david letterman is now headed to cbs.salary four times than leno, giving him the 11:30 time slot. >> there was a talk show war. >> the late night race is about to begin. >> on monday, david letterman's new show debuts here in cbs, and a week later on fox and a week later that by conan o'brien. it became a crowded space and the competition became that much difficult. >> america is going to have a big chunk missing out of it. >> david letterman had the suits at nbc pausing for a moment. >> did we make the right choice? he came out gang busters and he was beating jay leno in the >> it's true confessions time for actor hugh grant who is trying hard to put his recent encounter with a hollywood prostitute behind him. >> when hugh grant was arrested, it was big, live action news and hugh grant was supposed to do "the tonight show" that night. >> what the hell were you thinking? [ cheers and applause ] >> it all came together in that moment and everyone saw it and that's it. we were never number two again. >> hey, hey! >> for us

the person who deserved to get it was david letterman.onference hosted by nbc entertainment president warren littlefield, still has a bruised ego about the way the network wavered in its support for him. >> when we found out that 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? [ laughter and applause ] >> 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 that it has been an honor and a privilege to come into your homes all these years and entertain you. and i hope when i find something i want to do and i think you will like and come back, that you will

nbc's josh letterman is at the white house with more. josh, how is the administration responding to some of these criticisms, people who are worried that these plans to try and help with voting rights just aren't a top priority right now? >> reporter: right, exactly. those activists, they want to see president biden make voting rights as big of a priority as he has infrastructure spending and the response, frankly, to the covid-19 pandemic. now, the white house obviously says they are doing everything that they possibly can to try to move this forward, including using executive action, devoting more resources at the justice department where attorney general merrick gerald has put merrick garland put more attorneys on the case, the u.s. government suing the state of georgia over their new voting rights law. look, at the end of the day, the biggest tool that the white house has is the president's bully pulpit. that's why we saw president biden this past week in philadelphia to give that major speech that focused on what he called the sacre

then i'm watching the today show or the david letterman show, i'm probably not. david letterman was 8 years old, but you would see someone who looks like a wildlife conservationists with the jungle had come in with the, you know, baby links are the baby tiger, the baby leopard. and we would play with them these. this was abc, nbc, cbs major networks in the united states that have connected these entertainment 2nd sections to their new shows. is there not a complicity and minimum a blind eye? but if not, that a a dereliction of responsibility of these news organs about what was happening with these cats and what became of them. i think at least the blind di, but i think may be all of us. you know, that's no different than possibly me even tim harrison that you see in the film. and he acknowledges that which is what happens is you know, these conservation of gain, our trust, they have a level of celebrity to them, of course. and i think if anyone else might come on tv or maybe show up at a mall or something like that, you might actually give it a 2nd look and say i

carlon, richard pryor, jerry seinfeld robin williams eddie murphy ellen degeneres chris rock in david letterman. carson also advance the careers of emerging like steve martin and woody woody allen and jay ld joan rivers and then of course he provided a venue for an established performers like don rickles and but he hackett. there are really four ways to measure cars and success. first of all of course it 10 year. 30 years as the head of the tonight show compared to 22 per jay leno and six so far for jimmy fallon. the tonight show is the longest-running entertainment show in the united states. started in 1954 at the dawn of television. even though he has long been off the air the late night format fields -- is built a lot the way cars and buildup in terms of an audience carson had an audience of 50 million people. that's an astonishing number for his time and for hours. jimmy fallon the tonight show which ranks third has less than 2 million viewers a night on average. a lot of that has to do with the rise of the internet were audiences have splintered that make no mistake about it it's an astoni

josh letterman has more on the new goal that the biden administration is laying out to try to solve thiseally ambitious goals to zer row out some emissions. from our economy entirely by 2050, but there is a reality here that some of the technology doesn't exist yet or on the deal that we're going to need it to. for example as we rely more on wind and solar there is a problem of the fact that it doesn't produce reliable power 24 hours a day. some of that is going to need new transmission lines. but a big part of that is energy storage. while we have been able to reduce the costs of wind starms and solar farms, the cost of grid scale energy storage has been very expensive and cost prohibitive. that is where the cost department is setting in. they want to lower the cost of massive scale energy storage by the end of this decade. so they will have laboratories and technological experts working to rapidly develop and scale up the technology you need to have batteries that store power for days at a time from wind and solar at the time they generate it and then be able to release it back on to t

