charge. i got the large part down anyway. and that is how fox reports. and we ll be back in tomorrow at the fox report. and we ll see you thenment we ll take you behind the scenes as we preview tonight s star-studded movie killing lincoln. co-author martin dugard sits down with me, your humble correspondent, to talk about how we created our new york times best-seller. i ll get the overview of the story and then, i ll break it down sentence by sentence. and with lincoln, for instance, you know, who was allowed in the white house and what the white house was like at the time. we ll also take you along on our whirlwind book tour with visits to fox & friends, imus, and letterman. there have been 16,000 books written about lincoln. right. and this is another one. that s right. but the reason that i wrote this book
who were the legends of late night for so long, rivals, as you said, would kind of come together in the end and he did not. and i think people were curious as to why. i think maybe we ll get some insider information on that soon. and the question, too, is why was this on a wednesday night? because it seemed a really strange decision by cbs to end this sort of midweek? i think for ratings. i think the viewership. we re going into the memorial day weekend. maybe friday would have been people traveling are not wanting to stay up late. there could away myriad of reasons. but we do know obviously cbs wanted those ratings and the viewers were there and we were all tuning in. and letterman, who is intensely private and really hates talking to the media, hates talking about himself in particular, he really hasn t given any idea of what he plans to do. he s 78 years old now, right? yeah. so what s the speculation out there? he did joke around about being the new face of scientolog
that s what i like to call it. it is not my home. just my office upstairs. cozy. rent that out. you have a fridge in there you think. i do. no, i don t but i have a couch and television. good enough for some people and right in the middle of new york city. and about the size of my apartment. i ll take it. coming up talk show talk. david letterman inviting his successor to the stage of late night. and letterman s questions for our own robin roberts. that s coming up next in the skinny. announcer: world news now continues after this from our
so is another guy. will you please welcome mr. david letterman. reporter: and letterman has his own show following carson on nbc. and then in 1991, comes this inevitable announcement, the king of late night will abdicate his throne. carson s bombshell. johnny carson has made it official. reporter: sets off a speculation of the successor, will it be letterman or leno? jay is sensational, and jay is the permanent guest host, but we have not made that announcement yet as to who the successor to johnny will be. reporter: secretly the decision has already been made. and really quietly, and with nobody in the business knowing it, they had a meeting absolutely private meeting with the nbc hierarchy and jay and