the person who deserved to get it was david letterman.it. jay leno got it. >> leno, who earlier rode his motorcycle into a news conference 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 so

the person who deserved to get it was david letterman.ised 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 inviting me into your home as you have been. i bid you a veryry hea

>> josh letterman in kyiv tonight josh, thank you. >>> tonight, new body camera footage is raising newuestions about a georgia woman who died after being taken into police custody. the newly released video shows the moments just before and after the woman fell out of a moving police car but first, a warning some of the footage may be difficult to watch. here's erin mclaughlin >> reporter: tonight, the family of brianna grier reacting to this newly released police body camera footage, showing the events leading up to her death. >> my heart was broken, and see the picture i'm holding now? we don't have it no more. >> reporter: as her mother, what was going through her mind >> you don't want to know. >> reporter: the 28-year-old georgia resident died july 21st just days after falling out of a moving police car. the mother a twins, a diagnosed schizophrenic, had been arrested during what her family says was a mental health emergency. >> get off me. >> reporter: in the video, you see the officers struggling to get grier into the police car she's handcuffed in front of her body. >> no. >> br

and a ron's capitol to run rushes president, letterman. putin is on a rare trip outside of russia since the invasion of ukraine. he will hold talks with turkish president rich of ty fair to one, an iranian president. ibrahim, or you see, syria is on the official agenda, but put in an air to want are also expected to discuss a un back proposal to resume exports of ukrainian grain. millions of tons of rain are stuck in ukrainian ports, threatening a global food crisis. let's get the perspective from turkey and bringing our correspondent you'll johan, who is following all of this from is stumble for us. why are to these talks so important? julia will the actual summit later today officially focuses on syria, as you mentioned, russia, iran in turkey, support opposing sides in this war. but despite their troubled relations, they have met many times in recent years in this exact form it. but now that ukraine also features on the agenda, this is an opportunity for the turkish president to project influence and power regionally, and internationally. he will get the chance to hold his 1st meetin

. >> david letterman originally had a one-hour daytime show, and nbc, after like 13 weeks, decided to booing ] 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 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 nee

joining us with more on this is josh letterman. how much weight will this executive order have?on the issue is the right thing to think of it. rather than anything earth shattering in terms of policy, this is an attempt by the biden administration to say we get it, this is a critical and growing issue and we're taking it very seriously. so this executive order that the president has signed would allow the u.s. government to impose sanctions, including financial penalties and visa bans on people potentially including officials of other governments who are involved this hostage-taking. whether or not that will dissuade people from taking hostages in the future, we don't know. there is a whole lot of sanctions on russia and yet brittney griner is still in russian jail. and this executive order will also improve information sharing with families of u.s. hostages about where they are and what the u.s. government is doing to try to free them. and then the state department will also be creating a new designation on those travel alerts that they put out to tell you about the danger in v

ganges, which both helps them understand the extent of the problem and cleans up the river banks. letterman has worked for the german phone for 9 months. doing so has helped change his views on his own household based. ha, i have changed and i keep a garbage can at home. i sweep up my trash and throw it into the garbage. come in and only give it to the garbage collectors who come to our home. i live in the garbage collector sought and build the trash then ship to off through their li cycling partner. ford had mold recovery. plastic fisher says that since if to start in 2021, it has collected $47.00 tons of plastic leased from bar on a c, all of which would otherwise have ended up in the ganges. such small scale solutions can prove crucial for me to getting the growing presence of micro plastics. in the gantt as basin as well as the oceans. why you might think of green energy as sustainable. it also needs to waste pick wind turbines. europe will have to dismantle nearly 12000 turbines. what 2024? normally the materials would end up in scrap yards. but in poland, designers have found a normal

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joining from us kyiv is nbc's josh letterman good morning what do we know about these two americans? >> reporter: frances, they were killed alongside a canadian and a swede fighting in eastern ukraine. apparently killed by a russian tank nbc news has confirmed that one of those americans was 31-year-old luke logan from north carolina 31, father of two, and our nbc colleague ellison barber spoke to his family, obviously devastated, and said their son did not go to ukraine to try to become a hero but simply to try to help. amid that tragic news, there is deep uncertainty this morning over the future of that delicate t deal to allow ukraine to resume exporting grain amid fears of famine in africa and other parts of the world that rely on grain from ukraine the russians launching a missile attack a day after that delicate deal was struck at the key port of odesa that would be used to export that grain, creating a lot of uncertainty about whether that dealed stands overhearing conversations of russian troops informing their relatives they know they're going to lose this battle. president

and ukraine's president has dismissed the deputy head of the security service. letterman zalinski made the announcement just 2 days after suspending the head of the organization and the prosecutor general. the president says they fail to root out alleged collaborators working for moscow. the un mission of god. his thumb has documented allegations of rights abuses since the taliban swept the power. last year. the report accuses the group of extra judicial killings, arbitrary arrests, and torture. it sites more than $200.00 instances of cruel punishments, including some targeting people accused of violating religious codes. the un says women and girls have been subjected to severe restrictions on their rights and excluded from public life. ali latifah has more on the reports findings from cobble in the press conference announcing the report. the un made it clear and they kept reiterating that they have been consistently meeting with this lama camera and they have been showing them the sort of their findings ahead of time. but also that they have sent this report ahead of time. and that t

