who deserved to get it was david letterman.ittlefield still has a bruised ego about the way the network wavered in its support of him. >> when we found out leno was going to get "the tonight show," we were all obviously depressed. we felt like we were being punished for making fun of them and not cooperating and not being as collaborative as we could have been. and we also felt like we were being disrespected because we did 11 years of great shows. >> just how pissed off are you? >> by all rights, david letterman should have taken over for johnny carson, but his agent took a very, very aggressive stand. we're going to really control all of late night. it's going to cost you a fortune and they put our backs to the wall. >> i can only tell you it's been an honor and a privilege to come into your homes all these years and entertain you. i hope when i find something i want to do and i think you will like and come back, that you will be as gracious inviting me into your home as you have been. i bid you a very heartfelt good night. >

to when madonna made an unforgettable appearance on david letterman's show. "she just went nuts. she was just was hysterical or something." and the historic rivalry of two of boxing's greatest fighters. "joe frazier, the heavyweight champion of the world -- clumsy, ugly, flat-footed joe frazier. i'll show you what a real champion is." those stories and more in the next hour, part of a different kind of television experience where we relive, remember and relate to the events that are cemented in history. i'm ellee pai hong. and i'm kerry sayers. and i'm your host, bill kurtis. it's famous feuds "through the decades." feuds. they are fights that go on and on ... and on. many of us have them with family, but history has witnessed ongoing arguments among rival scientists, sports figures, politicians and even actors. today here on "through the decades," we're taking the hour to look back at some famous feuds throughout history. from the duel between alexander hamilton and aaron burr that ended a bitter rivalry -- as well as hamilton's life ... to comedians jack benny and fred allen's

. >> david letterman originally had a one-hour daytime show, and nbc, after like 13 weeks, decided toir. monday, las vegas -- have 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 for having me. i appreciate it. >> in spite of all this nonsense that goes on 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 on tuesday morning? >> i don't much care because i found a way to deal with that, pills and whiskey. >> david, you're 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 think this guy needs a little support, david letterman. >> he was anti-establishment at hi

joining us is josh letterman been reporting about this terrifying story. mr.rman, thank you very much for your reporting and thanks for being here tonight. >> hi, rachel. >> so the thing that i don't -- the thing i can't get my head around this with this story is i don't understand if there -- if we believe there to be a type of weapon or some sort of electronic device or some sort of tactic that could cause the kinds of injuries that have been seen in these diplomats. do we know there is something like this and we don't know who has been deploying it? >> that's really what made this puzzle impossible for u.s. investigators so solve. there are devices or technologies that could explain parts of what we're seeing. they could explain the noises people are hearing, maybe the vibrations. there are devices that could explain symptoms that people are hearing and feeling and experiencing but then not others and none of it is consistent and investigators haven't been able to find a theory that fits what they are seeing among the 21 americans confirmed to have been aff

. >> way back in 2009 when his first tweet was implode to watch david letterman's top ten list. >> sell dakota to the chinese. [ laughter ] >> what's remarkable is on that day, only four people reacted to it. only four people react to what's arguably the most important influential social media account ever. [ applause ] >> two number, we are screwed. >> yeah, that's right. >> fitting because that tweet marked the low point. he was coming out of the bankruptcy again. >> "the apprentice" was in deep falling. the only thing worth of bankruptcy is soobscurity. >> the twitter of the era, right? >> that was a drop of a message down the airplane. >> trump was the master of the pseudo news events. the truth about trump, the fami family describes how he would work the press and created an image of success. >> you can send out a press release saying trump announced he sold 50% of the properties in a new development and it would get in the paper. >> as his son sets out to conquer manhattan, he borrowed dad's trip all the reporters and singing the phrases of the donald. >> you know i thought it was

heat so if i could i don't ever say i was going to make it more letterman is it on the phone or the warehouse because it's a lip sync that they actually happen that we have let it go so i know i disappear at least so i'm going to prepare the music. with. my. timing was that you know the atmosphere was i was a little bit about i'm not in the middle man doesn't matter but the old job. was. the joke that nobody would ever do it and it was one look i put i was like by the user. name. which i am now. you. say oh yeah. you. knew. about that space opera help us to ask you one of. these by put out by now did not say you are so you cannot. and. you. could. look at the link and it will. look all the ballots up assume that everybody that will do whatever that that meets on the ballot that they are by everything from now down. we double it hasa i think a little funny how the margins are not. good. good. good good. oh ok. all right it really makes me very nice very nice forty. three over. five was funny funny funny you know it. was. ok i may not make. an issue but you're going to stop short of that is wha

. >> i was going to say david letterman, but okay. ♪ these are my confessions >> hart married his wifet year. she's expecting a child soon. >> we'll try to find out more on that. but when we come back, the most talked-about moments from the emmy awards. >> plus the red carpet looks that were hot and some that were not. "the skinny" is next. looks that were hot and some that were not. "the skinny" is next. ♪he's gotta play it cool to seal the deal.♪ ♪better find a way to smooth things over.♪ ♪if only harry used some... ♪...bounce, to dry. ♪yeah! ♪he would be a less wrinkly, and winning at life.♪ ♪ skinny ♪ so skinny >>> all right, we have a lot to cover in the skinny this morning. especially with the emmies, kicking off with host stephen colbert. >> and as we expected, colbert took plenty of jabs at the folks in the room as well as his latest target, president trump. he says he was directly and indirectly many of the shows nominated. >> but a special guest literally rolled in. >> is there anyone who could say how big the audience is? sean, do you know? >> this will be the largest audien

so, we just saw in the piece it worked for david letterman. will it work for kevin hart? he has to do is he has to come clean, right? you can't start paying off extortion demands and open yourself up to getting another demand in six months from that. so i think that he had no choice here but to do exactly what he did, which is go public, take responsibility. >> take the hit. >> and now help lead this investigation. >> well, that's the question. do you turn it around? is this a real plot that can be prosecuted. >> look, most of the time extortion is a state crime. it seems that the fbi in this case is investigating. that could be because it was across state lines or because it's on the internet, et cetera. those are reasons it could become a potentially a federal crime but all 50 states have extortion laws. you don't have to threaten someone physically to potentially be guilty of extortion. you can threaten to hewlett mill yacht someone and threaten to put something out there publicly to disclose that you're not being faithful to your wife in exchange for money. so it has

