i don't see a scandal there i see a turf war. >> bill: tom brokaw is probably left wing of you. he is to the left of you. said hey, you have got to tell me who ordered rice to go out there and mislead the world. are you with tom on that? are you demanding that? >> no. >> bill: you are not? >> i'm telling you jim clapper the director of national intelligence. the director of the counter terrorism people here in washington, you know, general petraeus. you know, leon panetta, i could go on. mike mullen, the head of the joint chiefs of staff, they have all said the same thing. they said this before the election. you can't say it's about politics. >> bill: they all haven't said the same thing, juan. >> he they have all said before the election this was a terror attack. >> >> juan: he said it was a taste attack on the record before the election. it's not political, bill. the final point i would make to you when it comes to this whole idea that mostly cloudy is to blame and admiral pickerring. >> bill: pickerring didn't do miss job. >> let me tell you by he didn't do his job. >> bill:

. >> tom brokaw of nbc news came here two weeks ago for a program about our new jfk exhibit creating camelot. tom took the time to speak about two things. the first was to salute the career of his friend al neuharth, tom brokaw also took the time to speak of engel. despite that being a praise, it is an understatement. richard is now the chief correspondent for nbc news. his face has become indelibly associated with 100,000 american viewers with coverage of the iraq war. with the arab spring and the tumultuous scenes in egypt, libya, and syria. he has 17 news and documentary emmys and is the winner of a special citation for his personal video diary of the iraq war. even these laurels do not get the full story of the self-madeu ly one for the history books. winston churchill said history would be kind to him. he intended to write it. richard did the same. not that he needed any action kindness. -- extra kindness. he wrote his first book about his life before and after the iraq war. the book drew praise from chris matthews of msnbc, saying "this is hemingway country." he struggled with d

he sat down with nbc's tom brokaw at the national world war ii museum in new orleans. >> it is one oft stories in the history of humanity. and it is a story ultimately about humanity. the individuals are invariably men with feet of clay, which makes them more interesting. >> here at the world war ii museum i met a member of the 82nd airborne, he said for four days he said we felt alone. >> things didn't go according to plan. they rarely do in airborne operations. it took them a better part of the week to either get captured, get killed or make their way into some sort of cohesive unit. >> very quickly just off the beach it becomes really primal warfare. >> there's a lot of atrocity in normandy and something we don't like to think about because we don't like to think of our soldiers committing atrocities but the germans were brutal from the beginning and it created a cycle of atrocity and reprisal that went on until 1945. >> and the french civilians in that part of france to a degree that no one really appreciated for a long, long time took enormous casualties, terrible suffering. >> t

in early november tom brokaw travels to berlin to report on the political situation. >> i went because good story. it was this kind of percolating situation. it was simmering. and you could feel it was going to boil over. >> the giant imposing berlin wall splits the city in two. >> the wall was this sinister symbol of the division between east and west. when you went to see it in person, i'd been there several times before, you could never adequately convey the coldness of it on camera. it was this ominous piece of slab of concrete. and we knew obviously about all the people who had paid for their lives trying to get over it. >> the day after arriving in berlin brokaw attends a press conference called by the minister of information for the east german republic, a man named gunter schabowski. >> the room was about half asleep at the time, and then he read this statement from the politburo that all citizens of the gdr would be able to leave and return. and it was as if it had arrived from the moon. did we hear what we thought we'd heard? >> nbc news arranges for brokaw to interview schab

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joining the panel now is nbc's tom brokaw. thank you so much for being on the show, my friend.loyment, 18 to 29, 11.7%, called the boomerage generation because a quarter of american adults between 18 and 30 still live at home with their parents. you said we're an innovative generation, apps, quick moving, quick thinking but this is an awfully hard brick wall that's been put in front of this generation. >> ther's no question about that and i think that's an innovative idea that senator warren has. the larger question is, what do you get for the money you spend on education. that's what we all have to be addressing. lot of young people have compiled extraordinary debt, come out of college with a degree in physical education or math times two. >> irish dance studies. >> what do they get for that? i think we have to have a complete reevaluation of how we prepare this next generation for the realities of the world that they're about to inherit. you're seeing a lot of effort now going into community colleges for example. not everyone is destined to go to a four-year institution. you

you've said with apologies to my friend, tom brokaw, "the greatest generation label is nonsen nonsensehich is not said in a way to tear this generation down at all but to make a broader point. >> well, it's true. and you know, tom has been wonderful in promoting our understanding of the war and the generation and sort of organizing our collective gratitude. but my point is that, first of all, which generation are we talking about, the generation of leaders? george marshall, born in 1880, george patten born in 1885, dwight eisenhower born in 1890, or the trigger-pullers, mostly born in the 1910s, 1920s, my father born in 1924. so, there are at least two generations involved. and secondly, greater than the founding fathers? greater than the civil war generation? there's a relative order of merit, i suppose. i think that acknowledging what they did and acknowledging that they all have enormous feet of clay and they all have festistitudes and affirmities, as we all do, and yet as a whole, they managed to overcome those to do what needs to be done in world war ii, that's extraordinary. and

