bob costas, continue. >> yeah, that is very helpful. like, look, they interviewed mue a few days later but that was a sham if they had decided. they put it in the 11th hour. they came close to hiring him and they felt that dabel was the more qualified candidates. he thought that maybe belichick herd it from a third party and assumed it was a done deal but it wasn't. flores doesn't see it that way. there were five openings still in the nfl for head coaching positions, including the dolphins. the saints, the texans, the vikings and the jaguars are all without head coaches, and flores was in the mix. at least he was until now. he is only 40 years old. he won eight of the last nine games this year with the dolphins. he has a pretty good record. his firing was perplexing to begin with. so he is a highly regarded potential head coach, and he has said, this kind of scorched earth thing, make him persona non nongrata in the nfl, but he is willing to put his future on the line if he can kb a cal list for positive change. and one of the things he

here to talk about it, bob costas. bob, i'm so glad you're here.r russian doping scandal. i mean, there are second chances. but what number are we on now and what should they be on? >> incalculable. and we should be at an end. but the ioc has enriched and indulged russia as they are enriching and indulging china right now. it should be said that today the ioc came out and said flatly for once, flatly the russians are wrong if in fact they're involved in this and we believe that valiyeva should not be able to compete on tuesday. this is a 15-year-old girl, remarkably talented. she's exploited and a victim in this. the court of arbitration for sport will make a final determination prior to the beginning of her individual competition on tuesday beijing time. but it is reasonable to assume given the long history you've mentioned, laura, going all the way back to the soviet union in the '60s and '70s and maybe even before that and now on to present-day russia, state-sponsored doping, sophisticated state-sponsored doping where the athletes have basically

bob costas, you know joe boroughers or mike trout? >> no, but he sounds delicious. you have a food name, i will remember you. >> thank you so much. >> one last thing before i go here. somebody's got to get john berman on a therapist couch. i'm worried about that boy. >> yeah. we're doing it. >> i'm just worried about him. >> we are. we're working on it behind the scenes. don't worry. >> how will this impact the january 6th investigation. everything you need to know. it's still the eat fresh refresh™ and subway's refreshing everything like the new baja turkey avocado with smashed avocado, oven-roasted turkey, and baja chipotle sauce. it's three great things together. wait! who else is known for nailing threes? hmm. can't think of anyone! subway keeps refreshing and re... you're a one-man stitchwork master. but your staffing plan needs to go up a size. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. indeed instant match instantly delivers quality candidates matching your job description. visit indeed.com/hire get help managing your money for the life -- and years -- a

. - this week, bob costas, at last.olerated anybody annoying you for longer about doing an interview? - well, there were a couple of ways that i considered making it go away. - [graham] enough exhaustive badgering finally got the broadcasting legend into the interview chair for the first time since i was 15 years old. - "hi, mister costas. i hath on saturday mornings. and then, yeah, dan dierdorf said yes. and, joe buck said yes. and i'm hoping you'll come on" - i'm now joined by 15 time emmy award winner, eight times sportscaster of the year award winner. the biggest stud in broadcasting, bob costas. thanks for coming on the show, bob. - graham, graham, point one, that's not a good introduction.

. >> yeah, the representational clip how about bob costas there >> seth: bob costas. has the full archives of your time on the show and it is -- you can spend a lot of time on it. i was watching world's largest vase >> oh, the world's largest vase. >> seth: yeah. >> first of all, thank you for mentioning the youtube thing you know, you get the youtube app. [ laughter ] and so you get to see things that were also spreading misinformation about the vaccine. [ laughter ] but the world's largest vase, it was something we had on the show and i don't know the origin. i don't know where it came from. but it was documented as the world's largest vase and it came to new york city and you're thinking, "oh, that's cute." a week -- an entire week, five shows, every night, the world's largest vase on the friday night, the last night of the show, or thursday night, whatever it was, we had the world's largest vase addressed the studio audience. >> seth: yeah. >> and called for a peaceful world. >> seth: yeah. >> and there was also a book that had been published. it was children's le

. >> raymond: even bob costas has called out the olympic committee. >> the ioc deserves all of the disdain disgust that comes their way for going back to china yet again. they were in beijing in 2008. they go to associate in 2018 -- sochi in 2018. >> raymond: athletes from at least two western countries are planning to boycott the opening ceremonies in beijing. students that are urging these athletes to extend with the persecuted, the phone congress as well as the tibetans. this is a thing i think we are going to see jane steam. but a lot of these athletes are being warned by the ioc not to make a statement. they don't want any controversy. >> laura: now, i think, you know, the speed skaters are going to skate right back to their hotels and right back to this rink because you can't go anywhere. it is basically all in luck out there. you can even have your parents or family members, no spectators. >> raymond: laura, did you see this video today? this is a belgian olympian, she tested covid-positive. they took her to an undisclosed location. so she put this video up and they've took her to t

let's get some more analysis from bob costas. thanks so much for joining us. you about how the nfl is run? >> i think we should say this at the top. not every time a black coach or a number of black coaches, if there are multiple coaches inteiewed, not every time a black coach is passed over for a white candidate is an example of racism, nor every time a black coach is fired. there are a lot of overlapping factors. but you look at the big picture. the piece said 3 out of 32, but that is at the end of the regular season. as of right now, mike tomlin is the only one out of 27. the dolphins, vikings, saints, texans, and jaguars have open head coach positions. in the big picture, we can dispute any individual situations, and the giants will dispute the allegations here, the broncos have categorically denied it. the league said it will defend against it, that the suit has no merit. but in the big picture, 1 out of 27 right now, only 3 out of 32 prior to that, and a long history, we can't detail all the names, but a long history of white head coaches of varying abil

