middle. >> how much did you enjoy watching simon? >> that was the highlight of the night. >> you weren't nervous for a second at all? >> no. no because we had to do all these crazy things, too, and he's always sitting back and laughing at us. >> how terrified for you because your face looked like you were going to die. >> on the right side you couldn't see on camera, there were two medics and luckily you didn't put hairspray in your hair. i could have been a torch. >> attending the annual desert festival with her boyfriend. >> i was supposed to go. >> wow! what an incredible place. >> howie burning nick in a different way hosting this friendly photo with mariah, #sundaywithyourex. >> what was that about? >> he's got so many dates and he's tough for him to schedule and he wants to be a good ex.

i'm there to help. >> howie's got free time now so he's finished the award-winning documentary committed all about his friend. >> i set up a camp because this came to me, and i had a camera on him for 12 years. >> you followed this guy around for 12 years and this is like a labor of love. >> it's finally here. go check it out and it's a labor of love and it took me 12 years to do. committed be sure to check out the finals of "america's got talent" tuesday and wednesday on nbc. >> harry connick jr. can play the piano, the sacs, he acts a little bit, but can he host his own daytime talk show? a.j. is with him now. >> i'm on the set of harry connick jr.'s new show. >> i'm so excited. >> thanks, a.j. >> j. lo and keith urban on "american idol". >> you were able to condense that into a singular and powerful performance. >> now becoming the performer as host/band leader/executive

producer of his own tv talk show "harry". >> it's a party. during the show, if we're talking and we feel like singing, we'll sing. it's very, very spontaneous. >> did you have fun? >> having fun by bringing his own band. >> this is the band i tour with and record with so i know these guys really, really well and they can sort of do anything at any moment and writing and singing his own theme song. >> everything i love to do is under this roof, playing music and entertaining people and meeting great people. >> and the first guest. >> sandy was kind enough to accept to be the first guest, and i was obviously thrilled. she's an old friend and russell crowe and terence howard and taraji p. henson and renee zellweger. we have a good lineup for the first week. >> this is an event you cannot miss. "harry" premieres on fox. >> tracey and i are overlooking

the universal back lot which served as the backdrop for the clint eastwood and tom hanks drama "sully". >> which i am dying to see. it looks very intense. >> tom and rita, their big apple date night after their secret summer getaway somewhere in france. >> we escaped for over a month. >> nothing was expected of us. our children did eventually find us, so we had to deal with that. >> where did you go? >> it's top secret. >> we went to a fabulous place somewhere in the middle of a fabulous place. >> the couple married for 28 years. >> what's it like to be married to such a wonderful woman. >> it's like the girl in high school that you would never dare talking to for 1,000 years. >> wow. >> comes up to you in the cafeteria and says can i sit here and you look at her and say, rita wilson is having lunch with me today. wait until the guys and boys in gym hear about this. >> i would totally be tracking him down, though -- >> you would not!

>> yes, i would. >> you would not! >> i'll tell you why, because you would have made me laugh and anybody who makes you laugh is sexy! >> that's what they tell you after they marry you. >> tom, busy at work with "sully". >> this is the captain. >> starring as the famed pilot who miraculously landed in new york's hudson river? a brace for impact. >> did you like the stash? >> i loved it. >> so who do these two love in the hillary donald showdown? >> i'm voting for the lady. >> we're with her. >> clint eastwood, a famed republican confessing this? >> are you still supporting mr. trump for president? >> i haven't supported anybody, really. >> if he had to make a clinton-trump movie. >> it would very difficult to cast both of those characters, abbott and costello. >> catch this guy. >> i'm overwhelmed by all this attention. >> in "sully" now. up next, in this weekend's -- >> "extra, extra".

>> pharrell is going back to school and grading voice judges alicia keys and miley cyrus. >> it's awesome to see two girls out there. >> and master magician criss angel's personal cancer crusade. >> there is a huge underfunding of children's cancer and we need to do something about it. >> bruce jenner's ex linda thompson opens up about life before caitlyn. >> bruce came to me one day and something about myself. >> that's next.

