well, letterman said that the louder you yelled it, the more it made him think you were guilty.i didn't convince him, but, uh, i think i convinced donald trump. that's why i got invited on "celebrity apprentice," right? i have great respect for your tenacity, for the fact that you just don't give up. but, rod...you're fired. ♪ what i saw over the course of rod's career was a guy who started off as kind of a charming rogue and a guy who really did give voice to concerns that people had to someone who became almost a parody of himself. and by the time that trial came around, he really was his own worst enemy. see you in court. he thought that the court of public opinion could save him, but he had disturbed forces that decided, "it was a wrap for you, dude." don't poke the feds, fam. just don't do it. man: blago, can i get your autograph? reporter: at verdict today, in a notorious case that federal prosecutors did not want to hear, rod blagojevich was convicted today on only one count. -see you guys! -man: way to go, baby! tapper: the jury was hung on all but one of the charges aga

nbc's josh letterman is covering this story for us. josh, the wildfire is to blame.ore do we know about just how tough this has been to fight back this fire? >> if you can imagine being on summer vacation in greece, chris, and seeing flames leaping 80 feet in the air. that is exactly the situation people are encountering in greece, a country that gets well over a million american tourives every year and now a huge, historic sites like the acropolis potentially in the path of this fire which is now about eight miles outside of the heart of athens. there's an all-out, all hands on deck effort to try to get this under control with some 700 firefighters, hundreds of fire fighting vehicles and dozens of planes including those now being contributed by foreign nations, but one of the challenges here is that this is no longer a single fire. i saw this on the ground last year when we were covering those wildfires that killed more than 20 people last summer. you start out with one fire and the winds start to blow it in different directions. it starts to jump and sooner than la

let's bring in josh letterman for the latest. this attack comes amid growing tensions and fears the israel-hamas war will balloon into a bigger conflict in the region. >> reporter: that's right, frances. defense officials believe there were at least two rockets launched toward that al asad airbase in iraq. at least one of them may have landed on the base. as far as how many americans may have been injured, that is still something the military is doing, a damage assessment at this hour. we know president biden has been briefed on that attack. and defense officials suspect that a pro-iran militia may be behind that attack. now that is really concerning. because the entire middle east is really holding its breath right now for the likely and promised retaliation by iran against those two assassinations last week that have both been blamed on israel. the senior hamas political leader ismail haniyeh in iran as well as a top hezbollah commander in lebanon. and, according to a senior israeli official, they are now bracing for a potentia

the dubois due to act on the letterman can produce, even with the next operation of hon, allowed friends to take control of the whole region from send a goal. so, so done, most of the curious path in the terrorist threat to continue to grow. and the area of terrorist activity expanded 12 french business affairs in molly improved 10 profits grew. click unsafe for charlotte 49 french soldiers died, not from bali. the french trade interests. frances, i'm a, took up an independent and extremely advantageous inconvenience position, and molly occupies how many malia and civilians died at the hands of the french doesn't care about that to better a phrase, to go from 1000 friends. supposedly it's an interest of the history of relations between france and its former colonies should serve as an example tool defense tweedy with france to deal with the devil. so no, uh uh people do or is that down to the put the last on monday i'm gone. don't see that. i'm going to download pretty notifies or pull the l. uh, reset uh reset that p, the false, the phone says, oh, for somebody in the computer that is o

where letterman says the hosted on the bicycle. they came in the morning to see this who re fixing my comfort is that i have escaped with my life. only the house case remained standing. the rest has been leveled to the ground. officials say dozens of people have been killed and more than 600 injured. thousands of homes have been either partially or completely destroyed here in apple . how much leaving their owners without shelter. but those in need exceed the ability of the states to provide tents for them with only 10 percent of the 10000 tents needed provided so far. the shortage has forced some to seek other ways to protect their families from more expected rains and floods. let's say they must have had a close out of the damage or loss as a clearly visible to the naked eye, or rather than for less than 2 years, totally exposed to the elements normal homes or even tweets. i'm trying to erect the set, at least to protect our children from the sheets of the sun. the local officials have called them the federal government and organ

