. >>> inspiring america, >>> tom brokaw with a reunion all these years later. nightly news begins right now. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening. president trump and the white house are speaking out about two controversial world leaders today in ways that are surprising some. the president is not ruling out applying his negotiating skills in a sunday face-to-face meeting with north korea's kim jong-un and standing by his invitation for the philippines president to visit the u.s., the brutal anti drug campaign raised serious human rights concerns. national correspondent peter alexander has details. >> reporter: tonight, president trump with this alarming warning about north korea. we're probably not safe over here if he gets long range missiles, we're not safe, either. >> reporter: after surprising comments to bloomberg news opening a door to a meeting with dictator kim jong-un. if it would be appropriate for me to meet with him, i would absolutely. i would be honored to do it.

these are bricks beginning to stack up. >> nbc special correspondent tom brokaw. thank you for being with us on this historic night. apeciate you being here. >>> joining us now is matthew miller, former department of justice spokesman. what was your reaction to this? i will preface by saying as soon as we hurbd the heard the news was breaking we started calling people we know who have been senior justice department officials in previous administrations, anybody who had been sort of at ranking, that kind of ranking member of national security establishment to contact us. because we were calling so early we were breaking the news to a lot of people by making our booking calls. and everybody was shocked to the point of disturbed. nobody said i knew it was coming or it happened today. everybody seemed absolutely floored by it. that is our experience as a show in the moment. what was your spoerns? >> i found out from a booker and i was immediately on the phone with former colleagues of mine who were all astonished. i think this is a crisis for the country but tragedy f

tom brokaw says this analogy does not hold.t there is a sense of real crisis because all of the issues raised by journalists and senators like angus king. l of the reasons that the us what claim for the firing of jim comey do not hold up. >> we dealt with it every day on a factual basis. not a lot of speculation. now the media landscape changed a lot. but i think all of us as reporters, where ever we have in new york, washington, or across the country. we have to take a deep breath and deal with them as we know. watergate was a general enterprise run from the white house. some of the top aides were on their way to federal prison and burglars were paid off out of the white house. so the big difference with what we're dealing with now, but having said that, there are a lot of elements that need more explanation. i have not run into anyone that thinks jim comey was doing a good job, and as you remember, hillary clinton and the others in the democratic party all but blame them for her loss. so there is a lot of con strugs, and our

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tomorrow join tom brokaw for a special presentation of the greatest generation.orrow at 9 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. craig melvin is next. >> thank you so much. a good friday afternoon to you. craig melvin kicking off this holiday weekend from mvs nbc. hillary clinton delivering a rousing speech to the graduating class of her alma mater pulling no punches when talking about president trump. also family ties. jared kushner now under the fbi microscope in their russia investigation. why they think he may have information about russia's influence in the presidential election, and overseas offensive. president trump wrapping up his first overseas trip as commander in chief in italy. but were his meetings with world leaders effective or offensive? we'll get to that in a moment. we start with hillary clinton just a half hour ago she wrapped up that commencement speech at wellesley college. taking no prisoners. her chief target? president trump and the assault she says he is waging on the truth. clinton also made a very stark comparison between events now and dur

let's bring into the conversation nbc news special correspondent tom brokaw.ck at the podium today. one wonders what he can possibly say given the fact that he was the first on tuesday evening to put out the statement that president trump fired director comey at the recommendation of jeff sessions, the attorney general, and rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, and the president coming out to lester yesterday and saying, no, that's actually not how it happened. i had already made up my mind. it seems to me the white house is trapped between these two stories. what can they say today? >> well, what they'll say is what they always say, that they'll have some kind of an interpretation that won't add up. there's a new reality at the white house almost every day. we have such chaos at this early stage in the trump presidency that it's hard to calculate how we go from here. the idea that the president would have dinner with comey and then ask in effect solicit a kind of immunity from any investigation that he may be conducting and comey didn't give him what h

deployed to a combat zone, i have described them as america's new greatest generation, something tom brokawing in my years after he saw our soldiers in the first year in iraq when i was privileged to be a trainer for the 101st airborne he saw all ofsul, the tasks they were doing, rebuilding cities that were damaged during the war. says, that world war ii craft was the greatest generation, but what we're seeing today is america's new greatest generation. i believe in that. david: let's talk about how you came to the military. your father was a dutch sea captain. he met your mother who was from brooklyn. they met at a church service. he later stayed here during world war ii and became a commander of a u.s. merchant marine ship. mr. petraeus: during the war he sailed with the u.s. merchant marines. he signed on in 1939. when the nonazis invaded holland, he cannot go back. i grew up seven miles north of west point. i could run home from west point. david: growing up, what was your nickname? mr. petraeus: peaches. i was an announcer at the little league game. there was a nine-year-old came to th

