brian: born between? william: no, if you are age -- brian: i am. i'm 49. william: you came of age just too late to participate as a hero in world war ii and just too early to feel the heat of the vietnam draft. brian: again, go back to sen. gore, because i assume there are a number of boomers that are out there. we don't have to use him necessarily by name, but sen. kerry -- neil: i think what it's going to tell people of the boom generation, who are in politics or interested in entering politics -- incidentally, one of our predictions is in the 1990's , we are going to see a lot of boomers coming into politics from other professions, other walks of life. the long-time incumbent politician that is very characteristic of the silent generation may become a fading artifact, and we may begin to have a swifter turnover in congressional seats. but what it's going to say is that his peers, who are going to begin to dominate the electorate in terms of voting clout, are going to take a sterner, more values-oriented approach to the problems of the country. everyone i

the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. a chance t the call in this case. "11th hour with brian williams" starts now. >> tonight, can a political newcomer pull off a win for his party and embarrass president trump who injected himself into this race? also working in the white house and selling hand bags on the side. new questions about a big business deal for ivanka trump's company. and new behind the scenes reporting from election night that we have not heard until now. the 11th hour begins right now. genes. a lot of news tonight as we greet you wins again from our headquarters in new york. day 89 of the trump administration and tonight all political eyes are on a special election for congress in georgia. 18 names on the ballot you be it's the democrat jon ossoff who is hoping to get more than 50% of the vote, pulling off an upset in this race. it's been tight all night. right now he's leading with 50.3% of the vote. 32 points out in front of his nearest competitor. the seat is open because its previous occupant, what was

. >> looks like brian williams is going to get the chance to make the call in this race. the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. >> tonight the breaking news out of georgia, can the political newcomer, an upstart democrat pull off a win for his party and embarrass president trump who injected himself into this race? >>> also working at the white house and selling hand bags on the side, new questions this evening about a big business deal for ivanka trump's company. >>> and hillary clinton's apology to president obama, new behind the scenes reporting from election night that we have not heard until now. the 11th hour begins right now. good evening and a lot of news we're covering tonight as we greet you once again from our headquarters here in new york. day 89 of the trump administration and tonight all political eyesre on a special election for congress in georgia. 18 names on the ballot, but it's the democrat john ossoff who has worked as a congressional aide in the past. he is hoping to get more than 50% of the vote, avoiding the runoff, pulling off an upset in th

don't you think -- >> brian, if i can say -- >> brian williams -- >> yeah. >> sorry, jeremy? >> let me -- let me just say this. >> everyone, frankly, brian -- >> major -- >> jeremy. >> iraq war -- >> well -- >> let's not -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> words matter. >> i'll be quiet. lara, go ahead. >> jeremy, just not to bundle these -- i agree a lot of what jeremy said and there is a bizarre mix of ignoring syria or fetishizing it and that's happened with major image that captured national attention and lent itself wall to wall coverage. the fact that the focus of that video was on somehow glamorizing the strike and not talking about what it achieved or didn't achieve and what it means for syria. a lot of debate over the last six years is whether the u.s. would do a pinpoint strike that took outrun ways. that didn't happen. if the runways can be used, how is this a deterrent of use of future chemical strikes. there are questions that haven't been asked that need to be asked. >> i think the footage is really interesting, images the pentagon released because it was in the gover

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this is msnbc anchor brian williams referring to that pentagon video fired at syria as before, somethingike three times in 30 seconds. >> go into greater detail. we see these beautiful pictures at night from the decks of these two ws in the vessels in the eastern mediterranean. i intended to quote the great leonard cohen. "i'm guided by the beauty of our weapons." they're beautiful pictures of your some armaments making what is for them a brief flight over this carefully owned -- this airfield. what do they hit? >> that is msnbc brian williams speaking last night, describing that footage, that tomahawk cruise missiles flying into the air from the naval warships, reminding one of back in 2003, shot and awe in a wreck. certainly, a very different scale. medea, your response? >> it is disgusting, this glorification of weapons that -- mass destruction as much as the use of chemical weapons. the u.s. has been incinerating people for years with drone strikes, killed over 200 people in mosul just recently. the u.s. is arming the saudis that is led to the catastrophic situation in yemen where on

