carter talks about how the presidency has changed since his time in office and how he's inspired david letterman to join his humanitarian effort. >>> but we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> we very much appreciate everything that senator mccain has done for our country. >> the president bows to bipartisan pressure. >> at the white house, the flag is at half-staff after president trump was criticized for raising it before senator mccain was laid to rest. >> u.s./mexico striking a deal to rework nafta. not yet on board is canada. >> trudeau disappointed us a lot. i hope he doesn't pull any of that stuff again. >> court records show the man who went on a shooting rampage in florida had previously been hospitalized for mental illness. >> that is the -- it could have been much worse. >> tens of millions of americans are feeling the heat as a heat wave blankets parts of the country. >> i feel like i'm in an oven. >> rose mcgowan speaking out about the sex abuse scandal involving asia argento, saying being the person you wish harvey would have been. >

i dressed as david letterman. >> jimmy: that's right, i think we have a photograph of your costume. [jimmy: who's one of your favorites. >> who's one of my favorites. >> jimmy: you never jammed with alice before? >> we had jammed with them once before. he's such a legend. >> jimmy: right, yeah. >> all of his stage tricks he does. he has like the guillotine, all the blood and stuff. i actually brought you a gift to repay the favor. >> jimmy: you did? >> i did. >> jimmy: is it -- oh. >> it's right here. >> jimmy: i didn't even see that, okay. what is that? thank you very much. >> that's just to say thank you for letting me -- >> jimmy: thank me? thank you. >> for being on the show. >> jimmy: is it han solo's jacket? [ laughter ] >> unfortunately not. >> jimmy: oh my god! it's your head. >> yeah. >> jimmy: he chopped it off in the guillotine on the show. >> he did. then i took it home. and i scared my kids with it. [ laughter ] i scared the housekeeper with it. and it got to the point where it was like, i got to get this thing out of the house. [ applause ] >> jimmy: thank you. boy, wow.

we have known each other a long time -- for david letterman. >> yeah. >> and then your own music careerand lots of broadway. now these amazing successes. how much of you is in this play, this musical compared to the other works you have done? >> i'm glad you asked that. this is really me. i made albums. i made five albums. when i make them i feel like that's a personal expression. i do what i want to say. i say what i want to say. when this came along i wasn't exactly sure this would happen, but it did. i was able the really say what i wanted to say in every song. this almost feels like one of my albums to me. an album that i made with the best musician i could find and the best singers i could feep. >> let's not forget, you yourself, your mother is jewish, your father is lebanese christian. >> catholic. >> catholic. >> my first transcribe to help none with my father we were visiting his father. we were in a cab from the airport to the mountain where my grandfather was. and there was this very exotic -- i don't like using that word. there was this pungent new flavor of music coming from

. >> reporter: in the process inspiring others to come out swinging, like comedian david letterman. >lowing me to help out and do this. >> thank you. well, you've been working on habitat for a long time and i didn't know about it. >> yeah, we started right after katrina and found the experience, as you know, overwhelmingly gratifying. >> reporter: he credits president carter. >> seeing him and being here on these builds is such a lovely break from the cynicism of life, because just listen to this. it's delightful. >> you're not just taking out a little tack hammer. you're down in houston. you're in the suit, mucking out the soggy -- >> yeah, yes -- >> insulation. >> it was a mistake. there's no getting around it. it was a job for a younger, braver man. but yes, we were doing it. >> when you're hammering, are you taking more care than if you were building something in your own backyard? >> yeah. if i screw up the hammering,ean claw part of the hammer and spend the next half hour doing that while everyone's looking at me. dave, you know, you're holding up the build. and you don't want t

. >> david letterman originally had a one-hour daytime show, and nbc, after like 13 weeks, decided tohave these people been frisked? >> it was a dismal failure in terms of the ratings, but not in terms of introducing us to letterman. >> david, thank you for being with us tonight. >> thank you very much for having me, i appreciate it. >> in spite of all this nonsense that goes around in the background, stay with it and don't give up. stay with us here in new york. >> dave is back in new york. you're going to host a late-night television program that premieres monday night. what are critics likely to say tuesday morning? >> i don't much care because i found a way to deal with that, pills and whiskey. >> david, you're on. >> oh, i'm on? >> proceed. >> i'm enjoying listening to you snort. >> they gave him "the late night show" after "the tonight show."" and at the time, people thought who is going to watch television at 12:30 at night. who is up? i'll tell you who is up. young people. college people. >> i know this is the first show and i think this guy needs a little support, dave letter

archival on the "david letterman" show bang on about the japanese. now chinese.s going to pull back from this. and i don't believe this sphwhrunt instrument can work. kennedy: i think people know if you are the last person in the presidency you have a much better shot of shape something aspect of his opinion. but this is not one of them. >> on his one issue he's immovable on it. kennedy: is there a way for the economy to continue to flourish if some of this continues to. >> no, i don't think so. that's why it's risky politically for him. he inherited an economy going in the right direction. tax cuts have been helpful. everything is going well for him. he has that when he's going out to the mid-terms and be re-elected in 2020. he's risking it all. i saw another company in north carolina closing its doors because all the stuff coming in from china they need to build those is being 35% more, 40% more on their bottom line. kennedy: we can watch the special. a lot of people who watch fox business, they want to consume as much information as possible about the tariffs