. >>> another kind of milestone tonight for our own tom brokaw. in rochester, minnesota, tom received an honorary doctor of letters degree at today's commencement ceremony for the mayo clinic college of medicine. he was cited for a distinguished career in journalism and his dedication to public service. it was the first time the mayo clinic has awarded an honorary degree. >>> and up next, trying to save a piece of presidential history. >>> finally, it was once the pride of a president, a gleaming ship of state that served as a floating white house. today, it is still in the water, but just barely. our story tonight from jim maceda in italy. >> reporter: this man is spending his golden years trying to save an old rusty boat from a scrap yard. >> the style of the ship, i think it's a fine piece of naval architecture. >> reporter: in fact, the 240 foot steel hold wreck called the williamsburg once looked like this, an american treasure. >> the u.s.s. williamsburg, president truman's new flag ship. >> it made history as truman's presidential yacht, eas

nbc news veteran tom brokaw who was white house correspondent at the height of watergate. ari has graciously offered to sit at the kids' table so we could have fun here on the set. thanks to you, tom, and thanks to you, ashei. >> i was under the impression this was the kids' table. >> you may have caught us there. i want to talk about to start with, the public perception of this scandal. there is a new quinnipiac poll showing that only 15% believe that the ap investigation is a pressing controversy. and they looked at that vis-a-vis the a.p. investigation, benghazi and the irs targeting of conservative groups. is this story more of a mideast fascination because it is about the media than a public interest story? >> the public is not interested and doesn't make it unimportant, frankly, at this point. i think that there are very important issues that are involved here on both sides, by the way. the government feels very strongly that it was a violation probably of the espionage attacks. there was intel that they had developed on a very short term basis that they didn't want t

tom brokaw on milennials? you can't gerrymander this show. it's friday, may 10 and this is "now."look-alike alex wagner. president obama is looking to steer the national dialogue back to jobs and economy at a time when he has some wind in his sails. speaking in texas he called for more government spending and tax reform. >> when you're talking to your members of congress or talking to elected officials, you've got to remind them we don't want government to do everything for us but it's got a role to play on infrastructure, basic research, making sure we've got a tax system that's fair. >> the president could get some help from a range of encouraging economic news. the dow reached a record-breaking 15,000 points this week, the april jobless rate ticked down to 7.5% following months of strong hiring and the treasury department reported the largely monthly surplus since 2008 with tax revenue coming in higher than expected. the extra cash means the annual budget gap will fall below $1 trillion. paul krugman writes "bad news for dr. evil fans. the days of $1 trillion deficits are over.

tom brokaw, you have interesting projects coming up that pertain to the greatest generation. since "saving private ryan" came out. he has been an extraordinarily supportive member of his generation for all things world war ii including the world war ii museum in new orleans where we spent a lot of time. when i am doing discovery channel has something called the military channel and have opened the brokaw files. we have gone back to the archives. tonight at 10:00 on the military channel i am on the uss stens for 48 hours. it's a nuclear powered aircraft carrier in the war zone at the time. i go off the deck for six hours over afghanistan in the back seat on a mission, take off and land which is an entirely terrifying experience. saw 5,200 people from the most ordinary seaman to an admiral working together 24/7 in a combat zone. it never stops and it is a very complicated piece of machinery. planes are leaving and arriving. they have to feed everybody. they have 12 garage bands that play. >> how many people are on board that ship? >> 5,200. >> that is about the size of dalheart

tom brokaw. >> they are sick. they have a temperature. commenting on everybody. you're sitting with brian sullivan, you call him a bore, anti-semitic. >> i didn't say a bore. i said boring. >> what about us? >> i'm on cnbc who needs this. >> there we go. lets move forward. lets move forward. >> i asked to be on this show. >> no, no, no. i asked for you. >> i did, because i am a fan. 6:00. >> alex. >> 6:00. >> that's my iv. >> do you watch for joe? >> i watched this morning, at 6:01 i was watching. >> really? >> we're going outside, as you know we write up the show, go out to the orphanage. we go out a couple of weeks ago, before we go to the orphanage and see the kids you come up to us, wander up to us, carry a bag, like a plastic bag and say you're a huge fan of the show. >> plastic bag. only vinyl. >> you got out and we all took pictures. >> look at my hair. >> memoirs. will that story make your memoirs. >> will you talk louder? >> will that story make your memoirs? >> yes. >> i love your show. >> mika doesn't get out much. this is the

