must be nice be tom brokaw. >> it's not bad. >> stephen: you are him. you've been him for years nowch as a man drin of the news business. you've covered nine presidents since j.f.k. what does a second term mean to the president? >> it means it's a perilous enterprise because the a-team goes away. >> stephen: mr. t and -- >> exactly right. they have qualified people. and there's always a loss of presidential focus. ronald reagan did a very good job of winding down the cold war but at the same time he had the iran contra scandals going on in his sec term. >> stephen: what is obama's scandal. the conservatives have been going after him with big guns. benghazi, the corbomight maneuver? it's just an episode of star trek but it sounds dangerous. what are they going after him with him? >> they are going to continue on what was not so successful is that he has socialist policies in mind and that he in the eyes of a lot of conservatives is somebody is not truly an american. >> stephen: well, the evidence is the executive over reach. he is clearly tyrant. rand pa

and my guest tom brokaw is here to talk about president obama's second term. i'll ask him if there's any way to avoid a third. [ laughter ] a shop is charging a fee for liberal customers. that has to sting for utah's liberal. this is stephen colbert. ["the colbert report" theme music captioning sponsored by comedy central ( cheers and applause ) [crowd chanting stephen] [cheers and applause] >> stephen: welcome to the broadcast. [cheers and applause] thank you so much. please. good to have you with us. as you can see, folks i'm on top of the world today. [ laughter ] because of the study i read that forcing a smile genuinely makes you happier. i have to say, this study makes sense. that joker guy seems really chipper. [ laughter ] this is great news. i'm just so sad i didn't know it before. all right. all right. let's see what is happening in the news tonight. okay. checking the web here. president obama signed 23 gun control measures today and called on congress to ban assault weapons and 100 round magazines. [ laughter ] there goes my fishing trip, okay? [ l

i don't think brokaw would support that. see, i think this is a battle between the elites, brokaw and the folks. and the folks know that all these bans don't work. chicago has a ban on handguns and it's beirut there. >> here is the is counter to that, bill though. i'm not saying this could ever get done in the united states. i think it's useful to debate it you look at the experience of australia back in the 1990s. >> don't have all the guns. don't have the guns. >> and you can't buy up to 3 purex million guns. >> bill: the folks don't want to give the guns up because they want to be protected. this is a big country. and it's a dangerous country. all right? >> do you need 30 bullets in a clip to protect yourself? >> you don't. and if new york wants to ban that i'm for it, but not texas. they do what they want. different state, different circumstance. last word. >> i just think it's too easy to move those guns across state lines. >> all right, george. thanks very much. always great talking to you. plenty more ahead as the fac

at the brokaw exit, we'll show you on the next break, there is a khloe sewclosure. a lane and a lot of equipment in the area. we'll bring you that mess coming up. >> thank you very much. it's time to get down to business. the niners' quest is serious this morning. >> time to get back to business. time to get real serious. the team taking the field to get ready for the super bowl on sunday. >> the fun and games of media day all gone but highlights from yesterday including that one. joe staley with a tattoo sleeve. there you go. a little flex. the classic kiss. >> flex appeal goes well with the uniform. a serious tone from backup quarterback alex smith. the top question for most reporters, how alex feels about being on the sidelines. smith, always the gentleman, had this to say. >> is it frustrating? >> no. >> how difficult has it been to be in this role? >> i mean, we're in the super bowl. you know, this is a great thing. would i love to be playing? of course. i don't get to make those decisions. i'm not going to dwell on it. you know? getting ready to go. >> colin k

and tom brokaw with one new senator who is already making a name for himself. >>> memory problems in menopause. tonight, important health news for women who wonder if it's their imagination. >>> and never too late. how a growing number of older americans are finding love these days, and why some big names are getting into the dating game. "nightly news" begins now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >> good evening, i'm lester holt in tonight for brian. in newtown, connecticut, this was a day filled with trepidation and deep emotions as the pupils and staff of sandy hook elementary returned to class for the first time since the mass murder there. tomorrow will mark three weeks since the rampage that left 20 children and 6 adults dead. the building where it happened remains off limits tonight, still an active crime scene. and so for the time being, sandy hook has a new home. it also has a community of supporters and well-wishers that now extends across the country. all anxious to help the young survivors feel safe, loved a

