the woody guthrie center was opened in april of 2013.started with the purchase of the woody guthrie archives from woody's daughter, nora. the plan was to have this research facility in tulsa. as the concept grew into the idea of opening up the archives to a new generation and teaching people about woody's important part in american history, this museum came to be. we consider it a place to inspire people. we want them to investigate what would he did with his talent and inspire people to use their talents to do something of their own. woody guthrie: ♪ when the comesun come shining i was strolling ♪ >> many people displaced during the dust bowl were just looking for a better way of life. some had lost their forms due to foreclosure. others had lost their farms due to the dust bowl itself, the drought, and all of the winds that blew their soil away. and they had nothing. they were promised this garden of even and plenty of work. come to california and we will have plenty of work for you. it is a wonderful place to be. when they arrived, th

. >> we begin with a visit to the woody guthrie center. a repository for much of the native oklahoman's writings and songs. woody guthrie: i got started in oklahoma. that is where i was born. the population is one third indian, one third negro, and one third white people. i hit the road when i was 12 years old traveling and working odd jobs. that is where i picked up these songs. ♪ this land is your land this land is my land from california to the new york island from the redwood forest to the gulf stream waters this land was made for you and me ♪ >> woody guthrie is most famous for his writing of "this land is your land," but he was very much more than that. he was born in oklahoma. we are proud to have this work back in oklahoma where we think it belongs. he was an advocate or people who were disenfranchised, for people who were migrant workers during the dust bowl era who found themselves in california literally starving. he saw this vast difference between the house and have-nots and became their serviceman through his music. the woody

the woody guthrie center was opened in april of 2013. guthrie archives from woody's daughter, nora. the plan was to have this research facility in tulsa. as the concept grew into the idea of opening up the archives to a new generation and teaching people about woody's important part in american history, this museum came to be. we consider it a place to inspire people. we want them to investigate what woody guthrie did with his talent and inspire people to use their talents to do something of their own. woody guthrie: ♪ when the comesun come shining i was strolling ♪ >> many people displaced during the dust bowl were just looking for a better way of life. some had lost their forms due to foreclosure. others had lost their farms due to the dust bowl itself, the drought, and all of the winds that blew their soil away. and they had nothing. they were promised this garden of eden and plenty of work. "come to california and we will have plenty of work for you. it is a wonderful place to be." when they arrived, they found that was not what was

temperament matters. >> can we also point out the difference between a savanna guthrie -- savannah guthrie interview with the president at the white house where they are talking about the white house beer and then her -- the way she -- >> that was for the super bowl. >> the problem is the optics look pad, him being contentious with somebody, greg gut feld interviewing him, being contentious. >> i would never. >> difficult then when you have that two -- put sandwiched together, two female interviewers and he has that kind of reaction. it establishes a narrative people might accept it for the truth of the matter asserted whether or not it's really true he is having a problem, it looks bad is the problem. >> by the way, the day you become president is the day you decide whether you are going to answer questions or not. until that day you want to be president you got to answer every single question out there you got to don't like it, don't anticipate it >> do whatever stinking politician does, asked that question, anticipate with the question you want to anticipate. everyone else does. >> this

i think he did avoid the pitfalls with a van in guta guthrie. get to the point. >> i don't have a point with guys theses getting snippy with the media. he will turn the question around like he did with abortion. >> politicians push back on reporters' questions all the time. it's sort of part of the give and take. so what was different about this? >> there is nothing wrong with in a republican primary with the candidate bashing the media. i don't think that is -- >> you're staying that has a certain appeal. >> i think that is only good politics if you watch any of the 5,000 republican debates last time, you would see that was a driving theme there. something like that. but what he was doing here you could see in the way he was doing it she was asking a fair question. she wasn't requesting about some personal indiscretion. she was asking about policy views that he had changed. now, i wouldn't go so far as to say is it sexis or not. i think it would be a good idea to beat up on howiehoward kurts. >> his answers are fine as politician's answers go.

