so i stepped it up a little bit to try to get there. >> brinkley turns into the mall parking lot and sees flames engulfing the vehicle. >> when i arrived, the fire was over the whole back half of the vehicle. i knew there wasn't much time left if there was somebody in there just because the car was roaring. >> as brinkley approaches the scene he gets a request on the radio. >> need your camera on the car if i can get some video of the car burning before the fire department gets there. >> one of our arson investigators asked to get a video of the car for the investigation to watch the burn pattern, and the investigation that was going to follow. >> he jumps into rescue mode. smoke fills the vehicle and the officer can't see inside. >> i just had to break out the windows in order to have visibility into the car. i couldn't see into it. it was full of smoke. i couldn't tell if anybody was in it or not. >> i don't know if anyone is in here, but i think there might be. it looks like there was a crash. i got a window out of it but i can't get the smoke out. >> as brinkley plans his next mo

david brinkley, of course, was a very famous broadcaster and obviously a wonderful writer. deeply knowledgeable about congress and washington. and he argues in this piece that part of the reason kennedy failed with congress was he simply couldn't connect. he vaulted to the white house after only briefly serving in the senate. he remained in all of the old -- awe of the lions in both of the senate and felt maybe insecure dealing with them. and then brinkley makes an argument that there was simply a cultural disconnect, the "too cool" point. congressman serving from elsewhere in america were not as impressed by this extremely of sophisticated glamorous white house. host: what was his approach? was it intellectual? guest: excessively intellectual. and he wasn't shaking hands and he wasn't going inside and having any kind of meetings with these guys and talking to them the way they liked to be talked to. he was a remote president. host: silver spring, maryland. republican caller. caller: how are you doing? a relationship between kennedy and his brother bobby, how much influence

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come on, brinkley, open up! ( knock at door ) he's in there. philadelphia pd! door! i'll check around back. i'm not leaving till you open this door! hi, there. oh, crap. pretty much. (sighs) i didn't see anything. rush: this guy saw something, boss. something like tami running over greg cardiff? whatever it was, he don't want to tell. unresponsive four years back, tried to ditch vera and jeffries today. homebody like him probably wasn't out new year's eve. let me guess where you were. here. how'd it go with greg's widow? she saw a red jeep outside the bar that night. red jeep, like tami drove. i was hoping things wouldn't point to her. she's a nice lady. nice or not, no one gets a free murder. vera says this guy russell's got demophobia. fear of? crowds. so crowd him. (sighs) i told you i mind my own business. mind if we join? more the merrier. russell here, he's got a big picture window overlooking the street where greg got hit. that doesn't mean i saw anything. detective valens. how are you doing? is there a bigger room? this is the only one open. open is not

david brinkley, of course, was a very famous broadcaster and obviously a wonderful writer.eeply knowledgeable about congress and washington. and he argues in this piece that part of the reason kennedy failed with congress was he simply couldn't connect. he vaulted to the white house after only briefly serving in the senate. he remained in all of the old -- awe of the lions in both of the senate and felt maybe insecure dealing with them. and then brinkley makes an argument that there was simply a cultural disconnect, the "too cool" point. congressman serving from elsewhere in america were not as impressed by this extremely of this decade it, -- sophisticated glamorous white house. host: what was his approach? was it intellectual? guest: excessively intellectual. wasn't shaking hands and andasn't going inside having any kind of meetings with these guys and talking to them the way they liked to be talked to. he was a remote president. host: silver spring, maryland. republican caller. caller: how are you doing? a relationship between kennedy and his brother bobby, how much infl