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here is how tom brokaw reported it on nbc news. >> it was a three alarm day in washington, the president announcing his policy for gays in the military in one hour, and firing the fbi next. the fbi director william sessions finally got the message today, time to go. he was fired from the president personally after refusing request from attorney general janet reno to step aside. more on this from pete williams. >> reporter: with attorney general janet reno at his side, president clinton went before reporters to say session's leadership left the fbi in turmoil. >> after thorough review of mr. session's leadership at the fbi, she reported to me in no uncertain terms he can no longer effectively lead the bureau and law enforcement community. >> meanwhile, cnn reporting over the past few weeks federal prosecutors seeked subpoenas seeking business records from people that worked with michael flynn when he was a private citizen, citing people familiar with the matter, cnn reports they targeted people that worked with flynn on contracts after he was removed as director of defense intelligence ag

something tom brokaw shouted in my ears after he heard our soldiers in the first year in iraq in the first year in mosul. and he saw all that they were doing, myriad tasks from combat to helping rebuild cities that had been damaged during the war, all of these different tasks. and he said, you know, that world war ii crowd was the greatest generation, but surely the men and women we have seen today is america's new greatest generation. and i very much believe in that. david: let's talk about how you came into the military. your father was a dutch sea captain, and he met your mother, who was from brooklyn, and they met at a church service? general petraeus: yes. david: and he later stayed here during world war ii and became a commander of a u.s. merchant 00000000000000yu7777777777777777 00000000000000yu7777777777777777 general petraeus: during the war, he sailed with u.s. merchant marine. they all signed on. i think it was in 1939 when the nazis overran holland. they couldn't go back to rotterdam. so they came to the united states. david: you grew up in new york city? general petraeus

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tom brokaw was telling a little of that history. here he was on meet the press the next morning.e pose ad question to the adviser. >> the president has ignored an order from the federal appeals court. he has fired special prosecutor, he has second the resignation. in view of all that, don't you expect now impeachment proceedings against the president will begin in the house of representatives? >> well, first with all due apologies, i can't accept the premise of your question. >> well, attorney general richardson and deputy attorney general rucklehouse resigned that night. they refused to fire cox. he was fired by a solicitor general. nixon wanted him fired because he submitted time recordings seen as cover-up of nixon's handling of that night is seen as a gross overreach of presidential power. and not since then, has a president fired a person leading an investigation so close to him. but as the nixon library pointed out, nixon never did fire his fbi director. >>> still ahead, richard shelby joins me live with his reaction. plus our esteemed roundtable comes back we had another r

he has tom brokaw's audience. several million people will watch this every night. if they produce the broadcast brian will be fine. he is what everybody, every parent wishes their daughter would marry. what a great looking guy! he has a lot of nice shirts, articulate, sincere, what is not to like about brian? john roberts, similar! i know john. -- i don't know, i know that tim because you know tim he is great you know. whether he wants to do that or just go to the ballgame i never quite sure. tim is a terrific talent. i don't know that he has ever, he is a great interviewer. i don't know about reading proper and all of that stuff. i cannot imagine matt lauer not wanting to get up in the hour at that morning would want to give up what is a pretty lucrative gig. so who knows. but roberts is fine. williams is fine. they're not finished tomorrow night despite his statements about the shows being dinosaurs. they are dinosaurs!>> what would you do that with you will run in one of those shows to make a difference? >> you have to start with your on-air talent. the truth is

