satire, there's mel brooks. then, there's everybody else. >> vhs was invented. we had "the godfather" and every mel brooks' movie. >> i want to go back to your television days. you were in television for 20 years. >> it was very good to be a writer for the show of shows, the sid caesar show. >> you look at it as a training ground for your work. >> comedy university, it was. >> mel brooks was a writer on the show of shows. by the time of "the producers" he was one of the most acclaimed people of comedy. >> joseph, you're smoking in the presence of the fuhrer. >> i'm sorry, big bdaddy. >> "the producers" wasn't the first to parody hitler. "the three stooges" did it in a couple of film shorts. but it was an embodiment about what mel brooks is about. he does have a hitler obsession. >> you have to bring him down with ridicule. it's been one of my life long jobs has been to make the world laugh at adolf hitler. ♪ >> you never had the aspirations to be serious? >> [ bleep ]. all my films are serious. they are passiona

. >> mel brooks. >> in terms of parody and satire, there really is mel brooks and then everybody else>> when i was a kid hv s tapes were invented so we had the god father. >> i'd like to go back to your television days, you were there for something like 20 years. >> it was very good for me to be part of the writing staff of the show. >> you talk about it as if it was a training ground. >> yes. >> is that how you see it? >> comedy university. it really was. >> mel brooks was one of the highest paid comedian in the history of show business. by the time for the producers he was one of the most critically acclaimed people in comedy. >> joseph you are smoking in the presence of the -- >> i'm sorry big daddy. >> "the producers" was not the first to parody movies. "the three stooges did it" but it really was the embodiment of what mel brooks is about. he does have this hitler obsession. >> you have to bring him down with ridicule. one of our life long jobs has been to make the world laugh at adolph hitler. ♪ >> -- to be serious. >> bull [ bleep ] all my films are serious. they are passionate

. >> looks like mel brooks. >> there really is mel brooks and then there's everybody else. when i was a kid, vhs tapes were invented so we had "the godfather" and then we had every mel brooks movie and he was the funniest. >> i would like to get back to your television days because, i mean, you were in television for something like 20 years writing sid caesar. >> it was very good to be part of "the sid caesar show". >> you talk about it as a training ground. is that how you see it? >> comedy university, it really was. >> mel brooks was one of the highest paid comedy writers in the history of show business when he worked for "your show of shows" so by the time of "the producers" he was one of the most critically acclaimed people in comedy. >> joseph, you are smoking in the presence of the furor. >> i'm sorry, big daddy. >> "the producers" was not the first attempt to parody hitler. >> the three stooges did it in a couple of film shorts. but it really was the embodiment of a lot of what mel brooks was about. he does have this hitler obsession. >> there's only one to get even.

the new book, mel brooks gives me titles. i said what do i do now?ys write a book called "too busy to die." >> and you did. >> i just finished it. >> and you have a children's book coming out? >> a children's book which i wrote a while back, but i held it back for a while. it's called "you say god bless you for sneezing and farting". and my little granddaughter, lucas's daughter, when she was 4 years old, she passed wind, she said to her little friend leo, they were going to kindergarten. she said don't you say god bless you? he said no you say it when you sneeze. she said no it's sneaezing and farting. >> what do you do for your mind. this is for your body. >> you keep thinking. i wake up with thoughts. i wake up with thoughts. now i'm waking up with tweets about anti-trump tweets. >> oh, yeah. >> he tweets every day. >> i know, i follow him. i follow him. >> absolutely. >> today's tweet was about, he was talking about win, win, win, we're going to win, we're going to win so much that we -- >> sick of winning. >> no, i said, it was him talking about

