzer would resign? whoever thought that hillary would run for the senate? whoever thought that hillary would leave the senate to become the secretary of state of the obama administration, obama who had vanquished her in the primary? there's so many different things that happened in the political world over the course of two years, that in that amount of time, maybe the not too distant future i'll think is there an opportunity for me. in new york, we have safe democratic seats around the horn so to speak. it's the governor and the ag and the two the senate seats. so what i would run for and when would be something i'd have to give a lot of thought to. but in the meantime, i have a job i love. >> and a job we love you doing.

so there's no hurry on this. when you look at somebody like newt gingrich and indeed arnold schwarzenegger and you see personal stuff being used to hammer them into the ground, would you be concerned about that? you ran for public office, given the very well-known trevails you've had in the past? >> i would be concerned about that, i would be, sure. i would be very concerned, not so much for myself because i've developed, for example, i mean, to me the most kind of handy example of that is this phone message i left for my daughter. and that's been thrown at me by political opposition and people who want to do that kind of diminishing of your political opinion by bringing in these other things. i mean my relationship with my daughter is normal. i mean, by that, i mean i'm a father who has a 16-year-old daughter, and i communicate with my daughter as often and as effectively as any 53-year-old man can with a 16-year-old daughter. i'm trying to be funny here.

i worship my daughter. >> you tweet. i read your tweets. >> i worship my daughter. we get along fine. and that situation was something which a certain group of people wanted to, you know, create a very vet sensational news story there. and but the truth of the matter is is that i have two things. one is that i have worked in this kind of silly and childish and purile world of comedy and saturday night live" and all of it's been very, very funny but the day you run for office you have to kind of draw a line and say everything i was doing back then was for the most part for entertainment value. i'm on the record with some very, very firm and very, very what i think are well thought out political opinions that i have, but a lot of what i've done has been kind of nonsense for entertainment purposes. >> has part of you always -- and be honest here.

has part of you always harbored the possibility that you could one day run for the presidency? >> well, i think that that's something i used to think about a long time ago. it would be a little late in the game i think for me to set my ship on a course that would lead to that ultimately. that's what i wanted to do my whole life, and quite frankly, when i got into the business i'm in now, it was a very on a personal level. this is a very personal thing and i've said this on a couple of occasions. it was a job that i got and i wasn't even quite sure that this is what i wanted to do. i still had this hangover of wanting to do something else in public policy or to go get my graduate degree or to go to law school. there was a whole menu of things i was contemplating. but then i got a job in this business and i started to work and i got the sense that i was on a bit of a roll, that i would always have work and i was, i had no shortage of opportunities

and i really did it to for the money. i did it to support my family. i'm not complaining. i'm very happy with the way it's gone. in this business, you know, what's funny, you do this for a living and you talk to people all the time. i have my radio show "here's the thing," it's called on wnyc. you see how when you get in this zone with someone that you really like and you really are engaged and fascinated with, you could talk to them for two or three hours. you and i, we need to order some sushi and sit here and have dinner together. i wish you were here, we were having dinner. and it's become such a -- in this business, the real thrill for me, the real joy, the thing that has made me happiest are the people i've met and gotten to work with. it's not just the actors although there are innumerable actors that i've worshipped like tony hopkins. and i cried the day they called me.

i was in north carolina on vacation. i had tears in my eyes crying when this he told me i was going to make a film with tony who i admired at the highest level. the same is true with the technical people. the business is a huge collaborative colony, and i'm so grateful for the people i've been able to work with. >> well, let's take a little break and come back and talk about the ultimate pinnacle for people you've worked with, the oscars. i want to know how think may win in the forth coming academy awards and talk to you about a few words you had with ex-friends. >> yes.

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my special guest alec baldwin. alec, oscar is coming up. who do you fancy? >> well, i think the only thing i could say about that is i have some personal favorites. i have people that were nominated that i was excited about and some that i was, like anybody, i was maybe perplexed by, if you will. i do know that to climb that mountain as you know, observing this business, to climb that mountain and to complete that cycle where you get the script and the movie gets made and you shoot it and it comes out well and the distribution, would and the marketing, would, people buy some tickets and sometimes they buy a lot of tickets and then you get that buzz and then the

votes come in and you're nominated, it's really, really a great thrill. i see george and brad and people who have made a lot of films and you know, my hat is off to them because that's a tough tough thing to pull off. i was nominated for an oscar for a supporting actor years ago in 2004 or whatever it was. and i lost to tim robbins. and i remember everybody said, you know, it's just an honor to be nominated. but you really do want to winnie really would have been so grateful. i'm happy for tim and i admire tim but you really do want to win. i say, i saw a bunch of great films this year. i saw -- i loved mel lan collia. i loved rooney mara. this woman is hypnotic on film. she's fantastic. meryl i saw in iron lady. i saw "money ball." jonah hill was fantastic. i'm glad he got his nomination. there's a lot of wonderful films. i do think this idea that they've expanded the best