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tom brokaw reported tragedy on "nightly news." >> it was a nightmare, a cruel shocking end to what everyone expected to be another triumph for the space shuttle program. the challenger with a school teacher and six regular astronauts on board was consumed by a giant fireball explosion less than two minutes after it was launched in the bright blue florida skies this morning. >>> looking ahead, president obama will welcome the miami heat to the white house today who to see honor the team's 2012 nba championship victory. >>> all day long, you can stay on top of the latest developments in those stories and others as they break on msnbc. tonight be sure to watch brian williams with "nbc nightly news." >>> finally, here's a look at what's coming up on the "today" show. savannah sits down with a former cia officer sentenced to 30 months in prison for leaking classified secrets. >>> and the mother of late superstar whitney houston opens up about life, loss, and her daughter's legacy. >>> now, keep it on this channel for continuing local news, weather, sports, and much more. i'm richard lui along wi

and nbc news special correspondent tom brokaw. welcome to all of you.'s where we tee it up. the president, as he begins a second term, very difficult climate in washington and very real expectations. >> yes. and i was looking at those top three priorities for the american people. and they all fit into his single most difficult task, it seems to me, both conceptually and specifically. in the next couple of years, he only has a couple of years, these are second terms and not four-year terms. you're running right up to the mid term election. there's a desperate need for the country going forward to do something about tax reforms and entitlements sitting under the umbrella of fixing the economy and creating near jobs and stopping spending. that's going to be tough. we have been giving people things for a long time. now they'll have to reel them in and fine tune them, and that will take an exceptional hand in the white house to pull that off. that's a daunting task. this is like the saturday before super bowl sunday. everybody talks about what will happen. t

then at christmas time i got one check for $100 from tom brokaw and then i saw my climbing ger and i sold it and i sold my car for $500 that i got from my grandfather in a seedy area in oakland. by string i o spring i had only $2,400. my mother invited me to come and talk to the kids. when i got ready to leave, a fourth grader named jeffery looked me in the aye and he said i've got a piggy bank at home and i'm going to help you build that school. west side school raised 65, 300 pennies. it wasn't the celebrities or the sports heroes or movie stars or if i lan throw pears but children reaching out to children half way around the world to help them build a school. what can you buy with a penny the bay area? probably nothing. in montana you can buy 1/2 tootsie roll. but in afghanistan you can buy a pencil. it's not that's so important but education gives a child hope. you know, if you fight tear riz her rorism it's based in fear but the real enemy is ignorance that bleeds hatred. here in america, afghanistan, africa or pakistan. the way to overcome that i think is through education and

pipeline is and one reason that makes this so urgent is that that nasa scientist james taylor said the brokaw of the warrior actually a few decades back or whatever. says the pipeline is it will be game over game over means out in front on the inhabitable area. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for life you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. soon which brightened. the bow from feinstein question these. stunts on t.v. don't come. the old. take the lead to the reading as we go. and i think that until the people who are the naysayers come down and actually get a false narrative there's. a good dose of rarity here so stupid criticism world those of the. people who will be able to do so that it's going to take time. we can't force we're not going to have a good day because we see a better world. people behave. as organization of this and that american dreams. were created. i. can somehow put in a bit to know. i am

next monday, november 21, tom brokaw, nbc news correspondent and author, will discuss the current mood of america. this will be a program starting at 1:00 p.m. at the santa clara convention center. on tuesday, november 29, paula kerger, who is president of pbs, and the president of kqed will discuss the challenges facing public broadcasting and how the challenges impact our program choices. this will be a 6:00 p.m. program here in san francisco at the commonwealth club. it is my pleasure to extend a special welcome to any new members of the commonwealth club who are here today. we know you are going to enjoy your membership and look forward to seeing you often. if you are not a member yet, today is a great time to join. if you have questions, the staff will be available to answer them after the program. there are question cards at your table for director muller, and these will, of course, the collected during the program. the commonwealth club, as you know, is a nonpartisan organization. we do ask that our speakers be allowed to make their remarks without interruption. we encourage the

tom brokaw pointed this out on morning joe and all watching and bob dole coming out of the hospital in a wheelchair. and insisting on getting out of his wheelchair and late senator dan inouye lying in state, and why did he stand snup i wouldn't want to see danny see knee a wheelchair. they vowed to devote the rest of their lives to public service and went on to serve together for years. decades in the senate. dole the rock-ribbed republican and inouye the liberal democrat. gloria, what does that say? >> that's a congress i actually covered. andrea: that's a congress we both covered. >> and it also reminds me of the days going back to the iran-contra committee which was the last bipartisan committee in the congress where you had danny inouye and warren ruddman both dying within a month of each other. who worked together on that -- andrea: two great men. different parties. >> exactly. >> a little -- andrea: a little reality check. >> and we've -- we cover all of these fights. and i was trying to think and step back on the fiscal cliff, actually maybe speaker boehner did obama a big favor

joined by a couple of familiar faces in david gregory and tom brokaw as well.d morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> his goal has been to get a second term. mission accomplished now. how high will this president set his goals for the second term? how high should he? >> economic restoration, comes into office amid financial ruin of the country. he understands the public wants to get back to work, wants the country to grow again economically. everything flows from that. that's what we're starting to hear again today. it's four years but much less than that, if you think about that. >> it start with his that, fiscal responsibility, debt and spending. it goes to gn control, immigration, perhaps some action on climate control. that's a very big wish list. what's the chance that he gets a little piece of all of that? >> i don't know whether he will get a piece of all that. at the end of the day, we'll know more after his inaugural speech. my guess is, based on what wooif been told, we'll hear more prose than poetry and a lot of it will be addressed to the middl

