tonight, tom brokaw on the politics of fear and the harsh lessons of history. >>> plus, the money trail mystery before the massacre in san bernardino. thousands of dollars suddenly deposited in the killer's account. >>> also tonight, the alarming rise in distracted drivers beyond texting. what so many say they are doing behind the wheel. the consequences proving to be deadly. "nightly news" begins right now. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening, this political season of outrage and provocation has taken what many see as an ominous turn with donald trump's call to use religion as a determining factor as to who can come into this country. legal experts believe his proposal to ban muslims from entry is unconstitutional and it certainly echoes of a dark and shameful chapter of our nation's past. but coming from the leading republican candidate for president, it can't be ignored or dismissed. and now, six days after muslim extremists killed 14 people in california, trump has opened a fault line that cults ac

thank you is an effective mechanism of saying, you know, on the tom brokaw case, rightfully so, tom brokaw when he did the piece open him, regarding the muslims and basically in essence calling trump a racist, trump had to punch back and respond. on campbell brown that was fascinating because he said he didn't know who she was or --. >> or she was still alive. >> she very much alive. >> she is. she left the media because she was raising two kids. again, he fought back hard on both of these cases. it is one of the situations where donald trump wins the debate. betsy? >> what upsets me is how he talked about rush limbaugh and mark levin, the only time he has taken a step back of public criticism account only time he has shown deference to the media figures. >> why is that? i thought he was saying he had nothing to do with it. >> he said those guys made me rething. all the reason why is because he understands what most candidates do not understand that talk radio has displaced a lost traditional old media and some conservative internet media as far as the way to get primary voters to like you

i am not a fan of tom brokaw. if i were abraham lincoln during the debate, krauthammer will say negatives. >> we will look at the cnn debate and the coverage of marco rubio and crazy -- ted cruz and mrs. -- bernie sanders improperly obtained data about hillary clinton but. it be opportunity out? all the real reason why a network is going gaga. i am howard kurtz and this is "media buzz". donald trump is still driving the campaign debate, still leading big in the polls and smacking the media around. in the only face-to-face interview we sat down at trump tower. >> donald trump, welcome. jeb bush went after you and now he has an ad beating up on you and thinks he can revise his campaign by attacking you. >> i thought he was weak in the debate. he open badly. he closed badly. he had a couple of soundbites that were given to him by his people, i guess the pollsters. he hit me a couple of times and i hit him back much harder and the ad puts his part in not my part which is dishonest. look, he is a low energy person. he

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tom brokaw. do you want me to comment on tom brokaw? i'm not a fan. never was a fan. when i did "the apresentition" he came over with me, and said thank you, mr. touch, it was good for him with his newscast, and now all of a sudden the first chance he gets, but he thanks me so much, thank you for doing seven a great job because it was so successful to the brokaw, and i understand somebody has to bring up when there's a problem. there's a problem. there's something wrong. something is going on. this is will level of hatred. whether it's a 25% group or 10% group, there's a level of hatred. we have to figure out what's going on. >> let me read you some others campbell brown, telling her colleagues in the tv business, for one week don't say his graham. >> you know what's interesting about campbell brown? for years i haven't heard of her name. i didn't even know she was still alive, but i guess she is. >> ben smith, buzzfeed he told reporters okay to call him a mendacious racist. shackman says people should boycott your businesses because he thinking you're a racist and ne

it is my great pleasure that i give you my great friend tom brokaw. [applause] tom: too generous. [laughs] thank you. thank you. thank you all very much. thank you. thank you all very much. if there is an oxymoron in american life, it is "humble anchorman," but i must tell you, these occasions truly make me humble. one of the many, many dividends of writing this book and getting to know that generation so well is that i then had a shared interest with my friend, our rick atkinson, who is our preeminent military historian, and it went beyond our professional interest. we have become deeply, deeply personal friends. an rick right now never stop security just wrote the last in the trilogy of world war ii. what is left? the revolutionary war. he is up in canada, with walking through the various steps of the revolutionary war, and frankly, i can't wait to see that as well. i do want to take a moment to say one of the first people that i thought i would write about when i was going to write "the greatest generation" was our guest here today, and that is my dear friend bob dole. i always

