they gave us flowers and apple pie so we gave them candy chewing gum. >> and tom brokaw joins me now.e now, tom. 73 years later. what has taken so long for these guys to get their due? >> a lot of it has to do with the inergs shah of recognition. i won't be surprised if after all of this attention that they do get it. i want to give a shout out to justin bolding, one of our producers. he was there with me on the mountain. we were both so moved. he stayed with the story and made sure that we continued to cover it. get the attention they deserve. they're going to the middle east all the time now. my father-in-law was in the 34th red bull division. there are guys from south dakota, minnesota, nebraska, iowa, they were thrown into north africa against rammal. as someone said, it was a war in training. by the time they got to italy they were one of the best fighting units there. we need to give the guard the honor that it deserves, willie. >> these are farm boys, essentially, a lot of them out fighting and defeating adolph hitler. >> the other thing is they knew how to shoot. they had grow

tom brokaw, october 31st, 1973. night massacre. 24 times as moderator. how about that? pretty good there. peggy noonan, yours was june 6, 2004. >> the challenger had blown up. one of the first things he said was -- >> 26 times. very nice. eugene robinson, april 10th, 2005. 40 times for you, sir. >> very interesting. >> showing the style, different glasses. a little goatee. >> kasie hunt, you've changed so much since january of 2014. >> focus on trying to figure out, okay, would i be okay with donald trump? >> you've been on this show throw times. tom, you're wearing a very special tie this morning. tell the story. >> i actually selected this knowing we'd be coming here. this is a tie that was designed by vineyard vines after we lost timorous the. they were the true founders of "meet the press." and then reinvited -- reinvented "meet the press" and made it really must-see television. ran away with the ratings. he brought you to us, which i thought was very important as well. you're continuing in that tradition. so th

he said tom brokaw just received anthrax in the mail. brokaw another infection, : this time at nbc news in rockefeller plaza. jeffrey: rudy giuliani is in the elevator, they shut down 16 square blocks. what do you want me to do? i said let me put you on hold for a second. [laughter] that was my first month. david: you got through that. ultimately a number of years later, another crisis arose, that is the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008. it was very severe. jeffrey: i went to work in 1982. if you were an american business person during that period, you had seen recessions, but you had never seen something that was unimaginable. 9/11 was unimaginable. global financial crisis was unimaginable. i think it made us all smarter about risk. the day lehman brothers went bankrupt was not the worst day of the financial crisis. it was the day washington mutual went down because all the bondholders got wiped out. david: usually the bondholder get something. the bondholders got nothing as well. jeffrey: my cfo said we are going to raise equity, as m

tom brea tom brokaw will remind us what we are talking about. when the president landed here in seoul, we went on the streets to see what kind of welcome he was driving into. traditionally, south koreans have welcomed americans, servicemen and presidents alike, warmly. but things are changing here. we found another equally passionate crowd. they were here to tell american president to go home. >> if kim jong-un or trump decided to make war in korean peninsula, there's nothing we can do. it's crazy thing. >> stay with us. that's the height of mount everest. because each day she chooses to take the stairs. at work, at home... even on the escalator. that can be hard on her lower body, so now she does it with dr. scholl's orthotics. clinically proven to relieve and prevent foot, knee or lower back pain, by reducing the shock and stress that travel up her body with every step she takes. so keep on climbing, sarah. you're killing it. dr. scholl's. born to move. i love hanging out. with my friends. i have a great fit with my dentures. i love kiwis. i'v

next up, tom brokaw asks if we're heading for a new nuclear age.iendsgivings and fa la la family dinners, the hustle and bustle of holiday party season is officially on. hi. (laugh) hi! yes! come on in! so serve up some marie callender's dutch apple pie. made with fresh fuji apples in a made-from-scratch crust and topped with sweet crumbly streusel. look at you, dessert duty, judy! you just gave yourself the gift of being the best guest ever. because the holidays call for marie callender's. >>> welcome back. the president says that north korea went ahead and developed nuclear weapons because previous american administrations were not determined enough to stop it. but the big question now is which side is bluffing? will the president go to war with a nuclear-armed north korea? or will kim jong-un fire first? the third option that one of them will back down is the only one that avoids an all-out war. so the fact the that nuclear war is a possible outcome of this crisis. that idea, which was completely unthinkable just a few months ago, is hard to tak

