david letterman. david letterman. they were all pretty excited to see david leftman, i have to say.re for a week. we're here until friday night, and then we go back to l.a. this is a limited engage president, just like pete davidson and ariana grande. [ applause ] i know. i was sad about it, too, but our staff is having a lot of fun, maybe too much fun. we brought about 250 people with us from l.a., and this is an e-mail that went out this morning. this is day one. this is for real. subject line. no smoking in hotels. please, remember, there is no smoking or vaporing of any kind allowed in any of our hotel rooms, not even if you blow it out the window. what kind of a police state is this? in l.a. we smoke wherever we want. guillermo, was that you? where's guillermo? where's my security man guillermo? i'm left unprotected. oh, there he is. [ cheers and applause ] look at you. you look like a local. wow, you sure do love new york, don't you? >> guillermo: i do, jimmy. i love new york. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: yes. it looks like swallod you're really blending . are you having

. >> hey, everybody, today the legendary paul schaffer, david letterman's band leader for over 30 years is back to try to win $1 million for charity. from caesar's entertainment studios, this is "who wants to be a millionaire." [dramatic music] ♪ [cheers and applause] hey, everybody, welcome. we got a great day today. it's celebrity week las vegas. [cheers and applause] boy, do we have one for you. let's bring back our celebrity. welcome, paul schaffer! [cheers and applause] welcome back, sir. >> good to see you again. let me start by saying i have never done this before, and if you let me walk out of here, i swear i will never get in trouble. oh, no--that's chris hansen. >> yeah, wrong show. >> i'm sor.

apologies to david letterman. we have a good show tonight, music tonight from brooklyn born b ebe rexa is with it. mike birbiglia is here. and we will be joined tonight by the one and only julia louis-dreyfus, the notorious jld. and this is fun. julia has won so many emmys over the years for seinfeld and for the new adventures of old christine, tonight she brought an emmy for everyone in our audience. that's right. you know, we do a very thorough job of scouring the local news from a lot of different cities every night for our show, and this one, this is something we happened upon back in january, courtesy of news 12 long island. >> long island plans to build a new high volt power line which would run 7.2 miles underground. people we spoke with are worried about increased traffic near that route. that includes hugh. he works at a liquor store in garden city. >> stewart avenue's already bad enough during rush hour. >> it was a wonderful moment when we met hugh janus and ladies and gentlemen, i would like to introdu

we got back, and went on david letterman. a clip was ran of us that said they were proved once and all democrats and republicans can get all long if death is the only option. that is where we are. i worry about the future of the senate. it has always been the body that the rules of the senate bring you together. it is very seldom that one party has 60 votes. the filibuster rules requires, and that is what i like about the senate. i served 12 years in the house. the senate requires and pushes you together. lately, there have been so many things that have drug us apart. i do not know how we get back. the incentives are all the other way. there is no currency for a bipartisanship. if you act bipartisan, it shows up in your opponent's campaign ads. we have to come to a point where failure to compromise and a failure to reach across the aisle i'm a particularly in the senate, is punished at the ballot box rather than rewarded. i don't know how we get there, but we need to. [applause] >> you had to name the three top causes of this

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but we got back and went on david letterman and colbert ran a clip of us and said flake and hinrich proved once and for all republicans and democrats can get along if death is the only option. unfortunately that's about where we are. and i do worry about the future of the senate. it's always been the body that the rules of the senate bring you together. it's very seldom one party has 60 votes so the filibuster rule requires -- that's what i like about the senate. i served 12 years in the house and love the people's house but the senate requires and pushes you together. but lately there have been so many things that simply have drug us apart. i don't know how we get back. the incentives are all the other way. there's no currency for you act ship, if bipartisan, it shows up in your opponent's campaign ads and we've got to come to a point again the failure to compromise, the failure to reach across the aisle, particularly in the national, is punished at the ballot box rather than rewarded. and i don't know how we get there but we need to. [applause] jeff: if you had to name the three top caus

vermont at lieutenant governor david letterman will be our guest in washington journal starting at 7:40 a.m. eastern. >> here is some of what we are covering thursday on the c-span networks. at 10:00 eastern on c-span, brookings institution event on the war in yemen now in its fourth year. washington post previews november 6th midterm elections. at 7:00 eastern a debate between candidates for governor of south carolina. on c-span2 the justice department hosts the national opioid summit where attorney general jeff sessions outlines federal law enforcement strategies to combat opioid addiction. that gets underway at 9:00 am. on c-span3 the center for american progress for him on internet hate speech. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979 c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and today, we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court and public policy events in washington dc and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider.