joining me is josh letterman. right to the speech, josh. what do we know so star as to what the president may say? >> president biden expected to announce and describe what he feels his administration can do to try to protect the sacred constitutional right to vote. president biden choosing for the location for that speech the city of philadelphia, where he kicked off his 2020 campaign at a place that president biden has described as the birthplace of our democracy. so far, president biden has been focused on executive actions he can take such as the justice department putting more resources into try to go fight for voting rights, but voting rights activists say that has been not been enough. they say his plans to try to make this a big push in the miss terms next year is not nearly soon enough. they say this is already happening all across the country, the new voting measure in georgia is law now. we we know -- right, we know the speech is coming in just a few days' time. what else is he doing? >> well, certainty the white house has been h

dave letterman. >> he was at the establishment at his core. of 'em. hey. excuse me. keep it moving. >> he kind of spoofed the whole notion of talk shows. >> it's the late-night guest cam. please, say hello to tom hanks. here he is. >> no one could go on the david letterman show and try to steer it towards a point of view or push something in -- he just wouldn't stand for it. you are on to do one thing, and one thing only. be as funny as the rest of the show. >> you know, we can get in a two shot here today. we could actually send the crew home, couldn't we? >> you know, as a comedian, you want the biggest audience that you can get. for dave, he knew a lot of things that he would do were going to alienate people and he didn't care. he wanted his thumbprint out there and that's the most important thing. >> it's time for small-town news. paul? excuse me, paul, do you have any accompanying music here for small town news? paul schafer, ladies and gentlemen. >> the show making fun of itself and turning itself inside out that way was something kind o

lets's go to josh letterman at the white house for us. what are we hearing about this? >> reporter: the problem that president biden is worried about with the delta variant spreading and the vaccination rates slowing, now president biden really shifting his strategy. we have heard for the first six months of the presidency trying to be positive, praising people getting vaccinated, encouraging people with a soft touch and now as the cases spread the president and the administration really ramping up an attack on social media companies that the white house says are doing not enough to actually try to prevent the spread of misinformation about the vaccine and promote positive, accurate information about the vaccine and heard about this on thursday from the surgeon general issuing a first public guidance, a rare public warning calling this an urgent public health threat and then the president on friday going further. take a listen. >> what's your message to platforms like facebook? >> they're killing people. i mean, it really -- look. the only pandemic we have is among the

nbc's josh letterman is with us from d.c. at the white house.h, daca was one of the landmark acts of the obama/biden administration. is the president saying what he plans to try to do now to try to save it? >> reporter: yes, a significant blow, joe, to this major accomplishment from the obama/biden administration, especially given all of the failed attempts in the years since to actually be able to get a comprehensive immigration overhaul through congress. so immigration activists have been urging the white house in the last 24 hours not to waste any time in pushing back on this. indeed, president biden says in his statement that he will push back to the extent that he can, putting out a statement saying that the department of justice intends to appeal this decision in order to preserve and fortify daca. the president going on in that statement to say, but only congress can ensure a permanent solution by granting a path to citizenship for dreamers that will provide certainty and stability that these young people need and deserve. to that very po

there is growing concern of its potential environmental impact josh letterman explains. >> >> reporterhad reawakening. not because this community needs electricity. its main purpose powering thousands of computers 24/7, mining bitcoin, a virtual currency creating real world's risks. >> burn more fossil fuels in the middle of climate change to make fake money it is ludicrous. >> reporter: we were shown this room where you need air to shield >> reporter: the plant shut down in 2011. bitcoin minding has given it new life companies across the country are looking to do the same thing >> reporter: a private equity firm bought the dorm in cold plant in 2014 conv natural gas and installing nearly 10,000 computers and growing. bitcoin is digital, no banks and no government building money when they do, they also earn bitcoins that's called bitcoin mining it devours huge amounts of electricity. >> we do not need the pollute this lake for bitcoin. >> reporter: it takes two football field long cooling the turbine of about 100 meters of water a day in the lake. algae blooms, but ceo ceo jeff kirk sa

let's go to nbc's josh letterman standing by for us in wilmington, delaware. josh, clearly andrew saul is refusing to step down. got to wonder what is going to happen on monday morning. do you have any insights into what happens next? >> reporter: well, a looming showdown, alex, with the ousted commissioner saying he's not going anywhere, calling this a friday night massacre and telling "the washington post" he believes he's entitled to serve out the rest of his six-year term, which is not scheduled to end until 2025. he does have some history to go on there because these independent agencies like the social security administration typically have had directors that serve for a set period of term regardless of if the white house changes hands. but the biden white house also has some ground to stand on here because in recent years the supreme court has ruled not once but twice that the executive branch does have the ability to hire and fire the heads of these agencies just like they would for any other political appointee in the administration. so the biden whit

