[applause] well i hope youre having as much fun as i am at this festival. You know, i always think of students in college a few of you were in college few years ago as best thing to do is to take the take the teacher not the course. And here i think is thing that is fun is to tack these incredible authors to be in a room with them whatever theyre talking about. The only problem with it this with this festival is theres somebody in every room and you want to be with but today we have terrific people who i think, youve heard from them all at one point or o another Douglas Brinkley written biography about more president s than most of us have ever heard of but also done so many other interesting things including among ga gazillion and great space race so be watching for that. And to give you gossip he has basement, basement studio basement studio envy of john who has got that msnbc, and margaret is trying to make the same deal with the cbc. [laughter] of course great history in 1919 that
[applause] and now from the 2018 Rancho Mirage writers festival in california authors and historians john and margaret mcmellon and douglas discuss is their favorite historical figures. Ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to the stage Douglas Brinkley morgan and john with your moderator, jeff. [applause] well i hope youre having as much fun as i am at this festival. You know, i always think of students in college a few of you were in college few years ago as best thing to do is to take the take the teacher not the course. And here i think is thing that is fun is to tack these incredible authors to be in a room with them whatever theyre talking about. The only problem with it this with this festival is theres somebody in every room and you want to be with but today we have terrific people who i think, youve heard from them all at one point or o another Douglas Brinkley written biography about more president s than most of us have ever heard of but also done so many other in
Omalley. Dont think about it liz warren. There is a new guy crashing the liberal party and taller than all of you. You can put the others on top of each other. You get my point. Message to Hillary Clinton start worrying not about losing the nomination but driving so hard left that you dont get much beyond the nomination. To Charlie Gasparino and bo dietl. Charlie you say that the mayor needs to focus on present job and hes not. Listen we had two mayors in a row incredible workaholics and very good mayors. Rudy giuliani and mike bloomberg. They were working 24 hours a day, these guys, and for mayor bloomberg, a billionaire he didnt need to do that, but he did it. And very effective. And get a guy not effective as mayor even sitting in Gracie Mansion, hes not very effective as mayor or sitting in city hall. Not very effective as mayor. Hes a very ineffective mayor and point out he has a decent Police Commissioner but murders are on the rise, and a problem with crime in central park. Iowa
Candlelight vigil. Four suspects due in court today. When, not if . Multiple reports the nfl is preparing to suspend tom brady over deflategate as early as today. But for how long . And terrifying collapse. A stage gives way during a choir performance in china. At least eight singers injured. Police looking into what went wrong. Today, monday, may 11th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a live in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Ladies, did you both have nice mothers days . Yes. Best one ever. I hear what the hype is about. It was awesome. Natalie . Mine was great. Breakfast in bed from the kids. Meanwhile mothers day was tough for a lot of people in the country. Its our top story this morning. That Severe Weather impacting tens of millions of people. Tornadoes and flash flooding in the south and the midwest. The carolinas getting soaked by the remnants of ana. In colorado nearly
At auction, tuesday, may 12, 2015. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a Tuesday Morning. As we open this Tuesday Morning our thoughts and prayers go out to the people of nepal. Can you imagine what theyve been through and now another major earthquake has hit. Breaking news out of nepal where this damaging new quake struck overnight causing deaths and injuries and causing buildings once again to collapse. Nbcs katy tur, what do we know . There are buildings, mudslides and 42 People Killed so far, but that number is only expected to rise. This was 7. 3, centered on namche and 51 miles from kathmandu which as you know is devastated from the april 25th 7. 8 quake that killed 8,000 people. This one not as big, but still powerful and felt as far away as new delhi where buildings swayed for more than a minute. The usgs says todays 7. 3 quake lasted more than a minute and the