we are continues what was started by walter cronkite.will take you to every continent to look at the challenges and solutions from high emissions in london and air pollution in india to water concerns in new mexico and australia and deforestization in the amazon. it's part of the earth matters broadcast. >> a day set aside for a nationwide outpouring of mankind seeking its own survival, earth day. >> on april 22nd, 1970, cbs news marked the first ever earth day with a special report anchored by walter cronkite. >> the gravity of the message of earth day came through, act or die. >> clear days are fewer now. instead of forever, the view often stops with haze. >> cbs news correspondents reported on protest, clean-up efforts and calls of action across the country. >> it's going to get worse. >> the start of the modern environmental movement. seeing the river bed like this doesn't bottomer you? >> now, we are covering the environmental issues of the day. >> it's not natural. it's caused by human activity. >> this time from every corner of th

we do do a decent job, trying to explain what it meant when someone like walter cronkite came out againste vietnam war, how important that was that one single voice was trusted above others and that his shift in opinion really did not matter for the country, and that's something they don't quite have today, but it's something that we do try to re-create. steve: there are probably more sources of information today than ever before. is that a good thing or a bad thing? prof. kruse: it can be a good thing. the problem is people need help navigating that, so we've had a movement in the country, a kind of revolt against the elites, and that elitism is a bad thing. that has also thrown out the role of experts with it. and i think we need experts to help guide us in our daily affairs and to help us figure out which of these sources is actually trustworthy. steve: so you are putting this book together. who surprised you the most? what intrigued you the most? what was the one thing that you learned that you didn't know going into the project? prof. kruse: that's a great question. we have been at i

. >> we're combinations between walter cronkite and gossip girl, somewhere in between those two girlsronkite in gossip girl. >> right. >> stephen: decades covering politics, as i said, you write the most influential newsletter in d.c. is anybody talking about anythi in washington, d.c. other than the looming mueller report? >> no. >> no. ( laughter ). >> stephen: what are they saying about it? is everybody-- are people nervous? do people have their homes up? because, almost a month ago now, barr put out his summary, and it was a huge let-down, as far as we know. what-- are people cautious now? >> i think it depends on where you sit, right? if you were in the white house and you were interviewed, you're very nervous about what could come out. >> stephen: are you nervous that it might be bad for your side or are you nervous because snitches get stitches? ( laughter ) >> i think a little bit of the latter. i think that you could become the target of the president. and twitter and everybody could go against you. >> stephen: why would you be the target? >> because if you have spoken to a f

i remember about 5:00 that night, getting ready to go over the auditorium to watch walter cronkite and that was the first we heard of the gerald ford thing. by the time we got over to the convention hall, he was getting ready to go up and speak. to a man bush said from abc news on what was the latest on reagan and ford? he said it is a done deal, they are coming over to the auditorium and make a joint appearance tonight. andhrugged his shoulders went up the stairs to the podium. short, sweet, speech. not a thing about himself. all about how great ronald reagan was and how he needed to be elected president and what a great president he would be. andalked back to the hotel i remember him saying let's go get some beer and have a little gathering, little party. we all figured it was the end of the road. and i were in the same room, when the party broke up we went to our room to get ready for bed. after about 15 minutes, missus oor andocked on the d said your dad has some news for you. david, you could come to. jim baker was in there, we walked in and president bush said ronald reagan calle

walter cronkite was one of the great world war ii journalists. on to fame who went and some of them to frame and fortune. my feeling, i certainly have not done a scholarly paper on the media coverage of normandy. it came back from these correspondences unfiltered and the impression i got is it went out unfiltered. once big decisions were made. it was quite a dramatic moment for americans. those americans had already lost children. i will stick with that. >> for those of you in the audience who have been brought here by others and may not know about world war ii and might know more about literature, there is a wonderful gilmore and martha who was a great journalists. it she was married to ernest hemingway. they were highly competitive. he never forgive her for scooping him on normandy. that is an amazing story. she pretended she was a nurse. she was in all the correspondence were on the other side, she was on the beach talking to wounded soldiers. >> we have time for one more question. the rising generation is not paying as close of an attention t

i remember by 5:00 that night getting ready to go and watching ronald cronk -- walter cronkite. by the time we got to the convention hall, he was going up to speak and jim wooton of abc news was there. president bush said, what is the latest on reagan and ford? he said, it is a done deal. their agents are coming and they will make a joint appearance tonight. he shrugged his shoulders and went up the stairs to the podium. him, hea -- typical of gave a short, sweet speech, not a thing about himself, all about how great ronald reagan was and how he needed to be elected president and what a great president he would be. then we walked back to the hotel and i remember him saying, let's have a gathering, a party. we all figured that was the end of the road. and i were jeb staying in the same room and when the party broke up we went next door to get ready for bed. mrs. bush5 minutes, knocked on the door and said, your dad has some news for you. jim baker was there. we walked in and president bush said, ronald reagan just called and asked me to be the vp nominee. it was an incredible sto

