that is the issue that will define the election of 2016 more >> tom brokaw framing where this country stands. that's going to do it for us on this friday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching and goodnight. >>> right now on news 3 live at 6:00 -- vandalism and harassment in the heart of busy summerlin. homeowners and business owners getting more concerned about the problems they say seem to be growing along with t population there. >>> deadly police shooting captured on body camera video. the graphic images leading up to the shooting in kingman, arizona. >>> and for some, it's a harmless prank. for others, a very real fear. the creepy clown threat sweeping the nation has hit the valley targeting schools. business owners say has gotten out of hand. >> a lot of you have noticed this trend where you live. people who live on the streets have spread out from the center of town into the neighborhoods on the edges. good evening. i'm jim snyder. >> i'm marie mortera in for reed. the area we're talking about is charleston and town center on the west side of

. >>> when we come back, tom brokaw with some thoughts about the momentous decision before us. next at 6: a guilty plea and a confession. ==jess/vo== the courtroom drama in a high- profile murder case in marin county. and, people living in the sinking millennium tower revolt. what they're asking the city to do to keep them from losing everything. ===janelle/next close=== the news is next. >>> finally tonight, some thoughts on what it has all come down to. where we are at the end of a week that began with the presidential debate that only amplified the differences and divisions we face. tom brokaw now has some thoughts on where the country has been and the challenges ahead just over five weeks before the election. >> this is ground zero in new york, the elegant memorial to the thousands of people who died on 9/11. and on that day, here in new york, the pentagon, and washington, in pennsylvania, we were all united in our sorrow, our grief, our determination, and our anger about what had happened. we were a whole country. but that didn't last. it was followed by a long, disastrous

tom brokaw now has some thoughts on where the country has been and the challenges ahead just over five weeks before the election. >> this is ground zero in elegant memorial to the thousands of people who died on 9/11. and on that day, here in new york, the pentagon, and washington, in pennsylvania, we were all united in our sorrow, our grief, our determination, and our anger about what had happened. we were a whole country. but that didn't last. it was followed by a long disastrous war in the middle east. a great recession at home, the housing crisis, the divisions nots, and the divisions over race. so when the primaries of this year came, many people were still very angry. they had lost faith in their country. and donald trump tapped into that anger, often with coarse and demeaning remarks for anyone who didn't agree with him. but those are the primaries. now he's competing for the big prize. as for hillary clinton, her advisers still are concerned th case that she is best equipped to put this country back together again and just how she would do it. so with 38 days to go, the single

tom brokaw joins me now to break it down. tom, you have probably moderated more debates than anyone, except our good friend, jim lehrer. did last night change anything? >> i think both candidates handled it very, very well. here are two minute who have given their lives to public service. they have a personal history and a political history in terms of where they are in the political spectrum. i did think that senator kaine could have been more effective if he looked directly at the governor and said i'm going to read you a statement that donald trump said two or three times in the last week. you tell me whether you agree with it. these are his words. but instead he interrupted him a lot. he was looking, as you can see in that exchange, primarily at the questioner. for his part, what i thought that the governor did effectively was to play it low key. not to take the bait. keep it going. but in the final naanalysis, th is the junior varsity. when i was 15, i played on a really good junior varsity basketball team. we had a grea

woodruff: tom brokaw, a question for senator quayle. brokaw: thank you, judy. senator quayle, there's been a lot of talk during the course of this campaign about family. it was a principal theme, as i recall, in your acceptance speech in new orleans. tonight i'd like to ask you about the sixty-five million american children who live with their families in poverty. i'd like for you to describe to the audience the last time that you may have visited with one of those families personally and how you explain to that family your votes against the school breakfast program, the school lunch program, and the expansion of the child immunization program. [applause] quayle: i have met with those people, and i met with them in fort wayne, indiana, at a food bank. you may be surprised, tom, they didn't ask me those questions on those votes, because they were glad that i took time out of my schedule to go down and to talk about how we are going to get a food bank going and making sure that a food bank goes in fort wayne, indiana. and i have a very goo

