tom brokaw, love having you as always.weloo we are watching that low pressure system off southeast atlantic coast. it's not going to cause, other than some srs along the carolina coast, severe storms firing up in the upper mississip and ohio river. valle feinli f i the northern plains. at fire threat continuing out west. that's what'sg gon around the cou > metroch bell. another gray and rather gloomy morning outsid most of the rain for now is in e northernf of the viewing area. but ery has a chance of getting ra asater on t morning or early this afternoon. it will be a warmer day though. we are the upper 60s and low 70s already. future wea keeps most of the steadien in a north half of our viewing area, but again a stray sho or two is possible. drier for the second half of the day. warmeromwiha some afooms en the k burns effect? guys. >> all right. al, thank you. >>> there a new sensation in the sport wod thrn mng. carson is in the orange room. introdu us, carson. >> wait, come back! guys, heright here. let's get into it. m

and i think that tom brokaw alluded to this he gave so much when he was in prison in hanoi.or flake knows this better than anybody, it is very, very hard to be the person that stands out and criticizes this administration, if you remember, a member of his party did that. and i'm not sure who is going to continue. chuck. >> what's been the staffer mood? i have to think that as much as we have seen, we certainly gotten a lot of reactions from senators. from john mccain was the type of guy who had time for everybody, so everybody had amok cane story, everybody knew him, press, staff. so what kind of gut punch has this been to every day staffers of capitol? >> you know, chuck, that's a good point. it's gone back and forth about everything else this week between the celebration of his life and the morning of the end. and i think for people who come and work here on capitol hill, this is not a place you come to work if you want to get rich. this is a place that you come to work if you want to make a difference. and john mccain really showed that coming and working here as part of

this anonymous nbc news report is obviously a report that i doubt nbc news would ever make about tom brokawr matt lauer or andy lack. they wouldn't do it about people that they've worked with or have worked with over the years. so the question is, was judge kavanaugh supposed to defend himself now from an anonymous accuser at the 11th hour? which now brings us to the single most sickening allegation that the left wants you to believe as absolute fact. it was brought into the public domain by -- you know him, he's on fake news cnn every hour on the hour and if he is not there he's over on conspiracy tv and msnbc. michael avenatti, the bombastic, untrustworthy and fame-seeking attorney who made it his life's mission to resist and hate donald trump, which is fine. his client in this case is a woman named julie swetnick. at this late hour, she is alleging that between 1981 and 1983, she attended at least ten parties, where she claims that judge kavanaugh and his friend mark judge routinely drugged female partygoers. this happened regularly, almost on a weekend basis. and even in the summer. and

we saw our colleague tom brokaw there, we saw charlie rose, jay leno, quite a pan oy reply of people.ous, welcoming and bold. she is resourceful, confident and secure. she meets her responsibilities. she speaks quietly because she is strong. america does not boast, because she has no need to. the america of john mccain has no need to be made great again, because america was always great. >>> well, let's go to john weaver who worked so much through the difficult wars, political wars with john mccain. i heard there the anthem of john mccain through his daughter. john? >> yes, well, we just saw a celebration of family, faith, and freedom, but we also saw a rallying cry for the nation. the last thing john mccain said to me was i love you, johnny, but i also said through that statement from meghan mccain through the country it does not have to be this way. we are greater than this, we are better than this. and i am touched by what president obama said, and i think people in the country need to hear this again. what are you going to do today? what are we going to do in our family, in our co

. >> tom brokaw says this picks up where "exodus" left off. is called "promised land." one of my earliest coaches here at the peacock. thank you very much. >> thanks. >> i can blame you for this. we will continue to watch 1600 pennsylvania avenue very closely. that's where president trump is meeting with the president of poland right now. we are expecting them to start this joint press conference roughly 15 minutes or so from now. this is msnbc. if you're waiting patiently for a liver transplant, it could cost you your life. it's time to get out of line with upmc. at upmc, living-donor transplants put you first. so you don't die waiting. upmc does more living-donor liver transplants than any other center in the nation. find out more and get out of line today. pe"what is your nationality?"ent countries that we traveled- and i would always answer, "hispanic." so, when i got my ancestrydna 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 "oth

