president john tyler who was born in 1719. heard that right-- just three generations, president tyler, his son lyon tyler, and grandson, harrison, span almost the entire history of the united states. >> but i'm still here. >> reporter: we met harrison and his son, william, at president tyler's virginia estate. when you tell people that you are the great-grandson and your gawght is the grandson of the tenth president of the united states, do they find it hard to believe? >> i find it hard to public upon ( laughs ) i think it has to do with second wives. >> reporter: much younger second wives. here's how it happened. john tyler became process prt in 1841. he had eight children with his first, who died while he was in office. at 52, he married 22-year-old julia gardiner. they had seven children, for a total of 15, the most of any president. he was 63 when son lyon tyler was born, whose first wife also died. lyon, too, had a very young second wife. he was 75 when harrison tyler was born. president tyler renovated this house, sherw

president john tyler, who was born in 1790. t right-- just three generations, president tyler, his son lyon tyler, and grandson harrison span almost the entire history of the united states. >> but i'm still here. >> reporter: we met harrison and his son, william, at president tyler's virginia estate. when you tell people that you are the great-grandson, and your father is the grandson of the tenth president of the united states, do they find it hard to believe? >> i find it hard to believe. i think it has to do with second wives. >> reporter: much younger second wives. here's how it happened. john tyler became president in 1841. he had eight children with his first wife, who died while he was in office office. at 52 he married 22-year-old julia gardner. they had seven children fair total of 15, the most of any president. he was 63 when son, lyon tyler, was born, whose first wife also died. lyon, too, had a very young second wife. he was 75 when harrison tyler was porn. the sherwood forest plantation was renovated with young juli

chip reid is going to ex-palestinian ex-explain it to us. >> 89-year-old is the grandson of john tyler born in 1790. yes, you heard that right. just three generations, president tyler his son lyon tyler and grandson harrison span almost the entire history of the united states. >> but i am still here. >> we met harrison and his son william at president tyler's virginia estate. >> when you tell people that you are the great grandson and your father is the grandson of the tenth president of the united states do they find it hard to believe? >> i find it hard to believe. >> i think it has to do with second wives. >> much younger second wives. here is how it happened. john tyler became president in 1841. he had eight children with his first wife who died while he was in office. at 52 he married 22-year-old julia gardner. they had seven children for a total of 15, the most of any president. he was 63 when son lyon tyler was born whose first wife died. lyon had a young second wife. he was 75 when harrison tyler was born. president tyler renovated this house with young julia in mind. >> this w

i'm very pro-john tyler by the way. not attacking the old boy. since we're talking about i don't know tyler, did you know this? actually only successful coup in the american history. it is not in the constitution. it was not explicit -- boy, you are really dorking out here. it is not explicitly in the constitution that the vice president becomes president on death of a president. took until 1967 to clear that up. when william henry harrison after this epic 30 days died there was confusion whether the vice president should become president. john tyler went down and moved into the white house. so seriously. so and it was very civil era. no. so, this has been a perennial force. discord and disagreement are the oxygen of democracy. if we didn't disagree, feel out of sync or another it would not be self-government. before we just beat ourselves up over this i think we have to realize disagreement is a perennial feature and should be. that is one thing. it is unquestionable that we have developed in our political culture, a sense that the president of

. >> do you know john tyler, the tenth president of the united states still has two living grandchildrenren, grandchildren. that's your friday wow stat of the day. check it out google it i promise. >> paul mccartney's grandson is apparently a hot ticket. we have a bit of everything. >> looking forward to the whiskey. >> people should tune in just to see this >> and the whiskey >> and the whiskey >>> if you don't remember bear stearns, we do look at this. >> if you have not heard it yet, jpmorgan chase is buying bear stearns at a rock bottom price, $2 a share >> a crisis in confidence that continued to build as the week went on and ultimately crescendos late yesterday. essentially it lost its ability to finance itself. when you're an investment bank and levered significantly you need to finance yourself these things can happen like that. >> the federal reserve stepped in, opened up the window for investment banks, treating them like commercial banks. investment banking will never be the same >> let's bring in ben white, he covered the downfall of bear at the "new york times" in 2008, now

