instead, they invited conan o'brien. he described a visiting dartmouth -- you are going up on friday to conduct a seminar at dartmouth. i will tell you what he said about dartmouth when you were student debt. he said dartmouth was a different place back then. after asking the blacksmith for directions, i came to this beautiful campus. no dormitories had been built yet. i stayed with a family of fur traders. it's snowed heavily during my visit and i was trapped there -- it snowed heavily during my visit and i was trapped there for them a month. congratulations for surviving hanover, new hampshire. good luck on your return visit. i have a lot of questions to ask you. i would start by reading the tea things that were set on this stage and get you to respond to them. one comment was, the most important thing government can do to promote innovation is to get its own house in order. the second related point. it was unimaginable a few years ago when the u.s. would be talking about a default on its debt. the question for you is,

w >>> conan o'brien took a break from his cable show last weekend to give what was surely one of the most entertaining commencement speeches heard by any graduating class. at darted mouth college, he drew on his personal disappointment from last year when he was pumped from the "tonight show" by returning host jay leno. >> nichy famously said whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. what he failed to stress is that it almost kills you. what he should have said is whatever doesn't kill you makes you watch a lot of cartoon network and drink mid-priced chardonnay at 11:00 in the morning. >> o'brien said what he learned from the loss of his dream job is that dreams can change and when they do, they can lead to something challenging and freeing and fulfilling. and from now on, please call him dr. o'brien. >> that's fun. >>> that's going to do it for us tonight. join nightly news with brian williams next. he has the sit-down interview with bono and the edge from u2. >> see you at 6:00. bye-bye.

in his address to the 2011 dartmouth university class, conan o'brien gave this sage advice to the parents in the audience as well. >> many of your children, you haven't seen them in four years, well, now, you're about to this see them every day when they come out of the basement to tell you the wi-fi isn't working. if your child majored in fine arts or philosophy, you have good reason to be worried, the only place they are now really qualified to get a job is ancient greece. >> pedro noguera, nearly 60% of parents who have financially supported their students after school, how most of them by letting them move home, a 65% of 18 to 39-year-olds feel their financial pressures are tougher than in previous generations and 32% of their parents agreed. welcome to the new normal, i guess. >> i agree. >> what are we going to for the class of 2011? they're moving home. >> it's tough. and it's a reflection of the fact that we haven't been as practical as we should be about making choices about what to study in school and how to think about the next phase in life and i think too many students have c

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letterman showed him wearing a diamond tiara, and conan o'brien showed him in gold chains and a crown. politicians can survive a lot, scott, but ridicule is the hardest thing of all to overcome. his fund-raising began to try up and when he took off on a cruise to greece a couple of weeks ago that was final straw for some of the staff. it is also a signal, i think, that texas governor rick perry may be seriously considering getting into the race. here's why. two of the people who resigned today have close ties to perry and insiders have been saying now if those guys ever leave gingrich, then perry is very serious about running. i think we should emphasize here that gingrich himself said today he is not quiting. the way he told it today, he'll be restarting his campaign sunday. >> dave: but, bob, practically speaking, does this mean gingrich is through? >> well, i think so. i mean... but if he's not i think he better get another ladder because this hole that he was already in just got a whole lot deeper today. i think he's done. >> pelley: thank you, bob. there was eye-opening testimony

conan o'brien getting laughs over the online scandal. congressman anthony weiner and his denials.eone gets caught and makes it worse by trying to cover it up. what is behind that thing we see over and over and over. why don't people fess up right away? our human being expert dr. wendy walsh has experts fopinions for. you say it gets down to fight or flight. >> he's going to go into a natural fight or flight response. i prefer fight, close your facebook, twitter, go away. but instead, he went with fight. no, i didn't do it. no, it was a hacker. yes, i'm going to keep my job. one or the other is going to come up in the shortterm. and then they'll make better decisions. >> just today, a source says weiner told democratics leaders that he's going to seek treatment. here is what he said about getting help at a news conference earlier this week. >> i'm going to try to handle this, and i'm not blaming anyone. this is not something that can be treated in a way. this is my own personal mistake. this is not something, this is a weakness, a deep weakness i have demonstratored. and for that,

-- from dartmouth along with conan o'brien, making the third lawyer in the family joining my family and i. i guess so much for tort reform within the bush family. received the presidential medal of freedom very recently, which is considered the highest honor giving to a civilian in our country. he just thought it was cool because he got to meet bill russell and stan the man musial. all of these events culminated in an event at kennedy center and a tribute to his foundation, the points of life, which we all members of the bush family are able to enjoy with him and celebrate in that moment. a lot of folks have also asked about my dad, former governor in the state of florida, jeb bush, about his political plans -- [applause] i don't have any breaking news for you, but i can say currently he is focusing on reaffirmation of our government as we know it, more particularly with respect to our charter school movement throughout the u.s. and advising republicans and spearheading that effort. the activities i think he has accomplished since leaving office is an amazing teg amount to how you d

