. >> rose: it wasn't that you knew mike nichols and you said, "i want to be mike nichols"? >> no, i didn't have that at all. there was a certain moment when i knew that i had to write movies in order to make enough money to live as a writer in new york city and not have to move to some place like new jersey. >> rose: nothing wrong with living in new jersey. >> i'm just saying you don't live there and i don't live there there. >> rose: well, that's true. it would have been okay but it wasn't what i had in mind. >> rose: you had in mind what? did you have in mind what you do now would be your life's work? >> no, no. in the end i thought i was just going to be a journalist forever. >> rose: and then you turned on journalism and then -- >> but then movies came along, and first of all, they paid fairly well. and then one of them was made "silkwood." >> rose: right. >> and mike nichols of the the the director, and he allowed me and alex arlen to watch everything-- the casting process. you can't imagine what that is like watching actors in to read for mike nichols. you can't imagi

and oddly enough, mike nichols stayed mike nichols, and...but i sort of trusted mike. i didn't think he was going to allow them to really screw it up. and what happened, finally, by some great fortune: there was no screenplay. i mean, there's this guy, ernest lehman, who is credited with the screenplay. but then again, he produced the movie too. but i think he changed two sentences of my entire script and maybe cut about five minutes, so the text was intact. and i am told all sorts of apocryphal stories about hollywood and film. i am told, for example, that a screenplay was written in which the nonexistent child was changed into a real deeply retarded child that they kept upstairs somewhere. i don't know whether i believe stuff like this or not. but anyway, i was quite amazed when i went to see a rough cut of the movie that it was what i wrote, very much what i wrote, except those two dumb sentences: "hey, let's go to the roadhouse" and "hey, let's come back from the roadhouse..." [laughter] which destroyed the claustrophobia that was very important to me in the film.

>> guest: that was an issue we had well before goldwater nichols, and goldwater nichols tried to fix that by making sure that we had a principled to the secretary and to the president. if you do that, if you cut out the chairman you are cutting off the joint chiefs of staff which in the conference room is called the tank and in their they discussed various things related to these operational issues they can do to help that combatant commander and if you cut that grew out of this as we found happened during the rumsfeld tenure in office where the chairman and the joint chiefs are pushed to the side and marginalized, if you will, than 200 years of military experience and those six individual joint chiefs are being ignored or pushed to the side and you, the president and the secretary do not necessarily get the best military advice. >> host: does that qualify as -- there's a book written by colonel now general mcmaster about the dereliction of duty. do you want to talk about the importance of that book and the question i want to ask is there a dereliction of duty if you have the chairma

--"mary nichols" presidenta de este organo, califico este paso como una "aventura historica".esar de ello, algunos empresarios alegan que esta normativa golpeara aun mas las finanzas de calilfornia. --quienes estan a favor argumentan queÉsta favorecera la innovacion y la creacion de empleos verdes. --la tragica explosion en san bruno sigue sacando a relucir escalofriantes datos. segun una carta obtenida por el "san francisco chronicle", de la autoria de un inspector identificado como "sunil shori". los reguladores estatales habian advertido a la compania pg&e de que sus lineas de distribucion de gas eran una amenaza para la seguridad de la poblacion.--la misiva, con fecha del 13 de febrero del 2009, establece que la empresa no estaba cumpliendo con varios parametros exigidos por la ley federal.--entre ellos, menciona que no se monitoreaba la presion del combustible en las tuberias y se habla de al menos 5 casos en los que los gasoductos fueron detectados funcionando a presiones mas altas de lo permitido. --tambien se encontro que "pg & e" no estaba haciendo lo suficiente para

