as it turns out, as i went broke in the washington"post," walter cronkite told senator mcgovern that if he had only asked him, he would have accepted. the ticket in 1972 would have been mcgovern and cronkite and it would of been a different election. >> you wrote in this column, after walter cronkite died, -- why did you wait until he died to write that? >> well, maybe i over extended a sense of what would be the ethical thing to do. if he had not talked about it, i was not quite sure it would be appropriate for me to do so. >> is there more to the story than that? >> i pretty well described it. they talk about new york politics and they talk about vietnam. -- the talk about your politics and they talked about vietnam. -- they talked about new york politics and they talked about vietnam. if the war cannot be won, why pursue it? we would not lose, but we would not be able to accomplish our objective. >> due to read what wrote about this? bucbucsthere is a lot more to t. >> i do not know. i have to think about that. he was smart enough to keep his personal opinions out of his reporting.

saying now that walter cronkite we've lost america. did that have much impact on it, you think? >> i think what president johnson said was if i lose cronkite i lose america. not sure he was convinced to lose it. of course he had. no. i don't think it had that much effect. i think there was, i mean the fight over vietnam in america was what very widespread. i don't think the opinion of even walter con kite would have turned it one way or the other. >> this next clip you've seen many times and has been talked about many times but i guess for either nostalgia reasons or the younger folks that haven't seen it, the it's the clip from you're a announcement that robert kennedy was dead. before we show it give us circumstances where and when was this? >> it was in los angeles. 1968, june 6th the california primary. a key primary. - which he had won. that night and in the hotel on his way to another press-conference, robert kennedy was shot. and spent about 36 hours in the hospital and never recovered from the gunshot wound to the head and diedjust after the california primary in june 196

saying now that walter cronkite we've lost america. did that have much impact on it, you think? >> i think what president johnson said was if i lose cronkite i lose america. not sure he was convinced to lose it. of course he had. no. i don't think it had that much effect. i think there was, i mean the fight over vietnam in america was what very widespread. i don't think the opinion of even walter con kite would have turned it one way or the other. >> this next clip you've seen many times and has been talked about many times but i guess for either nostalgia reasons or the younger folks that haven't seen it, the it's the clip from

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first walter cronkite now this. don hewitt died today, t.v. news legend. he created "60 minutes." don hewitt dead of pancreatic cancer at the age of 86. this sunday 60 minutes will dedicate its entire show to its creator. cbs news white house correspondent bill plant worked with him. thank you for talking with us today, bill. >> my pleasure to be here. >> people like to throw the word legend around. what sets don hewitt around from a lot of other talented news folks? >> there was this guy in the control room when i first joined cbs of the new walter cronkite evening news, 1964. he was always yelling and screaming but he had great ideas. he was full of ideas. some of them were lousy but a lot of them were great. above all, he understood that television was about pictures. and that really was something that a lot of us didn't get back toward the beginning. he came in 1948, television really was infant and he helped bill the idea that pictures meant just as much as the words and that's how he built the success of "60 minutes" as well. >> he talked about tell me a story. came down to

he was with walter cronkite the day john kennedy was shot. >> another picture taken just moments beforehere. >> safer: and with "60 minutes," he revolutionized broadcast news, dispatching what he called his team of tigers to the four corners of the globe to carry out that four-word mandate: tell me a story. >> hewitt: there is no place on earth that you haven't been. and there's nobody on earth that you haven't met. ths the great value of what we do, i think. >> safer: he was, in fact, the boy wonder of cbs news, and remained the awe-struck kid well past retirement age. opinionated, outrageous, with a quick wit and a short fuse. >> hewitt: the only problem is that when you've been around as long as i have, you get to be kind of a pain in the ass. >> safer: and as his friends and colleagues will tell you, on balance, the pleasure of don's company was mostly worth the pain. >> ready, we've been ready for one year, three months and now four minutes. >> phil scheffler: well, i met him first in 1950... >> safer: phil scheffler worked at don's side for over half a century. >> scheffler: i mea

