and when they did was walter cronkite. walter cronkite was of course the leading anchor of the day andqu a figure of unquestioned authority. someone who viewed barbara walters with a little bit of skepticism about whether she was a real journalist. we are trying to cover the groundbreaking things are happening in the middle east the ground breaking trip. barbara walters and her ability to cultivate relations with world leaders a few months earlier 1977 enabled her to get the firstia sitdown interview wh the egyptian president and the israeli prime minister. this was the interview that not only solidified her come back as a coanchor of the evening news it also beat walter cronkite which both of them do. that interview split screen was not only a moment for journalism, it changed american foreign policy in middle east foreignn policy at a really difficult time. how dare barbara walters make that leap? not only from nbc today show with a very high profile and then into this kind of interviewing maga operation. did she do it a

>> well, i think so much of barbara walters was shaped by her father, lou walters, one of the leading impressarios, he'd book the biggest acts in the country and was one of the top tourist destinations in new york when lou walters was in charge of it. lou walters was a guy who had a wonderful touch and understanding of what audiences wanted and that's an asset that she inherited from him, but he was also a gambler and he would make a million dollars and gamble it away playing begin rummy. >> literally gambling it away? >> literally gamble it away. he would make a million dollars at the latin quarter and decide he wanted to open a new nightclub and it would flop and he would be bankrupt. i think finally a pivot point in barbara walters's life came when she was 28 years old. she had gotten out of college, out of sarah lawrence, but she wasn't exactly on a career path. she had gotten married to a guy and gotten divorced. gone to alabama for a quickie divorce of dubious legality. and she had come back to new york and staying with a school friend and that her apartment, when her father att

barbara walters. tehran, 1977. i said, indeed, we work for the same company and gyptian said he wants to know, is it true she is paid $1,000,000 a month? and i said, well, actually i think it's $1,000,000 a year. and the drivers face fell. barbara walters was already a global icon. and then didn't it kind of propel her her career from that point on? isn't that a wonderful story? because how many journalists have had similar experiences to that? and, you know, one of them who did was walter cronkite. so walter cronkite was, of course, the leading anchor of the day and a figure of unquestioned authority. and someone who viewed barbara walters with a little bit of skepticism about whether she was a real journalist. and they were both trying to cover the groundbreaking things that were happening in the middle east, a groundbreaking trip of anwar sadat of egypt to israel. and it was barbara walters and her ability to cultivate relations with world leaders that a few months earlier in 1977 enabled her to get the first si

when i got back to walter reed and when i was out of walter reed, we went to live in southern marylandand the amazing part, what she did after that. she was taking care of the household, we had three kids, she went off and got her masters in social work. to do all of that, she did it in a five-year span. to do all of that, taking care of the household, taking care of me, being my caretaker, and taking care of three kids to me is amazing. i always tell my kids, you don't have no excuse anymore. our oldest daughter, she has her masters in education, she works at lausd, a school teacher, a dollar going to school in pasadena who will get her masters in education as well, join my daughter in the education system. i have a son that was accepted to uc santa cruz, about to finish his first year there and aspiring to be an astrophysicist my son here now wants to be an officer in the military, still trying to figure that out. we will see if we can get him there. he has great examples. pretty sure he will be able to accomplish his goals. to me, my wife is the most important person here. i think e

so, um, but yeah, i mean, walter, he was fantastic. walter he was awesome. it was a great place to be and, and i was so happy to see a lot the, the warriors getting the care they got and being able to move on and continue their lives. like i said, i was there about two and a half years and and i seen from burn victims to bullet wounds and and then we got the guys are they'll be amputees, triple amputees, quadruple amputees guys are were getting a chance. arms from other people it's just the technology and and then advancement was just it's amazing to watch amazing to see and and that gave me hope as well a and so once i got out of the tree and my wife goes, i love out here. i love i love the four seasons and course i'm going to stay over there. i'm not going to see even though i want to go back to california of we're going to stay here on the east coast. so we ended up moving to waldorf, which is the southern and southern maryland. so we enjoyed it out there. i mean, the east coast beautiful. we loved the cherry blossoms and the potomac river and and then yo

enemy walter is in charge of the most -- amy walters in charge of the cook report with amy walters .nk you all. [applause] david: can any of you recall a time when it was more difficult to predict who would be president this close to the election? >> i was saying to somebody last night i cannot renumber two weeks out -- remember to ask out having it be this close -- two weeks out having it be this close. every other election in our lifetime, we would have thought a three-point 2-5-point change might make a difference. david: have you ever seen anything like this? >> where it is an absolute true tossup where there is no sign the ball is rolling in one direction, especially at the end, i covered romney's campaign, i was on the plane with trump and hillary in 2016. this has a unique feel in how tight it is. david: have you ever seen anything like this? >> in 2016, we were confident hillary clinton would win. in 2020, we were confident it would be a biden blew out and both were wrong. it turns out in retrospect we never knew what we were doing. >> you are definitely keeping it real. davi