joining us now, bob costas. you and i are supposed to go to a phillies-mets game.th of the season. are we going to get to go? >> well, they'll play at some point. remember when the '94 world series was lost and the dispute continued into '95, they played the 144-game season and still had playoffs and world series and all the rest. we'll have baseball at some point. today is the day when owners have said no, agreement by midnight and march 31st is out the window. they are continuing out in with marathon sessions in japanter, florida. at left a that's a somewhat optimistic sign. the last week or so, they've had these ongoing face to face discussions where most of the time, the lockout, there's been sp sporadic meetings. there are arcane discussions. underlying all of it is historic antagonism between these two sides no matter how much they thrive. there seem to be sort of a built-in mistrust and they can't really see their mutual interests and that's often an ill that he hadiment. >> and fans are less concerned about these arcane sticking points and more concerned ab

i mean, even bob costas hascs called b the international olympic committee for doing business with the chinese given a human rights record, the ioc deserves all of the disdainis and disgust that comes their way for going back to china yet again. they were in beijing in 2008. they go to sochi in 2014. they're shameless about this stuff. now according to a new report, law in the washington post, athletes from at least two western countries areas planning to boycott the opening ceremonies in beijing, students for a free tibet are urging these athletes to stand with the persecuted, the hongs kong as well as the tibetans. th this isis a thing i think we're going to see gained steam. but a lot of these athletes are being warned by the ioc not to make a statement. they don't want any controversy herere. now i think, you know, the speed skaters, they're going to skate rightac back to their hotel and then rightk back to rink because you can't go anywhere. it's all it'sn basically all in lockdown there. you can't even have your parents or family members, no spectators. laura , did you see this v

we know from, again, from the reporting, from bob costa and bob woodward that pence was -- that his teamed? he didn't just look at the constitution and say, i can't do this. this is a legitimate election. forget it. no, it took dan quayle to have to go to mike pence and say, listen, you are cornered. the constitution gives you no power. you must do the right thing here because you have no choice but to do the right thing here. neither one of these guys in the moment, they both landed in the right place, barr and pence. but neither one of them were portraits in courage. both of them were bending to trump's will all the way up until that moment when they finally snapped. and i think that that is -- i'm glad they ended up in the right place, but it really is an illustration of how much power trump had that he was able to bend them as far as he was able to bend them before they finally had to break, and this thing about what happened at the rnc today, i think, illustrates the extent to which the -- donald trump still owns the republican party. there is no republican national committee. witho

the letterman regulars were often within reach bob costas, marv albert, and, yes, al roker. >> what's this reporter, feared we would not be able to roll with. >> we made fun of you. >> reporter: and sometimes there was an uncomfortable dave guest dynamic. >> i thought i would never want to do this show with you. >> why because you thought i was -- >> a [ bleep ] >> reporter: david letterman did not break the mold he melded it to fit his vision and a big part of watching the show was watching dave enjoy what he had wrought. >> have a good night thank you, good night. >> yeah, so we have the cake and in just in case you don't remember, roll this tape roll this tape take a look at this for a second yeah, lots of cakes. lots of stuff. >> yeah. >> just because. >> absolutely. >> okay. so here we go, kids. bob, you want to zoom in on this live television over 40 it says happy 40th anniversary, "late night. in the words of david letterman, this may be about the most lame, but are you ready? we're going to try this. here we go >> all right >> yeah. very nice. very nice. and david letterman, w

conspiracies that the january 6th committee is looking into and there are others, even in the bob woodward and robert costarces that told them that trump was saying to pence wouldn't it be great essentially if all of this active violence happens at the capitol? wouldn't that be great? pence is going no, that would not be great. donald trump is not convinced. so we can't -- we don't have time to go through all the evidence that makes it a very hard pill to swallow and my hope is we won't have to swallow that pill. >> well, you know, juanita, on a political side because obviously, the department of justice is not involved in politics here but i wonder what message the inaction sends to elected republicans because it feels like this is emboldening, right? if the former president's last name was clinton, whether it be mr. or mrs. clinton or obama, i have no doubt that not only would there be an investigation, it would be open. it would be -- janet wasn't shy saying i'm looking into things here but when the president is republican, there is a he is tense to confront them and i don't -- maybe i'm seeing things t

costa county. >> reporter: i'm bob redell in concord where four people have been shot.ppened a little before 11:00 last night. concord police tell us it started as an argument between two groups of people. when officers arrived, they found a man and woman with gunshot wounds. we know two more men who shot drove themselves to the hospital. no word on their conditions or whether or not there have been any arrests. police say no one outside the group involved in the argument was hit by gunfire. >>> i'm sharon katsuda in san francisco. bay area parents are anxiously awaiting a possible update from the state on the school mask mandate. the governor is expected to make an announcement about when the mandate could be lifted for classrooms. the cdc has updated guidance and now says most americans no longer have to wear masks in indoor public settings. an east bay school district, liberty union high school, may decide today whether to defy the mask mandate. >>> and let's get you started with the workweek. rob mayeda looking at that forecast before you head out. >> right now, chi