the person who deserved to get it was david letterman.l 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 be as gracious and inviting me into your home as you have been. i bid y

and what david letterman said on the broadcast. >>> could you get your groceries delivered to your home within 15 minutes guaranteed? the company that claims it can do it. >>> good tuesday morning, everyone. >> we begin with a very important call. >> president biden and vladimir putin are scheduled to speak today amid growing concern that russia could be prepared to invade ukraine, a u.s. ally. >> last night, the head of the cia addressed those concerns and what might happen. this morning, just hours before a call between president biden and vladimir putin, the director of the cia is giving an interview about the high-stakes meeting. >> we've seen a military buildup by the russians. >> reporter: these satellite images show the russian troops gathered on ukraine's doorstep. >> biden is in a bind. if he pushes too far and tries to do things, support ukraine militarily, that looks provocati provocative. if he backs away, he looks like he hasn't stood by a friend. >> reporter: conflict has been simmering between russia and ukraine since 2014, when russia seized control of crimea. william bu

. >> jimmy: i don't know who that is. [ laughter ] >> letterman came twice.ssinger. there's a combination. [ laughter ] stupid henry kissinger, you know? henry came backstage with him. and it was the odd couple. what? this is wrong. "really, i loved the show, it was very moving, so moving, i really loved the show, i'd like you to meet my wife, say hello to billy joel." [ laughter ] >> jimmy: that's the worst letterman impersonation i've ever heard. [ laughter ] so kissinger, letterman. >> then we -- the biggest night for just a group that was crazy was out here when we finished our nationwide tour. president clinton. robert wagner and jill st. john. jack nicholson. warren beatty were there and came back. and that was like -- it's like, you know -- it's like amazing, that this show about my life moved them. and then it was so -- you know, just generous of them to want to spend the time. >> jimmy: they all came back together? >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> jimmy: is there anybody that you just never expected you would ever come to a show like that? >> yeah. muhammad a

what he told david letterman after losing the election to bill clinton. >>> good to start another week with all of you at home. and we begin tonight with the alarming new numbers on covid in this country and this trend, even before omicron. also tonight, this major new mandate here in new york city. and all of this with cases of the new variant now seen in 18 states and counting tonight. now because of this surge we're seeing already in covid, most of it delta right now, tonight, new york city expanding vaccine mandates, now requiring all private employ years to make sure their workers are vaccinated. and extending this mandate in many indoor vin yes to children 5 to 11 years old. new york's mayor tonight calling it a preemptive strike as cases now strike across the country, up 27% in a week. and tonight, the u.s. army now sending medical teams to colorado, michigan and new mexico, just to help treat covid patients. the nation now averaging 100,000 new cases a day. 24 states and washington, d.c. seeing cases rise of more than 10% in the last week. new york's businessmandate could effec

she did an interview with david letterman, and she asked about her time, ending it with "a lot abouto brilliant. i was born and raised in minnesota. to be introduced to betty from "the mary tyler moore show" and then "the golden girls" people forget sue ann givens, the character on, was just out doing what she needed to do. i think betty white just rolled with hilariously stereotypes around women and shattering that. she was somebody who was funny. she never said no. she was -- she was the most relevant human maybe ever. that was such an accomplishment, to be 99 years old. when you look at twitter right now -- i apologize, my phone has just been blowing up from every female comedian, and what are we going to do? carry on her legacy, i guess. she just went with it. i think eric's point was so great, the most belove people are the people who are so confidence in their talent. she had nothing to prove. she was full of joy, and she excelled at everything. she just was hilarious, where this was a comedy central roast, where she was hilariously filthy, where she was on mary tyler moore, to

. >> david letterman originally had a one-hour daytime show, and nbc, after like 13 weeks, decided toof the ratings, but not in terms of introducing us to letterman. >> david, thank you for being with us tonight. >> thank you very much for having me, i appreciate it. >> in spite of all this nonsense that goes around in the background, stay with it, 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 tuesday morning? >> i don't much care because i found a way to deal with that, pills and whiskey. >> david, you're on. >> oh, i'm on? i'm sorry. >> 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's going to watch television at 12:30 at night? who's up? i'll tell you who's up. young people. college people. >> is it going well? i know this is the first show and i think this guy needs a little support, dave letterman. >> he was anti-establishment at his core.

