So we begin tonight with a new ruling on the nsa spying controversy. A federal judge ruled at the time legal for the National Security agency to collect socalled metadata from persons cell phone. A week ago another judge ruled it basically violated are rights. John terrett could you tell us . Half us think its a good idea because it keeps us safe, the other half thinks its terrible. And now members of the judiciary. Not just any members of the judiciary, two federal judges, district judges, pretty high up, one in new york, one in washington, d. C, coming to completely different conclusions on basically the same issue. Take a look. In his ruling federal judge William Pauley of new york, connected fragmented and fleeting communications. He said the 9 11 attacks might have been prevented if the phone Data Collection system had existed then to help investigators connect the dots before the attacks occurred. He says the governments learned from its mistakes and has adapted to confront a new
About 40 minutes. Michelle gillespie who was r. J. Reynolds . He was selling chewing tobacco and became the best manufacturer in the country. How did he become that . Because he was the second assignment ousonof 16 children o planter before the civil war who owned over 50 slaves, the largest in Patrick County virginia. His father lived in virginia and so r. J. Reynolds was born in 1850 and learned the whole business of growing tobacco from his father, and his father was also entrepreneurial and pretty shrewd and recognized it is great to grow tobacco but it might be even better to sell it himself and to process it and manufacture it and so he took that and he created on his own plantation in manufacturing and he had a slave and his sons figure out how to turn the tobacco plant into chewing tobacco and so he was selling chewing tobacco before the civil war. And after the civil war and during the period of reconstruction he had his sons continue learning the business. So his father was v
Welcome. Im bob abernethy. Its good to have you with us. Amid tragedy and suffering in so many places around the world, people of faith had an intense week of prayer and activism. At the vatican, pope francis highlighted the middle east, iraq and ukraine and led prayers for peace and reconciliation everywhere. Religious groups continued to raise concerns about the conflict between israel and the palestinians. Christian, muslim and some jewish groups issued new statements decrying the large number of Palestinian Civilians killed and urging israel to lift its longstanding blockade against gaza. Many other jewish groups and some christians maintained their solidarity with israel and accused hamas of using civilians as human shields. They also condemned antisemitic attacks tied to antiisrael protests in europe. Faithbased relief groups denounced the humanitarian impact of the violence, especially on the children of gaza. More than 120,000 gazans have sought shelter in schools, medical cent
But we begin tonight with something that is an important story in its own terms. But for those of us at msnbc and nbc news, it is also an incredibly emotional thing. And i can tell you, it ends with good news. It ends with this news, which i can say personally was greeted by all of us as the best news in the world when we saw it. Its nbcs chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel, looking a little dishevelled, a little less groomed than usual, but as you can see, looking like himself. On the left this is gazi and john cloister, a longtime nbc news photographer. These three men were able to appear live on the today show, fife days after being kidnapped and held in captivity in syria. Just hours before this shot of them this morning, they were freed by a Syrian Rebel Group who rescued them from an unknown group that had taken them and that had held them for five, long, horrible days. The rebel group not only rescued these three, they then took responsibility for driving them to the borde
Inouye, who died yesterday. Weve got all that news ahead. But we begin tonight with something that is an important story in its own terms. But for those of us at msnbc and nbc news, it is also an incredibly emotional thing. And i can tell you, it ends with good news. It ends with this news, which i can say personally was greeted by all of us as the best news in the world when we saw it. Its nbcs chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel, looking a little disheveled, a little less groomed than usual, but as you can see, looking like himself. On the left this is ghazi balkiz and john klooister, a longtime nbc news photographer. These three men were able to appear live on the today show, fife days after being kidnapped and held in captivity in syria. Just hours before this shot of them this morning, they were freed by a Syrian Rebel Group who rescued them from an unknown group that had taken them and that had held them for five, long, horrible days. The rebel group not only rescued these