bush is nbc news senior correspondent tom brokaw. tom, good morning. >> good morning. and congratulations, by the way. first time i've seen you since the great ceremony. >> thank you so much. we're looking ahead to quite a day today, tom, aren't we? >> it is. and i want to share with our audience i think something very touching and historic. the cemetery to the republican party, george bush and bob dole. and president trump bush won in new hampshire which was not good news for bob dole, so we're going to share with you what happened on the air that night as i was interviewing mr. bush who was vice president at the

spielberg, tom hanks and brokaw were all there. it was not just a great day for the national d-day museum but it was a good day for the good war. that is what tom brokaw referred to as the greatest generation -- it is a bucket of many of the themes in saving private ryan. for spielberg, it was a trifecta. he had already put out "schidler's list" and now "private ryan." here is the national d-day museum authenticating those two sides of the story. this was all with the express purpose of -- what conversations about it with steven spielberg and others, these were the guys that were coming in to liberate europe and for the people in the concentration camps. the museum was the epicenter of that story. just with private ryan and schindler's list. it was a big, lucky break for us. the stars were all lined up. everything was happening after eight years of one after another. nobody was ever thinking we would get the museum open. it helped to make the point to the nation about why we fought. whether you approve of the historical authenticit

we're joined now by tom brokaw, who covered george h.w. bush. tom, you wrote the book about george h.w. bush's generation, the greatest generation. he was the final president of the united states from that generation. >> he was. and i had a hard time persuading him to participate in that book. he was always so modest about his public service. and i finally said, you know, mr. president, this is your generation and you were so representative of it. and he reluctantly agreed. and then i remember one of the most vivid moments and proudest moments of my life on the dedication of the world war ii memorial in washington, d.c., he was seated just down from me on the podium and when the remarks from the various speakers were going on, he took off a piece of cardboard and wrote on it and said, dear tom, i think i was wrong, maybe we were the greatest generation. and then i developed a personal relationship with him through our mutual friend jim baker. he was the same in private as he was in public. he was always a modest man, worried about how others were

we're joined now by tom brokaw, who covered george h.w. bush. tom, you wrote the book about george h.w. bush's generation, the greatest generation. he was the final president of the united states from that generation. >> he was. and i had a hard time persuading him to participate in that book. he was always so modest about his public service. and i finally said, you know, mr. president, this is your generation and you were so representative of it. and he reluctantly agreed. and then i remember one of the most vivid moments and proudest moments of my life on the dedication of the world war ii memorial in washington, d.c., he was seated just down from me on the podium and when the remarks from the various speakers were going on, he took off a piece of cardboard and wrote on it and said, dear tom, i think i was wrong, maybe we were the greatest generation. and then i developed a personal relationship with him through our mutual friend jim baker. he was the same in private as he was in public. he was always a modest man, worried about how others were

we're joined now by tom brokaw, who covered george h.w. bush. m, you wrote the book about george h.w. bush's generation, the greatest generation. he was the final president of the united states from that generation. >> he was. and i had a hard time persuading him to participate in that book. he was always so modest about his public service. and i finally said, you know, mr. president, this is your generation and you were so representative of it. and he reluctantly agreed. and then i remember one of the most vivid moments and proudest moments of my life on the dedication of the world war ii memorial in washington, d.c., he was seated just down from me on the podium and when the remarks from the various speakers were going on, he took off a piece of cardboard and wrote on it and said, dear tom, i think i was wrong, maybe we were the greatest generation. and then i developed a personal relationship with him through our mutual friend jim baker. he was the same in private as he was in public. he was always a modest man, worried about how others were d

let me go back to tom brokaw, as we awaitcehe proion to make its way to the aircraft. tom, some other thoughts? >> one of my thoughts is, obviously, by the way, it was president ford, not president nixon who put george bush in the china.an embassy in but george bush's presence in texas and his involvement in the republican party delivered a great dividend to this country, he persuaded his tennis partner, jim baker, to leave the democratic party and become a republican. and he became secretary of state, he became white house chief of staff. he's aighly regarded a the gold standard in all the jobs that he had and president bush's final day, president buss t his side three different times. it was a relationship and a partnership i was privileged to seep up close and personal polyp and baker said, i would say, i do t imagine we ought to doing this in this way, and the president would look at his hold frie and say, remind me, jim, am i the president and you're the adviser? i think'll make this decision. so they had that kind of relationship, but jon meachams knery well, in

