if your next name is hitchens, chris hitchens means the h is about to go. christopher is a nice name and chris is in. i that even though christopher buckley calls himself chris. i wish he wouldn't. kristof is exit what i call him. we compromise on that. people at school would try and call me that and in fact it can be very difficult in america because people here are fantastically friendly and they like to get to first name terms very fast and then shorten them to even more friendly almost before you have gotten to know them. the lessee quickly say actually i would read these they christopher you're going to sound like a snob or someone who is repudiating friendly advances. so it is a constant battle for me. and i think now i have one that because people don't call me chris any more. no one who knows me at all does an anyway a lot of my friends call me hitch atlas which is the other reason for the title. i discovered when i went to my father's naval reunion, he took tuned -- me to a reunion of his old shipmates years ago before he died, rather touchingly. i

today, we look back on the life of christopher hichens -- christopher hitchens. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. it was the biggest leak of controversy material in u.s. history and today the man accused of handing over the information appeared before a military court for the first time. bradley manning was serving as an intelligence analyst when he allegedly access to hundreds of thousands of secret military files and handed them over to the whistle blowing website, wikileaks. if convicted, he could face life in prison. >> on private bradley manning and divides america. an atheist from a small evangelical town, and gay in a macho culture. for some, he is a hero for revealing the truth. to others, a trader. he is a slight figure flanked by his lawyers. he said yes,irco to a uple of routine questions. the investigating officer face cross-examination. his lawyer said that he was biased. the judge is now a prosetor for the government. he called on him for -- he called on him to step down. he said that there was no damage from the elected

we look back on the life of christopher hitchens. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. it was the biggest leak of confidential material in u.s. history and today the man accused of handing over the information appeared before a court for the first time. bradley manning was serving as an intelligence analyst when he allegedly access to hundreds of thousands of secret military files and pass them on to wikileaks but if convicted, he could face life in prison. >> a traitor preserving life imprisonment for a reckless act of disloyalty or a man providing a public service. bradley manning is charged with knowingly giving intelligence to the enemy. in other words, he gave it to wikileaks. as an intelligence analyst in iraq, he stumbled across this video showing an american helicopter attack which killed civilians and journalists. this became the first of as many leaks and caused a sensation. this is the biggest leak of classified information in american history. there were diplomatic cables from all over the world.

christopher hitchens, good morning, sir. >> good morning. >> good excerpt there. lay out for us -- >> well put, i must say. >> i think the translation was, he didn't deserve it. >> you call it, christopher, the nobel's first virtual award. why do you say that? >> well, it would be like giving someone an oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make a decent motion picture. >> christopher hitchens in 2009. his fellow writer and good friend christopher buckley wrote this in "the new yorker." quote, everything he said was brilliant. it was a feast of reason and a flow of soul, and if the author of "god is not great" did not himself believe in the concept of soul, he sure had one, and it was a great soul." christopher buckley on christopher hitchens who is dead now at the age of 62. >>> still ahead here on "way too early," we make a turn to sports. chicago bears' wide receiver sam hurd arrested during a drug sting after allegedly telling an undercover officer he wanted to spend up to $700,000 in cocaine per week. how did he find time to play football? that bi

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hitchens was a guest on c-span's q&a in january. this is just under an hour. ♪ ♪ >>> this week on q&a, our guest is christopher hitchens, contributing editor to the atlantic monthly and columnist for "vanity fair." mr. hitchens is the author of over a dozen books. his most recent illness his memoir "hedge 22." last summer mr. hitchens was diagnosed with cancer. he joins us from his home in northwest washington, d.c.. c-span: christopher hitchens i checked and i interviewed you 20 times since 1983, and i must say this is one of the hardest because you haven't been well. >> guest: not very common know. c-span: what is the current status of your cancer? >> guest: i have a tumor in my esophagus wishes metastasized and spread to my lymph nodes, and i am afraid i am not completely sure to part of my lungs and it is stage for. the thing to note about stage for is there is no stage 9. it concentrates the mind a little bit but i have some wonderful oncologist working with me and we are on the verge of a number of treatments some of which app