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josh letterman for us in wilmington. thank you. great to see you this afternoon, josh. >>> still ahead, everybody, a new interview with the most famous candidate in the california recall race, but record heat radiating across the west with no relief in sight. why these waves of extreme weather could be the new normal for this entire country including where you live right now. >>> plus, covid confusion. an announcement about a vaccine booster shot sets off a standoff between pfizer and the biden administration that has millions of americans asking a lot of questions. we are going to have some answers with dr. kavita patel just ahead. or floss can be a sign of early gum damage. new parodontax active gum repair kills plaque bacteria at the gum line to help keep the gum seal tight. new parodontax active gum repair toothpaste. you're clearly someone who takes care of yourself. so why wait to screen for colon cancer? because when caught in early stages, it's more treatable. i'm cologuard. i'm noninvasive and detect altered dna in your st

this crisis not only shows no signs of being overcome, but it has worse and alarmingly letterman. i have so many questions for you. guess i'm going to get you to ask these very, very quickly, ed rather gonzales castillo. thank you for watching. i'm the cool. echoing my question is what difference would external pressure have? will take a will whole power no matter what? and the structure of corrupt power behind it will also supportive fiano. you take out what go ahead to point very important to take into account. first of all, of course, external pressure is among the factors that need to take out or take most of the rate of internal. that's why he's dropping down. so that doesn't mean that the international community should not, or she, she just the crisis margins of the patient. we actually advocate to be the country where it wasn't because of the actually watch the interim information human rights, whether the only looking at the country in the last couple of years because the strike come to seem to be turned back into sort of. so let me see if i can squeeze . one more question

dave letterman asked him from one piece of advice to be in the spring journalist. aspiring to. experts rather said something like to call the journalist is to take something that's important and make it interesting, it's not to take something interesting and make it important. i think about that when i come to judicial nominations because it is very important, but it is not as flashy has other subjects. my question for you guys. you guys all work in various fields connected to the courts and the way our courts function. how do you approach the subject in terms of making people care about what our courts are doing and why they are important, and why they should get involved? because it's not something the people are readily going to be a cycle excited about. there are things that are happening all the time little disenfranchising people and are not fair. people unfair feel are pretty disconnected about what's going on in the courts. to have a rule of thumb the use to make people pay attention to the stuff. not just talking about court reform. i'm talking about the judicial right

victorious out of any possible confrontation with russia and those countries know this according to letterman putting on a different subject. he was also asked if there are any plans to pull the plug on foreign social media platforms in russia. and the president said that there are no such plans whatsoever. but he said that there are issues with those platforms, especially when they ignore the russian law and do not comply with you. so if they work in our country and on decent money, they must have been our laws. so 1st of all, we demand that international platforms open, that preventative offices, legal entities, with which you can at least conduct a dialogue. we tell them if you have a child pornography or instructions on suicide or how to make molotov cocktails, you have to remove it. but they don't even want to listen to us. that's not right. why don't report. and also has said that russia simply follows the suit of other nations that also impose certain regulations on social media. now, on the last series note, let me put and was asked, what kind of songs he sings when on vacation. and h

so letterman couldn't make it clear that he is not a supporter of a blanket nationwide vaccination mandatory vaccination in russia. although he backed up those original governors in those regions where they impose this mandatory limited mandatory vaccination for certain groups of people. and the russian president said that he's a pain, and this is the only way to overcome this new 3rd way of corona virus that has engulfed russia recently. now, speaking to, you know, international about international topics. he said that the times of unipolar world has long passed at the western nations must get used to the fact that there are other nations on the global stage. and let me approve, maintain that regardless of the sanctions against russia, the country is going to keep strengthening. and in fact, he said that were there were a lot of positive things out of those st. transfer for instance, low national debt. and he also said this, speaking about it, that russia's, and those re capability are at all time high level. now. now let me put in those who gave a lot of attention to the recent incident in

