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Scare for alex trebek taking a leave of absence as he recovers from brain surgery after a fall. heres matt gutman. >> reporter: tonight, speaking a shade more deliberately than his normally peppy clip on jeopardy -- we learn alex trebek is taking a medical leave from the show. >> during the holiday break, i had a slight medical problem. subdural hematoma. blood clots on the brain caused by a fall i endured about two months ago. >> reporter: trebek suffering complications checked into a hospital ...

Elected. so, how, in what forum will peter strzok be asked a question, sir, what did you mean by that? >> he needs to be in front of the judiciary committee asap. we need -- first, we need to bring him in and depose him. then we need to put him in the same seat rod rosenstein set today and we need to ask him questions in front of god and everybody so the american people can see what this guy wases up to. this guy who thought he was james bond. super agent guy at the fbi needs to be right there a...

Like lindsey graham, if hundreds of thousands of people die theyll day "over there," striking many in the firing line of north korea as quite glib to put it mildly. >> matt, what does this do in japan politically? the japanese prime minister taking a, sort of a hard line about this. and to some degree, these types of threats do tend to rally a nation around a politician. >> reporter: thats right. well, shinzo abe, whos the prime minister here, he has wavered in popularity. been in office for qui...

Was 15, and talk and act and walk -- she would some out landish -- my whole act was about taking a [ bleep ] thats all i had done at 15. >> i think every african-american comedian was more inspired by richard pryor. >> ive got a lot of people that come over in new york its like a tourist place, and they get hbo and they catch the lyrics and try to do my act on the street. ive got foreigners, eddie murphy, [ bleep ] [ bleep ] i love it. suck my [ bleep ]. >> i saw eddie murphys raw and delirious ...

I am to be here tonight. i know many of you may not share that excitement, given you have no idea who i am. >> thats a very odd night because ive done it a couple times. thats kind of a tough room. >> even though his poll numbers are at an historic low, the speaker is writing another book. once again hes taking a $1 advance. not voluntarily. thats the most he could get. >> theyre as uptight as a group can be. you can do whatever you want to open a sphincter and its not going to happen. >> in was...

Talk and walk and do everything like richard pryor. mother watching 15-year-old on stage saying some outlandish [ bleep ]. my whole act was about taking a [ bleep ] because thats all hi done at 15. >> i think every african-american comedian was inspired by richard pryor. eddy murphy did get into using four-letter words more out of a sense, im trying shock you. >> ive had other people that seen my films come over to the united states because new york is like a tourist place. they get hbo and catc...

They got too close to some of the counterprotesters. boston police and other authorities had to intervene at one point. we did see -- appear to be counterdemonstraters get placed on the ground and taken away by authorities. now what were seeing are police on motorcycles and police officers and on bicycles blocking the area here. i want to take you back to yesterday when we heard from the commissioner saying theyre going to be taking a, quote, discrete approach at law enforcement here, meaning th...

Cheney because they wont be seen again until the trial. i didnt do it and i wish i would have. >> i cant tell you how excited i am to be here tonight. i know many of you may not share that excitement, given you have no idea who i am. >> thats a very odd night because ive done it a couple times. thats kind of a tough room. >> even though his poll numbers are at an historic low, the speaker is writing another book. once again hes taking a $1 advance. not voluntarily. thats the most he could get. >...

>> thats a very odd night because identify done it a couple times. >> even though his poll numbers are at a low the speaker is writing another book. hes taking a $1 advance, not voluntary, thats the moe he could get. >> theyre as uptight as a group could be, you can go what ever up to open a sfinger, its not going to happen. >> in washington there are people who live to be offended. comedians don leave to be offended they live to offend. >> hosting the white house -- was the most scared as ive e...

Twitter, criticizing obamacare. he has his chief -- pardon me, his press secretary sean spicer taking kind of advance work, blasting the cbo, noting that it might be wrong. hes got a campaign promise to keep. he talked about repealing obamacare early on in his campaign. its something that he wants to do. and we know how important keeping campaign promises has been for the president, whether it was cuba, the paris accord, attacking immigration, so hes got a lot of skin in this game. and hes a -- ...