picture category in this way was not such a good idea. and i do hope they go back 0 just five nominees because i do think it's kind of a way that they're kind of gaming the promotional, the promotional equity of the nominations. now, people who are nominated will have a full 60 days to go out and market that film and say, it's an academy award nominated best picture film. i think it's kind of diluted the value of that award to i an degree. i hope they go back to just five nominees. >> i always like it when truly what i call proper stars win the big awards. and the reason i say that is i reckon, and i'm not an expert but i reckon that the two best performances i've seen this year were gorge clooney in descend ants and meryl streep in the iron lady. if they were to win, that gives the oscars that kind of

heavyweight glamour, you know? >> to the extent that the oscars, sometimes those votes as you well know even in recent history, they swing in a very wide track. they will want to honor someone for their career. they're really handing them a career achievement award even though their particular work in that specific film might not have been the best work in that category. they're going to want to honor someone who they deeply admire and who they might let have a chance to do so again. and then there's someone who is like a hood ornament for hollywood glamour, someone they think is a great star. then there's someone who is not going to make a lot of movies. they might not star in a lot of movies but they're going to give them -- benini when he won that wonderful moment he won when he was climbing over the people in the audience to get to the -- that very chaplainesque moment he had, he didn't go on to make a lot of films in the united

states. but sometimes the academy decides they're going to stick that thing in the hand of the person that they think gave the best performance. >> i spent last night watching you having sex with meryl streep. >> yes, yeah. i got paid a lot of money to do that, too. it was a good feeling. >> i couldn't believe it. i thought this guy is getting paid millions of dollars to do this. i was watching "it's complicated." we all loved it. what was she like to actually work with? because meryl streep is this iconic, to me the best actress alive today. what was she like? >> you know, she's -- i mean meryl, i'm not going to say anything fresh about her or new that hasn't been said by countless other more formidable leading men than i'll be. she's worked with the greatest leading men of the last 25 and 30 years. for me, it was a question of beyond the kind of a sex play of the two characters where it was a man who missed his wife on a kind of chemical level.

i remember i kept saying to nancy when we were working in whatever way we could imbu this into the film was to -- to point out that my character was till in love with his wife. he still loved her. it wasn't just about he wanted to sleep with her. and he missed you know, having sex with her. he was still in love with her and deeply in love with her. great thing for me is that meryl was very easy to fall in love with and meryl is very easy to play love scenes with because you fall in love with her the moment you lay eyes on her. she's a great, great person. >> we're going to take another break and we are going to get to air travel this time because i want to know what happened on that plane. what words were exchanged and why the airline is now an ex-friend. ♪

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you know, we had some trouble on the plane a couple weeks ago. and one thing when i heard that news story, my first reaction, the thing i was upset about was last spring, like seven months ago, whatever, i said to him, hey, there's this really fun game called "words with friends." and it's a lot like scrabble but it's a little different. you should get it. he's like i don't know. you should get it. so anyway, i didn't think he got it because he's never invited me to play him. >> that was tina fey on late

show taking the blame. for introducing alec baldwin to words with friends. was it really her fault, alec? >> no, of course not. my advice to people is when you get on a plane, turn off your phone. try with all your might, try with all your strength and all your resolve. >> you don't mean that -- >> to not -- i do mean that. you don't want to have happen to you what happened to me. but i will say. >> tell me. >> there were some extenuating circumstance which is i had flown for many years on an airline where there seemed to be in the first class cabin a bit of a more relaxed environment while the plane was at the gate. and we were at the gate. and i want to also mention because i'm very much of a stickler about in that the flight was already 45 minutes late prior to anything that went wrong with me. the plane was late prior to anything that happened. so i don't think ta they could really pin all that on me and my

cell phone. but i was on this plane and then all of a sudden, i was notice presence of someone for whom all those rules changed. we were going to have a very, very kind of soviet level of enforcement of the rules, if you will. in an instant. and it was done with no -- it was done very brutally. this woman was very harsh and very, very snappy. and i reacted badly to that. i got really, really very upset. and then i was asked to get off the plane and get on another plane. and to the extent, as i said, that i inconvenienced anybody else on the flight, i was very, very sorry. and i really mean when i say when you get on the plane, i mean even though most people are i think are aware that these rules about this stuff while they're on the ground or certainly while they're at the gate, these rules are kind of stupid and innan, it's still something you have to contend with. just turn your phone off while

you're in flight. >> you're on this plane. how are you? feeling as this woman is giving you this lecture? other people around you, presumably knew it was you. as the scene unfurls. how were you feeling, embarrassed, angry? >> you know, you was very embarrassed and i was very upset because i thought, first of all, that there were people -- i mean the joke obviously when i got off the plane was there were four other guys twittering from their cell phones as i was getting kicked off the plane for using my cell phone. but i've heard a lot of people say that's a weak defense to say well everybody else was doing it. they do have a point. but i did feel this woman, she had kind of marched directly at me and toward me and singled me out. maybe she's kind of a christian conservative republican who is on the payroll there. i don't know. but she was very -- she was very ardent and she was very tough and she really, really came at me with everything she had.

