would it help if i talked about my pac in a tom brokaw voice [tom brokaw voice [the pac is effecting012 election. sound good? >> sounds gow>> stephen: do i ge thing? i want the thing everybody else has? i want the shiny candy colored media skefpls. >> you can to the federal election commission and askwwihr an advisory opinion. >> stephen: how do i do that? >> your lawyers would draft. >> stephen: you are my lawyer. do that. >> you you would ask me to draft you a letter. >> stephen: trevor draft me a letter. >> i have done that. >> stephen: this is like one of those cooking shows where they have the cake already baked. [laughter] we got a letter asking to give me the media exemption and then i could talk about my superpac and do anything i wanted as long as i did it like news. >> right. >> stephen: we give this to them. how long does it take? up to 60 days legally. they could do it quicker. >> stephen: it's a long time. >> it is but it's a government agency. >> stephen: what happens if they say no to me. if they say no, you could go ahead with your superpac but your pac would be discl

tom brokaw haze the report tonight.ften said gerald ford was the right man at the right time for a wounded nation reeling from watergate. >> our long national nightmare is over. >> reporter: being the right man at the right time started early for gerald ford. in 1934, he was a starting center for the university of michigan football team and close friends with the only black player of the team, a gifted athlete named willis ward. >> back then, you were subject to being ostracized if you became too involved with blacks. tlatd was a test to jerry despite that. he was a man even though he was only 17 years old. >> in 1974, the visiting georgia tech team refused to take the team if michigan started ward. steven ford, the president's youngest son, said his father was outraged that michigan would bench his friend. >> he wrote his father in grand rapids, said he would make a stand and not play in the game. >> but willis ward persuaded him to play in the game, anyway. >> he said, you're captain of the team. i'll sit out. i appre

. >> tom brokaw with the first lady, joining forces. ♪ sit a spell ♪ it will take about an hour ♪ i'llall a story about me and matt lauer ♪ >>> a rock 'n' roll legend lets loose and lets down that hair. turns out this so-called demon side. >> it broke my heart. i cried like a baby. >> slip-ups both off and on stage. >> have you considered that they were a little embarrassed, steven? >> i was on my knees. >> a look at the life of an "american idol." a wild afternoon and wardrobe advice. >> you don't think you could get away with that? >> i know i couldn't get away with that. >> matt lauer talks to steven tyler. >>> there's that kind of wedding. and then there's this. this is a movie featuring two women, who are best friends on stage and off. >> we used to be friends. >> until -- >> something happened. >> josh mankiewicz with "bridesmaids." >>> plans for congresswoman gabby giffords to watch the final launch of the space shuttle "endeavour" with her husband mark kelly in command are on hold. the congresswoman was to watch the launch just months after being critically wounded in that shoo

. >> reporte >>> our thanks to tom brokaw, and chandler friends should know his statue is back at the state capitol in michigan. thank you for being here with us. programming note, tomorrow they run for the roses. kentucky derby ng

then he came over here and did the very same thing when tom brokaw was in this chair. jeff loved politics, went to work for george mcgovern briefly, but the pull of covering space shots, conventions, elections, wars, and revolutions just proved too much, so he went right back to the news business. he was at my side on election nights and most recently was a special consultant to our news division president steve capus. we found a quote from jeff today which is kind of perfect. "always demand what is right and never accept second best." jeff gralnick was a fixer, a teacher, a taskmaster, a leader, a husband, a parent, and a friend. he was 72 years old. we'll be back in a moment with tonight's "making a difference" report. >>> finally tonight, with the economy in the tank lately, few cities have had it worse than detroit. the proud motor city where the population is actually shrinking with entire neighborhoods left abandoned. it's hard enough for the people left there to fend for themselves, but what about those they leave behind with no voice of their own? now some folk

as i reflected on su's comment and tom brokaw's comment and i looked at the fact that the vietnamese between 1945 and 1975 fought and defeated the japanese, the french, the americans, the cambodianss and the chinese, finally i came to realize that our biggest shortcoming in not knowing our enemy was knowing that we were probably fighting their greatest generation. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. thank you, colonel zumwalt, and thank you for your service as well. >> thank you. >> we'll open up the session to questions and answers, and i think we have microphones available. anyone with a question? >> thank you, gentlemen, for coming here today and speaking to us. >> thank you. >> over the years i've heard a lot about the destruction of viet cong's infrastructure during tet and mini tet, and a lot about the perception that was created in the united states by tet and mini tet. i was wondering if you two could both -- do you have any idea of what the perception might have been from particularly the south vietnamese people's per sective -- perspective and the viet cong and north seat v

tom brokaw interviewed the president musharraf of back stan. he said to go after him would destabilize the country of pakistan, a crucial ally. sometimes a difficult ally, but an ally in a region and a fight. general petraeus said it took him four weeks to get out a congratulatory message or condolence message, showing how far buried he was in the mountainous region of pakistan. and as i turn to general barry mccaffrey as well. general, it was general petraeus who said back in august that he still thought that bin laden remained an iconic figure, he told me. he thought killing or capturing bin laden was very, very important for all of those engaged in counterterrorism around the world. and now tonight, president obama will announce to the country and the world that the united states has killed him. are you with us? >> david, it strikes me that this is not nearly as important news in the united states for our armed forces, but the police and intelligence services of the european nations, of saudi arabia, of pakistan. this is a threat that had tr

