j.j.'ng him to a nearby park, where he sat down with me for the first time untethered to the criminal justice system. >> your name. you got your name back. i think people maybe don't appreciate how important that is. >> absolutely. i mean, when we're born, our name becomes our identity. and so when we're taken through the system, they strip you of your identity. they put you in a shower buck naked, hose you down like a slave. and then they give you a number and brand you. and that wasn't who i was. and i've been fighting for 27 years to tell them that my name is jon-adrian j.j. velazquez. >> reporter: velazquez has been physically free since 2021, when then new york governor andrew cuomo commuted his sentence, granting him parole but leaving him stained with the mark of a convicted felon. >> i had curfew. i couldn't travel out of the state without permission. if i wanted to go on a date i needed permission. >> reporter: also there to witness his exoneration today, "dateline" producer dan sl

j.j. was granted clemency by then governor andrew cuomo, but his ordeal still wasn't over. until this week, that is, when he heard the words he waited so long to hear. lester holt has more in our "sunday spotlight." >> reporter: it would be impossible to return to john adrian velasquez all that has been taken from him, but in a manhattan courtroom, a judge finally gave him back his good name. his decades long cries for justice after being wrongfully convicted of kilg a killing a retired police officer down to a four-minute proceeding. >> the people do not believe they are in a position to proven the case beyond a reasonable doubt. >> reporter: without fanfare or apology, the judge formally accepting the conclusion of a manhattan district attorney's internal investigation, the same office that once helped put him in prison, that j.j. velasquez, as he is known, is an innocent man. >> i am granting that application, so this matter is dismissed. >> reporter: j.j.'s family and friends following

so this matter is dismissed. [ applause ] >> reporter: j.j.'s family and friends following him to a nearby park where he sat down with me for the first time untethered to the criminal justice system. your name, you got your name back. i think people maybe don't appreciate how important that is. >> absolutely. i mean, when we're born, our name becomes our identity. so, when we're taken through the system, they strip you of your identity. they put you in a shower, butt naked, hose you down like a slave. and then they give you a number and brand you. and that wasn't who i was. and i've been fighting for 27 years to tell them that my name is john adrian "jj" velasquez. >> reporter: velasquez has been physically free since 2021 when then-new york governor andrew cuomo commuted his sentence, granting him parole but leaving him stained with the mark of a convicted felon. >> i had curfew. i couldn't travel out of the state without permission. if i wanted to go on a date, i needed permission. >> reporter: also there to witness his exoneration, "dateline

markets are j.j. kinahan here in london. >> absolutely. >> let's talk about the tesla.he robotaxi was a downer, big disapp disappointment what do your clients want to see from the earnings and the margin side >> this is the first of the mag seven last week, always a lot of excitement from tesla. retail trading view. it is the top three to five names traded every single day. people want to see something positive out of them especially with the robotaxi disappointment if you don't trade options, one of the things options do well is they set an expectation of movement with that, what we're seeing is an expectation of a 6% move in tesla based on their earnings. again, you know, when you look at it, it's like are you ready for that move if you're going to trade the stock overall? i think always a lot of excitement when tesla reports because of the interest in retail elon musk, himself, a lot of people buy tesla as a bet on elon musk, honestly. that is a big part of why this trades also. we will see what comes of the earnings because of that. >> absolutely. if you bought tesl

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. >> reporter: morning for maggie and j.j.edo in their rural town outside san jose santa fe are busy. with a baby and a toddler, they both work two jobs and have a long commute. >> how fast are you going to go? >> reporter: but their biggest stress is gone. >> here we go. >> i have two boys going to a wonderful school that would cost about probably $2600 a month to have both of them here for free. it is critical for us. >> i love you, baby. i'll see you tomorrow. >> reporter: in 2022, an overwhelming 70% of voters in new mexico voted in favor of a ballot initiative to divert a sliver of oil and gas tax revenue to early childhood education, a bipartisan effort amounting to $150 million a year. >> we were thinking about what are we going to do? what are we going to give up in our monthly bills to pay this copay. then we found out the state was paying it. i cried. like it was that much of a relief. because we didn't know how we were going to do it. >> reporter: a relief too for deyanira contreras, who runs kids campus santa fe, w

ukraine joining nato, well, at least according to the characteristic signs that he presents, we saw that j.je, he generally says that it is necessary to promise in russia that ukraine will not become a member of nato, because from the point of view jd vance's view is that russia is really confused, but jd vance has another idea, which i also find completely illogical. it is that it will be necessary to arm russia and then ukraine in such a way that russia cannot attack it. well, all this does not mean that russia has to agree with it either. at the same time, we always want to ask, how will we put russia in front of the fact? how do we put russia in front of the fact? and i have no answer to this question. if we, if we leave the point. view of this article, about which one i quoted from the financial times, whether it's true or not, if that's a controversial issue, but still, i remind you once again, the language is western ukrainian. officials have decided that essential security guarantees can be the basis for negotiations. mr. vitaly, from the point of view of the ukrainian government, is