there it is in a letterman. congress document says on several occasions this company was incorrectly pressured by the white house to change or pull content regarding tobin, which he now wishes he hadn't changed or done, but the most damaging admission in the letter is that one right there. see that right there? that we highlighted for you and yellow. that's where a sucker bird writes quote. in a separate situation, the f. b, i warned us about a potential russian, this information operation about the biden family and bar ridgemont in the lead up to the 2020 election that fall. he writes to congress, when we saw a new york post story reporting on corruption allegations involving the then democratic presidential nominee jo biden's family. we sent that story to fact checkers for review and temporarily demoted it. that means they stopped it. they pulled the story while waiting for a reply. it since been made clear that the reporting was not russian, this information. and in retrospect, in retrospect, pardon me. we should not have demoted the story. we've changed our policies in process ju

the dubois due to act on the letterman can for dealing with the next operation of hon, allowed friends to take control of the whole region from send a goal. so so done next, the curious path and the terrorist threat to continue to grow. and the area of terrorist activity expanded, while friends, business affairs in molly improved 10 profits grew. click unsafe, a shouldered 49 french soldiers died. not for molly, but for a french trade interest. frances, i mean, took up an independent and extremely the advantageous and convenience position in molly. the bulky by us fell. many molly and civilians died at the hands of the french. doesn't care about that. the better a phrase to go fronts has no friends, supposedly its own interests. the history of relations between france and its former colonies should serve as an example of defense treaty with france. does it deal with the devil? so no, uh uh, people do or is that down to the last? so monday i'm going to say that i'm going to donald notifies who the a reset, reset that p the foster for us as a 1st model in political k that is on the i lea

where letterman says the hosted on the bus and go they came in the morning to see this who re fixing my comfort is that i have escaped from my life. only the house case remained standing. the rest has been leveled to the ground. the officials say dozens of people have been killed and more than 600 injured. thousands of homes have been either partially or completely destroyed here in apple . how much leaving their owners without shelter. but those in need exceed the ability of the state to provide tense for them with only 10 percent.

the in time square where people will tell you there is a great comedy show and we have comics from lettermann you get there it is just joe machi. >> greg: just ripping him. >> but that is a ploy that you used to get people to come to an event like yankees and white sox are going to do bobble head night and they don't even have a bobble head. >> i do not know about you guys but i woke up at 5:00 am watching a bad infomercial saying did she come on? now you have to ask yourself is she really actually republican. is that what happened here? >> greg: she waited until the very end to say she was not coming. she was in on the shenanigans if i can use this profane word in mixed company. but this was designed to get people to watch and it was a dishonest hoax for you kind of like it, didn't you? >> that 6-year-old has two to jail. >> greg: you do the crime you do the time that is what i say. tyrus, do you think the child. i think it is worse to blame your kid. >> here is here thing to get from somebody who was blamed his kids for a lot of things [laughter] when it finally comes out that kids will di

that was before stephen letterman quit. that is him, by the way. reaction. >> they live in their bubble. the fact that she was on there as a celebrity supposed to be a journalist but that is what they're trying to do trying to make their journalists like a cool and hip. because the truth is out there. i think that gives me hope that the people are not buying it. i love how uncomfortable they both were. their bubble got burst for a second. was that supposed to be funny? and people are like do you not hear yourself spee? do not see the behaviour that cnn is putting up. you were not even news anymore. you are the anti-trump network. that is all you do. this is the same thing. this is the new trump public defender number 1. they are trying to push her. she will get a book. after trump wins or whatever then she will fade away. the last batch from the last time that she was and where are they? it is a broken record. they just keep doing it over and over again. it is funny because it stephen colbert with his 17 writers or 30 writers it is the bit that eve

the name of jonathan letterman. it was really unfair that tripler was not promoted he helped build from scratch the union medical apparatus for world's largest army or at least america's largest army ever. the union army, the potomac, over 100,000 soldiers before the war the union, the us was 1600 soldiers and so within a space of a few months, it's, it's grown to over hundred thousand. how do you service that kind of army of that magnitude? and he helped recruit establish standards. he was a very noted and notable physician surgeon. he was in favor of the va less invasive surgery. he didn't just suggest that amputation should occur whenever. a doctor felt like it. and so that resulted in many lives being saved and. so civil war medicine was really more advanced than we have historically, classically understood. however, even then, the germ theory of disease was not known during the civil war that came after. so all of these deaths, many of the deaths by disease were because of the fact that no one understood where