. >> ask tom brokaw. [ mumbling ] >> stephanie: right.you guys. good morning, jim and chris. i love the show. i really love and i'm proud that we have a president that goes out there and explains thoroughly what -- what he is doing with our national security, you know? for all of us to understand. you know, i mean look at the way he treated that protester also, and he -- he stated the example, he is being polite and explaining what is going on. gitmo wasn't on his plait. i mean it was thrown on his plate when he became president, but it wasn't his idea. but you go around and start asking people who -- who started gitmo, i bet you, especially down in the south, i'm pretty sure they would say it was barack obama. >> stephanie: yeah. >> caller: so i'm very grateful that we have this president, and me and my brother -- my brotherlies in oklahoma, and just give a shout out to oklahoma, we love you guys and we're with you, the whole country is. my brother always tries to accuse me by being a partisan and i say yes, i am a partisan. i am proud t

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

tom brokaw will tell us why he thinks the 21st century is the century of the woman. >> he prefers goodou know i meant. >> and we're going to meet our next group of finalists in our "wake up with al" contest. >> and matt will be on "the tonight show" tonight. >> that's why i may not make it back. >> jay, if you want to tape anything else after the show later, we could do that as well. >> need to check out some dates for martha. >> a lot of martha today from you. all right. let's get over to tamron hall, good morning to you. >> good morning, everyone. three additional suspects arrested in the boston bombing investigation will remain locked up until a hearing later this month. officials say the 19-year-olds are all friends of accused bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev, who interfered with the investigation. two are from kazakhstan here on student visas. they are not suspected of being involved in the actual bombings. the students allegedly removed a backpack come takening empty fireworks tubes from tsarnaev's room and threw it in the garbage once they realized he was in trouble with the police. he

anchor tom brokaw has acknowledged what a disservice this is when the public take a look at what. we present to the rest of the country are we doing their business or are we just a group of narcissus who are mostly interested in elevating our own profiles and what comes through the screen on c.-span on that is the latter the former but while scahill and brokaw clearly get it the majority of journalists don't and that's the real problem we have all of these elite figures in bed together. and each other favors and worst of all completely losing sight of the job the public depends on them to do it's quite obvious that the watchdogs have become nothing more than lap dogs gathering together now not to discuss their role in turning this failed democracy around but instead to celebrate their own power and influence said cheers to the decline of journalism guys because it's plummeting faster than you can say bottoms up. they all see themselves as dying swans in their dreams. but only one of the cells will ever make it to the child. they're ready to give deadlines for the chance to die on

anchor tom brokaw has acknowledged what a disservice this is doing to the public take a look at what. we present to the rest of the country are we doing their business or are we just a group of narcissus who are mostly interested in elevating our own profiles and what comes through the screen. is the latter not the former but while scahill and brokaw clearly get it the majority of journalists sadly don't and that's the real problem we have all of these elite figures in bed together and each other favors and worst of all completely losing sight of the job the public depends on them to do it's quite obvious that the watchdogs have become nothing more than lap dogs gathering together now not to discuss their role in turning this failed democracy around but instead to celebrate their own power and influence said cheers to the decline of journalism guys because it's plummeting faster than you can say bottoms up. well. it's technology innovation all the developments around we. are very good. if you. download new. location so choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if yo

anchor tom brokaw has acknowledged what a disservice this is doing to the public take a look at what. we present to the rest of the country are we doing there a business or are we just a group of narcissus who are mostly interested in elevating our own profiles and what comes through the screen. is the latter not the former but while scahill and brokaw clearly get it the majority of journalists sadly don't and that's the real problem we have all of these elite figures in bed together and each other favors and worst of all completely losing sight of the job the public depends on them to do it's quite obvious that the watchdogs have become nothing more than lap dogs gathering together now not to discuss their role in turning the sale of democracy around but instead to celebrate their own power and influence said cheers to the decline of journalism guys because it's plummeting faster than you can say bottoms up. play. play. play play. i love to see. she good lumber tour. was able to build a new age most sophisticated rowboat which certainly doesn't give a darn about anything to jim's mis

