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>> this period of extremely rapid expansion tt starts off the big bang or comes before the big bang, leaves the universe very, very smooth but not perfectly smooth. it has slight differences in density from place to place. they are very, very slight. they are like the slight in dennitations on an almost perfectly sphere call ball, just a little tiny wrinkles on the surface but it turns out that is all it takes in the billions of years the universe has evolved to produce galaxies and clusters of galaxies and all the big structures we see in the universe. >> does the wrinkle prove that there were other possible big bangs elsewhere? >> it doesn't prove it. but if you try to understand where it could have come from, then the theory does lead you to believe there could be many, many b bangs. >> can any religion conform to your understanding of the universe? >> well, there is an interesting correspondence we mention in our book between the more than picture of how the universe began -- modern -- and the ideas we develop in the middle ages by a certain group of jews, it's called kabala, whi

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dig has yielded a big find in austria. archaeologists unearthed ruins of a gladiator school from 1700 years ago. a computer animation shows what things would have looked like back then. the complex is part of a 3.9 square mile city that was discovered back in 1870 when the digging began. still less than 1% has been excavated due to its enormity. if you look really close, i bet you can see russell crowe. really closely. >> i'm thinking that 2,000, 3,000 years from now what will they be digging up today? some of the cities we just walk around every day? >> maybe right here at the "early today" studio. >>> well, now it's time for a look at some of the stories we'll follow throughout the day here on nbc. david petraeus will be sworn in as cia director replacing leon panetta. he has dismissed concerns he would be unable to provide objective advice on the wars in the middle east, having led campaigns there. as army general. >>> utah's experiment with the nation's first four-day workweek for state workers ends today. lawmakers sc

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traffic issues are always a big concern for us in the district.side from that, we also know that there really does need to be more improvements in the muni system. we are served primarily by a few rail lines and bus lines, and much like other districts who have been impacted by different service changes across the years, we have seen, for example, early turn back in our district, and we are working to resolve that issue. for many people, being let out at sunset boulevard is simply not acceptable when you have many more blocks to go before the end of the line. there is definitely big rooms for improvement with transportation in our district. >> what about crime in your district? how do you think the police department is doing, and how do you think the city is doing in general with respect to crime? supervisor chu: i know we have been acting chief at this moment and the police commission is working to try to find an individual who can step in and lead the department. we know there are many things going in the right direction with the police departme

and it's not some big liberal high tax plan. one fact shows that. it has somewhere between half a trillion and three quarters of a trillion less in revenue increases than the bipartisan bowls simpson commission plan and the gang of six plan, both of which had republican senators endorsing them. >> ifill: what do you think about it? >> i think the president's plan is in two parts. last week he talked about what he wanted to do to get the economy going. there were elements in there that i likeded. >> ifill: the job speech. >> the job speech. the focus on training. today was politics. it's not really economics. i think everyone understood what the president was doing today. you could see from his demeanor on the piece before, it was politics. he's kicking off his re-election campaign. it kind of puts a bit of a pall over his very useful speech i thought from last week. >> ifill: class warfare? >> it's not a surprise that the president is going back to that and saying let's tax millionaires and all that. there's a lot of tax increases. look, we have to

just politicians sounding the drums of war the american people are fed up as well as they get to the big apple where main street is trying to occupy wall street plus the use of social media in this case seem to be more chatter than action hardware square the financial district was not there. and it's a meeting of the mind taking place right now in new york city the sixty sixth session of the united nations general assembly the big question will the organization accepts the palestinian bid for statehood we'll explore some of the struggles facing those living in the prospect. it's monday september nineteenth five pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for you're watching our team well start off with a close look at the economy president obama laid out a plan today that if passed could save the country more than three trillion dollars over the next decade this is on top of the one trillion and spending cuts that the president signed into law last month closed that feeling to be among the ideas some cuts to medicare and medicaid changes to the entire tax code and letting the bush era tax cuts e

