it was so legendary, it was comedy gold for david letterman. >> you have your tool belt on? an electric sander, manicure kit. you are ready. >> the performance enhancing cheaters. and those widely thought to have used drugs but deny it including sammy sosa and barry bonds. >> this record is not tainted at all, at all, period. you can say whatever you want. >> reporter: if cheating is trying, it doesn't always work. jason kidd was fined $50,000 for spilling the drink and his team still lost the game. mike tomlin and the steelers, they also lost. cnn,dallas. >>> now we take a look at headlines after this short commercial break. ...as though he had never left. the end. lovely read susan. but isn't it time to turn the page on your cup of joe? gevalia, or a cup of johan, is like losing yourself in a great book. may i read something? yes, please. of course. a rich, never bitter taste cup after cup. net weight 340 grams. [ sighs ] [ chuckles ] [ announcer ] always rich, never bitter. gevalia. so i deserve a small business credit card with amazing rewards. with the spark cash card f

bud selig should have faced the music and confronted the person that he accuses, rather than do it on letterman, on national television, pronouncing the verdict and not telling everyone that 11 random tests during the time period where alex rodriguez is accused of using peds, 11est its, negative. selig doesn't say that. he doesn't show up to confront to answer that, and instead he allows $125,000 in cash as if he's a character in boardwalk empire. that's why he doesn't want to show up, because he doesn't want to answer those questions. >> joe, let me bring you in to this. you've been covering this a long time, and the fact that he did storm out leaves a lot of questions, but how is that being interpreted, and is that superseding any or all of what lanny davis is saying? >> i have to agree with lanny in the sense certainly bud selig and major league baseball, no saints in this process. alex rodriguez, the last couple of years, always proclaimed innocence. we don't have a smoking gun, don't have a positive drug test. all negative. here's a guy who said he's fighting for his life, fighting for his

girl, got a great family that has definitely supported her, she was just with her brother at "david letterman" the other night and seems like a very grounded girl. >> there's two ways you can go when you strap on that rocket, you can go right to the top and your personal lives falls apart and be yourself and make a lot of money and enjoy it. >> she's doing okay. >> i've seen the movie twice by the way, guys, it's good. >> is it? >> very good. >> nischelle turner, thank you. >>> all right, so moving on now, it has been locked up and hidden from the public, how the pink suit that jackie kennedy wore the day that john f. kennedy was assassinated how it won't be made public for 100 years. >> this as we remember jfk's life 50 years since his assassination on cnn today. ya know, with new fedex one rate you can fill that box and pay one flat rate. i didn't know the coal thing was real. it's very real... david rivera. rivera, david. [ male announcer ] fedex one rate. simple, flat rate shipping with the reliability of fedex. his day of coaching begins with knee pain, when... [ man ] hey, brad, want to

that is tapped into pop culture where he is more of a rock star and you see him out there on leno and letterman and the view and what not. >> but i would like to concentrate on the tea party and how it's affecting republican candidates. bau they suffered from high profile losses. cuccinelli lost in virginia. a house race in alabama, the tea party candidate, eventually loss. doesn't that concern you? >> christie has a big personality and people like that. but cuccinelli, yes, he did lose last night. but we closed that gap. and the republican party, where were they? in 2009, they spent $9 million -- >> but the tea party closed that gap because of obama care. >> wait a second. this cycle, the republican party spent $3 million. if anything, it shows how effective we are. and we are going to be an important factor in 2014. we are not going away. and we have raised awareness because of the defund obama care effort, we have raised the awareness of obama care. otherwise that whole shutdown thing would have been about how much we were going to allow president obama to spend. >> is that harmful to the re

the kaufman, lawler played out on the david letterman show. so the news that he might be alive? the documentary, the death of andy kaufman, a serious study of whether he faked his own death, it is a possibility kept alive since he was buried. so when a woman claiming to be kaufman's daughter, along with his brother made a convincing bid he might be alive, the rumor mill turned again. according to his death certificate, andy kaufman died may 16, 1984 at cedar sinai hospital in west hollywood, california. when asked if there was any chance he faked his own death, the l.a. coroner put it bluntly andy kaufman is dead. his comedy lives on. we'd like to think he does, too. miguel marquez, cnn, hollywood. >> all right. we're going to hear from andy kauffman's brother tomorrow at 3:00 eastern here on cnn. >>> we have much more straight ahead in the newsroom and it all starts right now. >>> i'm fredricka whitfield, here are the top stories from the cnn