if tom brokaw called the coverage gameshow like as we just heard is today's television news equipped to handle the since you know this a beret in the importance of this impeachment process or is this degrading too quickly into a game show between the democrats and republicans in the you know the cable news shows that are quick to you know wanting to get ratings. well it's in the nature of news reporting that everything is perceived as on the one hand and on the other hand as reporters such i think it was president truman who said i'd love to have a one handed economist to listen to one there and on the other hand all the time give me a one handed economist and that's i think what people really want they just want to get to the truth but the president who's emitted 16000 lives in his 3 years in office according to the times list that that president has basically decapitated the troops in washington d.c. it doesn't exist anymore it's been it's been formally put to death and now it's just a question of can you come up with a plausible lie it's a very sad situation it truly is it truly i

>>> and legendary ws anchor tom brokaw. >> the raging high-rise fire inde his apartment building. >> we've got fire

very good on the debate i like to know him i don't know tom you do want to know him better you do tom brokaw reckons that the most extraordinarily powerful tool in the most destructive development in modern life is the current media everybody has a voice and i think it's great for people that have a voice but there's no way to verify what's true and what's not it has no context it's just a 247 rage about what's pissing people off across the board from left to the right it could be a unifying factor but it's a dividing factor we're going to show a picture that went viral on social media and if you're listening to this show as a podcast this is an advertising billboard in the new york city subway at 1st glance it appears to be an ad for fox news channel with sean hannity and laura ingraham and even tucker carlson not scowling but the caption under the fox news logo who reads comfort food for stupid people clearly paid for by someone flexing the 1st amendment rather than touting fox news channel the brokaw statement i completely agree with that's what we've become it's very very sad well the ph

and it all began with iowa. >> and tom brokaw joins us now.r that trip back in time. wow. that brought back so many memories. it was really touching to hear jimmy carter, candidate jimmy carter talking about what he thought this country needed in a leader, especially during this time. but you've been in iowa. what does the race look like right now? >> mika, having been out there, it is a much different world now than it was then. iowa was an amateur starter if you will, test to the presidency. now as you know it is very corporate. jimmy carter was perfect for iowa, the dna, he had been a farmer, small town guy. we were just coming out of richard nixon and he was trying to find his feet as president, if ever a perfect opening for jimmy carter, it was there. now it is all big money, planes, trains, automobiles, lots of staff, a lot of different places, it is a different world now. >> different world, you're right, watching that piece, it was a different world. at the start of that piece, tom, gerald ford being introduced as president of the unit

. >> nbc's tom brokaw anchoring "nightly news" on january 14th, 1999, the day the clinton impeachmente prosecutors said the president violated his oath of office and should be removed. the author of the book "presidents of war." presidents under impeachment now. the contrasts are so stark in terms of the relative relationship comity between daschle and the house won't even tell them how to proceed with arguments. >> and we would probably lament the fact civility has broken down in the senate and house and life is no longer the way it used to be. it was tom daschle and trent lott were able to agree on rules. 100 senators voted for them. the trial opened at least of no everybody agreed on the ground rules. history is not repeating itself that way nowadays. >> how has a u.s. senator taking an oath signed to the fact they're impartial, having said they're not impartial? >> that's a very hard thing. that's another example of that is the fact that here we are in a situation. i'm always looking for ways in which the past is going to tell us what to predict. that's happened before. but the ot

here is noted nonright winger tom brokaw confronting joe biden. >> your son was working for the companyhe same time. in retrospect, wasn't it inappropriate for someone like you in the middle of all this to have your son collecting money from a big credit card company while you are on the board? >> absolutely not. >> tucker: servant to the credit card companies? think of something more than disgusting, more harmful. selling liquor to children? it's hard to imagine what's worse than that. even leftists are offended. bernie sanders campaign surrogate rode "biden's career was bankrolled by the credit card industry. he delivered for by spearheading a bankruptcy bill that made it harder for americans to reduce their debt and help caused the financial crisis. he not only authored and voted for that bill, he split with barack obama and led the battle to vote democratic amendments." that's all true. look it up. is biden apologizing for what he did? no, he's not. somehow bernie sanders is apologizing. for the crime of telling the truth about joe biden. the entire democratic establishment had land

