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Scare for alex trebek taking a leave of absence as he recovers from brain surgery after a fall. here's 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 in mid december for brain surgery. subdural hematomas are pools of blood on the brain. compressing ...

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 answering our questions. that's what needs to happen. we talked to chairman goodlat about subpoenaing...

Like lindsey graham, if hundreds of thousands of people die they'll 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: that's right. well, shinzo abe, who's the prime minister here, he has wavered in popularity. been in office for quite a while, but seen as a nationalist, right winger, which causes a lot of concern among other na...

Was 15, and talk and act and walk -- she would some out landish -- my whole act was about taking a [ bleep ] that's all i had done at 15. >> i think every african-american comedian was more inspired by richard pryor. >> i've got a lot of people that come over in new york it's like a tourist place, and they get hbo and they catch the lyrics and try to do my act on the street. i've got foreigners, eddie murphy, [ bleep ] [ bleep ] i love it. suck my [ bleep ]. >> i saw eddie murphy's raw and delirious when i was really little. i knew then, he nasty. he naughty. he's not suppose to be saying any ...

I am to be here tonight. i know many of you may not share that excitement, given you have no idea who i am. >> that's a very odd night because i've done it a couple times. that's kind of a tough room. >> even though his poll numbers are at an historic low, the speaker is writing another book. once again he's taking a $1 advance. not voluntarily. that's the most he could get. >> they're as uptight as a group can be. you can do whatever you want to open a sphincter and it's not going to happen. >> in washington, there are those who live to be offended. comedians don't live to be offended. they l...