A gun to school in the first place . A bombshell in the natalie wood case. Why Robert Wagner is being called a person of interest. Prince harry and Meghan Markle step out as she gives her first royal speech. And countdown to kickoff. Excitement over super bowl lii, from flu fears to security to snacks, we have it covered for you, live from minneapolis, today, friday, february 2nd, 2018. From nbc news, this is today, with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Thank you for being with us on a friday morning. Its almost super bowl day. When you care enough to send your very best, you send al and craig to minneapolis. Yes, they are there. Is that what we are . The very best . I heard they did here in the bold north. They did some ice fishing. We have a lot to get to with them. Were going to find some fans that are outside in the plaza that will be happy when it comes to the super bowl. We have our top story
And we have to do more of that. Host john nichols is the coauthor of this book, People Get Ready the fight against a jobless economy and a citizenless democracy. Thank you for being on booktv. Guest pleasure. Host and booktv continues our live coverage of the tucson festival of book withs on the campus of the university of arizona. Were inside at the gallagher theater, but outside theres approximately 150,000 people every weekend, or every weekend that this is held attend this festival, and lots of different venues outside as well. Well, our live coverage continues here in the gallagher theater. Up next, an author panel on civil rights and the Supreme Court. After that a callin opportunity for you with New York Times columnist maureen dowd. Welcome to the ninth annual tucson festival of the books. Hi names lorraine. We want to thank Cox Communications for sponsoring this. Mr. Cohen and and the presentation will last one hour including questions and answers. We ask that you hold your qu
[inaudible conversations] host book tv live coverage on tucson festival of books continues on the campus of the university of arizona, which has been the home of the festival for the past nine years book tv has been live for the last several years as well and coming up there are several more panels including in half an hour or so freedom of the press with authors maureen dowd, joe carson and evan thomas. Thats whats coming up and if you want to follow along you can go to book tv. Org and get the full schedule or you can follow us on twitter at the tv or facebook, facebook. Com. book tv. Lots going on outside, but we are inside and for the next halfhour we are pleased to have New York Times calm this, maureen dowd here before her panel. We will take your calls as well. Maureen dowd, how do you view your job . Guest well, peter, thats a big question. I dont like to talk about this because it sounds a little corny. I view my job as a watchdog and times readers often dont understand that i
Put out is a mess, and it is a mess because it goes back to the previous question, it doesnt take in big ideas from other places that have worked. And we have to do more of that. Host john nichols is the coauthor of this book, People Get Ready the fight against a jobless economy and a citizenless democracy. Thank you for being on booktv. Guest pleasure. Host and booktv continues our live coverage of the tucson festival of book withs on the campus of the university of arizona. Were inside at the gallagher theater, but outside theres approximately 150,000 people every weekend, or every weekend that this is held attend this festival, and lots of different venues outside as well. Well, our live coverage continues here in the gallagher theater. Up next, an author panel on civil rights and the Supreme Court. After that a callin opportunity for you with New York Times columnist maureen dowd. Welcome to the ninth annual tucson festival of the books. Hi names lorraine. We want to thank Cox Comm
Can follow us on twitter at the tv or facebook, facebook. Com. book tv. Lots going on outside, but we are inside and for the next halfhour we are pleased to have New York Times calm this, maureen dowd here before her panel. We will take your calls as well. Maureen dowd, how do you view your job . Guest well, peter, thats a big question. I dont like to talk about this because it sounds a little corny. I view my job as a watchdog and times readers often dont understand that im not an ideological columnists, not coming from the left or right. I was a political reporter for 20 years and so i come more from a political reporting point of view. On just going to try to tell them its like toto pulling the curtain in the wizard of oz. Im going to try to give our readers anything i can find out that they need to know about, you know, what is true and what is false and whats these people will have lifeanddeath power over us are really like and where they are lying and where they are, you know ris