the 11th hour with brian williams starts now.all in this case. "11th hour with brian williams" starts now. >> tonight, can a political newcomer pull off a win for his party and embarrass president trump who injected himself into this race? also working in the white house and selling hand bags on the side. new questions about a big business deal for ivanka trump's company. and new behind the scenes reporting from election night that we have not heard until now. the 11th hour begins right now. genes. a lot of news tonight as we greet you wins again from our headquarters in new york. day 89 of the trump administration and

. >> looks like brian williams is going to get the chance to make the call in this race.r with brian williams starts now. >> tonight the breaking news out of georgia, can the political newcomer, an upstart democrat pull off a win for his party and embarrass president trump who injected himself into this race? >>> also working at the white house and selling hand bags on the side, new questions this evening about a big business deal for ivanka trump's company. >>> and hillary clinton's apology to president obama, new behind the scenes reporting from election night that we have not heard until now. the 11th hour begins right now. good evening and a lot of news we're covering tonight as we greet you once again from our headquarters here in new york. day 89 of the trump administration and tonight all political eyesre on a special election for congress in georgia. 18 names on the

. >>> the 11th hour with brian williams starts right now. >>> tonight donald trump's world view. he says it's a nasty place. u.s.-russia relations are at an all-time low. >>> the president says he's his own strategist. renewing questions of whether his chief strategist, steve bannon, is long for his job, amid a smattering of tough headlines. >>> is the u.s. dollar too strange? how president trump is taking the blame and credit at the same time. the 11th hour begins right now. >>> good evening once again from our headquarters here in new york. day 83 of the trump administration. and after a meeting and press conference today, with the nato seargeneral, it's now harder than ever to identify anything approaching a trump doctrine. some watching today thought it was a surprisingly normal presidential event, given recent events, about nato specifically the president who once called nato obsolete has now decided it is not. >> by the way, i'm right about nato. we have nato, and we're giving countries a free ride. nato is obsolete. it's old. it's fat. it's sloppy. >> i said it's obsolete,

i have people, hundreds of people that we are trying to get throug >> "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts right now. >> tonight the u.s. drops a massive bomb on afghanistan, the largest nonnuclear bomb ever detonated. now after the impact the questions have started. did the president authorize it? did he know about it? and beyond the blast zone was it intended as a message elsewhere? also, hostile intelligence service, that's what the cia director called wikileaks today, pitting himself against president trump who is a candidate came to love it and said so. and just how much of his presidency is donald trump spending at mar-a-lago? "the 11th hour" begins now. and good evening once again from our headquarters here in new york. if it was meant to get attention, it succeeded. if it was meant to collapse underground tunnels as the pentagon says, it likely did that, too. and then some. on day 84 of the trump administration, the united states military dropped a bomb that weighs as much as a city bus, a bomb so large it won't fit in the bombay of any known bomber. it has to slide out on s

. >>> "the 11th hour," with brian williams, starts right now. ♪ >> tonight devastating new numbers inhe wake of confusion and distraction in the trump white house, including the percentage of americans who now say they are embarrassed to have donald trump as president. susan rice becomes the newest target of the trump effort to run down all the ways in which the president's unproven wire tap claim could have been right. and the first daughter's first interview as a federal employee and questions about how much she's willing to stand up to the boss. "the 11th hour begins now." ♪ >> good evening once again from our headquarters here in new york. day 75, which means we are three-quarters of the way now through that mything first 100 days of the still young trump administration. tonight marks one month since the unforced error by the president of the united states that has driven the white house and the media to distraction and miss direction. it's been a month since the president's 6:00 a.m. accusation on twitter that his predecessor is a felon, that barack obama somehow wire tapped trum

