And titan, ben bradley, longtime editor of the Washington Post, has died. The man who guided the paper through watergate and defined journalism for decades today, wednesday, october 22nd, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im matt lauer, along with savannah guthrie, al roker and Natalie Morales. When you do what we do and ben bradley was in a room you stopped and took notice. He was that big. And you were probably a little intimidated. There are few giants like that in our industry. No doubt about it. Well talk about his life and career in a little while. We want to start on this wednesday morning with our top story. Liberian national is in isolation in newark, new jersey, this morning as doctors wait for ebola results. Meantime the cameraman working with nbc in liberia when he contracted the virus is preparing to head home. Nbc National C
The windy city since friday night. Five of them fatally. This orgy of violence comes just one day after 13 others were injured on thursday in chicago, including a 3yearold in critical condition. After a gunman wielding an assaultstyle rifle with a high capacity magazine opened fire on a crowd. How do you stop the violence . On our show tonight, youll meet a machinegun toting cop who says the way to stop criminal gun violence is with more legal guns. A couple of rounds to the head. Tonight, craig investigates the machine gun Toting Police chief of pennsylvania. Also tonight, are they really going to shut it down . Our message to the United States senate is real simple. The American People dont want the government shut down, and they dont want obama care. Two prominent congressmen in a fiery debate over obama care. And the showdown over the shutdown. Im as firm as i can be as a reporter. Theres no evidence to contradict that oswald was the lone shooter. And i was open to all kinds of two
Whats up with the scarf . A lot of folks will go we are celtics. Lets stop the insanity. We got the manager of the celtics team going to school with the bodyguard. Im wearing a scarf. I am a celtic. Lets stop the madness. It is a bloody game. This is weird because the rangers play hockey and the celtics play basketball. I dont understand what is going on. I like that attitude. I do. Lets get back to that level. Where can our viewers catch you . Stewart . Sorry . Where can our viewers catch you . What did he say again . You have to hurry up. I had people talking in my ear. 9 twenty eastern bonnie and company. Why 9 20 . Fun show. This time slot and we thank you. Bill the Oreilly Factor from l. A. Is on. Tonight when i went through the process of becoming press secretary, one of the first things they told me was you are not even to acknowledge the Drone Program. A stunning admission by former obama spokesman robert gibbs that he was not to tell the American People about drone attacks on
After that we will open up for q a. You will see one fixed microphone there and another vocal microphone for the site of the house. If you wish to join q a, get up and stand behind the microphone. We have to do it this way because they are so mobile is for recording cspan and we do want your questions and answers to be an integral part of this broadcast. So there we go. Without further ado, ill begin my brief introduction. So heres the book. There we go. For those of you who know peter, you know this is unusual. Peter tends to write short books. You think to yourself, this is serious. Im not going to get into the details. Im going to see general things about the book at the first one is this book marks Peter Andreas thugs at because its wellwritten and is actually enjoyable. Its quite readable and clear and utterly devoid of jargon and it contains a powerful political message. The second reason to like this book is that it is not devoid of theoretical hats, pretension. Tijuana sociolog
The president. Former president bush disagreeing with Monica Crowley and sticking up for barack obama. Monica will be here to respond. Also tonight, is america a mean country . And controversy over may brandnew book, killing jesus. You are about to enter the nospin zone. The factor begins right now. Hi, im bill oreilly. Thanks for watching us tonight. President obama, the tough guy. That is the subject of this evenings talking points memo. Speaking at the United Nations today, the president was very clear that he believes the u. N. Has been wimpy when it come to confronting situations like syria. Mr. Obama saying to the world that the tyrant assad is a child killer who violated human rights laws. U. N. Inspector s gave a clea accounting that advanced rockets fired large quantities of sarin gas at civilians. These rockets were fired from a regimecontrolled neighborhood and landed in opposition neighborhoods. Its an insult to human reason and to the legitimacy of this institution to sugg