. >> david letterman had his morning show, nobody had ever seen a guy like this at this time of day.ient stages of the irreverence. >> a huge tank of lemonade and minnows. >> minnows. >> my idea of a joke. >> the only reason we were getting all that stuff on the air was that we were just putting it on the air because we were already on the air. >> i read the nbc research, and if we would have had more sex, more violence on the show, i think we would have done better. >> they talked about being cancelled a lot, which i hadn't seen before on tv. a host really mocking their failure. >> violence, ladies and gentlemen. >> i'm sorry that this program is going to disappear, because it was something -- it was something different, and something adventurous, and something really courageous in daytime television. and unfortunately -- >> none of these shows ever got bad. any show that's cancelled prematurely, they become a sexy corpse. >> i quit. >> you remember them as they were young and handsome. they never age. >> hey, you know i never approved this. nobody ever listens to me around here. i'

. >> he was booked on the late show with david letterman in 1993, and he did his set, which had beene. >> people annoy me. what's annoying me is these pro-life people, you ever look at their faces? i'm pro-life. they don't look it, they just exude it. you see them trying to go to an orphanage to adopt a kid. don't pick me. >> did fine in front of that audience, and then after the set, robert morton, got on the phone, some conference upstairs and they decided to cut it from the episode. they said it was too offensive. >> the bill hicks incident on letterman became the thing of legend. so when we talk about clean comedy and dirty comedy, it was completely within the parameters of what is acceptable on network television. >> if that's who you're bringing onto your show, that's what you're going to get. if you're not wanting that, you're going to get, probably, a terrible version of that person. >> bill hicks felt violated. he never did the letterman show again, and it haunted dave. >> i want you folks to enjoy this, honestly. >> years later, after hicks had died, letterman had hicks' mo

i was the second woman to ever write for david letterman.nd, look, no one who ever worked on the show is surprised by those comments. and i did speak out at the time. i wrote an article for "vanity fair" about the harassment i witnessed at the show. it was a hostile work environment. but it was pre -- i worked there p pre-anita hill, so we didn't even have the vocabulary. i just thought it was messed up. >> we have the vocabulary now. the question i have, do we have the space to actually openly talk about it? and i want to share danit? i want to share dan harman, the creative community, admitted to his wrongdoing during the height of metoo, and i want to share what was written. i crushed on her and resented her for not reciprocating it and the entire time i was the one writing her paychecks and in control of whether she stayed or went and whether she felt good about herself or not, and said horrible things, just treated her cruelly, pointedly, things i would never, ever would have done if she were a male and if i had never had feelings for h

that's of course the fate of late-night stars jay leno and david letterman. >> "the tonight show" withoutst night. jay leno emerged from behind the curtain. >> oh, i don't care if you laugh. i got the job. >> look at this. they are getting more press than the president. so start up your remote controls. a late-night race is about to begin. >> jay was a brilliant standup. he continued the tradition of johnny. he had a big group of monologue writers. that was the main writing on that show. he was writing the best topical jokes that anybody could write. >> democratic candidate bill clinton said he is also troubled by the amount of sex portrayed on television. clinton said where he comes from sex is a deeply personal matter between a candidate and his campaign volunteers. yeah. >> jay is more bob hope in the sense of set a punch line, set a punch line, he would tap into exactly the best joke of whatever happened that day. >> and because the big story in hollywood is still the fugitive. all right. but enough about michael jackson. >> jay made the jokes the joke. dave was doing the other side o

whether you envy john mccain, jimmy carter, david letterman or mom.n, but salvation. >> i love that, john. i love that. it is a good trait. it is like a lot of the feelings that you have accepting and realize if they drive you, create passion in you, change your character for the better. that is good. >> and grant woods said at mccain's service what people see in mccain is what they want to go see in themselves. >> i believe that doing good gives you better -- more joy than buying something. >> yeah. >> it is true. >>> we'd like to remind you at home, you could hear more of "cbs this morning" on our podcast. find it on apple podcast app or wherever you like to download your podcast. >>> up next, all that mattered this week. you're watching "cbs this morning." >>> tomorrow on "cbs this morning" saturday thomas has been jugging along an now it is about to look different. tomorrow we'll show you how thomas and his friends are changing and what is behind the makeover. >> i like thomas the train. >> that does it for us. be sure to have a happy and healthy