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welcome back to "extra." let's get you caught up on the stories everyone's talking about. here's this weekend's extra. two new coaches on "the voice" and they're pharrell approved. >> i am other, getting in the spirit of back to school teaming up for their unique back to

school collection. >> the whole entire gesture is awesome. it's over 650 pieces. >> he's mesmerized audiences with his mind-blowing illusions and now master magician criss angel is dealing with reality. his son has dancer. >> as a parent, watching my son go through spinal taps, chemotherapy, it is so hard to go through. >> now he's fighting for a cure. there is a huge underfunding of children's cancer and for me, we need to do something about it. >> this monday criss is hosting his health benefit show at the luxor in las vegas. >> special guests include richey sambora and mike tyson. all proceeds going to raise awareness. >> raise awareness with this incredible show and incredible celebrities. you can make a difference and please go to criss angel.com and

donate $5, $1 whatever you can afford. it will make a difference. >> he's produced mega hits for gaga, j. lo and enrique iglesias. >> it's the right time for me to do the right thing that is my album that has a lot of different styles. >> now the producer is making hits for himself like the single "don't you need somebody." >> it's like a global song. the song is the official theme song for the real madrid soccer team. >> it is the song of real madrid which is the team of my childhood. >> add this to your movie list "the vessel". >> martin sheen stars as a priest from a small latin american town recovering from a tsunami that wiped out an elementary school. >> you and your best friend were dead for three hours and then you come back to life? you don't think that's worth talking about? >> the film by director julio quintana and terence malik is in theaters now and that's this weekend's "extra, extra."

she's breaking her silence and sharing her life career and epic romances with two of the most celebrated stars. with me now, my friend linda thompson. >> hi. >> she lived with elvis, married bruce jenner and harbored his secret desire to live publicly as a woman for decades. >> bruce came it me one day and said i have to tell you something about myself. the lyricist dishing the details about the extraordinary romances in a little thing called life on loving elvis, bruce jenner. >> elvis has been gone 31 years and bruce came to me 31 years with the knowledge that he related as female. >> tell me about that moment. >> bruce came to me one day and said i identify as a woman. >> did you ever suspect anything? >> never. never. bruce jenner was the most masculine of men. i tease caitlyn jenner today saying, boy, she sure made a good he. >> your first great love was elvis. >> yeah. >> way to pick one.

i know. i know. go big or go home, right? >> it was kind of love at first sight. >> what was life with him like? >> do you have a minute? >> we do. we have all day. >> well, it's in the book. he was very paradoxical. a beautiful human spirit. i mean, like no one i've ever met before or since. >> linda's memoir is in stores now and online now. nobody's ever, ever seen this except me, but i love "extra". >> linda sharing an intimate

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nique leili have the last word. >> you need to listen to what she says and what she lived. >> welcome to my world. you killed me a long time ago. >> "welcome to my world. you killed me a long time ago." find him guilty. because that's exactly what he is. >> coming up, has the prosecution really proved anything? >> i think their gut feeling was she's buried this close to the house, it's got to have been him. >> what you call a circumstantial case. >> yes. >> and then nique and matt's daughter says in her parents' marriage matt was the victim. >> she took a heel and threw it

and i myself had to duck from it. >> was it being thrown at your dad? >> yes.

by early february, 2016, the prosecution rested its case against matt leili. the husband was portrayed as an eavesdropping control freak who killed his wife during an argument. leili's defense attorney, tom clegg, insisted that matt leili was, in fact, an innocent man, falsely accused by the state of georgia. >> the they have al theory and this theory is nothing more than a hunch, it is a guess. well, if you were to ask yourself questions that might have been posed of you, if you were to have gone to journalism school -- who, what, where, why, and how -- you will find that during the course of this trial the state of georgia will fall woefully short in proving the allegations that they are making against this man. >> i think their gut feeling was, come on, she's naked, she's buried this close to the house, she's obviously hidden it's got to have been him.

