brokaw has it about right. he has to say to the majority of americans who have the health insurance, how will this affect your own choices? will you be able to see the doctor you've seen in the past? many americans with health insurance policy are worried about just that. two, i don't think the president can win over a majority of conservative and moderate democrats with a trillion dollar price tag. i hate to say it. we have to make some tough choices here. some of my liberal friends in congress, my former colleagues are probably going to be disappointed with what the president says in the next night or so. and some of my republican friends who want to reject the president may end up supporting the president because he brings the price tag down, he encourages insurance reform, he ensures that children will be covered. and he says to the country, once the economy gets back on track, we'll have a longer conversation about this. i was pleased to hear axelrod say one big thing -- choice and competition. the america

as you may know, tom brokaw has been touring the country this year, along highway 50 that winds fromity, maryland to sacramento, california. it's part of the american character. tonight, we meet a veteran, back from war who finds, in a lot of ways, his mission is just starting. tom found him in st. louis, along highway 50. >> reporter: if it's true, much is expected from those whom much is given. eric brightens is more than living up to the bargain. a road scholar turned navy s.e.a.l. his ph.d. work took him across war and genocide. he survived deployments to afghanistan and iraq. in march, 2007, just two weeks before the end of his tour, his unit was hit by a suicide truck bomb. he escaped with minor injuries and a new mission in life. >> one of the things you learn is you take care of your guys. >> reporter: what he heard was despite their wounds, they wanted to continue to serve. he founded the mission continues, an organization offering community service fellowships to wounded and disabled veterans. >> the first time somebody came to them and asked them to serve again. >> reporte

brokaw has it about right. he hals to say to the majority of americans who have the health insurance, how will this affect your own choices? will you be able to see the doctor you have seen in the past? many americans with health insurance policy are worried about just that. two, i don't think the president can win over a majority of democrats with a trillion-dollar price tag. hate to say it, we have to make choices here. some of my liberal friends in the congress, my former colleagues probably are beginning to be disappointed with what the president says in the next night or so. and some of my republican friends who want to reject the president may end up supporting the president because he brings the price tag down, he encourages insurance reform, he insures that children will be covered, and hi says that once the economy gets back on track we'll have a longer conversation about this. i was pleased to hear one thing, choice and competition. the american people understand those terms and they resonate. if he's

he offered to be my intermediary, so he said on a two-way radio to the compound, "tom brokaw would likeiew you." there was a background buzz of hebrew and pardon my yiddish accent here but the spokesman came on and said, "so who is tom brokaw?" my new friend looked at me, winked. remember, he was a merchant. "leave it to me." he leaned into the microphone and he said, "he's the most important and famous journalist in america." there was more a break buzz in the background and the spokesman came back and said, "well, is he as famous and as important as walter cronkite?" i laughed and said to my new friend, "radio them back no." and he never will be. god bless you, walter! >> there is tom brokaw, paying tribute to walter cronkite and joining many there on the upper west side of manhattan and among the luminaries will be the president and we will carry his remarks live for you. in the meantime, a short break on msnbc. rogaine? i'm just a skeptic so i don't necessarily believe that anything is going to work but i was like, hey, this actually works. (announcer) only rogaine foam is shown to

tom brokaw still on health care for a couple of minutes. one of the things i'm told from top democrats is that the idea of reconciliation is more likely than not. in other words, the president tries to get this through with a simple majority of 61 rather than going for all the votes. >> it is a process designed to deal with budget issues as you know. they think if they go to reconciliation and try to focus on the cost of health care they can get there. what do they get out of all that? they hope to get a mandate where everyone has to have health insurance of some kind and one of the senior advisers to the administration is saying we think we can get the exchange process in place where states will organize and exchange a shopping mall if you will for people who are looking for health insurance to go and have a competitive environment. they are not saying anything about the public option in all that. we just say one other thing, for the full disclosure of the mayo clinic the cleveland clinic and the mayo clinic systems that are doing well bel