politicians sounding the drums of war the american people are fed up as well we'll take you to the big apple where main street is trying to occupy wall street but the use of social media in this case seemed to be more chatter of an actual target years where the financial district was not. and at the meeting of the minds taking place right now in the new york city the sixty sixth annual question of the united nations general assembly the big question will the organization accept the palestinian bid for statehood and will for some of the struggles facing those living in the west bank. is monday september nineteenth seven pm in washington d.c. i'm christine friends out there watching our team well let's start off with a closer look at the economy this evening president obama earlier today laid out a plan that if passed would save the country more than three trillion dollars over the next decade this is on top of the one trillion dollars in spending cuts that the president already signed into law last month post debt ceiling debate now among the i. some const to medicare and medicaid chang

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they spend their time getting big checks from big special interests. it's the special interests, jon, who write the tax code. you can't read it, it doesn't work for america, it hurts jobs, we give them away, they're being stolen by unfair trade and nobody does anything. you know why? corporations have never made more money than they are right now. they wrote the tax code and they really don't give a damn about the rest of america. (cheers and applause). >> jon: sir, i'm going to say this right now. i'm going say this right now. i don't think that's a message that will resonate. (laughter) >> well, here's what i've done, jon. i know... i know you want to make fun of me. >> jon: no, i don't! here's what is upsetting to me. everyone seems to agree that we have failed the country process wise. >> yes. >> jon: that corruption has found its way systematically into the political process. there's not a guy up on that stage that probably wouldn't say "oh, yeah, there's too much money in this." but what is it that has calcified it in this system? >> they haven't

. >>> and television gold, who were the big winners in last >>> and television gold, who were the big winners in last night's prime time emmy awards? captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. welcome to our viewers across the nation including the pacific time zone. i'm lynn berry. today we begin with a tragic air crash. federal investigators are combing the nebraska crash site where nine people were killed friday when a stunt plane crashed into a crowd of spectators. stunning new video taken by a spectator shows the tragedy as it happened. officials say they've already recovered key flight data and what could be an inflight video from the wreckage. nbc's jay gray has our report. >> reporter: as investigators continue sifting through the wreckage in reno, they've located clues that could ultimately help to explain the tragedy. >> there was a camera identified, video camera. fragments were found, memory cards have been identified. all of those will be going to the laboratory in d.c. to determine if they have any video images from the actual aircraft. >> n

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thanks. >>> and now we turn to the big question in american politics, will the big man from new jerseyake a big step and enter the race for the gop nomination? there's a lot of attention tonight on new jersey governor chris christie, who just happens to be appearing tonight on some sacred republican ground. our political director and chief white house correspondent chuck todd with us tonight from our d.c. newsroom. chuck, good evening. >> good evening, brian. let's lay out what chris christie is doing tonight. he's giving this speech, it's going to be on leadership. real american exceptionalism is the title of the speech. the speech itself is going to sound like someone who's preparing to enter a national campaign. but all signs point to him saying, once again, that he's not going to be running that national campaign in 2012. the reason there's been hub ush over the last couple of weeks -- really in the last week, brian -- has to do with the republican activists and donors concerned that both of the front-runners, rick perry and mitt romney, aren't really lighting the fires here. of co

he says, yeah, but no big deal.'m fine. >> smith says he knows which play the concussion occurred but preferred not to divulge the information to the media. nbc bay area. >> thank you. the silver and black will not be blacked out this sunday against the jets. the raiders had to black out 14 of their previous 15 home games. only selling out the november zecht game against kc last year. however, the raiders will be playing in front of a packed stadium when they collide with the jets on sunday. the jets were in the championship game the last two years. done a great job. we'll talk about the team the next week. we know who they are. the most important thing is the football team. >> today is the final home game for the oakland a's. ricky henderson watching his former team take on the rangers. weeks, we've been waiting weex and weeks were this. bottom of the eighth. tied at three kouzmanoff that is your final score. 4-3. a's win. chris kouzmanoff >> they were last in attendance figure this is major league season, averagin