next up, tom brokaw asks if we are headed for a new nuclear age?this world needing others. ♪ then we are told it's braver to go it alone. ♪ but there is another way to live. ♪ a way that sees the only path to fulfillment- is through others. ♪ you myour joints...thing for your heart... or your digestion... so why wouldn't you take something for the most important part of you... your brain. with an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is now the number one selling brain health supplement in drug stores nationwide. prevagen. the name to remember. if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis,... ...isn't it time to let the real you shine through? maybe it's time for otezla (apremilast). otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable after just 4 months,... ...with reduced redness,... ...thickness, and scaliness of plaques. and the otezla prescribing information has... ...no requirement for routine lab monitoring. don't use if you're allergic to ot

tom brokaw is here to talk about it. let's start with the breaking news and kasie hunt on capitol hill. this thing is changing by the minute. i've been watching your coverage. bring us up to speed on things like the corporate tax rate and the numbers republicans need to pass this. what's up? >> reporter: hallie, this is an incredibly thorny math problem they are trying to solve as they are heading into the big unveiling for what promises to be a change that in law, in tax law that touches every single american. we are still learning exactly what the details are going to be, and we have some critical questions still. behind closed doors they're here in the ceremonial room in the lo longwirth office building. they are walking through fact sheets about the individual and corporate rates that are set to be incomed in this bill. forgive me if i keep looking over my shoulder to see if there's anybody we want to talk to more about this. essentially we -- they have given out fact sheets that basically line up with what we know.

the one and only tom brokaw is walking in the room to be on "the beat." people would ask me in different countries that we traveled, what is your nationality and i would always answer hispanic. so when i got my ancestry dna results it was a shocker. i'm everything. i'm from all nations. i would look at forms now and wonder what do i mark? because i'm everything. and i marked other. discover the story only your dna can tell. order your kit now at ancestrydna.com. discover card. i justis this for real?match, yep. we match all the cash back new cardmembers earn at the end of their first year, automatically. whoo! i got my money! hard to contain yourself, isn't it? uh huh! let it go! whoo! get a dollar-for-dollar match at the end of your first year. only from discover. a farmer's market.ve what's in this kiester. a fire truck. even a marching band. and if i can get comfortable talking about this kiester, then you can get comfortable using preparation h. for any sort of discomfort in yours. preparation h. get comfortable with it. our recent online sales succes

one of the things i think back upon is colin powell with tom brokaw declaring that he was going to endorset. he was a lifelong republican and a cabinet member, and -- well, let's watch. >> i come to the conclusion that because of his ability to inspire, because of the inclusive nature of his campaign, because he is reaching out all across america, because of who he is and his rhetorical abilities, and we have to take that into account, as well as his substance. he has both style and substance. he has met the standard of being a successful president, being an exceptional president. i think he is a transformational figure. he is a new generation comie ono the world stage, the american stage, and for that reason i'll be voting for senator barack obama. >> of course, that was obama, not clinton, that he was announcing for, but that was such an extraordinary interview on so many levels. chuck, in taking this over from tim who transformed the show, and of course the show was really transformed with the hour-long show and made it possible to open "meet the press" up in so many ways. >> look, i th

. >>> we're joined by nbc senior correspondent, tom brokaw. tom, good morning. it sickens me to say that we're used to covering mass murders. but take me back to 1969 when this happened and '70, when the trial occurred. what are your most vivid memories? >> my vivid memory was being in the newsroom on a saturday morning, catching up on some stuff. and jack perkins says, there's a big murder in the hills. and he said it was sharon tate. and the next night, the labiancas were killed. and that was the beginning of chaos. in the context of what was going on in 1969, we had 500,000 people in vietnam, turns out richard nixon had a secret invasion of cambodia going on. the pack panthblack panthers an utter chaos. in 1968, we were rocking and rolling. and squeaky fromme sat vigil during the trial. i was the white house correspondent in sacramento. suddenly, ford is on the robe line. gun, gun. i look up, and there she was. squeaky fromme. i was the only one who knew who she was. secret service took her to the side. i kept yelling at her, who are you? she said, it didn't