i said, 'i'm going to ask you to sit in a seat opposite walter cronkite. that's the same seat that dwight eisenhower, jack kennedy and lyndon johnson sat in. if you don't think you're big enough to sit in that seat, i wouldn't do it, if i were you.' he grinned. he said, 'i'm recording tomorrow night at united. do you want to start then?' i said, 'we'll be there.' i didn't know what he was talking about. i went out in the hall, i found a phone booth, i called a cameraman i knew and i said, 'what in the hell is a united?' he said, 'it's a big recording studio.' i said, 'well, light it. we're going to shoot sinatra tomorrow night.' he arrived. mia farrow was with him. this big limo pulls up, he gets out, the hat's on the back of the head, the coat's over the shoulder, and i figured, 'oh, my god, he's going to play man on the album cover,' and he did. he was delicious. he--all the quips--he was frank sinatra, man on the album cover. and i figured, 'boy, this is d--this is great. i mean, this couldn't be better. everything's working out.' now we shoot him doing

bridgehampton, new york, wednesday of the pancreatic cancer that had him looking so frail at walter cronkite's funeral just three weeks ago. >> call and ask him to page hugh of cbs. >> reporter: after joining the network in 1948. his tenure there included a decade of work with the legendary everett r. merle. he produced for all three networks, the very first presidential debate between nixon and kennedy. it was in 1968 that hewitt's 60 minutes debuted and established a faithful following of millions that still tune in every sunday. >> the formula is similar. it's four words every kid in the world knows, tell me a story. it's that easy. >> reporter: in a statement about his death, cbs said hewitt was recognized as the father of modern television news. having worked on his prized possession well into his 80s, before retiring five years ago. chris clacken, nbc news. >>> now here's a look at some to stories making news "early today" in america. >>> take a look. investigators found six fields cultivating pot plants near chicago. the street value was around $2.5 million. officials torched nearly 6,0

ever worry about that being too close to a -- >> walter cronkite -- walter, as you can see, has a great blush in the book. i thought the world of it. i think walter was a little unhappy with that because there's an implication it was a deal. there was no deal. it just was. without ever -- i don't think it was ever said. i don't think it was even hinted at, but i knew, and they knew, if they give us these incredible pictures -- which there was no way they couldn't give them to us because the world demanded them -- they were going to get appropriations from congress because television was making the country very space conscious. and it had an even -- what we got out of it was, remember, at this point we've just come through the mccarthy era, we're all a bunch of pinkos, we're reds, we're the guys who bring them the race riots, we're the guys who bring them an unpopular war in vietnam that we can't win. all of a sudden we're now bringing them these new american heroes. these guys are all charles lindbergh. so the residual to us -- and at the time i wrote that now, but i don't think at the

was it walter cronkite? don hewitt? or noted conservative columnist bob novak?t a prize for this one, but you want to stay tuned. a retired u.s. marine. listen. >> i have kept my oath. do you ever intend to keep yours? [ applause ] >> jamie: well, that retired marine joining the fight over healthcare reform in a big way. just ahead, more of his arguments on why washington should just walk away from changing healthcare for everyone. . s >>> coming up live from washington, the healthcare debate is far from over. two members of congress from opposite sides of the aisle will join us to talk about the latest controversy. also, what you need to know about h1n1 before you send your kids back off to school. a convicted sex offender who started a service to help other sex offenders find a place to live. could it be your neighborhood? all that and more coming up live in 20 minutes. >> jamie: who exactly is telling you the truth about healthcare reform? >> if you listen to the president and the republican critics you think they're talking about two radically different plan

first walter cronkite, and now mike hewett. coworkers decide him as a man with passion for innovative story telling. don hewitt was 86 years old. >>> if you want to be an olympic swimmer there are now three u.s. centers to choose from, and one of them is baltimore's aquatic hub. the north baltimore aquatic club has an olympic track record. seven winners have trained here, michael phelps the greatest among them. even so it's an honor to be named one of only three professional and post-grad training centers in the u.s. by the olympic committee. what this means for the north baltimore aquatic teams located here at meadowbrook is money and support. the united states olympic committee will help it become a state of the art training center, giving it everything it needs to create elite teams of potential olympic swimmers. the usoc will make sure top coaches provide athletes with training, education, jobs, physical therapy, and that they have the funds to travel and compete. the other two swimmers are in charlotte, north carolina, and