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david brinkley is a very famous broadcaster, also a wonderful writer. deeply knowledgeable about congress and washington. he says -- he argues in this piece part of the reason that kennedy failed with congress is that he simply couldn't connect. he vaulted to the white house after only briefly serving in the senate. he remained in awe of the old lions and bulls of the senate. i think a little insecure dealing with them. and then brinkley makes an argument there was simply a cultural disconnect. that's the too cool point. that congressmen serving from rural america, elsewhere in america, weren't that impressed by this extremely sophisticated, glamorous white house full of mozart and artist all the time. host: what was his approach? was it intellectual? guest: it was excessively intellectual. he wasn't down. he wasn't shaking hands and he wasn't going into the congress and meeting with these guys and talking to them the way they lining to be talked to. he was a remote president. host: our fist phone call here, silver spring, maryland, republican caller. g

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here with some perspective, fareed zakaria and douglas brinkley. fareed, let me start with you. heard the president bring up world war ii, the bombings on london that happened before the u.s. entered into the war. you heard secretary of state bring up hitler in much more direct ways, and nazi germany in much more direct ways. are these apt comparisons, do you think? >> no, they are not apt to begin with. let's just remember our history. adolf hitler controlled the largest army in the world in 1938 when the munich accord was signed, second richest or third richest country in the world and had a plan to conquer all of europe, perhaps all of the world. assad runs one of the poorest countries in the world, miserable conditions, is desperately trying to stay in charge of his own little misbegotten country but more importantly, the mistake here is that there is a vast divergence developing between the rhetoric the president is using, john kerry is using, and what we're proposing. so if indeed this is like world war ii, if this is like munich, if this is all about stopping adolf hitler

to highlight the big roll out chet huntly and david brinkley interviewed president john f. kennedy. prior to that it was a 15-minute newscast. that was the industry's standard a half century ago. cbs was the first to go to a half hour. not to be outdone, nbc news followed a week later. >>> when we come back here tonight, what a recently discovered document can tell us about how much we've changed at school. >>> finally tonight this next story is for all those parents who proudly display bumper stickers saying their child is an honor student. in kentucky they have unearthed a century-old high school entrance exam that would make a lot of folks proud just to say their child got into high school. the story tonight from kevin tibbles. >> reporter: life was likely simpler in rural kentucky a century ago, but don't assume for a second it was a cinch for the kids in the old one-room schoolhouse. >> i probably could not pass it. >> reporter: the history museum unearthed this high school entrance exam from 1912 to prove it. do you think bill gates could pass this test? [ laughter ] >> i can'

joining us, presidential historian douglas brinkley.eted yesterday "this is the most important presidential act on the constitution and warfare. >> since truman decided we didn't need to go to congress for the korean war, plain spoken harry called it a police action, not a war. there's been a pendulum that says only congress can declare war. by going to congress with a very difficult situation with the outcome politically in this country uncertain, obama has done more to reverse that trend than any president. you had a caller on earlier talking about eight different military actions that we've launched without presidential approval, congressional approval in the last 30 years. and this is why this symbolically is so important. >> you agree, doug brinkley, that this politically, historically speaking, is a huge, huge moment in presidential history? >> it is but that doesn't even mean the next president's not going to have a grenada or panama or libya or some sort of intervention where they bypass congress. >> the question is does this un

historian douglas brinkley. >> it's one thing to say there was the police and african americans were.n birmingham. it's another thing to see the barking dogs and a fire hose. it's one thing to say they were using napalm in vietnam and, it's another thing to actually see napalm. >> pelley: in 1963, marvin kalb was on the diplomatic beat for cbs news. he told us the expansion to half an hour was liberating. >> it opened the door for many of the reporters who had never been seen before to show their stuff. and night after night, walter was able to introduce reporters from all over the world. >> and that's the way it is, monday, september 2, 1963. >> pelley: just 81 days after that sign-off, 81 days after that interview with president kennedy, the broadcast of november 22 opened this way. >> john fitzgerald kennedy was assassinated today in the 46th year of his life and his third year as president of the united states. >> pelley: that half hour was part of four days of unprecedented live coverage that saw television news come of age. more americans were now getting their news from tv than

