>> good day. i'm andrea mitchell. at the reagan library in simi valley, california, the country is going to say farewell to one of the most influential first ladies in modern history. we'll be here throughout the day covering nancy reagan's life, her death, the funeral services, but first, to a presidential race that she was known to be following very closely this fall. today, donald trump endorsed by former rival, ben carson, told reporters he believes the reaction to supporters is, quote, very, very appropriate. >> he was swinging. he was hitting people, and the audience hit back. and that's what we need a little bit more of. >> and joining me now from florida, nbc's katy tur covering the trump campaign and gabe gutierrez. ka katy, first to you. you've seen these rallies, not

just the protesters but donald trump's reaction last night and again today about protesters in the audience and what he says about them. >> reporter: you know, that's been a big story for this campaign for quite a while, but it's really reaching a crescendo in the last few days. i asked donald trump about it last night. specifically, the gentleman who sucker punched a guy at a rally in north carolina who's now been charged with assault, essentially, in north carolina by the cops out there. i asked him about that guy. and i also asked him about the general sense of violence and the escalating tension at his rallies, and he said that he would try to mitigate it, try to calm things down. that's what he told me last night and also mentioned his supporters are passionate and the two guys who beat up a latino homeless man in boston in his name last fall. describe them when we asked him to comment on them and condemns violence, but then again today,

talking about protesters at his rally, he as you just showed said it's appropriate for them to hit back. and then he was speaking to something that happened in las vegas where he said a protester was swinging wildly. i've got to tell you, i was not at that particular rally, but my colleagues were and they did not see that happening. i've been at a number of donald trump rallies and while the protesters stop and try to disrupt things and make their voices heard, just a few people in a crowd of a thousand people, never seen them getting aggressive with the supporters. i've seen the supporters rough up protesters and get aggressive with the protesters. i've seen negative things, insults and names hurled at them, stuff i would not repeat on television, at times, racial epithets thrown at them but then

sco escorted out in a peaceful way but certainly escalated. and donald trump does not seem to be doing much, at least from our end, to calm those situations down. there is an announcement at every single rally in the beginning of the rally that says donald trump values the first amendment as much as the second amendment. please do not harm protesters. do not touch the protesters. if they protest around you, instead, hold up your donald trump sign and chant, usa, usa, usa! that does happen. but there are circumstances where once these people start to disrupt the events and a number of groups of them interrupting multiple periods, that's when you hear donald trump get less patient with his rhetoric saying get them out, get them the hell out! we used to be able to take care

of them. he said if he regretted saying that he wanted to punch one, maybe part of the show of politics, part of the show of his campaign, he said, it's politics and it's facts. >> and katy, that's been what's so noticeable in watching all of these rallies as they play out on live television. his response seems to be not to calm people down, but to, you know, gin them up and i want to ask about the endorsement from ben carson different demeanor than donald trump. what do they have in common? >> certainly a surprise endorsement and an endorsement the campaign is happy to have going into this important weekend and super tuesday this week when florida and ohio votes. on the surface, it may not seem like a lot in common between the two but both are outsiders and at one point, carson was peaking because he was an outsider much in the same way that donald trump has been peaking

throughout this entire campaign. the campaign said they liked ben carson because they believe he's bringing new voters into the republican fold, much in the same way that donald trump is bringing new voters into the republican fold. they also said they like he's got a large social media presence. donald trump too has a large social media prensence and appreciate he can speak directly with supporters as donald trump can speak directly with things like twitter and facebook. >> and marco rubio, gabe gutierrez, today, there was a message for supporters and what people should do in ohio as he is encouraging people to vote for him in florida. it's clearly a "stop trump" movement. here, he had a strong debate back in his zone, in his comfort zone talking about foreign policy last night but of course, all overshadowed by donald trump. >> reporter: yeah, hi, andrea. marco rubio is holding a news conference right now with jewish

leaders here in west palm beach, a key voting block here in south florida. by all accounts, he had a strong debate taking it to donald trump on issues of policy and talking about israel and america's relationship to israel. back to the news today, as you mentioned, marco rubio now essentially conceding ohio earlier this morning. his communications director said anyone else who opposed donald trump in ohio and anyone who opposes trump should vote for kasich. i just asked about that a few moments ago. take a listen to what he had to say. >> the voter in ohio's motivated by stopping donald trump and comes to the conclusion that john kasich is the only one to beat him there, i expect that's the decision they'll make. i can tell you in florida, i'm the only one to beat donald trump. i never talked to john kasich about this. >> reporter: now, again, he stressed that he had not talked to john kasich and hadn't talked