. >> oh, that's conan o'brien taking advantage of some of the best political fodder in years, quite franklyony weiner's sexting is scandal. many laughed as the fall of the new york politician played out. but some say the lowest point of his career marked a new depth of tastelessness. it came when a staffer from the howard stern show heckled weiner as he was resigning. here it is. >> continue. >> the people demand to know. >> to heal from the damage i have caused. >> hey, hey. >> are you serious? >> he's not with us. >> he's not with us. >> to repeat, most importantly, they're all patriots, and i will miss them all. >> are you more than seven inches. >> thank you. >> did you find this funny or was it going too far to talk about it are two standup comics, pete dominick is the host of the daily show" of a daily show on sirius xm satellite radio and dean obeidallah cofounded the comedy festival. all right, guys. you support this heckler, right? >> i do. i mean, to me, this was the cherry on the weiner sundae. after what we have gone through, he raised the discourse of this whole discussion. it'

there's conan o'brien, myself and some other colleagues there and manually put your name on there.ebook has just rolled out a new facial recognition technology that actually does this for you. it will recognize your photo, if you're already one of the 500 million users on facebook, as that being you. so if you have a new photo from here on out that is uploaded to facebook, even if you're not the one who uploaded it, it will recognize you and whoever uploaded it will recommend to that person, hey, this is bob redell, do you want to label him as much. this is raising some privacy concerns. let's say you're in a strip club, you're at a nudist beach or being at a barney concert or having something traumatic like this happen this morning. look at this, this was just posted on our facebook nbc bay area news page. there's mike and christina just hanging out. exactly, what am i doing and how did i end up in that picture? fortunately, the facial recognition technology did not recognize that as bob redell, the idiot on the phone stuffing his face with doritos at 4:30 in the morning. so that

mitt night in paris, and conan o'brien can't stop.rrogance than he is sure of. god bless them. and buck, page 1 inside the new york times opens july 1st. i will be talking more about page 1, inside the new york times, but right now it is tales of the city at act. get there, folks. you will have a great time. a show so worst your time and money. hats off to pride. there goes my pride necklace. all right! >> have a wonderful weekend. we will see you at the theater. >> see you at act. back to you. >> thank you. >>> a lot more to come on kron 4 new this is weekend. but first, here is henry. >> henry! >>> what do you mean, what? look at all this awful stuff on my artichoke? >> it comes with the territory. it is one of the things that artichokes always get. >> what? >> afridays. >> it is an afid. not the ants. the ants feed off the afid. >> you end up getting these ants. they get inside the fruit and you bake the artichoke and you open it and -- >> you get rid of the afid and the ants go away. they are using it as an ant source. if there is

have invited a distinguished alumnus such as you to be commencement speaker, instead they invited conan o'brieno speak. did he go to dartmouth? he went to a small college in cam brage, massachusetts but couldn't get in dartmouth. you're visiting dartmouth, i understand it, to conduct a seminar at dartmouth, i thought i'd tell you what conan o'brien said about visiting dartmouth about the time you were a student there. he said dartmouth was a very different place back then. i made the trip up from boston on a mule and after asking the blacksmith for directions, i came to this beautiful campus, no dormitories had been built yet so i stayed with a family of fur traders in white river junction. it snowed heavily during my visit and was trapped there for four months. i was forced to eat the mule who a week earlier had been forced to eat the fur traders. so congratulations for -- on for surviving hanover, new hampshire, and good luck on your return visit. i have a lot of -- plenty of questions to ask you. but i thought i'd start by reading to you two things that were said from this stage last night b

. >>> congressman anthony weiner said he won't resign, despite the pressures, conan o'brien fully supportsatest. democrats and republicans calling for congressman wiener to resign. meanwhile, comedians are calling for him to chime in there. please. just another four years, is all i want. >> and of course, once again, we lead off the political buzz. what a buzz-worthy week it's become. look at the hottest political topics of the day and each of the es scheme political observers answerle questions as the clock counts down today. robert zimmerman, member of the committee, and erroll ll lumis. one person defending weiner, alec baldwin. my thought on weiner is he is a very busy man. like other politicians, he needs something to take the edge off. robert, whatever happened to a martini? >> you know, when i first heard about this essay, i snickered like everybody else. i read alex's essay on huffington post. i read with great compassion. did not excuse his behavior but great sadness. i recommend having a martini, not run for public office if you have those issues. >> errol -- >> i expect there's