for more on what this gridlock means for president biden's agenda, we turn to josh letterman in delaware? >> lindsay, it started at $3.5 trillion, got cut in half, and the priorities is a question mark heading into the new year. while the reality is that while the white house says they are continuing to work closely with senator manchin even as we approach christmas, there's nothing we can point to that will be dramatically different of 2022, than in 2021 where they would get enough democrats to vote for this legislation. they see senator manchin moving the goal post at the 11th hour here, and the latest hiccup is making sure everything in the bill likely to be part of law for ten years be funded for ten years as opposed to what he says as gimmicks to try and fund them to keep the price tag down. the voting rights legislation that the democrats pivoted to stands a lower chance of becoming law that democrats can't use that reconsaleation process on voting rights like on federal spending. they will have to get 60 people to vote for it, which would mean 10 republicans, and that's not going

i'm joined now by gadi schwartz at lax, kathy park in times square, and josh letterman at the white housewashington. gadi, dealing with holiday travel is stressful enough. now that people are dealing with fears around omicron, flight cancellations. how are things looking where you are? >> reporter: right now the airlines are trying to reach travelers before they get to the airport and tell them if their flight has canceled. as you imagine, a lot of frustration as people get bad news they may be stuck in a city without their family on christmases eve. so that's happening in cities all the across the country right now. here at l.a.x., for example, we've seen a number of cancellations and canceled flights coming in and going out of the l.a.x. reach about 70. it's going up every single hour across the country. we're looking at about 700 flights that have been canceled. if you think about it, you were just talking about the ripple effects that's going on, and it's going to be happening in the healthcare industry. you're also looking at that happening here at the airport. with 200,000 people te

. >> joining me now is nbc's josh letterman at the white house. josh, good morning to you. work with manchin even though he's been hindered by manchin on build back better at every turn. is this joe biden being joe biden being in the senate for so long that he thinks he's optimistic. >> he has to be because there's no plan b. build back better might have derailed for the moment, but it's still the only train that's leaving the station and so the fate of all of those campaign promises that joe biden made on climate change, family services and pre-k, on whether they can get build back better back on track. we know that president biden less than a week ago spoke by phone with senator manchin after he dropped that bombshell announcing he wasn't going to support the current legislation and white house officials tell us one reason that they're still speaking optimistically about this is that manchin made clear it's over, let's go home i'm not pursuing these issues. he's saying no to the legislation the way it looks now, and so i think that while the white house is working over th

nbc's josh letterman is in wilmington delaware traveling with the president.g rights this week. he was very fiery yesterday. in fact, i was listening to him in the field and one of my crew members said i've never heard him like that. talk us to about the changing strategy here especially since the senate has adjourned this year. >> i hate to be the pessimist here, but ringing in the new year will not change things as far as the political standing of this legislation. in fact, the white house had been really focused squarely on the build back better agenda at the end of the year until it became very clear that that was not going to get wrapped up by that christmas deadline that schumer had set and then they pivoted at the last minute to voting rights. one of the reasons for that white house official tells us is that they wanted to show particularly as progressives are getting so uneasy about the lack of accomplishment and the lack of achievements here that they were not letting this issue go and taking it seriously and even on voting rights they knew they were

. >> i also want to bring in josh letterman at the white house. josh, let's talk about the biden administration now lifting travel restrictions to those 8 african countries. the u.s. remembers stopped travel at the onset of omicron and a senior biden administration official announced those restrictions will be lifted in about a week. what more do we know? yeah. this might seem like an odd time to be scaling back restrictions given the surge in cases that we've been discussing. but the white house emphasizing that this is being guided by the science. and, in fact, president biden has been signaling for some time that he was likely to lift the restrictions. pointing out that the point of putting this travel ban into place was not some idea that we were going to keep omicron out of the united states. it was to try to buy the united states more time at the very beginning when we didn't really know much about the variant to learn more about it and figure out what tools we needed to be able to tackle it. a senior administration official tells us there a

tlfz an interview she did with david letterman for late night.t she did in her spare time. she rambled on about her work with animals. and then at the end of it she says, vodka is also fun. the timing was just perfect. >> people forget, sue ann nivens, that character on mary tyler moore was this incredible sex positive single woman who was out doing what she needed to do. and i think betty white rolled with hilariously stereotypes around women and shattering that. she was somebody who was funny. she never said no. she was the most relevant human maybe ever. and that is just such an accomplishment, to be 99 years old. and when you look at twitter right now -- i apologize in advance, my phone has been blowing up since the news came, every female comedienne asking, what are we going to do? carry on her legacy. eric's point is great. the most beloved people are the people who are so confident in their talent. and she had nothing to prove. she was full of joy. and she excelled at everything. and so she was -- she just was hilarious -- whether it was a

