The life of an American Icon as we learn overnight of the death of our friend and Family Member mike nichols. Mrs. Robinson, youre trying to seduce me. The director who led the best of the best in their finest roles. Winning oscars, tonys, emmys and grammys. Changing the way we see ourselves and the world. Love, movies, families, loving them, seeing them, is not something that can lose its pleasure for me. He made us laugh for generations and we are all so much better for. And good morning, america. We are playing let the river run, carly simon from working girl. We are celebrating the life of mike nichols. He directed that film. One of so many spectacular ones. Truly an extraordinary man. He passed away from cardiac arrest. We are thinking of diane. We have been in contact. All of us at abc, she is in our thoughts. They were an incredible and beautiful love story. And the world loved mike nick cools. And the gifts he gave us. One of mikes favorite quotes, the time to make up your mind
Have wealth and power of the people who need to change. Today, british comedian, actor and activist Russell Brand for the hour. He is out with a new book, simply titled revolution. Once known as the face of the mtv movie awards, he has since become one of the most prominent voices of the british left. He has taken part in antiausterity protests, spoken at occupy wall street and marched with the hacker collective anonymous. A recovering addict himself, Russell Brand has also become a leading critic of britains drug laws. It is not important we regard people suffering from addiction with compassion and there is a pragmatic rather than some bolick approach to treating it. I think [indiscernible] it is kind of symbolic and not really functional. Id. See how it especially helps. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from london. The top military officer in the United States has said he is cons
Opener with your world in 90 seconds. A stock market that has doubled and inflation that is at its lowest rate in 50 years. He focused on helping the middle class with new tax proposals. He just doubled down on the same failed policies the last six years. The president said some things but he did it all in kind of ad goo humor. I have no more campaigns to run. I know because i won both of them. A terror attack in israel. A palestinian man stabbed and injured nine passengers on a busin tel aviv. Rebel forces took over the president ial palace. The u. S. Military taking action to be ready. The nfl found 11 of 12 footballs were underinflated, done. Sndindeyla confirmed the recent outbreak of measles includes five park employees. My na na told me to bring a lot of purell. They were told to bulldoze stheteps. A tourist the top got a selfie with rocky himself. How cool is that. And all that matters. The state of the union address. Im not going to go over it. It was all very predictable. The
Axelrod good evening. Scotts off tonight. Im jim axelrod. The line of mourners stretches for blocks, and they are here from every corner of new york city and well beyond to pay their respects to officer rafael ramos, one of two cops murdered last weekend as they sat in their cruiser. An honor guard saluted as the casket was brought into the church. Some of the mourners are carrying pictures of ramos and his partner wenjian liu. Blue ribbons hang on a nearby fence, a gesture of support for police, as the n. Y. P. D. Continues to investigate dozens of threats against its officers. Jericka duncan is outside the service. Reporter just after 12 30, the nations largest city came to a pause as thousands gathered to honor a fallen officer. Following the strict somber protocol that guides mourning of a cop killed in the line of duty, a slow, steady stream of blue flowed into the church to say goodbye to 40yearold rafael ramos. Nobody deserve deserves to de way he did, Police Officer or civilian
Ago as chief curator. We have programs of music, literature, film. I introduced you as pretty and you are pritic. You know as we get older, our hearing isnt as better. I am sorry. Thats fine. One of the things lori asked me to do when i started a year ago, anniversary part, was to really ramp up the experience of the visitor the moment they set foot in the building. We wanted it not to be dry. Institutions can be cold. We wanted it to be celebratory when they walk in, before they even have to pay, to be confronted with our other jewish theme. I have done several things. The most spectacular is we have a gigantic art piece installed on the ceiling of the lobby by david blaine. Its 90 feet long, weighs six tons, and is titled lamp of the covenant. Its symbolic. Its covered with lights and globes. He talks about it as a model of this about the covenant between man and god which in judaism as you know, its all about the ongoing conversation about what is the nature of the covenant between