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tom brokaw had just writtethat book the greatest generation. my mom and dadere part of it. the cover of that book could easily have been my mom and dad. a soldier's trousers and uniform, there was my mom. i looked carefully not only at his book but that generation has it influenced me as a young person. that is the message of the firearms museum. the message is the legacy left to the next generation. that is why this museum is such an important part of who we are as the people of america that is why that legacy was handed to my brothers and me, influenced everyone of us who served in the military, not because we are more patriotic than the next-door neighbor, but it is part of whoe are, part of who my parents were. every one of my uncles served in world war ii. the media today is full of stories of how desperate the situation is in afghanistan. i grew up with four or five newspapers all of which have a story on page one about how bad things are in afghanistan. you can take the word afghanistan out of the article and two years ago the word would have been iraq. guess what? t

nicole kidman and keith urban were there, john brokaw and donald and his wife were there to watch serena. rena seemed to relaxed. watch this move. putses i away. it's not easy. match point, serena in command. takes advantage. the powerful shot down the line. advances, 6-4, 6-3. >> that will be a heck of a match. >> it will be. >> we have firefighters >>> los angeles had to call before back up after their truck got swallowed in a sinkhole. workers were trying to block the road when the truck sank. the four firefightersnside got out okay. >> there was a scary labor day boating mishap in florida. a huge wave knocked three people overboard. their boat kept going, speeding out of control. the shoreline was packed with vacationers. most watched hoping the run away boat wouldn't hit anything or anything in the water. it hit rocks and flipped over. nobody was hurt. >>> an accident involving an armored truck shovelled money off the road. the truck's backdoor the flew open this morning. several bags of coins spilled out on the road. police blocked off the area. no reports of drivers pulling over t

. >> i am talking to tom brokaw. we want to go to our national correspondent with more information. >> matt, i just want to tell you that u.s. intelligence sources are confirming the reports that one of the planes was a hijacked flight, an american flight from boston to los angeles. they are also looking now into what is going on the pentagon. they don't have details. they now put government buildings around the city of washington on a heightened state of alert. i think part of that is happening formally. but obviously people are seeing what is going on, and some people are leaving buildings as well, simply because of the concern following these latest reports from the pentagon. >> jamie, thank you very much. and katie is back with us, and joined by tom brokaw. let's recap what is going on so far this morning. the news is terrible. just before 9:00 -- >> at 8:42, actually. >> at 8:42, a plane crashed into the world trade center. and then about 18 or 20 minutes later, a second plane, a large plane, we saw it on tape,

so we said on a two-way radio to the compound, "tom brokaw would like to interview you."aid, "oh, who is tom brokaw?" my new friend looked at me, winked -- remember he was a merchant, "leave it to me." he leaned into the microphone and he said, "he's the most important and famous journalist in america." there was more hebra ic buzz in the background. the spokesman came back and said, "well, is he as famous and as important as walter cronkite?" [laughter] i laughed and said to my new friend, "radio them back, no." [laughter] >> and he never will be. god bless you, walter. [applause] [laughter] god bless you, walter. [applause] this is a simple song of remembrance for the man who was the most welcome a visitor in every one of our living rooms. ♪ ♪ and that's the way it is forever in my mind ♪ ♪ you would set sail on some adventure ♪ ♪ just to see what you would find ♪ ♪ sailing toward the new horizon ♪ reaching for the distant star ♪ and the nation shares your journey ♪ ♪ boy, we traveled far ♪ in search of truth ♪ the questions were answered and trusting they were right ♪

other speakers include former president bill clinton and tom brokaw and others. >>> supporters of thehouse. they want lawmakers to allow the governor to name an interim replacement for kennedy's vacant senate seat. among the supporters planning to attend, senator john kerry. critics call it a democratic political power grab to insure enough votes to pass president obama's health care plan. >>> federal agency is banning employees from texting and talking on cell phones while driving in the no dud department. the head of the ntsb says she wants her agency to follow the same safety practices it recommends for others. >>> a florida sheriff's deputy is in hot water with his boss after a video surfaced showing him tasering a guy for the fun of it. the video was posted on mayes. it shows the off-duty deputy tasing a friend at a party and other people around laughing. the sheriff doesn't really get the humor that deputy matthew trembley is showing here so now he is the subject of an internal investigation and faces punishment for mandatory counseling to perhaps losing his job. >>> party games