she was pretty blistering. but the truth of the matter is that in the end, turn your phone off when you're on the plane. that's what i've learned, literally. >> if american airlines had spent more time on that particular flight apologizing to you as a paying first class regular customer for these years for the inconvenience of being kept waiting 45 minutes rather than focusing on a harmless game you're playing when you're at the gate, then perhaps they won't have slipped into the bankruptcy position they found themselves in. to me, it's utterly ridiculous. >> i'll let you say that. >> i just did. >> i mean, american airlines is in bankruptcy. american airlines is in a lot of trouble. i feel bad because as i said, i flew with them exclusively for 20 years and every now and then i would work for somebody who they had a deal with united or some other company. but i mean, i can see where maybe the people working at the airline are under a lot of pressure because they're not quite sure what their job security is. i'm very understanding of that,

as well. >> i agree with you. part of it, i'm afraid, does come down to customer service. you know, you've got to look at your clients. i mean, would you ever fly american again? >> i guess if they gave us -- if they gave us a device on board that we could play "words with friends" while we were flying on the plane with other people on the plane, play words "friends" with other people on board. press 3 j, press seat 41 f. would you like to play "words with friends," i think that's a super idea. we could be playing a smart word game rather than watching episodes of nbc sit-coms all the time. what could be more of a preposterous waste of our time than that. >> we have got the message loud and clear although the trouble was hugely entertaining. it brings me to another great love of yours which is twitter because the most devastating fallout for me was you went off

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>> you can't keep me out. >> alec baldwin starring in "30 rock." my favorite comedic character ever. i love that man. i love him. >> it's been such a thrill for me because i've said countless times the writing is so good. we have such great white writers. they give you the scripts and every week i look at them and go you've got to be kidding me. you want me to what? get drunk and talk to a peacock and i think my boss has gone into the body. rip torn's body has entered the body of a peacock. you want me to play this patty duke you know, twin character while i talk to myself in the scene. i play this mexican soap opera actor. the stuff they had me do it's always been insane but fun. >> it's a fantastic show. do you get more or less fun from twitter than you do from "30 rock"? >> i get more fun with "30 rock" than anything. but twitter, when i first went in that direction, what i liked about it and up till i stopped

was that it's -- it was a direct way and a very terse way, it was a very kind of you know, concise way to communicate directly with your fans because so much of what people do is stuff like this where we talk to a producer and you work out a time and a segment. and your staff was very, very kind and very, very kind of cooperative with me to try to make this happen at a certain time and everything. but doing this with filtering who you are through a television show which is more direct but even more difficult is a magazine let's say and a writer, twitter removes that and an it's you writing what you want to write directly to people instantly. and i was very, very fond of that possibility, but then i realized that talking to people on twitter might not be such a good idea because a lot of people, they want to just attack you and they want to kind of wrestle with you and they want

to -- >> the great thing about you, alec, you react like i do, which is the way it should be. you're very visceral and raw and you abuse them back and -- >> i love to get it back to them. i love getting down in the mud with them and wrestling in the mud with them. i see you kind of give as good as you get, too. i love that. i thought to myself i'm going to stop and kind of hit the reset button here and come back and have a different program where the people who come on who attack you in a very vulgar way, for example, that there's no thought behind it. people say 0 me, i think your stance against nuclear power is idiotic because, then i'll retweet that, then i'll discuss that. but people who say i'd like to [ bleep ] you in your beep because you're a beeping beep, i delete them. i block them. >> it is quite fun though, isn't it? although it's rather addictive.

>> it can be. it is because you and i'm a big fan of yours for this. you love to xukt communicate. and you want to communicate something smart and something relevant and want to whittle it down and get down to the core, to the marrow of what you think really, really matters and focus people's attention on things that you think are important and really, really matter because god knows we live in a culture where there's a lot of detreatists out there that doesn't really matter. i like twitter for that. >> you're great entertainment. if anyone's not following your act, alec baldwin and i commend it to you with great enthusiasm. let's take a final break. let's come back and talk love, alec. i want to talk to you about your love life. [ male announcer ] yep that's your mouth.

