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My Working Assumption in the deal, that will serve as the construct for these negotiations. Do you think this will wrap up quickly or is there a long way to go . This will wrap up quickly, matter of weeks versus months. A lot of opportunity to pull from the writers to shape their own for the actors but there are a few unique issues. For example, when it comes to ai the writers deal strike has a huge ai part of it. This one will need to address things like digital replicas of actors. Thats not something writers have to worry about. Writers have other unique issues. They want people to be able to do more tryouts in person as opposed to having to do tapes themselves which are more costly. Et cetera. John oliver. Quite a take. Lets play it for folks. Well, im happy they got a fair deal and immensely proud of what our union accomplished, im also furious that it took the studios 148 days to achieve a deal that they could have offered on day [ bleep ] one. I miss john oliver. Hes back. Late nights back tonight. Late nights back. We have three of the major shows returning tonight. The thing im looking to see is how all of these strikes and the pandemic will shape late night forever. Obviously these huge monologs are fun but theyre going viral online. It calls into question whether some of the networks need to be paying some of these high paid late night hosts to go on every night. Well see how they address it. Maybe just go a couple of nights . Maybe go a couple of nights. Shift the schedule. Late night and daytime talk has been affected. Its important to remember, late night can come back after the Writers Strike because they dont need actors. Even though the Writers Strike has been resolved, so many favorite series that require acting are still on hold until we get this new deal. Slightly off topic but youre always a reporter no matter where you are. Including at met life. You were at met life. What you said about your experience versus the experience those of us watching on tv had was fascinating. What was it . I was shocked there was no mention of taylor swift inside the stadium whatsoever. We didnt see pictures like that. She was never on the jumbotron. If you were inside you would have had no idea she was ever at the game. I think it was sort of our new York New Jersey way of saying taylor if youre sitting on the wrong side, were not going to give you any air time. Its a football game. Its not the taylor someone called it the taylor swift game last night. You . I would never would never theres too many jets fans in here to call it the taylor swift game. Thank you. Thanks for coming in. Appreciate it. The Supreme Court starts a new term today on the docket. A Second Amendment case and the case looking at social media companies. Also today, the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsberg is being mortallized with a forever stamp honoring her lifetime of achievements. We sat down with her granddaughter to talk about her legacy. Following a Trail Blazing career dedicated to service and equality, the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsberg is set to be honored with a forever stamp. That stamp, you see it right there, features Justice Ginsberg wearing her black judicial robe with an intricate collar symbolizing what became such an iconic part of her wardrobe. The u. S. Postal service said it is to honor her Ground Breaking contributions to justice, gender, equality and the rule of law. She spent her life believing it would change the equality of the court. This is 1993. In my lifetime i expect to see three, four, perhaps even more women on the high court bench, women not shaped from the same mold but of different complexions. And i surely would not be in this room today without the determined efforts of men and women who kept dreams alive, dreams of equal citizenship. Chief Justice John Roberts pointed to Justice Ginsbergs dedication to equequality. She changed our country profoundly for the better. So happy to be joined by Justice Ginsbergs granddaughter. Its great to have you. Thanks. Im glad to be here. What does it feel like to look at this . Its really remarkable and its incredible that there will be her image in households and offices all over the country with her stamp. Its really incredible. I was struck by judge wilkinson, thats a retired conservative justice who was appointed by president ragan, and he reflected on how your grandmother might have thought about this honor. And he said, perhaps she would see her forever stamp as a feminist response to abrahams penny, a small but lasting symbol of unity in a fractured time. What do you think . Yeah, i loved that piece by judge wilkinson. It was great. I definitely agree. I think Something Like this would have been beyond her wildest dreams. Really . Especially at her Confirmation Hearing in 1993 to think that she would be honored in this way. It was so interesting to listen back to that. She said three, perhaps four women on the court. Yeah. We have four now. We do. This court is very