the rockefeller's in which the national guard came in killed the strikers who just wanted the owners of the mine who were the rockefeller's to obey this state safety law so it wasn't like they're asking for anything radical and come and decent wages and they slowed women and children and the rockefeller's realised that they had a bad image and they hired an associate of edward bernays who was for its nephew. to start what we now know as public relations and he said it ended in those days one hundred million dollars tom in one nine hundred fourteen to recreate the image of the rockefeller's and they said you know what you should build some hospitals and some schools show up once in a while to work side the old man should be seen giving out. money and they'd change their image but they still were booked the strike breaking and you know crushing the workers and have despicable conditions in their factories and so for one hundred years they've been it's hard to tell people this because it seems they're again or pedantic but our thoughts are controlled i mean mine and yours they have the

senator rockefeller says the industry is piloting their boats through legal loopholes. >> they don'teimburse coast guard. they don't pay taxes, which would help these 20 federal agencies which are watching over them. they always say safety is their emphasis. i've never quite believed that. i think the bottom line is their emphasis. >> reporter: finances aside, the question looming after the "concordia" disaster, is the cruise line taking safety seriously? did it take the deaths of 32 people onboard to prompt you to take action? >>> the cruise industry has expanded fast worldwide, seeking out new markets in asia and europe. the u.s. industry says it's created more than 300,000 jobs and claims there were just 28 fatalities related to operational incidents in the last decade, a figure some critics debate. but whatever the true number of casualties, the industry continues to have safety problems. just when you think things couldn't get any worse -- >> a mere six weeks after the "concordia" crashed, a fire disabled the engine of the "costa allegra," leaving the passengers without power on

peter collier and i did a book on the rockefellers. 33 years ago i interviewed steven rockefeller who was a philosophy professor at the university of vermont. he told me, i'm a socialist. now he's the head of the rockefeller fund. which is a huge foundation of hundreds of billions of dollars and they fund radicals. >> how would one safeguard against such use quick >> i don't think you really can if you're leaving money. it's a huge problem unless you provide for a sunset in the foundation. he can't foresee what's going to go over to three generations. that's why i like the idea of generating what is political. i'm saying is political dollars, you're not going to get the tax exemption. you're just going to give to charity, which should be hospitals. i don't want to devise a reform while i'm standing here. i'm sure some wife has been a tear out the problematic areas like education. but i think that is the basic solution. the other is you can't have both a miss in perpetuity. and what's the problem with giving the way while you're alive what >> hello, david. you touched on the bras, mald

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senator rockefeller says the industry is piloting their boats through legal loopholes. >> they don'ty don't pay taxes, which would help these 20 federal agencies which are watching over them. they always say safety is their emphasis. i've never quite believed that. i think the bottom line is their emphasis. >> finances aside, the question looming after the concordia disaster, is the cruise line taking safety seriously? >> did it take the deaths of 32 people onboard to prompt you to take action? when you have diabetes... your doctor will say get smart about your weight. that's why there's glucerna hunger smart shakes. they have carb steady, with carbs that digest slowly to help minimize blood sugar spikes. [ male announcer ] glucerna hunger smart. a smart way to help manage hunger and diabetes. [ male announcer ] glucerna hunger smart. mid grade dark roast forest fresh full tank brain freeze cake donettes rolling hot dogs g of ice anti-freeze wash and dry diesel self-serve fix a flat jumper cables 5% cashback signup for 5% cashback at gas stations through september. it pays to discove

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senator rockefeller says the industry is piloting their boats through legal loopholes. >> they don'ty don't pay taxes, which would help these 20 federal agencies which are watching over them. they always say safety is their emphasis. i've never quite believed that. i think the bottom line is their emphasis. >> finances aside, the question looming after the concordia disaster, is the cruise line taking safety seriously? >> did it take the deaths of 32 people onboard to prompt you to take action? when you have diabetes... your doctor will say get smart about your weight. that's why there's glucerna hunger smart shakes. they have carb steady, with carbs that digest slowly to help minimize blood sugar spikes. [ male announcer ] glucerna hunger smart. a smart way to help manage hunger and diabetes. [ male announcer ] glucerna hunger smart. mid grade dark roast forest fresh full tank brain freeze cake donettes rolling hot dogs g of ice anti-freeze wash and dry diesel self-serve fix a flat jumper cables 5% cashback signup for 5% cashback at gas stations through september. it pays to discove