and josh letterman is at the white house.nt and center for him as the new year begins. >> reporter: it sure will be. and there is a reason that the white house and president biden remain insistent that they have not given up hope on"build back better". if president biden doesn't get some type of "build back better" length legislation through, it is increasingly likely that his promises as a on paid leave and pre-k won't happen. and so there is talk about as you mentioned breaking this up into smaller pieces. but the real problem there is that requires not being able to use reconciliation for all of these measures, which is the way they want to do this with 50 votes, but you can't use it endless times. every time you use reconciliation, republicans get to do a vote-a-rama where they force all kinds of unseemly votes on to democrats to make it harder for them in the midterms. and that leaves the manchin route. the white house feels good after president biden had that call with manchin shortly after he dropped had bombshell on f

and believe me, ma'am, you've come to the right place. >> you don't tune into letterman to see what'suld you have tuned into jay to see that. that's the difference. comedy of character and personality, then a great joke teller. let's see face it, if you don't like who dave has on and you don't like who i have on, now you can click around, why don't we go back to jay? gee, here's something i might have missed. >> i found they both evolved their style. they came out of the carson thing and first instinct is to kinda sorta do it like that and then their personalities emerge and they did their own versions of it. >> the host plays with the structure. but you need the structure. without it, you don't have comedy. people like when they know what the rules are. then it's what you do with those rules. >> how do you begin deciding you're going to be different? >> make no mistake about it, i will be fired from this job. it's just matter of how long it will take. i don't know, i don't really -- i don't think you can invent anything altogether new. >> i'm sure you've heard angelina jolie filed fo

right after he lost the presidential run he went on david letterman and david letterman said to him so there, including from tom hanks who will be speak as well. we'll, of course, continue to have coverage for all of our viewers, and to our viewers i want to thank you very much for watching acts nation says good-bye to the late senator bob dole. i'm wolf blitzer here in washington. our cnn coverage will continue right after a quick break. people everywhere living with type 2 diabetes are waking up to what's possible with rybelsus®. ♪ you are my sunshine ♪ ♪ my only sunshine... ♪ rybelsus® is a pill that lowers blood sugar in three ways. increases insulin when you need it... decreases sugar... and slows food. the majority of people taking rybelsus® lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than 7. rybelsus® isn't for people with type 1 diabetes. don't take rybelsus® if you or your family ever had medullary thyroid cancer, or have multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2, or if allergic to it. stop rybelsus® and get medical help right away if you get a lump or swelling in

josh letterman from the white house. josh, thank you. again, president biden sitting on that stage in south carolina surrounded by folks wearing their masks. the president wearing his as well. signs of the times. pandemic warning signs. flashing right now. they have our attention on this friday morning as well. they should have yours, too. in just the last 15 minutes, nbc news just learned the biden administration is going to be pushing for a test to stay policy to keep kids in school as covid cases climb rapidly nationwide. right now as you can see, lines stretching around new york city streets for covid testing as a wave of omicron and delta crashes into the one-time epicenter of this pandemic. a senior public health adviser to the city's current mayor sent out this sobering tweet thursday about case in new york city. quote, we've never seen this before in new york city. test positivity doubling in three days. and just a few moments, we'll go live on the ground to a testing center. we'll dig into how rising cases nationwide and holiday

. >> he was, so this is a clip from david letterman after the 1996 election.et, did it on the fly and reflexively. letterman-like. hilarious welcome back to "the late show. >> what are you doing? >> apparently not enough. >> people are sec lating that maybe you'll take a position with the clinton administration, is that a likelihood, anything that you're interested in? >> well, if he wanted to give me his job i'd think about it. >> both funny and he meant it. i just want to show this old headline written by some schmuck john king pack in the day. one of the interesting things, a joke there about bill clinton if bill clinton would give me that job i'd take it. dole made the decision to quit the senate and run as a candidate and he could not go back to the senate which was his love. >> he was a great legislative leader in the tradition of lbj and same raburn and other leaders on capitol hill who were able to forge coalitions even though they had strong personal opinions. he was a conservative republican, a fierce partisan, but he was willing to work with the mos