there and there was a long time ago, and i want to say it was down rather who went on david letterman this is decades ago, and david letterman asked him if what his one piece of advice would be to aspiring journalists from the expert. and then rather said something like, you know the goal of a journalist is to take something that's important, and make it interesting. it's not to take something interesting and make it important. and i think about that when i cover judicial nominations, because it is very important but it's not as flashy as many other subjects. so my question for you guys, and you are all working in various fields connected to the courts and the way our courts function, how do you approach the subject in terms of making people care about what our courts are doing and why they are important? why they should get involved? it's not something that people are readily going to be excited about, or understand necessarily. yet there are things happening all the time that are disenfranchising people, or are not fair about the system, and people i feel are very disconnected from

josh letterman is on a boat in key west that is measuring the cruise ship's effects on water quality. to the only home coral reef. tell us about the threats that the waters face and the concern about cruise ships. >> you talk to residents here and they will say the water looked clearer during covid than beforehand. preliminary data shows the cloudiness of the water was less during covid-19 than it has tended to be in the last 25 years or so. but drawing a cause and effect between not having the cruise ships coming to key west in the last year and the quality of the water is really hard to establish. you need really good data for that. i want to introduce you to dr. patrick rice. tell us about what you're doing here today. >> we have a really unique opportunity to get baseline data. we have equipment that can long data continuously and we're taking field samples here. things like dissolved oxygen, hydrogen sulfide, for tribidity. what we expect right now is something that looks like this, clear and pristine water. what we think is probably in the ship channel is something more like thi

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you're explaining easter in a french class during one of your readings on letterman.isself jesus. she faltered and her fellow countrymen came to her aid. he call himself jesus and then he die one day on two more sells of lumber. the left of the class jumped in offering bits of information that would have given the pope an aneurysm. >> i never -- you know, i have this little thing in my ear. i never listened to myself. i met a teacher a while ago and he had the students listen to some of my essays on audio book. and one kid said it's an old lady i feel sorry for. the teacher said what old lady? and he said the one they forced to read that thing outloud. when he started playing, i thought who's she? and then i realized it was me. >> how important is it for you to have that audience reaction, to see whether it plays or whether it's funny? because you're not a stand-up comic but you're doing these tours. we saw you there. do you need to know if it's funny or can you push a humorous piece and know that it's funny? >> no, i desperately need that. the past year and a half th

i'm joined now by josh letterman who has new reporting on what the western states are doing to prepare josh carbon. let me start with you, what is the latest reporting you have in terms of how they're trying to handle this? >> we're learning that just about every single part of the electricity system, it works less well when it is really hot, really dry, and especially when you have wild fires that are threatening transmission line where some of the lines have been cut and now california has to make up that energy supply from somewhere else into in california in the last most recent heat wave, they avoided blackouts and we're seeing the state scrambling to procure more electricity, signing an emergency electricity and saying they're looking for power plapds that can ramp up and provide more power during 4:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. where you have more energy use and also you have less production from intermittent sources. so california authorities saying that as the early heat events telegraph, it will be more strained than anticipated because of record breaking climb change impacts. they'r

. >> josh letterman has more on the shooting and the investigation. put it, a outrage is what muriel bowser called it. they are still being sought by police this morning you can still see some of the ram nants. including the medical supplies used to street one of the two victims. both recovering in the hospital. you can see over here the broken class on the ground. we saw bullet holes in vehicles that had been parked here overnight. but this is a issue that the city has been grappling with for weeks. in the 15 years that i have been here i have never seen this level of gun violence. we're hearing from activists that say that covid-19 really exacerbated the underlying causes for gun violence and a massive surge in gun purchases. but they also say the vast majority of these incidents are being carried out by a small number of people. to find these people before they carry out gun violence or become victims themselves. >> thank you, josh. this morning, cuba is rejecting claims. they are saying they were denounced on thursday. they include a payment betwe

josh letterman, igor, thank you both so very much.n 20% over the last year, not just in d.c. today attorney general merrick garland is still in chicago rolling out the administration's effort to crack down in the effort in five major cities. joining me now is pete williams. explain the initiative, but what the restrictions are legally given the way the supreme court and other courts have been ruling against urban plans to try to control guns. >> so the goal here is to keep guns out of the hands of people who shouldn't have them. every year atf traces 500,000 firearms and that's about how many are recovered from crime scenes like the one you've just been talking about. so this initiative is intended to deal with the crime guns and they steal them. sometimes they buy them from legitimate dealers or if they're not qualified to buy a gun then they get it from someone who doesn't have to have a background check and they're known as straw purchases, and that's when someone is entitled to buy a gun makes the purchase for somebody else. it's

