As someone who lives in austin, its nice to have this weather. I am welcoming it. I was hard all summer long. I was very excited to get to interview david westin, somebody ive admired from afar. And he has written exit interview, a book i hope you all get. If youre watching this at your home or you are here in the audience, its an extraordinary book about his time running abc news in 19972010. He was therefore all of the big moments of our recent history, and of all personalities and the broadcasting journalism business, so its a delight and a real welcome. Thank you very much. Great to be with you. [applause] before i get into your book i just want to ask you about your own trajectory. Did you ever plan on where we you brought up . Did you every think about being in journalism as a teenager or College Student . Im a proud michigander, north of here. Yeah, exactly, from flint, believe it or not. I was born in flint, michigan. I went to law school and became a lawyer and clerk for Justi
And depression and growing up for in the dust bowl. Win i wrote about the gun fight at the o. K. Corral that was not really a gunfight and not really at the o. K. Corral. [laughter] but the accident accidental shooting on fremont street did not have the same ring when people would write the history. Talking about the last part of the american frontier it occurred to me a lot of that unique period known as the late 60s is the there completely forgotten or else people put their own little twist this some people say it was the hit me with a lot of sex and drugs but other people remember the passion the students marching in the street other people remember the spaceage with the cold war still going on. When they interviewed tom up for the bookies said he doesnt take there has never been a couple of years that we were bombarded every day it is seems impossible to comprehend. We had called beloved leaders or controversial leaders in history. A war dividing the country. More racial violence i
A bunch of documents declassified. A rare event, especially considering they have to do with an active investigation into russia. All of it as the 11th hour gets under way on a monday night. As we start a new week, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 606 of the Trump Administration. And it appears we are going to be covering yet another Brett Kavanaugh hearing next week, but its not the kind of hearing the Trump Administration was expecting or looking forward to. Brett kavanaughs path to the Supreme Court just got supremely complicated. Tonight the Senate Judiciary committee announced it will hold a public hearing next monday with kavanaugh and his accuser, dr. Christine blasey ford, a College Professor in california. Nbc news reports that kavanaugh spent roughly nine hours inside the white house today and that a white house official described him as, quote, champing at the bit to testify. In an on the record interview with the Washington Post f
While the Government Shutdown is day 14 and leaving hundreds of thousands of federal workers in financial limbo and nothing of the scores of businesses around dc and federal installations around the country hurting. Joining me is Geoff Bennett, and Garrett Haake on capitol hill, and msnbc political analyst Michael Steele, a former Republican National committee chair. And first, are they still in that meeting at the white house . Yes, and no signs of horse trading between President Trump and the House Democrats so we will have to see what if anything comes from are the meet i ing. What we do know though is in order for the shutdown to end, one side has to give in, and one side has to cave, and if it is going to be donald trump, then he is going to be needing political cover to do that, and the president to this point has balked at every attempt by the ai aides and allies to do just that. Earlier in the process with Nick Mulvaney and Kellyanne Conway and Lindsey Graham trying to budge, t