tom brokaw was a 28-year-old reporter for knbc tv in los angeles covering that 1968 golden state primaryites rfk entered the race, but how he wagered everything on california. >> i think that we should start focusing attention on our problems here in the united states that should be our first priority. >> reporter: one week before liss death, bobby kennedy did something no member of his family had ever done. he lost an election running 2nd in the oregon presidential primary especially will do all that i can. i have done all i can so far. at the end if i'm not skechl,ly sister to abide by that. >> reporter: robert frances kennedy didn't set out to be president. three years, he was his older brother jack's most trusted adviser, his enforcer as attorney general. with you jfk's assassination transformed bobby, it awakened him to the suffering of others. as senator, he turned against the far in vietnam, which had been jack's war. at first, he stayed out of the 1968 campaign. but when anti-war candidate eugene mccarthy almost beat incumbent president eugene johnson in new hampshire, kennedy go

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when tom brokaw asked if he who had just lost a new hampshire primary had a message for the candidatel him to stop lying about my record. i remember that moment. and though i know it made dole look bad, i always thought he had a reason to be riled. after all, we're talking about a guy who got shot and permanently handicapped when carrying a wounded fellow soldier through german fu german gunfire, that's not someone who's afraid to show his colors. he got up from his wheelchair to salute the other guy, the greatest generation tom brokaw christened them. there they were today, the living, the lost, both firmly in the american scroll of honor. that's "hardball" for now. "all in" with chris hayes starts right now. >>> tonight on "all in." >> general flynn is a wonderful man. >> mueller time for michael flynn. >> well, i feel badly for general flynn. >> the sentencing memo -- what we know about mark for identification's cooperation with the special counsel and what it could tell us about what mueller knows about trump and the russians. >>> plus, ben wittes, robert mueller is laying seeds t

he came from a different generation, a world war ii generation that tom brokaw later described as our greatest generation. those were people who came of age during the war and they came back home, took off their uniforms and then ran for political office to do at home what they tried to do back overseas. george h.w. bush believed in that strongly. i think, anderson, today, coming back to the capitol, it's one of the places he felt very much at home in washington. as a congressman he enjoyed his time there and frequently when he was president he went back to the capitol, went up to the gym to work out there with his friends on both sides of the aisle. >> sam, that -- i keep coming back to his service during the war and i think it was tom brokaw i heard talk about how the importance of that in terms of shaping who he was not only the horrors of what he saw losing friends but also meeting people from all different walks of life in the military, the military is an extraordinary melting pot in that sense, and for a guy from his background, it sort of opened him up in a way that he might no

joining me now by phone correspondent tom brokaw and acting cia director now nbc news global affairs john mclaughlin and doris kerns goodwin. doris, let's start with you. we just heard the words in which george h.w. bush was talking to his granddaughter. saying that i don't use the l-word. but history will judge me for the things i did and the things i did wrong. how -- we've had some time since he was president. how do you think history judges president george h.w. bush? >> well i think history is already kinder to president bush than the electorate was when he lost that election. i think it is the idea of the kind of leader he was, which performed such a mirror on our own times. you think about a man would was bred to a lifetime of honorable public service and history looks at where we are now and 30 years from now as they look back on him and the idea of public service being honorable and the statements that he made that he wants to do the most good and least harm and learned now to dwell on the great i am that was told from an early age to be humble and never to tout his accompli

bush is nbc news senior correspondent tom brokaw. tom, good morning. >> good morning.e seen you since the great ceremony. >> thank you so much. we're looking ahead to quite a day today, tom, aren't we? >> it is. and i want to share with our audience i think something very touching and historic. the cemetery to the republican party, george bush and bob dole. and president trump bush won in new hampshire which was not good news for bob dole, so we're going to share with you what happened on the air that night as i was interviewing mr. bush who was vice president at the time and bob dole was standing by. take a look at this. >> mr. vice president, if you look down at that monitor you'll see the man who you beat tonight. anything you'd like to say at this point? >> just wish him well. >> and senator dole, anythinged you like to say to the president? >> stop lying about my record. >> it looks we're setting up what's going to happen. >> that's fine. we're ready. >> oh, my gosh. there was a very, very tough exchange, obviously. bob dole didn't talk to me for a long time, but

capitol rotunda and in a stoic display of the dignity and perseverance embodied by members of what tom brokawalls the greatest generation, bob dole stood up from his wheelchair and saluted the cackt. c ashes casket. >> it's been a very emotional couple of days in washington. >> very important to see all of these figures come together to pay respect. >>> and cia director on the killing of washington post columnist, jamal khashoggi and now both sides off the aisle expressing anger. ♪ the united states postal service makes more holiday deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country. ♪ with one notable exception. ♪ the united states postal service makes more holiday deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country. ♪ with one notable exception. ♪ this is moving day with the best in-home wifi experience and millions of wifi hotspots to help you stay connected. and this is moving day with reliable service appointments in a two-hour window so you're up and running in no time. show me decorating shows. this is staying connected with xfinity to make moving... simple. easy. awesome. stay connec

