For herself. Rehearsal. And then we did a dress rehearsal flight in the lunar orbit. Apollo 11 probably would have done another address reversal around the moon instead of landing. Rehearsal around the moon instead of landing. That manager is now a very good friend of mine. Host [laughs] we are talking with buzz aldrin on the 45th anniversary of the landing on the moon. We are marking todays anniversary of the moon landing event, as well as the nasa thementary chronicling apollo 11 mission. That is at 4 p. M. To today. Virginia, go ahead. Caller buzz, very proud of you. It happened on my 20th anniversary from trinity high union ass three reunion. We met john glenn. My son was in a horrible accident and he was so kind. We met his family. God bless all of you. We are so proud of you and we hope all of your work continues. We are very proud of you, buzz, and your whole group. God bless you. Host i look back on my life and my mother was born the same year the Wright Brothers flew. My fathe
Waiting until the last minute. I can guarantee you if their jobs were on the line as far as their money, they would have it done in 10 minutes. You said you work for the federal government . What kind ofof work do you do . Urban,ocratic whip, did on the floor now. We expect a vote sometime in the next half hour or 40 minutes. They will deal with the two changes of the senate. Is linda in st. Johns minnesota, michigan michigan. Thank you for taking my call. I appreciated. I come from the the state of the teamsters. For havinged itself democrats for five decades run it. I just want to say this. I get tired of harry reid calling me anarchist. I get tired of Michigan State professors telling young kids that republicans are murdering the country. Am a lifelong conservative it should be good enough for rock obama and all the rest of the cronies that work for him. This man has changed his Health Care Law since day one. Tois not ready, obviously, be put in to the public, to make it work. The p
Running in to complain to the publisher. Donna and don and i were very fortunate in the 70s which almost all of our career work for people who were probably Strong Enough right in that area and let the chips fall where they may. Host sarah wineman, give us your general assessment of 2012 for the book industry, especially nonfiction books, and what are one or two notable books you want to talk about . Guest well, first, its helpful, peter, by starting off saying 2012 was a very eventful year in the Book Publishing world between publishers consolidating, the department of justice suing five publishers and apple on ebook pricing and many developments well cover later on in the program. They expanded publishing operations, the google settlement moving forward in Different Directions alone counting for a substantial portion of Book Publishing news. On the nonfiction front, i have to say it was a very advantage year. In particular, were seeing a lot of best of 2012 lists dominated by the lik
Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Im Steve Kornacki in for brian williams. Day 1078 of the trump administration, and tonight this president is facing rapidly increasing pressure, both at home and overseas. The president has been spending his last few days at his resort in florida. His administration has been preparing for impeachment trial in the senate. But ithe turns out the trump whe house has also been working on a military strike against a prominent iranian leader. The Defense Department tonight has confirmed that the United States has killed iranian general Qassim Soleimani. Soleimani may not be familiar to many americans, he was the head of irans quds force, an elite unit of the Iranian Revolutionary guard. Iraqi state tv says a general and Iraqi Militia leader were among several people who died in a drone strike at baghdads airport. The defenses Department Said t president metook, quote, decisi defensive action to protect u. S. Personnel o
fragile and still very much a dangerous situation, don. that sign representing the resolve of the ukrainian people there. definitely resolute. they do not want russia and vladimir putin to take over their country. thank you, fred. thank you, phil. we ll check back with you later. that s the latest from the region. ana, back to you in new york. thank you all for your hard work on the ground to be our eyes and ears. there s a lot to unpack in these latest developments. i want to bring in susan glasser, global affairs analyst and staff writer for the new yorker and fred caplan, national security economist for slate magazine. and also the author of the bomb, presidents, generals and the secret history of nuclear war. susan, let me start with you. 30 days now into this invasion. what s your assessment of where things are right now and are the u.s. and nato doing enough to stop putin? you know, it really is notable that a month in, you know, you had dmitri peskov