i think he did avoid the pitfalls with a van in guta guthrie. get to the point. >> i don't have a point with guys theses getting snippy with the media. he will turn the question around like he did with abortion. >> politicians push back on reporters' questions all the time. it's sort of part of the give and take. so what was different about this? >> there is nothing wrong with in a republican primary with the candidate bashing the media. i don't think that is -- >> you're staying that has a certain appeal. >> i think that is only good politics if you watch any of the 5,000 republican debates last time, you would see that was a driving theme there. something like that. but what he was doing here you could see in the way he was doing it she was asking a fair question. she wasn't requesting about some personal indiscretion. she was asking about policy views that he had changed. now, i wouldn't go so far as to say is it sexis or not. i think it would be a good idea to beat up on howiehoward kurts. >> his answers are fine as politician's answers go.

is savannah guthrie going to touch it next time she interviews hillary clinton?n 1999 gail sheehy wrote in her book "hillary's choices" she's angry not all of the time but most of the time. another example. dee dee myers former clinton spokesperson in 2000 on an interview, described a confrontation between hillary and george steph nop loss and wrote mrs. clinton got really angry, she attacked george and anybody that stood up and tried to say this was a bad idea was, you know, smashed down, belittled ver<í personally, and i mean what i said. the president didn't really attack people personally mrs. clinton sometimes did, not only would she humiliate you in front of your colleagues or whoever happened to be around hillary tended to kind of run a campaign against people behind their back and that was certainly my experience. one of many examples i have. joining us with reaction, democratic strategist alexis ma kill johnson and andrea tantaros is with us. i have 15 examples of people that have been around the clintons and say she has a vicious temper. can you think o

i'm savannah guthrie reporting from new york.or all of us here at nbc news have a good evening. >>> right now at 6:00 rain in the bay area. and soon snow. in our local mountains. we have team coverage and weather that's making the headlines across the area. good evening. i'm terry mcsweeney. >> i'm peg by gunker. take a look at this as heavy rain earlier around noon. this is 101 near sfo. take a look at this really coming down. as you might imagine this storm ruined several easter egg hunts. if you were trying to get that done it was a bit wet in spots. we do have team coverage on these spring showers. marianne favreau live in san jose, fans were sticking out the rain. firs

savannah guthrie asked mr. paul whether he's changed position on some key policy issues. >> you once said iran was not a threat. now you say it is. you once proposed ending foreign aid to israel. you now support it at least for the time being. and you once offered to drastically cut -- wait wait. >> before we go through -- >> you drastically wanted to cut defense spending and now you want to increase it 16%. i wonder if you've mellowed out. >> why don't we let me explain before talking over me okay? >> sure. >> before we go through a litany of things you say i've changed on, why don't you ask me a question. >> okay. is iran still not a threat? >> no no no no no. listen. you've editorialized, let me answer a question. you ask a question and you say, have your views change instead of editorializing and saying my views have changed. >> joining me live now roger simon, chief political columnist for politico also 2012 libertarian party candidate and president and former two-term republican governor of new mexico gar

he can talk all he wants to about savannah guthrie and being a host tile interview. we all know savannah guthrie. she was not being a hostile interviewer in that instance. it seems like every time this comes up in interviews this is what sets him off. he sort of says, are you going to believe me or are you going believe your lying ears? >> or are you going to believe your videotape? >> yeah. >> his team wanted to basically run a general election strategy. they were hoping hillary clinton's announcement would come the same time as theirs. they're trying to reach out to people who don't know rand paul in a very uncharming way. he comes off as a rand spleener. it's not really how you want to introduce yourself. >> that's why it matters. in this instance he is both delusional and vulnerable. he's delusional if he thinks he hasn't flip flopped. mixing up the reporters, that's not the problem, but when he has a woman from ackeney asking why he's flip flopped on immigration, 65-year-old, why he's flip flopped on iran, he responds half as temperame temperamentally, he'll kil