a couple of years later he became the executive producer of the cbs evening news with walter cronkite. he is credited with coining the term anchorman and creating a look that for decades defined how information news was presented but his greatest reindication is no -- creation was 60 minutes the face of journalism. >> this is 60 minutes a kind of magazine for television. >> reporter: 6 a minutes was the first news program to become a top ten television show. it regularly made headlines with stories ranging from hard- hitting investigative pieces to interviews with the famous and the notorious. the show won every award in the book. >> you're running the piece. >> tell me a story, hewitt would demand. he had an instinct for knowing what the average american likes to watch. he carefully scrutinized every script. the show remained on top for more than 30 years. hewitt had already celebrated his 80th birthday when in 2004 he officially stepped down as head of 60 minutes. but don hewitt remained in the cbs family, lending his experience and expertise to the search for new ways to cover tv n

he produced walter cronkite's evening news, he did the first presidential debates, election debates,s, good newsman himself. people always say how come "60 minutes" has endured? i think that's the reason. don brought journalism to "60 minutes" first. >> and i know that you were the first american journalist to visit the chernobyl nuclear facility in 1990. don started to take you seriously after that. >> that was my first season. i think he thought i had a future on the show after we went. >> let's watch a little bit of it, steve. >> today this is a nuclear ghost town. the only sign of life is the music, piped in continuously to keep the decontamination crews that have to be here from going crazy. >> did you work closely with don on that piece? >> actually, don made very few changes to it. i worked with bill mcclure, who was one of the very first "60 minutes" producers that don hired, who was a great cinematographer. don made some improvement s on it. i think it was a fantastic editor. it's been said that we, along with ben bradley of "the washington post," were the best editors of th

. >> reporter: when the cbs news with walter cronkite becamt nett don hewitt was the executive producer. >> you ready? all right, hit it. >> reporter: he loved the job, but new management at cbs didn't love him. sent to the documentary unit-- the workplace equivalent of siberia-- don was devastated. and then had his best idea yet. >> it's a kind of a magazine for television. >> cue opening, take one. >> reporter: this is how mike wallace remembers it. >> he was out of a job, he was on salary at cbs but he was out of a job and he had some nutty fogs about a magazine yet unnamed. >> reporter: don hewitt called it "60 minutes." and he hired people like mike wallace and morley safer. >> don hewitt really was the incentor of television news as we know it. >> reporter: he also had a bit of a temper. something he recognized in himself. >> but i've changed. i'm better now. >> reporter: maybe, but his battles with one legendary correspondent were loud and passionate. >> it's the story that i see every night in the news. >> i know that, don, but those are the facts. you've got to establish a cont

his death follows that of another cbs news legend walter cronkite. don hewitt was 86 years old. >>> hurricane bill is expected to become a major storm over the next couple of days. here is some video shot from the international space station. topper says it is too soon to know what effect bill might have on the u.s. mainland but we can tell you that bill is a large hurricane 300 miles in diameter with a huge eye and it could close in on bermuda by the end of the week. >> that's a cool picture. >> wow. it is. >> huge storm. >> it is already a major hurricane. >> you were saying we could feel some repercussions of this depending on what it does. >> it is so big that even if it doesn't hit directly. i don't think it will. we are still talking about rip currents at the beach. maybe some minor beach erosion and maybe a couple of bands of showers at the shore. not so much here. >> we had some big thunderstorms. no warnings in effect right now. also run the risk of thunderstorms on friday. temperatures hovering around 90 thursday and friday. today's case in

and people are talking about him as a news person and confusing him with walter cronkite. >> jon stuartused to say, i'm not a news person, i'm a show. and i think we have to worry about that. >> he had incredible interviews with jim cramer on mad money and nailed cramer like mike wallace would have nailed cramer. >> like the financial press should have. >> and then stewart did it. what does it say. >> the flattest of the earth around him than his particular spin. >> i think he's very smart. he knows this is not just a blue nation across the country, coast to coast, that there are conservatives and frankly it's more interesting to interview a conservative when you lean to the left. you can't have a bunch of yesmen, look at keith olbermann and rachel. they can't have anyone having an opposing-- >> the juxtaposition of editing, videotape and . >> he was there and he was funny. we have to take a break, when we come back, tv ratings are important from the business, but one tv host may have gone too far to be number one. details next on news watch. [ female announcer ] olay goes beyond everyd