. >> nbc's josh letterman is on the road traveling with the president in kansas city. hey, josh, good to see you. >> reporter: hey, to bore rhea phrase from the musical oklahoma, president biden is coming here to say that everything is up to date in kansas estimate or at least it will be once this funding starts flowing from the bipartisan infrastructure law that president biden wants so much to be able to highlight here. about $9 billion, the state of missouri is expecting to get. we have talked in the past how the biden administration has struggled to connect the dots for americans how how they're actually going to benefit in their lives from all of this infrastructure spending, if the president's poll numbers have gone down. he has done roads, bridges, ports, today it's about public transit and the biden administration wants to drive home this notion that low income communities, disadvantaged communities, as well as communities of color are particularly going to benefit from public transportation investments because of the way that those communities are disproportio

and essentially, as letterman, who was giving his response, he was getting more and more animated as the subject seemed to have cruel, deeply, under his skin. it's something that you don't see often from the russian leader. and basically, his message has been rather unequivocal that the military alliance should give, should give guarantees of unconditional security and safety of russia. and that.

david letterman, netflix show these accomplish host likely power saved big time during their long network runs. so they are able to indulge their creativity, but they seem to be having much more fun on basic cable. john, i don't see brian williams in a card again chatting up, laid back guests on a minimalist set. i see brian williams and perfectly match shirt and tie. how surprised john would you be if williams resurfaces as the star power legacy media needs to remain relevant? possibly huntley to nora o'donnell's brinkley and repacked c b. s. evening news. well that would surprise me. what you just mentioned. i don't know that we should discount it because the way things are going. but who knew what was going on? anything's possible. brian kind of announced that he was going to be leaving and to decode it for, for band. he was saying that we're in a lot of trouble in the united states, and we have to be careful. it's going into the barber shops in the supermarkets. we need to see what's going on, wake up and make a decision as to what kind of a country we want to be. do we want democracy

a point not lost on david letterman. >> it's quite nice, very nice to see the presidential box once againng occupied. >> laura: santa claus? >> i love how dr. jill has to explain they are standing up for him. trump didn't come to this kennedy center honors. stand up. they make it sound like trump just wanted to ruin the party but the truth is in 2017, kennedy center honoree norman we threaten to boycott the traditional white house reception over trump's policies. he had others politicize the event. it was always bipartisan so trump stayed home out of respect to the kennedy center. if he shouldn't have. >> laura: he should have gone and been the skunk at the picnic. why not? he should have done it. >> i always say the arts should not have a political party. the streisand-bush line. they hugged, they disagreed horribly but there was a moment of togetherness. that's what the arts should do. should biden have been out? he admitted he had a cold but he's fraternizing up the kennedy center. here he was today. >> we are saying to drug companies if you're finally doing it to be accountable when y

attend the kennedy center honors in his four years, a point not lost on the nonpartisan host david letterman to see the presidential box once again being occupied. [cheers and applause] >> i love how doctor jill has to explain to biden, trump did not come to the kennedy center honors so stand up. there's a good reason for that. they make it sound like trump just wanted to ruin the party but the truth was in 2017 kennedy center honoree norman lear threatened to boycott the traditional white house reception over trump's policies. he and others politicize this event, it was always bipartisan so trump stayed home out of respect to the kennedy center but maybe he shouldn't. laura: he should have gone, why not? >> i always say the arts should not have a political -- should follow tries and bush line, they hugged, disagree horribly but there was a moment of togetherness. that's what the arts should do. should president biden have been out at all. he admitted last week he had a cold yet certain day he's out fraternizing at the kennedy center, here he was today. >> saying to drug companies if you're

josh letterman, thank you. >>> in his nearly four-hour press conference yesterday, putin laid the reasonn border on the u.s. and its allies. russia currently has a 100,000 troops stationed at the border, and jen psaki was asked about those comments yesterday. >> reporter: is there a response where it's the west that is promoting tensions in the region, and also his demands that russia received assurances made -- >> well, facts are a funny thing and facts make clear that the only aggression that we are seeing at the border of russia and ukraine is the military buildup by the russians and the rhetoric from the leader of russia. >> i am joined now by a foreign columnist and associate of the "washington post" and msnbc contributor. what do you think about the responses from putin? does it tell you anything about the over all strategy with russia? >> as jen psaki said, facts are funny things. evidence of a russian build up along the ukrainian border has been clear for several months, overhead photographs were available commercially, and the idea that putin is saying that the west, the united