joining me is josh letterman. tell us about the strike on odesa.ility to export grain? >> reporter: ukraine hopes to be able to export grain to restart that in line with the deal despite the russian strikes. we heard from the deputy interior minister in ukraine who said by tomorrow they can start the wok for the ports to retime exports of grain and there's three ports that they are eyeing, odesa that was hit by the russian missiles being one and the largest. within about two weeks they hope to have the ports ready to start shipping grain out through the black sea but of course all of that is contingent on whether or not russia launches more strikes aimed at the ports. we heard the russian government, both putin's spokesman and the foreign minister saying that the strikes on the port did not violate the agreement because they were targeting military infrastructure at the odesa port and not the civilian infrastructure used to eximportant grain. ukraine, the united nations, the united states they feel that those two missile strikes certainly did viola

. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome david faster, president and ceo of thedavid letterman institute of american history . >> hello everybody. i hope you're enjoying your meal. it's great to be here for a resumption of the george washington prize which we have valued all these years. i'm jim basker and president of the lehrman institute of americanhistory . [applause] and i just got permission from doug bradburn to say a few words about what the institute does because we are trying to be some trains that run on time tonight. but i did want to say that those of you who know us know that we were founded in 1994 by richard gilder lewis lehrman. that our mission is to improve the teaching and learning of american history and civics. especially in k-12 schools but we do other projects as well and i'm proud to say the moment we have now 31,000 schools in our affiliate network across all 50 states and a scattering across about 70 countries around the world . [applause] thank you. we provide all kinds of educational resources. we do a lot of teacher development. we have almost 10,000 teacher

. >> josh letterman live for us, traveling with the president in somerset, massachusetts. thank you for that. >>> i want to bring you back to washington. right as we were coming on the air, we got a lot of new information looking ahead to tomorrow night's primetime january 6th committee hearing. including one aide telling nbc noose, it will probably not be the last one. i want to get to our team with this new reporting. my guests are joining me now. so allie, you have gotten a solid download about what we can expect tomorrow night, the timing, we know that -- i think bennie thompson will chair virtually, he's got covid. so let me turn the floor over to you, friend. >> what a sign of the times, that where they are going into their last primetime hearing of the summer series of hearings, because we have been auking about this as it is the season finale of the committee, not the series finale. that's what they were telling us on the phone, that they have so much information continuing to come in, that they reserve the right to do more hearings when they feel fit. that could c

and likewise, letterman's absence from the trail right now because the mediae is not interested in itot hurting him. he leads dr. oz by nine pointshe in the latest poll. so the media ran cover for biden and you see what that got the country they cannot do the same to the people of pennsylvania and that's for dr. oz. this isn't too sensitive for him to discuss as a former cardiothoracic surgeon. you know, he knows all too well the limitations that fetterman faces. now that the the people of pennsylvania need to know that they will have not just a good steward of policy, but someone who can fully participate in the representation that the state deserves. >> and now to michigan, where we are less than three weekswa away from the republican primary there to decide who's going toyyth take on governor gretchen witless wittmer in november.vehen the latest poll shows businesswoman tooter dixon surging from a two point leadpo to an eleven point lead overin her competitors and just to expand, however, went head to head against wittmer. dixon is down 11 points, leading some to claim thatle the r

she liked leno better. [ laughter ] and letterman was her favorite, but you were in there. >> jimmy:you worked with him and you made -- >> okay, here's what happened. i worked with harrison ford on this movie we have a lot of scenes together, and we were --i wouldn't say buddy, we had a a little bit of a bond he was nice. i felt like he trusted me. we ate snacks together and then one day he said, "are you going home for the weekend? and i said, "we're in vancouver. i live in l.a. what do you mean?" "are you going home for the weekend? i said, "no. "do you want a ride? "okay. i got a ride in his jet home for the weekend. >> jimmy: that is what i'm talking about. >> that's fame that's called fame so what did i do i went to the mall, and i bought a ridiculous designer bag, like, i got to be this person now to go on the jet. >> jimmy: with harrison. >> nobody cared. it was like him and a pilot. i didn't talk to harrison. he was in the front. i was in the back alone with my designer bag [ laughter ] we out here. nobody cared and then later at the premier of the movie, everybody -- i'm emb

2020 those i think are the two really most interesting moments for her because 2016 and i see josh letterman who we were sitting in our white house booth during that campaign trying to figure out you know, where the biden family was. she's the one who literally says we write about this in the book. she literally says as advisors are putting, you know timelines in front of them and you know, here's here's how late you can get in. here's when we're gonna have to be hitting these fundraising deadlines. she literally says, we're not ready. you know bo has just died, you know, we're not ready and she has to vocalize that almost for him. he can't really say it himself. he can't get himself to the point of walking away. she plays that really important role, but then you fast forward to 2020 and conventional wisdom again is he's too old the party is too liberal. the party has moved too far to the left and she is actually one of the most forceful voices behind the scenes say no this this actually is your time so, you know her evolution and the role she plays in those campaigns i find to be really fas