pat: i went to the politics in 1966 and there was one republican senator in the confederacy, john tyler, and you got that as a result of lbj as vice president. we had howard baker in 1966 and tennessee but now the reverse is true. host: raymond from ohio, independent line. guest: how do we go from 1968 at kent state. we didn't have social media back then, but how did people organize? host: interesting question. barbara: how did we go from 1968 to 1970 at kent state and the answer is nixon opening up the cambodian front in the vietnam war. and that is to invade cambodia to try and stop the flow of men and materiel from the north into the south and to be used against the united states forces in south vietnam. with the announcement of that in april 1970, the campuses explode again, particularly can state. -- kent state. there is a peaceful demonstration, but the guardsmen opened fire and several are killed. that is another opened wound for the united states to deal with. how did these people organize? i watched a documentary last night about the civil rights movement, martin luther king an

by presidentted john tyler to be the first comptroller. he had 10 children and three lived in new york city at the time. he did go to new york city after that. unfortunately, i think he suffered from alzheimer's at the end of his life. the lifes more about of james the cola. this established the concept of federal assist premises. our final color what is your question? >> earlier we were talking about how there was a struggle between the powers of the states versus that of the federal government. they spoke about the constitutional amendments going into the congress to address some of those. just talk about some of those. that question as a way to understand the significance of this case constitutionally. affirmed earlier doctrines that were not anywhere near as prominent in the american consciousness at a point in time when we needed a statement with regard to a strong federal government. constitution was a compromise. like all compromises it contained ambiguity. marshall pretended us of the silences were not there. effectuating the stron

pat: i went into politics in 1966 and there was one republican senator in the confederacy, john tyler, and you see him get mad as a result of lbj as vice president. we had howard baker in 1966 and tennessee but now the reverse is true. host: raymond from ohio, independent line. guest: how do we go from 1968 at -- from 1968 to kent state. kent state. we didn't have social media back then, but how did people organize? host: interesting question. barbara perry? barbara: how did we go from 1968 to 1970 at kent state and the answer is nixon opening up the cambodian front in the vietnam war. and that is to invade cambodia to try and stop the flow of men and materiel from the north into the south and to be used against the united states forces in south vietnam. --t the announcement of that with the announcement of that in april 1970, the campuses explode again, particularly kent state. there is a peaceful demonstration, but the guardsmen opened fire on the students and several are killed. that is another opened wound for the united states to deal with. how did these people organize? i watche

. >> but john tyler once said -- >> this is very important. >> i just fell asleep. okay. >> here we go. >> let me give you the list and you can give us the perspective. first president trump fires his secretary of state on twitter. then -- let's just stop right there for a moment and pause. then he fires one of rex tillerson's top staffers who called the white house story into question. after that we learned that one of the president's closest aides who is under investigation for serious financial crimes was escorted off the white house grounds but he quickly landed a new gig with the president's re-election campaign. >> kind of like a halfway house. >> okay. and then -- and the news we just reported moments ago isn't going to give the white house much of a lift this morning. a democrat is now the apparent winner of that special election in pennsylvania where republicans have held power for 15 years. >> steve has been up all night following the pennsylvania special congressional election and steve, what a shock. i mean, this is a district republicans won by 36 point

guest: i went to the politics in 1966 and there was one republican senator in the confederacy, john tyleru got that as a result of lbj as vice president. we had howard baker in 1966 and tennessee but now the reverse is true. host: raymond from ohio, independent mind. -- independent line. from 1968 at we go kent state, and we didn't have social media back then, but how did people organize? host: interesting question. guest: how did we go from 1968 to 1970 at kent state and the answer is nixon opening up the cambodian front in the vietnam war. and that is to invade cambodia to try and stop the flow of men and materiel from the north into the south and to be used against the united states forces in south vietnam. with the announcement of that in april 1970, the campuses explode again, particularly can state. there is a peaceful -- kent state. there is a peaceful demonstration, but the guardsmen opened fire and several are killed. that is another opened wound for the united states to deal with. organize?ese people i watched a documentary last night about the civil rights movements, martin lut

joining me rick tyler, john ernest, former white house press secretary, paul butler, a former federal prosecutor and an msnbc contributor, in new york, susan delpersio and nancy erica smith. thank you all for being here this evening on what is a remarkable night of news for america i think may be an understatement. josh, you have been watching this interview as somebody who -- well, had your share of crisis moments in the white house. >> certainly not one like this. >> anything like this ever? >> nothing even remotely approaching something like this. >> we have seen just unrelenting story after story after story from this president in a way is that difficult to digest. it's hard to remember what happened one week to the next and nothing seems to matter. is this different? >> it seems to be different. certainly, there's been several weeks buildup to this interview. there are details that continue to leak out about it. when you take a look at the interview, you see there are details that they are withholding. she asked whether she has physical evidence, text messages or anything that wo