in 1964, walter cronkite took a ride on japan's bullet train. >> behind me is the new super express capablef bulleting down these tracks at 160 miles per hour. >> in 1990, when the tgv in france was setting speed records, our very own charles osgood took a close look. >> it is really very pleasant watching the country side go by at 100 miles per hour. >> here in europe they would say too bad we can't do it here, now it is in the old world where new things seem to be happening, new things like this. it makes us wonder why we can't do it too. >> today, the fastest train in the united states is the excel in the northeast, while the excel is capable of 150 miles per hour, the tracks are so bad it limps along at an average of 80. >> but true high speed rail could be coming to the northeast and nine other busy corridors, including florida, texas, ill nois, california and the pacific northwest. >> the federal government under president obama has made it clear it is going to be a partner in building high speed rail. >> reporter: the president's stimulus plan committed $8 billion for high speed rail

. >> walter cronkite died one week ago and while we mourn the loss it's been wonderful to see such exuberant and health felt tributes across the country. i have to smile albeit a tad ruefully and i think he would, too, the new york times correcting a piece that appeared following his death. contained not one, not two, but seven errors about his life and career. . >> that's katie curie referring to a piece written by a media columnist xaalexandra stanley. the same who wrote a piece a few years back about katie couric at the today show talking about how everybody would skuter away when she would walk down the halls of nbc. is this sart ofort of a-- >> clickity click. >> is she getting back at the particular writer? >> as you know, what's the fun of being on television if you don't every now and then get to clobber your enemy and katie cure ic has a natural audience. >> we'll talk more in the break. unfortunately we have to take one more break, the history of a one presidential drink specially formulated to promote hairball control and healthy weight. friskies indoor wet cat food. feed the sens

he helped invent television news, including "see it now" the "cbs evening news" with walter cronkite landmark first televised president debate between nixon and kennedy. don hewitt's greatest legacy remains "60 minutes" still going strong in its fifth decade. an unmatched achievement built on a simple premise -- >> i always said "60 minutes" is about four words that every child in the world knows. tell me a story. >>> don hewitt was the executive producer and driving force behind "60 minutes" for 36 years. only stepping down in 2004 when he was 82. >>> as another veteran of this business, our colleague tom brokaw said today we were all students of his genius. >>> when we come back, building a bridge between kids and cops -- one game at a time. so today, she's talking to her doctor about overactive bladder. erin wants to get up and go without always worrying about where to "go." if you have overactive bladder symptoms, today is the day to talk to your doctor and ask about prescription toviaz. one toviaz pill a day significantly reduces sudden urges and accidents over 24 hours, all day

don hewitt went on to become the producer of the cbs evening news with walter cronkite. "60 minutes"68. the show revolutionized television news. it introduced reporters driven investigative pieces, creating what is now known as a news magazine. this >> is "60 minutes." is kind of a magazine for television. >> it was a success. don hewitt said he knew what the average american wanted to see on tv. don hewitt continued to produce cbs special coverage of political conventions. he retired in 2004, but his legacy keeps on ticking. "60 minutes" is the longest- running prime-time program in television history. >> television is great, not when you see it, not when you hear it. television is great when you feel it. trace: and they felt it. look at a sunday night. they're still dominating in ratings. jamie: it was not just about the pictures and interviews. it was about how it made you feel purity will be missed -- it was about how to make you feel pretty will be missed by so many. trace: chris wallace told a funny story earlier. he said that don hewitt and his father were on an airplane. they

i just saw him at walter cronkite's funeral, and he looked frail, but was still able to have the brightness he was the most creative executive producer in television news, i think. oddly, you would think if you become an executive producer, you would have to be creative. that is really not the case in television news. many producers are organized, but they do not have any vision, per say. he had the most incredible vision about news and creating a very watchable program. of course, that is what he did with "60 minutes." history goes way back. of course, he was a director early on. so it was a combination of directing and producing that made him the best of all time. i really believe that. he directed the debate between kennedy and nixon. in that classic debate where nixon was perspiring and kennedy looked good. i remember done saying, he kept saying, mr. nixon, i really think you should wear some makeup. nixon would say, no, i am not going to. it really profoundly affected his appearance. gregg: let me ask you about "60 minutes." he will always be associated with the. it was not just the vi