to ted cruz. there was a lot of speculation about the candidates joining forces to stop donald trump as part of some sort of unity ticket or something else. marco rubio said, again, it's "house of cards" stuff and has not spoken to either candidate but again, his campaign is really focused on florida. several stops here. another one later today in naples and then heading to central florida and the panhandle over the weekend. he faces a steep hill here in florida. some polls have him down by about 20 points but the campaign points to other polls that have him down in the single digits. obviously, this is crucial for the senator after a strong debate performance last night. andrea? >> gabe gutierrez, and thanks to katy tur before that, here in simi valley, chris matthews is the host of "hardball on msnbc" and is here. we want to talk about nancy reagan. you had a very interesting and close relationship with her, but

i want to talk first about what happened last night. you anchored the coverage after the debate last night, and your reactions to, first of all, the tone and the occasional violence among protesters and supporters. as far as we can tell from all of our people on the field, started by the supporters going after the protesters in each instance they have recognized and what he had to say about foreign policy because he did veer off of republican orthodoxy in many cases last night. >> as well as anyone, speech is protected in this country. you're allowed to say what you want. you can yell awful things at people. you can't hit them. if you hit them, it's a criminal act and that distinction has to be understood. it's difference between civilized and not civilized and i think trump has to understand this. his words incite that kind of behavior, even one out of a thousand people. he's got to take account of that. i think that's because of what he said up at the platform you just showed, because he has said

things that can be connected to that kind of behavior, he has to be more careful about what he says now. >> here's what he had to say last night during the debate. >> we have some protesters who are bad dudes. they have done bad things. they are swinging, they are really dangerous. and they get in there and they start hitting people, and we had a couple big, strong, powerful guys doing damage to people, not only the loudness, the loudness, i don't mind, but doing serious damage, and if they're going to be taken out, be honest, we have to run some -- >> well, that's not the picture we saw. thank god, we have videotape. that young african-american guy walking up the steps, he was three or four seats over. reached over and slugged him in the face. there was no interaction between the two of them. there was no retaliation. the way trump describes it, if he swings at someone, he can swing back. that's not what happened and that will matter in court and i think it matters in the court of public opinion too.

>> so far, he doesn't seem to be paying any price for that. there are a number of instances last night on policy questions where he veered, first, certainly, on the issue of free trade, but he's not the only republican candidate. and certainly, bernie sanders on that. trade is certainly an issue that has, you know, motivated a lot of anger among democratic, independent, and republican voters. >> let's face it. it's going to matter in ohio on tuesday and in michigan, there. one of the issues that people believe, not like inflation or unemployment where the government has some role. they know the federal government sets a trade policy and that we can change it. i think they're smart about it. they don't like free trade and a new administration, it's anti-trade, it will matter. >> i want to also ask you about rubio. rubio had a strong debate last night but it's a swan song unless florida changes very dramatically. >> too little, too late.

i do. he's always very eloquent, sort of a prepared manner, which rubs me the wrong way because i think it's spontaneous, but you're just being politically correct. he said, no, i'm being correct. i thought that was a strong rebuttal. >> on israel, palestinians, cuba, a part of his whole background -- >> very hard to defend. right now, we always, all administrations have called for two-state solution but it's hard to find a partner on the other side, and it's true. as much as you want to be even-handed over there. the palestinian authority have not condemned the israeli stabbings. unless they condemn murder, they're not going to be treaty partners. >> that's what joe biden said to their face the other day. >> let nancy reagan was part of an administration for all of the reagan homilies we hear from the

candidates on the other side. ronald reagan, as jim baker told us on this program, he believed in compromise. he believed in 80%, go for it. he believed in getting things done. and nancy reagan was, if anything, the helpful behind-the-scenes facilitator of all of that reaching out to the late robert strauss when he was a democratic icon. and bringing other people in to talk to the president and moving him, importantly, towards talking to the soviet leader, mikhail gorvechav. >> the purpose of the cold war was to end it and not be a hot war. that's why we had the cold war, so we wouldn't fight. and i think nancy reagan ahead of them, understood they found a treaty partner. some new kind of communist who didn't talk like that. he was someone you could deal with and saw the weakness of the