policy you get under a dukakis administration and one the american farmer will likely reject. : tom brokaw. tom: lower interest rates, lower unemployment, lower inflation, arms-control deal with the soviet union. now, two guys come through and say would like you to change without offering a lot of specifics,.why would you accept that deal ? sen. bentsen: you know, if you let me write to hundred billion dollars of checks, year i could give you the illusion of prosperity, too. [applause] administration that has more than doubled the national debt, they have done that in less than eight years, they have taken this country from a number one lender nation in the world to the number one debtor nation in the world. and the interest on that debt next year, on this reagan-bush debt of our nation,'s want to be $640 for the man and women and child because of this credit card mentality. we go out and try to sell our securities every week, and health of the foreigners will buy them. and they do buy them, but every time they do, we lose some of our economic independence for the future. now, plant turnar

woodruff: tom brokaw, a question for senator quayle. mr. brokaw: senator quayle, i don't mean to beat this drum until it has no more sound in it. but to follow up on brit hume's question, when you said that it was a hypothetical situation, it is, sir, after all, the reason that we're here tonight, because you are running not just for vice president. [applause] mr. brokaw: and if you cite the experience that you had in congress, surely you must have some plan in mind about what you would do if it fell to you to become president of the united states, as it has to so many vice presidents just in the last 25 years or so. mr. quayle: let me try to answer the question one more time. i think this is the fourth time that i've had this question. mr. brokaw: the third time. mr. quayle: three times that i've had this question and i will try to answer it again for you, as clearly as i can, because the question you are asking is what kind of qualifications does dan quayle have to be president, what kind of qualifications do i have and what would i do in

. >>> 50 years at nbc, tom brokaw, an old dog, learning some new tricks. >>> tom brokaw is celebrating 50 years at nbc this year. as you can imagine, he's seen quite a but of change in his work life. >> we all spend a large part of as tom found out, a new generation is defining what success looks like. >> when i started in journalism 50 years ago, this was the goal, a big corner office. i got lucky. i got lucky just in time to be out of fashion. big was in then. small is in now. there is no shortage of people around nbc who would be happy with my office, but my daht she leases a space at we work, a company that provides a variety of workspaces for the digital generation. this doesn't look like a workspace. this looks like a college student union to me. >> that's the beauty of it. work and play have been very much connected. this is much more about i need a mental break. i need to get up. i'm going to have a cup of coffee. i'm going to hang out and have lunch with someone. >> reporter: we work offers everything from a place to plug office space with full technical support. the co-founde

is there a point to be made here, tom brokaw?trump tried to invoke and include bill clinton last night. the country has been through that for one thing. and i think the country feels that everyone should have learned lessons from it. for him to dismiss what he had to say as locker room talk, i've been in a lot of locker rooms over the years and last time i heard that was in junior high uninformed people saying outrageous things. last night what he did was just kind of stabilized where he was. i talked to a very prominent republican after the debate. one who wants him to get out of the race. he said the best that he could do was to get others from not abandoning him at that point. deeper in "the wall street journal" article it says in that context mr. trump could say he started the movement, mr. pence is now able to lead it to success and saying in effect get out because you're going to lose both house and senate if you don't do something soon. what he had to do last night was to bring people back to him that not just a crowd that

because he let a lot of charges go unanswered tonight. >> tom brokaw? >> i thought the two of them handled their briefs very well. i thought that the articulation of vice president -- i mean, the vice presidential candidate on the democratic side, senator kaine, he did interfere too much, but the fact h defended her and went right after donald trump on the vulnerabilities, taxes, putin relationship that he keeps talking about and all those other areas that were getting so much attention. pence i think we all agree did a remarkably good job given the circumstances he was under. he acted as if donald trump is a great champion of the republican party. i was thinking in my own mind all the republicans who have not endorsed donald trump. i thought that was a mishap. >> including mike pence. >> yeah, his own kaine. >> my favorite line of the night was that -- somebody was tweeting, tim kaine was running for vice president in 2016, mike pence was running for president in 2020. >> yeah. >> let's go to that point with nicolle wallace. at times kaine kept trying

tom brokaw, a third debate. typically don't move the needle. >> no, they don't. the way to move he played to her level, more engaging in a personal way. she came on as she always has, going back to her moot court day, extremely well prepared. details on all the proposals she wanted to get to. she got to that very well. you have to remember al gore had 7 million more votes than george bush and it went to the supreme court, when it was over, he wasn't happy about it but i accept it. john kerry who felt he was robbed of votes in ohio. there's a long tradition of how ever bitter you may be, you accept it. including nixon against kennedy. >> i'm sure that played well to his base of supporters tonight. >> i think it did, but, you know, this is a case where he may survive debate tonight, and the post debate the next couple of days aren't going to go well for him. >> on that issue. >> how he handles -- and the way other republicans are going to rigged, we can't trust the results. that's not an argument for how to win. it's an argument and an explanation for why you lost.

