s team record. >>> that will do it for this espn news update. now, back to abc's "america this morning." >>> president obama back to business today, after becoming the first sitting president to appear on "late night with davidletterman." >> the president joked about opposition to his health care overhaul. he even took home a keepsake from the audience. >> that's remarkable. >> remarkable. >> this is remarkable. [ laughter ] and you carry heart-shaped potatoes. thank you so much for sharing. >> yeah. >> from spuds, the confers then turned to summer. and the first tweens. >> so, we decided there wasn't going to be any fancy camps during the summer or anything. they basically just goofed off all summer, which i couldn't do. >> others have. >> of course, much of his time this summer was spent on health care reform. the president talked about why some people seemed to be against his plan. >> but, look, let's face it. they're a little scared about the devil they don't know. and so -- and there's an awful lot of misinformation out there that gets floated around. that's what we have to fight through. that's why i

america's promise. the former republican congressman intern host of msnbc's "morning joe" presents s thoughts on the bush administration, the current state of the republican party and the obamapresidency. joe scarborough discusses his book with peggy noonan combest for "the wall street journal." >> host: joe scarborough, anchor of the morning cable news show morning show on msnbc, which you cohost with tnika brzezinski. you are a former congressman. you represent florida's first districtn the house from 1995 to 2001. you were elected in 1994, a member of that famous class that one republican control of the house for the first time in i think to generations. >> guest: it was a very long time. >>ost: 40, 50 years because before that you were a practicing attorney and i think the schoolteacher. you are a forme host of scarborough country. you have the radio show with mika monday through friday 10:00 to noon on a think w abc in new york. you have a new book out called the last best hope published by crown books. i think it is your second book. >> guest: it is. >> host: joe, how you encourage a cle show and dewall the prep, loath

this is president obama's first address to the united nations general assembly since taking office. his dramatic message to leaders? don't expect america to fix it all. >> fox 5's van van is following this one -- laura evans is following this one for us. >> reporter: iranian president mahmoud mahmoud ahmadinejad angered many of the world shunning them by walking out. same thing happened earlier in the day as moammar gadhafi went on an extended rant disbl. protesters angry denounced libyan leader moammar gadhafi present at the council meeting while inside his fir speech to the u.n. in his 40 years as ruler of libya had some questioning gadhafi's sanity, referring to handwritten notes that appeared extremely disorganized. he reminded the world why he's so controversial. he said the taliban should form its own territory like the vatican, asserted that the h1n1 flu virus was created by an unknown military and implicated in the israelis in the assassination of j.f.k. plus, annal sis of what's wrong with the u.n. charter. >> should not be called the security council. >> reporter: protesters also called for the u.n. to silence mahmoud ahmadinejad after an election man

s and now president obama. to try to deal with the situation of health care in the united states of america. and this is an issue that we here as elected representatives day in and day out where we get letters from constituents who have problems with the insurance industry, who have been hurt, displaced, not covered, the coverage they have doesn't necessarily work. i think this whole debate breaks down into two separate categories. there's the financial aspect of health care reform. and bending the cost curve and making sure that our country doesn't go belly up because we keep going down the same road and we don't muster up the courage to have change. and then the other track is the social justice track. the idea that the way that human beings, the way that american citizens are now getting treated by insurance companies is unfair, not right, cruel, and something that needs to stop. so collectively as a country in the past election the country overwhelmingly voted for change. and they overwhelmingly voted for health care change. one of the major planks in president obama's platform was healt