. >> mel brooks, david bowie, art carney, muhammad ali. >> but the weirdest thing about this story... >> and it's really solid. nothing's going to fall off. >> ...is how the square from the burbs ends up with both. >> i can only imagine this driving around the streets of new york. >> will this two-for-one strange inheritance -- >> i've got $150, can get a $175? once, twice. first piece sold. >> ...ultimately add up? [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] >> i'm jamie colby, and today and i'm in the pocono mountains of pennsylvania on my way to meet an heir with a head-spinning story that will take us back to 1970s manhattan, the era of punk rock, disco and wild parties at studio 54. >> my name is hugh hooper. back in 2008, my brother hoop received a very strange inheritance. when he died three years later, he left one twice as strange to me. >> hugh, hi. i'm jamie. >> how are you doing, jamie? nice to meet you. >> so great to meet you. you know, i don't come out of manhattan for just anything, but i heard your inheritance is way cool. >> it is. it's crazy. bu

literally because it was literally the producer's salute to the producers you know the movie that mel brooks movie where these guys get together and they say let's make a movie that's going to fail so that we can keep all the investors' money and so they made this movie cause i'm not sure i want this is exactly and i didn't come right out of the strawberry or talk to my friends in a cone county michigan and tell them that talk to my friends in michigan we're sick and tired of mainstream same. but i'm sick and tired of both national republican figures and national democratic figures sell them a lot of nonsense right didn't matter don't turn comes in and he speaks to these people and he tells his people you know what your debt in a raw deal these trade deals that both parties for the last twenty years have been telling you are good for you they have not been ok republicans i mean i don't know if i'm up against right now a jobs cap believe what is going to bob what i mean if you are right if you're right then why is it that he is means that he would want to get some legislative stuff does which

. >> mel brooks, david bowie, art carney, muhammad ali. >> but the weirdest thing about this story...are from the burbs ends up with both. >> i can only imagine this driving around the streets of new york. >> will this two-for-one strange inheritance -- >> i've got $150, can get a $175? once, twice. first piece sold. >> ...ultimately add up? [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ]

would you want to see mel brooks arrested. aim ep got to heart of what handler advocated.for the arrest of sarah silverman and other comedian. maybe that is the idea. handler could benefit from imprisonning the competition. alan dershowitz is long critical of the russian search. and he is now called a racist. he had this to say after it was reported that a special counsel bob mueller empanelled the grand jury in dc. >> the district of colombia is it democratic and ethnic and racial composition that is unfavorable to the trump administration. >> laura: absolutely true. but truth is no defense these days. california representative maxine waters lashed out at dershowitz as a racist trump fan. >> he talked about the make up of the district as stacked against donald trump. >> it is unfair. what he is simply saying, all of those black people there don't like trump and so he will not get a fair trial and so they should take it out. i don't like that and i am surprised that alan dershowitz is talking like that. we'll not stand for that. that is racist. >> laura: alan dershowitz jo

he scored $7 million to attack mel brooks to keep them in the runoff come in knowing they came, whittemoreery defined based and most polling shows he can't expand the base. he gave luther strange or runoff and you can spend millions of dollars keeping voters. cheryl: do you find mitch mcconnell has suffered reputation only in particular because of what is happening with the health care vote in the senate? >> i can only hope so. i think so. this is a man who for seven years said they would repeal of omnicare. he structured it so they need 51 votes and they still couldn't do it. mitch mcconnell faced lots of promises he doesn't need. train to the president and many conservative groups have voiced their frustration with mitch mcconnell but he's going to be raining down money on the state of alabama when what i'm trying voters go to the polls. thank you for being here this morning. we appreciate it. train to share, have a good day. lauren: when we come back, a pop icon who knew a dj was trouble. ♪ i knew you were trouble when you walked into ♪ a newer trouble when he walks in. lauren: the hurr

over house republican mel brooks who would be seen as the america-first as kelli ward was aing senator. and trump sided with luther strange. keep in mind, he said if elected he would vote against mitch mcconnell as leader. that says a lot. >> interesting playing out there in some of the key republican primaries. >> it seems as it trump needs mcconnell as much as trump -- in fact, trump may actually need mcconnell more. >> especially trying to get legislation pushed through. molly, thank you. >>> minutes after president trump wrapped up his speech, the streets of in phoenix erupted in protests as police and protesters clashed in largely peaceful demonstrations. officers used combinations of smoke bombs and pepper bombs. the city's police chief said some protesters threw rocks and bottles at the demonstrators. while some demonstrators actually tossed some at police. there were arrests including aggravated assault of a police officer. thousands gathered at least a small number were involved in confrontations with police. >>> and intelligence director james clapper interrupted the speech i