week and i am heading your way and we will talk more about the "promised land" and a book that tom brokaw praised highly and said it picks up where exodus left off. and now, from "today" show, joe and jill biden speaking to craig melvin ahead of the cancer summit dedicated to save cancer around the country, and a cause that is close to them especially since the death of their son beau from brain cancer. >> and we know what is it like to get that diagnosis and you know, craig, with your brother getting that diagnosis and so we are trying to krcreate the urgey of now with the summit, and to bring people together and break down barriers and give them information and so when your brother got that diagnosis and just like our son did, and after you feel the pun mch the stomach and in your gut, then you say, what now? where do i go? what do i do? what is this going to be like and what does it mean? we need information and can we get into the trials? that is what we are trying to provide with the cancer summit. >> it is intensely personal. >> intensely. >> and it is, and beau has left a gigantic

i grew up with tom brokaw, peter jennings, that they were so blatant about it. now there's no ambiguity about it. there are 3280 characters at a time telling the world, telling conservatives come in telling the president to get bent on irregular basis. as i wrote in the book, and the journalism really went off the rails and it was an ally so i don't know what it was like, but watergate seems to be really where it went off the rails. journalist became celebrities with watergate. they were portrayed by robert redford in woodward's case in a very bit of generosity, carl bernstein was betrayed by dustin hoffman. dustin hoffman is a very handsome man, special event. they were invited to parties, making deals, books, millions of dollars in journalist up-and-coming wanted to be like that. and then they became activists, but the editors at the time tried to pump the brakes on that. that's not her job. we report the story go were facts go. the people want to make a a difference are now the editors and i've got social justice warriors coming in. they don't want to pump th

a group of tom brokaw, peter jennings and dan rather. i knew where they were coming from but they were so blatant about it. now there's no ambiguity about it. they're still out there telling the world, telling conservatives to get bent on a regular basis. >> as i write the book one of the things for journalism really went off the rails and it was an ally so don't know what it was like before, but watergate seems to be really where it went off the rails. journalists became celebrities with watergate. they became fabulously wealthy for trade by robert redford in woodward's case and a very bit of generosity, crowe bernstein was portrayed by dustin hoffman. a very handsome man especially back then. they were invited to parties. they made millions of dollars in journalists up-and-coming wanted to be like them. and then they became activists. the editors at the time tried to pump the brakes on that. that's our job. we go with the facts go. the people who wanted to make a difference are now the editors. they don't want to pump the brakes. the s

i grew up with tom brokaw and dan rather. i knew whither coming from but it were not so blatant about it. now there's no ambiguity about it. they are out there 280 characters at a at a time telling the world, telling conservatives, telling the president to get bent on a regular basis. >> host: they are thinking tried as a right in the book, one of the things where journalism went off the rails, i wasn't on bikes i don't know what it was like before, that with watergate seems to be really where it went off the rails. journalists became a celebrity with watergate. woodward and bernstein became fabulously wealthy. they were portrayed by robert redford in woodward case and a very good at generosity carl bernstein was portrayed by dustin hoffman. they were invited to parties. they were making deals, they make millions and journalists of incoming ones want to be like them. then they begin activist. the editors at the time tried to pump the brakes on every facet of our job. we report the story. we go with the facts. those people who

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i was thinking back as you watch the coverage that morning on the today show, tom brokaw sitting in thend just saying in that moment, this country is forever changed right there in realtime and how right he was about that. we've talked this morning about the victims, to the people in the buildings, to civilians in iraq. how was this country changed? >> this country changes dramatically, of course, beside the morning of the loss. it's raised a lot of issues. it raised islam and muslims in this country in new ways that it wasn't before. you have the rise of women wearing hijab as a political protest. you have political tension within the country of the muslim ban as a consequence. but as we reflect on this day, we also have to reflect on how do we respond and the consequences of our response. not only did we go to two wars in iraq and afghanistan, we have destroyed an entire country of iraq. millions of lives have been destroyed. in afghanistan, the taliban are actually still winning and we are negotiating with them. so we have to reflect how best to respond learning from world war ii, ac