tom brokaw interviewed the president musharraf of back stan. he said to go after him would destabilize the country of pakistan, a crucial ally. sometimes a difficult ally, but an ally in a region and a fight. general petraeus said it took him four weeks to get out a congratulatory message or condolence message, showing how far buried he was in the mountainous region of pakistan. and as i turn to general barry mccaffrey as well. general, it was general petraeus who said back in august that he still thought that bin laden remained an iconic figure, he told me. he thought killing or capturing bin laden was very, very important for all of those engaged in counterterrorism around the world. and now tonight, president obama will announce to the country and the world that the united states has killed him. are you with us? >> david, it strikes me that this is not nearly as important news in the united states for our armed forces, but the police and intelligence services of the european nations, of saudi arabia, of pakistan. this is a threat that had tr

i'm live at ground zero joined by nbc's tom brokaw.avid gregory joins us, the moderator of "meet the press" as does the washington d.c. bureau chief forle al-arabia. good morning to you. tom, i want to take you to september 14, 2001 when president bush stood on the rubble here and said, i hear you and soon the people who brought down these buildings will hear us all. it took ten years to bring osama bin laden to justice. >> last night i got ale call giving me a heads up and i said, i need to know more. he said, it's somebody we have been looking for for a long time. if you think about it, it has been ten years. the real issue this morning, matt, is how much influence does osama bin laden still have on the movement? obviously it's an enormous victory for the united states to get rid of this man who brought not only pain and grief to this country but to the islamic world as well in terms of what he triggered. i do know more about the operation at this point. the compound is large with a lot of buildings. they thought they know the buildi

they were introduced by tom brokaw, as you know, the former anchor of nbc nightly news and they had quite the story book romance and the storybook life that many people had been following in the tabloids and, of course, here in california. now, unfortunately, their relationship is going through quite a tough time. >> who is now living in the home? where is maria living now? >> reporter: no idea. this is where the couple has lived through the duration of his gubernatorial term. it was even something that during the last election in 2008 he joked about that on the exterior of their home they had not only a campaign sign for obama but also a campaign sign for the mccains because famously, you know, she is a daughter of the kennedy family and he is a republican. so it was kind of a marriage of opposites. but yeah, at this point, we don't really know. that's something we night spend the morning trying to track down and trying to figure out. but they did say very clearly that neither they -- they won't be speaking about this. their family and friends won't be talking about this and they are hop

why did not katie couric but why did dan rather, tom brokaw and peter jennings and "the new york times" played ball with this takedown of clarence thomas? i called it the democratic media complex. after clarence thomas bill clinton was named the standard bearer of the democratic party when the year before they were telling us that a very close threshold of sexual harassment, then you have bill clinton whose behavior in the workplace was deplorable by even the liberal -- >> host: in your book you said they came to his rescue. >> guest: they came to his rescue and the admitted they did it for abortion policy. they admit it now, but that's why they went after clarence thomas. and so i called it the democratic media complex. >> host: use it much more in your book. he said they found an opening, in fact in changing the conversation and manipulating the american people along the words come and this isn't really but -- it's about the power of the structure. >> guest: it was about the power structure in the work place that you don't understand what it's like for a woman to exist in the workpla

why did dan rather, tom brokaw and thomas jennings play ball with this take down of clarence thomas? i call it the democratic media complex. a year later after clarence thomas, bill clinton was named the standard bearer of the democratic party when a year before they told us a very low threshold of sexual harassment, and then bill clinton's behavior in the workplace was deplorable by now liberal -- >> host: they saved him. >> guest: they came to his rescue and admitted they did it for abortion politics. they admit it now. that's they went after -- went after clarence thomas. >> host: you said they found an opening, and in fact, engaged in a conversation and ma manipulating the american people on what sex is and it's not about sex, but the power of the structures. >> guest: it was about the power structure in the workplace that you just don't understand what a woman is like in a workplace. it was the same stuff that the professor was talking about. it's the same stuff that was taught in the 1940s, the 1950s, a bunch of european gentlemen cultural marxist who fled nazi germany and ital

tom brokaw was on and we did a call in and a guy called from my home state and the first thing he said going to vote for president obama. i wasn't before but he's done it well now. i'm going to vote for him. >> is this a game changer? >> without question. it's a critical battle field, foreign policy, where the president was seen to be vulnerable because he hadn't had military service and he has done something here to organize the unity of americans around this particular goal and interest and i think people see him in a different light. they begin to see him as more executive commander, a person in charge. if you saw that brilliant piece you played when john mccain is debating him and he said teddy roosevelt talk softly and walk with a big stick and here he is found to be roosevelt like. >> colonel, what about getting osama bin laden's hard drive? we may be seeing the benefits of this raid for years to come. or is that a bridge too far? what do you think? >> well, i think if they did get something like that, that's probably pretty good. i would prefer that they had gotten zawari at the