his opponents roy moore and mel brooks already out voting this morning.erry bullis life for us at our new york newsroom with more. >> all eyes on alabama today. as you say, jeff sessions senate seat which he vacated when he became attorney general and although no republican has lost the senate race and alabama since 1982, luther strange, the republican incumbent is struggling. what he has on his side however is a lot. rebels are low to criticize him for a fear of alienating the president. strange also has the support of mitch mcconnell who is allies help put together million dollar campaign. robert bentley who appointed strange it six months ago -- bentley left his office after a sex scandal. rebels are taking a vantage of these weaknesses with brooks urging voters to send a huge message to the establishment by defeating mcconnell's hand chosen pick. today the strange campaign has said the president is urging alabama were public and voters to vote for strange. trump says his administration is accomplishing many of his goals, but i need luther to help us o

luther strange, mel brooks and roy moore are the candidates. been temporarily filling the seat since february. all have embraced president trump during their campaign in an effort to compete for his supporters. the president decided to officially endorse luther strange earlier this month. since then, he's taken to twitter multiple times to showcase a support and recorded this just yesterday. speak out is president donald trump and i love the people of alabama and i hope you go out and vote for luther strange force on it. we are doing things that a lot of people thought were impossible, but i need luther to help us out. go to those polls and vote for luther strange. >> sandra: here's what strange is set on "fox & friends" this morning. >> why did the president pick you? >> it's based on a couple of factors. we've developed a personal friendship, we like each other and we have the same goals, to make america great again. to implement his agenda, that's with the people of my state want and that's what i've been doing from day one and the senate, s

you had mel brooks. you had woody allen.nything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century was provided by them. >> do you recognize this voice, al? >> hello, al. remember me? i used to encourage you. i helped you in those desperate years when you needed help so very much. i guided you, encouraged you, and did so much to mold your character and make you the person you are today. >> could i hear it again? >> your show of shows is now looked at by comedy mavens as one of the great early comedy shows if not the great early comedy sketch show, a precursor by many, many years of "saturday night live" and everything that followed. >> al, al, i wonder if you'd tell our audience exactly who this lady is. >> i don't know who she is, but it's all right with me. >> one of the fastest rising of these comic commentators is young woody allen. >> the telephone company has a service for emotionally disturbed types called dial a prayer. they have a number that you dial in you're an atheist. you don't hear anything on the other end

already with washington insiders like mcconnell, and view other republican candidates, congressman mel brooks, supreme court justice among them, anti-establishment disrupters much more in the 20916 mold. 2016 mold. and the president remains popular among lovelock republicans and senator strange hopes that means a lot today. >> i've done everything you could possibly do to support's president's agenda and believe me, that's what the people of alabama want to see done. >> molly ball, down covering the strange race. molly strange -- down coving the race and write in "the atlantic" strange himself was surprised. nearly drove off the road when trump called him tuesday afternoon, he said. why is he so surprises? >> it's actually a surprising thing for a president to call. strange is the incumbent there six months but a lot of people around the president and luther strange were surprised trump, the first time the president weighed in in a contested republican primary. expected to stay out of it. mitch mcconnell did lobby him hard to endorse strange some months ago, but when trump declined to do that

jane austin, mel brooks, the talents are great ways to instill that morality into finance. >> i findse days people tend to self-categorize into city types or creative types. my feeling is the education system as it currently stands is pushing people towards this. we are expected to choose a bucket and slot into it. as a professor at harvard, would you agree with that? do you think the education system is correctly set up to encourage what you think is the best path forward? >> i'm afraid you're right i'm part of that problem, i guess. i end the book with a story from c.p. snowe, a british academic who pointed out the dull between science and the humanities that same thing happens in finance. when i travel to different parts of harvard, i feel that as well. people on the business school side demean humanities, people in humanities tend to demean finance. both are worse off it's a tragedy it's happened because of the specialization of finance, happened because of compensation levels, which people find problematic. it is a real loss. to make finance better we have to reunite >> the indu