now to tomorrow night's big event. president obama's big jobs speech.epublican representative joe walsh opted to boycott the speech deciding to spend this thursday night, tomorrow night in his home state of illinois. well he now has fellow republicans following his lead. what is louisiana senator david vitter planning for tomorrow night? >> i'm going to be watching from my family room in louisiana because i have a saints game party there and i'm absolutely going to be there for the big game. kickoff of the saints season and the whole nfl. as a fan-atic i have my priorities. >> of course he was known for different kinds of parties in the past. if that is not enough where will georgia representative paul brown be during obama's address tomorrow night? well, in his office across the street. well, i say rather than joining his colleagues on the capital brown will be sitting in his office posting comments about the president's address on twitter. the georgia congressman did the same thing during this year's state of the union address. here's what i think. if

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tonight, the two big republican teases. also, republicans can't stop charging president obama with playing the class warfare card. well, hey what. keep the kettle black. anyway, for the last three decades republican policy has helped tone rich the wealthy and lower their tax burden. who is the really guilty party on this? plus, rick perry's texas-sized problem. the "new york times" "sunday" magazine reports that some texas republicans feel burned by "b" and wouldn't no part of hour cow buy-booted g-dropping governor and no book has gotten under the skin of the obama administration than the book by ron suskind. tonight some pushback. let me give you the choice president obama has to make, please the base or aim for the middle. we start tonight with howard fineman, msnbc political analyst and joan walsh of salon.com, editor at large. i want to start with the big crying story that hasn't quite been told. if they are so horny for christie, if they are going crazy about this often overlooked character from jersey, now they are i

kahuna, the big thing, is the bush tax cuts. that's the big deal in the debt and the deficit. those morally catastrophic bush tax cuts. one of the main architects, particularly the 2003 cuts was this gentlemen here, chief economic advisor glenn hubbard. he's known as the guy that brought us the 2003, ignore the two wars, tax cuts. after leaving the white house in 2003, glenn hubbard moved into the private sector. at the time wall street was starting a game of gambling with risk. they were lumping mortgages together, then selling them to each other and making big profits for themselves along the way. the risk any one person would pay back a loan was divorced as risk itself was monitorized and sold and resold in an increasingly complex but increasingly insane anti-common sense game that drove the housing bubble, of course, and that made wall street very rich. who was one of the great champions of that game? glenn hubbard. hubbard teamed up with chief economists at goldman sachs to write about how wall street's new gain was enhanci

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that's his big, big strength.lso, he has the best line of the campaign, where he says, so far i think for therepublicans, which is, i'm going to get up every day and t to make washington as incoequential in your lives as i can, and that's a message that resonates with republican primary voters. now, this is a big challenge for him wednesday, though, because the question is, with all of that behind him, he has rocketed up in public attention. now, does he have the staying power to thator is he going to make mistakes that knock h back down? >>ark minnon, you framed this fight on the republican side as only you can do, with "happy days" references. for those who might be, you know, under 30 watching right now, that was a fairly successful television program. how do you see perry versus romney? >> well, i see it as a race between arthur fonz rellie and ritchie cunningham, and i think we remember o ritchie cunningham is. perry has taken off because he is giving voice to the anger and the heat in the republican primary,

it's not just politicians sounding the drums of war the american people are fed up to take it to the big apple where main street is trying to occupy wall street and social media or not looks like the financial district is far from becoming career square. and it's a sacred weapon defense spending that is and somehow the u.s. managed to find two point five trillion dollars to spend on wars abroad this all americans fight at home against poverty and unemployment so why is the pentagon budget defended at all costs. hey there it is monday september nineteenth four pm in washington d.c. and christine for is out there watching are today. well let's start off with a closer look at the economy president obama laid out a plan today that if passed could save the country more than three trillion dollars over the next decade this is on top of the one trillion dollars in spending cuts that the president signed into law last month post debt ceiling debate i'm sure you remember that well among the ideas some cuts to medicare and medicaid changes to the tax code and the letting the bush era tax cuts expi