a source of contention for rockefeller.nival paid just 1.1% in fraederal, state, d foreign taxes. the cruise line's international association president says no matter where a boat is registered, all lines have to follow the international rules of the sea. but he concedes there are tax advantages to registering outside the united states. >> are there some fees and taxation considerations that go into that? certainly. we paid a wide away of fees, duties and we pay all of the taxes that we are required to pay. >> of all commercial cruise ships, only one norwegian's pride of america is registered in the united states. carnival ships are registered in several countries. the costa cruise line flies an italian flag and pays italian taxes. a corporate rate of 30%. senator rockefeller says the industry is piloting the boats through legal loophole. >> they don't reimburse the united states. they don't pay federal taxes. they always say safety is their emphasis. i never quite believed that. think the bottom line is the emphasis. >> fi

as senator rockefeller is demanding that the bank said, what is going on. >> look.enator rockefeller has a better chance of seeing got on this because you're not trying to get banks at peninsula institutions and other companies, the fortune 500 images of you out there protecting and what they're doing. you're getting into an intellectual property. back in 1999 as an offshoot a presidential decision directive 63, bill clinton signed into office, one of the first things that was stood up for a voluntary compliance with all the fun its services information sharing analysis center, the fsi sat where people came together and shared collective experience in shutting permission of what was going on as a voluntary way to do this. if you try and legislate people, what happens is, at the end of the day is like what milton friedman said, the consumer will end up paying this cost. nobody wants to go on a business. no one wants poor security, but a lot of this used to be price, speed, and security, but to. of time security was on the back end, but it is important because we're d

than democratic party today. >> you could have rockefeller you had so many other republicans.e had federal judges that were appointed by eisenhower that were much more progressive. >> eliot: right. and yet now, the drive to win a misguided drive to win and i think their math is wrong. their legal thinking is clearly wrong. underlying ideology is wrong. they're willing to pass legislation through the states that will prohibit people from voting even though they acknowledge there's not a single shred of evidence of any fraud in the voting system in terms of people claiming to be who they're not. >> what is so frightening, it is not just a regional thing, it is not just the ole south but it is all over america. they want to take us back to another period when people stood in -- it is not the literacy test, it is not the poll types it is not people being beaten and trampled but it reminds people of a bygone period. >> eliot: am i being overly optimistic when i see i see them doing this. it is revolting, it is heinous. but it will not succeed. and there simply aren't enough votes t

rockefeller's oil company taught people how to drill for oil and gas and the third thing that strikes me that's not going to work. he wants to double manufacturing jobs, increase manufacturing jobs, that's fine, but why does the manufacturing get the benefit of government largest, why not the financial sector, oil and gas, all of this stuff drives the debt sky high and we know that the government can't spend money efficiently, it's just wrong. >> and jonas, there are also some tax hikes here, and wouldn't that do something to decrease the deficit? >> yes, it's the only specific tax increase that-- of both candidates and if you would close the deficit and turn some of the tacks to the higher levels, and the revenues for the government, revenue enhancement. however, to cost patriotism to say a small fraction of the country will have an extra tax burden, everybody has to pay more taxes, in fact, if you combine the tax proposals of mitt romney and president obama, together you would have a patriotic plan where you're removing some of the benefits of the lower people the last 10, 15 years

those researchers at rockefeller university suggest maybe the maternal instinct is just that, it's anired to be good moms? the study has sparked an intense debate among moms and would-be moms everywhere. lori is a 3-year-old who hasn't been out of diapers that long. but knows how to change them. her 5-year-old sister is kindergartner who already knows what she wants to be when she grows up, a mom. do you know for sure you want to be a mommy? >> yes. >> reporter: and how many babies do you want? >> two. >> reporter: researchers at rockefeller university now says the longing they feel, to play with strollers to feed and nurture baby dolls from such an early age, may be linked to something they're born with. some are calling it the mommy gene. while the researchers have not studied humans, they say by studying mice they have determined there's a single gene that could be responsible for motivating mothers, to protect, feed and raise their young. the study's findings means there could be a valid explanation as to why some women, like tv's marge simpson and carol brady -- >> take your lunc

beautiful live picture pulling out the plaza here at rockefeller center. check of weather from my mine man, bill karins. >> have you accepted fall now? lids nice. >> get on the subway, it's not a thousand degrees down there like "dante's inferno." >> a lot are still waiting for the first cool air and now warm air is starting to return back to areas chilly. thehust spark. masseshere we by far the worst weather is found in southern illinois from st. louis in between there and indianapolis and pretty nasty thunderstorms. gusty winds and a lot of lightning strikes. over 5,000 in the last hour alone and this is where we'll see the rain the nexto days in a row. theouywe hnd humid air to the south and cooler air up in the great lakes. st. louis, columbus, lexington, kentucky and towards washington, d.c. and pennsylvania, not today. that will be tomorrow. tomorrow's forest. another cool nish. bosto d.kigreat. much of the east coast, a fantastic tuesday. where it's still hot in the 90s from dallas all the way back to phoenix and in the 80s from atlanta all the way