students fighting for respect and dignity, it became clear that what they are doing is not chasing letterman'sa few swim meets, they are building a community. the bus ride home from swim competitions became a safe haven, the only place for this group of young men to share who they really were. that is the premise of today's velshi banned book club feature, "whale talk", written by the award-winning author, chris crutcher. told by struggling protagonists t.j. jones. walz six joints plot lines. it is true, "whale talk" is a coming-of-age story that proves how unnecessary friendship is to developing who you are as an individual. written utilizing short, point high-energy sentences, "whale talk" is a study on balance. crutcher masterfully balances humor and pitch, perfect now like dialogue with topics including abuse, suicide, bullying, elitism, and racism. these characters balance societal obligations with true identity, masculinity, vulnerability and working through their own experiences and trauma with supporting one another. no character is spared in "whale talk" and the results feel almost ab

in 1993, late show with david letterman debut the 150 million visitors went to the eiffel tower grew. do they even how cable news network officially joined internet? and in 1997, the first wnba championship west down the houston comets feeding new york liberty. >> this is important to enforce. want to also fast start were on the roads, divisional foe. >> there you hear raiders headcoach antonio pierce talking about the team's mentality as they head into the regular season. this is the last weekend without nfl football for the rest of the year. this past week that he made some difficult choices in terms of who they were going to cut 10, how they're going to finalize their roster for the season. the raiders first game is against the chargers will be next sunday down in los angeles. and in other sports news, we have san mateo native tom brady. he could have a tough time with his new gig as a fox broadcaster. all because of restrictions that are placed on him by the nfl. so fox sports is paying the 7 375 million dollars over the next 10 years to join them on the broadcast desk. to broadca

i remember when i went on, david letterman and said, you know, there are other people coming up, there's this person, kamala harris, and so we've actually call him. >> i call them so we've had a kind of windy road to this path that i think particularly when she ran for president in the kind of disappointed i think folks may have thought this, this moment not, may not have been realized. >> but what we're seeing now is it palmer nation of what people have always thought harris could put together, right? there was, you know, she might have been people's first choice in 20 1920, but she was lot of people's second or third choice. i people liked her. there was goodwill there, and now the reason for that was because there was always the prospect of the unity that we're now seeing. >> i just want to get to one quick thing before we take a break and peter, i want to ask you about what we're going to see tonight with regard to former republicans or maybe their current republicans in some cases. but former trump supporters, i should say, one big trump supporter, stephanie grisham who was his comm

. >> the last time there was i a realf th like that on the lath show, it was before david letterman quit join lik these top. oh, that's him, by the way, tyrus, they were kind of ier mean, they were kind of shocked by the reaction because they live in their of bubble i. mean, the fact that she was on there as a celebrity supposed to be a journalist. yeah. you know, but that's what they're trying to do. that's what they are trying to make their journalists cool and hip. >> the crowd wasn't because the truth is out there. and i think that's that gives me hope that the people aren't buying. and i love how uncomfortable they both were because bubble got burst for a second. >> she was like, was that supposed to be funny? and people like, do you not hear yourself speak? you not see the behavior that cnn has put up the way you're one of the worst. you're not even news anymore. you're the anti-trump network. yeah, that's all you do. and now you and this is the same thing. this was this is the new. acostathey'rryin this is the net public defender, number one. so they're going to tr ylove to pusher

i mean pick your favorite from david letterman's worst ever list that you can just reveal yo there and look at january 6th versus the i have a dream speech. he is raising, as a point of pride, the crowd he sent to the capitol an attempted coup against the united states government. the building was defaced, the officers edwere beaten, many of them now going to jail, favorably comparing that day, the darkest dark history to thea i have a dream speech. given by martin luther king, that is who he is and we have to keep talking about that. the first claim from donald trump on the washington post list that vice president harris's crowds are ai generated, not real. some of the signs bernie sanders is pointing out is that donald trump is setting the stage to deny the results of the 2020 election if he loses in november. and in a statement senator sanders writes, donald trump may be crazy, but he is not stupid. when he claims nobody showed up at a 10,000 person harris-walls rally in michigan that was live streamed and widely covered by the media, that democrats cheat all the time there is a met

