political analyst, john heilemann, of "new york" magazine, and nbc news special correspondent, tom brokaw. tom, going into the debate tonight, rick santorum was trying to protect a national lead in the polls, and most importantly, most immediately, possibly, his lead in michigan. did you see anything in the dynamics of this debate tonight that you think could effect where those polls are going? >> well, it was a 15-rounder, and they were all standing at the end. obviously, santorum now is going to be the target of opportunity who's going to the movement tonight with ron paul on one side of him and governor romney on the other side. i thought that governor romney had a pretty good night. i don't like to declare winners and losers here, but call balls and strikes. and santorum was spending a lot of time defending his record in the senate by saying, look, i didn't have any other choice but to support arlen specter, you know, as an appropriations bill. a lot of bill was about explaining away positions that he had supported, that on the campaign trail, he opposes. whether that nicked him or no

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are with us along with michael steele in washington and tom brokaw joins the table. being onboard this morning. >> tom, you don't want to overstay the result of an election. but it seems to me last night, right now with you onset, i'm going back through the years. and this michigan win from mitt romney i would suggest is every bit as important as george w. bush's win in south carolina back in 2000. remember george w. bush's win in new hampshire after coming in third in iowa back in '88. this is a race mitt romney couldn't afford to lose. >> ronald reagan's win in new hampshire. >> exactly. >> beat in iowa by george bush. this is an important race for him, but it's clear this is going to the convention in one form of the other. i think romney should have the delegates by the time he gets there. the comparison in my mind is 1996, there are still a lot of peasants with pitch forks out there. and they're going to show up in tampa bay. and that could become an issue for the republican party. and that's something they're going to have to start to deal with. if romney gets t

tom brokaw demanding mitt romney stop using his likeness. is it legal. sarah palin will be here to opine on all the negative campaigning. we hope you stay tuned to those reports. >> bill: in is the is it legal segment tonight, tom brokaw demanding that mitt romney stop using this ad. >> good evening. newt gingrich came to power after all preach ago higher standard in american politics. a man who brought down another speaker on ethics accusations. tonight, he has on his own record the judgment of his piers, democrat and republic alike by an overwhelming vote, they found him guilty of ethics violations. they charged him a very large financial penalty and they raised several of them raised serious questions about his future effectiveness. >> i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. >> bill: here now attorneys and fox news analysts kimberly guilfoyle and lis wiehl. does brokaw have the law on his side? can he take legal action against the romney campaign. >> he does not have law on his side. they could argue copyright infringement nbc well brokaw. somethi

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. >> mitt romney -- [ speaking spanish ] >> reporter: even enlisting tom brokaw, when he was reprimanded and fined by his colleagues in the house of representatives. >> tonight he has on his own record the judgment of his peers. >> reporter: it all worked and newt knew it even as he vowed to fight on. >> and we're going to have people power defeat money power in the next six months. >> reporter: so what happened here and more importantly, what comes next? we hit the road on the final day on the campaign trail in florida. and what we found crisscrossing the state from jacksonville to tampa and back to orlando -- >> thank you. >> reporter: -- was that in florida size matters. it's a huge state and romney had a huge hoard of cash to spend. heart matters too. >> thank you so much. >> thank you so much. >> reporter: in jacksonville, monday morning, only a paltry few gingrich supporters turned out in a hotel conference room. but they love him in a way you rarely see with romney voters. >> did you like coming out here today? yeah, why? >> because i like newt. >> reporter: you like newt. that's

tom brokaw was apparently a sucker for these stories. my character-- . >> stephen: three whales are trapped it in the arctic ic ice-- this should really be a movie. now what-- (applause) and this got huge, like international governments got involved. >> the amazing thing, my character who say greenpeace advocate just fights and fights and fights and goes to the government level to get these ice barge breakers from the national guard to break through. and the oil companies see there is an opportunity for them to like look better. and bring their barges in. and then all of a sudden that's not working so that they've got to call, you know, the white house who gets involved because they want to elect bush from the reagan administration. >> stephen: bush 1. >> who has a terrible environmental record, all of them. >> stephen: he's a friend, watch out. >> and then the white house wants to look good from this, so they start, you know, doing whatever they can. and before you know it, you know, my character is saying look you've got to bring in th

next monday, november 21, tom brokaw, nbc news correspondent and author, will discuss the current mood of america. this will be a program starting at 1:00 p.m. at the santa clara convention center. on tuesday, november 29, paula kerger, who is president of pbs, and the president of kqed will discuss the challenges facing public broadcasting and how the challenges impact our program choices. this will be a 6:00 p.m. program here in san francisco at the commonwealth club. it is my pleasure to extend a special welcome to any new members of the commonwealth club who are here today. we know you are going to enjoy your membership and look forward to seeing you often. if you are not a member yet, today is a great time to join. if you have questions, the staff will be available to answer them after the program. there are question cards at your table for director muller, and these will, of course, the collected during the program. the commonwealth club, as you know, is a nonpartisan organization. we do ask that our speakers be allowed to make their remarks without interruption. we encourage the