different than the court she was on. How do you think she would view this court right now . It has changed so dramatically. Well, i think that on first off, as you mentioned, having four women on the court is something that she would be absolutely delighted about. As she noted in her Confirmation Hearing, she was hoping that those women would not be cut from the same cloth and thats certainly the case. We have women from different backgrounds, different legal viewpoints and i think thats something she would celebrate. And certainly the court is very different from when she was on it, but she was on the court for a long time and she saw different permutations of the court during her tenure as an associate justice. I think she would recognize this is part of the natural ebb and flow of what the Supreme Court looks like over the years. A lot of your pro bono work deals with what row institutes. Its been over a year since the court overturned that. I want to talk about your grandmothers view of this. I know she was certainly concerned about the status of reproductive rights starting from roe because she often noted that that created a target for conservatives and those who are antiabortion to focus on, and thats exactly what happened. After 50 years of determined fighting from one side roe eventually fell in dobbs. No matter how it would have been decided, it would have created the same target. You told me back in 2018 you hoped in a few decades more of your grandmothers opinions would be adopted as majority opinions. Uhhuh. Do you believe that day is ahead even if its not now . I have to hope so. I want to end with you talked about her dream. We opened with her dream that there would be maybe four female justices on the Supreme Court. Would he have that, but heres a little bit of what she told me when i was lucky enough to interview her. This was back in 2018. So final question. Help me finish this sentence, okay . There will be enough female justices on the Supreme Court when there are you know what the answer is. When there are nine, of course. There were nine men for a long time. When the History Books are written, some have been but continue to be written about her, what do you think the most important thing is that they will remind future generations . Is it. That she worked as hard as she could for as long as she could and did The Very Best that she could. Klara, thanks very much. Thanks. Fascinating sitdown, one because of the moment. More broadly because of the legacy. Yeah. Followed Ruth Bader Ginsberg so closely over the years. What was your take . Klara is going to speak at the ceremony. Luckily the government is open honoring her grandmother. Even if you disagreed with her on the law, she was a member of such good friends with antonin scalia. They showed us together what it was like to disagree without being disagreeable. I think about that a lot in this moment, sort of the way that she conducted herself and made her points. Lessons she had learned from her mother she told me. So i just think in this moment look to unlikely friendships. People who disagree but actually work together. Probably be a better place if more people did. It was a great interview. Thank you. After nearly three decades an arrest has been made in Tupac Shakurs shooting case. Does this close the book in one of the biggest unsolved murders . Were going to discuss next. Cmon, were right there. Cmon baby. Its the only we need. Go, go, go, go ah Touchdown Baby touchdown are your neighbors watching the same game . Yeah, my 5g Home Internet delays the game a bit. But you get used to it. Try these. Theyre noise cancelling earmuffs. I stole them from an airport. Its always something with you, man. Great solid greek salad . Exactly dont delay the game with verizon or tmobile 5g Home Internet. Catch it on the xfinity 10g network. Shakur along with the Record Company executive Marion Suge Knight headed for a nightclub along with about ten other cars. But while stopping at this intersection, a car with four people pulled up and opened fire on shakur and knight. After 27 years of mystery, a suspect in the murder of tupac shakur is set to be arraigned in court this wednesday, thats according to our las vegas affiliate, kals. Duane keith davis was arrested friday on charges of murder with use of a deadly weapon. Hes not accused of shooting tupac shakur, but Las Vegas Police say that the 60yearold orchestrated the plan to kill the rapper. He has long placed himself at the scene of the 1996 shooting in las vegas. He even wrote a memoir in 2019 in which he admitted to being in the Passenger Seat of the car from which the shots were fired. Joining us now, sara sidner and john miller. Sara, i want to start with you. You spoke exclusively with the stepbrother almost immediately after this happened. How is the family reacting right now . The first thing is, they are extremely frustrated that it has taken 27 years to get to this point. But what gets them even more is that this person has been in the orbit of this investigation for 27 years. Since the very beginning. He