. >> pick your favorite from david letterman's worst ever top ten list that mika. look at january 6 versus the i have a dream speech. he's raging as a point of pride the crowd that he sent to the capitol to attempt a coup, when the building was defaced and officers beaten, many of them going to jail, comparing that day, one of the darkest in our history to the i have a dream speech given by martin luther king. that's who he is, and we have keep talking about it. the first claim on "the washington post" list that vice president crowds are generated by a.i., that they are not real. one of the signs senator bernie sanders is pointing out that trump is setting the stage to deny the results of the 20924 election if he loses in november. part of this numbing we're talking about. in a statement senator sanders writes donald trump may be crazy, but he's not stupid. when he claims nobody showed up at at 10,000-person harris/walz rally in michigan that it was widely generated by a.i. and democrats cheat all the time there's a method to his madness. senator sanders goes on if

>> what was it like when you used to see jay leno and letterman savage you?t on your own, but you wanted to marry -- i guess the term is sugar daddies. >> that wasn't true. >> i mean, here's the question. some would say it wasn't a real marriage. you're telling me tonight, sitting across from me, it was a real marriage? >> yes. can we stop the camera, please? >> okay. let's give her a moment. >> the media thought this was, to some degree, a detective story. like, is she a gold digger or is she not? and they were using those old kind of stereotypes to kind of, you know, rip the lid off this story. >> i could have married him a week after we met or two weeks after we met. i could have married him years before, and i didn't. i didn't. i went out, and i made something of myself. >> to actually see her in tears and break down and really feel what she was feeling was heartbreaking. >> it's been five years now since he's passed away. are you able to get on with your life at all? looks to me like you're still -- >> it's hard. i mean, i went through a lot. you know, p

ed sullivan that was the biggest show on tv, the equivalent of the david letterman show or the johnnyw to be on millions of viewers, and it changed your life , life, >> yes it is. i mean, it's a walk on. it's a bit scary to walk on. it's a bit scary to walk on. it's a bit scary to walk on and know that the 70 odd million people looking at it, imagine , you know, but it was it imagine, you know, but it was it was fun. a lot of things were happening then. it was a very exciting time for me. >> and how did you handle fame, billy , billy, >> not very well in the beginning, quite frankly. >> you know how so, >> you know how so, >> i was a very shy person. i was very, a very quiet kid. very shy. and suddenly, you know, i record, i recorded. you wanna know a secret, it became a number one hit for me. and suddenly, from being this overweight, chubby kid who was self—conscious, there was a thousands of kids around the house and screaming and tearing your clothes and all that kind of thing. it was a bit of a whelming. yeah, it was a lot of fun. >> so some people want that side of it. but you we

journalist, gwen ifill drew a momentous comparison on the late show with david letterman bank. >> i'llll barak obama the next year, obama repaid the favor harris had done for him in iowa, he played a key role in her 2010 election as california's attorney general with an endorsement at a shout out at a rally hey, dear, dear friend of mine. so i want everybody to do right by her san francisco district attorney kamala in a 2020 call during her run for vice president with joe biden-harris and obama compared notes on the grueling nature of campaigning. >> there were times where i was like a iowa town and that the only treadmill was in the back of a beauty salon. >> now analysts say, obama can help harris galvanize the same people who energized his campaign's younger voters. >> she's looking at the way obama did it, but she's also looking at early polls that are suggesting that she's having the same effect on young people that she will get a large turnout very large percentage of those under age 30 and the analysts, we spoke to say we can expect tonight to be a springboard that kamala harris