walter: that's right.now, when you put money into texas, in the last two weeks, remember, texas, in case you didn't know this, it's a really big state. a couple of million dollars doesn't really go that far. to move numbers in texas, you need like 50 million dollars, 100 million dollars just to move it the slightest. if you look back at 2000 20, remember, texas was closer at the presidential level then ohio and think about all the money going into ohio right now. i think it is going to reflect the fact that texas is not an overwhelmingly red state, but it is still a reddish state. mr. rubenstein: what about florida with rick scott in trouble, those rumors, anything to that? ms. walter: that's a mr. rubenstein: much tougher state for democrats. what about nebraska? ms. walter: that's not just a rumor. on foot is pulling nebraska who is a nonpartisan observer of this, no one is like -- you know where we should spend our next 100 thousand dollars? pennsylvania or nebraska? but i think that the challenger has

walter cronkite alone, 30 million people a night. hmm. so that's that's how television news was back then. it was the golden age of television news in the sixties, seventies and and because cable, because of all the fractured ways people get their news today. there's there's never going to be anything like it again. no, i mean, everybody went nuts the other night when there were 67 million people watching a debate i mean those debates back would be unbelievable. it came to viewership. i really was working during the glory days glory days of television. so how did the guys at the bureau treat you? not not the management not the work not the management. oh. how did you get along with your correspondents how is it going? how is it going? you in the george mcgovern campaign, you were the third, third string. yeah. i mean, you you were reduced to radio think. yeah, i, i that was my to cover radio basically. and every i tried to suggest a the, the, the correspondent who was the mail the guy was very offended that that i had audacity to call new

i always wanted be walter cronkite. good evening. and i you know, the fact that i suddenly was sitting in half of uncle walter's chair was utterly thrilling and i couldn't believe that i was making it to the top of heap. look, i think dan saw it that. how did he see it? well i think an intrusion. well, i can understand that he you know, he'd been doing it by himself all these years, so he had to move a few inches to make room for. i don't believe that if i were a man or a woman or, a plant or an animal, he would have wanted to share the sea. either that or his mama never told him how to. share? no, i don't know. i still don't know if. they held a gun to his head or, uh, he willingly accepted. you say some pretty. you some pretty severe things in this book about how he treated you. well well, do you think i threw him under the bus? there ain't bus big enough. for instance, what did he tell about covering stories? i? the first thing he said to me lot right after? i was named co-anchor. i'm not crying. just have. why should i cry? there

i always wanted be walter cronkite. good evening. and i you know, the fact that i suddenly was sitting in half of uncle walter's chair was utterly thrilling and i couldn't believe that i was making it to the top of heap. look, i think dan saw it that. how did he see it? well i think an intrusion. well, i can understand that he you know, he'd been doing it by himself all these years, so he had to move a few inches to make room for. i don't believe that if i were a man or a woman or, a plant or an animal, he would have wanted to share the sea. either that or his mama never told him how to. share? no, i don't know. i still don't know if. they held a gun to his head or, uh, he willingly accepted. you say some pretty. you some pretty severe things in this book about how he treated you. well well, do you think i threw him under the bus? there ain't bus big enough. for instance, what did he tell about covering stories? i? the first thing he said to me lot right after? i was named co-anchor. i'm not crying. just have. why should i cry? there

this walter white guy, he was white, actually, but he was black. he was, you know, a decent of slaves. and i think one of the presidents of the united states sired some of his ancestors. but he actually was white. so he passed and was in new york city. he passed as white to out to upper upper new york society. but he was the head of this this committee. and was a legendary character. yes. hi. well, i grew up in the hudson valley. i'm a member of the truman library institute. i'm a fan of truman. and i do i up to pick up the chapter 11 in your book. and i have enjoyed every page of it, but i do have a question for you. is it a quibble? no, it's not a quibble. it's a it's an open question. back when eddie jacobson visited the visited truman two times and in in your book, you mention that margaret pooh poohed it and said that eddie was like hundreds of other people that harry truman knew. however, i don't think harry would have admitted hundreds of other people. but i wanted to see him. but i wanted to get your opinion on why margaret truman would hav

