pete seeger performed. crosby, stills, and nash performed, and adam yauch was a teenager, probably couldn't drive yet, came down and handed out leaflets for antinuclear activism. now, he grew up with that tradition. his parents were against the war, but he remembered-- and he told us this-- he remembered that-- looking out and seeing that musicians can attract all these people around a cause, and fast forward 20 years later, he realizes, "hey, i can do this too. i've got a band; i can have an impact." you know, it's-- david's right. it's not about passing the torch. maybe some of the techniques, maybe some of the methodology-- there might be some inspiration, but it wasn't the way we thought it would be where we could pat ourselves on the back. there is a generation, i think, that believes all the meaningful music took place between 1960 and 1969, and you tell an extraordinary story in the book about your own childhood. at age ten, you hear a song called strange fruit. could you talk a little bit about your

for the love of pete. >> the love of pete -- >> pete williams. >> it's very g-rated. >> no, that is verychuck is headed off to portugal for the nato summit and we'll see you live on the other side of the world tomorrow. >> they speak some other language there that is not spanish -- >> portuguese. that's it for "daily rundown." >>> coming up next, we'll figure out why savannah two years of portuguese. at 1:00 p.m., don't miss "andrea mitchell reports." we'll see you back here tomorrow, possibly from two cont nents. >>> i'm meteorologist bill karins with your business travel forecast. that incredible wind storm is leaving new england. traveling up and down the east coast should not be a problem. temperatures not bad and not see any bad weather as far as rain or snow. in the pacific northwest all the way down to northern california, that's where a storm system is moving in with windy and rainy conditions. have a great day. [ male announcer ] at&t introduces a new windows phone. with beauty... ♪ ...and brains. ♪ a phone that gets you to the stuff you love faster. only from at&t. rethink poss

we get more on that from our justice correspondent pete williams at the justice department tonight. pete, good evening. >> reporter: brian, officials here say they are aggressively investigating the leaks. but as surprising as it may seem, when it comes to the website, there is no federal law that explicitly covers something like this. the man at the center of this firestorm, an australian computer hacker who started wikileaks, was nowhere to be seen today. he's already wanted in sweden for questioning in a rape and sexual molestation case. now he's prompting the strongest calls yet for charging him for spying or some say even terrorism. >> we should go after him and the reason i say foreign terrorist organization is they're engaged in terrorist activity. >> reporter: the attorney general emphasized that the government is looking hard at what it can do. >> it's a predicate for us to believe that crimes have been committed here and we are in the process of investigating those crimes. >> reporter: but exactly what law has been broken by wikileaks is not so clear. the espionage laws ha

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>> pete williams in our washington newsroom. pete, thanks. >>> there's a new target date for u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan agreed to by president obama and nato alls just this past weekend. it's 2014, that would be 13 years after the war started. lester holt is in afghanistan tonight where he's spending time with americans in the fight. for them, it's their liv and their comrades mean everything. that means they're willing to do just about anything when trouble breaks out. lester is in kabul again this evening. lester, good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening to you. you want to get a sense of how intense the fighting has been. ask the men of the 33rd rescue squadron. they are a combat soldier's 911. >> there it is right there. that's the ak-47 hole. >> reporter: the hole is in the boom of a helicopter. the inscriptn he wrote next to it says it all. >> almost got me. that's the de, my new alive birthday. the bullet struck the bottom of the aircraft and part of the pieces went right over my sunglasses and right underneath my helmet here. >> reporter: just five stitches and

pete, thanks. >>> here in new york, little change on wall street today.ow industrials gained just over six points on this election day eve. >>> when we come back here tonight, jfk might have spoken the words, but tonight we remember the man who wrote a good many of them. ♪ i love my grandma. i love you grandma. grandma just makes me happy. ♪ to know, know, know you grandma is the bestest. the total package. grandpa's cooooooooool. way cool. ♪ grandpa spoils me rotten. ♪ to know, know, know you ♪ is to love... some people call us frick and frack. we do finger painting. this is how grandpa and i roll. ♪ and i do [ pins fall ] grandma's my best friend. my best friend ever. my best friend ever. ♪ [ laughing ] [ boy laughs ] ♪ to know, know, know you after this we're gonna get ice cream. can we go get some ice cream? yeah. ♪ and i do ♪ and i do ♪ and i do ♪ and i do this holiday, do you really want to cut corners by using a broth with msg? swanson chicken broth has no added msg. so for a perfect holiday meal, the secret is swanson, 100% natural chicken broth.