she was being interviewed on the david letterman show to talk about the book, she was making the book stars. she had been working on this book for a couple years, but here is the excerpt. >> there is a great district attorney in san francisco whose name is kamala harris. she's brilliant, smart. she does not look like anybody you've ever seen online order, but she's tough -- seen on law and order, but she's tough. people call her the female barack obama. people are not imaginative about these things anymore. [laughter] judy: that is our gwen. all of us who worked with her new she was on top of so many stories. here it was, more than 15 years ago, kamala harris was the district attorney in san francisco and gwen had spotted her. we now know at that time, harris was already friends with barack obama and had worked for his campaign in early 2008, but i think it speaks very well to gwen's ability to look into the future. amna: she is a visionary indeed. judy, we have heard from a number of people. you just heard that personal testimony from kamala harris's own sister. no one in the room ha

largest single day event in the world the indy 500 home of michael jackson, home of -- home of david lettermana delivered this 86 delegates to kamala harris and tim walz as the next president and vice president. amna: that was congressman pledging the ticket to kamala harris. we are very pleased to be joined by keith ellison, minnesota attorney general. thank you so much for being he. >> glad to be with you. thanks a lot amna: so tell us a little bit about that room, what we're going to hear tonight, and also what you plan on talking about when you address the crowd tomorrow evening. >> sure. amna: tell us a little bit about that. >> what i see here is a bunch of people ready to have a great time here and then go back home and really campaign their hearts out in the last 77 days. it seems like we're fueling ourselves to get out there and do this final sprint after labor day. that's what it looks like to me. i've been talking to a lot of pepeople. people are feeling good. i've been talking to the uncommitted delegates. many of them do understand that the best chance for the thing they see, at l

home of david letterman. indiana delivers its 86 delegates to kamala harris and tim walz as the next president and vice president! >> iowa, how do you cast your votes? >> thank you, mister secretary. the state of iowa, the state that launched barack obama on his way to the president the, -- presidency, the state that put education on it state quarter and the state that feeds and fuels the world cast one vote absent and 45 votes for the next president of the united states of america, kamala harris! >> kansas, how do you cast your vote? >> i can't hear. i can't hear her. i can't hear. hello delegates from the center of america, the sunflower state, kansas. where are farmers feed america. where we elect strong women who govern from the middle and i am proud to cast our 39 votes for the first black woman president, kamala harris! >> the commonwealth of kentucky, how do you cast your votes? >> since 2021 the biden-harris administration has shown up for the commonwealth of kentucky and today we are showing up for v

sporting day event in the world, the indy 500, home of michael jackson, home of babyface, home of david letterman >> iowa, how do you cast your vote? >> thank you, mr. secretary. the tall corn state of viola, the state that launched barack obama on his way to the presidency. the state that put education on its state quarter. and the state that feeds and fuels the world, casts one vote absent, and 45 votes for the next president of the united states of america, kamala harris ! >> kansas, how do you cast your vote? >> i can't hear. i can't hear. hello, delegates. from the center of america, kansas, where our farmers feed america. where we elect strong women who govern from the middle. and the first ever -- as the first-ever ever black chair of kansas i am proud to cast our 39 votes for the first black woman president, kamala harris! >> the commonwealth of kentucky, how do you cast your vote? >> since 2021, the biden/harris administration has shown up for the commonwealth of kentucky, and today we are showing up for vice president harris. with this administration, we've broken every record for priva

sporting day event in the world, the indy 500, home of michael jackson, home of babyface, home of david lettermant! >> iowa, how do you cast your vote? >> thank you, mr. secretary. the tall corn state of viola, the state that launched barack obama on his way to the presidency. the state that put education on its state quarter. and the state that feeds and fuels the world, casts one vote absent, and 45 votes for the next president of the united states of america, kamala harris ! >> kansas, how do you cast your vote? >> i can't hear. i can't hear. hello, delegates. from the center of america, kansas, where our farmers feed america. where we elect strong women who govern from the middle. and the first ever -- as the first-ever ever black chair of kansas i am proud to cast our 39 votes for the first black woman president, kamala harris! >> the commonwealth of kentucky, how do you cast your vote? >> since 2021, the biden/harris administration has shown up for the commonwealth of kentucky, and today we are showing up for vice president harris. with this administration, we've broken every record for pri