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two prominent news men, clonally and tom brokaw were invited to share their personal reflections of thein reflection to that day, ia was leaning over upi machine waiting to rip the wire because i was doing the weekend news the next day and the day after. you were doing the same thing in omaha, nebraska, is that notthan true. >> that is true. >> reporter: brokaw had just finished his broadcast of thedc day when the news broke. brok >> it went off, that was aa regular occurrence when there we was a bulletin of some kind. i wandered over there, and i remember being riveted first byd what was i reading. >> reporter: a life changing for both journalists who months before had covered the ground breaking speech at american university. >> i have chose then time intimn place to discuss the most important topic on earth. >> reporter: jfk laid out his strategy for peace, and five fie months later he was dead. >> i remember vividly thinkingdn to myself this is going to goin change us, i don't know how, but this is going to make america a different place. >> reporter: brokaw couldn't cl have been mo

here's nbc news correspondent tom brokaw. >> good evening. president reagan tonight ordered a major change in his lebanon policy. a phased pullback of american marines to ships just offshore. >> ronald reagan pulled the marines out of lebanon. george w. bush pulled the bases out of saudi arabia. the presidents have not gone down in history as guys who surrendered to terrorism, but that is part of the way they responded. it's important to think of this in terms of the overall spectrum, right? terrorism is incoherent. it's not like osama bin laden after 2003 said, hey, look, i told america to get the bases out of saudi arabia and they did. now we're cool and i'm ready to hug it out. pulling the bases out of saudi arabia did not assuage him, did not assuage his desire to kill americans for whatever point he was tries to make with his vocation, right? yesterday we got a lecture from a guy covered in blood and holding a meat cleaver saying his beef with the west is he felt unfairly labeled as an extremism. the man covered in blood holding a knife

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this is like the news cycle that was designed to make tom brokaw retire -- >> [ inaudible ] >> he wasof yugoslavia -- >> stephanie: and then it was followed by the teacher, mary kay -- [ mumbling ] >> stephanie: this story is designed to make me retire. not only did i just master zubeidat and dzhokher. then these three dufeses -- don't you love that story when they texted dzhokher and they said oh my god, you look like the guy on the news and he texted back lol. >> and you can have anything in my room. >> stephanie: and a month earlier at dinner he said hey, i made a bomb. and they thought he was joking or something. so they panicked and decided to hide his stuff. so that's what that was all about. and most importantly their flames -- >> oh no. >> azamat tazhayakov and dias kadyrbayev. >> couldn't they be named joe? >> stephanie: something, one of them is from cambridge and i can't even say that one, phillipeos. >> stephanie: so we'll get to that. in the meantime right out of the box here we go -- ♪ karl ♪ >> stephanie: karl frisch bullfightstrategies.com. ♪ frisch ♪ >> stephanie: goo

who endured the great depression, who joined to fight in the second world war, was part of what tom brokaw called the greaters generation, guy who did not know his biological father, became an entrepreneur, started a cafe, ended 'buying that little piece of property and he house next door. plus the house that we have in south central. my father is an american success story. >> host: linda is in winthrop, massachusetts, this is booktv and larry elder is our guest. >> caller: hi, larry. i have a question for you. very impressed by your story, and i know there are a lot of people out there that have a hard time forgive, whether it's their parents or their spouse and in some cases even their children. did you find that you were able to have this kind of forgiveness after ten years because you turned your life over to jesus and you gave it to him? i'd be interested to know. >> guest: well, i've always been a christian. my mother taught sunday school so going to church was not an option. i spent my 21st birthday in jerusalem as part of my junior year abroad in israel. i've always been very relig

. >> tony was already a local legend by the time he made an appearance on "nightly news" with tom brokawell, i can tell it's monday. i haven't gotten one smile today yet. >> "countdown with keith olbermann." >> finally to providence, rhode island, where no holiday season would be complete without tony lapore directing traffic as the dancing traffic cop. >> and the "today" show. >> it's the return of tony lapore, the dancing traffic cop. he's entertained them for years with his fancy footwork. >> i love that guy, sarah. >> isn't he great? >> and since providence is still buzzing about the dancing cop, we decided to check out his act. [ whistles ] [ whistles ] >> tony is, in fact, so well known around providence that he credits his celebrity status with helping to fight crime. >> i've caught bank robbers, guys with guns down here because people actually knew who i was by first name. and they would tell me, hey, something's going down in the outlook garage, or something's going down at the bus station. boom, boom, boom, i would go. >> you think i didn't recognize you? how you doing, buddy?