this walter white guy, he was white, actually, but he was black. he was, you know, a decent of slaves. and i think one of the presidents of the united states sired some of his ancestors. but he actually was white. so he passed and was in new york city. he passed as white to out to upper upper new york society. but he was the head of this this committee. and was a legendary character. yes. hi. well, i grew up in the hudson valley. i'm a member of the truman library institute. i'm a fan of truman. and i do i up to pick up the chapter 11 in your book. and i have enjoyed every page of it, but i do have a question for you. is it a quibble? no, it's not a quibble. it's a it's an open question. back when eddie jacobson visited the visited truman two times and in in your book, you mention that margaret pooh poohed it and said that eddie was like hundreds of other people that harry truman knew. however, i don't think harry would have admitted hundreds of other people. but i wanted to see him. but i wanted to get your opinion on why margaret truman would hav

but his views did evolve amid. 1947 and early, early spring that year, a a man named walter white, the head of the acp at the time, suggested to truman, that he needed to give a major the time was right. he said for him to give a major speech on civil rights. a month or two later. it was early of 1947, early june in 1947, on the steps of the lincoln memorial with the howard university choir singing above him held forth to a crowd of 10,000 acp supporters in their friends, and he began by saying. it is my deep conviction that the nation has reached a turning point, turning point in its efforts to guarantee freedom and equality for all americans. and then he emphasized and when i say all americans, i mean all americans. and then he went on to pledge his support for civil rights, beginning with right to a free trial. right to be free to free racial discrimination. and then focused on four or five areas that where needed to have some civil rights legislation voting, education, housing, medical care and, equality of opportunity for jobs, and then his last pledge was perhaps most important h

early spring that year a man named walter white the head of the naacp at the time suggested to truman that he needed to give a major, the time was ripe he says for him to give a major speech on civil rights. a month or two later it was early june 1947, early june of 1947 on the steps of the lincoln memorial howard university acquired -- choir singing above him. held to supporters and their friends. he began by saying deep conviction has reached a turning point. a turning point in their efforts to guarantee freedom and equality for all americans and that he emphasized it when i say all americans i mean all americans. and then he went on to pledge support beginning with the right for a free trial in the right to be free from racial discrimination. and then he focused on four or five areas were they needed to have civil rights legislation. voting, education, housing, medical care. and equality of opportunity for jobs. and then his last pledge was perhaps the most important. he pledge that the federal government would lead the way. it's just the very beginning of his crusade for civil rig

i always wanted be walter cronkite. good evening. and i you know, the fact that i suddenly was sitting in half of uncle walter's chair was utterly thrilling and i couldn't believe that i was making it to the top of heap. look, i think dan saw it that. how did he see it? well i think an intrusion. well, i can understand that he you know, he'd been doing it by himself all these years, so he had to move a few inches to make room for. i don't believe that if i were a man or a woman or, a plant or an animal, he would have wanted to share the sea. either that or his mama never told him how to. share? no, i don't know. i still don't know if. they held a gun to his head or, uh, he willingly accepted. you say some pretty. you some pretty severe things in this book about how he treated you. well well, do you think i threw him under the bus? there ain't bus big enough. for instance, what did he tell about covering stories? i? the first thing he said to me lot right after? i was named co-anchor. i'm not crying. just have. why should i cry? there

i was not going to miss this thing, no matter, but walter mondale, 49-1. expected to do well and it did not work out. it shows you there is a god for those people who are questioning. i understand the real reason she is not here, she is hunting with her running mate, spending a lot of time hunting. weird, weird, weird, you know the word weird? call me weird and jd vance weird. this guy is calling us weird but it's weird that the democrat candidate is not here tonight. i want to congratulate someone who will make us healthy, rfk junior. he is campaigning, he has complained -- i love you both. doing a great job, make this a healthier place. he has got some wild ideas but most of them are good. the environment, healthy people, healthy food. i would not have missed the dinner for anything in the world. i remember coming here as a young guy. my father freddy was a good guy. a tough cookie with a big heart. he would take out $100 and put it in 18 can and i think it's beautiful because you don't see it so much. i miss him and we used to come here very religiously

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that is amy walter of the cook political report with amy walter and tamara keith of npr.u both. let's take a quick look and set the stage. two new national polls to talk about, the first from nbc news, you see harris at 48% and trump with 48%. the second is from abc news and 's has 49%, trump with 47%. that is within the margin of error. a close race getting closer. >> it does feel that way. if you think about where we were say in september, and of -- at the end of september, it had been a pretty momentous few weeks for kamala harris. she gets the nomination. the base rallies around her quickly and we go to the dnc. she has a successful debate. but that momentum has since, i don't know whether the word is plateaued or hit a wall and there is a sign in national polls that there has been some backsliding and that trump is doing better at independent voters. he has halves, as well as cbs, all networks came out with three their national surveys. there is the sense that on the issues there is also the fact that on the issues that voters are most concerned about like the econom