msnbc coverage continues into "the 11th hour" now, with brian williams. that's next. tonight new reporting on the trump team in russia. >>> also, the man the team describes as almost untouchable in the white house. the author of that story joins us here tonight. the 11th hour begins now. good evening once again from our headquarters here in new york. here we are day 74 of the trump administration. and while somewhere in the west wing there is no doubt a strategy and an action plan for this week, including today, this week started like so many others have. the president took to twitter, starting at 6:15 a.m., repeated his grievance with the obama administration. he said he had been wiretapped by the former president, and relitigated the campaign against hillary clinton. this came after he sent his son-in-law to iraq with an official u.s. delegation. the business of the white house, that part, is busy right now. a senate confirmation vote for supreme court later this week. and just today the visit of egypt's authoritarian president. but let's start on twitter, as the pr

the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. >>> on the, the selling of a presidency. how does donald trump brand his first 100 days as a success? with the administration hard at work, two white house reporters share behind the scenes details with us tonight. >>> also, how do you sell success when your team isn't getting along? the infighting between jared kushner and steve bannon that keeps churning out headlines. >>> and what happens next between the u.s. and russia over syria? "the 11th hour" begins now. >>> good evening once again from our headquarters here in new york. the end of day 81 of the trump administration. that means starting tomorrow, 18 days remain toward the first 100 days benchmark. and the is a lot of reporting tondicate the white house is scrambling to define these first 100 days in office. the politico headline from their chief white house correspondent, who will join us momentarily is this, quote, white house on edge as 100 day judgment nears. the piece recounts a recent meeting with 30 staffers, about one fifth of whom promptly leaked details of

"the 11th hour" with brian williams starts right now. >>> tonight, damage control. white house press secretary sean spicer issuing a full apology for saying adolph hitler did not use chemical weapons against his own people like assad in syria. >>> also new details on trump campaign adviser carter page. the "washington post" reporting he was being monitored as a possible russian agent. all of this while secretary of state rex tillerson is in russia amid a lot of guessing as the whether he will meet with putin. "the 11th hour" begins now. good evening once again from our headquarters here in new york. this was day 82 of the trump administration. and we are covering a number of stories. we should lay them out this way. first, the pentagon today talked about the success of the cruise missile attack on that syrian air field. the u.s. secretary of state is in russia. the "washington post" is reporting that trump campaign aide carter pain was under surveillance for contact with russian agents and was the subject of a federal court warrant. and today during passover, the wh

>>> the 11th hour with brian williams starts right now. >> the man still new on the job comes to grips with the dangerous force and limits of u.s. power as north korea warns of nuclear war at any moment. also tonight, why so many voters say they don't believe their president, and why so many members of congress are feeling it at town hall meetings back home. >>> after a weekend of marches, are we ever going to see the president's tax returns. the question came up at the white house briefing again today, we're happy to report, they're going to get back to us on that. "the 11th hour" begins now. >>> as we start off a new week, good evening once again from our headquarters here in new york. a still new president is learning the confines of the job. the value of alliances, the sheer power of the american military, the fact that it's made up of people who volunteered for duty. and the limits of american power and prestige around the modern world. president trump who in lieu of a formal easter message, made a few sporadic comments on twitter yesterday, is also learning that words matter. the

msnbc coverage continues into "the 11th hour" now, with brian williams. that's next. >>> tonight another week, and it starts the same way. whatever agenda the white house may have, the president has another, and expresses it on twitter. tonight new reporting on the trump team and russia. >>> also the man the "washington post" describes as almost untouchable in the trump white house. the author of that story joins us here tonight. >>> and is the senate approaching a point of no return over judge gorsuch? why many believe the fight will change the senate forever. the 11th hour begins now: well, good evening once again from our headquarters in new york. here we are, day 74 of the trump administration. and while somewhere in the west wing there is no doubt a strategy and an action plan for this week, including today, this week started like so many others have. the president took to twitter, starting at 6:15 a.m., repeated his grievance with the obama administration. he said he had been wiretapped by the former president, and relitigated the campaign against h