. >> tom brokaw from nbc. nice to see you.my career. date back to 1966. but nelson mandela has always been for me at the peak of that pinnacle. because he was a man who endured so much suffering and kept his eye on the horizon. about the day that he would leave the prison and lead his people. into a democratic republic in south africa. will always have the enduring lesson of this man, nelson mandela and what is possible if you have a vision about what you want for your people, i'll never forget it. >> here we go. ♪ ♪ it might seem crazy, what i'm about to say ♪ ♪ sunshine she's here you can take away ♪ ♪ hot air balloon ♪ with the air ♪ god only cares about the rain ♪ ♪ because i'm happy ♪ clap along with me ♪ if you feel ♪ like a room without a roof ♪ 'cause i'm happy ♪ clap along if you feel ♪ like happiness is the truth ♪ 'cause i'm happy ♪ clap along if you know ♪ what happens happiness is to you ♪ ♪ clap along if you feel ♪ like that's what you want to do ♪ ♪ it come bad news ♪ talking this and that ♪ yeah ♪ give me all y

joining us now, senior correspondent tom brokaw.n's 37th president. what did you found out? >> they've done a remarkable job at the library. he won by a record, a record margin. just four years later. george mcgovern only won one state that time. already watergate had occurred and for the next year of his second term, richard nixon was embroiled in watergate and eventually forced to leave. how did the library handle it? at the beginning, not very well, but they went in, retooled it and i must say i was astonished and very impressed. >> reporter: the revamped nixon library is a collection of elegant structures in yorba linda, california. the orange county village where nixon grew up in a small house made from a sears and ro s and kit. a review of this complicated man. the only president forced to resign. >> the new exhibit is much more integrated, much more honest. it acknowledges nixon had his problems to put it mildly, but also shows the many positive sides of richard nixon. >> reporter: it is a reminder before watergate nixon bega

our tom brokaw joins us this morning from the knicnixon libr. as "air force one" known as air mission 41. his casket is expected to arrive on the tarmac in a few minutes. the honor guard is ready to play "hail to the chief" as well as the 21-salute. also attending is george w. bush and the first lady and others. we'll head back to washington for several events. later in the week he returns to texas. he was not just a statesman and politician but a father and neighbor, a pillar of the community. he and his family came here decades ago, built so much here, and he'll be taken to his final resting place on the ground of the presidential library in college station nchl the next few minutes we're expecting his casket to arrive and a send-off of the 41st president. lester? >> thank you. we're told ten minutes before the arrival of the motorcade. let's bring on the panel. john meachem, let's start with you. kerry sanders was talking to people who were standing out there. they said, this is our neighbor. talk about the connection of this president and hi

and i recall standing right to the side off side when tom brokaw was there interviewing george bush when he won the new hampshire primary and that helped him nail the nomination and defeat bob dole. dole was on remote and tom said to dole, do you have anything you want to say to george bush? and dole said, stop lying about my record. i mean, it was one of those moments. it was a bitter republican primary. then there was a bitter campaign with ross perot making the arguments, actually, about deficit spending, but going much broader than that. at one point in june of 1988, ross perot was leading both bill clinton in that general election in that three-way race. the independent was ahead in the polls. to both bill clinton and george bush, the major party nominees. that said, the economy was a huge issue. i know he and barbara bush felt at the time, and in is a -- i was to first disclose that i was personally involved in my personal life in this. they felt that the fed tightening at the time was too tight. and i, of course, was going to marry the then chairman of the fed, someone i had been

bush among other things, and -- >> tom brokaw. >> you do it so well. >> i am not doing any of them here. >> you should be sued, the president says, if you do them here. >> what is your point? >> that is a bad thing to say because god bless "saturday night live" for more than 40 years they have been making fun of our presidents, and we live in a great country where comedians are allowed to make fun of our presidents, and that's one of the things that makes america great. >> yeah, and i mean, they have been giving it to both sides for decades, as you know. i think there's an expression that they probably use over at "snl" that are two words if they can't get the joke, and the president doesn't seem to get the joke anymore when it comes to "snl." >> we won't say those words, if they are what i am imagining. thank you gentlemen, very much. >>> over the weekend a federal judge threw out obamacare. he said obamacare is illegal, all of it, and unconstitutional. so what happens now? we will ask one of the architects of the affordable care act next. whoooo. with tripadvisor, finding your perfect

