back when ted cruz was just 13 years old. back in may of 1984. this is nbc nightly news. here is john palmer. they re having a family feud on capitol hill over television, and who will be on it. house sessions have been carried on a special cable tv channel lately. and house speaker tip o neill, trying to control this particular airwave. that special cable tv channel john palmer, the anchor you saw, special cable tv channel he was talking about was c-span. delivered gavel-to-gavel coverage of every session and public affairs programming to fill out the rest of hours. in the niche world of cabled, c-span has been such a hit there are three of them. three different c-span channels if you can believe that. in 1984, c-span was five years old. cable television itself wasn t much older.
last week, cruz in the senate, ramble on the senate floor for 21 hours. does that remind you of any one? try to give you the answer. his name, style, tactics in congress are rooted in something that happened years ago. back when ted cruz was just 13 years old. back in may of 1984. this is nbc nightly news. here is john palmer. they re having a family feud on capitol hill over television, and who will be on it. house sessions have been carried on a special cable tv channel lately. and house speaker tip o neill, trying to control this particular airwave. that special cable tv channel john palmer, the anchor you saw, special cable tv channel he was talking about was c-span. delivered gavel-to-gavel coverage of every session and public affairs programming to
years old. back in may of 1984. this is nbc nightly news. here is john palmer. they re having a family feud on capitol hill over television, and who will be on it. house sessions have been carried on a special cable tv channel lately. and house speaker tip o neill, trying to control this particular airwave. that special cable tv channel john palmer, the anchor you saw, special cable tv channel he was talking about was c-span. delivered gavel-to-gavel coverage of every session and public affairs programming to fill out the rest of hours. in the niche world of cabled, c-span has been such a hit there are three of them. three different c-span channels if you can believe that. in 1984, c-span was five years old. cable television itself wasn t much older.
19 minutes yammering on the senate floor about obama care and white castle and green eggs and ham, and everything else he touched on what became the fourth longest untranscripted speech in the history of the u.s. senate. but i like to look for the root causes of things. if we identify the root cause of what happened this week, i think we need to go back to something that happened when ted cruz was just 13 years old. in may of 1984. this is nbc nightly news reported by tom brokaw who is off tonight. here is john palmer. they re having a sort of family feud on capitol hill over television, and who will be on it. house sessions have been carried on a special cable tv channel lately. but now they the republicans say the democrats, especially house speaker tip o neill, are trying to control this particular airwave. the special cable tv channel that john palmer, the anchor you just saw talking there, the special cable tv channel was c-span. we know today it as a washington institutio