john landsteiner and john shuster and tyler george and matt hamilton.n the new york stock exchange. >> for me the bell at the stock exchange. my wife is starting a career as an f.a. it is awesome how my team let me do that. they said you lead us off every game. you can lead off the bell for the day. >> cool. >> everyone keeps saying you have to make a movie about this team. team rejects. not the rejects anymore. somebody has to make a movie. believe it or not, a potential movie poster out there. you want to know who plays each of you? >> i want to see. >> there it is. >> jason schwartzman and brendan frazer, will arnett and ryan gosling. now, you are known for your mustache. are you going to shave that off? >> i'll keep it. it's too handsome. >> you guys all have day jobs? tyler, i know you actually own a liquor store? >> yeah. >> it is on your twitter handle. buy booze from me. do you go back to the liquor store? >> is this my free plug? up in duluth. come by. we will go back when all this stuff ends. we are just spotting in days when we can at our job

john shuster. >> jimmy: of course. >> tyler didn't try out.r a year and did really well. won the u.s. nationals and then they were like, "join our team." so it was pretty great. >> jimmy: how does it feel, though, when you're actually playing? when you're actually in the game? or do you know that -- do you feel the pressure that you're at the olympics? or does it feel like just a a normal match? >> it just feels like a normal curling game. honestly. like, we're used to it. you know? we used to -- >> jimmy: but were you reading the press or were you getting calls and texts on your phone, like -- "dude, you're blowing up. you guys are everywhere." >> yeah. [ light laughter ] it's really surreal when all of that attention starts coming in. because we're used to playing in front of, like, 40 or 50 people. so -- [ laughter ] there's more people here right now than we ever see in audience back home. so. >> jimmy: there's more people here at "the tonight show." >> you guys should come to our games when we play at home. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimm

tyler perry. from "ready player one," actor, ben mendelsohn. staff writer for "the atlantic," mckay coppins. featuring the 8g band with lil johnoberts. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ladies and gentlemen, seth meyers. >> seth: good evening. i'm seth meyers. this is "late night." how is everybody doing tonight? [ cheers and applause ] that is fantastic to hear. in that case, let's get to the news. according to "the washington post," president trump congratulated vladimir putin on his re-election yesterday, despite being given briefing materials prior to the call that stated specifically in all caps, "do not congratulate." [ light laughter ] trump then sat down to a delicious lunch of silica gel packets. [ laughter ] [ applause ] "yeah? yeah, no, i read them. [ cheers and applause ] silica gel." that's right, trump was given briefing materials stating specifically in all caps, "do not congratulate." but his aides said they were not sure he read the notes. oh, i can promise you he didn't read the notes. [ laughter and applause ] he also didn't read the bible. he didn't read the constitution. he didn't read the sign that says, "no cart

jeffrey wayne henry and john sully and henry and sons construction company also charged injuring 13 others including 4 minors. and lsz indicted former director tylerustin miles and the water park on 20 counts including involuntary manslaughter. >> it's unusual for a company to get charged criminal and more unusual for the individuals who run the company or are responsible for the actions to be charged criminally. >> the indictment says the design of the ride guarantee the rafts could go air born in a manner that could severely injure or kill the occupants that's what happened in summer 2016 when caleb schwab was killed after his raft went air born. two others suffered facial practice yourd. >> they call that insane. >> i was there when the ride first opens in 2014. >> literally not for the faint of heart. >> it was deemed not for faint of heart. >> there were life guards. safety checks. and on this day at least a park employee at the top of the ride reading a two page liability agreement. >> there's a risk inherent to the fall. >> yet they knew the water slide was quote a seer youpsly dangerous piece of equipment yet opened it anyway. >> should i

