robert blake tells me his story as he's never told it before. explosive. >> i'll get you [ bleep ] later but don't think you were going to get off the hook. i was supposed to die in that cell, wasn't i, you [ bleep] >> controversial. >> does that mean i'm lying to you? >> i don't know. are you? >> what do you think? >> this is robert blake as you've never seen him before anywhere. do you think you're sane? >> am i what? >> do you think you're sane" do you feel you have your full sanity? or has what happened to you sent you slightly mad? what do you think? >> well, i'll tell you. >> tonight, robert blake. the "piers morgan" interview starts now. good evening. i've been interviewing celebrities and public figures for more than 25 years, more than 2,000 people including presidents, prime ministers, movie, tv and pop stars, but i have never had an encounter as explosive, confrontational or extraordinary as the one you're about to witness. robert blake is a hollywood legend. he shot to fame as a star of the "our gang" series. went on to a chilling ro

let's turn to the robert blake case. you covered the original trial of robert blake. >> i did. >> you've heard what his lawyer at the time said, tom. what do you think? >> i have great respect for tom mesereau. i think there's no question that the civil jury got it right when they said he was legally responsible for his wife's death. the criminal trial was largely about bashing the victim and bonny of course wasn't around to defend herself. she'd done a lot of things wrong in this life. none of that justified her being killed. the trial was filled with evidence of people who said robert blake approached them and asked them to kill his wife. it was filled with testimony from her sister for example, that said, if anything happened to me, robert blake did it. the criminal jury said they didn't see it beyond a reasonable doubt. the civil jury said yes, beyond a preponderance of evidence. you could see his anger, by the way, with you, piers. how easily he was triggered to anger. i mean, imagine how he was with the woman that

robert blake is a hollywood legend. he shot to fame as star of the r. gang series and went on to a chilling role as murderer in any 1967 film "in cold blood" and won an emmy for a series. and it changed wen he met bonnie blakely the woman who became the mother 0 his child in 2000. less than six months later she was dead from a gunshot in a car outside a restaurant where she and blake had dinner. he was charged in his wife's mother and acquitted. then bonny lee bakley's children filed a civil suit against robert blake and he was found liable and ordered to pay $30 million and declared himself bankrupt. since then, robert blake has kept a very low profile and hasn't given a television interview for nearly a decade and written a book called "tales of a rascal." you haven't seen an interview like this. robert blake is a man on them, full of pent-up theory what he says has wrongfully happened to him. robert, how are you? >> well, i'm not nearly as interesting as you just described, but i'll take it and run like a -- holy toledo. do i look like that? >> you d

robert blake is a man on the edge. full of pent-up theory what he says has wrongfully happened to him. robert, how are you? >> well, i'm not nearly as interesting as you just described, but i'll take it and run like a -- holy toledo. do i look like that? >> you do. you ought toake that raggedy thing out in the yard and bury it. i look like that? no, i look like that [ bleep ] yes, sir, i'm sorry. i'm here. >> when was the last time you gave an interview? >> an interview? well, a couple weeks ago at a motorcycle joint, a chick came up to me with a very interesting accent and she interviewed me for quite a while. but. >> on major television. >> [ bleep ] program and i wasn't available yet. but the last time i was interviewed, i guess right here, the guy with the -- >> larry? >> yeah. when i was acquitted. i went to -- i promised barbara walters, who saved my life, and won't talk to me now, but that's another story. i promised her that if i was acquitted or i went to jail or committed suicide, she would get the first inte

rather like my encounter with robert blake. we both feel very fortunate to have emerged unscathed from the experience. that's all for us tonight. "ac says he's being treated for what's described as a mood dirder. our kate baldwin is working her sources. she'll join us shortly. we're going to try to get to the bottom of this. it's very unusual for a sitting member of congress to disappear for weeks without any explanation. but before we get to that, we have a 360 exclusive. now, for months, as you know, we've been covering the investigation into the fast and furious gun-running operation. tonight, the mother and cousin of slain border patrol agent brian terry, the man you see right there, who was killed in connection with the gun running operation, they are speaking out on this program. speaking out for the first time since the indictments were unsealed on monday, charging five people in the shootout that resulted in the death of agent terry. the shootout, which happened in december of 2010. now, two guns were found at the scene