we want to begin tonight with our own pete williams at reagan national airport tonight. pete, good evening. >> reporter: that argument by pilots has prevailed because the rules are changing for them starting early next year. they will no longer be required to go through the full body scanners or the new more intrusive patdowns. they'll still have to go through the metal detectors, but these are the first changes in enhanced security, and tsa says more may be coming. the new rules were just what pilots like ann po of south florida were hoping for. she abruptly stopped flying for continental two weeks ago and sued tsa over the full body scanners and physical searches. >> it's just not right. i don't believe under any condition to be sexually molesting people and that's what i consider the aggressive patdown they're doing. >> reporter: though 80% of respondents say they do not object to the full body scanners, the internet is buzzing with calls for boycotts, some even set to music. ♪ >> reporter: they're fodder, too, for late night talk. >> we have president bush on the pro

our justice correspondent pete williams is in our washington bureau now. pete? >> reporter: lester, these are the charges that brought tom delay's political career to an end, forcing him to resign five years after he was indicted. he stepped down from his powerful position as the house majority leader, but tonight a jury in a texas state court convicted him of illegally channeling nearly $200,000 in corporate donations to candidates who were running for the state legislature. prosecutors accused him of doing it to get more republicans in the legislature who would draw more congressional districts with republican majorities. he did appear on "dancing with the stars" in 2009. but he's stayed mostly out of the public eye since losing his washington responsibilities except to attend his trial. he'll be sentenced later. he could face some prison time, lester. >> pete williams tonight. pete, thanks. >>> now to the other big story, south korea's military remains on high alert after a deadly assault by north korea, plunging the region into a new crisis. many on those on

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pete, good evening. >> reporter: brian good evening. the big test is for tomorrow with calls for passengers to opt out of those full body scanners and instead, demand patdowns which could clog up the system. it's a simple case of arithmetic. it takes about 30 seconds on average to go through a full body scanner but a patdown can take two or three minutes. multiply that by the high volume of passengers and it could seriously slow down the screening. that's what those calling for a national opt-out day pressuring tsa to back off the rules. >> the groping line might get longer but the x-ray line should be wide opened. so what we want to do is put them in a position where they must accommodate travelers that refuse to be abused. >> homeland security officials urge passengers to get to the airport early, but some flyers are pushing back calling opt-out day an act of selfishness. >> it's all well and good to exercise your right to free speech but i think it's just cruel to exercise it in a way and on a day that's going to maximize the harm to

first we pete domenici and pete domenici. first, an update from c-span radio. >> in remarks on "the early show," be catastrophic nature of the wikileaks articles will be the breakdown in trust. as the lame-duck session of congress gets under way, "the wall street journal closed both reports that at least 50% of the new freshmen plan to sleep in their offices and the key selling point was not the proximity to the chamber, but to the gym, where the boy shower. -- where they will shower. this comes from been chandler, he said he voted against the outgoing house speaker on a secret ballot for minority leaders this month, saying the speaker pelosi and president obama are to blame for democratic defeat at the polls. saying that if it is not there, where else does responsibility lie? those are the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> tonight, "the communicators ," we will talk to people from three organizations. watch tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span 2. >> the c-span networks provide coverage of politics, public affairs, nonfiction

our justice correspondent, pete williams, is covering this story from the night and has more from our washington newsroom. pete, good evening. >>> brian, intelligence officials say this could have been an attempt to explore the logistic of international shipping. a month and a half ago in mid september, suspected al qaeda members in yemen sent three packages to chicago. nothing hazardous was found when the boxes were checked en route and allowed to continue, containing mostly books and papers, nothing like the computer printers that hid explosives. >>> in europe, the police are chasing a separate spade of package bombs in greece. two bombs went after outside the russian and swiss embassies. and in germany, police disarmed a bomb from greece to the office of chancellor angela merkel. the police suspect a radical anti-government grew but raising more questions about cargo and mail screens. >> pete, thanks as always. >>> and aid heads-up. aiti could be dealing with a hurricane by week's end. a very worrisome situation potentially. the storm tomas is centered about 300 miles south of hait