. >> can cam survive >> steven tyler performed as maria shriver was honored at ♪ >> that is your first sneak peek at nbc's live musical jesus christ superstar with johnd and sarah bo rel low. i promise you you'll hear john sing. >> we can't give it all away. >> a sold out crowd saw justin timberlake live on stage in j.t. out of the woods. justin kicked off his world tour in toronto last night. his stage had a tree catwalk and bon fire. justin did shots with his band and performed nine songs off his new album and plenty of his classics. wife jessica biel watched from the front row. she and silas plan to travel with j.t. j.t.'s former mick mouse club co-star christina aguilera is gearing up to drop new music. >> christina is my girl. >> demi lovato dropped the news during the dallas stop of her tour. christina who hasn't released an album since 2012 told fans to expect new ones soon. taylor swift is giving us a look at the elaborate vip invite. >> if you're watch thg right now you got a vip pass to the tour. ♪ >> oh, my god. this is amazing. >> 51 shows are planned across three continents. >> thank you for being awesome. i hope you have a great time. >

house, ylan mui following house speaker ryan in an event in atlanta, and john harwood in washington kayla,io go first. >> tylerwhite house has officially announced that at 3:30 p.m., the president will be signing two proclamations as a result of the 232 national security investigation that has been going on since april. they will institute new tariffs on steel and aluminum, and the president, i'm told by sources in the roosevelt room, he will be flanked by workers from the steel and aluminum industry that will benefit from these new tariffs. we still have a lot of outstanding questions at this point. first, when will the tariffs take effect. at the end of january when they announced tariffs on washing machines and solar panels, those took effect within about two weeks from that announcement we'll wait and see what they say with regard to that. then, how long will they take effect will they be in place for the foreseeable future or for roughly a year and then the administration will reassess and see whether they have been effective at reaching some of the metrics they're looking at to restore capacity for the i

tyler perry. from "ready player one," actor, ben mendelsohn. staff writer for "the atlantic," mckay coppins. featuring the 8g band with lil john putin on his re-election yesterday, despite being given briefing materials prior to the call that stated specifically in all caps,

tyler perry, katie couric, she will give me a colon ostomy. she has a little gift for me. it's a bag. charlie day, judd apatow, jensen ackles, henry winkler, roseanne barr, and johnve music from dua lipa, the decemberists, sabrina carpenter featuring jonas blue, and chloe x halle. the state of new jersey has given us many gifts, >> are you coming with me? >> i would love to but you haven't asked me. >> jimmy: this is a situation where i'm in a compromising position. i'll be lying down with a gown on. and katie couric will be lurking with our questions. >> i'll be there for you. >> jimmy: thank you, guillermo. you know, the stafts new jersey has given us many gifts. frank sinatra, bubble-wrap, air conditioning, and our first guest. he has a new show here on abc called "alex, inc." >> quit your job? >> yes. what if i, and this is one of the reasons i want to take to you dinner, start my own podcast company. [ laughter ] >> why are you laughing? >> because you're kidding. you're not kidding? oh, god. >> jimmy: "alex inc" premieres march 28th, please welcome zach braff. >> jimmy: welcome. >> i like that. [ cheers and applause ] >> this is really, really good. hi, eve

tyler, nbc news political reporter heidi przybyla. willie geist is standing by in new york along with national analyst for nbc news and msnbc john heilemann the conversation nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of "andrea mitchell reports," andrea mitchell. also with us former u.s. attorney barbara mcquaid. a lot of legal questions surrounding the president this morning. joe posted for the "washington post" overnight, he's with his kids but he had to chime in here and he characterizes exactly what we're looking at with john bolton. trump's third national security adviser in 14 months has called for the preemptive bombing of both north korea and iran while defending his role in the worst u.s. foreign policy disaster since vietnam. he is thinking about preemptively striking north korea while we have a president, andrea, who has always asked why can't we nuke people? >> one of the things that's so extraordinary about this is that the president has hired a national security adviser who has talked about north korea in this way and is not clear that this summit should be held and for the first time now, i'm doubtful because i t

last hour, john rutledge saying he's at a higher level of cash than he's been in many years above 50%. i think he said 60%. what should i do with my money >> well, first thing i would do, tyler, is i would tell investors to stop watching the drama of washington if you think about what's going on, we knew that they would pass tax reform we knew that they would pass some kind of fiscal spending for the midterms we knew this was all coming. we even knew the president was really going to sign the bill today, right but what happens is he doesn't want the government to close ultimately, what we get is a law of drama, put the fundamentals are what drives the market, and the fundamentals are still quite good what i would do in structuring a portfolio is try to take advantage of the sectors that benefit from the improvement in nominal growth don't think about real growth, think about nominal groetninal , meaning real plus inflation. that would be things like material, like financials. that would be cyclicals in general, industrials all these kinds of stocks are what would benefit >> thank you guys. brian, todd, and rich. >> so here's what else is coming up on "power lunch." we were j