and if you are home tonight, watch "the greatest generation" reported by tom brokaw at 9:00 p.m. msnbc. that wraps up this hour. i'm richard lui. stay with us for news and updates. find mon twitter and inagram @richardlui. rachel maddow is next. have a great night. swings. sure we could travel, take it easy... but we've never been the type to just sit back... not when we've got so much more to give when you have the right financial advisor, life can be brilliant. ameriprise i hafor my belly painking overand constipation.ucts i've had it up to here! it's been month after month of fiber. weeks taking probiotics! days and nights of laxatives, only to have my symptoms return. (vo) if you've had enough, tell your doctor what you've tried and how long you've been at it. linzess works differently from laxatives. linzess treats adults with ibs with constipation or chronic constipation. it can help relieve your belly pain, and lets you have more frequent and complete bowel movements that are easier to pass. do not give linzess to children less than six, and it should not be given to child

tom brokaw and michael crow, thank you so much. >> heilemann and hall person and house and meacham have not sent their money in. they say they're in. >> happy friday, everybody. that does it for us this morning. a lot happened this week. i got a fondue maker. stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. >> thanks so much, mika. good morning. i'm stephanie ruhle. and you know this is the kind of day i love. jobs, jobs, jobs. the numbers are out, and they're strong. unemployment now the lowest in ten years. that is a very good number for the president and the economy. we got to talk about the battle, right back into it. republicans taking a health care victory lap. >> let's see how good this plan is. we don't have to talk about this unbelievable victory. was it unbelievable. we don't have to say it again. >> now, of course, it heads to the senate where it is off to a rocky start already. >> the senate will write its own bill. i mean that's the way it works, right. >>> plus, going global. the president announces his first foreign trip including a meeting with pope francis, after saying

it helps to have grown up in ohio and tom brokaw made this argument before that if you're from the midwest you ten not to be is polarized on politics and then if you're from a coastal elites. seattle washington is pretty liberal, los angeles liberal, new york city is very liberal, you're going to hear an echo chamber of rising grievances. also occurs in deep red texas, occurs in deep red precincts in other parts of the country and it's not healthy. i just don't try to attribute a generalization. i can't tell anyone's giving pattern to charity based on whether or not they have an rog name. statistically republicans write more text to private charitiesbu the democrats but i don't know the individuals generosity or benevolence by virtue of general patterns. i don't think we can attribute to that. it's useful not to defriendsi anyone over politics. c life is way too short. >> host: what's your analysis of the congressional race down in georgia, democrat 140%. we have a couple more. >> guest: karen handel, said she would win easily.they're doi john had a chance. i love when democrats tell us. w

. >> sean: jay, mark simone, a friend of mine sent me a tweet from tom brokaw. director comey has had a lot of self-inflicted wounds. he's made a lot of mistakes. wow, has nbc changed since he left. just as a side note. where do we begin? with all that lou has brought up and all that sarah has brought up, they're such criminality here. there seems to be a crisis as it relates to equal justice under the law. in this country now, as a result of james comey. how do you fix that? how do you recover from that in a media that wants to cover it all up? >> the media is the easiest side because you just play what harry reid and chuck schumer said. then you have harry reid call calling for his resignation a year ago. here's what i i do within the department of justice. here is what you do. within the department of justice itself, within the fbi itself, you create a unit that looks at all of this brand-new. everyone of these issues, sean, that sara and lou have laid out. they need to be looked at from the beginning. i think it has to have new eyes. that's number one. numbe

. >> joining us now is tom brokaw, nbc news special correspondent, longtime anchor of "nbc nightly news." white house correspondent during the watergate scandal. mr. brokaw, it's an honor to have you with us. >> thank you rachel. good to be here. i rarely disagree with michael beschloss, but to some degree i do tonight. i think that the saturday night massacre was an entirely different dimension. we were very deep into watergate at that point and it was a summary firing by the president of the unitestates who was under investigation. in this case as we've been hearing during the course of this day, director comey had a lot of self-inflicted wounds. attorney general sessions put his name on that, even though he'd recused himself from that. nonetheless, comey had made a number of mistakes, right up to the last 24 hours or so before we got to this place. the one thing i learned during watergait, everybody take a deep breath. let's deal with the facts as we know them and go from day-to-day to day and see how they stack up. the thing most interesting in the president's letter to comey was th