i didn't want to be on the internet as "cancer victim tom brokaw."we had a terrible winter in new york. it was icy, sleeting. i would use a cane, a walker to get around. i was determined to get out of the apartment and walk half a block to a coffee shop to get a bagel and a cup of coffee. to do that, i had to go by this. . stop.this bus there was a poster for tom brady. the woman waiting for a bus was swooning looking at -- , looking at tom brady. every day, i would look up at him and dropped the f-bomb at him. that made me feel great. [laughter] tom: i'm going to sit down. [applause] tom: thank you. thank you very much. thank you. [applause] tom: thank you. >> this man is the embodiment of the greatest generation. thank you, tom. god bless you, too. tom: thank you. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] >> you are watching american history tv. 48 hours of programming on american history

tom brokaw offers a poignant reminder of the moments in history now being compared to trump's call to ban muslims. that's coming up at 5:30. >>> not just any van. thee vans belong to a school district and vandal did serious damage. nearly every van owned by the bunesia school district was hit by vandals. who did it and why? nbc bay area's elise kurshner is in benesia. what do we know so far? >> authorities don't know why these vans were vandalized. they took out this entire back window. while these vans are out of service, district officials are having to come up with other ways to transport students. the damage is extensive. >> they dented the door, they broke the windshield out. this one, they broke the back windows out. >> nathen clemens says repairing the damage done to these school vans won't be cheap. >> probably going to be $5,000, $6,000. yeah. a lot of work. >> they went to town, yeah. >> some time over the weekend, vice principal says vandals broke into the high school. >> a barrage of 30 to 40 stones all over the ground. they were pelting, throwing, even grabbed some pieces

it's very unusual for tom brokaw to do a long editorial like that.hat's reason he did it, i think for nbc it was effective. >> you're witnessing a unifi media. a group that is really drooling over this story. who ignored the planned parenthood videos. you're giving them ammo. and in the same respect destroying the republican party. >> the bottom line is we need to do something different. we've been saying that at this table. we need to review our visa programs, why are we having 25% of the people coming into this country, the k-1 fiancÉ visas, we met, we had a moment in our eyes in person. let's do this. >> are you looking at greg? >> he was looking at me. >> i think everybody at the table felt it. >> i'm going to cry. >> i think they're all in. >> next, calls are growing for mayor rahm emanual to step down, he is under fire for his handling of police shootings in his city and protests have erupted today. a live report coming up next. i sure had a lot on my mind when i got out of the hospital after a dvt blood clot. what about my family? my li'l budd

. ♪ ♪ >>> the iron curtain begins to collapse, and nbc news anchor tom brokaw has a front row seat tolin wall. >> 1989 is a year of seismic change as political revolution spreads across communist-controlled europe. in early november, tom brokaw travels to berlin to report on the political situation. >> well, i went because it was a 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 thi

thursday, tom brokaw on the world war ii impacts. on christmas, we will travel to williamsburg of the 1770's, anding with historians curators about colonial life. that is just some of the programming this week on prime time on the c-span networks. all beacon, american history tv features western, massachusetts. robert goddard was born in worcester, and was a graduate of the western polytechnic school. hosted by our charter communications cable partners, the c-span cities tour staff visited the city. learn about worcester all weekend on american history tv. >> abby kelley foster was a soman's rights, humans bright and abolitionist. as a lecturerreer for the american antislavery society. she went to an antislavery meeting and william lloyd garrison was the speaker. she was 21 years old at the time. it was really then that she decided she had to do something for the cause. she did join the female antislavery society and raised a lot of funds and took petitions around to be signed, and was very active on behalf of the movement.st's she b

next, on american history tv, former nbc news anchor and author tom brokaw told the stories of the greatest generation, a term he coined and his 1998 book. he goes on to discuss the greatest generation and their big ideas including the marshall plan, the civil rights movement, president kennedy's commitment