historian douglas brinkley, thank you so much.ing, john kerry is going to be on cnn. >> the secretary of state joins our gloria borger to talk about the situation in syria and the u.s. response. "state of the union" is right here at 9:00 a.m. eastern. >>> a lot of people are asking why is america the world's policeman? why is the u.s. responsible for calming the violence in places like syria? more on the debate. that's next on "new day." [ lane ] are you growing old waiting for your wrinkle cream to work? neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair has the fastest retinol formula. to visibly reduce fine lines and wrinkles in just one week. neutrogena®. is that true? says here that cheerios has whole grain oats that can help remove some cholesterol, and that's heart healthy. ♪ [ dad ] jan? ♪ she loves a lot of it's what you love about her. but your erectile dysfunction - that could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment's right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready. a

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i'm joined by doug brinkley. good to see you. this turnaround now happening is it potentially reshaping the president's legacy? >> it certainly is creating a lot of interest. i mean, for starters we don't like being on the opposite side with great britain. we have a special relationship with that country. throughout the cold war it was always united states and britain working in lock-step with only a few deviations. the fact the british parliament rejected going into syria with us i think had to be very sobering to the president. he did not seem to have a nato coalition or u.n. coalition and at home he was getting sniper fire from both liberals of his own party and conservative republicans hence he decided the best thing to do is go with what he said his entire life that military action should be approved by congress first, hence, he's kind of found his authentic stride right now. >> so he's being consistent in that message. might it had been a big concern for the president to say how hypocritical it would have been if he said i'

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"outfront," douglas brinkley and new york time op ed who spent a lot of time in syria.g, let me start with you. the president said essentially, i know that there is all this rhetoric around these words. he threatened war. i'm going to strike. and then the united states is not striking at all. is he in uncharted waters in terms of how he has handled this as president? theodore roosevelt said speak loudly and carry a big stick. our big stick is the military. he is in uncharted waters. i think the president tonight has to bring some clarity to what's happening. people are very confused. one day it seem like we're about to go to war. then we're not. we're having a vote in the senate and we're not. it might be a day, a week, a month. hopefully he can realign his administration's posture tonight. >> and i know, you have spent a lot of time there. you've covered this a lot. you're someone who talked well about the president when you think he deserved it. you said this has not been his finest hour. >> no. i think there have been a lot of zigs and zags here. i think i would comp

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. >> joining me now is douglas brinkley, presidential historian and professor at rice university.or, good to have you with us tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> the mission tonight for the president is to change people's minds and to swing public opinion. how heavy a lift is it in the context of what those presidents we're dealing with? >> well, you know, he switched now. it's not going to be an oval office speech. usually when you have a war talk, you do it to have the gravitas of the oval office. now it's going to the east room. so that's been a recent switch today. i think this has changed. it is now a peace speech. it's that we've got a window. you are all right about verification, that's important and peace through strength and all of that. but i think there is a peace window here and he's going to explore that and tell us what is at stake with syria and international security. it's been a bit muddled and he has an opportunity now to bring clarity. >> does he have to lay out an end game? how far does the president go? his detractors are saying he's not going far enough by p

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before we do, we want to go to austin, and bring in douglas brinkley from rice university.ifficult is this situation for president obama meeting overseas with world leaders, holding a news conference to address these issues, but really speaking to the american people? >> well, and speaking to the world right now. this is all everybody's talking about. barack obama is in a very difficult situation. i think we have to see whether he believes his own show, his own war strategy here today. how much passion will he have in this presser. is he backing off a little bit. so far john kerry's been the prosecutor of the assad regime. barack obama's kind of middle-lined it a little bit. he's been at times passionate and at other times saying, look it, it's up to congress. so, i think it's very important that he sends a forceful message that he wants to go forward with this at the press conference. then come home and quickly address a national prime-time audience. we need to know more. we need to hear more of barack obama, not just his surrogates. >> how have previous presidents, dougla

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