brian williams picks up msnbc's special coverage. brian? >> andrea, thank you.e's been saying, the scene is set at the white house, in the rose garden, on a spectacular spring day. you see the two podiums there. it's traditional, it's customary that these two leaders, in this case president trump and the king of jordan, will take two and two. two questions from the white house press corps, two questions from the visiting jordanian press corps. questions have become multiples in the modern era, so we'll see. but first, we want to begin with kristen welker who is on the north lawn of the white house. and that is because kristen, our colleagues at "the new york times" have just filed a report, the result of a conversation, an interview with president trump in the oval office, and

>> can you look up brian williams, see if he has some relationship with pittsburgh, kansas?hat would be great. now, jen, now that we figured out that you're not this cherry hill, fire marlton. >> and not doing pizza, that's later. >> we're doing easter treats, hi, jen. >> hi, okay, these girls are going to show me how it worksment they'll make some treats that they'll like, but they can also bring to uncle mike's house if they're going over, awesome. at marie's mom's cookie cupboard, and i'm going to ruin your life, because i'm throwing in you this competition. >> 476, the villanova interchange, so if you're leaving november, a south, down toward i-95, there is the crash off to what would be the right lane there. jammo, on the schuylkill expressway. westbound leaving south philadelphia, trying to get in toward university city. an accident right on the university ave. bridge. you can see the raindrops on our camera lens here. and also, the sale deal on your windshield. hello cherry hill, new jersey, route 70, slow going poor visibility socking us in downtown center city. the

i'm enjoy reid in for brian williams. >>> a brand-new michael flynn probe is announced as the white house blames obama? >> tonight, new charges of a cover-up and what it means for the trump russia investigation. >>> then the new push for trumpcare runs into the same old problem. >> can you

. >>> "the 11th hour," with brian williams, starts right now. ♪ >> tonight devastating new numbers in confusion and distraction in the trump white house, including the percentage of americans who now say they are embarrassed to have donald trump as president. susan rice becomes the newest target of the trump effort to run down all the ways in which the president's unproven wire tap claim could have been right. and the first daughter's first interview as a federal employee and questions about how much she's willing to stand up to the boss. "the 11th hour begins now." ♪ >> good evening once again from our headquarters here in new york. day 75, which means we are three-quarters of the way now through that mything first

"the 11th hour with brian williams" starts right now. >> tonight the man still new on the job comes tohe dangerous force and limits of u.s. power as north korea warns of nuclear war at any moment. >>> also tonight, why so many voters say they don't believe their president and why so many members of congress are feeling it at town hall meetings back home. >>> and after a weekend of marches, are we ever going to see the president's tax returns? the question came up at the white house briefing again today. we're happy to report they're going get back to us on that. "the 11th hour" begins now.

"the 11th hour" with brian williams is live starting right now. >>> tonight, owl eyes on north korea, where it's saturday morning and pyongyang. and with tensions building, the world waits to see if kim jong-un will test another nuclear weapon. >>> also back in washington, the trump administration guarding privacy or lacking transparency? with a policy change just revealed today. >>> and protecting the president up and down the east coast, wherever they go. why this administration poses the largest challenge of the modern era. "the 11th hour" begins now. >>> good evening once again from our headquarters here in new york. day 85 of the trump administration. and week 12 of this young administration is ending with all eyes squarely on north korea. the secretive nation says it is ready to go to war with the united states if that's what president trump wants. these are pictures from this morning's military parade. speaking to the "associated press" there, their vice foreign minister also said president trump's tweets are making tensions worse. pyongyang has determined that the trump admini

that way if i'm bombing brian williams will describe it as stunning. it's hard to trust you guys when you send us so many mixed messages. you tell us the prison industrial complex is the problem and then air five straight hours of lock up. you can't be mad at corporations profiting off of minorities in prison when you're a corporation profiting off of minorities in prison. please tell rachel maddow to please chill about trump's tax returns. there isn't going to be a line item that says bribes from russia. i found the 1040 ussr. it doesn't work like that. you were the liberal news outlet. i want to froot you guys but you're turning into conspiracy theorists every night. you're like the russians hacked our elections. meanwhile, everyone's like oh, a foreign government tamperred with your elections? what is that like? do tell, msnbc. just pump the brakes. we're only on day 100. by the ownend of the year you'l all have tin foil hats and jars of urine by your desks. i had a lot more msnbc jokes but i don't want to just ramble on, otherwise i might get a sho