join g joining us from new york is our nbc special news correspondent tom brokaw. d tom, it is feeling like a different political environment right now than it was 15 years ago in the political system compared to 9/11. >> yes, and given what we know what happened in san bernadino and don't know as far as the motivation. listen to defense secretaries talking about the mother not knowing what is going on and what do we know about the woman going on a and how radical iziz she may or may not have been, and the issue for the candidates is not to declare war on the islamic war, and there with 1.23 billion muslim s s in the world and that is 23% of our population, and actually, 1.3 billion muslims, and we don't want to radicalize them by just declaring war on them, and at the same time, there is very good reason to be frustrated and a little bit more than terrified about wh is go -- what is going on here. and it is not going to behoove the candidates to try to exploit it. >> and the candidates for a minutes, what is the role that president obama should be playing in this.

nbc's tom brokaw brought his experience in this season of trump. >> donald trump's promise to ban all muslims from coming to america is much more than a shouted campaign involve case. trump's statement, even in the season of extremes, is a dangerous proposal that overrides history, the law and the foundation of america itself. in my lifetime alone, we have been witness to the consequences of paranoia overriding reason. during world war ii law-abiding japanese citizens were herded into internment camps losing their jobs, businesses and social standing. while an all-japanese american division fought heroicically in europe. and germany paid the ultimate price, defeat and history's condemnation. but after the war america still had to learn about demagoguery the hard way. senator joe mccarthy's reckless anti-communist witchhunt -- >> it has been labeled -- >> making ever more outrageous claims, damaging reputations until one day -- >> have you no sense of decency, sir? >> all that while african-americans whose ancestors came here as slaves were treated as second or even third-class citizen

thursday, tom brokaw on world war ii and its impact. on christmas friday night we will travel to williamsburg talking with historians curators and interpreters. that's some of the programs featured this week in prime time. >> next, q&a with historian craig shirley author of the book last act. live at 7:00 your calls and comments on "washington journal." ♪ >> this week on "q&a," craig shirley discusses his book "last act," about ronald reagan's life after the presidency. and, the way he has been remembered since his death. brian: craig shirley, your book is called "last act."

lost tom brokaw, the cronkite of our time, and that doesn't matter. will anything matter? >> you know, the problem with this is that people have no sort of patience and belief in these big government institutions, in big institutions in general. brokaw of course there representing the press and the media. so to trump's fans, which he represents a pretty broad swath of the party at this point, not only downscale white voters but also college-educated voters as well. chamber of commerce republicans, he's not doing that poorly among them either. they don't necessarily have any faith in government, in these big institutions. all the people that used to be gatekeepers really don't have a lot of credibility. even you saw all of those people from dick cheney, paul ryan, to company out and condemn donald trump. the base doesn't care. they have seen the party and these big institutions fail in their eyes so when it comes to them being referees, they just don't have a lot of credibility. >> jeff, but then this up for me. this notion that even if the other nomin

also tonight reflecting on the trump proposal are tom brokaw in to look at the lessons of history, some of the harsh lessons of history. we'll come back into focus with this at 6:30. >>> moving now to an i-team ex exclusive exclusive. an eye-popping medical bill after a run of the mill visit to the er. >> why did the baylor medical a cut with five or six stitches? here's the answer. chris? >> reporter: $17,000 is not what it costs to mend a cut with a handful of stitches. the reason for this whopping bill is a bitter fight between baylor medical center and one of new jersey's biggest ensurers. >> there is no reason that a two-inch cut should have a five-figure bill. >> reporter: it happened again. another minor cut, but the bayonne medical center er charged an arm and a leg. ryan eggerton's index finger is just about healed now. you can see the faint scar from his kitchen mishap. >> the knife was new, it slipped. this was definitely a flesh wound. >> reporter: bayonne hospital charged $17,000. this is not the first time a bayonne bill has stunned a patient and an insurance we heard abou