. >>> tom brokaw speaking now at the memorial service for walter cronkite. let's listen in for a bit of the flavor of tom brokaw's remarks. >> i was personally a witness to that as a teenager in the remote reaches the great plains and i didn't see television until i was 15 years old and it was a small black and white set in the corner of our dining room. it changed my life. because in many ways walter cronkite and all of those early pioneers lifted a lamp and showed us a wider world and allowed us to understand it more clearly and coherently and in some cases to leave those places and to come here. in the past several weeks there have been so many testimonials to walter's career, his love of the sea and sailing, his enthusiasm for being walter cronkite and for having the good life that he earned and so richly deserved. there's little that i can add to all of that. instead today i would like to remember another character of this man who was born in missouri, educated in texas, to lived in the world and grew up to be the most trusted man in america by a vote o

others who spoke, tom brokaw and, of course, president obama. >> i have benefited as a citizen from hisf objective reporting. in his view that journalism is more than just a profession. it is a public good vital to our democracy. >> walter cronkite died july 17th in new york after a long illness. he was 92 years old. if you're like a lot of people, you have high blood pressure... and you have high cholesterol. you've taken steps to try and lower both your numbers. but how close are you to your goals? there may be more you can do. only caduet combines two proven medicines... in a single pill to significantly lower... high blood pressure and high cholesterol. in a clinical study of patients... with slightly elevated blood pressure and cholesterol, caduet helped 48% reach both goals in just 4 weeks. caduet is one of many treatment options, in addition to diet and exercise... that you can discuss with your doctor. caduet is not for everyone. it's not for people with liver problems... and women who are nursing, pregnant or may become pregnant. to check for liver problems, you need simple blo

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i was standing over in a group and talking to peter jennings and dan rather and tom brokaw.all these guys. he looked at me and said, could you tell them to come over here? i am trying to get a drink, and i do not want to lose my place at the bar. [laughter] he really said that. if walter love anything more than talking about the news, it was getting unused scoop, especially if it was his scoop. i will never forget, in 1976 there were two big stories that year. there was a presidential campaign, president ford against jimmy carter, and there was a new flu vaccine, and it was making so many people sick that we began to wonder, or these government officials who are telling us all to take this stuff going to take it themselves? in the middle of all this and in the middle of the campaign, president ford came up here to new york one day. they made up some excuse for why he was coming, but the real reason he was coming up here was to be interviewed by barbara walters, who was a host of the today show at that time. in walters mind, his most formidable competitor, a view that i share

>> we also should tell you, mick, this is tom brokaw, the faa now says all international flights headed for the united states are being diverted to canada. this at a time when as jim miklaszewski is telling us there is an unconfirmed report there has been another hijacking. all takeoffs were stopped but planes in the air, obviously, at the time of these first two attack on the tin towers and then the pentagon. >> andrea? >> the state department has been evacuate. secretary of state colin powell is en route home from lima, purr roux peru. he did not get to his destination today. that trip canceled and he and all other officials are heading back. state department and white house officials and nfc have been evacuated although condy rice was in the situation room and krarks director george tenet has been holding meetings in his office in langley, virginia. as we reported earlier, key fbi team members from the rescue efforts and antiterror koor naeding team were on a secret military exercise to this kind of event. >> andrea, can you tell us any more about reports of a car bomb has exploded o

maybe tom brokaw should not have said that.i am not a member of t media and if work for cnn doubt whatever about cnn but i don't work for anybody so i brought about everyone from the "l.a. times" writing a headline that said starslaka see sarah palin. of course i opened up the "l.a. times," what start came to see sarah palin? there was johfoyt i think in three people i didn't know, three people and the headline is stars flock to seearah palin. when is three people lay flock? that is misleading, the headline itself but that is the kind of stuff i writebout. i don't write thi stuff about fox news that much because it is kind of easto do. sean hannity is not a hard target, let's be honest. i would love to go initio and talk to him. that was myself publishing process. if there's anyone out there who wants to self-published be read to do lot of work because they gained a lot of respect for publishers. if you can find any mistakes my book, please lete know, but and it is probably six or seven editing procesbut i would encourage anybo