savannah guthrie's not running for anything.cruz -- excuse me, rand paul running for the president of the united states. and he made the entire week about what you asked him about, others asked him about, is he too testy, does he have a temperament problem. he had that shushing of kelly evans. by not diffusing it with humor or how you pivot to your substantive answer, you take a quick swipe -- >> can i say a word on the shushing? nobody should be shushing the interviewer and he copped to that. he seems genuinely contrite that he did that. but i just don't understand the people who jump to the fact that it was a woman. so what? what is the evidence that rand paul shushed kelly evans because she's a woman? maybe he perceived weakness. maybe he was irritated because she was doing this to him in the interview. and if you watch the whole thing she didn't give him a lot of opportunity to respond. and he lost his patience because he was irritated by the interviewer irregardless, irrespective of gender. >> there's zero evidence, but his

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he is taking criticism for his back and forth with savannah guthrie.r off accusing her of editorializing. >> she was asking a question. >> asking a question of his positions changing over the years. especially over iran. he already claimed paul was con sending to kelly evans. he told her to calm down. he has been universally testy with men and women reporters. paul weighed in on the south carolina police shooting urging people not to jump to conclusions about all police officers because of the actions of one. >> when you look at police across our country, 98% of them are doing their job on a day-to-day basis and not doing things like this. i want to be careful we don't paint with a broad brush that all of our police are bad. i hope justice does occur, but i hope we don't paint it with such a broad brush. >> hillary clinton tweeting her thoughts saying praying for walter scott's family. heart breaking and too familiar. we can do better. rebuild trust, reform justice system. >>> ted cruz building an impressive war chest for his presidential campaign. a n

for who you are and he's blasted into everyone's households in the morning fighting with savannah guthrie>> impression he make? >> i don't think he made a good impression for someone who didn't follow politics and he looked contentious and with a female host, which he has a history of. >> does he? >> yes. >> rachel? >> yes. >> let me ask you this. we were talking about this before with our producers. maybe this is the fight he wants. not that it's right or wrong but when you have people who feel alienated on the right, they feel all of the media, not just us but cnn and broadcast nets and public television and public radio are all liberal. why not pick a fight? >> i don't think the way -- there's a fight over policy and there's a way to be combative. i think when you're talking over people, that's not the fight you want. he's been bashing hillary clinton -- there's certain media you want to bash. this was not right, particularly on day two of the campaign. >> so would you have -- he only has two alternatives, listen and let savannah list the infamy and would it be better to listen to her

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he did this to our colleague savannah guthrie.and over again but almost always exclusively to women reporters. >> i will jump in there. he's been aggressive to our own ari melber. there was a similar tone and he has that tone about him. >> i think that we have rand-splaining and it's directed towards women. the question about whether or not he's ready for primetime, abby is right. he's been around politics for such a long time. he should really know better. this really doesn't bode very well for his future. this is like day one, week one. you've got to be able to conduct a civil interview without flying off the handle. >> can anyone -- i want any of you to tell me -- can anyone see bill clinton playing a backstage role in anything? >> well that's exactly what he is saying he's going to do if and when his wife hillary announces her candidacy for the presidency. clinton tells town and country magazine, "my role should primarily be as a backstage adviser to her until we get much, much closer to the election" and when asked if he woul

samantha guthrie was asking a very honest question. there's no reason to rand paul to patronize an anchor for doing a job. sean hannity asked rand paul a similar question about iran. he responded differently. >> they used of quote of yours from 2007 where it is ridiculous to think that iran is a real threat to our national security. that was 2007. >> it's been awhile ago. things do change over time. >> hannity's interview was an hour of softball questions and no follow up. >> the whole purpose of doing this is to bring money home. hey hey, let me finish. >> i'm sorry. go ahead. >> calm down a bit here kelly. let me answer the question. >> again rand paul is belittling a female anchor for asking questions or getting to the point, which he has a hard time with. the senator from kentucky is arrogant demeaning, disrespectful, and clearly doesn't know how to run for president, at least not early on he doesn't. this is a guy who has a hard time finding the high road. ironically that might be his attraction. the latest poll has hillary clinto