soviet union, the fact they were losing the technology race, couldn't keep up with it and ended it. i think that was wonderful on the part of nancy reagan to spot the opportunity and had a lot to do with getting rid of jim ba r baker. she looked out for her ronnie. >> on a more personal level after she left the white house and after the disclosure in the poignant letter to the nation of his alzheimer's diagnosis, she departed from orthodoxy and the white house in supporting stem cell research and you reached out to her. >> my mom died of alzheimer's, it's a long good-bye and gradually begin to miss your mother and forgets you. you don't forget her, but the personality connection. and nancy reagan once said to me and i can say this now, her husband getting alzheimer's was worse than getting shot because it just ended over time, the

relationship, the company they had. all the good years. it's a horrible disease for both people. especially the caregiver, i think. >> you used to have lunch with her. >> she's very girly. she was always flirting and fun. do you go out on dinners? lonely. let's go. she went to where she and ronnie would go. chasen's, the old places. i said, here's the deal. i knew she loved scuttlebutt. i said, i'll tell you everything in dc if you tell me what it was like in the old days. it was like, i love dean. he was the only one to stand up to frank. all this inside stuff. i love that hollywood stuff. and she always wanted the latest stuff. it didn't have to be above the table either. it could be personal. it could be good scandal. she wanted to know. >> she was a great telephone pal. >> great gabber. a great gabber. >> thank you so much.

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nancy reagan made a big impact here and in washington. beloved by those who made public and private moments throughout the decades. john mccain joins me now from capitol hill. senator, thank you very much, and thank you for joining me on such a special day for all who

knew nancy reagan. you knew her better than most. >> thank you, andrea. >> i want to go back to when you first got to know her and then in later years, her advice to you. you came as a candidate, of course, and how encouraging she was to you during your presidential campaign. >> well, thank you, andrea. and in fact, we'll talk a little bit about the involvement that the reagans had with the prisoners of war in vietnam. when governor reagan was governor of california, a lot of the p.o.w.s from carriers, they were pilots. and members of the family. after governor reagan was governor of california for a year or so, he had a press

conference with a lot of the wives and children that were living in california to express his support for the prisoners of war. as he was beginning to speak, a little boy walked up out of the group and tugged on his sleeve, and president, then governor reagan, went down and the little boy said he had to go to the bathroom. governor reagan took him into his private bathroom and came back out and allowed he hadn't performed that chore in years and the little boy tugged on his sleeve again. his name was todd hanson, father was major hanson, a marine pilot missing in action, a prisoner. and he tugged on his sleeve again and ronald reagan then, can you help bring my daddy home? >> my. that is so touching. >> at that point, then governor reagan started wearing a bracelet with major hanson's name on it and wore it until all

the prisoners came back, which unfortunately, major hanson was not one of them. but then when we came back, there was a huge round of parties and receptions. it was just amazing, for example, a party in san francisco where clinton eastwood and john wayne were there. it was just remarkable, the welcoming that the reagans were personally responsible for. that was when president, then governor reagan said, i said to nancy, where do we find such men? and so, there was this special place. and then when i ran for the house, he supported me, and then i ran for the senate. and of course, nancy was kind enough to endorse me when i ran for president. and as chris matthews was just saying, i loved to talk to her over the phone. there was always interesting

conversations, and i just, you know, it was, as you've said, time and time again, it was a hollywood romance come to life and now she's back with him. >> you know, i was so struck in those days in the white house, covering the white house as i did by the way she responded to criticism. she basically took the arrows for him. he was not a worrier. she worried. you might say, she stayed up all night worrying about the criticisms and all the barbs that went their way. and she was his protector, but in the best sense of that. at the time, it was criticized of being too fiercely protected but in retrospect, years ago, we could see that she had his best interests at heart. she could spot those who were not in it for him, but in it for themselves. >> yeah, and, you know, nancy, there was a lot of moments and it was clear to one and all and

to her that he was not being well served by ronald reagan. it's a fact and she made sure he was replaced. i'm not mischaracterizing anything about donald reagan, but he feels not what, obviously, was suitable for a president reagan's presidency and, of course, iran contra, a terrible time for them. she was steadfast. when they were walking along and one of the reporters, probably sam donaldson, shouted some question and said to him, we're doing the best we can, and president reagan said, we're doing the best we can. you remember that scene? >> i do. it was up at the ranch, and he was being asked, you know, why aren't you talking to the soviet leaders? and then he later said, you