congressman mel brooks came in third with just under 20% and will not advance to september 26th.ppointed earlier received the endorsement of president donald trump early last week. president trump loomed large over the race. in strange's favor. but neither that or the backing of mitch mcconnell's super pac were not enough for strange to win outright. sources tell nbc news they expect trump to campaign for strange in the next couple weeks. >>> and coming, fed subsidies tied to obamacare plans that could spike costs. >>> and the president lashing out over members of his manufacturing council stepping down as members of that group continues to grow. next, bill karins will be back with a check on the forecast when we return. ♪ ♪ isaac hou has mastered gravity defying moves to amaze his audience. great show. here you go. now he's added a new routine. making depositing a check seem so effortless. easy to use chase technology, for whatever you're trying to master. isaac, are you ready? yeah. chase. so you can. right. in. your. stomach! watch this!... >>yikes, that ice cream was messing

sessions' seat because they wanted someone maybe more grassroots conservative, more tea party like mel brooksressman or others. what do you think? >> certainly i think as between the president and mitch mcconnell on the original battle here, conservative side with the president. we do think they failed. the senate leadership has failed, mitch mcconnell is at the focus of that. i agree with you about the disappointment with respect to the president's recent endorsement. a year ago he endorsed john mccain. look at the year since then with john mccain. the president hasn't gotten anything out of that. john mccain was the vote that killed repeal, or even the opportunity to get to repeal. so that path hasn't been a productive one from either the president's perspective or grassroots conservative's perspective. i do think it's appropriate for the president to keep putting pressure on mitch mcconnell to at least do what he said he was going to do. now, for the seven years, it was obamacare, but the reality is that you can't name anything really significant that mitch mcconnell has gotten through the

struggling in race against former alabama supreme court chief justice roy moore and congressman mel brooksore who rode to his polling place on horseback. there you see. pit. gaining notoriety after. both he and brooks are making their opposition to the other republican senator from kentucky. the senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell, a centerpiece of their campaigns. no surprise that mcconnell is backing strange. garrett haake joins us now, and you sent it to us, you said, what if you held a high profile special election for the u.s. senate and nobody came? >> yeah, katy. that's kind of what they are looking at here in alabama today. the secretary of state is predicting turnout will be between 10% and 15%. that's abysmal and it's below expectations in this race which were already low of about 20% to 25%. that reflects a lack of enthusiasm for the nine candidates on the ballot on the republican side. a anecdotely talking about how they like roy moore. they are not exactly thrilled about the other candidates, and we have been talking about this trump endorsement of luther strange and that

mitch mcconnell and the republican establishment and there are two big-mom contenders in the race, mel brooksngressman from alabama, and roy moore, the judge famous for the ten commandments, both in this race attack not only the senator but mitch mcconnell and the republican establishment. i get e-mails all the time from them saying mitch mcconnell is trying to come in and take our senate seat. it reflects the ongoing fighting in the republican party. >> brangham: something to keep an eye on. stu rothenberg, tamera keith, thank you very much. >> you're welcome. >> brangham: now we turn to bangladesh, where some children walk the beaches selling trinkets and food to help their families deal with grinding poverty. many of the girls will be married before they become adults, and will often be expected to assume traditional roles in the home. but one ambitious group of young girls is pushing back against that tide, and heading into the surf. special correspondent tania rashid takes us wave-riding. >> reporter: the world's longest beach is in bangladesh, and it is in cox's bazaar, the only beach t

now, mel brooks tried to capitalize on the president's disappointment in his u.s. senate campaign. jeff session's seat along with luther strand and roy moore. the surprise twist last tuesday trump abruptly gave his "complete and total endorsement to strange on twitter." despite strange's close ties to mcconnell and senate leadership. brooks took to appealing to trump on twitter. i agree completely, mr. trump. mcconnell and strange don't support your agenda. i do. reconsider endorsement. he sent three more tweets just like that. for his part, judge roy moore is also bashing mcconnell in a new campaign ad calling him a part of the d.c. swamp. >> they lied about repeeling obama care. now, mitch mcconnell's d.c. slime machine spending millions spreading lies about roy moore. bearing false witness. why? we know why. we all know why. roy moore is honest. drain the swamp. send mcconnell a messable. send them all a message. >> at the same time allies of president trump, they're stepping up to take on senators who have been critical or waivered in their support for the white house. politica