then at christmas time i got one check for $100 from tom brokaw and then i saw my climbing ger and i sold it and i sold my car for $500 that i got from my grandfather in a seedy area in oakland. by string i o spring i had only $2,400. my mother invited me to come and talk to the kids. when i got ready to leave, a fourth grader named jeffery looked me in the aye and he said i've got a piggy bank at home and i'm going to help you build that school. west side school raised 65, 300 pennies. it wasn't the celebrities or the sports heroes or movie stars or if i lan throw pears but children reaching out to children half way around the world to help them build a school. what can you buy with a penny the bay area? probably nothing. in montana you can buy 1/2 tootsie roll. but in afghanistan you can buy a pencil. it's not that's so important but education gives a child hope. you know, if you fight tear riz her rorism it's based in fear but the real enemy is ignorance that bleeds hatred. here in america, afghanistan, africa or pakistan. the way to overcome that i think is through education and

i think what we're going to see in this cycle, nbc will be angry if i call it the tom brokaw ad. it was, and i think we're going to see more ads like that or more ads of candidates speaking in their own words. not so much the creative wizardry or cool graphics or those sorts of things, what we saw in the virginia race six years ago, the macaca moment. we have all these cameras here. but as sort a time ago as 2000, presidential candidates were going events which were not recorded, where there was no video there. there is now house candidate, senate candidate, presidential candidate is doing an event no matter how small, that is not being recorded by someone, whether it's on their iphone or something else. we're going to start seeing those things come into our advertising. >> a republican said it used to be against the rules to directly have the candidate attack his opponent by name and face in the ad, but they're getting much more, using each other's words directly and confrontationly. there were two instances i came across where they not only have tractors that were following the

and i see your colleague, tom brokaw. that's what i wanted to get into. i love politics.rina response. i see people talking about fema. i read about president bush and his budget cuts. that gets my juices going. >> and in prison, he's discovered a captive audience for his brand of political punditry. >> i have a subscription to "usa today" and i have a line. i let everybody read it. i write little comments. you'd be surprised, we discuss things in here. everything in prison is not just violence or gangs. we discuss issues. people are surprised the conversations we have in here, you know what i'm saying? >> he tried out some spin in response to an unexpected line of questioning from our producer on the pin-ups decorating his cell. >> are these all your girlfriends? >> in another lifetime. most of them come out of "xxl" magazine. minority based magazines. kind of like "maxim." hip hop minority community. get tired of looking at gray walls all day. they're not nude, albeit scantily. >> they're very artistic, marcus. it's nice you represent minorities, but it's not so nice ab

plus tom brokaw says politics is subject to ufos. this year's wild card may be in the middle east where syria, iran, and egypt have the potential to scramble the election in ways we can't predict. if you thought that clint eastwood halftime in america ad looked like a pro-obama ad, you're not alone. >> this country can't be knocked out in one punch. we get back up again. yeah. it's halftime america. our second half is about to begin. chrysler saying thank you for the bailout. carl rove says he was offended by the ad. >>> and it's not going to be about who he is running against. it's how he's doing. we start with president obama saying he deserves a second term. he's voted. david corn is the washington bureau chief and an msnbc political analyst. bob shrum, that new poll is president impressive. the president is at 50% approval. 46% disapprove. how do you as a skilled reader of such numbers view that number? 50% for the president. back up to basically a high point for him. back up to when he killed osama bin laden. and pretty much hig

bachmann saying his advise was to break them apart but he failed to show that and he showed a clip of tom brokawng about equityics which has been repudiated by the i.r.s. and the federal judge but he for get to show that so the ads are explicitly false. >>neil: thank you very much. it is looking like a "go," for facebook i.p.o. about to go if unin a multi billion dollar offering and it could be a pretty good friend to president obama in an election year. and in other words, if this company goes public now or partly public now, that means the president is doing, what? >>guest: well, i think obviously mark zuckerberg decided to take the company public and he obviously thinks that the economy is going to be doing better or this would not be a good time to take the again public. so hopefully it means that true and people will invest and make money. >>neil: but companies that is gone public in the past, 2004 was dicey when google did the same thing, and the environment i think of it has little to do with it. don't you think? >>guest: at worst, it has little to do with it. i agree. and at best, it is

a news reporter shot it and tom brokaw put it on nbc.me the presidential election came around to due caulk cass and bush, the whales were a bigger story. and mikhail gorbachev called in a favor during the cold war. and the favor was to use an ice breaker. is everybody crying? i thought so. [ cheers and applause ] yeah. so, if you hate whales, don't go see it. >> jimmy: everybody loves whales. >> oh, boy. here we go. >> jimmy: you shot this in alaska, i know that. where did you shoot it? >> anchorage. >> jimmy: anchorage. >> which is awesome. alaska is -- has anybody been to alaska. >> jimmy: it's cold, i hear. >> it is. when i got up there it was like 55 degrees. like, this is nothing. and when it drops, it drops. like 17 below. >> jimmy: in the daytime, it's 55? >> when i got in november, it was 55. and two weeks later, it was 17 below. that's crazy. >> jimmy: that's terrible, right? >> i'm from boston. i know cold weather. but that's aggressive cold. that's cold in your face, a lot. but the interesting thing is, to stay warm, you do a