. >> neil: and you're starting to sound like a rockefeller republican. >> you have a president, you have vice-presidential candidate who put a-- >> you have become your source-- join me at the olive garden, folks are outrage. >> you disgust me, you disgust me. >> disgusts me, too. >> and vote for paul ryan, don't fight over 8 billion dollars, it means nothing right now. >> neil: if not now, when? if know the this 8 billion, what? i have no idea what's the-- >> and following you off the cliff, literally. >> and later never comes and now what? this is why the vast majority of the country hates congress. they hate all lawmakers. >> and they love, and they love the president because he's against this sort of stuff. i mean, think about that. >> fabulous. >> and of course charlie is right. >> and wait a minute, does he look-- adam, go ahead, you two are like this. >> and go ahead. >> and here is the point, you and gary are making the argument this will never stop, the can will always get kicked down the road. it's a plausible argument. >> yeah, because it's proof of-- >> do you have any proof

>> two. >> reporter: researchers at rockefeller university now says the longing they feel, playing withked to something they're born with. some are calling it the mommy gene. by studying mice they have determined there's a single gene that could be responsible for motivating mothers, to protect, feed and raise their young. the study's findings means there could be a valid explanation as to why some women, like tv's marge simpson and carol brady -- >> take your lunch -- >> reporter: seem like natural maternal figures. while others like "man men's" betty draper seem detached and cold. >> go bang your head against the wall. >> reporter: and some seem like they're not meant to be mothers at all. like "sex and the city's" samantha. >> i made my point. and he made his. >> reporter: the study's findings make sense. >> i was always thinking, i'm going to be a mom. >> i do have friends who say they just -- they don't have it in them to want to have a baby and care for them. >> reporter: another mom argues the maternal instinct may have less to do with genetics than with circumstance. >> on a goo

in what could be a new rockefeller center or additional embarkadero center that could happen in transbay and be the logical business center of california and western united states, which i think is important. i think it was a really good presentation. reminds me of the time we were considering another issue some years ago. this happened to be 555 washington. many nights i would run to maritime plaza and try to imagine that one sliver of time when the sunlight might go past the buildings that were blocking maritime plaza. i don't know if i was ever long enough to stay that sliver of time there might be a shadow cast on a park during the time i was doing my run. i think that is instructive. of course the part of the few shadow is very important. if you are a long ways a way, it is an analogy to twilight. you block part by this distance building, some perforated in the case of the transbay tower, but you still get a lot of the light that turns around through the perforation, around the connicle top. * and there is a difference between a full and diffused shadow. you pointed out parks in the

al is over in the channel gardens in rockefeller plaza. what have you got?very nice. let's show you what we've got as far as today's weather is concerned. we're looking at strong storms in the upper mississippi river valley, sunshine in the pacific northwest, toasty from the southwest into texas. wet weather in northern new england. tomorrow we've got a risk of strong storms mid plains. beautiful weather in the pacific northwest. sizzling down in texas. gulf coast looking at hit or miss showers and thunderstorms. sunny and warm, not quite as >> good morning.e n it will be another soupy day. a few rain showers this morning . >>> tonight all will be right with the world. that's because it's time for the nfl kickoff special on nbc. starting at 7:30 when the cowboys fly into metlife stadium. yeehaw. partly cloudy skies and warm as they take on the giants, temperatures upper 70s, low 80s with high humidity and just a slight chance of a shower or thunderstorm. that's on the nbc kickoff special tonight at 7:30. keeping in that theme, let's bring in travi mccoy, fro

in a vacuum they aren't created by transnational corporations or or or you know the heirs of the rockefeller fortune or whatever that market's just like you know just like a football game is the creation of the league and the rules are there i mean the markets are to a certain extent the creation of government and we have to have appropriate rules just like get them decent rules for a football game or did it just goes nuts without proper private property laws and competitive in foresman patents and copyrights foresman and payment in force mint money and monetary policy and fiscal policy all done by the government you can't have a functioning market every economist since adam smith everyone left right center popular or unpopular has reiterated the markets the legal stream framework for a market is created and maintained by a state without a state you can't have a free market you have the difference in a free and competitive market at a jungle war of all against all that's the difference between hobbes. cruel brutish and short life and the more sort of saying why predictions of people like smi

