last year letterman was celebrated at the prestigious kennedy center honors. >> david letterman, youhians. >> does it feel like 20 years? >> no as a matter of fact, it doesn't. >> one, two, one, two, three. >> band leader paul shaffer has been letterman's right-hand man from the very beginning. >> certainly, when we were at 12th we were the alternative. we were making fun of talk shows, ourselves included. we are still certainly doing that but we are now the -- we are the top show i think. davis the first to make fun of him self. >> please i'm begging you, don't get your hopes up too high about this show. >> he is the first to say, i'm just this big dork. >> letterman's self-deprecation is contagious. countless celebrities and bold-face names have come on the late show to poke fun at themselves. >> basically, i'm the healthiest fat guy you have ever seen in your life. >> there have been serious moments too. in 2000 letterman left the show for quuchlt bypass surgery. >> it was five weeks ago today that these men and women right here saved my life. >> the man who was once the late nigh

friend of david letterman. became a friend of americans who loved the down home whit of art.e did it no matter where you came across him, he could brighten your day with that remarkable smile and remarkable sense of humor. baltimore colts lineman in the 1907's delivering the eulogy did a particularly great job of talking about art donovan, with his fans, for those who did not know him but most importantly with his family. with his wife of 57 years, dotty. with his four daughters and his son. and using the words from art onovan's childre painted a picture, his children did refer to him as a bull of a man. certainly history reflects the evidence of that as a young man, he attended notre dame university for one month. withdrew after his first month of college to sign up as a marine and fight in world war ii, and fight he did for four years, including in the battle of iwojima. following the conclusion of world war ii, he enrolled in boston college where he had a stellar college career and then was drafted in 1950, and the inaugural season of the baltimore colts. a career that wou

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and when we come back here, david letterman's never before seen trailer for lee daniels' the butler.ou have to see to believe it. right now, 7 years of music is being streamed. a quarter million tweeters are tweeting. and 900 million dollars are changing hands online. that's why hp built a new kind of server. one that's 80% smaller. uses 89% less energy. and costs 77% less. it's called hp moonshot. and it's giving the internet the room it needs to grow. this&is gonna be big. hp moonshot. it's time to build a better enterprise. together. a talking car. but i'll tell you what impresses me. a talking train. this ge locomotive can tell you exactly where it is, what it's carrying, while using less fuel. delivering whatever the world needs, when it needs it. ♪ after all, what's the point of talking if you don't have something important to say? ♪ >>> we talked about the latest revelations of the nixon tapes. tell your friends between 1971 and 1973, president nixon used a secret recorder to capture 3700 hours of conversations. they end on july 12, 1973, the day before the existence of the re

later in the cooler, we'll have letterman chiming in on miley cyrus. no joke. we have a story on drive-in prostitution and a topless news interviewer, but i do want to begin on a much more somber and serious note this morning. the latest on syria. the top u.s. officials say chemical weapons were used and the president is considering a limited military strike on select targets inside that country. yesterday u.n. inspectors visited the site of the attack. although there are very low expectations, folks, for what their probe will actually uncover, secretary of state john kerry says there is little doubt as to what happened there. >> what we saw in syria last week should shock the conscience of the world. it defies any code of morality. let me be clear, the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians, the killing of women and children and innocent bystanders by chemical weapons is a moral obscenity. the reported number of victims, the reported symptoms of those who were killed or injured, the firsthand accounts from humanitarian organizations, these all strongly indicate

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letterman had a well timed vacation last week and this week. for nightly business report, i'm julia borsten in los angeles. >>> a small group of companies was hit hard by the crash, the recovery is bringing them back from the brink. investors are taking notice. first, let's take a look at how the international markets faired today. >>> one industry hard hit by the housing crash, private mortgage insurers, two big ones went under, and the rest were left bleeding cash. the housing recovery is breathing new life into this industry, and some new players are worth watching. diana olick has that story. >> reporter: when housing came crumbling down, the private mortgage insurance industry was left holding the bag, four companies lost a combined $20 billion, and they were the survivors. now, these companies just posted their first quarterly profit in 6 years. >> delinquencies are down, which has helped, the companies recapitalized the popular companies. fha is reducing its role in the market. the companies are basically reversing their position and all

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letterman might be a liberal. i don't know what he is.ut a great line the other night was, did you hear the other day they said this war will only last two days. it's a case with a setup is funny. you don't have to add the punch line. did you hear, they said the war will last two days. and everybody watching in the audience is yeah, a war is going to last two days? >> here is the problem. nobody really understands what happens after those two days. it hasn't been explained. as far as we know it hasn't been decided. how does this change? the obama administration wants us to believe that we're going to bomb syria for two days and then everything goes back to normal. >> so like assad is going to say that was a rough day, dear. or is he going to call vladimir putin and say why don't you get even with these bastards. or call up hezbollah and say you want to really help me? lob some missiles into haifa. >> these are all good options. nobody knows how he's going to react. nobody knows what we're going to do if he reacts negatively. let's say he