was the most scared i've ever been as a performer with the exception of my first appearance on the lettermanw? that was hilarious. that was your best one yet. >> jordan and i were just like, this is not fair. obama should be able to say what he wants. because of the climate of the world, he can't. so we'll do it for him. >> i invited luther, my anger translator, to join me here tonight. >> we knew this was something president obama was really going to enjoy. he may have felt that he could use an anger translator for year -- real a few times, and now he actually had one. >> we count on the press to shed light on the most important issues of the day. >> and we can fox news to terrify old white people with some nonsense. >> i was amazing. it was earth shattering. the best way to describe the feeling is satisfaction. >> focus on billionaire donors creates real problems for our democracy. >> and that's why we running for a third time. >> no, we're not. >> we're not? >> no. who the hell said that? >> donald trump is here tonight. >> i had just started at the white house and i got the final draft a

some of you reading your humor, explaining easter in a french class during one of your readings on lettermane boy of god who call himself jesus and chief -- and her fellow countryman -- he calls himself jesus, and then he die one day on two morsels of lumber. the rest of the class jumped in, offering bits of information that would have given the pope an aneurysm. >> i never -- you know, i had this thing in my ear. i never listen to do myself. i met a teacher a while ago. he had his students listen one of my eisais on audiobook. one kid said, it's an old lady, and the teacher said, one old lady, and he said the one they forced to read it outloud. when you started playing it, i thought who is she? it was me. >> how important do you have the crowd reaction? you're doing these tours, we saw you there. do you need to know whether people think it's funny -- >> no, i desperately need that. you know, the past year and a half there were a number of things i had published, but never had a chance to read them outloud to see if they work or not. when i do get back on my stage, my fear is i'm going to re

josh letterman for us, thank you, my friend. >> the reaction from democrats in congress also swift and in some cases included profanity, as you heard off the top. want to bring in julia, and there was a 30 minutes heads up before joe manchin went on fox and said it was a big n-o. representative omar using some profanity in her reaction. progressives called it and that's why they wanted to vote in tandem with hard infrastructure and here we are. >> in the house progressives basically forced speaker pelosi to hold up and not put in the bipartisan infrastructure bill until they had something really tangible to build back better. remember, it was overnight in november where that shift happened and they ended up voting on the infrastructure, and then ended up passing a version of the build back better, and it's not even finished. it was not finished even before senator manchin said he was a no. there's a lot of outstanding provisions in there. progressives, you played some of the sound at the top, and they are like, i told you so and we knew if we did not put these bills together, we knew t

nbc's josh letterman is at the white house. and julie sirken is on capitol hill.e next steps for the president's agenda, i understand he just took a couple questions at the white house. what can you tell us about that? >> that's right. president biden was taking calls from the norad track santa program. took a couple questions from reporters. he was asked about the recommendation of shortening the quarantine period for health care workers who are exposed to coronavirus. and whether that should be applied to all individuals who are exposed to coronavirus. president biden saying at this point no, that's not the recommendation that he's received. he was also asked whether he had been tested for covid today, given the number of exposures in and around the white house in recent days. president biden saying no, not today, but that he did get tested negative yesterday. and also the president was asked what he and first lady jill biden will be getting each other for christmas. no comment on that one, joe. he says they're not giving their gifts until tomorrow, so he didn't

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three days after the election, bob dole went on david letterman's show, and he was funny.n the senator, going back over 40 years, people would say i didn't know bob dole was funny. if i knew he was like that, i might have voted for him. well, he was one of the very few people in washington who didn't need a speechwriter, didn't need a gag writer when it came to humor. he had a marvelous sense of the ridiculous, and, in fact, sometimes there were people who thought it was -- he wasn't running for president so much as he was observing the process of running for president and offering wry commentary from time to time. >> as you were speaking there, we saw congresswoman liz cheney, congressman hakeem jeffries there. president biden attending this as well. i wonder, as you watch this here, bob dole, he fought hard for his party. he was a devoted confidant of richard nixon. he had the term "hatchet man" attached to him by democrats. but he also through the years was willing to work with democrats on major legislation. i often wonder, as we see people like this pass away, whether