. >> john nichols of "the nation." always a pleasure. tonight i asked do you believe that president obama's tax compromise with republicans will create jobs? 23% of you said yes. 77% of you said no. that's not a good number. >>> house call. president obama's tax cut deal cruises through the senate but the fight is not over yet. >>> head scratcher. a team of forensic scientists manages to unravel a 400-year-old mystery. >>> and ice castle. frigid winds create a giant frozen sculpture on the shores of lake erie. i'm lynn berry. those stories and more are straight ahead. this is "first look" on msnbc. we begin with rounding the bend. in a rare bipartisan push, the senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of a people that will prevent a new year's day tax hike for millions of americans. still, despite the inclusion of a provision to provide jobless aid to many house democrats will try to make one more change before it's a done deal. nbc's tracie potts joins us from washington. good morning. >> reporter: lynn, good morning. house democrats are ma

bring in john nichols a washington correspondent for "the nation."u would had been on there. you wrote a piece on bachmann's new constitution class. this is comedy hour, is it not! >> well, it's comedy hour, ed, except forrion thing, you have a justice of the united states supreme court. in fact, a guy who most people believe is the central justice on that court, the guy who defines its direction going in, having private meetings with michele bachmann and then ranging, deciding, to come down and have this private session with right-wing members of congress and he'll be followed in one of the ensuing sessions by a guy who says that the separation of church and state is a myth. i don't mind michele bachmann making a fool of herself but what really troubles me is that we have a u.s. supreme court justice hanging out with people who deny the basic truths of our constitution. >> has this ever been done before? has a judge ever been this actively involved with a member of congress going down the road of ideology? >> well, it's possible you could say willia

nichols. she is currently director of the ucla institute of the environment. appointed by mayor antonio villarugoso, commissioner of los angeles and serves as its president through september, 2006. we all know mary as a very capable secretary for california's resources -- california resources agency where she was the head of that agency from 1998 to 2003. those of us who

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host: robert nichols, thank you for being on. we will turn our attention to a report on financial literacy. up next, what is next for guantanamo detainees. first, a news update. >> michael steele is expected to announce he will not seek reelection when the committee picks a new chairman next month. friends say that you never know, but has sent the signal that he will drop out. he has scheduled a conference call for tonight. on the other side of the aisle, steny hoyer, in prepared remarks for this morning said, "it is easier to borrow and leave someone else with the bill, it is easier to stir up a cultural war and cultural resentment. all of those tactics are tried and true and poisonous to our future." the majority leader speaks in an hour at the national press club. ahead of a senate vote to extend tax cut, treasury bonds are fallen to their lowest level since june. economists expect the tax cut to increase the size of the budget deficit. dow jones futures are up 34. more on "the wall street journal" from a survey conducted. eco

this is going to be an enforcement issue, and it will only be nichols you will make on this. i also want to speak to 12. it is good to set the limit that speaks closely to set high enough meter rates on the streets so people will go right into the parking garages, but i would like to speak a moment about the low side, the 25 cents. when you have muni buses, the adult rate is $2, and lord knows you will be raising it soon, why should the one hour rate be anything less than at least half of that? we have been talking for years about you keeping the one hour rate for downtown garages two fares, but may be out in some of the neighborhoods, one would be ok. $1 or $2 should be the minimum, not 25 cents. it is hard to imagine that this is going to save some business districts that do not have a lot of traffic, so do not even bother with it. >> herbert weiner is the last person to turn in speaker card. >> i'm really concerned about the jacking up of the parking rates for the meters. normally, what i do is i take public transportation and use my car very sparingly. normally, it is for

. >> career coach nichols says these generic terms may actually do more harm than good when it comes to innovation... >> i think it's more important to illustrate what -- how you were innovative. >> reporter: he says delete the vague references and provide details, 18 years experience is better than extensive. and if you are looking for buzz words, be industry-specific. >> a lot of industries have their own particular language. that's how people communicate. the people that are on the inside those are the words and acronyms that they're looking for to see if you know what you're talking about. >> reporter: if you are like man job seekers trying break into a new industry you might need help learning the language. for that linked in suggests being innovative. >> if there are interesting new words coming up, right no social media is hot, maybe guerrilla marketing is on the rise, if you notice those words and say i have experience in that and i have forgotten to include it in my resume' it will tip you off if there are things that you have that you might have left out that you should inc