. >> letterman the other night. letterman might be a liberal. i don't know what he is. great line the other night was, did you hear the other day they said this war will only last two days. it's a case with a setup is funny. you don't have to add the punch line. did you hear, they said the war will last two days. and everybody watching in the audience is yeah, a war is going to last two days? >> here is the problem. nobody really understands what happens after those two days. it hasn't been explained. as far as we know it hasn't been decided. how does this change? the obama administration wants us to believe that we're going to bomb syria for two days and then everything goes back to normal. >> so like assad is going to say that was a rough day, dear. or is he going to call vladimir putin and say why don't you get even with these bastards. or call up hezbollah and say you want to really help me? lob some missiles into haifa. >> these are all good options. nobody knows what we're going to do if he reacts negatively. >> let me ask you this. do we have a kissingeresque set

. >> gary: graham rahal is an indy driver for the rahal- letterman racing team owned by his dad - legendaryy rahal who won the 1986 indy 500 >> gary: graham has posted four top-10 finishes this yearand in 2008 became the youngest winner in the history of indy car >> gary: he has also won the 24 hours of daytonaand last year finished 5th at sonoma.which returns august 25th >> gary: graham joins me now >> is not easy but racing is very much a family sport the andrettis don't, the floyd all of the big names of the indy car fans would no parent as a little kid i spent so much at the track my nickname at the time was the shadow because i spent time following my dad. >> gary: >> course a dad that hosted the late night show would you would not think for them to be shy but he's pretty quiet on the track and you do not see too much of him. >> gary: if letterman, but anyone he recognized in the audience he was stopped the tape and remove them because he did not want to let anyone down. he was really great then i never won. for over 60,000 california foster children, having necessary school supplies c

david letterman, i'm going to lose my mind. >> reporter: for golf fans, no pga tour this weekend. no "big brother" or "the mentalist." no "60 minutes." roughly 3 million customers affected lose access to cbs-owned premium networks like showtime and the movie channel. why is this happening? the fight is over retransmission fees. the millions cable networks are required to pay broadcasters in exchange for their content. >> pay $200 a month. that's, you know, a lot of money so my thing is, for that kind of money it better work when i want it to work. >> reporter: the contract between cbs and time warner cable expired on june 30th. it was extended and extended again but by 5:00 p.m. eastern friday, time warner had had enough and pulled the plug. cbs says it's the first time in its history the network has been dropped by a cable system. the question is, when will viewers be able to see their favorite shows again? nobody knows. >> just get over it. give me my letterman. >> alino cho, cnn, new york. >>> and this is shaking up the world of the mlb. a superstar facing suspension from the g

. >> people say hey, letterman. why don't you make jokes about obama?'t make jokes about him because i don't want the fbi tapping my phone. that's why. >> i was going to start off with an obama joke, but i don't want to get audited by the irs. forget that. >> president obama was visiting a middle school and while there he said every school should have high speed internet. and then it got awkward when one kid said, what, so you can read our e-mail faster? >> the white house has a new slogan about benghazi, hope and change the subject. thank you, move quickly. >> quite a change from the year before. the only person who comes close to that kind of ridicule is fellow democrat anthony wiener. >> your fellow? >> not my fellow by any stretch of the imagination. all of the late night hosts this year make fun of democrats more than republicans, but letterman still makes fun of republicans more. he is still stiff and radical. >> can i tell you something? the increase in obama jokes happened in the first half of the year after his final election when he cannot be

david letterman is celebrating his 20 years on the late show on cbs.lebrate this milestone. this time it was bill murray. take a listen. >> this ought to be good. >> my heart has now taken flight. >> thank you, dave. you know, i love you audience, i love you. but i don't have time tonight. because i'm only here for one reason -- >> oh, that's very special. >> ha-ha. so there he is as liberace. the show went on bill murray doing his thing. being hilarious. letterman funny. >> where did they come up with the idea? bill, you want to come in. yeah, i will dress up as liberace. >> another picture of him leaving the studio, he has a black eye, busted part of his face. nothing happened to bill murray. it was just part of the thing. >> he doesn't have to do anything. just show up. >> both are hilarious. dead pan in the camera and start laughing. >> congratulations. >> clint eastwood and his wife after 17 years they're going their separate ways. some things aren't meant to be. and "us" magazine. clint eastwood, 83, separated from dina eastwood, 17 years of marr

he was so good on letterman -- >> you are right. >> and he did that tv show and he believed that thatwhat he was suited and he never got back. >> that's a great point. you are right. >> i'm full of great points. i'm going to a derma the ampde >> alec baldwin thinks he is better at politics than being an actor. >> you could be right, you may be right, he should be mayor. >> the fact that he is not doing it every weekly. >> as opposed to every hour of the day much. >> i think he should run for mayor. >> special thanks to ann coulter and yeah, he was here, he mail it in. rick lev nementhal, i shall see next time.>fa@ua÷# rw9"qqú a'pv hmph! [ female announcer ] charmin ultra soft is so soft you'll have to remind your family they can use less. ♪ charmin ultra soft is made with extra cushions that are soft and more absorbent. plus you can use four times less. hope you saved some for me. mhmm! you and the kids. we all go. why not enjoy the go with charmin ultra soft. ♪ it guides you to a number that will change your life: your sleep number setting. it will give you the soundest sleep you've