. >> i stole two letterman jackets and 12 hats and three pairs of underwear from urban outfitters. i was popping the beepers off. in the midst of popping the beepers off the bike police rode up and i was like taking off my clothes, putting on these new clothes, trying to look fresh and fit, you know. i was just be swagged out, right? so i got caught with my shirt off. pants on the floor. >> the violations sent mcfarland back to jail for another six months. as his tattoos indicate, getting into trouble might be hereditary. >> l.b. lucifer's baby. when my grandma died i kind of turned away from god all the good stuff. and like the bad people always have the most fun. so -- >> we out here. that's all we could do in jail really is have some fun. >>> coming up -- an admitted gang member says his injuries won't put him into retirement. and -- >> behind us is our solar panel system. it was installed 2001 when we started our push to be one of the greenest county facilities in the country. oakland, california is a city of contrasts. it is consistently ranked in the top ten american cities f

. >> she never wore his letterman jacket or anything. item. >> everyone wanted to know. >> they didn't date. >> let's get it going now thou though. >> all right. >> he has girl friend. >> lucy what's coming up a at 11:00 much busy night. for people shot in fair hill second of philadelphia much police say it was drive by attack. live report at 11:00. wake up weather and seven day forecast in the first five minutes. purchase ball lottery now. fios is not cable. we're a 100% fiber optic network. and with the new fios gigabit connection... you get our fastest... internet ever. with download speeds up to 940 megs - 20 times faster than most people have. switch to fios gigabit connection with tv and phone for $79.99 a month online for the first year. plus hbo for one year and multi-room dvr service for two years, all with a two-year agreement. and switching has never been easier. get out of your contract with up to a $500 credit to help cover your early termination fee. go to fiosgigabit.com

i thought i'd get back, like, david letterman's top ten. i got back so many different responses, many of them the same, but with all the add ons, this has 25 points. these are the good guys. they knew the importance of training: they came to these programs. but when you look at what their questions were, what hayward they had known before they came to the bench, before they started presiding in these cases, you can see that they lacked the most basic factual knowledge about sexual assault. here's a very brief look at four of their points. the vast majority of sexual assaults are committed by someone the victim knows. best research on this from the medical university of south carolina. they found that in 89% of forcible rapes and 81% of drug facilitated, incapacitated rapes, the victim knew her attacker. the absence of serious observable physical injuries is not inconsistent with the sexual assault. medical university of south carolina, again, only 16 -- i beg your part -- 6% of drug facilitatedded incapacitated and 16% of forcible rape vict

now it will be "when you were young, and david letterman was one of your students." but paul and i have been talking about how i had met him when i was a young historian, and i am no longer a young historian. i also want to thank the staff here for the fabulous job they have done in coordinating this, and my colleague from ball state , who has a habit of casually meandering into your office and saying, "so," and then, the next thing you know, you are a civil war historian, and you are in cody, wyoming. doug is the reason i am here, to give the perspective of buffalo bill's younger years before the wild west glory that you've been hearing about. for civil war historians, there are a couple of things i am going to talk about and link to buffalo bill. and in fact, the first speaker , this morning mentioned how buffalo bill has been used as a symbol of reconciliation. we get away from that nasty north-south quarrel of his youth, and he goes into the wild west and becomes a figure of reconciliation. there is also, in civil war history, recently, a kind of western turn, wh

whether it's david letterman's top ten list or the fortune 500 list? there's something about it? look for patterns and prophesies and understanding, i think. it's a way of very arbitrary subjective exercise but i also think there's a value to it. in our case our goal was for there to be someone that everyone can see and think i could be that. if not that, then that, then that. 46, it could be 146, it could be 10,000. >> all of this, of course, on "time." you have a hashtag that you hope could be viral. >> the hashtag i is #sheisthefirst. people have summited great stories of my mother was the first woman in our family to go to college. you know, firsts term and so a lot of people really have stories to tell. >> well, i love that you're celebrating intellect, success, sports, athletics, and women all together. it's a great collection. congratulations. >> it's a broad definition. you guys are killing it. thanks a lot both of you. >>> actress sonequa martin-green is breaking barriers on screen. hey, she's first black woman to play the lied role in "star trek" history. there's a them

. >> letterman used to do that. >> i always wanted to do that. >> can i do one? pizza day. we are bringing in a superslice from the pizza barn in yonkers, new york. the clis is over two feet long. and the price starts at 12 bucks. do you fold that to eat it? >> where are your pieces? >> go for it. is today really national cheese pizza day. >> al, will you feed me? >> i need to take this picture. that was awesome. >> from this end. from this end. >> there's no gluten. >> no. >> gluten-free. >> it's really gad. >>> the oning is not done yet. how you could win co-host with us right here in new york. >> that's how i'm here. >> kate, you want some pizza? just walk right in and pay zero dollars with most insurance.r. plus, when you get a flu shot at walgreens, you help provide a lifesaving vaccine to a child in need through the un foundation. it's that easy to get your flu shot and make a difference. so swing by your local walgreens today. walgreens. at the corner of happy & healthy. fromto the wobbling yogis.kers to the stationary race winners, we all need l