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Goals ahead of this environmental bill? is that right? >> it's a very important point, this bill has real potential for bipartisan support, there's not a single republican including lindsay graham who has said that they support immigration reform. senator graham's support is all over the bill that senator kerry and i introduced today. he said he supports the policies in it, the reason he's not with us today is because of unrelated political concerns mostly around the immigration reform bill. so i hope that we can put that all to sleep and lindsay will be considered to have been on a brief sabb...

Signed off from his short-lived prime time gig admitting the show was a bomb. >> it seems like just yesterday i was telling nbc, this is not going to work. but no. >> reporter: will his late-night return also be a bust? leno's back on "the tonight show" after a highly publicized shake-up. >> we have exactly one hour to steal every single item in this studio. >> reporter: that pitted the comic against conan o'brien who bitterly left the network when he was forced out of his time slot after just seven months. >> i've had an opportunity to work in television. some of what television networks do, ...

Conan o'brien was forced out of his time slot. >> television networks, it defies logic. >> the comedian says leno can get back on top. if anything he was on a brief sabbatical. but i think he will hit the ground running like he always has. >> he says people want to see leno back in the chair. still, media creditic says it's a slippery slope. >> he says the audience that helped leno stay on top for more than a decade must return for the show to succeed. >> so many of his followers conditioned to watch him at 11:30 may have gone on and found

Logic. >> reporter: comedian d.l. hughly says yen know can get back on top. >> if anything, he was on a brief sabbatical. but i think he'll hit the ground running like he always had. >> reporter: hughly says viewers want to see leno back in the chair now that the nbc controversy has cooled. thanks to the ratings success from the winter olympics that replaced leno's struggling prime time show this month. still media critic andrew wallinstein says -- thank you. >> straight to the president of the united states right now. going to be talking about education, keeping our kids in school, live fro...