you have to know pete because he's great.he sports guys now have some familiar company at the top. sports director mark viviano is starting to extend the lead with 91 points. i am in second with 88 points. then meteorologist bernadette woods tied with stan saunders, 88 points. this week's big winner. bill moore of baltimore. he came closer to the score of 28 games. you can still sign up to play. all you have to do is come here. click on the banner at the top of the home page. >> and i noticed your bobble now has a little bubble. >> yes. >> move that paper down. >> yes. >> my bobble has a bubble. big winners, we say. >> yes. there you go. >>> ravens are back on the road sunday to face the carolina panthers. you can see the game live here at 1:00, here on wjz 13. >>> bobble in a bubble. >> that's it. >> we believe in conservation in global things here on wjz. >>> still ahead. crime scene at chuck e. cheese. the attack that has california parents concerned. >>> i'm bob turk in the first warning weather center. we'll have a look

nbc's justice reporter pete williams joins me now with more details out of washington. pete? >> well, tamron. this is not a huge surprise given the courts seldom intervene at this stage in the court of appeals. what log cabin republicans said is they wanted the supreme court to lift the stay imposed by the court of appeals that prevented the enforcement of a judge's order. the judge said the don't ask, don't tell policy was constitutional. that judge ordered the the pentagon to stop enforcing it. but the state court is leaving the stay in place. justice elena kagan, the newest justice who was the solicitor general, the government's top lawyer declined to take part in the case. so that means there were only eight justices now. we don't know what the significance of that is. theoretically it's possible because it takes five votes to grant a stay that with her not on the court they only had four. but we don't know. they don't usually indicate the score in cases like this. so we just don't know, tamron. but she didn't take part. >> real quick, pete. because the supreme court refu

and pete, i know part of what's going to be regulated are these toner cartridges. you have to play the odds. what are the chances the terrorists are going to use them again? >> reporter: they say here at homeland security, brian, that they can't rule that out. these rules do extend the pan on all cargo shipments from yemen, which is where those two packages last month came from. and they apply as well now to somalia. another country where al qaeda is operating. starting today, all cargo shippers cannot put high risk cargo on passenger planes. which carry about a third of air cargo coming into the u.s. what's considered high risk will depend on intelligence about the sender and the content, and all packages sent by mail overseas must be screened individually. now, for those cartridges, airline passengers from now on cannot carry toner or ink cartridges that weigh over a pound on any passenger flight, and this applies to any flights operating domestically as well as those coming in from overseas. >> pete williams on these new cargo rules and these changes come just a

>> lehrer: judy woodruff talks about how to cut the deficit with budget veterans alice rivlin and pete domenici. >> ifill: and jeffrey brown talks to photographer tim hetherington about his new book capturing life on the battlefield in afghanistan. >> i just wanted to show the texture of it. and that meant not just photographing just the combat but as you say the guys you know their time, when war is often very boring. and its boredom punctuated by sheer terror and i wanted to capture all of that. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> i do a lot of different exercises, but, basically, i'm a runner. last year, i had a bum knee that needed surgery, but it got complicated because i had an old injury. so, i wanted a doctor who had done this before. and united healthcare's database helped me find a surgeon. you know, you can't have great legs, if you don't have good knees. >> we're 78,000 people looking out for 70 million americans. that's health in numbers. united healthcare. >> opportunity is a powerful force. set