know, well, they all kept dying on me. and of course, gorbachev was one of t of them who hadn't died on them. this is a time magazine, what happened and that was the political partnership as well. forgive me, there's a big bus arriving behind me, senator, so i have to talk over that. but even when they were contested primary contests, they didn't get as personal and lowdown and nasty like today. i know from people who had spoken to her in the last couple of months, she was not happy about what she saw happening to the republican party. >> she was very unhappy.

because as you mentioned, in '76, there was a division within the party, but because it was not personal, after it was over, ronald reagan supported gerald ford. and as you say, he was a uniter and after ford lost to jimmy carter, it was no problem getting the party back together. i honestly think that with the kinds of insults that have been traded, it makes it more difficult, whoever the nominee of our party is. and also, by the way, ronald reagan treated his opponents with courtesy. he could be tough and committed, but he wasn't discourteous. and that's what, frankly, makes me sad. because all of these individuals, the now guys, say they're republican in the ronald reagan mode. well, they're not acting like ronald reagan did. >> and as the co-author of

legislation that followed the torture experiences that we have, there have been some comments on the debate stage as recently as last night that water boarding isn't that bad and trump said he wants to expand the law. that's the mccain law, isn't it? how do you expand it? >> i don't know, this is one of the things he just says things. the vote was 93-3 in the senate that we would comply with the uniform -- basically, prohibiting torture for all intents and purposes. and it was 93-3 and when you have people like general david petraeus, not john mccain but david petraeus said it doesn't work, the best way to get information is to establish a relationship with someone who's held, but the most important thing about it all is what separat separates us from them? in other words, it's not about them. it's about us. what kind of country we are, and

we wrote the geneva convention to prohibit such things and they may say water boarding isn't bad but when the japanese war criminals was tried, one of the charges against them was waterboawate water boarding and they were hung. >> in the spirit of nancy reagan and ronald reagan, it's wonderful to talk to you today and to have your perspective. thank you very much. thank you for your time. >> thank you, andrea. >> in a moment, an inside look at the life of nancy reagan. as first lady from a man who had a front row seat to history and again, today, you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. when you think about success, what does it look like?

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more than 5,000 people came to pay their respects to nancy reagan yesterday here before her funeral later this afternoon at

the reagan library. the former first lady leaves a legacy with her advocacy for alzheimer's research and stem cell research in the years since. the gallery of images, many taken by pete susan, the white house photographer. pete susa shares with me, this is back stairs at the white house. >> the iconic pictures of a first lady. >> i liked her. a lot of people thought she was tough as nails, but as long as you were straight with her, she was straight with you. >> and a portrait of a marriage. >> they were exactly the same way. together, behind the scenes, as they were in public. it was very much a very true love and companionship between the two of them.

>> the man behind the camera, white house photographer pete susa, to the frivolous. >> another 50 years, how will we explain this picture? who is this man dressed up in his blue suit? why is he wearing one white glove? >> to the royal. >> if you look real close too, she is actually blushing. >> to the personal. mrs. reagan's recovery from breast cancer surgery, and the diplomatic. summits that went well, and those like this one in iceland that went so badly, mrs. reagan rushed out to greet her husband when he arrived at anders air force base to make sure he was all right. >> how is ronnie? how is he doing, she asked. >> and they brought ronald reagan back to washington for his funeral in 2004. >> if you look at that picture, she's talking to her husband. >> now back at the white house

as president obama's official photographer, but accompanying michelle obama to nancy reagan's funeral. >> you'll be there to say good-bye? >> and to photograph. because that's what i do. >> capturing the first lady in life and she and her husband are reunited. poignant moments with pete susa with president obama as he was with president reagan every step of the way. up next, how nancy reagan transformed the role of first lady. you're watching a special edition of "andrea mitchell reports" live from the reagan library in california. why do some cash back cards keep throwing obstacles at you? first - they limit where you earn bonus cash back. then - those places change every few months? i think i'll pass... quicksilver from capital one puts nothing in your way. you simply earn unlimited 1.5% cash back