and tom brokaw was the featured speaker.go this month. but in our memory, he will remain forever young. the 46-year-old president, anas nated in dallas. the kennedy family gathered at the smithsonian for a remembrance of his life, it's a reminder how the kennedy life has so many ports. >> president kennedy's memory resonates and that's because of the vision he set forward for america. >> reporter: caroline kennedy exhibits grace under pressure. that was her father's definition of courage. caroline kennedy is the sole survivor of the president's immediate family. a child during camelot. an ambassador to japan. a reserved carrier of the flame during so many dark days. mother, jackie, elegant american royalty. always her own person, a victim of cancer. john, the prince, his wife and sister in law, died in a small plane crash at sea, en route to a family wedding. >> i just think that we just have to change our policies. >> reporter: rfk, the next kennedy who might have been president, was murdered in los angeles. but ethel and h

>>> we are joined by nbc's senior correspondent tom brokaw who documented what became known as the greatest> this morning he brings us the stories veterans from the war in vietnam. good to see you. >> thank you. it's great to be here. i had a wonderful time at a reunion recently and one of the most remarkable stories coming out of vietnam involved those american pilots imprisoned in the north in brutal conditions, many for years, seven, eight years. and yet so many emerged and picked untheir lives, even resuming their military careers, they were bound by brotherhood and the exhilaration of flight. i joined some of them for a reunion in san antonio. general chuck boyd, u.s. air force retired has never lost his love of flight. not even after almost seven years in a north vietnamese prison. >> there's a special bond that exists between men who not only survived but in many ways prevailed under difficult circumstances. >> boyd was shot down on 23ri 22, 1966, and experienced some of the worst the north vietnamese prison system had to offer, including the infamous hanoi hilton. so did julius and

and the fact they all emerged as whole as they are, is really astoni astonishing. >> tom brokaw.going to get a real treat. everybody is excited because two of the funniest women in hollywood, amy schumer and goldie hawn. >> they're ready. >> cannot wait. first, a check of your local news and weather. i )m ... new information just in the newsroom. >>> good monday morning to you. it is 8:26. i'm laura garcia cannon. new information just into our newsroom. police identified a manabtq fou dead in an oakland home depot parking lot. 22-year-old robert mccorvey of pittsburgh was found inside his car with a gunshot wound on alameda avenue last fight. police searched that area blocking the parking lot off. it did affect nearby businesses. they have not announced a possible motive or any arrests. we'll continue to keep you updated as this story develops. >>> in the meantime want to check that monday morning commute. it was a rough one. >/[e look, this(÷pg story here, northbound 880 jammed solid from san leandro past 50 in oakland. as we look at your map i'm getting conflicting information.

this morning tom brokaw takes you inside. >> john f.ated in dallas. the kennedy family gathered at the smithsonian for a celebration of his life. it was a reminder of how the kennedy legacy has so many parts and how it's been a part of our lives for so long. >> president kennedy's memory sill resonates. that's because of the vision he set forward for america. >> caroline kennedy exhibits grace under pressure. that was her father's definition of courage. care line kennedy is the sole survivor of the president's immediate family. a child during camelot, an ambassador to japan, a reserved carrier of the flame during so many dark days. mother, elegance, american royalty. always her own person, a victim john, the prince, his wife and sister-in-law died in a small plane crash at sea on the way to a family wedding. >> i just think that we just have to change our policy. r.rfk, the next kennedy who might have been president was murdered in los angeles. but ethel and his public minded children, including a grandson now in congress. >> we have to

joining me now nbc news senior correspondent, the great tom brokaw.'s so much flying around. we've got brennan testifying yesterday, dan coats, threat of subpoenas for michael flynn. help people sort of clear the smoky. where are we? >> i think when you clear the smoky we're at the beginning of something, thought at the end of something. we're kind of at the end of the beginning. we're now moving into a serious state what we just saw, could be held in contempt of congress, for example. fbi director brennan saying he was very concerned. oddly enough richard engel and i went to him in september of last fall because i had gotten a tip there were connections between trump and the russians. it was fairly detailed. it came from a democratic operative. so we went to brennan, and he said, i can't help you with that. i don't know of any connection between presidential candidate. that's what we're talking about presidential candidate of the republican party and the russians, and then added, but i wouldn't be surprised. that's as much as he would give us at that