"the 11th hour" with brian williams starts next.t. >>> tonight, closing in on 100 days. why the president now says the whole idea is ridiculous. and 100 days of resistance. fighting back in the streets, on the hill, and within the president's own party. >>> also tonight team trump calls new york city soft on crime. wait till you see how it went over with the nypd. "the 11th hour" begins right now. good evening once again from our headquarters here in new york. day 92 of the trump administration. and tonight the president and his family are in government housing, choosing to stay home and spend the weekend at the white house, and with

brian williams will describe it as stunning.t is hard to trust you guys when you send us so many mixed messages, on one hand you tell us the prison industrial complex is the problem, and then you air five straight hours of "lock-up." you can't get mad at corporations profiting off minorities in prison, when you're a corporation profiting off minorities in prison. i have one quick request. msnbc please tell rachel maddow to chill about president trump's tax returns, i don't know what you will find in there, but there will not be a line that says bribes from russia, you're like oh, i found a 1040! it doesn't work that way. i want to root your guys, but you're turning into conspiracy theorists every night, you're like the russians hacked our election, the russians hacked our election, meanwhile, the people elsewhere are saying oh, a foreign government hacked into the election? dude what is that like? just pump the breaks, we're only on day 100, by the end of the year you guys will have jars of urine and tin foil all over your desks

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brian williams picks up msnbc's special coverage. brian? >> andrea, thank you. as she's been saying, the scene is set at the white house, in the rose garden, on a spectacular spring day. you see the two podiums there. it's traditional, it's customary that these two leaders, in this case president trump and the king of jordan, will take two and two. two questions from the white house press corps, two questions from the visiting jordanian press corps. questions have become multiples in the modern era, so we'll see. but first, we want to begin with kristen welker who is on the north lawn of the white house. and that is because kristen, our colleagues at "the new york times" have just filed a report, the result of a conversation, an interview with president trump in the oval office, and this has become the nature of this white house, that prior to this bilateral appearance by the president, here's what we're talking about. the president has gone deeper in his accusations against the obama national security adviser susan rice, and the president has defended fox news

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. >>> "the 11th hour," with brian williams, starts right now. >>> tonight, devastating new numbers inonfusion and distraction in the trump white house, including the percentage of americans who now say they are embarrassed to have donald trump as president. >>> susan rice becomes the newest target of the trump effort to run down all the ways in which the

"the 11th hour" with brian williams is live starting right now. >>> tonight, owl eyes on north korea,rday morning and pyongyang. and with tensions building, the world waits to see if kim jong-un will test another nuclear weapon. >>> also back in washington, the trump administration guarding privacy or lacking transparency? with a policy change just revealed today. >>> and protecting the president up and down the east coast, wherever they go. why this administration poses the largest challenge of the modern era. "the 11th hour" begins now. >>> good evening once again from our headquarters here in new york. day 85f

i'm joy reed in for brian william who has the night off. today was day 99 of the trump presidency. trump may have 99 problems but getting the love from his base ain't one. first up arc trip to atlanta for a speech to the national rifle association where trump the president sounded more like trump the candidate serving up that red meat to the crowd. >> november 8th. wasn't that a great evening? do you remember that evening? remember that? and remember they said there is no path to 270. for months i was hearing that. you know, they are trying to suppress the vote. i have a feeling that in the next election you are going to be swamped with candidates. it may be pocahontas. remember that. the eight-year assault on our second amendment freedoms has come to a crashing end. >> and trump followed that up tonight by granting an interview to his favorite cable news channel, fox, using the time to among other things blame democrats for his failure to pass any legislation. claimed once again that russiagate is fake news. and defend his golfing habit. >> are you disappointed with how the republ