it has a preface by tom brokaw, another great friend of the museum, and i will start by him about the origins of lakefront ofthe new orleans, mainly at the university of new orleans, where the eisenhower center used to be directed by dr. ambrose, and for the 50th anniversary of d-day, dr. ambrose started collecting oral histories already in the 1980's. this is really a book of oral histories and i would like nick to briefly recount the genesis of the book and the museum out there on the lakefront. >> thank you, gunter. good morning to everybody. course, the book does have its origins in d-day, i guess at the university of new orleans, my friendship with stephen ambrose, and goes back to 1990. some of you know that story. int happened in his backyard 1990. i will not belabor it, but it was in a small gazebo in his backyard where we met every afternoon for a few drinks -- i think that day we had too many drinks, but the outcome was pretty good. collectingad been oral histories. i think we have the slide up there now -- steve and i were best friends for 30 years and we didn't off a lot o

on behalf of savannah, andrea, chuck, tom brokaw and all of us at nbc news, thank you for joining us.he words of president george bush himself on that inaugural day 30 years ago. >> my friends, we are not the sum of our possessions. they are not the measure of our lives. in our hearts, we know what matters. we cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. we must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leads his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it. what do we want the men and women who work with us to say when we're no longer there? that we were more driven to succeed than anyone around us? or that we stopped to ask if a sick child had gotten better. and stayed a moment there to trade a word of friendship. no president, no government, can teach us to remember what is best and what we are. but if the man you've chosen to lead this government can help make a difference, if he can celebrate the quieter, deeper successes that are made not of gold and silk, but of better hearts and fin

for these tom brokaw pieces and to senior producer jack bore and editor anthony for mika's camp david accord lookback. that does it for us this morning. hallie jackson picks up the coverage right now. >> thank you, joe. hallie jackson in for stephanie ruhle this morning. we begin with no end in sight. after less than seven minutes in session yesterday, congress has basically done work for the year. so this shutdown will last past the new year. maybe well into january. the options ahead with the white house out on defense this morning. >> the president has been willing to negotiate on this point. the democrats have not been willing to do anything. they care more about keeping our borders open then keeping our government open. >> plus, site survey. the head of homeland security heads to texas along the mexican border today. what house democrats now say they want to do come january after the deaths of two children while in the custody of cpb. plus, ready to rally. the roller coaster ride on wall street rolls on after one of the worst decembers on record. stocks are looking up again this

it has a preface by tom brokaw, another great friend of the museum, and i will start by him about the origins of lakefront ofthe new orleans, mainly at the university of new orleans, where the eisenhower center used to be directed by dr. ambrose, and for the 50th anniversary of d-day, dr. ambrose started collecting oral histories already in the 1980's. this is really a book of oral histories and i would like nick to briefly recount the genesis of the book and the museum out there on the lakefront. >> thank you, gunter. good morning to everybody. course, the book does have its origins in d-day, i guess at the university of new orleans, my friendship with stephen ambrose, and goes back to 1990. some of you know that story. int happened in his backyard 1990. i will not belabor it, but it was in a small gazebo in his backyard where we met every afternoon for a few drinks -- i think that day we had too many drinks, but the outcome was pretty good. collectingad been oral histories. i think we have the slide up there now -- steve and i were best friends for 30 years and we didn't off a lot o

it has a preface by tom brokaw, another great friend of the museum and i am going to start out here by asking dr. mueller about the origins of this book. mainly at the university of new orleans where the eisenhower center used to be located, that was directed by dr. ambrose and for the 50th anniversary of d- day, the doctor started collecting oral histories already in the 1980s through the eisenhower center and this is a book of oral histories and i would like nick to briefly recount the genesis of the book and the museum out there at the lake front. >> thank you, welcome and good morning to everyone. of course, the book does have its origins and its dna at the university of new orleans, with my friendship with stephen ambrose, goes back to 1990 and some of you have -- you know that story. that happened in his backyard, so i won't belabor it but it was in a small gazebo in his backyard where we met every afternoon for a few drinks. i think that they we had too many drinks. the outcome was pretty good. seeing and collecting oral history and i was involved with the new research market wh

he got up from his wheelchair to salute the other guy, the greatest generation tom brokaw christened them. there they were today, the living, the lost, both firmly in the american scroll of honor. that's "hardball" for now. "all in" with chris hayes starts right now. >>> tonight on "all in." >> general flynn is a wonderful man. >> mueller time for michael flynn. >> well, i feel badly for general flynn. >> the sentencing memo -- what we know about mark for identification's cooperation with the special counsel and what it could tell us about what mueller knows about trump and the russians. >>> plus, ben wittes, robert mueller is laying seeds to the -- the election scandal grows in north carolina. >> he was more like need to get more hairs in here. >>> as republicans move to take power from democrats in wisconsin, the same power grab moves forward in michigan. when "all in" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. at this very hour we are still awaiting special counsel robert mueller's court filing on the sentencing of president trump's former national security