a man who has sat in this moderator's chair, tom brokaw.nal" columnist peggy noonan, kasie hunt, of course, nbc's capitol hill correspondent and host of msnbc's kasie d.c. i'm going to try to come up with a kasie reference. and "washington post" columnist eugene robinson. welcome back books welcome all to the anniversary show. let's get to work here. i want to put up a graph that i -- i'm curious if you all see this the way that garrett graff in "wired" sees it about bob mueller. the approach then and now has almost always been similar, work on peripheral figures first, encourage them to cooperate with the government against their bosses in exchange for a lighter sentence and complete the process until the circle has tightened closely around the godfather or the criminal mastermind. >> i've been talking to members of the white collar crime bar here in washington, d.c. and that's pretty much how they see it, but what we don't know is what the endgame is going to be. so i think we always have to be very careful during these kinds of situation

. >>> we're joined by senior correspondent tom brokaw. good morning. it sickens me to say that these days we're used to covering mass rd the trial occurred. what are your most vivid memories. >> my vivid memory is being in the newsroom and jack said there is a big murder up in the hills and five minutes later he said it was sharon tate and the next night the la biancas were killed and that is the beginning of the chaos. but in the context of 1969, we had 500,000 people in vietnam and richard nixon had a secret invasion of cambodia and the black panthers and give peace a chance by yoko ono and ted kennedy killed a young woman with him and it was utter chaos. and that is all 1968. so we are rocking and rolling. and the thing that i remember is that squeaky from sat vigil. i was in sacramento and gerald ford is on the robe line and there is chaos, guns, guns and i woke up and there she was. i was the only one who knew who off to the side and everybody else -- i kept yelling, who are you, i waptd to be sure. she said it didn't go off. she damn near killed

tom brokaw has a very special tie that he's wearing. i tweeted it, so you can look at it closely. but it's very cool. tip of the hat to as he put it two pounding father he is of "meet the press." our good late friend tim russert is one of them. >> exactly. chuck, congratulations on the big anniversary and reminder that you can see "meet the press" comes up every sunday at 10:30 right here on nbc 4. >>> and now to the weather. you're not bringing a very sunny disposition. >> i'm bringing the fogs and clouds. >> will it clear out? >> io no, we will -- it's been hanging on a lot longer than i originally thought. so i had to lower temperatures which i don't like do often. but we will start to get a south wind that brings moisture off the atlantic and the rain malaysia night. but again we'll start to see the temperatures pull up. and guys, is that improving picture right there? we have some improving conditions out there right now. and you can see the ground at this point. so again, the fog is lifting. but it's taking so long. the mist will eventually dry out because we're also seeing

nbc news senior correspondent tom brokaw is here with more on that, and his conversation with senator in many ways. he went back to the naval academy where he graduated fifth from the bottom and talked about all that he has learned. it was a warning not just for the cadets but for the country as a whole. here's mccain at the naval academy. >> we have to defeat those who would worsen our divisions. we have to remind our sons and daughters we became the most powerful nation on earth by tearing down walls, not building them. >> that was senator john mccain going back to his alma mater, talking about how we have to get engaged in the world. it is a time of reflection for the senator on many levels. when we met for an interview, it was both the 50th anniversary of his capture vietnamese and a time of reflection. senator, when you woke up this morning, did you say to yourself, where was i 50 years ago? >> you know, i did. i thought, wow. maybe i zigged when i should have zagged. yeah, i thaugought about it a l but i also thought about the heros that i have known, and the benefit of having s

