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homes. and i discover the archivists and librarians there love to talk. as i was visiting a truman library there many years ago to work on a book, all the staff would come up to me unsolicited did you know that so-and-so was here and then listing all the nameious historians. but then they had to me you know who our favorite is, dafbl udmccollough. and david mccollough was here and he was the nicest and appreciative. and i m enjoying all these stories. so what i did that night before i came in to finish my research, i went out to buy doughnuts for the whole staff because i figured they might say something about me. not in the same breadth as mccollough. but i think we would all agree it s without question david mccollough is one of the most revered of all-time. he s a national treasure not only of the presidential medal of freedom, multiple pulletsers, but also the voice which was alluded to earlier. i always loved mr. mccollough s voice narrating the american experience ....
brian: david mccullough, your from 1989,peeches when did you get the idea to do this. last summer. the summer of 2016. i was not discouraged, but distressed by the tone of the political campaign and the animosity and nastiness of some of it. i thought, i ve got to do something to help bring some balance back and remind people of who we are and how we got to be where we are, and what we stand for. i thought, i ve been speaking up and down the land for 40 years or more. maybe some of those speeches, if we dusted them off and put them together, not as an anthology, but speeches where i d addressed ideas or subjects that pertain to reminding us about who we are and what our values have been down the years. and my daughter, who has been arranging all my speaking dates all these years, wanted very much to help with it. she had whatever records we had. many of those speeches, there was no record of what i said. but we had enough that there were manuscripts of it. i never wante ....
if not by phone, you can weigh in via social media. again this was an interview with npr airing this morning and was posted last night at their website. here is the headline us that theminds u.s. intelligence officials concluded that hackers working for russia packed into the dean sees computer network the d&c s computer network. with the question of russia s ultimate motivation for the hack becoming increasingly divisive, the president was careful not to endorse the cia assessment reported by npr and other outlets that assessed russia s goal was to electronic. to elect trump. we ll get to it in a couple of minutes. we will move on and talk about some of the other reporting. here is the new york times headline. so, with all of that, we will hear from the president now. i think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections, that we need to take action and we will at a time and place of our own choosing. some o ....
we are following new information from the scene of a fire ta kill aid child and forced several famliz out of their homes. and a man is arrested following a robbery and police chase in philadelphia. but the big story is the deep freeze we are stuck with bitter cold conditions for a second straight day and it was an uncomfortable morning for people that had to wait outside or walk to school. and a dose of snow and sleet is arriving overnight. meteorologist, melissa magee, is tracking the latest conditions from the action news big board. a lot to go over. we have the cold in place and then tracking the snow, sleet and then the rain in the delaware and lehigh valleys. the windchills this afternoon telling the story. north of west of town in the low teens. 19 in reading and lancaster coming in at 9 degrees, 3 in the poconos. windchill here in philadelphia 22 and 15 the current number in millville. as we go through the rest of the afternoon, the windchill tracking sho ....
john mccain slamming the president for his war with the press. chilling video emerges which reports to be that fatal airport attack on kim jong-un s brother. investigators hoping that video could lead to more arrests. breaking her silence, angelina jolie opening up about her split from brad pitt. what she s saying about the breakup, her family and how they re coping today. this is today with matt lauer. welcome to today on this president s day. good to see you. you too. i saw you last weekend. it looked fun. we had plenty to talk to the crowd about. those dangerous storms rolling across parts of texas. mr. roker is here with more on that. we have severe thunderstorm warnings right now. it s not confirmed this is a tornado. they could be straight line winds. houston under the gun with these strong storms pushing in and as this line moves to the east we have 8 million people under the risk of storms with hail and gusts of winds up to 60 miles per h ....