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i think it's fair to say that here in america, you may well be the most popular canadian name justin. >> the white house welcomes them for the first state dinner with canada in nearly 20 years. a new leader more politically tu attuned to this white house. it's by political power players and invited guests, glamour, fashion, but more than that. it's about diplomacy as well. we remember nancy reagan. with apologies to mrs. obama and mrs. bush. three administrations starting with the reagan white house and of course, the bush years. gail berth, the social secretary and right hand.

she joined the reagan administration in 1984 and director of personnel under presidents reagan and george h.w. bush. directs american university's initiative with legacies. i got the bios mixed up there. but we all know who we are. to both of you, you worked in the reagan white house and my condolences to you because you worked so closely with her. gail, you saw the state dinners up close and the way she'd put them together, bringing in john travolta to dance with princess diana, we talked about that. but the way she organized the gorbachev dinner was so remarkable, getting van clyburn, a hero in moscow for having won the prize, the only one to win that and played moscow nights. did not get along well with nancy reagan.

started smiling and laughing. >> turned us down years before that because he wasn't well and didn't feel he was up to playing the piano. but he finally agreed to do it for this, and as you said, and he still talks about it, he's glad he did it. i think he had to overcome some personal, not misgivings that he was good enough then, but he was and it was great. and he still talks about it. i look at some photos last night online of the state arrival ceremony for the canadian prime minister and his wife. and i was reminded of one of our state arrival ceremonies where charlton heston was a guest. and the vips were in one

particular area and for whatever reason, he wandered away from the area. it was as though he was reviewing the troops himself, and back then, we had these giant walkie-talkies, and that's how we communicated. i put my walkie-talkie up to my ear and said, get charlton heston out of there! and without missing a beat, the secret service agent came over the system and said, you can't stop moses. and everybody started laughing. and meanwhile, charlton heston was reviewing the troops. but great memories. >> and anita mcbride, you are now in charge of this first lady's project. let's talk about nancy reagan, the advice she may have given to laura bush. >> i think laura and nancy had a

relationship and closeness. laura bush looked to her as such an example of beauty and elegance in the white house. and this is a very small club of women, like the president's club, these women also share the experience that only they can possibly understand of living in the white house and trying to make that sanctuary for your family while the president is trying to do the business of the world, and of the country, of course. and she did have an impact. she had an impact on all of us who started in the reagan administration as young staffers too and understanding the dignity of the white house and how we dressed, and how we presented ourselves as well. so her legacy is beyond the first lady's club. it's to a lot of us, also, that had an opportunity to work for her. >> i can tell you how it filtered down. i had been in and out of the carter white house as a junior reporter backing up my colleague, judy woodroth, and we

had blue jeans. the reagans arrived and i started wearing suits and dresses, and especially on air force one but just in general. we did not wear slacks or pants unless it was snowing out. >> it was not official but it was inferred. >> you never went into the oval office without a jacket and for men, in a tie. i mean, never. >> president reagan never took off his jacket in the oval office. >> correct. >> and when we think about diplomacy, the state visits and these occasions were diplomatic. >> they were diplomatic, but also, it feels a vehicle to make a friendship. both for the president and for the first ladies, because that friendship matters as well.

when you put the personal to the face to someone, it enables you to pick up the phone when there's a crisis or something hard going on. and, you know, ronald reagan was very, very close to all of the g8 leaders. and mrs. reagan was very close to their wives. and it became sort of a family unit, in a way. so when things got tough. >> and even with mikhail go gorbachev, i saw the picture of her hugging outside of the white house and what was it about ronald reagan and that very first summit? why do you think he could do business with him? he said, i liked him. that reinforces it. >> amina mcbride and gahl, thank you. up next, maria shriver's exclusive interview with nancy reagan's daughter, patty davis. you're watching a special edition of "andrea mitchell reports" live from the reagan

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nancy reagan's two children, patty davis and ron jr. will be delivering eulogies today with james baker and tom brokaw. patty davis spoke to maria shriver, another former california first lady after mrs. reagan's casket was brought to her final resting place. >> she was not afraid to die. she said, i don't want it to hurt. but i'm not afraid to die. i'll see ronnie again. >> davis discussed the, at times, complicated relationship she had with both of her parents. >> there were some very profoundly moving things that happened 4.5 years ago when i started my alzheimer's support group, that i run for

caregivers, people with dementia. my mother came to the support group twice, and aside from the sort of odd thing about nancy reagan being in a support group, which is oddly interesting, it was, as i said, profoundly meaningful to both of us. >> why to you? >> to me, because she was proud of me. and no matter your history with a parent, i don't think you ever outgrow wanting your parent to be proud of you. >> did she say to you, patty, i'm proud of you? >> she said, sort of. she said, first of all, i want to say it was meaningful to her because i led her into my life, into an aspect of my life and that was really important to her. so after the first time she came, she said, i was so surprised at some of the things that came, that you said. they were very wise.