but we begin our coverage tonight with nbc's justice correspondent pete williams in washington. pete, good evening. >> reporter: savannah, there was no danger to those people it at the tree lighting because there never was a real bomb. but fbi agents say the man they arrested had a very real desire to cause death and injury. as the crowded portland jammed into pioneer square for the christmas tree lighting. >> happy holidays! >> reporter: a man hurried there in a van carrying what he thought was a powerful bomb, parking it in this spot just across the street, hoping the fbi says, to kill as many people as possible. what he did not know is that the bomb was a dud. the culmination of an elaborate sting. >> it looked real. it was meant to be so the suspect believed it was a real device. >> reporter: federal agents say they arrested mohamed osman mohamud, a 19-year-old student born in somalia, now a naturalized u.s. citizen, as he tried to detonate the fake bomb. the fbi says it began investigating him last spring while he was at student at oregon state university. court documents s

pete, what's this senator getting at here?first of all, the new most in demand popular guest on both those networks has a point. i agree with him. it would be great for us at cnn if we got rid of the competition. i would take it a step further. forget about the 24-hour news media. what about the reality shows? you were just talking about sarah palin's reality show. get rid of all those. those are really causing the damage john, i long for the "family ties" and "the facts of life," those shows that showed us what the family could be. not getting voted off the island. come on, you know what i'm talking about. >> i used to like the ol

later tonight pete on the street.ave you seen these new proposals to go on cigarette labels, cause cancer, kill you. we'll check them out with pete. >>> welcome back. let's check in with joe johns for the latest news you need to know right now. >> a top leader with the tea party express says a romney run for the president could face pushback. >>> a russian newspaper says an assassin has been dispatched to deal with the russian agent to deal with the spy ring the u.s. cracked in june. a one-time spy master is on the run and may defect to the u.s. >>> the tea party is already thinking of 2012. that could be bad news. once again it is in the prompter, what can i say. the other story is the issue of the egg that was thrown at the former white house chief of staff rahm emanuel. apparently it fell just short, it didn't hurt him. it would have been quite a photo-op. >> he was campaigning in chicago. we have that video. >> what was that? >> an egg. someone just threw an egg. >> okay. don't worry about it. >> he is in a latino

here now pete peterson, and the foundation's vice chairman, michael peterson.congratulations on the presidency. >> let's see how it comes out. >> mr. peterson, i want to start with just a little vocab 101. debt versus deficit. we hear it used interchangeably. give our viewers a little 101 on this. >> three categories. deficits are what happens this year, and debts are the deficits from the history of the country, and then there is a third category that is much, much bigger than what the public hears about. the public hears that the public debt is about $13 trillion. they are not told that we have about $50 trillion -- i said trillion and not billion -- >> right. >> of promises and liabilities, largely, social security and medicare and medicaid, of which know money has been put aside, and those are promises we made. those are off the books. >> mike, i look back at 1992 when the first time the debt, the issue of the debt, ross perot brought it into the forefront and at that time it was $3 trillion. there was a couple years where we balanced the budget as a govern

pete and i simpson-bowles. they are very grateful for the input and have said so, and we have shared the work as well because we thought we have a lot of good stuff here and people ought to see it and benefit from it. >> the last question. >> where is the last question? speedway over here. >> hi, george taylor. i'm an attorney and free loans writer on economic issues. with the commission be open to an earlier start date for the commissioners spending freeze in 2011, because if you use 2011 you are freezing all the spending increases of the last two years. >> well, i think to say we would never be open to anything would be improper. but we did what we did because they wanted to make sure that what we were telling the public about this package, which first we have a holiday we want to take affects of the people and their employers, the working people and their employers would get this rebate because that is going to stimulate, regardless of what people say about the government should not, we should have already d

. >> reporter: daughter kathleen served as state treasurer and an election to pete wilson.ruin put his personal stamp on the golden state long before his children entered the political arena. the san francisco native started his career as the city's district attorney and finally in 1958 he was elected governor. during his eight-year tenure he led the most ambitious public works program in the nation, constructioning more that on 1000 miles of freeway, 11 university campuses, and the california water project. a controversial network of reservoirs and aqueducts. >> his legacy you can see everyday when you drive the freeways and when you accepted your kids off to school. when you drink a glass of water. >> reporter: when pat brown reminisced about his time as governor, he spoke openly about politics and liz way of getting things done. >> a little arm-twisting and offering of things to legislators to get it on the ballot. a love the things that i don't want to confess, even in this late day, because i'm not sure the statute of limitation as run. he was joking then, but colleagu