we also on "the today show" this morning tom brokaw will be talking about reaction to donald trump last night not fully accepting the transfer of power. wouldn't go there. wants to keep everyone in suspected shoplifter spence. they talked about what -- in a car company making a big announcement. wait until you hear what they are announcing. >> dana: coming up "the today show" vice presidential candidates weighing in on last >> kim: iraq's prime minister is saying the battedle to take out isis going more quickly than we thought. richard and his terrific reporting from iraq headed your way this morning also making headlines tesla is starting to build all of its electric vehicles with all of the gear needed to navigate the road without the help of a human. >> dana: as for self-driving cars, tom, you first. >> tom: we're not going with a self-driving helicopter. definitely need a pilot in this situation. we are at the 215 on the far west side of the valley. traffic is in great shape. which took place earlier this morning. this sagas station where there was a robbery. right now looks like po

then on the night of the election, remember tom brokaw saying we don't just have egg on our faces, wethe whole omelet. they called bush the winner, gore conceded, and then the networks changed their decision and al gore took back his concession. the gore campaign wanted a hand recount of florida ballots. the bush campaign sued, and we got a in-depth election of under votes, over votes, and hanging chads. 36 days later, they stopped the recount and al gore conceded. >>> let there be no doubt that while i strongly disagree with the courts decision, i accept it. i accept the finality of this outcome that will be ratified next monday in the electoral college. tonight for the sake of our unity as a people and the strength of our democracy, i offer my concession. >>> both candidates said they would have accepted the results of the hand recount. >> another comparison today is howard dean in 2004. he said the election wasn't fair, right? >> right, in 2004 it showed john kerry with a lead over bush and the polls turned out to be wrong. dean maintained that ohio had a list of voters and not all

>> al, ks correspondent tom brokaw is here. by the way, he is celebrating a remarkable five decades at nbc. >> that's very impressive. through the years he's witnessed changes, big and small. this morning he's here to show us how a new generation is redefining what success looks like. tom, always good to see you. good morning. >> great to be here. always. 50 years at this place, i'm going to stay until they find out who i am and what i'm doing. so far it's worked out very well. the biggest change i think in how we have changed almost everything we do. we communicate, we live, how we work. and i went down to lower manhattan to explore a place called we work. and it began in my office, actually. >> when i started in journalism 50 years ago, this was the goal. a big corner office. i got lucky. i got lucky just in time to be out of fashion. big was in then, small is now. >> reporter: there is no shortage of people around nbc who would be happy with my office. but my daughter andrea, a digital music executive, would say, no, thanks.

>> all right, peter, thank you so much. >>> we've got tom brokaw here with more. tom, we always kind of turn to you in these moments because you are our resident veteran and historian. can you put into perspective for people why that statement is such an earthquake? had. >> well, at this stage of the campaign, we're not even at the results yet. he's already saying i may not accept the results. this is not a banana we've got more than 200 years of presidential elections and graceful and peaceful transitions to the new administration, as you saw even richard nixon. al gore. the people who were caught up in very close races said "i accept that this is the new president." his complaints have been, apparently, that he thinks there is a media conspiracy of some kind. media conspiracy consists of the "new york times" printing his tax returns in which he didn't pay, it appears, paying any he had more air time than the geico gecko in the summer around his rallies were about him. i think that affected his thinking, he thinks it will be that way all the way through. rally an

while it's too early to declare this election over, remember my colleague tom brokaw's ufo theory, the unforeseen will occur, it's trending in hillary clinton's direction. what's in store for the next lock down 270 electoral votes or does she go for a big win, a landslide? does she try to quell the talk of a rigged election by pushing hard into red states like utah, georgia and arizona, sensing an opportunity since the last time the clinton was on the ballot. how about donald trump, his tone and his words have been more reserved. he's seeing the same polls we are. does he try to win or lose with grace? does he try to save down ballot republicans or does he even >> donald trump is delivering the closing argument. outlining plans for his first 100 days in office. while acknowledging he may never make it to the white house. >> you know, these guys have said, doesn't matter if you win or lose, there's never been a movement like this in the history of the country. it matters to me if we win or lose. >> with the senate an even the house in the balance,