i want to do this last tribute to walter cronkite.when i was in college i had the luck to go one day and spend the day at the cronkite news. i wrote this piece for my literary magazine for the college in boston northeast and that i went to. it was one of the most important events of my life as a reporter to watch walter cronkite close at hand. tin rather many years later on "the cbs evening news" in the bully pulpit that walters said in did to pieces on two consecutive nights reporting from iraq and in my first book. god bless walter cronkite. thank you. [applause] so, what is our overall time at this point? we are almost up to hours? are we okay? can we have some questions from the audience, please? i don't think it is on. do you want to switch it on? take a minute. talk loud and i will hear. [inaudible] >> i go with that. it sounds very credible. but, what about the fact that according to richard clarke, condoleezza rice was repeatedly warned immediately preceding the attack that this was going to happen. she gave them the run aroun

god bless walter cronkite. thank you.pplause] so can we have a few, what is our overall time at this point? where almost two hours. are we ok? can we have some questions from the audience please? there is a microphone. >> [inaudible] >> talk loud and i will answer. >> [inaudible] -- i go with that. it sounds very credible. but what about the fact that according to richard clark condoleezza rice was repeatedly warned immediately preceding the attack that this is going to happen and see sen be in and gave them the runaround. >> is in my book, i have that report and in my second book cover of which covers the 9/11 commission in did tell. i have been critical of the two bushbuck and in particular but also the clinton years because they happen to fall most of this time during the clinton administration. that is why people on the left and right have embraced my work. you're totally right about condi rice and also condi rice remember that on the white house under bush five giving the president told daily briefing revealing to th

walter cronkite used to say get it first or get it right. as we say goodbye to the dean of t.v. news let's all remember as journalists when we say that's ate way it is, it really is. >> she is slamming a woman by the name of alexander stanley who slammed her in the past. >> some of it was so slight. but i bond ferraro she even realized -- i wonder if she realized what she was sending out. >> i think she realized it. >> i like at end the chin goes up in the air. >> does that mean seniority? >> a chin up, i love that saying,. >> we are making ma megyn kelly very annoyed. >>> and police are investigating a report off them factor's investigation. the latest on that, coming up. s allows multiple applications to run at the same time. - ( thunder and rain ) - millions are using the simply everything plan. - each is saving $1200 over an at&t iphone plan. - ( cash register dings ) together that's billions of dollars. enough to open a dunkin' donuts in space. from america's most dependable 3g network. bringing you the first and only wireless 4g network. get the palm pre. only from sprint.

when walter cronkite turned negative on vietnam, lyndon johnson said, i this lost america.rren buffett turns negative on obama's economic program and the spending , president obama loses legitimacy. sean: correct me if i'm wrong. this is unsustainable. all the things you mentioned about the stimulus, the omnibus, the earmarks, everything combined -- >> what is not sustainable is the deficit. it might be close to $2 trillion this year. sean: they are adjusting it down. >> $11.70 trillion has accumulated over the years. the interest on that debt is already half a trillion dollars per year. that is not sustainable. sean: i took half of my money out of the market. i want to get out totally. i say that to people and they say, you will be better off in the long term. you are fairly young. >> what are you going to do? where are you going to go? sean: you know about the economy. we can predict inflation. interest rates will go up. i do not see any way out of the employment numbers. i see no incentive for capitalism. >> people think these are ugly echoes of the 1930's. the stock mar

reporter: a couple of years later hewitt became the first executive producer of the news with walter cronkite. his greatest creation was no doubt "60 minutes." the show that changed the face of broadcast journalism. >> good evening, this is "60 minutes." it is a kind of a magazine for television. >> reporter: it was the first news program to become a top 10 television show. it regularly made headlines with stories ranging from hard hitting investigative pieces to interviews with the famous and notorious. the show won every award in the book. >> you don't get on this week. >> reporter: tell me a story, hewitt would demand. he had an instinct for knowing what the average american likes to watch. and carefully scrutinized every script. hewitt had already celebrated his 80th birthday when in 2004 he officially stepped down as head of "60 minutes." but don hewitt remained in the cbs family lending his experience and expertise to the search for new ways to cover t.v. news in the 21st century. drew levinson, cbs news, new york. >> cbs will dedicate the entire hour of this sunday's show to the life o