who replace his a's hat with a royals hat top 7th/ 4-3 royals stephen vogt solo home run off jeremy guthrie lowrie takes out alcides escobar at 2nd base the royals shortstop lay on the ground in pain some royals take exception. things get a little chippy but it didn't go any further escober only suffered a bruise and won't be out long top 8th/ 4-4 tie paulo orlando hits on off dan otero into the right-centerfield gap and too the wall jarrod dyson scores a triple for orlando5-4 royals final: 6-4 royals a's: 5-6 sonny gray: 6 ip, 11 hits, 4 runs the 49ers lokking at some locals today. jim tomsula and the 49ers held their local pro day today in santa clara this is an local high schoolers to come out and be seen by the team most arn't expected to be drafted which is why they want to take advantage of the exposure to the 49ers coaching staff the draft is at the end of the month general manager trent baalke was asked if the team is looking for need or value warriors of the are going to be heavy favorites and assyria's against the pelicans. first to games are in oakland. you know or pan is on sund

yesterday things got testy during an interview with nbc savanna guthrie. >> you have had views in the past on foreign policy that are somewhat unorthodox but you seemed to have changed over the years. you once said iran was not a threat. now you say it is. you once proposed ending foreign aid to israel. you now support it at least for the time being and you once offered to drastically cut. >> wait, wait, before we go -- before we go through a lit ninchts increase it 16%. i just wonder if have you mellowed out. >> a whole litany. why don't you let me explain instead of talking over me, okay? >> sure. >> before we go through a litany of things you say i have changed on. why don't you ask me a question. have i changed my opinion on. >> you have changed your opinion. >> better way to approach it. >> is iran still not a threat. >> no, no no, no. listen. you've editorialized. let me answer a question. >> and earlier this year there was this exchange on cnbc. >> senator, i'm sure you know that most the research on this indicates that these actually cost more money over the long-term than the

savannah guthrie reporting right there.et anywhere else let's talk about the phillies home opener tomorrow. they're finely coming back. will the weather be there too brittney? >> the weather going to be even better than today. i don't think you can beat tomorrow's forecast. especially for baseball. we are going to see plenty of sunshine and temperatures at 71 degrees. we head into tuesday, the showers start to move in. and then we'll start to drop back down into the 50s wednesday and thursday. heading into next weekend, our temperatures will push back into the 60s. >> you can see all the opening day excitement including the game itself right here on nbc 10. join jacqueline london and me for our pregame special, "welcome home phillies" at 2:00. stay tuned to see the phillies take on the boston red sox at 3:00. that's nbc 10 news for now. for brittney danny and all of us here, i'm keith jones. have a great night and have a great monday. people of the coffee drinking world, dunkin' has a dark roast coffee that's deliciously ro

this after a tense exchange with "today" show host savannah guthrie.up overshadowing his 2016 announcement a bit. critics say it's a sign he may not be ready for a presidential campaign. fox news analyst howard kerrsh writes "these dust-ups can be revealing when it comes to gauging how candidates handle pressure, how quick they are on their feet, and whether they have the discipline to stick to their message on that score. rand paul, scott walker and hillary clinton have all stumbled. ted cruz did much better." host of "media buzz" joins us. hi there. this was an interesting take from your perspective. it's early on the game. already we're seeing these guys stumble in the first days. >> right. you only get one chance to introduce yourself as a presidential candidate. whether you believe that rand paul was punching back against unfair questions from savannah guthrie or not, he ended up delivering a self-inflicted wound it his campaign. it comes just a few weeks a dust-up with cnbc anchor kelly evans. i'm not buying into the notion this is sexist because

john: you stepped in at your new job as head guthrie must than a year ago. -- as had his secretary lesshan a year ago. i want to ask you about credit. we had a lot of easy, free credit before the financial crisis. credit is now super tight. has the pendulum swung too far back in the opposite direction, and what can we do to fix that? julian: a few years ago, people would agree it was too easy to get a home loan. for those reasons, we had a housing crisis. today, the issue is that for many hard-working americans, folks of middle income, people of modest means, even if they have a fairly decent credit, it is too hard to get a homeland. when you start--- home loan. you will start hearing stories about people who, their whole lives had a decent credit, who today cannot get a home loan. today, we need access to credit that was on the safeguards to put in place. things like dodd-frank and the qualified mortgage. but also, allowing access to credit so that folks can achieve the american dream that has been a cornerstone of the national experience. that is what we are trying to get at. john: yo