he was, as tom brokaw said, one of the greatest generation who felt compelled to serve.had two different exemptions, and would not have had to serve in world war ii. but he chose to do so. if that wasn't a difficult enough decision, he had just left when i came down with polio as a kid, a little 2-year-old. which, of course, was a scary thing. and so he went off to war, left my mother behind. and she worked on my recovery for the next two years. he got there in march of 1945, this was after the battle of the bulge. and he was in the thick of it from march until may the 8th, 1945, ve day. i subsequently found out two-thirds of his company got wiped out one night. so it was a vicious process. i have a letter he wrote to my mother, and at the top of it, he wrote ve day. may the 8th, 1945. the greatest generation fought a war that had to be fought. and had we not won it, we wouldn't be the country we are today. all of our servicemen now are volunteers. they volunteer to put their lives in danger. and need to be well taken care. so happy veterans day, in particular to all tho

but no one has had the wonderful life that i've had, no one. >> tom brokaw joins us now. asked i thought a really important question of john mccain and that is are we more divided today than we were in 1968. last night mika and i were talking for the harvard institute of politics at the world economic forum and a lot of really sharp people there. and they asked the question, is this the most divided we've ever been. coincidentally, i said, talk to tom brokaw and people like john mccain about 1968 and ask them if we're more divided. it is good to keep things in perspective like that. and senator mccain, i think that's why he is so invaluable, this democracy right now. what do you think? >> well, i think at a ground level, we were more divided then because of the war. i think body bag, the phrase he used, 15,000 people died that year. dr. king was murdered. kennedy murdered. the russians went into check slovakia in august. we were deeply divided. the difference is we are so much more acutely conscious of the division because of social media, joe. it's a 24-hour cycle going o

and i've described them as america's new greatest generation, something that actually tom brokaw shoutedmy ears after he saw our soldiers in the first year in iraq when i was privileged to be the commander of the 101st airborne division up in mosul, and he saw all that they were doing, the myriad tasks. everything from combat to helping rebuild cities that had been damaged during the war, looting or... all of these different tasks. and he said, "you know, that world war ii crowd was the greatest generation, but surely the young men and women we've seen today are america's new greatest generation." and i very much believe in that. all right. well, let's talk about how you came into the military. your father was a dutch sea captain. petraeus: yes. uh-huh. david: and he met your mother who was from brooklyn. petraeus: yup. david: and they met at a church service or church social. petraeus: yup, mm-hm. yup. david: and he later stayed here during world war ii yes. and became a commander of a u.s. merchant marine ship. during the war he sailed with the u.s. merchant marine. long war. because t

joining us now, senior correspondent tom brokaw. from the trip. >> i've been on a lot of those trips, asia and europe as well when we were trying to develop new relationships with the chinese and went to the philippines with president ford, all over europe with president nixon and other presidents as well. there's always a talk about friendship. this is not about friendship, not a personal relationship. in china and philippines, they are going back right now and sitting down and saying, how can we deal with this country and what are our interests here. they are putting national interests first. we got along very well and it's going to be great between the united states and the philippines or wherever he happened to be, vietnam or china. these are very complex relationships and they are going to work it out on their terms, not our terms whether they feel like he's a guy i want to have a beer with or drink a cup of coffee. >> i sat through, there's such a disconnect from reality, we're talking about the possibility of trade deals with

he was as tom brokaw said, one of the greatest generation. he felt compelled to serve.e had two different exemptions and would not have had to serve in world war ii, but he chose to do so. if that wasn't a difficult had justcision, he left when i came down with polio as a kid, as a two-year-old, which of course was a scary time. and so he went off to war and left my mother and i, and she worked on my recovery for the next two years. he got there in march of 1945. this was after the battle of the untiland he was there may, 1945, ve day. two thirds of his company got wiped out one night, so it was a vicious conflict. i have a letter he wrote to my ej, maynd he wrote, the 8, 1945. greatest generation fought a war that had to be fought and had they not won it, we have today. service members now are volunteers. they volunteered to put their lives in danger and need to be want taken care of. day,appy veterans particularly to all of those in >> tomorrow, mike pence will wreath-laying ceremony at arlington national ceremony -- cemetery. you can watch that live here on c-span an