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right now my special guest alec baldwin. alec, i've got to congratulate you because you've had, as i have and many people have had a checkered romantic past in many ways and yet you finally found almost utopia, a woman who is a yoga expert who has transformed you physically into this adonis now before me, someone who's never watched "30 rock," doesn't even own a television. i mean, this is the perfect woman for you, isn't it? >> well, yeah. yeah. well, you know, it's funny

because i was, it is true that what people always say and it's tough to make your way to that place i guess where you -- you stop looking. you know, i mean i was married and i was with somebody for ten years and after i got divorced i dated people and i had one girlfriend for several years. and then i kind of right before i met elaria, i did you know, lay in my bed and say this is it. i'm going to be alone for the rest of my life. i'm going to die alone in this apartment, in this bed. i'll have my friends. i'll have twitter. i'll have words with friends. my new yorker subscription. i'll have my table at helio's, i'll have my quiet life, my quiet manhattan life and right when i put it all on the shelf and it was over and then i walked into a restaurant downtown on gramercy park and i met this woman, probably one of the greatest people i've met in my life as a person, i mean forget about the whole man/woman

thing. >> i must ask you, piers, have you ever been properly in love? i was instructed by your staff to pose this very question to you. >> well, >> have you been properly in love? >> i have been properly in love. >> you have? >> i was about to ask you, how many times you've been properly in love in your life. >> the past is just a blur to me now, piers. it's all just a blur. now is the time. now is all that matters. the woman i'm with currently is the only woman i've ever really been in love with. everything else was just child's play before now. it wasn't -- i wasn't properly in love. >> you actually do a brilliant british accept. >> no, not really. no, i don't. i don't. but no, i'm very, very happy. and i have a great line, i'm going to quote tony bennett and tony's paerd to susan and tony is a few years older than susan.

i went to tony's school to visit the frank sinatra high school for the performing arts that tony and susan built. his wife is a wonderful partner of his and they're exporing the arts program. i said to tony, i'm dating a whom who's younger than i am. she's a lot younger than i am and i sometimes think about. and i know you're with susan and you're quite a bit older than her. and he looked at me people say that to me all the time. and i say to them, consider the alternative. i want to thank tony for that perspective. you have a baby. you have a baby, correct? you have a child? >> i just my wife gave birth to a little baby girl two months ago. >> how long ago? >> two months ago. >> you're very, very spry and very, very perky for a man with a 2-month-old child. does she sleep well, your child? >> she doesn't sleep too badly. have you thought about any little alec baldwins.

>> have i thought about having more kids? would i like to have more? sure, that would be great. that would be heaven. that would be fantastic. i mean, i would be as my friend said to me, when you have children typically in a second marriage, when you're hold e older and you get married again to i an woman who would have children you must always remember that you make sure they attend a college where the commencement ceremonies are held in a facility with a wheelchair accessible ramp. >> i've got to ask you this, alec. ask everybody this. outside of children and marriage and so on, what has been the single greatest moment of your life? the moment that if i could relive it for you now, you would ask me to relive it. >> there's a few of them. i mean, there's quite a few of them. but i think that i was driving in a car you know, becoming involved in the political process is something that has great meaning to me. and i had traveled around the

western part of the state of massachusetts in 1994 to campaign for teddy kennedy's re-election. and his nephew ethyl kennedy's son michael kennedy was my in-state coordinator of my activities. and i went to massachusetts for four consecutive four-day weekends in the month of october of 1994 to cover all these community colleges and these different stops. and we covered a lot of ground. we went to a lot of small venues because it was presumed that kennedy already had the boston democratic vote in his pocket. so we went out to western massachusetts and when we were done we were driving back to town for me to jump on a plane driving from williamstown or springfield across the state to go to logan and fly home. and the phone rang. i was in a van with michael, the late michael kennedy who died, unfortunately. and it was teddy kennedy called me and he said i want you to

know that if i win this race, you are partly responsible for that. he said you put your brick in the wall of my campaign and i will never be able to repay you or thank you. i got this call and i felt like i was going to cry because i worked so hard to try to puff my little wind into the sails of teddy's campaign because people were saying that he was going to lose that race. >> fantastic moment. alec, it's been a real pleasure interviewing you today. we straddled almost every divide imaginable but it's been a delight. i forgot to mention earlier you're an ambassador for the s.a.g. foundation. tell me about that. >> the s.a.g. awards are on sunday this weekend. and the foundation is their not for profit arm which is the charitable arm of the foundation which does a lot of work with human resources for a member of the screen actors guild. and every year, i'm assuming they're going to have a new ambassador to represent the foundation at the