. >> someone call j.j.id not know that. that's his daughter. >> he was here. i was like, oh, are you a fan? yeah. then i was like, oh. that's her dad. j.j. abrams. >> that's amazing. talented family. >>> next up "yellowstone," it's almost back. a trailer dropped yesterday, featuring kevin costner's john duten, despite the fact that the actor announced his departure for this second installment of season five. >> you destroy me, you destroy yourself. >> i took all the risk, and i took it for you. >> this war is just beginning. >> the only thing left to do is to kill as much as you can before they kill you. >> yeah! >> what are you going to do with kevin costner's character? i don't know. we're going to have to find out. i'm not petitioning for ideas. i just -- >> they're going to have to kill him. we're going to find out. >> "yellowstone" season 5, part b, premieres november 10th on paramount network. >>> "severance," a highly anticipated second season, the lumen employees will return to the office january 17

j.j., [ bleep ] stupid. >> why don't you just do it, man?> paid for my the pennies i collected inside this bottle. >> i'm donald j. trump, and i regret this decision. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: all right, maybe "j.d." stands for "jelly doughnut," who knows. we've got a big show for you tonight. you know who's on our show tonight? >> lady gaga. >> jimmy: that's right, lady gaga is here. [ cheers and applause ] michigan governor gretchen whitmer is here. and we've got two women who have come face to face with the joker on the show, so stick around. we'll be right back with lady gaga! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: hi, there, welcome back to the show. tonight, the governor of the great state of michigan, this is her best-selling book, it's called "true gretch." gretchen whitmer is with us tonight. [ cheers and applause ] tomorrow night, you know, a lot of shows, they'll say, we have a big show, we're going to just kind of coast throughout the rest of the week. not us. tomorrow night, we'll be joined by jennifer aniston.

j.j, deebo and this is where i'm expecting you guys to be. so they're all ears.willing to be coached, which is great. and more than anything, we just want to win. >> after a rough shooting first quarter, the warriors cruised in their season opener at portland last night. steph curry just one rebound away from a triple double. new guy buddy hield who's your buddy. he had 22 points. steve kerr's planning on a 12 man rotation which is unprecedented. it's a new approach. we'll see how that works out. but the more things change the more they stay the same. draymond green got teed up in the second quarter. so that puts him on pace for an nba record 82 technicals. i don't think he's going to get that uh- a kinder gentler day day. the warriors need that fire to win. but game one draymond really espn. stephen a smith on first take asking a really simple question. >> you know you're going to beat portland. why why get a technical. why second quarter. why for what. why. you said there's nothing inside of you that says we got this. we ain't worried about it. it's game one. i

or j.j. abrams next to thunder cat is a weird mix.ne brady and weird al. >> jimmy: wayne brady and weird al? >> yeah. >> jimmy: that is wayne brady and weird al and pamela adlon too. >> such a sweetie. >> jimmy: were you in charge of pairing the people up? >> i was not. >> jimmy: you were not. >> i was not, and normally i'm very intense about parties. >> jimmy: you had an episode like that? >> i did. that was one of the one ways in which janine and i are similar. i like to put people in sections during parties. >> jimmy: uh-huh? how do you figure out what sections people go in? >> when i do it -- >> jimmy: yeah. >> i want everyone to fall in love. so i -- whether you fall in love with a friend or, you know, a lover or someone you're going to mar. >> jimmy: whether it's wayne or weird falling in love, yeah. >> i know. but i like to be like, oh, those people would be by that section of the pool and the lights will be dim over there and the crickets kind of go over there, they're going to fall in love, those two people. or i'll be like,

it was the first time that i experienced really good writing in j.j. abrams, who wrote that.s on the mickey mouse club before, showing up doing my thing. i was learning when it was good. that helped me. >> lara: yeah. >> yeah. >> lara: it's all so good. so excited for season 2 of "the diplomat." >> michael: i'm excited. now i know i have got 3 coming. >> 3 is even better. i can't even wait. so much better. we're shooting it. we're filming it right now. it's really, really good. >> lara: that's a tease. >> robin: keri, thank you so much. you're such a joy to have around here. >> thank you so much. >> robin: you really do have a lot of fans. season 2 of "the diplomat" premieres tomorrow on netflix. coming up next r&b singer shanice, a thriver. she's sharing her breast cancer journey and using her voice for more than singing. you'll want to hear this. breast cancer jourw ♪ ♪ >> michael: welcome back everybody. we were all singing along to that song back in the '90s. "i love your smile" by our next guest grammy nominated singer actress shanice. she is on stage right now appearing

. >> you're shaking your head , >> you're shaking your head, j-j- >> you're shaking your head, j.j. shaking your head. >> yeah, because whilst i respect both of you immensely, there are several things you said there that are not factually true. it's not every country that has assisted dying where if you've got mental health, illness or you're depressed, then you get killed. it's not a case of doctors telling patients it's the patients themselves who are saying they want to end their lives and in somewhere like australia, various states of state. but in australia, it's seen as the model . so victoria seen as the model. so victoria specifically things like, yes , specifically things like, yes, it's two doctors, but one of those doctors has to be specialist in the illness the person suffering with. >> can i just say to you on that? you know, we had doctors who were specialists on gender reassignment surgery for kids, right? we had doctors who were specialists. so, you know, why would you choose to specialise in a particular aspect of that medicine, unless you were particularly interest

i had a lot of catching up to do with j.j. or b.j.>> i'm pretty locked in there. >> is that like 2024's version of, what was that? >> it's a lot of attractive people who are, like, 30 but are supposed to be in high school. it's like "90210" but they're on an adventure. it's like a caper. >> wasn't there -- >> not 30-somethings. >> in north carolina. >> "outer banks." >> oh, i know what you're -- >> is it the same thing. >> katie holmes like 20 years ago. >> katie holmes! ♪ i don't want to wait ♪ >> we can talk about that later. >> "dawson's creek," alex khorasan tells us. >> we're on tv. >> we're not yet. >> we are on tv. >> no, we're not. >> still in the break. >> i have to say one final thing, final thing. >> no. >> one final thing. >> what? >> sorry. >> listen, we go in and we're watching "disclaimer." cate blanchett, who is better? >> nobody. >> none. >> sacha baron cohen. >> so interesting. >> he delivers an incredible performance. do you know who completely blew us away? i know will blow viewers away. kevin. one of the most beau