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let's start with josh letterman standing by at the white house for us. welcome to you. tell me how facebook is responding to this criticism from the white house regarding the alleged misinformation put out on the site. >> reporter: alex, when you and i last spoke at this time yesterday, we said this tiff between the biden white house and facebook and the social media companies didn't appear to be going anywhere soon, and that is certainly the case with facebook standing their ground, laying out in a lot of detail data that they say they've been tracking in coordination with two different universities they say they're making a lot of progress as part of their efforts to fight disinformation about covid. they pointed to data they collected showing acceptance of the vac even among facebook users in the u.s. has grown 10 to 15 percentage points since january and putting out a blistering statement attacking the white house saying in private exchanges the surgeon general has praised our work including our efforts to inform people about covid-19. facebook going on in that stat

i want to bring in josh letterman at the white house. we'll ask you some questions about what's happening in your own backyard in just a second. there's some new reaction to vice president kamala harris met with two of the three texas lawmakers who later tested positive for covid. josh you're on top of that story yesterday when it happened. what are we hearing about it today? >> reporter: the vice president had met with these democrats, two of them who later tested positive for covid-19 on tuesday. the white house says they learned yesterday about the positive covid cases. vice president spokeswoman and senior adviser simone sanders said it was determined that vice president harris and her staff were not at risk because they were not in close contact with those who tested positive. the white house saying, they did not need to be tested or quarantined. also pointing out that both vice president harris and her staff are fully vavaccinated. just this morning we did learn that vice president harris is paying a vice president to walter reed m

we go now beyond the headlines of nbc's josh letterman. he's with the president in wilmington ton, delaware, and amanda golden. good to see you. josh, with president biden heading to philadelphia tuesday, what exactly does he hope to accomplish there? >> well, the president has a tough task ahead in that speech. he has the calm the waters of growing impishs from civil rights and voting rights activists who say he is not yet doing enough to make sure that voter rights are protected ahead of next i don't remember's election. that is exactly what the president heard on thursday when he and vice president kamala harris met with civil rights activists including the reverends al sharpton at the white house. the president so far has been focused on what executive actions he can take on this matter, including the justice department, where attorney general merrick garland has assigned new attorneys to pursue voting rights cases. they are now suing the state of georgia over their new law. but voting rights activists saying that is not nearly enough,

some, like this high school letterman jacket, were then repaired by the conservation staff.re? a scrapbook using “life” magazine. a stickball bat made from a broom handle... an old and very worn-in mitt. >> we were hearing the same stories over and over again, whether you were in california or you were in texas or you were in florida. >> brown: and these stories were? >> those were stories about family, about community. those were stories about how, you know, "my father played this game and he was an agricultural worker" or "he worked on the railroad" or he did l of these other things, but he made sure to incorporate baseball into his everyday life. they were about women playing in the barrios, being able to play because maybe their team was sponsored by their local church. and those stories kept on coming up over and over again, so that after a while, we realized that these hyper-local stories were actually part-- they were microcosms of a larger kind of american experience for latinos and latinas. >> brown: a key point? latino immigrants brought the game with them, as far

. >>> nbc's josh letterman is in delaware. welcome to you. what sparked the president's decision to fire the head of the social security administration? >> reporter: well, senate democrats, as well as advocates for the retired and the disabled have long called for commissioner saul's dismissing, accusing him of undermining benefits as well as being anti-union. in fact, the white house seems to have ultimately come to that conclusion, too, alex, putting out a statement saying that commissioner saul had undermined and politicized benefits, as well as having bad relations with other federal agencies, as well as ending the agency's telework policy, which was used by a whole lot of employees. president biden asked first for the commissioner's resignation. we are told when he refused, he was then fired with the president appointing the deputy commissioner to take over in an acting capacity. but this is setting up a real showdown, alex, because typically these types of independent agencies such as the social security administration, their leaders ha

nbc's josh letterman standing by for us at the white house.told you have breaking news. what is that about? >> reporter: that's right. alex, you know the texas democrats who fled the state and are now in washington amid this fight over voting rights? we are now told that three of them have tested positive for covid-19. the first one tested positive last night and then after that the rest of the democrats were given tests. this morning two more of them testing positive according to texas democrats. all of them had been vaccinated for covid. so these are breakthrough cases. just the latest reminder that while getting the covid vaccine dramatically reduces your chances of getting seriously ill or dying from code, it does not mean that you cannot actually still contract covid. >> wow. i should know we are going to vaughn hillyard, our colleague in austin, texas. we will get to him in minutes to elaborate on the development. let me ask you about the president and what we're hearing about his reaction to the ruling and what it means to the current d