pete gilbert is live in the studio with a look at the game. >> it looks like a blowout in the final scorethe ravens did not gain full control until halfway through the fourth quarter. it was an effort from the quarterback. in the end, they finished the job in style. joe flacco made the effort. they let it fly. it is a 56-yard touchdown. the ravens were up 7-0. it is off the street and off the hook on the past. 88 yards to the rookie. josh wilson would like to do over. it is a 2013 game for the ravens. that seemed to wake up baltimore. it goes left. he looks right. you know what is coming. there is. it is the lateral. he finishes off the play for the touchdown. that made it 27-13. the ravens when the game 37-13. they're seven and three and still in first place. we will have a look at why the game was so close for so long. there's a national championship in college park. >> despite outrage over new screening methods, gtsa says it will not change his decision. that quickly changed to a maybe. thanksgiving is just days away. millions of travelers are waiting to see what happens next. brian mo

host: pete hoekstra joining us. thank you.what tools are in the federal to box to go after those who are linked to the wikileaks? guest: i think you need to start with who got into the database? first go after them. we may be able to go after them for treason or espionage. that is where you start. the further you go down behalf to obtain comment the food chais tools they have. host: was "the new york times" please possible or irresponsible and publishing the information? guest: the one thing you can say is their inconsistent. when similar materials were week regarding climate change they made the decision not to publish. these materials were obtained illegally. they were transferred to us. they decided not to publish them. in this case, personal, diplomatic cables, materials that were obtained illegally they decided to move forward with them. today up to this point, they have made the decision to publish the materials that have been leaked or that they have been published have been put out there in a responsible manner in term

public interest research group and pete sad executive vice president of the national taxpayers union gentlemen thank you so much for being here thank you now i mean normally you would say progressive tea party or i think you guys hate each other what's going on well there's actually a long history of cooperation on issues like these my organization was founded by forty years ago one of the first issues we worked on are not a real tea party or that and we're in touch with the party but you know there are lots of things we can find in common to work on one of the first things we worked on was the supersonic transport the subsidies for it the environmental community hated the noise pollution we hated the corporate welfare we beat it that was almost forty years ago when that happened it's happening again and i think it's very productive yeah i can agree with that i think one thing that you probably would have seen in this last election is that on both sides some of the issues were starting to bend then come back around especially around this issue of fiscal responsibility and better gove

good morning, pete. >> reporter: amy, good morning. though there never was a real bomb in this, federal prosecutors say the man they arrested after months of investigation had a very real intent to cause widespread death and injury. fbi agents arrested 19-year-old mohammed osman mohamud, a naturalized u.s. citizen born in somalia on friday night after he tried to detonate what he thought was a van packed with explosives. he thought he was getting help from terrorists, the government says, but they turned out to be working undercover for the fbi. court documents say it was mohamud who came up with the idea last august of setting off a bomb at the annual christmas tree lighting ceremony in portland. investigators say he wanted to kill, quote, a huge mass of people with their families. they say during the past several months he bought bomb components and practiced setting off explosives but the fbi men he thought were terrorists actually constructed a fake bomb. they arrested him friday night after he repeatedly dialed a cell phone number

here is pete. >> good morning. we say hello to the basketball season. maryland opened up against seattle last night. gary williams uncorked as always. a lot of new faces. terrell stoglin, two of his 15 points. he does not mind sharing. behind the back to jordan williams. 17 points for the slimmed-down version. another freshman, howard, takes advantage of the sloppy play from seattle. a very athletic group of newcomers. they still have sean mosley, driving the lovely floater off the glass. the terrapins win. the sure week for the ravens includes a day off on tuesday. they made monday all the more important getting ready for the falcons on thursday. game right heree on wbal 11. last night, roethlisberger, 39 yards to mike wallace. the steelers are rolling. cincinnati comes back. carson palmer, second and some connection with terrell owens. 27-21. under one minute to play. that passed was redirected thanks to james harrison. the steelers hang on. 6-2. we go to texas, a middle school championship game. the quarterback pretending a penalty was miss mark. rou

