very famous so i asked alex and i said they think is a good idea if you can make a portrait of stephen hawking. and he said yeah i think i can do that so we went for lunch with stephen and aleksey and malone of his sitting next to stephen and 2 hours later he went back to a hotel and next day he came back we mazing pulled straight off stephen they're the ideal for maid of k.s. so we thought ok the best way to go to 2 to paying tribute to both her legs and stephen is to create a middle sized communication meadow we actually use quite unique and it should be a made though which is said not for scientists of not only for scientists but those so for those. reporters and film directors and musicians those who promote science who create. arts and unique or films. and popular all the science we we would they are doing so hans zimmer is a classical example he smith seek this so inspiring in films like inception and interstellar well said you were given 3 years obviously he has a l.s.e. savage's was such a long time is it didn't go to work with him what's it like to work with him. yeah it's not very ea

could you briefly explain to us what stephen hawking's places in the history the scheme of things. onard: will stephen went to school in the 60s. into oxford and then he went to graduate school at cambridge. and that's where he really felt ill. he was in graduate school. it any in revelation after that. was that he kind of had a hoopla and due to his illness, he found purpose in life. some kind of meaning in his life. he decided that he wanted to dedicate his last years to answering us some fundamental questions which is basically why are we here and how did we get here and how to the universe get here and why is it the way it is. those are questions that people were asking . henna systems, while kate ashley at berkeley and asked . and the areas that he chose to study, to adjust those questions for the first one is very obvious. the early university part of the universe the other is black hole. but not any people were interested in those areas even back then because people thought that he couldn't observe them. his assistant with the experimental observational scientists. and he sai

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maybe a spsychic talking to the dead or stephen hawking.s guests. >> you had a chance to sit across from him quite a bit. you just described how long you've known him. but then was there ever anything that you had to do to prepare yourself for what it was to be interviewed by larry king? did you, you know, just say, okay, i'm an open book? what did you brace for, what were you ready for? >> anytime there was a news break that he felt i could talk about he would call me personally. we would discuss it for five minutes and then i would go on the show. i remember being in italy in rome one night when i got a call in the middle of the night that larry wanted to speak to me. so i called him, and, you know, the dna had just been deciphered, the genome had just been deciphered and president clinton had just announced it and there were all kinds of excitement. and he called me and said i want the spiritual angle on dna, after the show he called me again in the middle of the night. he said my brain hurts right now but what you said was amazing. what

and springstein, thurgood marshal and john lewis, mandela, streisand and spielberg and streep, stephen hawkingron. and finally tony fauci and joe biden. a good shrink might theorize about an attempt to sully an honor others have received. it was telling when devin nunes received his medal today, no media were allowed at that event. on that note, that is our broadcast as we start a new week and a consequential one in our country. i'll see you tomorrow morning starting with our special coverage early in the evening, something about two runoff senate elections in georgia. for now for us on behalf of all my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. it's really, really nice to be back. whether or not you were able to get some time off over the holiday -- and i hope you did -- i unfortunately have to break it to you now if you don't already know that this week, now that we're all back, this week is going to be nuts. but because this week is going to be nuts, because i can guarantee that this week is going to be nuts, because we're

thurgood marshal and john lewis, mandela, ali, barra and mayes, streisand and spielberg and streep, stephen hawking and hank aaron. and finally tony fauci and joe biden. a good shrink might theorize about an attempt to soil an honor others have received. it was telling when devin nunes received his medal today, no media were allowed at that event. on that note, that is our broadcast for this monday night as we start a new week and a consequential one in our country. happy new year to all. thanks to my friends for filling in over the break. i'll see you tomorrow morning starting with our special coverage early in the evening, something about two runoff senate elections in georgia. for now for us on behalf of all my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. >>> tonight on "all in," trump goes down to georgia looking for an election to steal. >> so what are we going to do here folks, i only need 11,000 votes. give me abreak. >> 16 days from the inauguration of president biden, and president trump won't let go. >> the will of the people prevailed. we won three times here. >> tonight, calls fo

most have had one important qualification, loyalty to white house adviser and stephen miller and anti-immigration hawk. frank, explain it to me. how do you think we got to this place where we took our eye completely off the ball. do you think the rev is right, that this is actually a conscious agenda that kind of fed into some of the priorities that coddled and ignored white nationalism or do you think there were a complex set of factors that led us to that conclusion, but without that level of intent? >> so, first, as the reverend knows, racism and hate was not unique to the trump administration, it's been with us an infection throughout the fabric of our society and our history, however, however, racism and hate, as a strategy, as a policy, came to its ultimate fruition during this administration and yes, indeed, they fueled their policy and strategy with hate, racism and appealing to a base they knew that they concept without resonate with. there's no question about it. so, let's move on now to the concept of consequences and accountability for those enablers, facile day torps and leaders, and here

stephen could convince the u.s. president donald trump to not bend those 3 companies so he did defeat the china hawks and as i said so quite a surprise on that front and let's look ahead joe biden has promised to be tough on china do you think this represents only a temporary reprieve then for the likes of alibaba on 10 cent. well i mean if it comes to probably even delisting some chinese companies we really have to wait and see we don't really know what joe biden is going to do at that beehive what we do know is that he in general is a supporter of multinational agreement still trying to form a coalition with western democracies maybe also with some asian nations like japan for example to build a front against them china the question is if that's a bit too late in the game just a couple of days ago we heard that china has signed an agreement with the european union so it really we have to wait and see what's going to happen and as i mentioned if it might be too late in the game when it comes to the terrorists joe biden did in that he's not going to change anything at this point and then we also have to wait and see

stephen could convince the u.s. president donald trump to not bend those companies so he did defeat to the china hawks and as i said so quite a surprise on that front and let's look ahead joe biden has promised to be tough on china do you think this represents only a temporary reprieve then for the likes of alibaba on tencent. well i mean if it comes to probably even delisting some chinese companies we really have to wait and see we do not really know what joe biden is going to do at that beehive what we do know is that he in general is a supporter of multinational agreement still trying to form a coalition with western democracies maybe also with some asian nations like japan for example to build a front against them china the question is if that's a bit too late in the game just a couple of days ago we heard that china has signed an agreement with the european union so it really we have to wait and see what's going to happen and as i mentioned if it might be too late in the game when it comes to the terrorists joe biden did hint that he's not going to change anything at this point and then we also have to wait an