tom brokaw offers us a reminder of history's ugly lessons about fear and marginalizing groups of peopleant to see that. stick around, we'll be right back. (phone ringing) you can't deal with something by ignoring .t but that's how some presidential candidates seem to be dealing with social security. americans work hard and pay into it, so our next president needs a real plan to keep it strong. (elephant noise) (donkey noise) hey candidates! answer the call already. it's gotten squarer. over the years. brighter. bigger. thinner. even curvier. but what's next? for all binge watchers. movie geeks. sports freaks. x1 from xfinity will change the way you experience tv. >>> we are back with the first read on politics for you this morning. the new poll of gop primary voters in new hampshire shows trump maintaining a substantial lead but there's another significant development in that poll. and it involves ben carson's steady decline. he is now at 5%. this as his campaign is reportedly canceled a $700,000 ad buy in iowa. speaking of ads, a new tally of spending funds, jeb bush's campaign has spe

wait until you see him being interviewed by tom brokaw. this young picture of him. you go, wait a minute, east been asked this same question from the beginning. is he for real? how high are his ambitions? but we've got it all tonight. the serial bankruptcies, the serial marriages, the sex discussion about best sex ever had from supposedly by marla mabels. for all i know, donald trump put that out. it's a strange brew. and by the way, the grossty of the last 24 hours is a bit gross by any standard, but what you're seeing here is a story that's kitsch and very american, like it or not. >> it is fascinating. one last question for you. do you put any stock in this idea that's being floated out there, like much like we saw for the 1980 election, these reagan democrats, are there going to be sort of trump democrats or people who have checked out, who are now being brought back in by donald trump? >> yeah, i think if you go around where my relatives live, around south jersey, philadelphia, the suburbs with tb middle inner suburbs and we get middle, middle people, regular p

tonight, tom brokaw on the politics of fear and the harsh lessons of history. >>> plus, the money trail mystery before the massacre in san bernardino. thousands of dollars suddenly deposited in the killer's account. >>> also tonight, ate larging rise in distracted drivers beyond texting. what so many say they are doing behind the wheel. the consequences proving to be deadly. "nightly news"

. >> next, on american history tv, former nbc news anchor and author tom brokaw told the stories of thereatest generation, a term he coined and the title of his best-selling 1998 book. mr. brokaw then goes on to discuss big ideas generated by the greatest generation and , including the marshall plan, the civil rights movement, president kennedy's commitment to landing on the moon, and president nixon's opening of china. this was hosted by friends of the national world war ii memorial.

thursday, tom brokaw on world war ii and its impact. christmas, friday night at 8:00, we travel to the williamsburg of the 1700s, talking about colonial life on the eve of the american revolution. the democratic presidential candidates were new hampshire last night facing each other in a debate. it was the third among the democrats and the only one in new hampshire before its upcoming primary. you can watch that in its entirety here on c-span at 4:00 p.m. eastern, courtesy of abc news. next, the house subcommittee hearing on the consumer financial protection bureau's hackers of collecting data. former house speaker newt gingrich was one of the witnesses. he is an advisor with the u.s. consumer coalition, a grassroots organization to protect consumer choice. this is two hours. >> the oversight investigations subcommittee will come to order. the time at the hearing is examining the consumer financial protection bu without objection the chair soccer sadrist to declare recess of the subcommittee at any time and without objection all members

thursday night, tom brokaw on world war ii and its impact. 8:00ristmas, friday night, p.m., we will travel to williamsburg of the 1770's to talk about colonial life on the eve of the american revolution. those are just some of the programs being featured on the c-span network. c-span takes you on the road to the white house and into the classroom. this year, our student cam documentary contest asked students to tell us what issues they want to hear from the presidential candidates about. road to then's white house coverage and get all of the news about our contest on c-span.org. reservednesday, federal chair janet yellen officially announced an increase in the interest rate. since 2006. at the news conference, she explained the logic behind the increase and then took questions from reporters. this is just over an hour. ms. yellen: good afternoon. earlier today the federal open market committee decided to raise the target range for the federal funds rate by one quarter percentage point, bringing it to one quarter to one half percent. this action marks the end of an extraordinary seven-year