the first was to salute the career of his friend al new tom brokaw also took to speak of engel. a praise, it is an understatement. richard is now the chief correspondent for nbc news. his face has become indelibly associated with 100,000 american viewers with coverage of the iraq war. with the arab spring and the tumultuous scenes in egypt, libya, and syria. he has 17 news and documentary emmys and is the winner of a special citation for his personal video diary of the iraq war. even these laurels do not get the full story of the self-made correspondent me see today. he is surely one for the history books. said historyhill would be kind to him. he intended to write it. richard did the same. not that he needed any action kindness. he wrote his first book about his life before and after the iraq war. the book drew praise from chris "chriss of msnbc, saying is hemingway country." struggled with dyslexia. he went to stanford and then in a burst of intuition he decided to become a foreign correspondent by moving to cairo with out really knowing a lick of arabic. he settled in a poor

one, oprah -- i once did an interview with oprah and in your opinion the audience and tom brokaw camell p t kwp don't ask what the world needs. ask what makes you come alive and go do it because what the world needs is people who have come alive." says it for us. >> what's so great, she got the invitation at the lowest part of her professional career and almost didn't do it and she's good glad she did. >> have a great weekend. >> take care. >> here's a look back at the week. have a great weekend. the week. have a great weekend. >>> people in kansas are waking up to damage left behind by two tornados. >> we're going to see it each and every days for the next few days. >>> folks in san antonio, texas, are bracing for deadly flooding. >> crews are getting this wildfire under control in santa barbara. >> for the residents it's become a long and painful seven days. >> it's a strong community. there's no doubt they're going to bounce back, but they need help. >> the president needs governor chris christie's endorsement. >> i think the greatest mistake of the obama administration so far in t

the three embrolios, and tom brokaw say do not add up to another watergate. even not close.hing it's the opposite of watergate. nixon again, as we must point out, planted someone at the irs and directed them who to audit and target on his enemy's list. this was lack of oversight at the irs was there was no one in charge because the republicans have obstructed it again. oy vey. >> why did obama force him not to be there and do stuff that he is supposed to do. >> stephanie: right. eric boller writes about this as well, why -- isn't the biggest scandal this abc thing? the republicans wrote their own -- they mischaracterized the white house emails on purpose. and nobody is even covering that as a story. abc breaks this story -- [♪breaking news theme♪] >> stephanie: republicans wrote them. it's a summary written by republicans to just go with that. so on benghazi doyle mcmanes writes. it was five weeks before the election -- if the white house was trying to amount a coverup it forgot to tell the rest of the administration. the white house released emails from the wrangle, they mo

>> tom brokaw, the great sage of nbc news, came here two weeks ago for a program about our new jfk exhibit"creating camelot." tom took the time to talk about two things. the first was to salute the career of his friend be al new hart, the creator of "usa today," who just passed away and whose memorial we will also celebrate this week here at the newseum which is in very large part his creation. .. coverage of the iraq war. all of the iraq war. and with the arab spring of the tumultuous scenes in egypt, libya and syria. he has won seven news and documentary emmys, and is the winner of a special citation for his personal video diary of the iraq war. but even these laurels do not give the full story of the extraordinary self-made correspondent we see today. he is truly one for the history books. another famous young correspondent, winston churchill, said history would be kind to him because he intended to write it. richard did the same, not that he needed any extra kindness. he wrote his first book, a fish in the hoarseness, about his life before, during and after the iraq war. the book drew

