here's my take, i worked at abc news while ted koppel reigned. al, not oppressively so like the rather years at cbs. i have no trouble with ted or along with peter jennings, taught me a lot. bill, beautiful tribute to george kennedy. his heroic effort on behalf of his child is to be admired and emulated. did you know he went to chaminade high school like you did? i did not know until last week. tim, we're in the process of adopting our 4-year-old grandson after our daughter passed. his father nowhere to be found. my wife and i admire what george kennedy did. now you're doing the same thing. you're with the angels. i read all the "killing" books but "killing jesus" was the best i read, period. as a nonreligious jew, tiit was informant and brilliant. right now on billo'reilly.com, all of my books are 25% off. sign up or reup for premium membership, you can get a free book. great deal. >>> timely tonight the "factor" tip of the day, as some of you may know, i dedicated my book "killing reagan" to all of you who care for the elderly both inside and ou

legendary ted koppel has interviewed people. mr.o the author ofn9 the book "lights out" cyber attack, nation unprepared, surviving the aftermath, "new york times" best seller. joins us now from washington. let's assess donald trump. i have interviewed him a number of times. not an easy interview. how would you do it? >> you know something, bill, you and i have talked about this general subject many times over the years. it's irrelevant how i would do it. you who made it it irrelevant? you did. you have changed the television landscape over the past 20 years. you took it from being objective and dull to being subjective and entertaining. and in this current climate, it doesn't matter what the interviewer asks him, mr. trump is going to say whatever he wants to say as outrageous as it may be. and the fact of the matter is his audience as much as anything is not even a televisionzxm'Ñ audience. it's an audience on twitter. they deal in messages of 140 characters or less, which keeps it nice andqb simple. >> okay. but, you know, your ol

entirely possible that if there is dna to be recovered it could be found, especially with today's ted koppel which is much more sensitive. >> not guilty of the crime of murder. >> reporter: simpson was acquitted in a trial that lasted more than eight months. but could e be tried again? >> the likelihood of prosecution stemming from the evidence is very, very, very slim, so, you know, but it be -- but we have to find out what this means. >> reporter: clark's role in the case has been back in the news after the succes the fx series "the people v. o.j. simpson." >> he can't hide forever. >> reporter: clark is played by sarah paulson and it's been the number one show on cable tuesday nights. is it ironic this comes up now case again because of the television show? >> it really is a bizarre coincidence. it is completely strange. i have heard that the reason that he -- this person who had the knife thought of calling the police department is because of the series. >>> next, o.j.'s lost interview. lot of elements of, you know, attrapeople, well-known celebrity monee, sex appeal. >> reporter: o.j. t

and ted koppel wants to work with him and barbara walters wants to work with him. everyone wants to work with jay because he is so damn smart. >> i got the sense that jay had seen it all before and he had, you know? just about any story or situation, i would ask him about, he would sort of say, yeah, ito that guy. i know that guy. i can give you a name or contact number or he would tell a anecdote about that person and sort of wonder where were these stories, these layers coming from. >> the when we were in doha covering the runup to the second gulf war of course we were putting a show on the middle of the night and jay was the only one who like really had his stuff together and for whom it didn't seem to be a hardship to be up all night to do what we needed to do. >> the place where i saw jay at his absolute best was in new orleans. after katrina. he reported that story with a passion for people who had been abandoned. people who had been forgotten. people who had been left behind. >> i've known jay for many years. and only became a colleague later on in the time

here's ted koppel. >> reporter: itch you have ever wondered where the deer and the antelope still roam, this is it. you know to so many people. looks like he has been riding all his life and bears a striking resemblance to teddy roosevelt, that's bob modell. this is his moon crest ranch, a few miles outside of cody, wyoming. >> boys! hand getting ready to feed the horses. when they head up into the mountains they will be carrying rifles for, protection against wolves and coyotes or to put down a horse that's broken a leg. even down here, a couple of the men carry handguns. >> will you never know when you may need it. >> reporter: it is an enormous piece of land. modell owns 5,000 acres and then there is another 195,000 acres of public land surrounding his ranch. so you are sitting on roughly 200,000 acres of my land. >> i am. >> well you are welcome. i appreciate that. >> i would say to you -- i am a good steward. i use it for grazing my livestock. and -- i am also, a licensed big game outfitter. and -- you're lucky to have me, you know, watching after your land. who don't hunt look ar