>> she meant it. >> again, there was a choice there. i could have taken it as sort of a hidden insult, like, i could have heard that, well, what was i before, chopped liver? but i heard it as the opening of a door, and as her recognition that, oh, i know you a little better now. >> the recollections of her daughter, patty davis, who will be one of the speakers today at this service. and coming up, guests are indeed arriving for the funeral of the former first lady. nancy reagan will be laid to rest here later. we'll bring you a lot more from the reagan library in simi valley, virgincalifornia. next on "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. when you think about success, what does it look like? is it becoming a better professor by being a more adventurous student? is it one day giving your daughter the opportunity she deserves?

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why do you like this picture? >> i think it shows ronnie as he is. he's in his western clothes, and dreaming dreams of who knows what. >> nancy reagan, of course, with tom brokaw. in 1999, about the iconic aaron schi schickler portrait. graced in 1981. the crowds begin to gather here at the reagan presidential library in simi valley, ahead of the funeral set to begin in just about an hour and joining me now, nbc news correspondent kelly o'donnell. kelly, this place which has so many memories, i remember coming out here after the former president die and speaking to the group here and you covered presidential debates here. >> yes, lots of events. >> and this has become what they had hoped it would. >> it is a gathering place for republicans and for people who are concerned about issues that relate to some of the themes

that were so prominent during his administration. national security and defense. and it is a place that will continue to have the programs and sort of the magnet, which will make it a living institution now into this new chapter when the reagans are gone, and i think that's something that certainly when i spoke to people here part of the reagan foundation, i said, mrs. reagan wanted that and she was involved in some of the programming that could extend for the next five to ten years in sort of signing off on some of the ideas they have. >> i remember when she called me and asked me to speak, and she knew i was going to speak as a journalist, you know, and be in some ways, critical of things that had happened. she said, just speak your piece. she had seen my book. she knew what i was going to talk about. she was just remarkable in that way. jim baker, our program the other day, talked about how important she was to her husband's

presidency. >> she was absolutely indispensable to ronald reagan's success, and i don't think there would have been a ronald reagan as we knew him without nancy reagan. she was his closest advisor, as a matter of fact, but more than that. she was his constant protector. she was 50% of a team that restored america's pride and confidence in itself after the carter years and reinvigorated america's place in the world. >> and you just talked to jim manning, with her in the white house and then afterwards, let's play a bit of your interview with him. >> and as soon as it cracked, it was the president because she just lit up and once in the same room, the whole room lit up. and it was quite remarkable. i had been around a lot of people in my life, and very few couples had that kind of effect where you could just palpably feel the love in the room when they were together.

>> and kelly, as we conclude this, it's going to be a sad day, but also a really celebratory day of a life as well. >> very much so. and in talking with jim manning who was referring to being in the residence when the president would come home and mrs. reagan's demeanor would change when she knew he was outside the door and so many of the people we talked to had conveyed a sense of being happy to think they are together again. >> as they will be later when she's here. and that does it. thanks to kelly and our guests. that does it for this special edition of "andrea mitchell reports" live from the reagan libra library. i'll be interviewing hillary clinton in the next hour. stay with us for our special coverage of the funeral for nancy reagan. coming up next on msnbc, brian williams will, of course, be joining us as well. some cash back cards are, shall we say, unnecessarily complex. limiting where you can earn bonus cash back... then those places change every few months...

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good afternoon. i'm brian williams. we'll focus our attention to the west in simi valley, california, where we stay with these pictures and continue to show you what we've been watching for the past few minutes. it's almost like looking at the last several decades in politics and entertainment and american culture to see all the people who have gathered at the hillside presidential library honoring ronald reagan for the memorial service of nancy reagan. wife of our 40th president. died a few days back at the age of 94. this is the final farewell, and she'll be laid to rest right