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last night christopher hitchens lost his battle with cancer.tchens was one of the most talented writers, part time he was merciless. always, always entertaining. no one was safe from hitchens' most devastating weapon, his whit. not princess diana, not mother teresa, not even god. we loved having him here on "hardball." crist matthews just loves him. here are just a few of the most memorable moments from chris hitchens on this show. >> i'm not that big on obama, but i think it's become morally and intellectually impossible to vote for the republicans and if you'd like, i'll say why. >> go, sir. >> i think it has to be said, and john mccain is a lot older than in january, and it shows. he looks weird. he automatically raises the question, with all the collapsing scenery speeches he's making, you never know what he's going to say next and you get the feeling he doesn't know, either. it makes it urgent to consider the question, who has he picked for his caretaker, which makes it quadruply more disgraceful, he's picked someone who is not by any stre

i was taken by him as a undergraduate. >> here is a clip of hitchens. support of iraq and saying why, even if the war is going poorly, he still supported it. >> well, this must be supported whether it's going well or not, and it's a huge mistake of those who support it, to consider that it must be going well in order to deserve support. it's when it's going badly that it needs support. afast! dinner! [ garth ] we get double miles every time we use our card. and since double miles add up fast, we can bring the whole gang! it's hard to beat double miles! i want a mace, a sword, a... oww! [ male announcer ] get the venture card from capital one and earn double miles on every purchase, every day. go to capitalone.com. i wonder what it could be?! what's in your wallet? metal,@ material anytime.blgr from rockwell, making your jobs the rockwell blade runner is one of the most versatile saws you could ever own. with the blade runner you won't need a work bench, with the optional wall mount the blade runner mounts directly to your wall, it is convenient and it

. >>> christopher hitchens has died.was born in post-war britain but became an american citizen. he was the author of over 20 books and he read thousands more. he was a scorched earth polemicist, a trotskyite, an atheist, and a lot of people found him hard to like and impossible to pin down and that's exactly how he liked it. he was a big supporter of the war in iraq, he criticized mother teresa as a fraud, and he was a genuine intellectual who chronicled his own bikini waxing and once agreed to be waterboarded on camera. he got the power of a stunt and the power of words. he would debate with anyone and he usually won. he hung out with other smart writers, mostly brits. hitchens drank and smoked like an olympian, and he paid for it. he died of esophageal cancer, just as his father did. christopher hitchens gone at the age of 62. >>> while it took a british newspaper to show us what's happening in our own neighborhood, look at these photos from the giant rising above ground zero in lower manhattan. it's called one world

quotes i love by him, and he has a whole book of great quotes called "the quotable hitchens." one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority. >> we'll take that as a motto on this show. >> for a long time. >> thanks so much to john avlon. and let's hands it off to and let's hands it off to anderson. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> erin, thanks very much. good evening, everyone. we begin tonight keeping them honest. with the penn state child sex abuse scandal and the clearest account yet from the star witness against the suspect jerry sandusky. now, for weeks we've been getting conflicting reports about what this man, mike mcqueary, saw in a locker room shower on campus back in 2002, saw happening between sandusky and the boy known as victim number 2. there's the version contained in that 23-page grand jury presentment. there's what mcqueary reportedly told friends in an e-mail, claim egg made sure the abuse stopped. there's also a third account by a family friend reported in the "patriot-news" by cnn contributor sarah ganim suggestin

the question is, where is christopher hitchens drinking and debating this m

we have details on that ahead. >>> and later, we remember christopher hitchens.rilliant, controversial, unapologetic to the end. i'll revisit a conversation we had in the midst of his cancer treatment. >>> "crime & punishment" tonight. new developments in the florida a&m marching band hazing death. death of drum major robert champion jr. is now a homicide. the medical examiner officially blaming hazing. the autopsy report released just today describes a beating so brutal it caused massive internal bleeding which killed the otherwise healthy 26-year-old less than an hour later. the report laid out the final minutes of champion's life, saying, and i quote, immediately after the hazing incident, he complained of thirst and fatigue. minutes later, he noted loss of vision and soon after had a witnessed arrest. the report is talking about robert champion's heart stopping. all of this happening so fast those around champion couldn't get him to help -- couldn't get him the help he needed to save his life. as you can hear from the 911 tape. >> okay. is he awake? >> he's n

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hitchens was as coruscating about himself as he was about others., self-seeking, ambitious thug. he said henry kissinger was a war criminal and referred to mother teresa as a fraudulent fanatic. but what everyone thought of his views, mr. hitchens was probably one of the most entertaining writers who ever lived. and those of us in the journalistic community will continue to feel his loss for many years to come. christopher hitchens, who died yesterday, was 62. thanks so much for watching. dylan ratigan's here. dylan, it's always yours. >> thank you so much. he will be missed, martin. well said. show starts right now.

