name. >> that's like some david copperfield [ bleep ]. >> we got invited to see david copperfield. > is still a big draw at the mgm grand in las vegas where people crowd in nightly to see a billionaire at work. the show is all his design, from the music that swells at just the right moment to the lighting and the props on stage that let the audience see just enough to be amazed. do you still get chills walking around here? >> you know, it becomes part of who you are. >> reporter: we met him at his private museum near the las vegas strip where he has assembled the world's largest collection of all things magic. it's all here, from houdini's handcuffs and water escape tank to the actual macy's counter where copperfield bought his very first magic trick. it's also where he refines his show, under very tight security. how often do you share how you do these illusions with the public? >> i think this is the first time we have discussed the journey, the process on national tv. so it will be interesting. >> reporter: cool. i feel special. let's look. just about all of his illusions start as

stealing from corrupt people for their benefit and showing us, i will repeat it approach to david copperfield and you, i will tell you that in the legislation of ukraine, we have already seriously introduced a legal norm precisely about the presumption of guilt of every official , deputy and minister, this means that not couples are offered after exposure of corruption, but it is offered to pursue, investigate and identify and with clarify all the details of a possible corruption offense, especially during the war, especially in the ministry of defense, and thirdly , i am firmly on the side of journalists and those whistleblowers of corruption who expose such facts and it is already repeated , especially for the minister or anyone else. is ordered only in one way. but we do not have a death penalty, so in this situation it is necessary to understand that they are not robbing the armed forces, there are also the people of ukraine who collect money for the purchase, including paying taxes. and what they are they simply take away the lives of some people. because they, in principle, put a part o

in ukrainian during the war, absolutely more than that, you know the approaches , these types of copperfield, here is a jacket like this, here is a jacket-seka, well, he distracts our attention from the main thing, not about this or that jacket we are talking about the hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars that ukraine paid for our defenders, and this corruption turned out to be completely accidental and it is not the jackets that should be shown there, but let the leadership of the ministry of defense explain first of all why the car that was transporting these jackets for the armed forces of ukraine from turkey through moldova is in customs the documents from turkey indicated the amount of 27,000 half dollars, and they declared $385,000 at the ukrainian customs. serhiy well, in this case, the question is more than 10 times different in price, and in the direction of stealing from corrupt officials i will repeat the approach to david copperfield, and there i will say that in the legislation of ukraine, we have already seriously introduced a legal norm precisely about the presumption

come on, out of three, you guess you are carrying an envelope. right left yes you copperfield listenl know, one foot here, the other there. guys, i am convinced that the detained girl simply physically could not throw someone over the railing of the hero in the apartment . yes, who was there, she did not have a housekeeper. children can also be sent for return. listen, what a wonderful man is sitting at cherdyntsev? wait, why aren't you paying attention? this very husband has an iron alibi, he left at 6:00 in the morning on the first train to the country. i checked the ticket. and that this husband is a typical intellectual, the loser will not offend a fly. well, what do you have about this intellectual loser. i was just in the constellation, he called the secretary and talked. they are about a funeral, and he was wondering if some foreigner had called his office. interestingly, he had nothing to do with his wife's business, i say. clients or partners of the firm, wait, from this very constellation to the house of the heroic 15 minutes away. give this to me, please. houdini listen to

almost as long as "david copperfield.hen you follow the lives of the main characters' extended family -- his cousin, her girlfriend, his mother, her girlfriend, and the stepfather who transitions to female, you have a lot of lives to follow. >> seth: yeah. [ light laughter ] >> and it's my intention to take each of those characters to an ending >> seth: you -- i think a lot of writers begin with an idea of how a book should start. i've heard you say you like to begin knowing what the ending is going to be. have you always found that reverse engineering to be the right approach for you creatively >> always, yes, but i needed to write four books before i realized it wasn't going to change i needed to realize that there wasn't something really wrong with me. it's that i see endings first. i don't have the confidence to begin a novel unless i'm writing toward an ending that i have foreseen, that is, in my mind, predetermined. and that's -- it's just always been that way. >> seth: certainly, as a reader, i appreciate when that

. >> i really look like a perverted magician named david copperfield. >> you know, but there reallya g is. there's a bigger trick takiner g place around the country this week that we need to discuss. okay. thisg. this is serious. cbs news is reporting that rising cases could lead to a comeback from mask mandates. an hey, i've got an idea. idea. no, no, i've got an idea. >> how about you? but, like, seriously, after>>e all we've learned in the past few yearses, anyone who suggest we should bring back masks has more than a women'sbr has team. >> okay, let's start with the obvious. for one, masks. work,e it and there's plenty of data to prove it, so nobody should be on board with bringinulbeg ms back. because if we do that, then it's only a matter of time before we start bringing s ime back other things that dot work. >> and to be fair, that was tcha a cheap shot at don lemon, who really doep s have a lot of respect in the industry. in fact, when his staff found out he was fired of t, they acy chipped in to get him a submarine trip to the titani , and made him j a oh so silly. but not o