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also tonight, another deadly shooting rampage across two texas cities. six people killed. a 34-year-old army veteran under arrest tonight. the dramatic rescue. a chopper pulling people from floodwaters as an atmospheric river drenches the northwest with more rain on the way. the fighting raging in gaza. our new reporting. is israel preparing to flood hamas tunnels with seawater? the u.s. charging four russian soldiers with war crimes. the horrific things they re accused of doing to an american. two months after he was ousted as house speaker, kevin mccarthy making a big announcement about his future. donald trump revealing what he d do if he wins the white house again. what he said about dictatorship as his gop rivals meet on the debate stage tonight. and from all in the family to sanford & son to good times, remembering sitcom genius norman lear. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone. breaking tonight, poli ....
we have billy crystal, who knew norman very well. we have lots to do. look forward to it. have a great night. thank you. you too. you know what i was thinking? yes, it s charles barkley. do you think it s right or fair that the united states has to be the policeman for the entire world? not for the entire world. i think the world looks to us. we need to have a conscience. if you could pick anyone for president, who would it be? anyone. hillary clinton. i would like to be presented with some different candidates. someone under the age of 50. announcer: from the cnn stutd y studios in new york city, it s king charles. tonight, secretary of state antony blinken, the legendary billy crystal, and roy wood junior. king charles starts now. going in. moving on up to the east side to a deluxe apartment to a deluxe apartment in the sky. it s the theme song of the jeffersons. one of the shows forman lear made possible. you know why we ar ....
With the first african-american woman. but b i wish she choose the and esther from sanford son . i think we d be in a lot better shape right now. and the media, the mainstream media s fault and it s everyones who voted for biden s fault because their number one objective was to get rid of trump. i get it. so that sf like saying trump is a horrible airline pilot. let s get him out of the cockpit, okay? you ve got him oututof of the cockpit. who s flying the plane now? the jobg is to be what you say. no, you re saying that if you use identity politics in any way, you say, okay, i m only going to appoint an african-american woman to be my vice presidential candidate.tial i m only going to appoint an african-american woman tont the supreme court. is that by definitionan in and f itself discriminatory? shouldn t it be open toha availableerson period, end of sentence? well, it is , yes. it s discriminatory. im ....
Come to dislike sanford&son, good times and the jeffersons . do you know what you re doing, george? of course i do. that s what you said on our honeymoon. is he a brother? no but what difference does it make? it makes a whole lot of difference to me. pop, haven t you seen that bumper sticker that says, good neighbors come in all colors. he ll come in good colors too. i put my it s one hell of a day in my neighborhood. a hell of a day for a neighbor. once every 10,000 years there s a golden child. i think it s like an athlete. they have all the tools, all the talent and all the hard work. eddie murphy and michael jordan to me are the same thing. the problem is when i move in, y all move away. eddie murphy for me was everything. he did a sketch white like me where he became white. and it was to this day, i feel like every joke that i say, that s in its dna. ....
Basketball player. bill, you mentioned the evolution of norman lear which wasn t entirely of his own doing. how ground-breaking was this story line? t. was ground breaking. you had formerly seen black families either maids or working class people like sanford & son, the junkyard. now a guy who san entrepreneur. jefferson was an entrepreneur. a string of dry cleaning stores. that s what was happening with some people in the black middle class. they were moving on up, but they still were represented as what would be their expectation in society. black people would think, well, maybe they are faking. they re not real. it s not real. you could see that white expectation was you wouldn t have a black family like that. that changed with the cosby show. a doctor and a lawyer. people were very willing to accept that. yeah, it s amazing how much sitcoms have such a dramatic effect on how people view ....