here is how david brinkley covered the story on nbc nightly news 40 years ago today. >> good evening. elvis presley died today. he was 42. apparently it was a heart attack. he was found at his home in memphis not breathing. his road manager tried to revive him. he failed. a hospital tried to revive him, it failed. his doctor pronounced him dead at 3:00 this afternoon. the end at an early age of one of the two most spectacular careers in the history of american entertainment, the other being frank sinatra's. long after he became an institution, here what how presley looked and sounded on an nbc television special four seasons ago. ♪ you ain't nothing but a hound ♪ you ain't nothing but a hound dog ♪

here is how david brinkley covered the story on nbc nightly news 40 years ago today. >> good evening.y died today. he was 42. apparently it was a heart attack. he was found at his home in memphis not breathing. his road manager tried to revive him. he failed. a hospital tried to revive him, it failed. his doctor pronounced him dead at 3:00 this afternoon. the end at an early age of one of the two most spectacular careers in the history of american entertainment, the other being frank sinatra's. long after he became an institution, here what how presley looked and sounded on an nbc television special four seasons ago. ♪ you ain't nothing but a hound ♪ you ain't nothing but a hound dog ♪ ♪ crying all the time ♪ well, you ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine ♪ >> wow, fascinating to go back in time like that. >> interesting to watch that. i wasn't around when that happened and you realize the impact of him. it reminded me a lot of michael jackson, you see a lot of influences today. >> right. >> just based on watching that. >> and all of the people we lost way too e

later, the future tv anchor and commentator david brinkley would write, he was home. the victorious leader of a victorious nation. in a matter of weeks, it became an issue of bitter dispute for rewriting history. by then, franklin roosevelt himself had vanished from the scene. cheers for his last speech to congress was the last year see her. my book takes the view that they were well and truly earned. thank you. [applause] >> which we know about fdr's thoughts about the postwar world and his concerns that churchill wanted to go back to the imperium that he wasn't really willing to give up on his vision of world order. >> that had a lot to do with the tensions that began to unravel the friendship and partnership of churchill and roosevelt. because churchill was very concerned as a matter of military proposition with the balkans and eastern mediterranean and ultimately with the suez canal. he continually pressed for an invasion of the greek island of rome which sounded ridiculous for american strategists who wanted to get to berlin by the straightest possible line from

i want to bring in cn senior political analyst david gergen and douglas brinkley. or coming in. what an awful awful story. david, i want to start with you. president trump travelled to texas today where he met with of governor greg abbott. what's the purpose behind a visit like this? is there a reason beyond the obvious political optics. >> i think it is a matter of the president of the united states showing support and empathy for the people in the devastation, the courage they've shown in dealing with it. you remember how large a price president george w. bush paid when he did not go to new orleans after katrina. he sort of flew over it. and so i do think you can quibble with aspects of what the president did today. but i think overall, i think we ought to give him a break. he did the right thing. he went. he stayed out of the way. didn't interfere with the operations and he moved on. he really showed a flag of support. now, quibbles. he's as you calling attention to himself. could he have shown far more empathy for the people. he's got budget cuts affecting his v

"outfront" right now, david gergen, april ryan, douglas brinkley, presidential historian.d of this pardon. will it help him or hurt him when it comes to voters? >> well, it will help in the short term to enforce his base. that's clearly why we have this bizarre story. we all thought he was trying to hide the announcement and he made the announcement because of the storm, he said. but i must tell you, erin, in terms of the long term politics of the united states, with the latino vote growing ever more important in some of these states, this sends a message from trump and increasingly from the republican party that if you're latino, you're not welcome in our party and it just seems to me -- i'm incredulous that this isn't part of the republican sort of understanding now after what happened in california. there was an incident in california on proposition 187 some years ago. and california's been a democratic state ever since. so i think politically, the more important thing about this, is the morality and the values that it states. but it does have political repercussions. >

brinkley. and "washington post" reporter david farenthold, and andre bauer and former chairman of the washington, d.c. democratic party, a. scott bolden. douglas, help us understand and contextualize this moment. is there anything we can compare it to in the past? >> well, the -- donald trump has done something that no president has ever done before which is just kind of incite the country. unified people in so many -- and so many republicans have, you know, joined forces with democrats. you have people bailing on mar-a-lago. you have the kennedy center for arts winners saying they won't show up if the president is there. athletes won't go to the white house. he's become the pariah president and charlottesville is the tipping point. it is sort of mobilizing the anti-trump opposition, and trump now forever in history is associated with very far right wing extremists. even white supremist policies because of his bungling of charlottesville. >> david, you broke the reporting of charities pulling events from mar-a-lago. i think the latest number is 16. are they canceling specifically because of his

david on his suit. it is the same thing the natzis made jews wear during the third reich. his ex-wife christie brinkleysted this photo on instagram. a little more than after a week in charlottesville virginia. spokesperson for joel told fox news singer has a comment here. it's a quote a tributed most toll british politician edmund burke the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. >>> you want to see big fish? >> sure. >>> yeah. all right. look at this. that's a big fish. 400 pounds. i think we're going to need a bigger boat. >> maybe so. >>> all right. look at this here. my goodness. could this dancing grandma get any sweeter. wait for it. there it is. yup. just happened. people -- [ laughter ] >> cannot get enough. ♪ >>> all right. talk about massive catch. check it out. more than 400 pounds that's the size of this fish. a fisherman in florida reeled in the giant war saw grouper during the world's largest spear fis fishing tournament. the crew saw it right away but it it took all five men to bring him in. >> we drag him um. it was a chore no doubt. dragged him up an