when tom brokaw and dan rather said that george bush had won, they thought it was game over.here was a furious scramble to find somebody in the motorcade. >> maybe a minute after we left the hotel, my white house pager went off. it was a call from michael whouley. >> i think my words were, where are you guys? and he said we're at the war memorial, and i asked why. i was obviously incredulous. and he said we're about to concede, and i said for what? we haven't lost. >> something was fishy, and it smelled all the way to austin where team george w. bush nervously waited. >> jeb bush looking like his life is passing before his eyes because he's the good brother whose state is going to let down his brother, george, and george and laura bush looking pretty -- like kind of shell shocked a little bit. >> finally, after 3:00 a.m., a second call to bush from gore who was still hunkered down backstage at the war memorial. >> the phone rang again, and i heard governor bush in this very incredulous voice saying, you're retracting your concession? and, you know, i mean, there's no preceden

the atlantic's molly voll, tom brokaw and the host of a.m. joy, joy reid. come all many tom, be a voice of reason here, do you feel this rhetoric and what john kasich's 25%, that we're going to have, that november 9th is going to be as toxic as november 8th. >> i think it's one of the overwhelming issues coming out of this campaign, what happens after someone is declared the victor. how you put the country back together again. if i had to pick one single issue that is overwhelming to me as a citizen, a reporter, someone who has children and grandchildren looking forward, how do you stitch the country back together again. it's never going to be kumbaya. there are issues we have to be able to work together on and have a tone in washington in which people represent the small towns, the large cities where they get things done together by getting together and saying, these are our goals, we're going to find a way to do it, in washington, that's been missing, this campaign has only fed that in my judgment. >> i want to go to this vote rigging issue as a tactic. i

the prime minister of vice land in his bathing suits talking to a young tom brokaw who want to do interviewsquipped. they thought with the opening of the senate and there were 11,000 members there. but those on the far right i'm not sure bet he is doing an interview. a very small room he is starting to sit down right there. and then showing him doing great and then coming to a book party at t11 it was beautiful. the president and gorbachev and then you can see to translators that were simultaneous and the note taker that is important because george washington university put the notes on line. the american notes and the soviet notes from the summit that is something i did not know what the time. because there was a garbled 10 minutes recap but in these notes you see the back and forth and they are very very interesting with those 10 and a half hours here is the house where we met. i was disappointed because there was a concert downtown with a street festival of was looking forward to that which your pearl is back in the audience as part of our group, we met at 8:00 at night, we took of break

remember tom brokaw's theory. there's no question the election is trending in hillary clinton's direction. and a half weeks? does hillary clinton play it safe? or does she go for a big win, a landslide? did she try to quell the talk of a rigged election by pushing hard into utah, georgia and arizona, sensing an opportunity for the biggest electoral victory since the last time a clinton was on the ballot? what about donald trump? his tone, if not his words, has been noticeably more reserved in the last two days. trump is seeing the same polls we are. does he try to win or lose with grace? republicans or does he even care? >> if i lose -- if i lose -- >> donald trump is delivering his closing argument, outlining plans for his first 100 days in office. while acknowledging, he may never make it to the white house. >> you know, these guys have said, doesn't matter if you win or lose, there's never been a movement like this in the history of this country. i say it matters to me whether we win or lose. >> with the senate

. >> tom brokaw was talking about the fact that millennials on average between 24 and 30 will have six different job and it is not a big deal to them. >> whatever you land on, don't stress if you didn't do so well in chemistry. whatever you land on, there is is a marketplace for everything. >> wow. >> there's all different types of intelligence and everybody -- >> look at us. >> well, look at us. don't use us as an example. but i like that because there are many signs in life. this weekend in my life, i'm walking around. i feel like there are signs telling me things everywhere. madison avenue baptist church. there was this sign. it said sometimes you get the best light from burning a bridge. then, at the end of the night i was at a nightclub last night, and then this popped up. look at this sign. it said people should fall in love with their eyes closed. so i started out my day at church with that message, then i ended my night at the club with that message. what's >> this was sunday night? >> all on sunday. >> clubs are open on sunday night? >> yes, grandpa. >> my gosh! what are young

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