we have nbc's josh letterman with the president in wilmington, delaware and scott cohen at a testingifornia, and dr. azure joining us to answer critical questions. josh, start with you. when did the president decide to address the nation and any specific moment relating to omicron prompt that in what we might hear new about it? >> reporter: without officials very closely tracking the rise in cases of omicron as dr. fauci and others just in the last 48 hours have been saying it is only a matter of time before it is the dominant variant in the united states. that's certainly fed into the white house's thinking about having this speech on tuesday, which nbc news was first to report. white house official telling our senior white house correspondent kelly o'donnell that the president wants to give an update to the american people where he will also announce new steps that the biden administration plans to take to help communities that are struggling with the covid-19 pandemic. biden also expected in that speech on tuesday to issue what the white house is describing as a stark warning abou

josh letterman now on how the white house plans to pay for it. >> president biden had asked congressin the infrastructure law, he only got $15 billion. so the white house plans to cobble together other funds, including leftover funds from the covid stimulus and $15 billion from the build back better bill. that legislation hasn't passed congress and may never become law, but senior administration officials say they're confident they can get the job regardless. vice president kamala harris calling it a matter of fairness for poor, rural and minority communities. >> so the bottom line is that there is to reason in the 21st century for why people are still exposed to this substance that was poisoning people back in the 18th century >> with more than six years ago that the water crisis in flint, michigan came to light and really pushed this issue into the public eye but the white house estimates there are more than 6 million laid lead pipes in use across the country. science shows no level of lead is safe for humans while the white house says it believes biden's promise to get rid of ever

justin shilling was incredibly smart and hard working, part of the school district's bprogram,a letterman at the school. a crowd kept individual it outside the hospital. kept on life support since the shooting. his single life, now saving multiple others. justin was 17. those names, their stories, they matter. a lot. the white house confirms that president biden will hold a video call with russian president vladimir putin next week to discuss the military build-up along the ukraine border. the u.s. army chief of staff says russia has planted about 100,000 troops there and that number could balloon. cnn's matthew chance reports. >> reporter: russia is planning an imminent invasion of ukraine. diplomacy is being urgently stepped up with the u.s. and russian leaders agreeing to direct talks via the link. the kremlin says a virtual summit between president biden and vladimir putin will take place on tuesday evening, moscow time. russia, which u.s. and ukraine officials say has deployed tens of thousands of troops, is demanding new security guarantees from the u.s. to stop any further expansio

joining us now, josh letterman at the white house. kathy park in new york city. sam brock in miami and also with us, director of the center for infectious disease research and policy. and the founder and ceo of advancing health equity. josh, first to you at the white house. president biden still facing questions about testing delays and shortages. here's what he said an abc last night. >> we're nearly two years into this pandemic. you're a year into the presidency. empty shelves and no test kits in some places three days before christmas when it's so important. is that good enough? >> no. nothing has been good enough. but look where we are. we're in a situation now where we have 200 million people fully vaccinated. 200 million people fully vaccinated. >> josh, how concern second down the white house about the gap between the big announcement the other day and some of the positive news from south africa and the fact that we are light years away of where we were when joe biden took over, clearly, but what people see is these long lines for tests and now they want t

david letterman who is here and understands the truth of that as well. and throughout my career, i met nearly every world leader. and i'll tell you not everyone sees satire that way. you'd all be in jail. [ laughter ] joke. but really all kidding aside, think about it. but for america that's the power of our example. i wrote a line a long time ago that keeps getting quoted back to me. i make no apologies for it. america's led the world not by the example of our power, but the power of our example. that's who we are. that's what leads the world, the power of our example. and thank you for continuing that great american tradition. i really mean it. thank you. [ applause ] bette middler, got love her. i am such an unadulterated fan. bette is a true american treasure. it's hard to fully capture the range and breadth of her career and talents in a span of a decade or two. we in the biden family, no woman is as old as any man. that's the rule. all you've done, the songs, the shows, the movies. and it can't be done alone. four golden globe awards, three grammy

kathy park, molly hunter, josh letterman, sam brock.ou all. >>> what is the weather going to be like for the christmas weekend? good news, lots of places warmer than usual. bad news for some folks white christmas doesn't begin to cover it. meteorologist michelle grossman is here with more. a lot of folks want a white christmas, in some places it's ridiculous. tell me what we're seeing across the country. >> i know. it's sort of a whacky forecast. you hit it on the head. we are looking at a ton of snow out west, very white christmas and some of us will be barbecuing because we're looking at temperatures closer to memorial day as opposed to christmas day. you can see in the central and southern plains looking at 70s and 80s, up to 84 today in dallas. we need to talk about the monster storm out to the west because this is where all the dramatic whether is. that's what we're going to see the next several days, winter alerts from the northwest, southwest into the rockies, really east of the rockies looking dry and clear for those last minute