as robert kennedy's press secretary, campaign manager for george mcgovern, and the time where walter cronkite was considered for vice president. >> coincide supreme court to see the public places and those rarely seen spaces. hear directly from justices as they provide their insights about the court and the building. the supreme court -- home to america's highest court. first sunday in october on c- span. >> this is c-span's "america and the courts." next, kathleen sullivan will review important cases from the recent supreme court term. she spoke at the ninth circuit court judicial conference in monterey, calif., last month. >> thank you, judge fisher, and welcome. it is an enormous honor and privilege to be with you here at the ninth circuit and with so many friends and admirers colleagues. my task is to talk about the last term the supreme court. i thought we would get the morning started with fleeting excellence. i do not just mean what you said on the golf course the other day. although that is not just a joke. justice stevens, in his concurrence -- his dissent in the decision in fcc vers

he became the first to produce the "cbs evening news" with walter cronkite. he's credited with coining the term "anchorman." but his greatest creation was no doubt "60 minutes." the show that changed the face of broadcast journalism. >> good evening. this is "60 empty -- minutes." it's kind of a magazine for television. >> it was the first news program to become a top 10 television show. it regularly made headlines, with stories ranging from hard- hitting investigative pieces to interviews with the famous and notorious. the show won every award in the book. >> you're running the piece. >> forget 60 minutes. you don't get on this week. >> he had a knack for knowing what the average american likes to watch and making every script. hewitt had already celebrated his 80th birthday, when in 2004, he stepped down as head of cbs. but he still lent his experience and expertise to the search for new ways to cover tv news in the 21st search. drew levinson, wjz eyewitness news. >> we'll have much more on donahueit's life and reaction to his death, coming up tonight on th

couple of years later, hewitt became the first executive producer of the cbs evening news, with walter cronkite. he's credited with creating the look that for decades defined how television news was presented. >> but his greatest creation was no doubt, "60 minutes ." the show that changed the face of broadcast journalism. >> good evening this. is "60 minutes" it's a kind of a magazine for television. >> reporter: "60 minutes" was the first news program to become a top 10 television show. hewitt had already celebrated has 80th birthday, when in 2004, he efficiently stepped down as head of "60 minutes." but don hewitt remained in the cbs family, lending his experience and expertise to the search for new ways to cover tv news in the 21st century. in new york, drew levinson, wjz eyewitness news. >> hewitt is survived by his wife and four children. >>> metro trains in washington, d.c. will continue to run in manual mode indefinitely. trains have been operating in manual mode since the deadly metro crash in june that killed nine people. this is just a precaution until problems related to that crash a

the creator of "60 minutes" who passed away really just weeks after walter cronkite passed away. don hewitt was a legend in this business and went to cbs in 1948 and work would the monsteres over there, eduard r. murrow, fred friendly, developing the style of news we call television news and of documentary-style reporting on tv. this was the man who really put it together and created, i think what still is probably the most successful television show ever created, "60 minutes." which continues to bring in record numbers and such fantastic recording. we will get more on donah huwi from those who know him. >>> breaking news sad news out of new york. cbs news reporting the passing of don hewitt lemgenedary newsman who created "60 minutes" who worked with the giants in this pioneering industry. don hewitt 86 years old has passed away. we are talking to people who have known him, who have worked on him and an incredible life honored with eight emmys and two peabody awards and the producer of a show that continues to get fantastic record-busting ratings. even last sunday with their exc