since then, robert blake has kept a pretty low profile. he hasn't given a television interview for nearly a decade. he wrote a book, "tales of a rascal, what i did for love." tonight, he breaks his silence. you haven't seen an interview quite like this. robert blake is a man on the edge, a man of pent-up fury and what he says has wrongfully happened to him. robert, how are you? >> well, i'm not as interesting as you just described. but i'll run with it. holy toledo. do i look like that? >> you do. >> you ought to take that raggedy [ bleep ] thing out in the yard and bury it. i look like that? no, i look like that. god damn it. okay, i'm sorry, i'm here. >> when was the last time you gave an interview? >> an interview? well, a couple of weeks ago at a motorcycle joint, a chick came up to me with a very interesting accent and she interviewed me for quite a while. but i told her i was on a -- >> on major television. >> [ bleep ] program and i wasn't available yet. but last time i was interviewed. i guess right here, the guy with the -- >> lar

back now with my exclusive interview with robert blake. he's raw, riveting and absolutely unpredictable, especially when i asked him about his wife. brake was tried and acquitted of her murder and as you see, he gets very angry and defensive when i bring it up. let's rewind a little bit. >> rewind? am i still on the stand? no, i'm teasing, go ahead. >> i want to get to the truth if i can. >> to the truth if you can. billion >> if you can. be careful. i want you to be careful because sometimes the guy in the ear tends to insult me a little bit. i want to get to the truth if i can. does that mean i'm lying to you? >> i don't know. are you? >> what do you think? >> i don't know. i thk we're going to get some questions where -- >> well, tell me where i'm lying. because if you don't know i'm telling you the truth, then you must have a little scratch in the back of your head about where i'm lying. >> i'm not saying you're lying. >> but you're saying i don't -- you don't know if i'm telling the truth. what the hell is the difference? >> i'm sayin

where does robert blake live? and what? a couple of weeks later she was dead? now, i just want you to chew on that for a minute with all of these facts that you have. >> robert, how are you going to find peace with yourself? >> i'm not looking for peace. >> you must be. you can't go through your life feeling like this. >> what? >> you can't go through your life feeling like this. >> says who? i'm 79 years old. i've been this way since i was born. i would argue with a rock and try to beat it up. i'm an actor. i'm a performer. i'll give you the greatest line that anybody ever gave me and i hope it takes you away from bonny for 30 seconds. bonnie for 30 seconds. john garfield, when i was 9 years old, i played john as a boy. and i had a very difficult scene to play. and i couldn't pull it off. i couldn't pull it off and john garfield cleared the room and he got the scene out of me. and he said, robert, remember this for the rest of your life. your life is a rehearsal. your performance is real. and there's nobody that can say that more truthfully than me. i have fou

robert blake kidnapped the baby. he agreed to marry her if she dropped the kidnapping charges she filed. he contacted four hitmen to kill her. and the night of the murder he ran out of time, bonny wanted the baby back and he had to kill her. >> i had his lawyer for part of that period who was equally adamant that he didn't kill her. actually, bonny had this string of men, he was her tenth husband, she would be on the run, a conartist, all this kind of stuff which could easily lend itself to the theory as he put to me on the show, robert blake that it was one these disgruntled people she turned other in her past, who read about marrying a famous actor and came looking for her. how can you be sure that theory isn't the true one? >> it's not accurate. he married her about nine months before she moved to california. and when she moved to california, nobody knew, it wasn't reported anywhere, she had been about three or four days before he killed her. nobody knew she was in california. before that, she was in arkansas rais

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robert blake tells me his story as he never told it before. explosive. >> i'll get you [ bleep ] later but don't think you were going to get off the hook. i was supposed to die in that cell, wasn't i, you [ bleep ]. >> controversial. >> does that mean i'm lying to you? >> i don't know. are you? >> what dupg? do you think? >> this is robert blake as you've never seen him before anywhere. >> do you think you're sane. >> am i what? >> do you think you're sane. do you feel you have your full sanity? or has what happened to you sent you slightly mad. what do you think? >> well, i'll tell you. >> tonight, robert blake. the piers morgan interview starts now. good evening. i've been interviewing celebrities and public figures for more than 25 years, more than 2,000 people including presidents, prime ministers, movie tv and pop stars, but i have never had an encounter as explosive, confrontational or as extraordinary as the one you're about to witness. robert blake shot to fame, went on to a chilling role in the murderer of the film "in cold blood" and

robert blake is a hollywood legend. he shot to fame as star of the r. gang series and went on to a chilling role as murderer in any 1967 film "in cold blood" and won an emmy for a series. and it chang