nichols. she is currently director of the ucla institute of the environment.he was appointed by mayor antonio villarugoso, commissioner of los angeles and serves as its president through september, 2006. we all know mary as a very capable secretary for california's resources -- california resources agency where she was the head of that agency from 1998 to 2003. those of us who remember back far enough recall the days as a senior attorney for the environment now foundation. she was also co-founder of the first environmental justice working group in the state. we are very pleased here in san francisco and i believe all of you should be very pleased to have mary as the moderator of our first panel. mary, it's time for you to take it away. thank you. . >> thank you so much, susan, for that very generous introduction and also to the city and the public utilities commission for hosting this landmark event. it really is wonderful to see water utilities taking a leadership role in discussing this key issue and particularly to see the bredth of the program in terms of

gaining and the six pointing downwards growth nichols the biggest winner of the r.c.s. up over one point five percent bucking the trend there was lukoil that shared with six percent telecom a real snuff finish one point seven percent higher and aeroflot shares of jobless point three percent on news of the stakes. the russian markets began the week strongly after last one is rally on the back of the successful world cup bid but slowed by midway mainly due to profit taking john herself from citibank russia recaps this week. the mice exchange for the most part this week is flat because i think the incredible enthusiasm we saw last friday last friday is trading after the after russia won the world cup bid for twenty eight team a lot of died out throughout the week this profit taking cetera so the only real one of the main events this week was with x five finally announcing the acquisition of paper that acquisition looked to be done a pretty much. your average market valuations it doesn't look like they got into a bidding war with wal-mart that was good for x five but as a w

in billionaire victim it puts nichols shareholder war could be resolved by the spring the business news in twenty minutes. twelve noon in moscow i match reza good to be with you here on r t our top story the u.s. senate has finally approved the new strategic arms reduction treaty with russia after months of bitter and divisive wrangling on capitol hill the decision has been hailed by both washington and moscow as a huge positive step in boosting u.s. russia relations and in furthering world nuclear disarmament earlier my colleague kerry johnston spoke with our correspondents for the latest a catarina grouch over in moscow and.

nichol bulldog called snowball a martial margarito for this year's a person actually made the fish watching this thing go to this this is like up around the place. this is not and they sitting marched across is that children. might seem like they're giving lessons. but i think the fourth probably leave it that video merry christmas is going to have you here. stiff to sort of head into that tree what we now time to take a look at some more of russia close up as we discover the hidden treasures of siberia. i was about to say on the map there were an almost one of the largest regions of southwestern siberia people here are known for a considerable strength and true siberian spirit and that's exactly what makes the best hockey players in the country and also it turns out is not the only way they show some siberian muscle as tom button found out. i and almost goes wild the local hockey team album guard puts another goal in the net i they may look like other teams from around russia or in the world but they know they're special i guess i know you're still missing my list since we were little we'v

so far we know that nichols of the ski and his former colleague . of russia's once biggest oil giant company you cos have been found guilty of stealing up to twenty over twenty billion dollars worth of oil and embezzling the funds now to force is that the latest verdict in the second trial of the filter that builds keep him and his colleague apparently already serving time for a first conviction delivered in two thousand and five this of course is something that the prosecution seems very happy with they originally asked for fourteen years for me and his former colleague the defense attorneys are of course saying that the trial has been politicized the evidence not substantiated and in fact the case itself has is somewhat ironic because according to their argument the credit for that is accused of stealing the very oil that he was found guilty of not paying taxes for in his first conviction so these are the arguments that they're using and that they say they will continue using in their appeal they've already confirmed to the journalist that they wi