jekyll island which simply lights the one nine hundred ten meeting between representatives from the rockefeller is from j.p. morgan and max were heard from europe racket representing the rothschild banks where they tried to figure out how to get this consolidate. oh yeah absolutely that's. of the world however you know their debt money system has flooded the world with was so much debt that quantitative easing the last q.e. q.e. two it was discovered that actually depress g.d.p. in the united states they've gone as far as they can in the debt money system i think it and the euro in particular are doomed to failure every nation even greece for example should go back to its own issuing its own sovereign money yes the draka would be devalued tremendously but they're going to feel the pain anyway why not feel the pain for a year and then start to come out of it because i'm immediately if you were able to buy b.m.w.'s from germany with your drachmas well what would happen internal greeks would somehow find a way to start manufacturing their own cars their own production after all sustainable economi

the rapper stopped by rockefeller center and taught the crew some of his signature moves.ture gallop, going crazien the night time. this wasn't the only dancing, david gregory showed off his skills when he waltzed around the studio with one of the winning dogs from america's got talent. >> this guy is just like. a frenzy. it's going viral. >> my gosh. >> crazy. >> with that we say good night. have a great weekend. >> bye, folks. hello? the words are going this way-there's no way. oh, the lights came on. isn't technology supposed to make life easier? at chase we're pioneering innovations that make banking simple. deposit a check with a photo. pay someone with an email. and bank seamlessly with our award-winning mobile app. take a step forward... and chase what matters. your soups are so awesomely delicious my husband and i can't stop eating 'em! what's...that... on your head? can curlers! we got a lotta empty cans. tomato basil, potato with bacon, 80 different kinds... no wonder we're going through this stuff! hey, hon, want some soup? you bet! [ male announcer ] progresso.

i was presenting a slide projection that was built for rockefeller's presentation because rockefeller left yet. i went there at 7:30 in the morning to the cabinet meeting and preparing the slides and all the sudden, i feel two hands on the back of me. his son, will you take me to the show? i took him to the show. we spend a half hour together. took him to the show, and then when the cabinet got together, you know, he listened to me. he listened to every word, and every time rockefeller presented a pie chart, for instance, about the school construction and why was it, he asked me questions. eisenhower, focus on the pie chart? the school construction, mind you. he built the schools too. why is it a half a budget going to be presented paid by the government, a quarter by the state, and a quarter by the locals, and the reason was -- i told him the reason was they wanted the local people to be able to decide where their schools were going to be. the moment rockefeller presented that chart, he says, that's right. [laughter] because he took what i said. every time with the chart, he said exa

the nine hundred ten meeting between representatives from the rockefeller is from j.p.morgan and max were heard from europe reckitt representing the rothschild banks where they tried to figure out how to get this consolidated debt money system how do we get them all our control under one judge umbrella where we can control it and that that meeting occurred in one thousand nine hundred ten the bill that they put out as a result was the aldrich bill which they tried to pass the next year it didn't pass so they brought it back in house again and simply changed the name calling that the federal reserve system pretending that it was part of the government the idea being that the government is watching the banks when in fact we don't know that the fed is merely the banks completely out of control of the guy so yeah it's a it's a project concerning that meeting and the events in the ten years that led up to it namely j.p. morgan's deliberate crash of american economy nine hundred seven and the events around that it's very narrowly focused just on this time period one nine hund

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rockefeller iii. we have followed up a task force on improving u.s.-burma relations. let me conclude by saying we recognize this is a most important moment in burma's history and we are committed to continuing this work. the asia society and our partners in this effort stand ready to help. thank you. jim? [applause] it is my pleasure to introduce someone who needs no introduction -- secretary clinton. [applause] >> it is wonderful to be back here for this extraordinary, auspicious occasion. i want to congratulate jim marshall on becoming president. we certainly want to work with you. i also want to thank the asia society. and all who represent the commitment started in 1950's and it has very much stood the test of time. we very much look forward to working with you as well. the purpose for this gathering is quite an exciting one, because we have here an opportunity for someone who has represented the struggle for freedom and democracy, for human rights and opportunity, not only in her own country, but is seen as such around the world. it is wonderful to see her back i

rockefeller plaza celebrating the end of summer with the reunited matchbox twenty. right n they are scanning the crowd to find their favorite fan sign. hold those signs up. you can get a special meet and greet. whoever has the best sign. meanwhile matchbox twenty back with one more song. >> i wish i had made a sign. >> i think you'll get to meet them. >> actress and trainer joining us to get kids playing tennis to be more active. an absolutely fabulous idea. a remarkable young girl who experienced the term bullying to make sure it doesn't happen to kids. >> good message there. switching gears, are you living in one of the most expensive places in the country. for a list of the most expensive and least expensive cities in america has been released. we'll tell you where you might want to be living. >> tamron hall at the news desk. >> reporter: good morning. thousands of people in southern california have been forced to come up with other holiday plans after they were burned out of a popular campground, angeles national forest. a car fire sunday sparked a blaze that sp