i talked a little bit about ted koppel's book, lights out. out. we held a hearing on this. we had james woolsey. the mp commission in 2008 cast your department with a number of quick fixes. they basically reported that there hadn't been a lot on that. we witnessed the unsolved attack on a substation at metcalf. you read about the cyber attack on the power grid system in ukraine. you look at the potential of solar storms and geo- magnetic disturbances. look at north korea. i'm concerned about around. these threats are real. i guess can you just talk about, across the board the infrastructure, particularly particularly the electrical grid which is the number one, electricity's go down and lights go out, were in a in a world of hurt and we have these massive power transforms. doctor garwin, he is a real national treasure. he referred to him as one of the true geniuses he ever met. can you speak to me on what the department has done in terms of the charger were given based on the 2008 commission on critical infrastructure, particularly electrical grid where we had on that? bett

reporting from washington, ted koppel. good evening.old napkins and she's told us how to prune our perennials. but now a new york city jury has told her she will be going to jail. of course, i'm referring to martha stewart, guilty on four counts yesterday. joining me tonight from new york city, stewart case juror chappell hartridge. hey, ted, how you feel? i feel good. mr. hartridge, this deliberation which should have dragged on for weeks took only two days. how did you reach your decision? well, with the quality and the quantity of the information we had before us, we were able to quickly arrive at the conclusion

ted koppel will be showing us. >> this town was founded by and named after william f. cody. known to the world as buffalo bill. there are more guns here on per capita basis in wyoming than anywhere else in the country. and the passion for firearms is ingrained at a young age. >> good job. >> a very young age. families and their guns. here in the town that buffalo bill cody built. >> cowan: we've asked still more of our cbs news colleagues to help with this explore rakes. but here are the headlines the 113th of march, 2016. more pro tests this weekend disrupting campaign rallies for republican presidential candidate, donald trump. >> hope they arrest these people they are really violating all of us, okay? >> cowan: both republicans and democrats face key primaries in florida and ohio this tuesday. in alaska a 6-year-old man is accused of crashing his snowmobile into two iditerod teams after a night of drinking. the mushers were not hurt, but one dog was killed, three others hurt. in the unlikely event you need reminding, daylight saving time took effect early this morning mea

the newest member senior contributor ted koppel offers the view from wyoming. >> if you've ever wondered where the deer and antelope still roam this is it. >> the big fellow who looks like he's been riding all his life and bears a striking resemblance to ted i think roosevelt that's bob and this is his moon crest ranch a few miles outside cody wyoming. those are some of bob's ranch hands getting ready to feed to horses. when they head up to the for protection from wolves, coyotes or taking down a horse that broke his leg. need it. >> that is 5-year-old haylee o'neil with her daddy justin showing her how to thumb back the hammer on her pistol. >> good job. >> she is as sweet as she can be and she's clearing clearly having a good time but some people might say boy five is awful young. >> not at all actually. >> tell me why. >> respect starts now. respect of life. respect of country. respect of game. everything starts now. that all starts when they're impressionable. interesting. should be a good report there. guns is a way of life in cody, wyoming. plus reports of the second amendment deba

i have a question about the contrast between this book and ted koppel's book about the doomsday eventslike the power grid outages. so what are your personal actions you have done to prepare for pandemic or what do you do in your daily life to avoid the epidemic disease? >> i do commonsense things like i keep up with vaccinations and wash my hands because each is different but i do beneath that we live in a microbial world and disease is part of our relationship to nature and this idea that we should live in some kind of a germ free environment and never have it is anomalous if you think about it for the long history of humankind battle with microbes or interactions with microbes we have the first antivirus, and by the 1980s we started having hiv and blind disease and all these pathogens we couldn't treat it that well anymore. that well anymore. so that period of time when we had this sense and this is the period that i grew up and i'm the daughter of two doctors, so

earlier i talked about ted koppel's book "lights out." we had james woolsey in here. the emp commission 2008 tasked your department with a number of i guess call them quick fixes and gao reported we haven't done a whole lot on that. we've witnessed the unsolved attack on electrical substation at metcalf, you read about the cyber attack on the power grid system in the ukraine, look at the potential of solar storms with gino magnetic disturbances. let's look at north korea, we'll see missile technology, nuclear capabiliti capabilities. i'm concerned about iran, the reports they've test fired scud missiles off of ships offshore. these threats are real and can you talk about across the board critical infrastructure, i will say tiparticularly the electric grid the number one. electricity goes down, lights go out, we're in a world of hurt and we have these massive, these large power transformers that dr. richard garwin, senator mow knees when i questioned him in northern relations, he said dr. garwin a national treasure. he was referred to as one of the true geniuses richar