. >> you talked to my colleague, tom brokaw, and you said they were on a suicide mission, and what you were referring to? >> the recklessness with regard to iran. have there been no lessons learned? obama took over the country after it was in a gigantic mess, and now we're on the road to recovery, and what we're looking at is a reasonable man versus reckless man, and that's really becoming very evident through the republican primaries. >> how do you react to senator santorum's view of obama and the higher education? >> that's not how i would frame it. everybody should have a right to go to college and we should have technical training like they do in germany, and i would also emphasize, which mr. santorum doesn't, apprentice programs for sheet metal workers, i would like to see more of that and that takes union and management cooperation, something the republican candidates seem very hostile to. >> and let me move to the issue of immigration. 34 years ago to the day you were on "meet the press," and we could not find the tape for it, but we had something that you said about immigration

. >> tom brokaw. interesting night. he just spoke to reporters.called him an economic lightweight. we'll talk about that. plus we're rocking the vote with our super tuesday panel next. but first, white house clip of the day on this super tuesday. loaded potato. you're watching "the daily rundown" only on msnbc. if there was a pill to help protect your eye health as you age... would you take it? well, there is. [ male announcer ] it's called ocuvite. a vitamin totally dedicated to your eyes, from the eye-care experts at bausch + lomb. as you age, eyes can lose vital nutrients. ocuvite helps replenish key eye nutrients. [ male announcer ] ocuvite has a unique formula not found in your multivitamin to help protect your eye health. now, that's a pill worth taking. [ male announcer ] ocuvite. help protect your eye health. >>> well t it's primary day. mitt romney not mincing words when it comes the to attacking rick santorum. he spoke to reporters, and without mentioning santorum, he certainly drew a contest. >> it's very easy to excite the base with co

we also still have tickets on sale for later in the fall for events with newsman jim lehrer and tom brokaw and joan didion among other events so for more information about our fall event series you can email us at harvardbookstore.com. we will have time for questions from the audience. as this evening's event is being recorded, i would ask if you have a question, you just wait for the audience mic to come to you before you ask it. and i also want to take this moment to remind you to please turn off or silence your cell phone or other electronic devices. it's now my pleasure to introduce this evening's speaker, david kennedy. mr. kennedy is a professor of criminal justice at john j. college as well as director for the center of crime prevention and control. a self-taught criminal nollist he helped engineer the boston miracle in the 1990s by bringing together law enforcement, community leaders and drug traders to cut down on street. violence in boston neighborhoods. his work has been adapted for cities across the country. and has earned him enormous awards into two innovations american gover

journalist and author tom brokaw is 72. >>> gun control actists sarah brady is 70.natalie cole is 62. guns and roses front man axle rose is 50. he was mr. kim kardashian for a few weeks. nba player herb humphries is 27. my lovely wife, maggie, we don't have a picture of her, it is her birthday. happy birthday, maggie. never in my lifetime did i think i could walk 60 miles in 3 days. 60 miles in 3 days is-- is huge. if my mom can fight and beat breast cancer, i can walk 60 miles. you just put one foot in front of the other, and you know that you're walking for such a great cause that you just keep going. (man) that you have all these people coming together for one common goal. (woman) the goal is to bring an end to breast cancer. (woman) the fund-raising was the easiest part. people were very giving. complete strangers wanting to help. if i can do this, you definitely can do this. (woman) i'll never stop walking, not till we find a cure. (woman) and it has to end, but it starts with us. i knew someday i was gonna do this walk. it is the most rewarding experience i ha

drives a couple of cadillacs, and the problem connecting that 1% saying that this is why i love tom brokaw so much, and this is from "morning joe" this morning. >> at a certain point in our lives we are who we are. and the chances off me going on the stage with 50 cent as a rapper is not going to happen. >> and you know, to the point, jonathan, how do you take mitt romney who is what he is and make him this likable every man? >> well, maybe he has to be more true to himself. we all know he is a rich man, and we all know that he comes from and born and raised into wealth. he comes from a wellny baalthy background and he has to find a way to be at peace with who he is and at peace on the campaign trail and to the point where ohioans want to have someone come to the dinner table and talk the issues with them, rick santorum can do that, but i wonder if the same people in ohio would like the same sort of anger-filled rick santorum that we have seen on the campaign trail. sure people invite people into their homes to sit around and talk about the issues, but the moment that the guest is crazy an