. >> his years as robert kennedy's secretary and a time when walter cronkite was considered for the rolef vice president. sunday night on c-span. >> "washington journal" continues. host: we will talk to you about a statement that was -- that came in yesterday's press briefing with robert gibbs. it is reported by afp under the headline "obama ok with a single term if he reaches his call." it says obama -- if he reaches his goal. he will be fine with serving only one term if he reaches some of his most audacious goals. i have heard the president say that, if making tough decisions that washington has failed to deal with for decades means that he only lives in this house and makes those decisions for four years, he is comfortable with that. we want to get your input in and hear what you think about the president and the thought that he might trade a second term for success in some of his goals. the numbers are on the screen. you can also send us messages through e-mail and twitter. the article says that his comments came as some of president obama's democratic allies are balking at his push

proclaimedhe war a stalemate, and when he announced at on television walter cronkite was at that timethe most trusted american. the shockwaves rolled to the government as lyndon johnson's press secretary said. johnson himself was devastated. if i'd lost walter cronkite i've lost the country, so the media participated to for lyndon johnson and man who had a grip the white house. so, television continued to struggle against itself. once described as a torch of an lightman, which people laugh, but when general-- that was what many people thought it would become. that is what c-span is still trying to do in i way, but the inherent limitations of our media make it a powerful mmunication, a means of communication but also a crude one which tends to strike of the motions rather than the intellect. that is not my quote it was said by roger mudd him many of you rember as one of the top newscasters and analysts for cbs at the time. the industry somehow still unable and willing to move beyond its preoccupation with the razzle-dazzle. perhaps th most dramatic and disturbing evidence of emotions c

somewhere up there i have to believe that walter cronkite is smiling right now. it's time for our weekly tribute to the fcc where we bleep and blur things whether they need it or not. this is this week in unnecessary censorship. >> even though the weight isn't dropping as i would like it to, i can see actually that my [ bleep ] is changing. it's getting firmer. >> first base for the brewers, prince [ bleep ]. >> her experience growing up in the projects, growing up in a minority community, growing up without a [ bleep ]. >> i think we have laid it out that, you know, even "the new york times" could understand it, alright? this is a huge [ bleep ]. >> really, the kids are here. >> and so is my husband. >> [ bleep ] my [ bleep ]. >> if you're being bullied at work that's bad enough. but if you're being bullied by someone who can actually [ bleep ] you that's a dynamic. >> the chicks dig the long [ bleep ]. guys too. >> it's okay to swallow [ bleep ] sometimes because it's not fattening. >> we took swift action to pull our economy -- oh, [ bleep ]. sorry about that,

. >>> a month after walter cronkite's death, another cbs news legend has died. don hewitt created "60 minutes," the show that became a newsprint for other news magazine shows. he was 86 years old. sunday night's 60 minutes broadcast will be dedicated to hewitt and you can watch it at 7 p.m. >>> it is five after the hour. time for the first "living $mart" report court of -- report of the morning we had a bounce back yesterday. >> it was good to see. today we have a whole host of economic data to get through. we have the labor department releasing unemployment claim and the conference board indicators for july. the nikkei and hang seng were up almost 2% rebounding big losses yesterday. on wall street, stocks did erase early losses. this dow gave 6 -- gained 61 an the nasdaq added 13 and the s&p was up over 6 points. >>> new credit card restrictions kick in today aimed at protecting consumers. they are part of the reform bill the president signed in to law earlier this year. the most significant changes won't hit until february including rate increases on existing

. >> walter cronkite died and they are planning a memorial.ly the president will speak at that and a lot of people are coming to speak, bill clinton, katie couric, andy rooney, buzz aldrin and tom brokaw. >> how do we get a ticket? it will be open to the public but the plans have not been announced yet. tickets will be available. >>> it is a steamy sticky morning outside. orthan that it you. i want you. i want lkteater. mpesur a temperatures. e th th70s still. mid-70s as cool as we have been herein washington. s 60 tos 60to

you either had to wait for walter cronkite or someone else to find out what happened today. does not happen anymore. bill: don hewitt was a patriot. it is summertime and britney spears knows it. she made it presentation on "the david letterman program." >> reasons to vote britney spears for president. >> i would be the first president to wear eye shadow since nixon. >> number four. >> america might have a more coherent fiscal strategy. >> the number one way the country would be different if britney spears were president. >> finally, the media would pay some attention to me. bill: is she a pinhead? only you can decide. an embarrassing display on billoreilly.com. here i am modeling the american patriot hat. we also have "tf" hats standing for "the factor." check it out on billoreilly.com. the e-mail. bill: let's be fair. the pictures of that teenager were allegedly taken in a dressing room by a trespasser. bill: let me break this to you. it is impossible to watch too much "factor." bill: with me, not at me, i hope. we have a very interesting talking. memo to dick. if you misse