one with my colleague, savannah guthrie. men and women by the way. do you think you have to grow a thicker skin? >> you know, it depends when you get me. if i had my coffee, and, you know, had some -- no. >> are you not a morning person? >> i am very much a morning person. i'm a surgeon. i love the morning. and i'm better at 7:00 in the morning, no complaints. it was early in the morning. but the thing is, i guess that, you know, most of my profession has been as a doctor. and so if you ask me a question and it is about your eyes or about, you know, a pain you have here i try to be very direct with the answer. i don't like it and i sometimes have a hard time hiding that i don't like it when a lot of the question is built up into, well, you've changed -- you've changed your opinion, and i guess this is your opinion, at least for now. and that kind of tipped me off as sort of like, that's snide. this is your opinion. at least for now. >> welcome to the nfl. >> i know. but the thing is then i push back. i don't know for better or worse. people come up t

senator rand paul faces his first test an interview this morning with "today" show's savannah guthrie. >> have you changed your opinion -- >> there's a better way to approach an interview. >> is iran still not a threat? >> no no no no no. listen. >>> good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. another incident of deadly force by police causing an uproar across the country today. a white police officer in south carolina michael thomas slager is in jail charged with murder after disturbing cell phone video surfaced clearly showing him shooting an apparently unarmed black man, walter scott, multiple times in the back. the officer says he first fired his taser after scott ran from a car during a traffic stop. the video appears to show an object. it's not clear whether it is the stun gun either tossed or knocked to the ground behind the man. as the video continues, the officer then places mr. scott in handcuffs. he then returns to where the two men initially had struggled, picks something off the ground then returns and dropped that object near scott's body. msnbc's treymain lee

savannah guthrie doesn't need your help. kelly evans doesn't need your help. and you are entitled to pushback on the interview just as much as you would if it were a man. so these male commentators can butt out. we can give as good as we get. but the thin skinned question whether it's a female or a male reporter that one i say is fair. i'll give you the final word sir. >> i think it is. and i mean to say anything can i do better, yes. am i sometimes thin skinned? yes, but am i equal opportunity? i mean, i had a tiff with a male reporter today has nothing to do with sexuality. when i think of doing an interview with you, i don't think whether you're a man or woman, i think of an intelligent person going to ask me questions. >> i know that. i know that. here we had a robust back and forth. and i know you'll come on the program again. people, to me it's ironic that the people trying to step in and protect these female interviews are themselves being sexist while they're suggesting that you were sexist because you can't kowtow and weren't polite enough to your fem

he got man handled by savannah guthrie one of the smartest but nicest people in the news media. his team feels they treated him well. >> isn't it better to get beat up early gate little beat up get your sea legs, she did that book tour, didn't look like she had her sea legs. >> when you run for president, you get beat up all the time, there's so many indignities and covering the people who running for president that there's going to be a lot of them between here and there. but i will say one thing, mr. obama say-- michelle obama says it reveals who you are. through the processing with up a folks will be rescreamed as to who they are. we're just right at the beginning of it, but we're going to find out a lot really soon. >> the candidate suffers indignities develope i have to cue up the video? do i have to do it? the press should find its own dignity. bill, it's good to see you. >> good to see you. >> it's like the dog chasing the van. what happens if they catch the bumper? let's see it one more time. yes yes. press, see yourselves. you wish you had a do over don't you. look at t