so that'll be a big challenge. on the republican side, the person that i would like to see get the nomination, i'm in a front about this, i'm not supposed to root for one candidate or another, but it's the government of indiana, i like him because he's 5 ft.'6",w to the ground, in touch with people, you have to be down there. i think he's been in an extremely effective governor at a time when state budgets have ballooned and gone up 40% state after state. in indiana, the debt has gone down 40%. at the same time, a lot of programs that republican matter have been improved. even wait times at the department of motor vehicle have dropped from 60 minutes to 8 minutes. i think he's been effective government. i think the government that the republicans would do well to counterprogram against the graceful, elegant and brilliant democrat that may not be charismatic, but knows how to run things. i think the other two are mitt romney and tim pawlenty. managers, i'm less enamored. pawlenty was a good governor, but i haven't s

losing two big staffers is a big deal. i think, though, there is a more complicated equation with bachmann. you know, she is on that stage, holding the line on social conservatism. i think if you were someone for whom that is important, you want her to stay there as long as possible to keep perry, to keep romney honest. i think there is an additional equation going on, which is if she cannot win the presidency, or if she cannot at least win her party's nomination, does she want to position herself to be a potential vp contender? where does she have the greatest possibility of fitting in? and who does that mean she needs to begin aligning herself with. >> jon huntsman, does he make a blip on the screen? >> jon huntsman is a very, very solid candidate. he's well financed. he's somebody who, in the general election, would be very, very appealing to americans. he's got to really break out in this debate. he's got to really show that he's got what it takes to be the front-runner, or at least among the top three in this race for

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big question.teele, msnbc political analyst and david corn, national washington bureau chief for mother jones magazine, also an msnbc political analyst. this is an away game for you, david, my friend. a home game for michael. at least it was for years a home game. let's go this question. perry's rise to greatness. 38% overnight. as i keep pointing out, he has a higher level of support in this new nbc poll today than people that have a favorable attitude. only 21% say they like him, but 38% say they are for him. this is an amazing leap to the top. is it the whole republican party or -- >> it's not a leap in that sense. i think what you're seeing there is a name identification. when you peel back and say now that you know the guy, do you support or not support him? that's how you get a disparate in the number. 38% shows more and more people are getting to know who he is around the country both inside and outside of the party. >> they all know he's a tea party guy? >> they may know that, but i'm sayin

it's a big lift for obama. he has to go big. >> thank you all. your time. >>> reminder, the republican presidential debate, the reagan library right here on msnbc next wednesday, 8:00 p.m., and join us thursday, 7:30 eastern, for the president's big jobs speech. >>> coming up, no doubt president obama has an uphill path to re-election, but the white house is looking to two former presidents who won despite awful economic times. fdr and ronald reagan. that's ahead. >>> you're watching "hardball." only on msnbc. [ mrs. davis ] i need to reach peter, who's falling behind. and challenge janet who's 6 chapters ahead. [ male announcer ] with interactive learning solutions from dell, mrs. davis can make every student feel like her only student. dell. the power to do more. yeah. well we're the two active ingredients in zegerid otc. i'm omeprazole. and i'm sodium bicarbonate. just one pill a day ... gives you 24-hour relief. & one mission. two ingredients heartburn solved. >>> former republican senator chuck hagel of nebraska had harsh words about his own

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>> big story there.ring that all morning. >>> and bull's eye, the archer aiming for a place in the guinness book of world records. while overcoming up believable odds along the way. if this man can do what he does, we should all be climbing mt. everest. >> it's trite, but where there's a will, there's a way. this guy is living proof. >>> before all of that, it is a day of mourning in afghanistan. a top leader is assassinated just steps before the u.s. embassy. >> deadly questions about whether afghan security forces are up for the task. more on the latest blow to the peace process from kabul. >> reporter: burhanuddin rabbani thought he was meeting a man with a message from taliban. while at home he thought he was meeting a man with a message directly from taliban leaders. the message was so important he was escorted in without security checks. he did deliver a message, just not the one that rabbani expected. this man put explosives inside his turban, says an aide. he put his head right on rabbani's chest