and you're like, "was that belushi, tom brokaw, you, carson?"> it's like one big ocean of people that we've seen. >> seth: and now you -- i guess the first time you were in the building was probably hosting? i mean, i guess you'd maybe been here for other things. >> i did a soap opera here. >> seth: you did a soap opera here? >> i did a soap opera on the third floor. i did a soap opera here that -- which when i was on it, i killed it. it went off the air while i was on the show. >> seth: wow. [ laughter ] >> i killed the show. >> seth: does that mean your character survived if the show went off the air before they could kill you? >> no, no. i'm saying my acting killed the show. >> seth: yeah, yeah. no. >> yeah. >> seth: but then, you know, if you can get the show canceled before they can kill off your soap opera character, that's a job well done. [ laughter ] >> yeah. what i love about that show -- it's funny you say that. this is true. i was killed by two people simultaneously unaware of each other's presence. >> seth: oh! [ laughter ] >> one g

. >> i remember calling tom brokaw up in the booth saying i got it. he said who? i said dan quayle.lking to somebody who is close to him. he sort of knows that -- whatever you want to call it. there are some who politically feel as if he wasn't as successful as he could have been. people have appreciated how he's handled his post-vice presidency. >> what an image. bystanders and people gathered at the state of the capitol. the president's casket, the hearse that will carry him from downtown washington and capitol hill across the city one final time and to the national cathedral. we expect that to be about a 15-minute ride before we see the arrival here at the top of the hour is when this service is scheduled to begin. as we look inside the cathedral and see that those front two rows and see our former living presidents, vice presidents, cabinet members, all of whom who have come here to gather. >> you look at these pictures. you think it's a small club. i mean, in our history. only 45 people have had that responsibility, that honor, and we beat them up a little bit in life. >> one t

it was part of what tom brokaw called the greatest generation. rival, his fellow soldier. so it's been an extraordinary week. there's been all sorts of good things about american history and american character. connell: the moment with senator dole at the capitol yesterday, as he remembered president bush, was remarkable, i think. if you didn't have or feel any emotion as you watched that, i mean, you're probably not capable of it. same goes for that eulogy i think that was delivered by president bush 43, talking about his father. i was thinking throughout as he was speaking, i don't know how he's holding himself together, then at the end, you know, the tears did flow, but that was something else as he weaved in and out, personal stories and also the remembrances of a president which, you know, speaks to how unique this family was. it's only been two father/son combinations that have served as president. of course, none of us remember the adams combination but we do remember this one. it's something we have never seen in our lifetime and the odds

nbc, tom brokaw has been thinking a lot about that. >> i have been thinking about it a lot.lew out that electoral map. they were already in the midst of watergate. i thought it was worthwhile to go back and take a look at the richard nixon experience and especially how it's remembered at his library, which is nixon collection of elegant structures in yorba linda, california. the orange county village where nixon grew up in a small kit. the museum was redesigned to give a more complicated view of this honest man the only man forced to resign. >> the new exhibit is much more problems, to put him mildly. but it also shows the many positive sides of richard nixon. >> reporter: as the reminder that before watergate, nixon began a new relationship with russia. he went to china, a stunning diplomatic coup that changed the world order overnight. he took on vietnam, ending the draft, reducing troop levels. he also escalated bombing and forced peace talks and set off a national anti-war crusade. he claimed a sigh leapt majority was with him and won re-election by a historic clumsy br

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we are joined by nbc's tom brokaw and andrea good morning to both of you. this is something special that our country does, buries a president. what does it mea for the country in a moment like this to come together and honor theid prcy? >> especially during a time where we have considerable political chaos in the country. i think it ro we are. we are elected this person, president othe united states. he began his life by serving in the united states military and then he had a lot of other positions. but i thinks well we are paying tribute to george h.w. bush and his family as citizens, models, peoput who care a the country and gave back in so many ways. he was raised in a wealthy family. he could have easily gone to wall street. he d director of cia, head of the party, vice president of the ambassador, s, u.n. ambassador to china. it's an unparalleled record. and it is reassuring and ngthink rene to pay tribute to someone like that. >> we know that president bush did not care for the legacy discussion. didn't want to havet for himself. when you look at it,