. >>> a program note, savannah guthrie will interview senator paul live tomorrow morning on "today." >>> in boston today new verdict after the first day of deliberations by the jury in a marathon bombing trial of dzhokhar tsarnaev. jurors working through 30-page verdict forms, one page for each of the counts in the indictment. the jury, seven women and five men will be back at the courthouse again tomorrow morning. >>> still ahead hear tonight, how do you live to be 100? the secret from the five places on the planet that people live longer than anywhere else. and the american city racing to follow their lead. >>> the teen that just got accepted to every ivy league school there is. we'll tell you what he overcame to achieve his dream. >>> if you want to live to be 100, there are places around the globe that seem to make it easier to reach that age. so you could either move to one of those spots or find out what they're doing right and apply it right here at home. like an entire american city is now trying to do. nbc's cynthia mcfadden takes us there. >> reporter: ft. worth mayor, bets

. >> savanna guthrie is here with what is coming up on "nbc nightly news." >> israel's prime ministeromes out swinging against the nuclear agreement with iran. the pope's easter message includes what he thinks about the deal. and a disturbing adoption scam, a woman caught on camera faking a pregnancy trying to get money from would be adoptive parents. that story and much more tonight on nbc"nbc nightly news"." >> get complete sports coverage with the x finity sports desk. >>> big news fltd day, snow coming our way. >> down to 3500 feet. tomorrow we'll see winds for most of the bay area. still showers mostly to the north of san francisco. but by tomorrow evening, tuesday morning that's the main events. heavy rain at times. chance of thunder for tuesday f. that's not enough, we've got that too. wednesday skies clear, low 70s to the ends of the week. but the great news you don't get a storm often that can drop two feet of snow in the sierras. that is what we are expecting. >> fantastic. >> "nbc nightly news" is next. and more local news here on nbc bay area news at 6:00. >> see you then.

this morning, he appeared on the today show with savannah guthrie who asked him about some things , heaid in the past. >> you have had the use in the -- the use -- views in the past on foreign policy that are under docs, but you seem to change. you one set iran was not a threat. now you say it is. you once proposed ending foreign aid to israel. you now supported. you once offered -- >> before we -- >> i just wonder if you have mellowed out. >> why don't you let me explain instead of talking over me. why don't you ask me a question? >> have you changed your opinion? >> that is a better way. you have editorialized. let me answer a question. you asked a question and said how have your views changed saying my views of change. instead of editorializing and saying my views of change. >> rand paul went on to give on some reporting advice to another journalist, this one from the ap, who asked him to clarify his position on abortion. >> i would reported exactly the way i said it. i gave you a five-minute answer. >> in your office pool of how long it would take for the thinness of rand paul's sk

and then there's the headline for senator rand paul who got testy with our and savannah guthrie. >> you seem to have changed over the years. you once said iran was not a threat. now you say it is. you once proposed ending forn aid to israel. you now. >> before we go through. >> you want to increase it 16%. have you mellowed out? >> why don't you let me explain instead of talking over me. before we go over things you say i've changed on. why don't you ask me a request, have i changed my opinion? that would be a better way to approach an interview. you've editorialized. let me answer a question. you asked a question and you say have your views changed instead of saying my views have changed. >> that interview followed another recent exchange with kelly evans whom he told to shush and calm down. last night paul rejected suggestions that he treats women interviewers saying i think i've been universally short tempered and testy at times with all reporters. >> remember this image of netanyahu from back in 2012. he used a cartoon illustration of a bomb. the white house has tweeted a strikingly

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. >>> a program note, savannah guthrie will interview senator paul tomorrow morning on >>> the story that was breaking as we were coming on the air last night. unspeakable tragedy for one maryland family. a father and his seven children all killed by carbon monoxide from a generator they were using because they may have fallen on hard times. nbc national correspondent peter alexander has more. >> reporter: the news today was crushing. >> i've seen a lot of things, but not something like this because of this. to have eight people in one place like that, you know -- >> reporter: authorities in princess ann, maryland, confirmed carbon monoxide from a generator left running in the kitchen of this small home killed single father rodney todd and his seven children five girls and two boys between the ages of 6 and 16. >> the children were all in bed appeared they were sleeping. >> reporter: the victims were discovered monday, nine days after they were last seen when overnight temperatures hovered below freezing. police say the todd family moved into the home last november, but delmarva powe