also tumbled as investors cash in on strong gave the past few days back in the trend was new rules nichols point thirty nine percent after tycoon allegedly pascoe called an extraordinary general meeting minus shareholders just beat. and stock markets are wrapping up another winning here with waves of bullish projections swaying invest as. much creech air says the markets have already crossed the christmas rally finishing line. going to show when you're reading. this week we will most likely not see any significant volumes of trade although there could be minor movements in certain companies overall most of the more your purchase appears are still being christmas and preparing for a new year there might be changes in some utility companies i wouldn't rule movements in the markets on thursday or friday towards the end of the year. and that wraps up the business bulletin join me in less than time. wealthy british style. has been tied to the tires on. the. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger for a no holds barred look at the global

sale of eight percent of its share capital to wallabies trader transfigure russell stays at nero's nichols board lad information regarding the terms and structure of the transaction and the price that we said deal was made also. the newly approved urals an equal share buyback which is able increasingly cut like a ship. the other news russia's president has said more effort is required to improve the country's poor investment climate artie's correspondent explains the outcome of a meeting dedicated to telling moscow into international financial center. according to the russian president during the past eleven months only fourteen companies floated their shares in russia dmitry medvedev says this is nothing to be proud of that one of the main reasons for this is the current investment climate in russia says that this problem can only be solved using a systematic approach with everybody taking part from the head of state and the prime minister to the lower levels of civil servants. the country's civil called needs more improvement as well because it's directly connected to russia's economy ju

regarding the tone and the price at which it was delayed also reselling solicited new prove girls nichols share buyback plan which is aimed at increasing the minus capitalization. russia's president has said more effort is required to improve the country's poor investment climate parties corresponding corpuscular of explains the outcome of it is meeting their case or turning more school into an international financial center . according to the russian president during the past eleven months only fourteen companies are floated their shares in russia dmitry medvedev says this is nothing to be proud of that one of the main reasons for this is the current poor investment climate in russia need to move says that this problem can only be solved using a systematic approach with everybody taking from the head of state and the prime minister to the lowest levels of civil servants also the country's civil called needs more improvement as well because it's directly connected to russia's economy just to remind me to believe it is pushing to transform moscow in truly international financial center and

the market nor nichols offer of thirteen billion dollars fully complies with the market price of the share and i want to stress once again that the company is ready for negotiations and we are ready to continue the talks in the process russia's president said more effort is required to improve the country's poor investment climate correspondent igor preschool north explains the outcome of meeting educated to telling moscow into international financial center. according to the russian president during the past eleven months only fourteen. years in russia dmitry medvedev says this is nothing to be. reasons for this. investment in russia. this problem can only be solved using. everybody taking part from the head of state and the prime minister to the lower levels of civil servants. the country's civil called needs more improvement as well because it's directly connected. economy just to remind you. this year to achieve one of these steps. the. information. was the creation of. which will include foreign international experts so we are seeing some small. a lot more to be done before we c

. >> as a matter of fact, last night airborne chair mary nicholls said it might have been a first.he governor showed up at a meeting of the california air resources board to say a few words and plug this cap-and-trade system, which we now have a set of rules for after last night's meeting for the first time since the passage of global warming solutions act in 2006. as a result of two years of agonizing public hearings and working groups and comment and they finally have carved out a set of rules that have been adopted by the air board. >> belva: now, ab32 was passed at a time it would be called plenty compared to where we are today. how do you think the rollout of the way that it's going to be enacted? >> very gently. it's going to be phased in in a number of years. in fact, the program doesn't even start until 2012, early 2012. it begins with only the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases. you're talking utilities, power plants, oil refineries. and even then they're initially going to get what they call those carbon allowances for free. and then over a number of years, by 2015, for

safe to say that today is definitely not the last day of this verdict but so far we do know that nichols without a close game and his former colleague glottal neighbors if you have been found guilty of stealing over twenty billions of dollars worth of oil we know that their lawyers have already said they will appeal this verdict and from what we've managed from the lawyers that we managed to speak to we gathered that basically they believe the verdict to be almost word for word with the prosecutor's closing statement which they believe to be an ironic fact they said that if necessary they will take this outside the country and to the european court if the appeal in russia fails to all bring them justice as they believe it but of course prosecutors say that everything has been done by the book that every document and every piece of evidence that was presented to the judge was done in accordance with procedure and so therefore the appeal that the process the the defense is planning doesn't really have a chance now we don't yet know exactly how long the health of that ghost and his former c