broadcast between episodes of naked and afraid. , and went on david letterman. a clip was ran of us that said they were proved once and all democrats and republicans can get all long if death is the only option. that is where we are. i worry about the future of the senate. it has always been the body that the rules of the senate bring you together. it is very seldom that one party has 60 votes. the filibuster rules requires, and that is what i like about the senate. i served 12 years in the house. the senate requires and pushes you together. lately, there have been so many things that have drug us apart. i do not know how we get back. the incentives are all the other way. there is no currency for a .ipartisanship if you act bipartisan, it shows up in your opponent's campaign ads. we have to come to a point where failure to compromise and a failure to reach across the aisle i'm a particularly in the senate, is punished at the ballot box rather than rewarded. i don't know how we get there, but we need to. [applause] you had to name the three top causes of this, wh

you mentioned david letterman, martin short. have a the local las vegas legends come to visit you?ne newton, huh? >> the midnight idol. the desert fox. did you see him on stage? >> jimmy: of course. >> remember when he'd do macarthur park? it would rain on stage. i was reminding him of that. he says, i still have the rain machine. you want to hear story? i was going to open a new showroom at the desert inn and they said, we can't fit the rain machine on the stage. he says, you don't understand. no rain, no wayne. no wayne, no rain! no rain, no wayne! that's all i'm saying. >> jimmy: all right, what was the result? did it get to rain? >> the thing -- of course he had the rain. >> jimmy: of course he had the rain. >> yes, he's wayne newton, mr. entertainment himself. i said, should i have a nickname like you? what about the midnight jew? [ laughter ] >> jimmy: thunder beethoven. >> i'm glad, you have given me my name, like howard hughes gave mr. blackfoil, you gave me my name. thunder beethoven, thank you. thrilled to be here with you, folks. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: it's al

a generation thought that, particularly in late night, whether jay leno, johnny carson, even david lettermanways got to make the common middle laugh. >> right, right. >> you and all of your competitors, colleagues, however you want to refer to late night, there is no -- there are bright lines now. >> i don't think that that's true per se. i don't think that it's bright lines that have separated people. i think that comedy, the best comedy is informed by the truth. you know, and so if you look at everybody from richard pryor all the way through to chris rock and all the great comedians, the comedy was always informed by the truth. >> especially the edge. >> exactly. so if you are looking at the truth of the situation, what are you going to do? which democrat are you going to speak about when they have no power? who are you skewering? >> why do conservatives not have as much success. i say go get a show and they get a show and it doesn't work. >> innately you have to find yourself ridiculous as well. i tell people this all the time. if you watched my show when we were running the campaign, i r

. >> doing david letterman proud. >> my pumpkin pitching arms. >> i thought it was a new perfume or somethingthat's what was. >> it had flees coming out of it. >> oh, my gourd. >> oh, my gourd. >> being creative on this kaine: welibei want a virginia a flag works for all,ut for all.th with economic opportunity and a chance for a good life.r i'llwith anyone to build that virginia. we can't let our leaders divide us because we're all americans. i'm tim kaine,and i aa because if we ask our kids to say these words... teacher and children: ...one nation under god, indivisible... ...we have to be willing to live by them. teacher and children: ...and justice for all. dave brat said he'd vote to reduce the deficit. i'm abigail spanberger, and i approve this message. but instead, he voted to increase ittr by $1.lion. why? brat went washington, taking hundreds of thousands from big drug companies, wall street banks, and other corporate special interests and voting to give his big corporate donors big tax breaks, making the next generation pay. dave brat went washington, and all we got was the bill. yea

jack nicholson is at 400-million floyd mayweather is at 400-million david letterman is at 400-million400-millionhow 500- million... that's still you. you've got tom cruise is at 500-million 'wasted away again' with jimmy buffet is at 500-million and sir elton john is at 500-millionwhile 565-million dollars is just a crazy amount... it's still not enough to have lunch with oprah who's networth is 2.9- billionpresident trump at 3.1- billionand then bill gates is in a league of his own... with a networth of 96.2-billion. and if you're truly, the luckiest person in the world and happen to win the powerball on saturday... then there's more big name celebrities you can add to your "new friend's" list. a live look outside right now... as we get our first look at the four zone forecast with meteorologist anny hong.. (anny hong): sunny and warm with a only a few degrees of cooling through the weekend. more noted cooling to return early next week as fronts pass to our north with increasing onshore flow and a cooling airmass. any light rain from these fronts will likely stay north of sonoma coun

there was a moment during the recount in 2011 when david letterman said, i have a solution to this impacts- impact the country is in. why don't we let al gore be the president of the blue states? . it was kind of a novel way of looking at it. that was the reality of the divide that was created by the political wars of the 1990's. bill clinton versus newt gingrich. the republican revolution of 1994. the government shutdown in 1995. all of these in the political world, these seismic events were taking place. they essentially cumulatively forced americans to choose sides. election,in the 2000 which i think is the product of the 1990's. i know the map has changed a little bit here and there. the concepts of red states and --e states, that is been that has been what has defined our politics. host: for those who do not remember, here is how your -- election results continue to come in. >> what the networks give us, the networks take away. nbc news is now taking florida out of vice president gore's problem. -- vice president gore's column. that is been the position of governor bush throughout the

josh letterman, national political correspondent for nbc news, david rothkov, carnegie endowment for international peace, a.b. stoddard, real clear politic, sean patrick maloney, democratic congressman from the state of new york. josh, you broke the story for nbc news about the saudi government's new plan to change their story. >> we know a plan is being discussed, in part along with the u.s., to essentially admit some type of culpability in the death of mr. khashoggi. that of course means acknowledging that this journalist, jamal khashoggi, is dead, and is not alive, having left the consulate, as the saudis have been claiming for the last two weeks. we don't know exactly how the saudis are going to spin this but as secretary of state pompeo was flying to riyadh in the last 24 hours, the u.s. was already aware that he was essentially going there to have discussions about how the saudis were going to come out and say, okay, what we have been saying originally is not true, you know, we've discovered that he actually was killed, but that there will be some type of off ramp that allows t