they're proud of their family, but still conan o'brien had fun tallying up the baby count of the evening had the biggest family, who brought the most children. >> i'm the father of two -- >> i'm father of two, grandfather of three. . karen and i are parks of seven children. >> i have five sons as you know, five daughters in law, 16 grandkids. >> i've had five children and weir the proud foster parents of 23 great children. >> before i went into congress, i delivered babies for a living, and livered 4,000 babies. >> political buzz is your rapid fire look at the hottest political top is of the day. three question, 20 seconds on the clock, playing today. we have cnn's political analyst, roland martin. >> welcome back, kyra with your two kids. >> thank you, we'll talk about that after the show. >> comedian, is back. and radio show host h. it's not about my twins, you heard conan, a moment ago, big do big families translate to big votes? dan dana? >> i don't necessarily think so. it shows a family positive value scenario. it's important to have that when all of the talk as of late has been on

conan o'brien jokes about a subsequent poll and mitt romney. >> according to a poll, over 50% of viewersn this week's presidential debate. they thought mitt romney won. he credits the win to his preparation, his grasp at the issues and the good people at mattel who built him. >>> political buzz is your rapid fire look at the hottest political topics of the day. three questions, 20 seconds on the clock. playing today, robert zimmerman. talk show host, dana losch. here's mitt romney talking to a group of jobless folks in florida. >> i should also tell my story. i'm also unemployed. >> will voters find this joke funny? robert? >> you know something, maybe it's me but a man worth hundreds of millions of dollars joking about being unemployed in a time of record unemployment with 14 million americans unemployed really doesn't work for me. ironically, the romney campaign launched a very effective viral commercial on the internet about obama's administration's insensitivity on the issue. unfortunately his consultants can teach romney sensitivity, respect or awareness. >> dana? >> i don't think i

instead, invited conan o'brien to speak. >> did he go to dartmouth? >> no. u're going up on friday to conduct a seminar. i thought i would tell you what conan obrien said, " dartmouth was a different place backbend. i made a trip of boston on a mule. after asking the blacksmith for directions, i came to this campus. i stayed with a family of for traders in white river junction. it snowed heavily during my visit and i was trapped there for four months. i was forced to eat the mule who had been forced to eat the for traderss-- the fur traders.." congratulations for surviving new hampshire. i thought i would start you by reading to you to things that were said from the stage last night. and get you to respond to them for starters. 'the most important thing government can do to promote innovation is to get its own house in order." the second,"it was unimaginable a few weekyears ago the u.s. would be talking about default on its debt." will we spend the rest of the summer worrying about default on that? >> things are going to happen this summer. one is that we wil

last week he received an honorary law degree from dartmouth, along with conan o'brien, making him thehe family join my wife and i. so much for tort reform. he received the presidential medal of freedom, which is considered the highest honor. he got it was cool because he got to meet bill russell and stan musial. this culminated in a tribute to his foundation, which we are all able to win join with him. -- enjoy with him. a lot of folks have also asked about my dad, former governor of the state of florida, jeb bush, about his political plans, and i do not have any breaking news for you, but i can say that is currently for passing on their reform nation of our government, more pectic early on -- more particularly on the charter school effort. what he has accomplished since leaving office is an amazing testament to how you did not necessarily have to run for public office to make a change. with respect to my uncle george and aunt laura, i'm here to make a plug. much to the chagrin of "the new york times" the book "decision points" said at the top of the best-seller lists for 28 weeks. re

of you might have saw last week you received an honorary law degree with burt smith, along with conan o'brien, making him the third lawyer in the family, joined in my wife and i. so much for tort reform. he received the presidential medal of freedom very recently, which is considered the highest honor given to a civilian in our country. he thought it was cool because he got to meet bill russell and stan the man usual. all of these events culminated at the kennedy center in a tribute to his foundation, the points of life, which we are all members and able to enjoy with him and celebrate in that moment. and a lot of folks have asked bush and his and jeb busjob political plans -- jeb bush, i do not have any news, but he is working on government ideas. the activities i think he has accomplished since leaving office is an amazing testament to how you do not necessarily have to run for public office to make a change in our country. finally, with respect to my uncle george and aunt laura, i am here to make an unmitigated plan to buy their book if you can. my uncle's book sat at the new york times be

some of you might have seen that he received an honorary law degree along with conan o'brien. this face and the third lawyer in the bush family. so much for tort reform. he received the presidential medal of freedom, the highest honor given to a civilian. he thought this was cool because he got to meet bill russell. these all culminated in a celebration at the kennedy center, with this foundation. we were all able to enjoy this with him and celebrate in this moment. what faults of also ask about, the former governor of the state of florida, and his political plans, i do not have any breaking news. he is currently focusing on the reformation of the government, with respect to the charter school movement and advising republicans to spearhead this effort. the activities he has accomplished since leaving office is an amazing testament to how you do not have to run for public office to make a change in the country. with respect to my uncle george, i would ask you to purchase their book. "decision book, s," was on the bestseller's list for several weeks. we look forward to welcoming