this is mel brooks, the territorial governor, not so easy to make interesting, but i guess he tried. but i don't know if popular culture heched culture helped or hurt us with that. second one, the complicate the heritage, number two, steering by science. so progressives are all about science. they really feel strong, warm emotion for science. and i will use the word faith. that science is the bedrock of a positive belief that is hard just to call a thought or an understanding, but something that really does come into faith, that we'll send scientists out on field explorations and they will graph and chart and note. we're about to really thomas jefferson's instructions to merry weather lewis. there's a hope, a belief that they'll be very smart and they'll be the ones who provide centralized tho centralized authority with guidance. and then nature in a way that is maddening, turns out to be extremely complicated. so all of the faith. gifford pinchot thought that fire could simply be eliminated interest the forest. study the forest, hearne thelea ways, never have to have fire again. thi

. >> "leap" stars the voices of elle fanning, mel brooks and kate mckinnon, but it's only scoring a 31%> it does look cute. >> very sweet. but brian truett writes for "usa today," for the cinematic dregs of late august, the earnest and quirky "leap" is charmingly on point." and then this one says "you've seen it all before, though it's pleasant enough to watch it again." pleasant i guess -- >> pleasant enough, that's the barrier, you know. we've seen the poop movie or whatever it's called. >> "the emoji movie." >> so that's the low barrier and this is up there. >> pleasant enough. >> makes me want to watch "good times" again, though. >> i know! >> ester roll. >>> breaking news this morning on "world news now." >>> breaking news this morning on "world news now", a life-threatening hurricane bearing down on texas and the gulf coast. >> evacuations are ongoing as forecasters expect as much as 35 inches of rain in some areas. historic flooding expected in the southern part of the state with the fourth largest city in america facing what could be a category 3 storm. full coverage, ahead. >>>

and this tweeted, ," please, reconsider, what you want to see mel first amendment." brookse heart of what she was advocating, saying, chelsea handler basically calls for the arrest of sarah silverman and countless other comedians. maybe that is actually the idea. other unfunny comedians. handler could benefit from imprisoning the competition. harvard law professor alan dershowitz has long been critical of the endless search for russian collusion by donald trump's campaign team. now, he is getting called, get this, a racist. recently, he had this to say after it was reported that special counsel popular had impaneled a grand jury in washington, d.c. >> the district of columbia, which is solidly democratic and has an ethnic and racial composition that might be veryra unfavorable to the trump administration. >> laura: pretty obviously true, but truth is no defense these days. california congresswoman maxine waters was quick to lash out at dershowitztz as a racist term f, despite his decades of donating to democrats.s. >> he went on to talk about the thee went on to talk about

. >> mel brooks, baby. >> all of those at the top of the hour.hooping cough. every family member, including those around new babies, should talk to their doctor or pharmacist about getting vaccinated. ♪ >> a handful of protests are taking place across the country, the biggest in boston. >> the president also tweeting our great country has been divided for decades. sometimes you need protests in order to heal, and we will heal and be stronger than ever before before. >> a second police officer has died in the wake of an overnight shoot-out in florida. >> this threat to police officers has grown geometrically geometrically. we're exceedingly okay among some groups to demonize police and treat them as subhuman. >> a fresh house for the white house with the departure of steve bannon. >> steve bannon has the same ideological notion today that he did two days ago inside the white house, which he wants to change america for the better and has a new platform to do that. >> the powerball jackpot is now a cool $650 million. the chances of winning are about

senator luther strange, representative mel brooks and chief justice roy moore will face on tuesday.kids drink soda. researchers hope this study will help them understand different parenting techniques. finally, $430 million. the new jack up for the powerball after no one won last night. the next drying on wednesday. abby, pete. abby: when it comes to work on our next guest points next guest point that our elected leaders can learn a lot about good and evil from the bible. >> fox news religion contributor, father. >> admission to what happened, questions of good and evil, war or peace. if you're the president of the united states, where do you draw that discernment necessary to make such a difficult decision? >> we are talking about this because we as leaders in the white house and congress who would say i'm a christian. and therefore they are going to use the bible as a guide. that is a very good thing. you can't just plop a verse out of the bible and say this justifies what i'm going to do. i think the most famous passage in the whole bible i'm not going to quiz, do not kill. that