in fact, back in april nbc's josh letterman went to montana to report on these unplugged oil wells. >ed cameras you can see it. dangerous gases spewing from abandoned oil and gas wells. >> so that's methane. >> that's methane gas, yeah. >> you've got gas 30 times more powerful than carbon dioxide and trapping heat in the atmosphere, and it's just coming out of this well and you would have no idea that it's even there. >> right. you can't see with the naked eye. >> again, these wells are just open, spewing this invisibly all the time, not to produce actual fuel, just for no reason. capping these wells is just one part of the biden infrastructure proposal that's currently making its way through congress. one of the biggest advocates for that legislation, secretary of energy jennifer granholm who joins me now. i didn't actually know a lot about this provision until i sort of started to do a deep dive. it does really seem like a no-brainer. >> total no-brainer. in fact, the president in his original proposal had put $16 billion in to be able to do this. democrats like it. republicans like

you might have heard the end of my conversation with john letterman, i'm so glad thathe reminded us aboutnoring his life. we remember john lewis as a fighter for voting rights, in the spirit of his legacy, latosha, how should americans rally to ensure voting rights legislation at the federal level? >> you know, i was there when he did his last public appearance on the edmund pettus bridge, and what he said is we have to continue to fight. this is a moment, y'all, that it is extremely dangerous that when we're able, when voters that use their civil rights are attacked and punished because they're voting, do we understand how that is the unraveling of democracy. there's a saying that democracy dies in the dark, but what we're seeing right now is democracy being attacked in the sunlight. the democracy is being attacked with a spotlight on it. so this is a moment right now where we have to organize, call out senators. we have to get out on the streets. we've got to put pressure. we have to put pressure on the administration that under no circumstances can we allow people who use their sichl c

josh letterman on the scene there in walk. josh, thanks so much.i live, new york, obviously been a long problem there. if you need any indication how americans, voters are feeling. new york city just nominated a former 24-year veteran of the new york city police department to be the next mayor of new york city. >> and why did they nominate him? because he received more votes than anyone else based upon the way he ran his campaign saying, we're not going to de-fund the police. we need the police and we do need the police. we also need, willie, a realization finally that guns are the problem. they really are. there is a notion of guns in this country. in city after city after city the people using these guns, by and large, are not going into gun stores to buy them. the guns are stolen, borrowed, rented, they go from one criminal to another. they're used in crimes for murder and on down. and the introduction of federal task force in various cities. we just heard the report from chicago. that could be effected. because one tipping that does really ratt

let's start with josh letterman standing by at the white house for us. welcome to you.

. >> caller: hi, i'm lauren letterman. i work in district 9. i'm with the budget justice coalition. i'm implore the san francisco board of supervisors to give the people nearly $50 million for county board jail and taking the sheriff out of our hospital and clinics. we can fund services that will help make our community safer. for too long we have overwhelmed our city budget with overpolicing in black and brown neighborhoods. which has done nothing to make our community safer. any cuts to social services will reduce our collective capacity for legal support, community education, empowerment and all san franciscans rely on. i'm urging you to support the budget justice coalition and support the demands of the people. thank you. >> caller: i work in district 10. the budget justice coalition in san francisco rising. this is not a system that we can reform. we've been trying to reform the system. no matter how much money you throw at it. last year, despite all of our reforms black workers only make up 5% of the population. [indiscernible] the need in our community has intensified due to

with us now, national political reporter for nbc news, josh letterman.f these madison dinners came out is pompeo was trying to line up reporters for a fit political run. what can you fell us about those dinners? >> major lawmakers and supreme court justices and billionaires, they were all paid for by taxpayers. now the good governance crew obtaining these documents that show they cost tax 35iers nearly $65,000. those dinners first revealed by nbc news last year. that's about $21,000 more than we previously knew that pompeo had spent, $16,000 of those had gone to customized pens and journals at dinners at the state department. >>> you have a nomination battle for a key interior department post. tell us about it. >> reporter: that's right. to run the bureau of land management in a tree spiking plot in the early 1990s and early 1980s the republican for john borasso is accusing her of working with ecoterrorists. she was involved with a controversial group earth first. they allegedly hammered 500,000 pounds of 8-to-10-inch spikes into trees to prevent loggers