>> i'm looking forward to the fact that we'll have tom brokaw on the show. i wish we could be celebrating and doing a special of "meet the press" through the years -- >> too much to do. >> -- but there's too much to do. we owe it to our viewers. we have a news show we have to do on russia, the democrats, tax plan. we have a lot to jam in, but we're celebrating. we have a fun little thing for people, so we'll see you sunday. >> no lack of excitement in seven years. make sure to tune in to more chuck this afternoon on "mtp daily" at 5:00 and every sunday on "meet the press s" as well. >>> nearly a two-week country tour across asia. that's next live on "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. that you think is most dependable. ohhhh. ughh. wow. that's just not fair. does she have to? she doesn't have to! oh, i don't? no, but it's a tough choice, isn't it? yes. well luckily, chevy makes it a little easier. cause it's the only brand to earn j.d. power dependability awards for cars, trucks and suvs - two years in a row. that's amazing. chevy's a name you can trust

. >> and one of the abchoremen and correspondents at the time in california tom brokaw was on "today"ing. >> wow. >> he was a truly evil dark person and i always believed he knew exactly what he was doing. he was playing with us in that way. >> brokaw remembering all this and squeaky fromme of course, almost if the gun had fired correctly would have assassinate the president ford. >> violent culture. one of two people to shoot at ford. somebody tried to kill wrag gan, almost did. they shot kennedy. >> sarah j. moore who was only in san francisco actually only 17 days later. >> think about the political violence that occurred. we lost malcolm x, george rockwell, almost lost george wallace. it was going on then. >> and, of course, bobby kennedy which you examine and the impact of that on our psyche on our history. >> i know when he died and carried in the train down from new york to washington, the sense had i is just a loss. and i think a lot of people my age and a bit young are still think about him as someone who was tough, a liberal who had a real democratic sense. a lower case d. h

john mccain expressed the same sentiments to tom brokaw in an extraordinary interview.play a little bit. >> if the president said, john what should i be doing i'm not doing right now, what would you say to him? >> stop tweeting. i think i'd say stop tweeting. >> that interview was done, ashley and jeremy, on the anniversary of john mccain's having been captured in hanoi. including current politics, past politics and the press. he says he hates the press but the press are important. >> for john mccain. he used to call us his favorite constituency. boy, if i had a nicokel for evey time an aide of trump's said boy, we wish he would stop tweeting. it's not going to happen. he sees this as a vital communications tool to reach his base and he's going to keep doing it for as long as he's president and probably after. >> ashley, as you're all covering all of this, the asian trip coming up, this is a real moment in the young presidency of donald trump. his first big trip to asia. >> that's absolutely right. there's actually a lot of parallels between this trip and his first fore

. >> john mccain, it was tom brokaw who asked him, what is your one piece of advice for the president? it was, get off twitter. it was stunning when we learned general kelly said he doesn't follow president trump on twitter. one of two things. >> maybe he should. >> web -- one of two things. sean spicer said consider the president's tweets official white house statements. >> yeah. >> that being the case, why on earth would the chief of staff of the president not follow those official white house statements that come out all day long? >> right. >> i'm going to say, i don't actually believe him. >> you think general kelly knows what he is tweeting? everybody knows what he is tweeting. >> come on. >>> we're digging into other big stories from overseas. president trump says he believes vladimir putin's claim that russia did not interfere with the u.s. election. u.s. intelligence agencies say they have proof. we're going to break that down for you next. stay with us. you're watching "velshi & ruh ruhle," live on mississipsnbmsn. hundred years of heritage, craftsmanship and innovation. toda

by in tom brokaw's words "the greatest generation any , society has ever produced." i think if we're going to understand 1942, we also have to see a different reality. this is a series of paintings by done in 1942 in reaction to pearl harbor. he called about eight of these paintings, "america in peril, 1942." this was similar to other themes that were possible. this was a time when the federal government was selling insurance andcies against attack people as far inland as indiana are buying these policies to make sure they were protected against any kind of foreign attack. at a time in which some in the government worried we might lose the war or that areas along both coasts or well inland could be subject to many more attacks, at a time in which one former president called on the nation to give president roosevelt dictatorial powers, this is a time when they a large contingent in congress wanted to make sure the work was not used toas expand voting rights. that is what i want to focus on. i want to focus on two moments that happens in the fall of 1942 that i think a