. >>> the 11th hour with brian williams starts right now. >> the man still new on the job comes to grips force and limits of u.s. power as north korea warns of nuclear war at any moment. also tonight, why so many voters say they don't believe their president, and why so many members of congress are feeling it at town hall meetings back home. >>> after a weekend of marches, are we ever going to see the president's tax returns. the question came up at the white house briefing again today, we're happy to report, they're going to get back to us on that. "the 11th hour" begins now. >>> as we start off a new week, good evening once again from our headquarters here in new york. a still new president is learning the confines of the job. the value of alliances, the sheer power of the american military, the fact that it's made upf

"the 11th hour" with brian williams starts right now. >>> tonight, damage control.ouse press secretary sean spicer issuing a full apology for saying adolph hitler did not use chemical weapons against his own people like assad in syria. >>> also new details on trump campaign adviser carter page. the "washington post" reporting he was being monitored as a possible russian agent. all of this while secretary of state rex tillerson is in russia amid a lot of guessing as the whether he will meet with putin. "the 11th hour" begins now. good evening once

"the 11th hour" with brian williams starts right now. >>> tonight, the u.s.e bomb on afghanistan. the largest non-nuclear bomb ever to

i'm joy reid in -for-brian williams who has the night off.9 of the trump presidency. trump may have 99 problems but getting the love from his base ain't one. first up, a trip

. >>> the 11th hour with brian williams starts right now. >>> tonight donald trump's world view.nasty place. u.s.-russia relations are at an all-time low. >>> the president says he's his own strategist.

"the 11th hour" with brian williams is live starting right now. >>> tonight, owl eyes on north korea, where it's saturday morning and pyongyang. and with tensions building, the world waits to see if kim jong-un will test another nuclear weapon. >>> also back in washington, the trump administration guarding privacy or lacking transparency? with a policy change just revealed today. >>> and protecting the president up and down the east coast, wherever they go. why this administration poses the largest challenge of the modern era. "the 11th hour" begins now. >>> good evening once again from our headquarters here in new york. day 85 of the trump administration. and week 12 of this young administration is ending with all eyes squarely on north korea. the secretive nation says it is ready to go to war with the united states if that's what president trump wants. these are pictures from this morning's military parade. speaking to the "associated press" there, their vice foreign minister also said president trump's tweets are making tensions worse. pyongyang has determined that the trump admini

i have people, hundreds of people that we are trying to get throug >> "the 11th hour" with brian williamsht now. >> tonight the u.s. drops a massive bomb on afghanistan, the largest nonnuclear bomb ever detonated. now after the impact the questions have started. did the president authorize it? did he know about it? and beyond the blast zone was it intended as a message elsewhere? also, hostile intelligence service, that's what the cia director called wikileaks today, pitting himself against presidt um

i was on with brian williams last night on the 11th hour explaining the only good reason i can come up for making this decision is so president trump can publicly reverse it. there's no real reason for doing it because journalists will find out anyway and secret meetings can be held all over town. one was held at the willard hotel back in the middle of the cuban missile crisis. but i'll say this. they had two weeks of great news coming out of the white house, beginning with the confirmation hearings of justice gorsuch, then his confirmation, his actual breaking of the reid rule to break the filibuster. they had the response to the syrian use of sarin. they had the afghanistan use of the moab. great visit from president xi, great visit from the nato secretary general. just no reason to step on your momentum. i think the decision of the logs does that. i'm skill quizzical about it. >> so if you're in your minds, which is hard to do, in your opinion how does the trump administration benefit from this? don't most people want to see greater transparency or at least the optics of it from the

the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. >>> on the, the selling of a presidency.donald trump brand his first 100 days as a success? with the administration hard at work, two white house reporters share behind the scenes details with us tonight. >>> also, how do you sell success when your team isn't getting along? the