preferred shares have also tumbled as investors cash strong gains from the past few days but knows nichols gaining off the time oleg deripaska. to resolve the minus shareholder war. that's the business join us in fifteen minutes. this is nature and discover is. the. communicate with the wind. test yourself and become free. see what nature can give you. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china cooperation to rule the day. three thirty pm in the russian capital good to have you with us here on our t.v. easier headlines russia's foreign minister voices concerns about the u.s. position. treaty stating that moscow will pull out of the deal up washington installs a missile defense shield in eastern europe russia lawmakers are currently considering which has been held by both sides as historic. president. obama's success in pushing the start treaty through the senate summing up the key events of two thousand and ten the russian leader also said the country has a healthy opposition and it must be allowed to s

. >> the last time we saw bob nichols, his house survived the fire but only by inches. >> i got a goodciation now for things i didn't before, life is precious and every day is a good one. >> and every day he sees progress. in san bruno most people do, one way or the other. this would be the season of moving on. >> it's coming back over and over again. it helps to realize it's done. >> at least for now. wayne freedman, "abc 7 news." >>> airline passenger safety, new security alert as people try to get home for the holidays. homeland security are asking carriers to look at insulated beverage containers like thermoses, they are still worrying nonetheless and it could take extra time to get through security checkpoints as they take a closer look at insulated containers. >> we want to make people safe. it could be more beneficial in the long. >> homeland security want travelers to be aware of the extra attention to the beverage containers and be prepared for them to be inspected even if they are gift wrapped. >> pope benedict welcomed christmas to remember the birth of jesus. you may recall

. >> tomorrow, on "washington journal," robert nichols talks about financial issues, including the democrats' opposition to the tax bill. then, doesn't chafee speaks of the funding for detainees for prosecution. and then john gannon details a state-by-state survey of financial literacy. financial literacy. "washington journal," live

. >> tomorrow, on washington journal, robert nichols, president and ceo of the financial-services forum talks about financial issues including the democrats' opposition to the tax deal. devon chaffee about using funding to transfer guantanamo bay detainees. and jon gannon details a state- by-state survey of financial literacy. "washington journal," live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> find great holiday gifts for the c-span and in your life at the c-span store. it is all available online at c- span.org/shop. . .

nichols for years -- we did the seagull for years and told me to get rid of the little girl voice and saying have you to get rid of your voice and it was hard to go back because it was a regression and i got to put the whole 20s and the whole experience of getting out of that voice into to the part and it was really helpful. >> charlie: what's your ambition now? >> to get back to enjoying not working. i've been working so much and i think i've gotten into a sort of work ahallis workaholism. >> charlie: how did you get there and why did you get there? >> probably, for the first time all my friends had jobs. all my friends have real work and no one was free during the day to hang out or do things and i didn't have a real personal life and i just through myself -- >> charlie: you did not have a real personal life? >> yeah. i put everything into my work and now i feel that it's time to find -- >> charlie: suppose someone said to you today, everything is fabulous. the movie's great, we've launched it and the premier's in a couple weeks. just go, do, where do you want to go, what do you wan

we have kevin spacey, halle berry and nichole kidman starring.ighter in black swan are opening to a wider audience. it looks like "the fighter" is going to come in third place and "black swan" is in the top ten. >> those are critic favorites. dawn yanek, more from you this morning. >> thanks, alex. >> we are taking a look. we are talking about the truck drivers and bus drivers the transportation department's cell phone ban calls for fines against drivers and their companies if they are caught driving and talking more than one time. a similar ban on texting and driving went into effect earlier this year. with the capital one venture card we get double miles on every purchase. so we earned a holiday trip to the big apple twice as fast! 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 maze, a sword, a... oww! [ male announcer ] get the venture card from capital one and earn double miles on every purchase, every day. go to capita