pete, i love the way you look.dates that i'm not going to be around because i think you could do a fantastic job. why don't you take us to break. >> i'm cnn's ali velshi and former president george w. bush is getting ready for another state of the union. your cnn political update is next. ♪ when you're responsible for this much of the team, you need a car you can count on. okay, now here's our holiday gift list. aww, not the mall. well, i'll do the shopping... if you do the shipping. shipping's a hassle. i'll go to the mall. hey. hi. you know, holiday shipping's easy with priority mail flat rate boxes from the postal service. if it fits, it ships anywhere in the country for a low flat rate. yea, i know. oh, you're good. good luck! priority mail flat rate shipping starts at just $4.90 only from the postal service. a simpler way to ship. >>> time for a cnn political update and house divided on a key issue. mark preston joins me now from washington. hello, mark. >> how are you? i don't know how to follow you and pete

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. >> reporter: pete souza is the chief white house photographer.spaper photographer, hand picked by president barack obama to snapshots both political and plift. taking some 20,000 pictures every month. you've been quoted as saying you are the luckiest s.o.b.photographer in the world. why? >> i am. right now i'm focused on documenting this presidency for history. i'm not worried about tomorrow's newspaper or next week's magazine. i'm worried about creating a body of work that will last, you know, hopefully maybe 500 years. >> reporter: it is souza's second tour here. >> all right. let's go. >> reporter: he was an assistant photographer in the reagan white house who jump at the chance to document history once more. every one of his photos goes into the national archives for later release. the white house publishes 75 online each month month and a few make it on to the white house walls. here is the president playfully adding weight to one of his staffers. that is such a funny shot. >> you can't plan for something like this to happen. it just happens

pete williams, nbc news, washington. >>> we're following another kind of mystery tonight, this one of a political nature. who will win the united states senate race in alaska? with a pile of write-in votes being counted, determining the winner could get ugly and last a very long time. northbound's kristen welker reports tonight from anchorage. >> reporter: lisa murkowski and joe miller, caught in a cliffhanger. murkowski, the most visible write-in candidate, celebrated tuesday when returns showed the write-in ballots topped republican joe miller by 13,000 votes. if she wins, she would be the second write-in candidate in u.s. history to claim a senate seat. >> we recognize that we are not yet complete with making history, but we are poised. and it feels pretty good. >> reporter: how realistic do you think it is for you to win this race? >> you're missing the 31,000 absentee ballots that have not been counted yet. that's a significant component. >> reporter: in a campaign full of controversies, now another one. which write-in ballots should officials count as legitimate? the miller camp

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. >> joining me now with more nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. of conspiracy could leave him behind bars for rest of his life, but it has certainly opened the doors on the best way to handle these cases. >> you're right. it carries a minimum sentence of 20 years. a maximum of life in prison. the sentence has yet to be handed down. the problem for the government here is they wanted a witness to testify who would have said the government claims that this person sold ghailani tnt to use in the bombings, which would have made it easier to get convictions on the charges. but the government's knowledge came from the way he was interrogated, which was coercive. and the defense lawyers claimed it was torture. that was not admitted. now that has reignited the question about whether that evidence would have been admissible if this trial had been in the military commission and not a civilian trial. there are several people on capitol hill, republicans saying the answer is obviously yes. the judge in this case looked at that question. and when he denied the

quite a history right peter all of our following unity day in the russian capital pete stay dry. all right let's take a look now at some other international news for you this hour all quantas airlines flights have been suspended after an a three eighty jet was forced to make an emergency landing in singapore while the airliner bound for sydney was carrying more than four hundred fifty people one of its engines caught out over indonesia shortly after takeoff from singapore witnesses on a nearby island say they heard a huge blast and found pieces of debris but quantum's denies there was an explosion the double decker a three eighty is the largest passenger plane in the world. an airport workers across france have been blocking access to terminals in anger over the government's plans to raise the retirement age hundreds came out onto the streets translocations and prevent cars from accessing several airports the bill which increases the pension age from sixty to sixty two has been approved by the country's parliament president sarkozy is expected to sign it into law in mid november.