. >> ted koppel on abc news, walter cronkite, america, day 15, day 100, day 200.aring on people. and carter started becoming the symbol of lost american prestige. >> ronald reagan is running officially. he got in the race tonight in new york city at a fund-raising dinner. and he taped a speech yesterday for showing tonight on about 90 independent television stations. >> i'm here tonight to announce my intention to seek the republican nomination for the president of the united states. the crisis we face is not the result of any failure of the american spirit, it's a failure of our leaders. >> the country is looking for optimism, looking for a new dawn, a new beginnings. and ronald reagan epitomized all those things. >> between '76 and '80, reagan's building a coalition bringing in christian fundamentalists, and law and order nixonan people. >> reagan is realizing to sell conservatism you have to diet with a smile. you have got to do it in a way that makes people feel good not scold them. >> we can turn this country around. we can turn our economy around. and the ti

. >> i have sort of a question a contrast between this book in ted koppel's book about doomsday vents like massive power outages. what are your personal actions that you have done to prepare for pandemics or what are you doing your daily life to avoid epidemic disease? >> i do things, keep up with my vaccinations, wash my hands, i tried to stay informed because each pathogen is different. i do. i do believe we live in a microbial world. disease is part of our relationship with nature. this idea that we should live in some kind of germ-free environment and never have this is really anomalous if you think about through the long history of humankind battle with microbes. we had the first antibiotic in the 19 forties, by 1980s we started having hiv and lyme disease, all of these new pathogens came out that we cannot really treat that well anymore. so that. of time when we had this sense, and this is a. of time when i grow up and i'm the daughter to dr. so so i grew up with that feeling that infection, who cares, i'll take anabiotic's it simple. i don't need to live with that, that's not g

koppel's book ted and we held a hearing on this. the empames woolsey -- commission -- i guess you would call them quick fixes. the gfl reported they haven't done a whole lot on that. attackessed the unsolved on an electrical substation and you read about the cyber attack on the power grid system in ukraine. the solar storms and geomagnetic -- let's look at north korea. with ballistic missile technology. there are reports that arendt have tested scud missiles. these threats are real. can you talk about critical infrastructure? oneuld say it is the number . the electricity goes down, the lights go off, we are in a world of hurt. secretarystioned muniz about this, he said dr. richard garvin is a national treasure. he was referred to as one of the few geniuses. expanded beyond just emp and gmd and cyber attack. where are we at on that? better than we were, but there's more to do. everything inwith ted koppel's book but he was right to put a spotlight on the issue. since the earthquake in japan in 2012, there were a lot of lessons learne

i talked about ted koppel's book, lights out. the commission in 2008 pastor department with a number of quick fixes. we witnessed the unsolved attack on a substation in metcalf. he read about the cyber attack on the power grid system in ukraine, take a look at the potential of the solar storms with geomagnetic disturbances. let's look at north korea. ballistic missile technology, nuclear capabilities. i am concerned about iran. these threats are real. can you talk about across-the-board critical infrastructure and particularly the electrical grid which is the number one. we are in a world of hurt and have these large power transforms the doctor richard darwin, secretary of movies said, real national treasure. in ricoh family referred to as one of the true geniuses he has ever met. what is the department done in terms of the charge you have given based on the 2008 e&p commission and expanded beyond just cyber attack. >> better than we were, but there is more to do. >> since the earthquake in japan in 2012 there were a lot of lesso

i'm pretty sure ted koppel has written a book called lights out talking about the vulnerabilities involved in that. that's something we need to do more work on. the fourth priority, what can we do as a committee, as federal government to counter islamic terrorists and other violent extremist? the fifth part priority is commit this committee to do everything we can to assist the secretary as well as james comey and rasmussen in succeeding their mission of keeping this nation safe. what this hearing is all about is the budget hearing. this is providing the funds in what i would consider a top priority of government. i want to really have this hearing and be focusing on those threats and what we can do to keep this safe and secure so america can be prosperous. national security and economic security go hand-in-hand. so i do ask that my written statement be entered into the record. thank you for coming here and thank you for your service. >> thank you mr. chairman. it's great to see you. i want to echo the chairman's comments on thinking you for your leadership. the leadership team is here and

. >> i have sort of a question a contrast between this book in ted koppel's book about doomsday vents like massive power outages. what are your personal actions that you have done to prepare for pandemics or what are you doing your daily life to avoid epidemic disease? >> i do things, keep up with my vaccinations, wash my hands, i tried to stay informed because each pathogen is different. i do. i do believe we live in a microbial world. disease is part of our relationship with nature. this idea that we should live in some kind of germ-free environment and never have this is really anomalous if you think about through the long history of humankind battle with microbes. we had the first antibiotic in the 19 forties, by 1980s we started having hiv and lyme disease, all of these new pathogens came out that we cannot really treat that well anymore. so that. of time when we had this sense, and this is a. of time when i grow up and i'm the daughter to dr. so so i grew up with that feeling that infection, who cares, i'll take anabiotic's it simple. i don't need to live with that, that's not g