>> what you call a circumstantial case. >> the defense attorney concedes he had some difficult circumstances to overcome in this case, beginning the six hours of missing surveillance camera video of the night nique leili disappeared. clegg insists his client did not erase those files as the prosecution claimed. >> the video surveillance system was shut off at some point in the morning. matt believes nique shut it off. he is insisted he did not, that the system was shut off by nique. >> so whatever happened to her the cameras didn't see it. >> the cameras did not see it. that is absolutely correct. >> as for the audio recordings of the couple's screaming arguments, clegg pointed out most were recorded in 2008 and 2009, two years before nique died. according to the defense attorney, matt made the records with the encouragement of a marriage therapist that the couple had been seeing at the time. >> he is talking and he is conciliatory, in my opinion, he is trying to calm things down

and it's impossible to calm things down. >> please, calm down. >> you do not want to do this with me right now, i mean it. you do not want to tangle with me right now at all. >> what did i do? >> according to clegg, the prosecution cherry picked scenes from the leili marriage, highlighting the bad and down playing the good -- bright spots like a 2010 trip matt and nique took to hawaii. they even renewed their marriage vows on that trip. >> the tapes reflect both of them at their worst. now, the flip side is when they're getting along well, when they are affectionate towards one another, when they renew their wedding vows in hawaii they don't tape that stuff. >> always the darkest side of the moon trj the moon. >> the darkest side, absolutely. >> the defense tried to show nique leili was once again acting unstable, behaving erat clay. the defense attorney called matt's father matthias to verify

his son's version of that last fight between matt and nique, the one where she allegedly flashed him. >> she tore off her top and says "come on, let's go. let's eff like a family." >> were you expecting any sort of comment like that? >> never. never. >> once nique disappeared, clegg says, matt leili inquired about having his wife involuntarily committed and even hired a divorce attorney. a man who knows his wife is already dead, he says, wouldn't have done either of those things. >> he did not really want to divorce her, he wanted to let her know, look, here are your options. you can go get help for yourself or i'm going to go forward the divorce. >> the defense wrapped up its case by calling matt and nique's two daughters, rebecca, now 14, and amanda, 17. >> did you ever see your dad hit your mom? >> no.

>> did you ever see injuries or bruises to your mom? >> no, sir. >> according to the girls their mother was the one with the violent temper, not their dad. >> she took a heel and threw it and i myself had to duck from it. >> was it being thrown at your head? >> yes. >> on the day nique made the 911 call, amanda said her mother complained about hearing voices in her head. >> she was pacing back and forth saying that she was tired of people talking bad about her behind her back and my dad asked her who was talking about her and she said that she was hearing voices and the voices in her head were telling her people were talking bad about her. >> throughout, neither girl made eye contact with their mother's relatives who hadn't seen them in four years. whatever affection might once have existed seemed to be gone now. >> we made our own decision, we don't like that side of the family so we want to stay away. it's not him forcing us to stay

away from him. >> in closing, tom clerk argued that while the state may have proved matt leili unlikable, it had not answered any of those basic journalism questions -- who, what, where, when, why, or how? >> in closing i said you've heard all of this evidence, the state still cannot answer any of these particular questions what does that tell you? it tells you they have fallen wol wo woefully short of proving matt's guilt. >> after three hours of deliberation, the jury announced it had reached a verdict. >> i'm going ask you if you would stand and read the verdict out loud. >> as to count one, we the jury find the defendant guilty of malice murder. >> though not a sound came from nique leili's family, their expression said it all. before passing sentence, the judge gave matt leili one last

chance to have his say. mr. l >> mr. leili, is there anything you want to say? >> i didn't do it and i'll be filing an appeal. >> the judge asked matt leili to rise and receive his recommendation. >> i am going to follow the state's recommendation and have you sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. >> it was a bittersweet ending for nique's family. they'll likely never see matt leili again but as nique leili's youngest girls left the courthouse to go back north with their grandfather it seemed just as likely that they would never see them again, either. >> they were my girls. i still love them this day. i taught them how to read, got them ready for school in the mornings. >> you'd like to have a relationship with them? >> i would love to have a relationship with them again. i don't know that that day will ever come but i went them to know my door is always open. but i don't know if that day will ever come. >> one murder, so many victims.

>> that's all for now. i'm lester holt. thanks for joining us. from nbc news in washington, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. good sunday morning, on what is a solemn day of remembrance on this 15th anniversary of the.9/11 attacks. this morning a huge american flag was unfurled at the pentagon to note the attack there, in lower manhattan a moment of silence was observed at 8:46 a.m. eastern time. that marked the moment when the very first plane, flight 11, flew into the north tower of the world trade center. immediately afterwards relatives began reading the names of the victims of the attacks at the trade center. >> lee