2020 those i think are the two really most interesting moments for her because 2016 and i see josh letterman who we were sitting in our white house booth during that campaign trying to figure out you know, where the biden family was. she's the one who literally says we write about this in the book. she literally says as advisors are putting, you know timelines in front of them and you know, here's here's how late you can get in. here's when we're gonna have to be hitting these fundraising deadlines. she literally says, we're not ready. you know bo has just died, you know, we're not ready and she has to vocalize that almost for him. he can't really say it himself. he can't get himself to the point of walking away. she plays that really important role, but then you fast forward to 2020 and conventional wisdom again is he's too old the party is too liberal. the party has moved too far to the left and she is actually one of the most forceful voices behind the scenes say no this this actually is your time so, you know her evolution and the role she plays in those campaigns i find to be really fas

nbc's josh letterman, thank you for capturing it all for us this morning, we appreciate it. >> comingstrips the epa of a key tool to control pollution, how that could impact the environment and the economy. brian sullivan joins us straight ahead. -hi, i'm smokey bear and i made an assistant to help you out. because only you can prevent wildfires. -hey assistant smokey bear, call me papa bear because i'm "grrr-illing" up dinner. haha, do you get it? -yes. good job. -so, what should i do with all of these coals? -don't just toss them out. put them in a metal container because those embers can start a wildfire. -i understand, the stakes are high. assistant smokey vo: ha-ha, ha-ha. -see, smokey think's im funny! by a 6-3 vote, the court ruled the clean air act first established in 1963 does not give the environmental agency the authority to regulate greenhouse gases from power plans that contribute to global warming. writing for the conservative majority, chief justice roberts conceded that the epa does not have the authority to do that. in her dissent, justice elana condemned the court f

joining us now is josh letterman and jessica bruder.h, what do we know about the president's meeting with governors today? >> reporter: the president announced to have this meeting in his closing news conference in spain before coming back to washington which was an effort to show that he is really hitting the ground running. trying to address this abortion issue after been out of the country for the discussion of the country. these are democratic governors including those from connecticut, new mexico, illinois, california, oregon and washington state and states that have rushed to shore up state abortion protections. part of what the white house wants to call attention to is the need according to white house officials to take the action to the states so the states recognize abortion rights now that there's not according to the supreme court a nationwide right in the constitution to that access but there's an element here that feels like preaching the choir or virtue signaling to the democratic states because these are the states that w

. >> reporter: in 1998, he told david letterman about when he first played. >> my daddy was a baseballnow. >> the thing i remember most about buck is you always felt better leaving buck than you did when you came to see him. >> reporter: kendrick was with o'neil when the class of 2006 was announced. and somehow o'neil didn't make the cut. >> i said, well, buck, we didn't get enough votes. and he looks at me and he smiles, and he said, that's how the cookie crumbles. and he asked me how many had gotten in. i said 17. he ecstatic that 17fame. now, i, on the other hand, was furious. i'm in disbelief you can put 17 in and leave buck out. >> reporter: and then o'neil was asked to speak at the induction ceremony for those 17. at the age of 94. >> so i've done a lot of things i like doing, but i would rather be right here, right now, representing these people that helped build a bridge across chasm of prejudice. >> i say it is one of the most selfless acts in american sports history because baseball fans were saying this should be your hall of fame induction speech. and there was this very ki

have a couple sound bites set up one i think is christy, you, back in july >> this is fallon meets letterman take a listen to this >> we've always known that this transaction just as the frontier transaction would face a significant amount of regulatory scrutiny but when we look at what the issue is in the u.s., the issue is that four large airlines have about 80% of the market, then you have a number of much smaller airlines so the best thing we can do to create a more vibrant, a more competitive industry is to really empower this new larger jetblue that can bring low fares and great service together and make sure that the industry becomes more competitive, because we can bring our product and our low fares to more destinations than if we were just growing alone >> okay. wrong sound bite but -- >> that is >> yes >> is sound bite i wanted to run was from "mad money" where he denied everything he said and said this combination will never pass and had a lot of nifty things to say. here's what matters. let's go beyond that and talk about future rather than past. there's a man, a man who used to

societal, public or private endeavors and the ceremony will take place on thursday and nbc's josh lettermanite house. >> there are a lot of folks on this list, josh. a lot of people that we know, household names and by the way, the president himself also a recipient of this award. talk us through it. >> yeah. this list includes a really broad and bipartisan and cross section of american society. everyone from athletes and politicians to civil rights icons and folks from the entertainment and military world. the white house saying that america is embodied by the word opportunity and that these honorees really stand for our values like hard work, faith and perseverance. so you have folks like olympian simone biles who has been outspoken to sexual assault and megan rapinoe, and denzel washington and denzel khan the gold star father who was so outspoken to president trump's muslim ban. you have politicians from both parties including gabby giffords, the former congresswoman who has become an outspoken advocate for gun violence in arizona. and john mccain who served for decades in the senate wit