>> it's me, your friend tom brokaw. nightly news. >> jon: yeah. >> don't be distracted by juveniles gossip. stick to the romney story. (laughter) >> jon: you're right news angel tom brokaw. >> hey, snoopy, don't listen to that knuckle head. you're a comic. it's a story about a guy name add weiner's weener. once in a lifetime. >> jon: dammit comedy rickems true. but he is my friend. >> comedians don't have friends. they have ex-wifes and irritable bowel syndrome. >> remember the core, facts, truth and -- >> weiner's weaner. >> fact, true, just. >> weiner's weaner. >> facts-- truth, justice. >> weiner's weaner. >> jon: let's do this. all right, fine. ♪ oh yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ i knew you'd change your mind ♪ ♪. >> jon: do we have to the full politician sex scandal full singer blowout? ♪ a guy named weiner ♪ tweeted a picture of his w weaner ♪ ♪. >> jon: he's my friend. >> what if it were senator scrotum ♪ ♪. >> jon: that's just --. >> comptroller campbell's-- . >> jon: i would probably do that story. >> . >> jon: that would

. >> this is "nbc news lightly news" with tom brokaw. reporting tonight from nbc news headquarters in new york. >> good evening. no one wanted this presidential campaign to get sidetracked by stories of an extramarital afar, but tonight that's exactly what's happened as a result of allegations against arkansas governor bill clinton. widely regarded to be the leading democratic candidate until last week. the issue is, who's lying? clinton or the woman who today made her charges public? andrea mitchell is covering the story for us tonight. >> tom, bill clinton had hoped that his appearance on "60 minutes" last night would end further questions about his personal life. that was wishful thinking. at an elementary school in jackson, mississippi, this morning it was a first question a reporter asked. >> i'm done with this. i've said i should say. >> last night. >> i have acknowledged wrong doing. i have acknowledged causing pain in my marriage. i have said things to you tonight and to the american people from the beginning that no american pol

i really do think well, but compared to before when we had to trust walter cronkite and tom brokaw and other white guys to tell us what the news is, but now we can see what the news is. if we choose to let people do that for us, it's our fault, but we have more options now and the tools are in our hands. >> we have to build the tools or trust twitter, facebook, and google to transmit what's actually happening. >> right. another question. >> hi. i was thinking when the both of you were talking about learning programming in school, and for what it's worth, i'm in my 20s and learned basic in 7th grade. i thought about this one level of extraction and thinking about school and just the way you go from year to year at a very industrial age sort of mechanism, and i was wondering if you were aware of different things like, i think you called it see, click, fix, things like that in the marketplace that are thinking about how to address education in a more digital way, the thinking being that hopefully if education evolves a level, maybe our political discourse will evolve a level as well. >> w

this is tom brokaw is one of the movies behind this movie. i went to a screening. like horses okay. >> but jay loves them. >> yes, that's buck. >> you hung out with buck. >> i love buck. this is a story about a guy who had a very kind of tortured childhood, who raised horses. it's a story chock-full of life lessons. i like one of the things he says is he talks about his abused childhood. here's what i learned about life, you can't live in two places at once. you can't live there and here. so pick one. i love the way he sees life. >> be present. >> he was a huge inspiration for the "horse whisperer." >> yes, he was. >> you remember the wonderful robert redford movie. and scarlet johanssen was in it. >> we have some guests in our audience we want to say hello to, our wonderful producer's mom is here. hanging out with tammy. >> this is tammy's mother, tammy's mom, visiting from arizona. it was her baby girl's first birthday the other day and my friend rebecca from ocean reef, florida, who does the world's greatest facials at her salon called rejuvenations and that's h