josh letterman has a closer look into where this money is going, how it's being spent.alking and when could communities actually start feeling the tangible impact? >> reporter: well, we've talked a lot about how the biden administration has been really working to try to connect the dots on this infrastructure law for americans. where is this money actually going? how are people going to benefit from this? and now they are able to point to this first money heading out the door shortly. 50 billion over five years for water infrastructure. in the coming year, it will be 7.4 billion that will head to the states as well as to territories and tribal nations for water infrastructure. $2.9 billion of that is earmarked specifically for replacing lead pipes that we know are so dangerous to children and drinking water. and then another 8 $66 million that will deal specifically with pollution in water. forever chemicals that pose a risk to our drinking water across the country. and i spoke with the epa administrator michael reagan yesterday who pointed to several communities in ill

let me start with you, josh letterman. it was interesting what a difference 24 hours makes, josh, after the president did his covid remarks before he would not accept the idea that they had done anything wrong with testing, and then in the sitdown with abc, there was a little acknowledgment, yeah, we wish we ordered these two months sooner. >> reporter: yeah. they've been trying to walk a dell kalt line on this because part of the argue. we hear from the white house why they don't have enough tests for all americans is that they say that, look, when these home antigen tests came on the market and were first approved, that there wasn't enough demand from americans to really merit ramping up production. it is true there is a lot of testing taking place in the united states. there's a distinction that the white house would like to make between the tests, these pcr tests where you go to the lab, the doctor, or a drive-through and get tested, and these at-home tests that are in such demand as people are heading into the holiday

. >> joining us now, nbc's josh letterman in wilmington, delaware, and julie stirken on capitol hill. if the build back better act has been struck down, how will that affect president biden's other key agenda items? >> reporter: well, there really is no vehicle for president biden's agenda if this bill is really dead, alex. this was the whole ball game. and it's difficult to see absent this piece of legislation how any of biden's major priorities actually move forward in the new year. and that's the reason that there is such frustration and concern at the white house right now, where for months, white house officials and president biden have really been deferential to joe manchin, even as there was all of this back and forth and accusations from some democrats on the hill that manchin was moving the goalpost, you really never saw the white house criticize joe manchin at all. they wanted to keep this copacetic, they wanted to work with him in good faith. but now after these comments on fox from manchin today, the gloves are clearly off. the white house spokeswoman, jen psaki, releasing

some, like this high school letterman jacket, were then repaired by the conservation staff.? 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 all 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. 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 back as the 1860s, from long-standing traditions in cuba, the dom

josh letterman is at the white house for us and gary is in d.c., one of the places already distributing free tests to residents. josh, let me start with you, you know, yesterday the president framed the battle this way essentially saying we have the tools to deal with this and implying that we have the tools to live with this. but this issue of testing, they seemed overly defensive on this front because it's frankly been a question that's hung over this administration's head ever since they took control of the response. >> no question, chuck, that the white house is trying to thread the needle here. they are trying to prepare americans for a reality of living alongside this virus. we heard that from president biden yesterday. of course, they don't want that to sound like failure or acquiescence to something that the u.s. was unprepared for but president biden and vice president harris have acknowledged at this point that they did not anticipate that the virility and the fact that this new strain would be quite as infecktuous as it has been. now, white house officials will argue that's d

john sporting the david letterman beard lands within inches of the cup.made birdie from there and move back in front by a stroke. now it's tiger for birdied 18, with the chance to move back into a tie that but just misses. to the bernie stream comes to an end and tiger and charlie finished 25 under par all daily and his son have to do is close it out. john the elder does that with a birdie, so he and his son finished 27 under par, breaking the tournament record, said two years ago by davis love and his son. the dailies win it. the woods team comes up short and all that pretty good day for people who are interested in golf happy and thankful that i'm able to do this. um i still have my own leg, which was. it was questionable for a while and it's functioning. i'm just really tired. i mean, i'm not used to this as i think this might be. fifth round of golf this year, fourth or fifth round leg office. sure, i'm a little worn out, and it was nice to have a card. and they're calling this. the pac 12 coast to coast challenge played in las vegas, stanford to get

