today is our last show on the air. monday, las vegas. [ crowd booing ] have these people been frisked before they. it was a dismal failure in terms of the ratings. but not in terms of introducing us to letterman. david, thank you for being with us tonight. thank you very much for having me, i appreciate it. and in spite of all this nonsense that goes around in the background, stay with it. don t give up. and stay with us here in new york. we like having you. i like being here. thank you very much. dave is back in new york. you re going to host a late-night television program that premieres monday night. what are, what are critics likely to say tuesday morning? i don t much care because i found a way to deal with that pills and whiskey. [ laughs ] [ laughs ] [ snorts ] [ chuckles ] you re on. oh, i m on. i m sorry, i was enjoying listening to you snort. [ laughs ] levine: they gave him the late night show after the tonight show, and at the time, people thought,
a lot of his opponents in the gop primary are going to continue to get in the middle of that. you alluded to this earlier, but let s go back to 2016. if donald trump is constantly citing one indictment or another through early 2024, and maybe even further into 2024, what does that mean for the other candidates? it means that a lot of the questions they are going to be asked is going to be what about this latest development. how do they even get a message out there that s not about donald trump, what his legal problem? yeah, and let s don t forget this. the party has made a requirement that if you are going to be in a debate, you have to agree to support the nominee.
was not going to be any indictment. fast forward months ago, i applied the same standard to donald trump. believing that if he recklessly handled classified material, then let s have the same standard for each of them. clearly the indictment shows that the allegation against donald trump goes much further in terms of obstruction of justice. james comey handled it poorly. i don t know were they made the right or wrong decide there, but they made that decision. if you apply the same standard here, there has to be something more and clearly the special prosecutor has alleged through the grand jury obstruction of justice, refusal to turn over the documents and classified documents and exposure of our national secrets. clearly that elevates the charges to a very serious level. my word is just simple let s don t diminish this. let s understand this seriousness of it, let this play out in court as it happens
i m saying these issues are too important note to state your honest views on this and to take a bow or to step away from the honest evaluation of where we are. it s a country. the seriousness of these charges is there. neil: so if all of thisn t cos the pattern where donald trump continues to lead and his widened the lead and as things stands now to your point, governor, to be your party s nominee, could you update me on whether you would support him? let s wait and see where we are at the time of the debate that comes up in august. obviously i want to be on that debate platform. i want to make my case neil: i m sorry, sir. that s not what i asked. if he were the nominee after that, after all of that and he s the republican standard bear, would asa hutchison support him
other members of putin s inner circle. reporter: for months now, yevgeny prigozhin has been leading the charge in ukraine and stealing the limelight. translator: guys, don t bully the russian military. reporter: the taunt typical as he announced the withdrawal of his wagner mercenaries last week after claiming the first russian advance in ukraine in months. power on the ground that has translated into far more open political confrontation with moscow. long-known by his nickname as putin s chef, the oligarch shared the russian president s humble beginnings in the tougher neighborhoods of st. petersburg. reporteredly a former convict, he used putin s rise to build a vast catering empire. as putin set his sights on crimea and eastern ukraine in 2014, prigozhin s forces were there. the wagner mercenary group