it used to be tom brokaw was talking about this. people from the midwest through education or whatever, you would go to silicon valley, track out to california or any of the coasts and come back. now it is so expensive to live on the coast. silicon valley, new york, atlanta, and also education is no longer what it was, route to upward mobility. people are stuck through all these studies. there is much less fluidity. the coastal elites, in this number because they are not all coastal and they are also not all elites in the sense that they are not all wealthy. that term refers to professors and journalists and activists. coastal elites are also not all white. they are often -- it is better to describe these multicultural -- everyone in this room. people like me, whether you are republican or democrat, you view yourself as tolerant and you know lots of minorities and believe in religious freedom and you travel a lot and see people all over the world and probably think of yourself as not tribal because you believe in individual rights a

1968 golden state primary was a 28-year-old reporter for knbc tv in los angeles by the name of tom brokawbut how he wagered everything on california. >> i think that we should start focusing attention on our problems here in the united states. that should be our first priority. >> reporter: one week before his death, bobby kennedy did something no member of his family had ever done. he lost an election, running second in the oregon presidential primary. >> i'm going to do all that i can and i've done all that i can so far and at the end of it if i'm not successful, then i will have to abide by that. >> reporter: robert francis kennedy didn't set out to be president. for years he was his older brother, jack,'s most trusted advisor, his enforcer as attorney general. but jfk's assassination transformed bobby. his grief awakened him to the suffering of others. as senator, he turned against the war in vietnam which had been jack's war. at first he stayed out of the 1968 campaign. but when anti--war candidate eugene mccarthy almost beat incumbent president lyndon johnson in new hampshire, kenne

today what he wished for others will some day come to pass for all the world. >> our thanks to tom brokawor that. >>> that does it for us. craig melvin takes over now in new york. >> good to see you. good afternoon. craig melvin at msnbc headquarters in new york city. breaking news. president trump commuted the sentence of 63-year-old alice marie johnson. this coming after kim kardashian lobbied the president for her release last week. right now the white house is also preparing dozens of additional pardons for the president to review. sources say that the president is "obsessed with pardons." some of which against the wishes of his closest add vidors. >>> also, it wasn't my finest hour. president clinton apologizing again for his behavior in the monica lewinsky scandal and raising questions about how he conducted our interview this week. what he's claiming and our

show, an incredible piece by tom brokaw. it will be great to hear tom brokaw and hear from his voice on this. our senior producer has a book out. and michael beshlosh wille joining us. a big show tomorrow, looking back 50 years. that does it for us this morning. stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. >> thanks, mika, thanks, joe. good morning. i'm stephanie ruhle with a lot to cover today, starting with in hot water. paul manafort accused of sending encrypted notes to potential witnesses encouraging them to lie. mueller now looking to revoke his bail. >> somebody who is willing to tamper with witnesses is not rationally thinking enough to understand that cooperating is perhaps his best end game here. >> tired of winning? the president cancels a visit from the super bowl champion eagles after reports that less than a dozen players were going to show up. the president blames the anthem protests. >> he's saying it's not me they're rejecting, i america. when, in fact -- >> these players don't like president trump. >> h

tom brokaw, we're going to hear from tom brokaw about this, our senior producer on "morning joe" wrote this as well and we'll talk more about chris's book and this incredible moment in hiy. the conversation will continue here on "morning joe." >> we were talking in our last fr massachusetts, about who at the democrats should be right now in the age of trump and i'm struck listening to you all talk about bobby kennedy, he was a very different kind of democrat than many we see today. is there a lesson for democrats to learn about politics, about public presentation, about how to defeat donald trump that they can take from bobby kennedy? >> well, you know, i read the interview the other day, this kid, he was a 16-year-old busboy who held bobby kennedy's head up when he was shot. juan romero and he said when kennedy walked into his when he was delivering room service that kennedy didn't look through him but he looked at him. he said "i felt like i was ten feet tall." you and i knew tip o'neill tunnel, they're real liberals and they're phs. e pien the sky, always looking into the distance,

. >> stephen: so this is tom brokaw saying how gerald ford died in the most specific ways because helaughter ) >> good, good. next. >> all right. stunning news from michigan as former president gerald ford was chopped into little bits by the propeller of a commuter plane. ( laughter ) >> very good, one take. >> all right, we got it? >> no, we got eaten by wolves. >> what? no, come on. >> just read it, please, tom. >> gerald ford isn't going to be eaten by wolves. >> taft was. >> really? taft? ( laughter ) >> uh, yeah. >> all right. tragedy today as former president gerald ford was eaten by wolves. he was delicious. ( laughter ) >> oh, wow. ( cheers and applause )as o sketches. one of your best. >> stephen: thank you for this job. thank you for show business. >> you would have made it anyway. >> stephen: ladies and gentlemen, the man is funny with the sound-off. >> stephen colbert! >> stephen: "too funny to fail" is on hulu. dana carvey, everybody. we'll be right back with simon pegg. ( cheers and applause ) ♪ how do you like me now ♪ now that i'm on my way ♪ do you still think i'm cr