jill abramson, tom friedman, david leonhardt, david remnick and an appreciation of christopher hitchens when we continue. funding for charlie rose was provided by the following: are are . >> from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose? >> 2011 has been a remarkable year. in the middle east and north africa wave of revolts toppled regimes in tunesia, and lib ya, in the europe the debt crisis intensified revealing deep cracks into the your pain project. in the united states a protracted debt talks and supercommittee sparked a crisis of confidence in washington. in foreign policy the death of osama bin laden and the end of the nearly nine year war in iraq were major milestone force president obama. but the economy remains week and unemployment remains high. and that continue to dominate the debate as we head into the 2012 presidential campaign. joining me now to look back on 2011 and ahead to 2012 a distinguished group from "the new york times". their executive editor jill abramson, columnist tom friedman and washington bureau chief dave leone hart, i'm pleased to have them to

hitchens was a great writer and a necessary public intellectual.t great." he was an atheist. and you might think the sudden proximity with death would shake that and make you suddenly need to believe in god, because what can be scarier is that the reaper is around the corner and realizing when death comes for you, you turn to meat, get stuffed in a box, and that's that. but hitchens did not find god because of cancer. he remained the man he had always been. the foothold of which was a great writer. his pieces on cancer were powerful. he wrote, "i want to do death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye." and he did. and i imagine that when the grim reaper finally showed up, hitchens did not try to escape or bargain his way out, but shook the reaper's hand and said, all right, old man, let's go. we have lost an important voice and a peerless reporter, when famously wrote about the uselessness of torture as a military technique after allowing himself to be waterboarded, thus taking p participatory journalism to a new

. >> there he is, christopher hitchens unplugged. he was 62 years old. >>> that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. politics nation with al sharpton starts right now. >>> republican priorities, pro-family priorities, heartbreaking stories from homeless children, but republicans in congress continue to play games. where is their urgency? panda bears, willard tries to brew tea, as the others try to run from their past, but we won't let them run far. >>> can he take a punch? the newt front-runner now taking punches from all sides. >> speaker gingrich took $1.6 million -- >> speaker had a conservative revolution against him. >>> welcome to "politics nation. i'm al sharpton. tonight's lead at a time when this country is struggling more than ever, republicans are turning a deaf ear to people like this. >> the summer before my junior year i received a phone call just before work from my sister, stating that the sheriff was there to put our things on the street. my mother was nowhere to be found. i went to work with tears in my e

christopher hitchens was 62 years old. the u.s. military today handed over its last days to the iraqi government. the transfer took place during a ceremony where iraqi air force members raised the iraqi flag. the camp housed 15,000 soldiers at its peak. around 4000 u.s. soldiers remain in iraq, and they are expected to leave by the end of the year. the u.s. officially ended the military mission in iraq yesterday during a ceremony in baghdad nearly 4500 u.s. soldiers and tens of thousands of iraqi civilians have been killed since the 2003 u.s.-led invasion. a high-school student in central india is celebrating her 18th birthday with a new title. the 24.7-inch-tall woman is the world's shortest woman. at a ceremony, she stood on a chair and said it was an honor to get an extra birthday present this year. until today, she was considered the world's shortest teenager, but now that she is 18, she qualifies for the new title. >> i'm delighted to confirm that today she can take the title of the world's shortest woman. >> she is shorter th

. >>> author christopher hitchens has died after a battle with cancer. hitchence was known for his essays in "vanity fair" magazine and he was a frequent comem t m tator on television as well. and he wrote a good for atheist called "god is not great." christopher hitchens died of pneumonia, a complication of esophageal cancer. he was 62 years old. >>> on the cbs "moneywatch," free shipping. ashley morrison is here with that and so much more. we love the word free, don't we? >> it is a sweet sound. >>> good morning. asian markets were up today on a plan to get the country's finances under control. both tokyo's nikkei and hong kong hang seng gained half a percentage point apiece. >>> on thursday, stocks snapped a three-day slide. the dow was up 45 points, while the nasdaq ticked up almost 2. >>> wall street is bracing for what could be the biggest internet ipo since google. zinga is going public today with farmville, cityville and words with friends, the game that alec baldwin was playing during his flight dispute last week. the company has quickly became