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and joining us on set is nbc news's tom brokaw. washington, the washington editor for "national review," robert costa. good morning, guys. >> we spent the first hour talking about who the winners and losers were as far as taxpayers. >> yeah. >> and entitlement recipients. we haven't really scored the winners and users politically. let's do it really quickly here, okay? barack obama, big winner. >> yeah. the president. >> john boehner, big loser. >> yeah, that would be. >> the republicans in the house, big, big losers. the leadership, it is hard to imagine, mark halperin, how the republican leadership in the house of representatives could have mismanaged this process any worse than they did. >> you forgot big winner, joe biden, or as i call him, joe biden 16. richard said last segment or two segments ago, if the republicans had had a different strategy two weeks ago, they might have had a better chance. last night they had no chance. they lost in part because of the pr fight. leading up to this, they have an even bigger pr loss comi

but as tom brokaw said just a few minutes ago, this country needs big ideas that unite us.at heritage is focus on real substance and real soluti solutions. and on issues like violence and keeping our children safer, what we try to do at heritage and what we've been doing over the last several weeks is dig down and try to understand the real causes. and as you've all talked about today, the more you talk about it, the more you realize how complex the issue is. it involves cultural issues. it involves mental health issues, certainly violence and the tools that are used for it. so to jump straight to a solution is really political pretense. if we want to solve the problem -- and i've got four grandchildren the ages of these children, and i used to help run an elementary school, and i've dealt with the safety issue. so it's very close to my heart. and we need to do something to make our children safer, our schools safer, but we can't do it with just knee-jerk political reaction. we've got to do it with discussions like you're having this morning. and i want to be a part of unde

both attended at an office complex on old oakland road near brokaw. a argument led to bangalan being stabbed. he was taken to the hospital and died shortly after arriving. >>> a search for a teenaged daughter after she went missing on new year's eve. we want to show you a photograph of 19-year-old elisa burn. she was at the snow globe music festival in south lake tahoe. she attended that concert with some friends, and was staying at the horizon casino resort. police say around 11:30 on new year's eve, she took a shuttle back to the hotel without her friends. that was the last time they saw her. the family is tonight pleading for her safe return. >> please come home. we love you. we miss you. and there is no repercussion of anything. we just want you home. >> south lake tahoe police are looking at surveillance video from the casino, but say they have no leads as to where elisa might be. >>> too much to handle. a peninsula city is pleading for help and declaring a local emergency. the recent storms flooded parts of east palo alto and even caused the shu

. >> i'm very happy to have tom brokaw with us.on and then they have to go home because they can't get a visa to stay, that's a specific policy issue. i thought the speech was couched in plain language, but it had its own elements as a result of that. this nation has been through a great deal of trauma for the past 12 years, not just the last four years. wooerve through wars and terrorism and economic collapse at the highest levels of our country. people have lost their jobs. and they have lost a piece of the american dream. and the president tried to address that. he also did something at the very end which i thought was extremely important. this is going to be, i'm told, part one of a two-part speech. this is a state of the union speech that is coming up when he goes before a joint session of congress. and then he'll lay out in greater detail. then we're told he's going to go around the country. here is how he concluded his speech. you and i as citizens have the power to set the country's course. you and i as citizens have the ob

is backed up from brokaw road where it occurred to the 260 interchange. been reopened. >> take a look at this video from eight deputy being dragged by a car and seminal come to florida. police say as shoplifting suspect attack the that that be when he was trying to arrest them. it started at a grocery store with the suspect and was allegedly shoplifting. when he tries to put him in handcuffs the suspect jumped in the car and steps on the gas dragging the deputy about 20 ft. down the street. police say he then drove to his own house where he hid in the attic. he was arrested after he fell through the floor of the attic and to the rise. at the deputy is expected to be ok. >> the big football game is just four days away i'm talking about abubble. the bubble returns for its seventh consecutive year. the first time ever be yours can watch the action from the pump in spite of you with a new puppy cam. -- up these points of view the bull has the coming annual event on the animal planet channel. it happens the same day as a super bowl sunday. the event as opposed

we are joined by doris kearns goodwin, david gregory and tom brokaw. >> we know that nixon resigned,hat clinton was impeached. no president is historic without a second term. they've learned from the first term, their strengths and their weaknesses. if they can reflect on that, plus the whole legitimation of being elected the second time. this could make his segd term more important than the first if he does it right. >> i still look for this inaugural address to be a road map for action in the second term. where the president overcome atmospherics of this town, which very tough, and budget issues. >> this is surely one of the moments in a presidency. do you expect it to be more prose? >> we'll hear more in the state of the union address. as he takes this new campaign across the country, the message to the country is find a way to work together. >> david, doris, thank you very much. >> and we will be back right after this. go! go olive garden's three course italian dinner. it's back for just $12.95. featuring 5 delicious new entrees to choose from. go creamy and dig into rich new pen