thursday, tom brokaw on world war ii. on christmas, friday night at 8:00, we will travel to williamsburg of the 1770's, talking with historians about colonial life on the eve of the american revolution. that is just some of the programs featured this week on the c-span networks. next, russian president vladimir putin's year-end news conference in moscow. then a discussion on russian military options in syria. after that, chris christie campaigns in new hampshire. in his annual news conference, russian president vladimir putin answered questions on domestic and foreign policy. this is his 11th news conference. during this portion, he addressed russia's tense relationship with turkey following the downing of a russian jet. also, the russian economy, military operations in syria, and the u.s. presidential election.

at 8:00 p.m., tom brokaw on the war's impact on america and the world. at 9:00 p.m., the world war ii victory in europe 70th anniversary ceremony. at 10:25, the victory in europe 70th anniversary flyover. later county 11:15 p.m., the victory over japan, 70th anniversary ceremony. world war ii on american history tv, 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span 3. >> abigail filmore taught tea private school and successfully lobbied congress for funds to create the first white house library. mamie eisenhower's hair style and love of pink created fashion sensations. mamie pink was marketed as a color and stores sold clip-on bangs to women eager to replicate her style. jacqueline kennedy was responsible for the creation of the white house historical association. and nancy reagan as a young actress saw her name mistakenly on the black list of mistaken communist sympathizers in the late 1940s. she appealed to screen actors guild head ronald reagan for help. she later became his wife. these stories and more are featured in c-span's book "first ladies, presidential historians o

. >> thursday, on c-span 3, programs about world war ii, 8:00 p.m., tom brokaw on the war's impact on america and the world. at 9:10 p.m., the world war ii victory in europe 70th anniversary ceremony. 10:25, victory in europe 70th anniversary flyover. later, 11:15, the victory over japan 70th anniversary ceremony. world war ii, american history tv. 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span3. >> all this week on c-span2, q and a interviews. thursday, andrew ferguson talks about 2016 presidential contenders, president obama, cost overruns of the planned eisenhower memorial and a growing number of journalists and pundits in washington, d.c. 7:00 p.m. eastern, thursday, c-span2. this holiday weekend, american history tv on c-span3 has three days of featured programming beginning friday, 6:30 eastern, to mark 125th anniversary of the birth of president dwight david eisenhower, his granddaughters, susan, ann, mary eisenhower gather for a rare family discussion at gettysburg college to talk about his military and political career, as well as legacy, relevance for 21st century americans. then on satur

-- i once gotder criticized along with tom brokaw because we said we did not really know a lot abouta. fine. my friend rush limbaugh jumped all over that for five years. the thing i do not know about she has moved to the left a little bit here. thinkot sure that -- i she is and has been mostly a centrist allocation most -- politician most of her life as has been her husband. i do not know where they differ. the thing i worry -- i wonder about is what his role will be. politician.te most believe there has not been a very -- a better politician. we both care about narrative. we understand the importance of narrative in politics. do you think she has a story to tell, a compelling story and she knows what that story is? charlie: i do not. john: she may not know yet. charlie: i do not know. i think the narrative she would say, i asked her why are you running for president and i said is it history, do you want to be the first female president, the 4 -- first former first lady and she said it had to do with other things. she wants to do things. i could believe that about most people. they w

tom brokaw wrote the famous book "the greatest generation." they fought world war ii, sacrificed, built the interstate highway system, built the economy we're running on today -- the great generation. i shudder to think what would be the case if tom brokaw wrote a book about our generation that is borrowing, that's not keeping our infrastructure up, that's not adequately providing for the common defense, and that is not -- is shifting the costs from to us our children. that's not stewardship, madam president; that's inte intergenerational theft. that's what we're engaged in here. we're going to have one vote tomorrow. i intend to vote for the bill because i believe in the budget section but i'm very uncomfortable with the tax extender problem. i i have a fundamental problem that they're not paid for. i don't think it's honest for us to go home and say, we cut your taxes when our grandchildren are going have to pay those bills with interest. that's the point that i think needs to be made about this, not that we're going to be able to stop this