. ♪ >> this week on q&a, our guest is christopher hitchens and columnist for vanity fair.e's the author of over a dozen books. his most recent is the memoir, "hitch 22", and last summer, he was diagnosed with cancer. he joins us from his home in northwest washington, d.c.. >> host: i just checked and interviewed you 20 times since 1982, and this is one of the hardest. >> well, because you have not been well. >> guest: not very, no. >> host: what's the current status of your cancer? >> guest: i have a tumor in my esophagus, spread to my lymph nodes and part of my lung, and it's stage vi and the thing to note about stage vi is there is no stage v, so that concentrates the mind a bit, but i have wonderful oncologists with me, and we on the verge of new treatments. the chemotherapy holding as it be. my voice is a bit husky today, i apologize, but that's the situation. i have to practice staying alive and preparing to die at the same time, which as my memoir says is actually what one has to do all the time. as a matter of fact, i mean, you're never more than a breath away, but

hitchens was an outspoken advocate of atheism., cardinal john patrick foley, the longtime communications director for the vatican, also died this past week of leukemia at the age of 76. he was best known as the english-language narrator on broadcasts of the pope's celebration of the midnight christmas mass at st. peter's basilica. foley was also known for his sense of humor. he once said "anyone who wants to be pope is out of his mind. it's a living martyrdom." finally, on our calendar, at sundown tuesday, jews begin celebrating hannukkah, the eight-day festival of lights. according to the traditional hanukkah story, in the second century bc, when foreigners controlled jerusalem, a family of jews called the maccabees led a rebellion and took over the temple. they re-lit the temple lamps with just a one-day supply of oil. but, miraculously, the candles burned for eight days. in bradenton florida recently, rabbi mendy book-it talked with jewish children about the significance of oil and hanukkah light. >> it's not only for jews, the

. >>> christopher hitchens was died.rn in post-war britain but became an american citizen. he was the author of over 20 books and he read thousands more. he was a scorched earth polemicist, a trotskyite, atheist, and a lot of people found him hard to like and impossible to pin down and that's exactly how he liked it. he was a big supporter of the war in iraq, criticized mother teresa as a fraud, and he chronicled his own by kibikini waxing. he would debate with anyone and he usually won. he hung out with other smart writers, mostly brits. he drank and smoke like an olympian and paid for it, he died of esophageal cancer just like his father did. christopher hitchens gone at the age of 62. >>> while it took a british newspaper to show us what's happening in our own neighborhood, look at the photos from a giant rising aboveground zero. it's one world trade, up to 90 stories with 14 more to go and already on a clear day you can see forever and in a city of giant this is new giant is already visible from all five new york cit

christopher hitchens dead at the age of 62. radio shock jock howard stern will join "america's got talent qults ads the show's new judge. american stern, the self-proclaimed king of all media -- sorry, tony, i know you like that -- will share duties with houree mandel and sharon osborne. production the "america's got talent" will also move to new york, will stern will deny his daily radio program. auditions for the upcoming season are already underway. >> that could be very interesting. the time is 6:19, 48 degrees on tv hill. just an hour ago it was 55. the temperature is falling fast. coming up, an accident on i-95 in howard county could cause the morning commuter headaches. sarah will catch us up on that. >> also, the falcons swoop in on the wounded jacksonville jaguars. keith mills has highlights when he joins us. >> don't forget to email your answer to the water cooler question of the day. have you been clipping coupons more this year than in years past? share your response on wbaltv.com, our facebook page, or send an emai

hitchens died in houston of pneumonia, a complication of his cancer. hitchens was best known for essays in "vanity fair" and best-selling books including a manifesto tore atheists entitled "god is not great." >>> 6:07. 53 degrees. police say they've never seen anything like it. the stunt which landed one woman in the hospital and led to a number laces? really? slip-on's the way to go. more people do that, security would be like -- there's no charge for the bag. thanks. i know a quiet little place where we can get some work done. there's a three-prong plug. i have club passes. [ male announcer ] now there's a mileage card that offers special perks on united, like a free checked bag, united club passes, and priority boarding. thanks. ♪ okay. what's your secret? ♪ [ male announcer ] the new united mileageplus explorer card. get it and you're in. >>> welcome back. it is 4g friday. all you have to do to enter is like nbc washington on facebook. the winner will be announced at 4:59 tonight. don't forget. >> let's go to tom kierein. he's in stormcenter 4 taki

christopher hitchens was 62 years old. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to jim. >> lehrer: the house passed a federal spending bill to keep the government running for the rest of the year. anything continued over a payroll tax cut extension. >> on this vote, the yeas were 296, the nays 2 2-1, the conference report is adopted. >> lehrer: with that, the house sent the senate a trillion- dollar bill to fund much of the government through next september and prevent a federal shutdown this weekend. republican hal rogers of kentucky chairs the house appropriations committee. >> mr. speaker, after weeks of arduous negotiations on this package with our senate counterparts, we've struck a fair bipartisan compromise. no party got everything they wanted, but we have found a reasonable, responsible balance between reduced spending, wise federal investments, and policy changes that american businesses need to thrive. >> lehrer: the agreement on spending shifted the discussion to extending the payroll tax cut for 160 million americans, along with extending lo