robert blake tells me his story as he never told it before. explosive. >> i'll get you [ bleep ] later but don't think you were going to get off the hook. i was supposed to die in that cell, wasn't i, you [ bleep ]. >> controversial. >> does that mean i'm lying to you? >> i don't know. are you? >> what do you think? >> this is robert blake as you've never seen him before anywhere. >> do you think you're sane? >> am i what? >> do you think you're sane? do you feel you have your full sanity? or has what happened to you sent you slightly mad? what do you think? >> well, i'll tell you. >> tonight, robert blake. the piers morgan interview starts now. good evening. i've been interviewing celebrities and public figures for more than 25 years, more than 2,000 people, including presidents, prime ministers, movie tv and pop stars, but i have never had an encounter as explosive, confrontational, or as extraordinary as the one you're about to witness. robert blake is a hollywood legend, shot to fame in our gang. went on to a chilling role as the murderer

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the interview went on, robert blake got madder and madder. it reminded me of bugs bunny and yosemite sim. we thought it would be fun to take audio from that video and combine it with this. once again we were right. >> i want to get to the truth if i can. >> you want to get to the truth, if you can? does that mean i'm lying to you? >> i don't know. are you in. >> what the [ bleep ] matter with you. >> what does that mean? >> yes, it is because you opened that door. i'm not going to sit here and let you or anybody else kick the [ bleep ] out of me without defending myself. if you want to show me the door, that's fine too. >> i'm not interested in doing that. >> we better start talking about the little rascals. [ cheers and applause ]. >> jimmy: after the interview for some reason, our local news here in l.a. went to robert blake's condo, i guess to talk to him about it. i don't know what their plan was going in, the result was some of the finest local news reporting this american has ever seen. >> blake now lives in this apartment complex. he r

. >>> coming up, a preview of an interview with actor robert blake, without a doubt the most outrageous, controversial, explosive interview that i've ever conducted. tank brain freeze cake donettes rolling hot dogs bag of ice anti-freeze wash and dry diesel self-serve fix a flat jumper cables 5% cashback signup for 5% cashback at gas stations through september. it pays to discover. legalzoom has an easy and affordable option. you get quality services on your terms, with total customer support, backed by a 100% satisfaction guarantee. so go to legalzoom.com today and see for yourself. backed by a 100% satisfaction guarantee. focus lolo, focust sanya let's do this i am from baltimore south carolina... bloomington, california... austin, texas... we are all here to represent the country we love this is for everyone back home it's go time. across america, we're all committed to team usa. >>> we'll end tonight's show with a preview of my interview tomorrow night with actor robert blake. blake, a hollywood legend, great actor, acquitted of killing his wife, but then found liable in a civil act

. >>> still ahead, a feisty confrontation between robert blake and our own piers morgan. did you see this last night? completely out of control. we'll share some of it with you. >>> also, sexual exploits, obsessions, and a financial wizard that studied economics. and a new book that digs into the life of mick jagger. the author will join us next. you're watching "starting point." for a fraction of the cost of the coffee house. add your flavor, with coffee-mate, from nestle. a living, breathing intelligence helping business, do more business. in here, opportunities are created and protected. gonna need more wool! demand is instantly recognized and securely acted on across the company. around the world. turning a new trend, into a global phenomenon. it's the at&t network -- securing a world of new opportunities. ♪ [ grunting ] [ female announcer ] no worries! with aussie's simple, new hair solutions... [ whip cracking ] [ female announcer ] ...you're sure to find the perfect one for you. [ grunts ] [ female announcer ] add some roo to your do! [ grunts ] energy is being p

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jim acosta, be thank you so much. >>> actor robert blake has a new book out. he also has a big chip on his shoulder. listen to this after piers morgan asks blake about the murder of his wife. >> i'm asking you questions about what i presumed to be a very important moment in your life. you've written a book about your life. >> i wrote a book about my life. i didn't write a book about that night and i didn't write a book about bonnie. >> it gets better, though. a.j. hammer has pulled some of the most heated exchanges. and cg just you know walking, sfx: sounds of marching band and crowd cheering and i found myself in the middle of this parade noring america's troops. sfx: sounds of marching band and crowd cheering which is actually inquite fitting becausearade noring america's troops. geico has been serving e military for over 75 years. aawh no, look, i know this is about the troops and not about me. right, but i don't look like that. who can i write a letter to about this? geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. >>> piers