letterman. >> oh, boy. >> you heard the applause. >> thanks, reg. thank you so much. >> dave, take a look around at how piers morgan lives. why can't we live like this? >> hi to use the bathroom before i came out here. the lighting in the restroom is superior to the lighting on your old show. this place is amazing. it is remarkable. >> it's all brand new. now, listen. you're at a place over there on broadway, the old ed sullivan theater. >> i love it. we were looking at facilities around the city. this hadn't even been built. we went in there and it was a minute or two away from being condemned. in actuality. and by god, in a short period of time they turned it from whatever it had been into just a first rate television facility. and i'm from the school that you do tv in a studio. and so i was wondering if it could be, in fact, done from a theater. but the place is fantastic. i look around there every night and i think i'm so lucky to be part of a production coming from this place. it's both intimate and it's as big as you need it to be and intimate as you need it to be. >> w

i wonder if dave letterman heard about that story from us on "long story short". >> we had that storyt "the talk." still funny. >>> 8:00, welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king. >> rachel being the producer. >> yeah, all of a sudden it sounds like i'm talking to no one. i'm talking to rachel. >> which another producer says, she does all the time. >> i think we've all been known to do that. >> let's start over. good morning. it's 8:00 i'm gayle king. welcome back to erica hill. >> thank you. >>> a new buyographer of president obama, it has some people asking if there is anything in a president's past that is off limits. author david mariness relies heavily on the diaries and memories of old girlfriends. >>> barack obama: story" focuses on president obama as a young man living in chicago. it shows him in love and in turmoil. >> reporter: he may be smiling in this picture, but the young barack obama portrayed in david mirnass' book struggled to feel at home in new york. it was here at columbia university that future president felt lost. struggling with questions about who he

i wonder if dave letterman heard that story from us on long story short. >> we have that. funny. it's 8:00. welcome back to "cbs this morning". i'm gayle king. >> rachel being the producer. >> it sounds like i'm just talking to no one. i was talking to rachel. >> which another producer said she does all the time. p>> i th>> iink thiwe'vnk we ale'v to do that. let's just start over. good morning. it's 8:00. i'm gayle king. >> i'm charlie rose. welcome back to erica hill. >> tha>> tnk yhankou. you. nice to be back. >>> a new biography of president obama. it has some people asking if there's anything in a president's past that is of f-lioff-mitslimi.ts. they rely heavily on the diaries and letters and memories of old girlfriends. >> barack obama the story focuses on the president as a young man living in new york and chicago. it shows him in love and in turmoil. >> reporter: he may be smiling in this picture, but the young barack obama portrayed in the book struggled to feel at home barack obama portrayed in the book struggled to feel at home it was here at columbia universit

david letterman and conan o'brien have one big thing in common, they both lost out to the tonight show and jay leno >> so o'brien a visit to dave'sate show last night. >> i think the longer we just sit here, the more uncomfortable it will make jay leno. >> o'brien succeeded letterman on late-night win dave came to cbs. you want to look up to the skies this weekend for a site we have not seen in nearly two decades >> sunday night there will be rare solar eclipse known as the ring of fire when the sun will appear in a thin ring behind the moon. in the bay area the moon will cover about 84 percent of the sun and the rain will not fully formed so astronomers suggest you head to the california and oregon border where you can see the phenomenon in full effect. the last time the ring of fire appeared in the u.s. was 1994. get ready for one hot summer. forecasters predicted warmer than usual summer for about three-quarters of the u.s.. the weather could be especially troublesome for california folks for the prospects of wildfires. california expects to have a very busy fire season >> it looks like it will be a nice weekend out there with

dave this is side show and david letterman said what we hear so much from mitt romney, he just failse american guy. inside the actor's studio thinks he has the solution for mitt romney. his laugh. here he is speaking directly to romney. >> let's start with your laugh. >> i live for laughter. ha, ha, ha, ha. >> it isn't working. it's inert. it just doesn't come across as genuine. worst of all, it's mirthless, which is to say, while you expect us to be amused, you're not the least amused yourself. i would advise those of you watching to freeze the frame and then put your hands on the lower part of your face and look at your eyes. there is no pleasure there. >> is that powerful stuff? james lipton getting to the heart of the matter or the lack thereof. >>> next up, former president george w. bush gave his endorsement of mitt romney today in washington. wonder how you missed the big speech? you're not alone. there was none. in fact, here's how word of the endorsement got out. quote, i'm for mitt romney, bush told abc news this morning, as the doors of an elevator closed on him. after he

dave looks unhappy. he's going to pack it in soon. >> you -- >> little double teaming on david letterman last night with conan o'brien.. >> but they are talking about it more now on the air. >> i'm noticing that. how are you? >> i'm good. throat problem. >> do you feel as bad as -- you don't sound terrible but we can tell. >> i feel great. >> you look good, too. it's 8:00, welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king. >> you are? >> charlie rose, with erica hill. one small step for man but one giant leap for the privatization of space. tomorrow morning a company called spacex plans to launch a rocket headed for the international space station. >> it is loaded with cargo, groceries for the most part, and astro physic neil de grasse tyson is director of the planetarium in new york and author of by the way, "space chronicles facing the ultimate frontier." hello, to you. >> great to be back here. >> your very spacey tie. >> got to go with the tie thing. >> i'm thinking tomorrow, neil, you're going to be doing the happy dance at your house, are you not? >> i think it's a long, overdue event that the participation of

letterman? she's fantastic. modern woman. >> got to love dave. >> and got some friends over there. >> yeah. >> yeah. really, really, really nice place. >> you were great, mika. >> thank you. >> terrific. >> do you know who else is great? vladimir putin. >> oh, my god. >> you're going to be happy. >> instead of having some grand inaugural ball or something, you play hockey and make them televise it to the country. that's what you do. a little pickup hockey. he was on the amateurs against the all-stars. broadcast nationally. >> no. >> look who's in the crowd? you'll love this cut away. look. silvio berlusconi in the house. watch the defense. putin gets the puck. >> oh, that is -- >> he's going to walk in and score one. then in overtime, the shootout. this is putin. this is weak sauce by the goaltender. a little backhander. >> no! >> and putin scores the game-winner. >> no way. [ laughter ] >> it's sort of like golf with donald trump. >> oh, my god. he's got an entire country as just like a prop. >> it's north korea. what's the difference? >> what's the difference? [ laughter ] >> can we show again? th