tom brokaw last night spoke about how the rhetoric echos some dark chapters in american history. >> trump'statement even in the season of extremes, is a dangerous proposal that overrides history, the law and the foundation of america itself. in my lifetime alone, we have been witness to the consequences of paranoia overriding reason. during world war ii, law-abiding japanese citizens were herded into remote internment camps, losing their jobs, businesses and social standing. >>> yesterday donald trump compared his proposal under the wartime authority of roosevelt, though he stopped short of backing internment camps. >> if you look at franklin roosevelt, a highly respected president, look at presidential proclamations back a long time ago. what he was doing with germans, i talians and japanese, we are at war. >> you certainly aren't proposing intern machine camps? >> no, by the way, i am not proposing that, and that's not what this -- you have to look at the presidential proclamations. it was tough stuff, but we're not talking about the japanese internment camps. >> no, we're talking about t

watch this -- i can call it nothing else -- this propaganda piece by tom brokaw on last night's nbc news broadcast. >> trump's statement, even in the season of extremes, is a dangerous proposal that overrides history, the law, and the foundation of america itself. during world war ii, law-abiding japanese citizens were herded into remote internment camps while african-americans whose ancestors came here as slaves retreated as second or third class citizens in uniform and out. >> defeating isis will be long, hard and expensive. perhaps more so now because isis is likely to use donald trump's statements as a recruiting tool. lou: my god, isis would not be attacking us if donald trump had not hurt their feelings. just astounding! and brokaw did not mention carter's deportation of iranians particularly students after iran took americans hostage. and while it's too early to call trump the presumptive republican nominee, he is without a doubt the favorite to win his party's presidential nomination, and that has the left, the right and the national media fit to be tied. unholy alliance is using

charlie: i give this credit where belongs, to my friend tom brokaw, who said it's a mistake not to gocharlie:. meaning, it's a mistake not to go to greece. it's a mistake not to give full expression to your own openness , ande world around you don't seek the quiet, uneventful place where you can live within your own accomplishments and your own material gains. go where there is the challenge, the test, and learning, and listening. absolutely. and be grateful for the risk of life. if you don't take a risk every waking up.ot worth being afraid, having dark this is an equal part to joy. you don't know what to joy is unless you know what it is not. get rainbows without rain. it's an equal part of life to be , but ited and scared mustn't override the good possibilities that exist in all of our lives. has saul berenson as a character had a greater impact on you than any other character you have played? or maybe because it came to you at a different time in your life? mandy: i would say the character i feel has had the greatest think -- well, it was george in sunday in the park with george. james l

eastern, tom brokaw on world war ii and its impact.istmas, friday night at 8:00, we travel to williamsburg in the 1770's, talking about colonial life on the eve of the american revolution. summary of the programs featured in prime time on the c-span networks this week. >> tonight, on c-span, q and a q&a with author and historian craig shirley. that's followed with british by mr. david cameron taking questions from the house of commons. ♪ >> this week on q&a, craig shirley discusses his book "last act" about ronald reagan's life after the presidency. craig shirley, your book is called "last act." white as you feel the need to do this book? what. of time did you write about -- what period of time did you write about? mr. shirley:

. >> tony was already a local legend by the time he made an appearance on "nightly news with tom brokaw> well, 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 my 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? huh? how you do

some compared him to hitler and revered nbc anchor tom brokaw decided to write this unusual editorial. >> trump statement even in the season of extreme s dangerous proposals that overrides history, the law and the foundation of america itself. >> what does our panel think of this week? has something changed? let's bring our panel back here. andrew, are you sensing push back from conservative media circles? you bought your staff the make america great again hats but times have changed. >> times have changed. i think a lot of people and a lot of conservatives too were entertained, amused by trump when he first got in the race. it's becoming a lot less funny now with his kind of blatant fear mongering and the ban on muslims. it's not as funny anymore. i think you're starting to see a lot of people get fed up. you see the republican establishment is panicking a little with their plan to what are they going to do, a brokered convention to prevent trump from becoming the nominee. it's not funny anymore. it's totally fair for the media to kind of call him out on this. i think the practical i