nicholes left is wallace. nikole also earned a reputation for person that argued within the white house for more openness. she worked from the sarah palin campaign. if i've ever heard tonight it is not because she is the only woman or only republican, but it is because she is a californian and journalist. we will have a time of questions. i will remind you, please no speeches. make the question that ends with the question mark and identify yourself. with that, we will see a clip at the kennedy and nixon debate. >> in 1950 only 4 million homes had television, but by 1960 it reached into 44 million homes. it was september 26, 1960, congress had made possible presidential debates available for the first time. chicago was chosen as the scene for the first great debate. [inaudible] in the studio, the producer prepared for the arrival of nixon and kennedy. representatives of the candidates approved each detail of the preparation. vice president nixon was the first to arrive at. he campaigned right through the mornin

joining me now at the table is robert nichols, president and coo of the financial-services forum. i want to begin with the whole tax-cut bill because that will be on the senate floor this week and maybe in the house. i just want to show viewers a "the wall street journal" on friday. the headlines -- companies calling to cash. coffers swelled to 51-year high as cautious firms put off investing in growth. there is a piece in "the new york times" about the deal. while it will cost a lot, it is likely to get very little bang for the buck. tax cuts for the wealthy will barely be spent at all and even middle-class tax cut won't add much to spending. guest: well, i don't agree with him on all the elements but i've will provide maybe some big top line observations. but albert had a poll last week that talk about bipartisanship -- bloomberg had a poll last week about bipartisanship and i think this is a good first in that direction. my view is a higher tax on capital would discourage investment, and this deal would make sure there is not a higher tax on capital. if there is a higher tax on

. >> tomorrow on "washington journal," robert nichols talks about financial issues, including the proposed tax deal and the democratic opposition to it. efforts to bar the use of funding to transferred yet monday detainees into the united states for prostitution. and john gannon. "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> middle and high school students, as you work on your documentary's for studentcam, here are a few tips from our judges. >> i am looking for you, the student. i want to see you in your personality. that helps make your video stand out from all the rest. >> what i like to see most is a real investment and care in the topic you're telling us about. be sure to be interested in what you're telling us. if you are not interested in which you are presenting, chances are we were not. >> the requirement and using c- span video. the videos where people have looked to the c-span content and said let elements make the most sense for telling this story i am trying to tell. >> for all the rules, including deadlines, prize information, and how the upload, the two studen

nichols referred us back to the motion filed in court. in the fox 5 news room i'm paul wagner. >> thank you very much. >>> 7:21 right now. inside the beltway, many people have not felt the hardships of the economic downturn and now we're learning how good some people may have it. what the census is revealing about our area coming up next. >>> and plus a daring robbery at a world famous casino. and what this guy got away with and how it might be tough to cash in. >>> and a stay now becoming a movie. we're talking about dream girls playing at the duke ellington school of the arts and holly has more on this production coming up. >>> police in las vegas are watching casinos to see if a thief is trying to redeem stolen chips. they released this video of the suspect running from the scene wearing a motorcycle helmet. he made off with a million and a half dollars worth of chips from the belagio. the individual chips are valued at between $100 and 25000 dollars. they can't be used as cash. so detectives think that he might try to redeem them. the

we must continue along the positive vector's regarding joint activities as directed in cold water nicholswe must also approve initiatives to strengthen efforts in the interagency and combined irina speed up it is our goal to reduce unintended redundancies and leering. and more clearly align operational responsibilities to service, train, and the club functions, in order to reduce inefficiencies as presented. at all the spots, we must consolidate functions were proper id. or functions are retained, move towards a construct of combined joint interagency task force organizations or centers. the combined an interagency aspects are critical components to establishing baseline capacity, and search expectations required for functions and capabilities this nation prisons. as the cyber domain continues to grow in importance, the department will make sure lines of responsibility are clear and a double. we focus of cyber operations and cyber command. we will align policy in oversight activities in strengthening the dod chief information officer. finally, we must align cyber requirements and cyber ac