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Lewis was doing a lip syncing act. >> they sort of improvised together at after hours clubs. >> that was a good one. >> they were made for television because television was a new medium. and it was still finding its way. and was in danger of becoming very conventional. >> now, i know what im talking about. because ive been in this business close to a week. and you -- no, if you dont mind -- oh, there you are, up there. youre drunk, both of you. >> the core of their act was one very talented, ver...

Toes and worry about people getting pissed off. theres no rule book, is the thing. >> sam morel. >> on a show like the colbert show every day im figuring out what we can and cant do and the boundaries and how far can we go? >> why did gay guys get to choose who the hot women are. i thought straight guys got to decide. youre like, all right, and the tony goes to -- rocky again. its a completely separate type of comedy late night comedy. some comics are good at it. but some comics, it feels like i...

>> ive got aids? >> television at its best is a mirror of society in the moment. >> "st. elsewhere" challenged people, and they challenged you as an actor, much less the audience, to think. the stuff they gave you was extreme, and what they did, whether they were dealing with aids or having one of their main doctor characters raped in a prison. >> they tackled lots of difficult subjects. >> "st. elsewhere" was run by people who were trying to stretch the medium, and in the 80s, television produc...

The medium? >> well, this is one of the mysteries. my understanding is twitter has suspended him for a while for one of the things he did in materials of making a violent threat. suspense is not the same thing as banning. whether alex jones changing his behavior and stops trafficking in conspiracy theories like accusing the sandy hook parents of making up the deaths of their children, you know, i dont know that suspension is going to do it. i think twitter actually has been pretty inconsistent. ...

>> i do. and i believe -- my experience shows me the fbi will get to the bottom of what happened in california. >> after the fact? >> well, thats the problem. how far are we going to go? there are things we can do. theres really no digital solution available today that can completely protect us. there are things we can do right now. we need more central leadership. we need dhs and the federal authorities to respond to this nation state threat and stop making keep thes have to deal with it. thats...

Pioneering a digital solution where we can protect all of our votes on a digital medium, we can use federal resources to train state election officials and basic cyber security techniques. >> all that other easy stuff. >> absolutely. david, thank you very much for being here. i am going to keep talking to you about all this stuff. as a former u.s. attorney, youre an authority on this and a lot of other matters i recognize. i appreciate you staying in the public debate on this. thanks so much. st...

The possession of the committee? >> no. but id be happy to submit them to the committee. they didnt fit within the request that i had with counsel as to the documents he wished to have produced. if the committee does wish them id be happy to submit them. >> mr. chairman, i think the committee would like very much to have a copy of that medium. >> all right, sir. >> all right, sir. theres john dean, nixons white house counsel saying, hey, nobody asked me about this. if youre interested in this ab...

>> alternate reality. i cant imagine saying can you guarantee me if i say this to the world that i am not saying something that is factually inaccurate? and to be able to have a seufpbuation where theres the case is unfortunate. and the highlight on the media saying the use of the medium the media is using is what is furthering this narrative and the reality is the president has tweeted about this eight times in the past 24 hour 53 million twitter followers. that is an aggressive use of this pla...

The case it is unfortunate. and, furthermore part of what we heard today was pushing this off and the highlight on this on the media saying that the use of the medium that the media is using is furthering this narrative and the reality is the president has tweeted about this eight times in the past 24 hours and he has 53 twitter followers, thats an aggressive use of his flplatfor that further this narrative. i would rather talk something much more important to the american people like jobs and e...

Post." and katy tur. david k. johnson author of the making of donald trump. i want to start with zerlinna. this reality tv game by guess who, taking on mr. reality tv and doing it in a way that has kept our attention on every medium, newspaper, cable show, she has dominated for almost a week. she has some leg left. a couple of days dominating. she seems to have found a news hall. your thoughts. >> i think she has been strategic from the beginning. picking the month of august to put a book out in...