let's go to josh letterman who is traveling with the president in delaware. punch bowl news co-founders jake sherman and anna palmer. does this mean build back better is officially dead, or is it possibly time to break it up and vote independently on some of the parts? >> reporter: the bill has no pulse right now, and democrats are scrambling to find a way to resuscitate this. talking to democrats over the last 24 hours, they believe they have a theory of how to do that based on senator manchin's remarks. specifically his concerns about debt, inflation, and sunsets are all roped up into one issue with expiring provisions that lapsed the last two years or three. shrink the programs that can be funded over a ten-year period. they've identified climate change funding, pre-k as a way to do that. this is tenuous. i ran this by a source familiar with manchin's thinking. hypotheticals like that are possible about reviving the bill, but not while democrats and the white house are issuing statements as aggressive as they were yesterday, questioning manchin's character

you sent me something totally inappropriate for television. [ laughter ] >> revive the dave letterman don't think i have to,i she she only drove him to the police station afterwards. no disrespect. it just struck me as a funny thing. topical joke. >> jimmy: don't disrespect that woman, she seems lovely. [ laughter ] great to see you. you're very funny. the show is called "f is for family." this is the fifth and final season. >> final season, november 25th. watch it this weekend. >> jimmy: thanksgiving night? >> yes, yes, sir. >> jimmy: a wonderful way to wrap up the meal. [ laughter ] bill burr, everybody. we'll be right back with lizzy mcalpine. ♪ can i get ten large fries please? i'm gonna need like ten egg mcmuffin sandwich things? night, or the next morning, you've been loyal. mymcdonald's rewards is for you. now, every order earns points redeemable for free mcdonald's. 1, 2, 3...yay! ♪ “i got you babe” by etta james ♪ ♪ wait hold up! here it comes! alright, everybody stand up straight. okay now let me flip it. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ when you really need to sleep you reach for the really good st

. >> we have josh letterman with us from the white house, as well. so, josh, the president had a call with joe manchin over the weekend after he said no to this. joe manchin had a call with senate democrats where he still said he is a no. why is the president still so confident that he's going to be able to come to some sort of deal with him? >> i don't think the president, from what we know that he's confident he will convince joe manchin to get onboard with what he has already rejected. if there was ever a doubt about the ability to simply persuade joe manchin to do what he made pretty clear all along he wasn't comfortable with. those hopes fell apart pretty clearly on sunday when he went on fox news sunday. but i think that given the conversation that the president had over the weekend with joe manchin, according to white house officials, they do feel like manchin is at least committed, interested in getting something done if in the next year in the early next year they are able to really restructure this around something differently. i think they

, and he was cracking the audience up, and david letterman says, boy, i wish we would have known howunny you were before. we would have had you on earlier. that is a lie. it did not want anybody to see how funny bob dole was. he was quite a good guy. host: michael, we talked with a former colleague of his, a former senator from wyoming, yesterday on the phone ahead of the tributes to the late senator bob dole. he talked about that very thing, about during his campaign that his aides advised him not to be funny, to not use his weight on the campaign trail. -- hiswit on the campaign trail and talked about how it was a mistake. caller: sure it was. i do think some of the late shows and things like that, and some of the mainstream media at that time were just as biased against conservatives as they are today. maybe not quite as much, but pretty close. host: pat, north carolina, democratic caller. caller: good morning. i am glad you were able to take my phone call. what i am calling about is i have already received my notice for my new benefits on social security. i got a $40 increase in

went on david letterman kidded in self-deprecating way. how he was beaten.ection. to their credit they got over it. to her of credit she didn't. hubert humphrey lost three times for the election. nixon lost once before. came back and redeemed himself. i wrote about andrew jackson losing to john quincy adams. he showed up at the inaugural and won again. this is pathetic. stuart: to entertain the audience, if it was a rematch hillary versus trump, who wins? >> trump eludes investigation, if nothing else comes up, i think he is running again. and i think he would, i think that he is in good shape to beat biden and or hillary clinton. if things stay somewhat the same as they are right now, if you see hillary clinton as terrible campaigner. she is very bad one-on-one. what she is a machine politician and a known name. nobody really likes her. they just accept her. she knows where the bodies are buried so to speak. she knows how to do the job but i don't think her decisions would be any good. stuart: before we close it it out i want to ask you a completely differe