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we will hear remarks from president obama, nbc anchor tom brokaw, apollo 11 astronaut buzz aldrin, and eastern on c-span. >> 1.7 million new immigrants each year are followers of islam. from weekly standard senior editor christopher caldwell on c-span's "q & a." >> earlier today president obama spoke at a health care rally in minnesota, the first in a series to promote support for his legistlative plan. from the target center in downtown minneapolis, this is 45 minutes. [cheers and applause] ♪ [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] hello, minnesota! [cheers and applause] >> hello, minneapolis! [cheers and applause] . thank you. . . >> i have to fly back home on one of their planes in a few hours. so i got to be careful about what i say. we've got some wonderful people who are here today with me. i just want to make some special acknowledgements. first of all, your two outstanding senators, senator amy clob char and senator ag franken are in the close. -- al franken are in the house. >> my great friend who was part of the obama for president movement before i decided to run for pre

maybe tom brokaw should not have said that. i am not a member of the media and if i work for cnn i doubt whatever about cnn but i d't work for anybody cyberabout eryone from the "l.a. times" writing an article that the headlineaid stars flocked to see sarah palin. of course i opened up thel.a. times," what stars went to see sarah palin? there was john foyt into others i didn't know, three people in an "l.a. times" article and e headline is stars flock to see sarah palin? when his three people a fck? that is misleading. that is the kind of stuff i write about. i don't write about the stuff that fox news says that much because it is kind of easy to do. sean hanty inot a hard target, let's be honest. i would love to go on his show and talk to him. that was myself publishing process. if there's anyone out there who nts to self published be eady to do a lot of work because i gained a lot of respect for publishers. if you can find any mistakes in my book, who please let me know but it was probably six or seven editing processes. i wo

among the speakers, president obama, former president clinton, tom brokaw, an apology 11 astronaut buzzonaut. >> this week, the role of conspiracy theories with the author of "real enemies." the history professor on booktv. >> a discussion now on al qaeda in spain and their impact on u.s. security from today's "washington journal." this is just over 30 minutes. in the meantime, james kitfield, who has been on this program for the past eight years talking about al qaeda and the war and afghanistan and 9/11, he is with us with this new article from the "national journal." one of the quotes from his article is -- what does that mean? guest: it means is still out there, still plodding, still training, still trying to attack the west. what i try to address in the article and what has interested me and a lot of other counter- terrorism experts is that we would have thought there would have been a lot more successful attacks on the west. and there were a rash of successful attacks -- the london bombings, the madrid bauman from the bombings in istanbul. but they have tapered off. attacks on the

among the speakers and mark president obama and former president bill clinton, tom brokaw and apollo 11 astronaut buzz aldrin. that is denied beginning at 80 5:00 p.m. eastern on c-span -- that is tonight beginning at 8:35 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> the obama administration has set a deadline in 2010 to" on monday. several legal issues surrounding a decision, including civilian courts and the impact of moving trials to u.s. soil. this event is hosted by the american bar association and is 45 minutes. >> good morning. let me begin. thank you all for coming, i very much appreciated. i am the chairman on national security law. i'm taking over from the excellent storage above our hardee. powell has become the chair of -- al has become the chair of our services division. our mission has always been to educate at the bar the public about the importance of the rule of law and of preserving the freedoms of national democracy. these programs that we're having today that we sort of meet our goals and we achieved that we want to do. as you know, we have a series of projects we did over the summ

. >> that, of course, is tom brokaw. there again, rick kaplan from cbs. president obama will address the memorial service in just a few minutes. cronkite died in july at the age of 92. >>> the white house calls president obama's speech tonight the big test. the president will tell a joint session of congress and the american people what he wants in a health care overhaul package. the white house says the president is still working on the speech right now. press secretary robert gibbs says he will layout ways to provide insurance coverage for all americans and hold down costs as well. he will also explain how a government-run shoourns plan known as the public option would work. >> the president is going to talk about the public option and talk about the value of bringing through a public option choice and competition to the private insurance market. i think that's going to be a big part of what the president will talk about. it's not going to be all of what the president talks about because it's not the totality of health care reform. >> the president is g

but the spokesman said so, who is tom brokaw?winked, and said to leave it to him. he leaned into the microphone and said he is the most important and famous journalist in america. there was more of a great buzz in the background. the spokesman came back and said well, is he is famous and as important as walter cronkite? i laughed and said to my new friend no. and he never will be. [laughter] god bless you, walter. >> this is a simple song of remembrance for the man who was the most welcome visitor and everyone of our living rooms. and that's the way it is. forever in my mind yet set just to see what you would find sailing towards a new horizon reaching for a distant star and a nation shared your journey oh boy, we traveled far. in search of truth the quest for answers and trusting that the course we said was right. yes, you were there you told our story and now it's time to say goodnight. good night. and that's the way it is. the tide must have been flow i missed your voice of reason telling us what we should know that life is wo