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Television. television, you know, splittered up into a million channels and instead of three networks which we had 50 years ago when dave was growing up and i was, you know now we have a woodworking channel and a trout fishing channel and all of that. and i dont think were going to have the kind of unity we had. and this is really a truism by this point, that we had with dave. and, you know it was even greater with johnny carson when johnny said good night i think there were like 50 million view...

And so on. but he was one of the great entertainers, i think, in the history of the medium. >> kevin, talk about how dave feels about it because my impression from you writers who ive known forever is that dave -- i get the impression he was never really satisfied with any given show, that he was always thinking, oh, this could be better, this could be better and pushing for it to be better. >> i think thats definitely true. he has a perfectionist streak. hes very, very hard on himself. i was ju...

Can you envision yourself 20 years from now doing your late night show? [ laughter ] >> good one, john. >> ill put that one down as a hardly no. >> david letterman, who has been on the air for 33 years with over 6,000 broadcasts, that makes my head hurt will have his last show tonight. he is the longest serving late night talk show host in tv history. last nights guest, bill murray who popped out of a cake and proceeded to spread it all over pretty much everyone and everything. tonights guests a...

Everybody wondering who his final guest will be and what he will say in his final top 10 list. you know letterman is truly the end of an era. he says hes not retiring entirely just retiring from "the late show." but people will all be tuning in wednesday night as he actually says good-bye to the show. stephen colbert is ready to take over. he will actually not take over until september. but hes already starting to talk to advertisers, warm up for his takeover of "the late show," and he made a ve...

Craziest ive ever done. ♪ >> its a simple boy-meets-girl story told in a really unusual way. >> this is sort of like when you have some magical fantasy of a photograph coming to life. all the pieces always move. and its people playing with their cameras. so the story line is also about the sort of medium theyre using with all those little photos flickering and changing. >> this is a great example of stop-motion photography. the filmmaker created a bank of frames and hes actually moving from on...

Point with abu bakr al-baghdadi, the very reclusive leader of isis. the guy the u.s. of course wants to get. >> all right. lets talk more about this senior international correspondent nick paton walsh is with us from beirut. nick you have covered isis extensively. what more can you tell us about this? tunisian citizen and his role in isis? >> not much more than the white house and pentagon have said. hes not somebody who was a familiar name. abu sayaff i should point out is is a nom de guerre it...

Things. and allowing the government to regulate them. so the argument is that this is not about free speech and being able to express yourself online its a functional actual thing that youre putting online and therefore the government has a right. what do you think to that? >> if the government makes that argument i would suspect that the response is that there are plenty of instructional things like textbooks or instruction manuals given the anarchist cookbook which is protected by the first am...

Theyre gaining in thousands devotees here in the u.s. >> right. this is the difference between the old kind of recruiting and the new kind. social media is really a game changer in terms of the ability of a group like isis which has mastered the medium to inspire people to its cause because social media is a very warm medium. its different than sitting here and consuming cnn or any other television show where you can yell at the television but the televisions not going to talk back to you. where...

Its apparently not fat, its not thin. according to many women its just right. >> why should slightly out of shape only be reserved for men? could mom bods be next? were "up all nightline." >> reporter: introducing the new "it" body type for bros. who needs magic mike bulging biceps? apparently what women really want is a soft doughy dad bod. >> the dad bod is a healthy medium between someone whos a little bit heavier set, and someone who works out, really the average guy body. my friends and i s...

>> there is a lack of trust within this community. period. bottom line. thats going to take healing. thats going to take us acknowledging as a police department, not just here in baltimore, but law enforcement as a whole, weve been part of the problem. out of trying to be part of the solution, we have become part of the problem. when we acknowledge that and understand, we can start to heal. the community needs to hear that. the community needs to hear from us that we see that we havent been part...