was questioned by police. He admitted that he was in this car, the white cadillac, where the driveby Shooting Emanated from that killed tupac shakur and injured suge knight. So they cant quite understand why now and why its taken so long. In his memoir that you just mentioned, 2019 memoir was published by duane davis. And in that memoir, he says all of these things. He talks about revenge. He talks about the fact that his cousin or his nephew, excuse me, had been beaten up by suge and by tupac. And that they were going to go after them. That they were looking for them. Heres what he says that really sort of nails this home. He says, one of hi guys in the backseat grabbed a glock and started busting back. He means firing back. First shot, skimmed suge in the head. I thought the motherfer was dead. As the rounds started to fly, i dukd down so i would not get hit. So tupacs family cannot understand why this investigation has just now come to the point where this man has been charged in the killing of tupac. Listen to what his brother had to say. He obviously thinks hes innocent, but at the same time, if you are following up on a crime and you have a main suspect and then this guy, who they just indicted has been with him, has been telling the same story the whole time for 27 years, why are you just finally now considering that, you know, he was so close to the number one suspect . Hey, i watch law order. Im not a cop. Im just saying. You feel like it defies logic that its taken this long when this persons name has been at least spoken about as someone who was, i think, in the car when tupac was shot and killed, in the car of the initial first suspect in the case, correct . Selfadmitted, yeah. Selfadmitted. I havent seen none of his work. I havent read it book or ive seen a couple of interviews, but hes selfadmitted. So, you know, but honestly, people talk all the time. You know, people want attention. What theyre saying may not necessarily be true. So, it has to be investigated and fold up on. And i guess nobodys been following up until now. Mopreme shakur basically at the end of that interview said, look, i just miss my brother. He was taken from us and now well have to go through this all over again. Weve been on a Roller Coaster already for 27 years because a lot of people were running their mouths. Now well have to bring it all up again and go through what he believes will be a trial. Yeah, of course. His family. Sara, fascinating. Stay with us. Lets bring in john miller to this. On this question of why this wasnt followed up on. A former Police Detective who had investigated the case before told cnn friday that davis had confessed to having a role in the murder back in 2009. But that confession was under something known as a Proffer Agreement, which means they couldnt use it against him. Davis even wrote in his memoir, quote, i sang because they promised i would not be prosecuted. How does that play into all of this . Its a key. I mean, pvd sat down, did this proffer, talked to lapd and dea in a case that was headed towards bringing this Murder Charge and solving a lot of other shootings and things that happened in between. The Proffer Agreement, of course, grants him immunity from prosecution, but there are conditions to every Proffer Agreement and one condition is, you have to be telling the whole story and it has to be all true and you cant lie. And i think that the tell here, as they say in las vegas is, when they did the Search Warrant at keffe d. s house, a couple of months back, and they went through the residents, and the warrant was drawn up for any tapes, any journals, any records. So one condition is, if youre lying, the whole deal goes out the window. The other thing is, he was the last living person who was in that car, who could be prosecuted. So this is kevin mcmayhill, the sheriff and the chief of the Las Vegas Metro Police Department and the d. A. Saying, were going to take a shot. Hes going to argue i have immunity from this, and were going to argue he blew it. Fascinating. Final thought . I was just talking about this Proffer Agreement. The other thing, i think, sometimes is that if they can corroborate that he was involved by someone else through other means and maybe some of this Search Warrant did that as well, because they got all kinds of things, electronics and so forth. But in the end, innocent until proven guilty. At this point, hes said a lot of things. There are a lot of things out there that he has said in the public view. And well see where the case goes. In the meantime, the family is just, all of these things are coming back. All of these hurts, all of these frustrations are coming back at this time. Sara sidner, appreciate it. So were keeping an eye on trump tower this morning. The former president is set to leave from his apartment there, because hes going in person to court for the beginning of his civil fraud trial. That starts in just a little bit. And a pivotal week ahead for House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy as he fights to keep his job. Well dig in, next