. >> our thanks to tom brokaw for that. >>> that does it for us. craig melvin takes over now in new york. >> good to see you. good afternoon. craig melvin at msnbc headquarters in new york city. breaking news. president trump commuted the sentence of 63-year-old alice marie johnson. this coming after kim kardashian lobbied the president for her release last week. right now the white house is also preparing dozens of additional pardons for the president to review. sources say that the president is "obsessed with pardons." some of which against the wishes of his closest add vidors. >>> also, it wasn't my finest hour. president clinton apologizing again for his behavior in the monica lewinsky scandal and raising questions about how he conducted our interview this week. what he's claiming and our response. >>> and back in the spotlight. melania trump expected to make her first public appearance in nearly a month after the president defended her absence and attacked the media for being vicious. there's a good chance we will see melania trump this hour,

all right so tom brokaw thank you very much and. also look at how the blockades affected the cattle national airline later in the program and iran will inform the u.n. nuclear watchdog of plans to restart preliminary nuclear related processes iran's atomic energy organization says teheran has the capacity to accelerate the pathak production of centrifuges which are used to enrich uranium iran's supreme leader ayatollah khamenei has ordered preparations to go ahead if the twenty fifteen international nuclear deal falls apart after the u.s. quit the agreement. and. we got this message from some european countries we expect the iranian people to both tolerate the sanctions and deal with them they want us to go along with them and give away our nuclear energy activities and continue with the limitations i would tell these countries that they should be aware that this is a dream that will never come true the people of iran and the government of iran will never tolerate this to both suffer sanctions and nuclear limitations this will never

i was talking to the president of the university, i said, "i think it was, like, tom brokaw, or peterd try. it was actually ted koppel." so i was like, i -- [ laughter ] i knew it was one of those guys, so clearly he didn't leave much of an impression. >> jimmy: no. [ laughter ] >> so i'm hoping -- >> jimmy: yeah. >> that i can give them a a little bit something more than what t.k. >> jimmy: but they are 22-year-old kids. yeah, i mean, yeah. >> t.k. is a beast, don't get me -- >> jimmy: t.k., yeah, no, yeah. >> much respect. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah -- as t.k. it's the -- ted koppel has never been called t.k. in his life. [ laughter and applause ] but, stanford. that's so cool that you got to go to school there. i mean, i would be -- i'd freak out. i was so happy to go for a good eight years to the college i went to. [ laughter ] but i didn't go to stanford. were you excited when you got in? >> i was. you know what, bro, i found out on my birthday. it was april 5th, 1994. and i went home, and one of my best friends came home with me and i saw the envelope. and it was a big envelope

tom brokaw had a couple of ideas that i think are well worth considering and talking about on programsso inept specifically the political end of the government, congress specifically seems so inept at coming up with sensible solutions, in the interim dealing with the people who have traveled these dangerous routes to get to our border, we have aspects of our culture, parts of our culture that have dealt with things like this during hurricanes, tornados, natural disasters, salvation army. the american red cross. catholic charities, we ought to encourage them to be employed at this border. to help with these families who are -- have arrived here under such duress, such pain only to find out that their children are kidnapped once they get here. >> it's as bad as it gets. >> it's a bit murky and the administration is not giving us facts. so we need people who have been there and the children are being leflt behind in these facilities. how will they find those kids again. >> the trauma the parents are enduring is real as the trauma in your children. >> and to your point, your points, actual

caller: in the past years tom brokaw and peter jennings attended but not one word on tv. where do you get your information on it? caller: i told you in the american free press. doesn't disprove the news is controlled? host: ross is in beckley west virginia. go ahead. caller: don't know why they're so much concern for the mexican people. app -- they in coal mines have shut down obama's war on coal has had an effect. drugs run rapid. since roe versus wade there have been 60 million abortions. 45 million people in america that live in poverty yet we are more concerned about mexicans and the border because that is where the diversion is. take more care of west virginia. huntington.went to they brought in the national guard. that's how bad drugs are. my mother-in-law is a widow of a world war ii veteran. she can't get benefits yet if she was a syrian refugee she can have benefits for 10 years. appreciate your time. host: ross in west virginia. quito is in silver springs. an independent. caller: i want to let everyone know i really dislike trump. he brings a lot of bad things i

kennedy center about years ago, the russerts and the barnicles decided to take a trip out to see tom brokaw in livingston, montana, in 1 1 or 1992 and the idea of tim russert and myself out in livingston, montana is absurd, luke russert was in one car with tim and maureen and nick and colin barnicle by themselves in the second car with myself and my wife and they had these little walkie-talkies in the cars. tim and i decided let's have a race to see who can get to livingston, we were in wyoming crossing the border. to see who could get the livingston first. we were going too fast, 80, 8 5 miles per hour. when suddenly no cars on the road, we get pulled over by a montana state trooper. tim dwets out of the car, i stay in the car. kids are yelling "dad got busted." and the state trooper goes up to tim and says you know how fast were you going? and he says too fast. and he says okay, but i got a problem, he says to tim. i only have one ticket left. and tim looks at him and he looks at the cars and he says, well, he says i was following him. >> i love it. >> well gosh, we thank tim for so much,