. >> stephanie: how would tom brokaw do that? kanye down and he should write a song about that. >> stephanie: he said don't take another [ censor bleep ] photo man, don't take another [ censor bleep ] photo man. stop it. >> he is a gay fish? remember that south park episode? >> stephanie: no. >> there is a joke about a gay fish and kanye thinks it's about him. we love you john fugelsang. >> the deficit down 24% below expectations, and tune in to handy to find out why this is bad. >> stephanie: all right. thank you, honey. love you. see you monday on the "stephanie miller show." ♪ >> i'm jacki schechner. it's noon eastern, and here's what's current. hearings are going on in the house ways and means committee to take a closer look thaet irs, and it's taking a look at conservative political groups. answering questioning is steven miller the irs commissioner who just resigned and jay russell gorge the inspector general who's report detailed what the irs did and recommended ways to make sure it doesn't happen again. here is miller thi

jon: tom brokaw was on msnbc this morning apparently saying, jim, that this is just sort of -- he saidelcome to the second term, mr. president, as though this is just another one of those things that bedevils presidents after they win re-election. >> right. and carl bernstein, of course of watergate fame said this couldn't possibly reach the white house. this is surely a few bad apples at the irs. this is a guy who didn't take richard nixon's word for it 40 years ago and rightly so. now president seems sure? advance -- it reminds me a little bit of people saying listen the boston bombers were lone wolves not in touch with anybody, this kind of instant certainty that this didn't go any further than the immediate hop persons are a mystery to tree. alan had it right. it happened two years ago. there is a lot of investigation to go. breitbart news has a story about the i, rs -- the subunit of the irs who was doing the investigating to knock it off. that was in july of 2011. obviously they kept at it and "the new york times" in march of 2012 was praising the irs for being aggressive on this

here twookaw kaine weeks ago -- tom brokaw came here two weeks ago about our program on jfk and camelot. he talked about two things. the first was to salute the "usaer the creator the memorial we will celebrate today at the newseum, is in large part his creation. tom also took the time to laud our speaker today, who he called one of the best correspondents in the middle east in a long time. despite that being extravagant praise, it is almost an understatement. richard is now the chief foreign correspondent for nbc news, and in recent years his fate has become associated hundreds of thousands of american viewers, the coverage of the iraq war, all of the iraq war. and with the arabs spring and the tumultuous scenes in egypt, libya, and syria. documentaryws and of a and is the winner special citation for his diary of the iraq war. these laurels did not give the full story of the extraordinary correspondence we see today. he is truly one for the history books. another famous correspondent, winston churchill, said history would be kind to him because he did not have to write it. richard did

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let's turn to tom brokaw, nbc news special correspondent. d morning. >> i know you've got a special on the military channel, we want to talk about that in a moment. let's talk about what's happening in washington. eric holder under fire with fairly aggressive prosecutions involving the subpoenaing of records of reporters in some cases tracking their movements. there are calls, again, for him to resign. the heat is always on this attorney general, but do you think this is more serious threat to his? >> well, i think there's a lot of explaining that the justice department has to do. on the other hand, this is a complicated case. this is a case involving the fox news reporter. it was a highly secretive intelligence report that he got very early at a time when the -- when the united states government was trying to deal with the reality of what was going on in north korea. at the same time, i think that the justice department owes the press and the country an explanation of why they felt it was necessary to prosecute it. and that's not been very f

of course the people going into the amenty recreation counties, tom brokaw buying up ranch land in montgomery may be a problem to me, but it's also a way to keep that land prissstin and available for wildlife and promote environmental values. the agenda 21 is a topic for another program host: we are taking your thoughts in this program. hone lines are open. we've been giving you a large overview of rural counties in america. here is a specific example talking about southern lawrence county in rural western pennsylvania. some stats on that example. the trends have been tough in taylor which experienced a 13.6% population decline between 2,000 and 2010. twice of its residents are over 65 or under the age of 18. hat ratio is unheard of more mupetiss. guest: that's a typical example of what goes on as a result of population change. population change can happen in a number of ways but population loss is usually the result of young people leaving rural areas right after high school and seeking education and jobs elsewhere. this has the effect of we're moving not on the young people but the families

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next monday, november 21, tom brokaw, nbc news correspondent and author, will discuss the current moodamerica. 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

. >> tom brokaw of nbc news came here two weeks ago for a program about our new jfk exhibit creating k the time to speak about two things. the first was to salute the career of his friend al neuharth, tom brokaw also took the time to speak of engel.he called him one of the best correspondence of the middle east in a very long time. despite that being a praise, it is an understatement. richard is now the chief correspondent for nbc news. his face has become indelibly associated with 100,000 american viewers with coverage of the iraq war. with the arab spring and the tumultuous scenes in egypt libya, and syria. he has 17 news and documentary emmys and is the winner of a special citation for his personal video diary of the iraq war. even these laurels do not get the full story of the self-made correspondent me see today. he is surely one for the history books. winston churchill said history would be kind to him. he intended to write it. richard did the same. not that he needed any action kindness. he wrote his first book about his life before and after the iraq war. the book drew praise