that is amy walter of "the cook political report with amy walter," and tamara keith of npr, who joins us from one of those key states, north carolina. tam, you are in raleigh this evening. jd vance has said it would be very hard for the trump campaign to win this election if they don't hold onto north reline up, so how are things looking -- north carolina, so how are things looking there? tamara: he's actually right about that. it has been very close at the presidential level going back several cycles. republicans still feel very confident about this state. however, we know that the trump campaign realizes that they could lose. that is why trump and vance keep traveling here. and, what i have been learning about today, and i will be looking into more, in particular, the state is working on figuring out how to respond to the hurricane and the state election board met today to talk about making sure that people can actually vote when early voting begins later this month. and, certainly, the campaigns are also working on figuring out how to mobilize voters in areas that have been affecte

amy walter of the cook political report and tamara keith of npr. hello to you both.mp campaign has outsourced some of it get out the vote effort to these third party super pacs including elon musk. the elon musk pac is having trouble hitting door knocking goals and that some canvassers ha lied about the number of voters they actually contacted. on a race that is on turnout. this seems to be problem matic for trump. and, a lot of these people are very good at getting attention. we don't know if they're very good at a ground game and the one case study that we have of a campaign saying all right, i'm going to farm it out. we're going to have this super pac do it and we're going to focus on things like ads. that was ron desantis and it was a disaster. it was not a good case studio in what you want to do. so there is a very open question about whether these efforts will work or whether elon musk is proving himself very good at burning millions of familiars and we won't really know until the election. the other thing i would say, a counter balance to this is that there ar

walter ferguson said he was getting ready to visit his cousin when he heard the gunshots.around here, we hear a lot of gunshots, so i didn't think nothing of it. i got in my truck, started to come down the road. and as soon as i crossed the hill, i saw the truck's lights came on. and he just bolted off. so what did you do when you saw this truck? well, i mean, i went and turned around. and as i came back around, i made sure my high beam were on. i ended up seeing his body. narrator: there, on the side of the road, walter spotted a man lying face down in the dirt. so i stopped, and i tried yelling at him and talking to him to see if he was awake, alert, something. and i started looking for my phone, and didn't have it on me, so i had to end up zooming back to the house to call 911. narrator: christian county detective ed stokes raced to the scene. we were just notified that there had been a shooting on fidelio road, and one male possibly deceased. tell us what you see when you arrive here at the scene. the first thing that i noticed was sergeant goslyn's body laying here in

it was from barbara walters. she wasn't ready for barbara walters at time at all. i knew when she was ready and she even i knew she had to have the best interview around. that was 60 minutes. right. so it took almost a year for that to happen. barbara walters get hers until we were out of we had actually lost the election. here's a picture of 60 minutes. yeah, it was it was fabulous. and i guess we'll get to that later because was quite a we can we can we can certainly go to it right now this is on the first anniversary of the of the ford around that time. right. she agrees to do this. and as you said, you came from television you thought this was all has to do since the show on tv. it was the best show was and i'm out of tv talk so just have the utmost admiration. don hewitt and morley safer and that whole group and and but she had to be ready and i had to know that she was in good shape. so at any rate, the day came and everybody arrived. when i say the networks, the and don hewitt and everybody that was associated with the show arrived early and went to see mrs.

and oklahoma state superintendent ryan walters think you both for coming on.ean bethany do you first pick you see kemal harris does not support school choice, it is a big concern because there is a worry that in battleground states she might pull some of that funding away, and that is what a lot of people were worried about, which they say, hey, this might be a big sleeper issue. >> i wish i had a time machine that i can go on your last segment and argue when she's had on camera that she is a mother. no she isn't. no she isn't, and i don't thank she understands how heated this issue is for parents, especially young parent like gd vance gekko had to experience life during covid and the kids were locked in the public school and lack of public services. and they did not have a choice about where their kids went to school. and so when a place where i left like maryland the public schools were closed and the private schools were open. and lo and behold no one died. this has become a real issue i think for parents because over the course of covert they realized that

geoff: tamara keith and amy walter, thank you both so much.k, lisa desjardins has been counting down to election day giving us a fun and insightful fact each day. reporter: only 15 people have become president after being vice president. ♪ ♪ geoff: call it the death of the humanities -- that has been a leading story at colleges for the last decade and numbers bear it out. humanities enrollment overall is down by almost a fifth but there is another story to be told and jeffrey brown traveled to purdue university to take a look for our higher education series, "rethinking college." reporter: most people would lie to you if given the opportunity so there is nothing wrong with you lying to them first. welcome to the machiavelli and school of management. today's prompt is passages from "the prince." >> men are wretched creatures. reporter: a classic text, small discussion groups and back and forth debate about today's world. >> who would argue that argument? >> it is saying you have to expect that you were going to be the sucker. reporter: a philos

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