while i am watching the tv i see walter cronkite talking about a containment building and i had no clue what these words were. i decided while i was at my in- laws that when i come back i'm going to educate myself and find out what happened. i wasn't angry, i just thought, the accident happened and i want to learn what happened. when i came back i went to different townships, two different meetings where the nrc was and i finally interjected let me just interject they may have been lied to but they are mandated to protect the health and safety of the public. they should have known what was going on. they listened to gpu who have the dog in the fight instead of doing it themselves. so i don't have a lot of sympathy for the nrc. when we came back i went to the different meetings and realized that when one question was asked in one township the same question was asked in another township and at the time nrc and gpu were answering the questions. they were giving different answers and after a few months it was so clear to me that they were either lying or they really didn't know what they we

walter cronkite could not get a job in the media today. >> there is my headline. says f. coming up, are they moving to go close from collusion to possible obstruction on findings. and why the president was not happy with bernie sanders town hall on fox. >> another take on how the media are handling the mueller report i sat there with guy penson. political editor and town hall, fox news contributor. benson, welcome. >> good to be here. >> collusion, collision, collusion. for two years they said that bob mueller would be the man to uncover collusion with russia. now we have the report with no collusion. you have a says that the media is playing this down? >> no question. bob mueller was a superhero. every possible update or nugget work tidbit was, as you know, exploded into headlines, analyzed at nausea. panels of 17 people in prime time wall-to-wall talking to all of these developments. was there collusion between the trump campaign and the russians? and there was a sense i think in the tone overall the coverage that it was right around the corner. and eventually,

like my walter cronkite book or the presidency. are right, i have the reagan diaries down there. i did a little book on gerald ford. so some of them are not on that. brian: and rosa parks. but here we are, 25 years after you did the magic bus and we store your idea and put a bus on the road and it is still visiting communities. it has visited over a couple thousand. what is your next book? i think i will be writing "silent spring revolution." looking at kennedy, johnson, and nixon on the environmental movement, and what happened with inrything from earth day 1970, to nixon creating to epa, to clean air and water act. silent spring, william o douglas, david brower. i want to grab why environmentalism took a fierce hold between 1960 and 1974. brinkley teaches at rice. the cnn historian and has written his latest book called "american moonshot." thank you for joining us. doug: thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its cap

while i am watching the tv, i see walter cronkite talking about a containment building, and i had no clue what these words were. i decided a while i was at my i-laws that when i come back, am going to educate myself and find out what happened. i was not angry. i just thought, the accident happened and i want to learn what happened. , i went to back different townships to different andings where the nrc was, if i may interject one thing about the nrc. they may have been lied to, but -- they are mandated to protect the health and safety of the public. they should have known what was going on. had listened to gpu, who the dog in the fight, instead of doing it themselves. so, i do not have a whole lot of sympathy for the nrc. when we came back, i went to the different meetings and realized when one question was asked in one township, the same question was asked in another township, and this is through the nrc and gpu at the time. they were answering the questions and they were giving different answers. cleara few months, it was to me that they were either lying or they really did not kno

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because of him we know what's going on there and recently he was announced the winner of the walter cronkite award for this very work. hans nichols joins me from the white house. eddie glob and noah rothman. noah, you actually wrote a book about social justice. when you hear the president say we've got to get tougher at the border, it's a crisis there, what's your reaction? >> i think that the administration has a real credibility gap when it comes to the issues on the border. they've been calling the situation a crisis since before it was a crisis. they declared a national emergency when all publicly available data suggests that there wasn't one. today they're on much firmer ground but what they need to achieve is legislative solutions. we know all of this was a problem during the family separation policy. the new element of that was its deterrent effect. that failed. we've clearly seen there was no deterrent effect, the push and pull that are forcing people out of the northern triangle still exist. they need to address these court situations that forced the separation of minors after 72 ho

some people watch walter cronkite. we had the same version of the vietnam war. new --an go to my table cable news channel, my blogger, my website. i never encounter anybody who thinks differently. -- insteads becoming of we are all diverse but together, i go to my tribe, how much of a challenge to democracy is that? it is not the united states only, we see it across the world. there are two problems. one is old and one is new. for centuries in the united states, the foreign born is where it was at, it went down of the 20th century when there was significantly less immigration. not surprisingly, we are seeing many of the political responses to that diversity that we saw in the 19th century. i have been arguing for what feels like years that the populism that produced president trump is the familiar strain of populism. in a period of rapid change where people see big changes in the population because of immigration, some people react. you don't have to stop it altogether. ishink the united states much better set up to deal with that challenge been any other countr