why did -- not katie couric but tom brokaw and peter jennings play ball with the takedown of clarencehomas. bill clinton was named the standard bearer of the democratic party and whose behavior in the workplace was deplorable -- >> host: but in your book they came to his rescue. >> guest: they came they come his rescue and they said they did it for abortion politics. they admit they did it for abortion politics. and that's why they went after thomas. i call it -- >> host: no, you said much more in your book. you said they found an opening, in fact, in changing the conversation in manipulating the american people what sex is and it's really not about sex. it's about the power structure. >> guest: it's about the power structure of the workplace that you don't understand what's it's like for a woman to exist in the workplace. it's the same thing michael eric dyson was talking about and the same stuff noam chomsky was talking about. it's the same this that was taught in the 1940s, 1950s, a bunch of european gentlemen who were cultural marxist who came here who fled nazi germany and mussol

. >> rose: tom brokaw who urged me to read this book and urged me to have eric on the show says abouthis ok, meet my hero eric greitens, the heart and fist are just the combination that we need. thank you an good luck. >> thank you vermuch. >> rose: michael spence is here. he is a nobel pre winning economist, he is a forme former-- formedean of standford's business school, currently a professor at the stern school of business at nyu. his latest book is you will cad the next convergence, the future of economic growth in a multispeed world. i'm pleased to have him here at this table for the first time. welcome. >> thank you, charlie. >> rose: the next convergence means what? >> it means a good chunk of the developing world over a century long process will be more like us, advanced countries, high income and so o >> rose: but it's interesting that the industrial revolution, i'm getting this from the book, the industrial revolution which has had, what, began, in the 1750, continues into the next century. >> absolutely. >> rose: and it then converges about what the emerging nationses are doin

the idea was that there needed -- we needed to capture the voices of people like -- people like tom brokaw with "the greatest generation" and stephen ambrose with the book on d-day. there was this idea of people, like the people calling in today, and make sure you get your reminiscence recorded at a local library or something. it is like imagining we get that tape recordings of people at gettysburg -- we could have that tape recordings of people at gettysburg. people are dying off in that generation, in their 80s and 90s now, and at this point we are looking at will war ii -- world war ii veterans as survivors of that generation. host: that caller talked about his experience in the pacific theater. it seems in many ways that your it seems to get a block of the press. -- europe seems to get the bulk of the price. guest: fdr's first objective was to win europe. only in recent years has it wore a scholarship caught up -- war scholarship caught up, not the least being that we are a western civilization, judeo- christian society. many americans had a background of dutch ancestry, or german or e

the idea was that there needed -- we needed to capture the voices of people like -- people like tom brokaw greatest generation" and stephen ambrose with the book on d-day. there was this idea of people, like the people calling in today, and make sure you get your reminiscence recorded at a local library or something. it is like imagining we get that tape recordings of people at gettysburg -- we could have that tape recordings of people at gettysburg. people are dying off in that generation, in their 80s and 90s now, and at this point we are looking at will war ii -- world war ii veterans as survivors of that generation. host: that caller talked about his experience in the pacific theater. it seems in many ways that your it seems to get a block of the press. -- europe seems to get the bulk of the price. guest: fdr's first objective was to win europe. only in recent years has it wore a scholarship caught up -- war scholarship caught up, not the least being that we are a western civilization, judeo- christian society. many americans had a background of dutch ancestry, or german or english. th

the idea was that there needed -- we needed to capture the voices of people like -- people like tom brokaw with "the grtest generation" and stephen ambrose with the book on d-day. there was this idea of people, like the people calling in today, and make sure you get your reminiscence recorded at a local library or something. it is like imagining we get that tape recordings of people at gettysburg -- we could have that tape recordings of people at gettysburg. people are dying off in that generation, in their 80s and 90s now, and at this point we are looking at will war ii -- world war ii veterans as survivors of that generation. host: that caller talked about his experience in the pacific theater. it seems in many ways that your it seems to get a block of the press. -- europe seems get the bulk of the price. guest: fdr's first objective was to win europe. only in recent years has it wore a scholarship caught up -- war scholarship caught up, not the least being that we are a western civilization, judeo- christian society. many americans had a background of dutch ancestry, or german or englis

the idea was that there needed -- we needed to capture the voices of people like -- people like tom brokaw with "the greatest generation" and stephen ambrose with the book on d-day. there was this idea of people, like the people calling in today, and make sure you get your reminiscence recorded at a local library or something. it is like imagining we get that tape recordings of people at gettysburg -- we could have that tape recordings of people at gettysburg. people are dying off in that generation, in their 80s and 90s now, and at this point we are looking at will war ii -- world war ii veterans as survivors of that generation. host: that caller talked about his experience in the pacific theater. it seems in many ways that your it seems to get a block of the press. -- europe seems to get the bulk of the price. guest: fdr's first objective was to win europe. only in recent years has it wore a scholarship caught up -- war scholarship caught up, not the least being that we are a western civilization, judeo- christian society. many americans had a background of dutch ancestry, or german or e