be hard pressed to find a writer today who could match the volume of exquisitely crafted columns, dispatches and books that he produced over four decades. he was an editor s dream, and he was a reader s dream. despite the sorrow surrounding today s gathering, there is much to celebrate. there was, for instance, chriser christopher s bravely. not just in facing the illness that took him. he didn t mind landing outside the cozy cocoon of conventional liberal wisdom, the most notable example be being his curious pro-war stance before the invasion of iraq. we will celebrate his elevated but inclusive sense of humor, and or for that legendary memory that held up even under the most liquid of late night conditions. [laughter] we will pay tribute to the people he left behind, particularly his wife carol and his three children, alexander, sophia and antonia. to celebrate christopher s monumental legacy, the hundreds of thousands of words he put on paper, we have speakers who are bl
amid a federal investigation into his 2010 campaign. top leaders at penn state look the other way instead of protecting young boys. that s the finding from an explosive report about the cover-up involving the jerry sandusky scandal. narrows down the list of potential v.p. picks. our top story tonight, his job is to protect the first family. but, tonight, a d.c. police officer is under investigation threatening to shoot michelle obama. reporter: the secret service is investigating. sources told me that an officer overheard the comment and told a lieutenant in the department. the d.c. police officer is in hot water. according to police and the secret service, the comment was made during wednesday morning s roll call in the special operations division. an officer overheard the alleged threat. d.c. police chief told me there is conflicting information about what the officer said. internal affairs will get to the bottom according to the washington post, the officer alleged
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i want to play and we are discussing how the war sort of changed american politics and how we think about our role in the world. i think also how we think about military action and the degree of which it has changed the way we think about those things and what has remained unchanged is the most interesting aspect of the legacy domestically. i want to play this interview charlie rhodes did of tom friedman. this is may of 2003. friedman is talking about what is understanding and endorsing an understanding of the iraq war, that is a pretty shocking one, take a look. what they needed to see was american boys and girls going house to house from busra to baghdad and saying, which part of this sentence don t you understand? you don t think we care about our open society. you think this bubble fan tasta we are going to let it grow,
director ofef heading the anti- unit. zainab shelby, her father served as sa dad s personal phi lot. phyllis bennett , matt a armla iraq from 2007 to 2009 and author of a book, kaboom. today is the last day of the legal framework where u.s. forces were permitted to operate in iraq. few mainstream media paid much attention to the troop s departure or the milestone that today represents. it will not be remembered and there will be no kiss in times square. no one, perhaps rick perry, seems interested in holding a parade. even the movies about iraq go unseen. the staff and i spent the day deciding whether we should dedicate the show to the war in iraq. at the last of the u.s. troops crossed the border into kuwait, some of us weren t sure if the war warranted two hours of coverage, myself included. we started to talk about it. we couldn t stop talking about it. america s invasion of iraq dominated our last two presidential elections, redefined our military, reshaped our domestic