but first we'll look back at how cbs' walter cronkite covered the events march 1979. >> it was the first step in a nuclear nightmare as far as we know at this hour no worse than that. but a government official said that a breakdown in a power plant in pennsylvania today is probably the worst nuclear reactor accident to date. there was no apparent serious contamination of workers but a nuclear safety group said that radiation inside the plant is at eight times the deadly level, so strong that after passing through a three-foot thick concrete wall it can be measured a mile away. >> the accident occurred here at the three mile island nuclear power plant a dozen miles south of harrisburg. at about 4:00 this morning two water pumps that helped cool reactor number two shut down. officials say some 50 to 60,000 gallons of radioactive water escaped into the reactor building and that the radioactivity penetrated the plant's wall. steam escaped into the atmosphere and radiation was detected as far as a mile away. at least 50 workers and perhaps twice that number were at the plant when the accident

some people watched walter cronkite. with free much the same version of the vietnam war, the moonshot. i can go to my cable channel, my and nevery website encounter anyone who thinks differently. diversity is becoming, instead of we are all diverse together, i go to my tribe. how much the challenges that to democracy question mark its not just the united states, of course. we see it across the world. mr. ferguson: i think there are problems.ent one is an old one and the other is new. the percentage of the united states that is foreign-born is back to 14% where it was in the 19th century. and unsurprisingly we are seeing the political responses to that diversity we saw in the late 19th century. i have been arguing for what feels like years now that the populism that produced trump is a quite familiar american strain of populism because there's rapid change where people see big changes because of immigration. some people react and say we need to limit this. i think the united states is much of better set up to deal with th

first, we will look back at how 's walter cronkite first covered the event. this far as we know at hour, no worse than that, but a government official says a breakdown in an atomic power plant in pennsylvania is probably the worst nuclear reactor accident to date area there was no apparent series contamination of workers. the nuclear safety group said radiation inside the plant is at eight times the deadly level. so strong that after passing through a three thick -- three wall, itk concrete could be measured in mile away. accident that occurred here at the three mile island nuclear power plant south of perrysburg. that helpedmps cooled reactor two shutdown. officials say 50 gallons to 60 to -- 50,000 to 60,000 gallons of water escaped. steam escaped into the atmosphere and radiation was detected as far as a mile away. at least 50 workers and perhaps twice that number were at the plant when the accident occurred. a spokesman admitted some were exposed to radioactivity and may have been contaminated. washe claims no one injured. all workers were given extensive

>> walter cronkite marked the first ever earth day with a special report. >> a nationwide outpouringreathtaking the view is. >> with 100,000 spewing pollution into the air -- >> you don't have to go somewhere exotic to see the effects of smog. >> climate change is -- >> we picked something out for gayle and it's in honor of you being named 1-800-of the "time 100" people. >> i just believe in dreaming big, and i never even dreamed this big. >> she's a star. >> she's also kind of the heart and soul of our show. >> gayle will sometimes say the thing that's on her mind. >> the news is pack back on in morning. >> i dropped the top of my pen. >> do you want me to get it? >> you're one of the top is "time 100." you can't. >> i must get it now just to prove that i can. >> okay. all right. now that we've tidied up around here. >> now that we've had our morning squat -- >> calisthenics with gayle. ♪ >>> good morning, everyone. it is 8 -- it's 5:85. i'm -- it's 8:55. i'm michelle griego. there's a power out -- the mta is providing shuttles between castro and embarcadero. >>> the driver behind t

walter cronkite was the old model. there are problems with that model. thing you talk about in your podcast is everyone loves to hate the referee. >> yes. >> but we need the referee. >> we need the referee. it's an interesting thing. the nba is my little lab for this story. you can show that basketball refs are better than they've ever been. if you think about what's happening, it's not surprising. they're trained better. they draw from a broader pool when they hire them. they watch their mistakes after the games. the mistakes are broadcast over and over on the jumbotron. there's instant replay. but everybody thinks the calls are worse. the fans treat them worse. the players treat them worse. this is a conundrum. you have to explain if they're getting better why everybody believes they're getting worse. i think we're all getting better at spotting the mistake of the person who is put in the role of the referee. when you find the mistake, organizing the outrage of the mistake. the focus is different. >> is there a sad truth that millennials plus this equa

49 years ago, in 1970, cbs news covered the first earth day with a special report, hosted by walter cronkiterican history is ending, a day set aside for a nationwide outpouring of mankind seeking its own survival. >> this year we will bring you a special series of reports on our changing environment calling it "earth matters owmatters." our correspondents will span the globe to see what is being done to protect our cities and the steps being taken. here is a little preview. >> i'm in brazil. we're getting on this plane and heading to the amazon rain forest where scientists are studying ways to combat the ravages of deforestation. i'll tell you all about it. that's coming up on monday. >> they keep track of the weather around the world and they keep track of the greenhouse gases that more and more are causing it. that's coming up next week. >> it may not look like it, but this is the rio grande. i'm michelle miller in new mexico where folks are adapting to what could become their new normal, climate change. that's coming up on "cbs this morning." >> people here in new delhi have a saying, bre