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also tom brokaw will join us with a poignant reminder of history's shameful lessons of when fear takes root and distracts drivers, not just texting. another danger that's potentially costing lives when we see you coming up at 6:30. >> something for everyone. thank you, lester, see you in about 40 minutes. >>> to this now, served time in prison on dog fighting charges, now an nfl quarterback is fighting for animals in pennsylvania. the new legislation that michael vick is proposing for pets in harrisburg. >>> this is nbc 10 news. >> you could soon receive e-mails from the postal service about your mail. testing a new notification service called informed delivery. that's where the postal service sends out an e-mail to customers each morning with images of envelopes of their letter-sized mail. it will only show the front side of the envelopes. the service is already available in northern virginia and new york city. >>> how about this next story, it's a true rags to riches story. a homeless man from colorado just won half a million dollars in the lottery. the man was homeless for more than

tonight, tom brokaw on the politics of fear and the harsh lessons of history. >>> plus, the money trail mystery before the massacre in san bernardino. thousands of dollars suddenly deposited in the killers' account. >>> also tonight, the alarming rise in distracted drivers beyond texting. what so many say they are doing behind the wheel. the consequences proving to be deadly. "nightly news" begins right now.

at 8 o'clock eastern, tom brokaw author of the book "the greatest generation" then a look at v-e dayand then a flyover ceremony celebrating the anniversary. >>> this holiday weekend, american history tv on c-span three has three days of featured programming beginning friday evening at 6:30 eastern to mark the 125th anniversary of the birth of president dwight david eisenhower, his granddaughters susan, anne and mary eisenhower gather for a rare family discussion at gettysburg college to talk about his military and political career as well as his legacy and relevance for 21st century americans. then on saturday afternoon at 1:00, 60 years ago rosa parks defied a city ordnance for blacks to leave their seats on a city bus to make room for white passengers. her stand helped instigate the montgomery bus boycott. we'll reflect on the boycott and see what role lawyers played in that protest and the civil rights movement as we hear from fred gray, attorney for rosa parks, and montgomery bus boycott demonstrators. then at 6:00, civil war author and historian william davis on the little-known

thursday, tom brokaw on world war ii. ,n christmas, williamsburg talking with curators about colonial life. that's some the rims featured in them tank -- i'm time on the c-span networks. ted cruz held a rally near richmond virginia. there was a brief interview with c-span. sen. cruz: wow. sen. cruz: god bless commonwealth of virginia. you know, pastor thompson, thank you so much for welcoming me here. thank you for being your. thank you for your friendship. thank you for your strong principled leader. let me say to the men and women of virginia, can could you nelly, he is a strong, principled, courageous conservative. he was a remarkable attorney general. he would have made a tremendous governor of virginia. and he is a fearless conservative leader on the national stage, speaking the truth to power. he was a great leader for the people of virginia. the people of this state know about fighters. you have a tradition of patriots, and i would note that the commonwealth of virginia shocked and astonished washington, d.c. when you sent dave brat to join us in congress. sen. cruz: there was

they even brought in tom brokaw to say what trump said but he never said what tom brokaw said. the truth is critical in this campaign. if you go to time.com, you can see what they've done in the past and this year it's angela merkel as person of the year last year, it was the bola -- the apollo fighters. in 2013, it was pope francis. in 20 oh, it was president obama. the year of the protester according to time magazine. zuckerberg, mark the founder and head of facebook. line frombert on the st. paul, minnesota. republican line, who is your person of the year? the minnesota vikings had a blowout last night against the giants and are well underway to the super bowl. ted is without a doubt. host: how come? caller: he is a fair man and a decent man and he is for the common voter. is not for the rich. he is not for the people who have all the money. i know what donald trump is about. he is not going to win this election. ted cruz is for the common man. and, in woman. he is a decent family man and i think he would make an excellent president because he cares about the people out ther