. >> my esteemed colleague tom brokaw said this regarding this congress: >> i think this congress hasow sealed the deal. it's easily the worst in the history of the country as they go out. i can't remember a congress historically or otherwise that limps out of office out of this term in worse shape than this one does. >> congressman frank, you've been serving in the house for a long time. is this one of worst you've ever seen? >> it is the worst but the exception i would take is it's not "the congress." i was here in 2007 and 2008 when the democrats worked with george bush when we will to on an economic stimulus and on response to the crash. then in 2009 and 2010 we had a democratic house and senate and got a lot done. and then the tea party came to down. this is a result of not a fundamental institutional weakness but the fact that people came to dominate the republican party in the election who don't believe in governance. there is very limb they think government can accomplish and they like having government discredit discredited. i agree but i would be clear on where the blame is.

the other anchors surround him for a photo while the always classy brokaw pretends to be above it.f news these days is brisk, consider a four-day period 40 years ago this week. first nixon was inaugurated to his second term. then just two days later, president johnson died on his ranch in texas and the supreme court decided roe versus wade. the very next day, the peace accords were announced, ending the vietnam war. fast forward to present day news from the world of science. a new study says women look their oldest on wednesdays at 3:30 in the afternoon. sometimes dramatically so. one reason, it's midweek so wednesday is the day likely to be the most stressful because it's still three days to go until the weekend when we can cut loose. ♪ and okay, so this may not be science. the study was sponsored by the sun tan lotion people at saint tropez to promote their new anti-aging cream. web videos this week were capped off by this. check out this guy. watch the sky and there's a biplane. it almost takes out the woman doing the video with that slight tip of the wing at the last moment. bu

. >> tony was already a local legend by the time he made an appearance on "nightly news" with tom brokaw can tell it's monday. i haven't gotten one smile today yet. >> "countdown with keith olbermann." >> finally to providence, rhode island, where no holiday season would be complete without tony lapore directing traffic as the dancing traffic cop. >> and the "today" show. >> it's the return of tony lapore, the dancing traffic cop. he's entertained them for years with his fancy footwork. >> i love that guy, sarah. >> isn't he great? >> and since providence is still buzzing about the dancing cop, we decided to check out his act. [ whistles ] ♪ [ whistles ] ♪ >> tony is, in fact, so well known around providence that he credits his celebrity status with helping to fight crime. >> i've caught bank robbers, guys with guns down here because people actually knew who i was by first name. and they would tell me, hey, something's going down in the outlook garage, or something's going down at the bus station. boom, boom, boom, i would go. >> you think i didn't recognize you? how you doing, buddy? th

sense that in the state department of i remember work stopped at 6:32 watch walter cronkite and tom brokaw. their interpretation of the news was critical for the u.s. government. likewise in the time of "newsweek". we have many more news broadcasts, so if we could just get rid of "the new york times" probably would be about 28% solved and a serious about that because the influence of the media elite throughout the country who look at it to determine how to understand the world. >> please join me in thanking our panelists. [applause] >> now from a conference on the 68 anniversary of the publication of whittaker chambers' "witness" a panel entitled >> someone was talking about the adulation which the world held alger hiss, and i don't know if everyone here is aware of that and auguste educational institution not far from here there is actually an alger hiss share in the humanities. my colleague in the new criterion has been on every degree the chair of the humanities prompted to get it back to the president's team. i'm delighted to welcome you to the final panel commemorating the 60th annive

savannah and everybody before that, it's not easy to do that job because you have to be part tom brokawt regis philbin, part jay leno, part martha stewart. >> and you get no sleep, and you have to wake up to al roker. it's a pretty rough gig. >> it's bad! >> let's take a break and come back and talk about how you managed to lose 106 pounds. it's the ever disappearing al roker. >> that's right. i'm going to vanish right here. ♪ we're lucky, it's not every day you find a companion as loyal as a subaru. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. plays a key role throughout our lives. one a day men's 50+ is a complete multivitamin designed for men's health concerns as we age. it has 7 antioxidants to support cell health. one a day men's 50+. and save hundreds with our best offer. get an adt security system starting at just $49 installed, but for a limited time only. that's an instant savings of $250. don't leave your family's safety to chance when you can take advantage of these savings now. call or visit adt.com/tv. both: i had a break-in. man: by the time we called the police, there wasn't