here is how tom brokaw described the feeling at the time. >> none of us can remember, at least in recent memory, the confluence of these kinds of events in which you have a major military action ordered by the president of the united states who is on the eve of being put on the dock in the united states house of representatives and subjected to articles of impeachment just 15 hours later. >> now, at the time, many of the president's critics, particularly republican critics yelled "wag the dog." they accused the president of trying to distract from his impeachment. here's what gerald solomon of new york said. it's obvious they're doing everything they can to postpone the vote. this was the line, that this was transparent, ripped right out of a screen play from hollywood. here we are two or more decades later. president trump is impeached. his senate trial is looming over him. he is clearly very agitated with the situation. i don't think that's really in dispute. like he communicates. he lets us know how he feels about that. and amidst this, while these -- his florida palace, he orders thi

tom brokaw is going to be here. we have other people that question that narrative. we are going to look at other great national museums from europe, from poland. the director of the imperial war museum talking about, what is the british narrative? head just stepped down from the australian war memorial. otts talking about the american battle commission, cemeteries in normandy and around the world where american soldiers are buried. his counterpart from germany will be talking about how the germans do it. gabrielle rosenfeld wrote the hit lirc, about how hitler's is being normalized in the media. how films gave us our images and memories, whether you are talking about saving private ryan, the longest day, how those are films that create a public memory and is not. how much is myth and how much is not there will be a whole section on the holocaust. . the director of the anne frank house from amsterdam. becausethis memory wars these are wars, and there are some countries where rising national populist regimes are toing to change history and spin it behind the current n

here's how nbc news' tom brokaw described the feeling at the time. >> none of us can remember, at least in recent memory, the confluence of these kinds of events in which you have a major military action ordered by the president of the united states, who is on the eve of being put in effect in the dock in the united states house of representatives and subjected to articles of impeachment just 15 hours later. >> now, at the time, many of the president's critics, particularly republican critics, yelled "wag the dog." they accused the president of trying to distract from his impeachment. here's what republican congressman gerald solomon of new york said, it's obvious they're trying to do everything they can to postpone the vote in order to get as much leverage as they can. so this was the line on clinton on this bombing strike he ordered. that this was an attempted distraction ripped right out of a screen play from hollywood. here we are two or more decades later. president trump is impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of congress for his corrupt scheme to extort the ukrainian gove

. >> just prior, tom brokaw was in his skybox live on nbc and he says, governor, are you going to address the convention tonight, and reagan says no. >> the convention gets louder and louder, so he finally feels he has to say something. i think mike dever told me the story, he walks out of his box to walk down and say something and he turns and says, what do i say? he says, i don't know, you will think of something. >> mike told me the same thing. >> anyway, he gets up and it is like he had a five minute speech prepared. are you going to show that? >> yeah. >> it is not totally ex-tem p, because he had been working on an article that was going to say this same thing. he kind of talked about 50 years from now. the theme of the speech was, 50 years from now, they will know if we met the challenge here tonight because they will know if america was still free or not. >> he talked about a letter in a time capsule. >> you will still see that. typically, so beautifully delivered. reagan never raised his voice. he is one of the great writers of our time great orators of our time who never had to

. >> remember tom brokaw telling us in 2008 in new hampshire, let the voters vote first. >>> still ahead set to wrap opening arguments today after an interesting day two. plus, lead impeachment prosecutor adam schiff joins us, and senator dick durbin will be our guest as lawmakers discuss plans for a possible witness swap. "morning joe" is coming right back. ng joe" is coming right back get them out of pain fast. we have a new product out there: sensodyne rapid relief. if you use it on monday, by thursday, you'll be enjoying that chocolate ice cream again. they can start it, and 3 days later, i know that they're going to have the results they were looking for. the best of pressure cooking and air frying now in one pot, and with tendercrisp technology, you can cook foods that are crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside. the ninja foodi pressure cooker, the pressure cooker that crisps. i had moderate-to-severes rheumatoid arthritis. i've always been the ringleader had a zest for life. flash forward, then ra kept me from the important things. and what my doctor said surprised me. she