rockefeller plaza filled with a lot of happy faces this morning.d of a cloudy day in new york city. earlier we had a little fun with our friend from oklahoma university, one of the deans of student there is. i asked him who the sooners were playing this weekend. he had a brain cramp. go ahead, sir, give it to me. >> florida. >> you can now go home. perfect. >> savannah is down in charlotte covering the democratic national convention. more from her in a while. and look who is working the crowd over here, comedienne and actress wanda sykes. she'll give us her own talk on presidential politics in a couple of minutes. >> and then we're going to go face to face with the rodney dangerfield of the animal world. we're talking about snakes and all kinds of creepy crawly things. >> ooh! >> a bat, yikes. >> bat boy. >> okay. and then later all that is new and noteworthy from hollywood, including a new role from katie holmes following her break up from tom cruise. >> meanwhile you've have a check of the weather? >> i do indeed. starting with tomorrow we'll be

i was presenting a live projection that was built for rockefellers presentation because rockefeller hadnt there at 7:30 in the morning to the cabinet meeting and all of a sudden i feel to hands and said, and his son, we take me to the show quite a chicken to the show and then in the cabinet got together, you know, you listen to me. he listened to every word and every time as a pie chart, for instance, about the school construction. he asked me questions with 12% of the pie chart. he built this close, too. why is that half the budget is paid by the government in order by the state in order by the locals and i told them the reason why they wanted the local people to be able to decide whether schools are going to be. for the moment of rockefeller said that spray. every time in the chart, he says he paid attention and he got respect for his cabinet. he had cabinet meetings every month. the question is, do you know the president and have respect for their cabinet and cabinet meetings. >> and marvelous point. eisenhower when they met with the cabinet almost every week and met with the nationa

rockefeller plaza. it's overflowing this morning with fans of the korean pop superstar psy.tyle" has a whopping 166 million hits on youtube, and it is climbing. here's the man himself. he is getting ready to do his thing live on the stage. our green room has gone "gangnam style". good morning. i know you're so excited to be here on this day. you ready to add the invisible horse dance to your impressive array of dance performances here on the "today" show. i think we have some video. i don't feel like you're putting any effort in that one. >> that was with mjb. i didn't realize i'd be caught on camera on that. you nknow, it's a time when you've got to let loose. when music comes to the "today" program, the important thing that psy has reminded me when i was watching him on youtube this morning this is not a cowboy dance, this is a horse dance. >> it's a horse dance. and let me tell you when all 6'5" of you does the horse dance, there's a -- >> there's this. >> that's different. >> the big complaint tied to the new iphone that savannah has been complaining about this morning,

>>> from nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefellerza. >>> and good morning. welcome to "today" on this friday morning. i'm savannah guthrie. >> and i'm willie geist in this morning for matt. savannah, i'm struck by the progression of "call me, maybe." from cookie monster to now a classical orchestra >> we've got al. doesn't it just put you in an elevated mood? >> he does. calling for more strings. >> they can't see you, al, but that's okay. >> they can't? >> no. but later maybe we'll let you conduct. see that live. the whole performance. very exciting. beats the heavy metal version, that's for sure. meantime, we'll talk about politics at the top of our show. things getting pretty testy on the campaign trail. at a forum in miami president obama acknowledged he couldn't change washington from the inside and mitt romney was quick to pounce saying the president was throwing in the white flag of surrender on getting things done. we'll get reaction from a senior adviser to the president's campaign re-election team coming up. >> iphone fans

>>> from nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefellerza. >>> and good morning. welcome to "today" on this friday morning. i'm savannah guthrie. >> and i'm willie geist in this morning for matt. savannah, i'm struck by the progression of "call me, maybe." from cookie monster to now a classical orchestra >> we've got al. doesn't it just put you in an elevated mood? >> he does. calling for more strings. >> they can't see you, al, but that's okay. >> they can't? >> no. but later maybe we'll let you conduct. see that live. the whole performance. very exciting. beats the heavy metal version, that's for sure. meantime, we'll talk about politics at the top of our show. things getting pretty testy on the campaign trail. at a forum in miami president obama acknowledged he couldn't change washington from the inside and mitt romney was quick to pounce saying the president was throwing in the white flag of surrender on getting things done. we'll get reaction from a senior adviser to the president's campaign re-election team coming up. >> iphone fans