c-span2. television for serious readers. well, it s nice to see all of you nice folks here today. i see some familiar faces, a few new faces and we re happen to have you here. i don t really need to do much of an introduction because we all know our friend, allan, but i ll tell you a secret. he was going to name the book 50 shades of alan but decided against it. he thinks only he can tell jokes. have give him a jersey welcome. [applause] thank you very much. i spent a lot of time growing pup in jersey, my father hard a men s underwear and work clothes store on the lower east side and the customers were in new jersey so i would come with him on springfield avenue, newark, and patterson and passaic and went to all these after the second world war, all the army and navy stores so i got to know new jersey and my first wife was from bayonne, new jersey and her classmate in high school was barney frank who i met hen when he was 15 and knew he would be a politician. i m here to
to. alex wagner tonight, starting right now. good evening alex. good evening mehdi. that is such an essential conversation that you, and the congresswoman were having. you too are the best people to have it. thank you for putting that on our air. thank you so much, i appreciate it. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we are following breaking news out of texas, where authorities believe that they have in custody the man accused of killing five of his neighbors with an ar-15 semi automatic rifle. officials will be holding a press conference, later this hour, and of course, we will bring you any details we learn, later this hour. but first, most americans have spent at least some of their life living paycheck to paycheck, not knowing how, or if they will be able to pay their bills each month. and now, it is not just americans, it is also the country, america, itself. the entire federal government is one month from being out of cash. that is not an exaggeration
report, record numbers of teachers are quitting the profession entirely. so teachers need our support now more than ever. they have easily one of the most important jobs in the world. where would we be without our teachers? an educated. so i want to thank you to all the teachers out, they re the great american teacher will take us of the year tonight. and on that note, i wish you all a very good and very safe night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late. i ll see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow we are following breaking news out of texas, where authorities believe they have an custody the man accused of killing five of his neighbors with an ar-15 semiautomatic writer. officials will be holding a press conference later this hour and we will bring you any details we learn later this hour. but first, most americans have spent at least some of their life living paycheck to paycheck, not knowing how or even if they would b
h he place ed himself at the scene of the crime. reporter: twists and turns from 40 years, now there s another. there was nothing connecting him to that crime. was the wrong man sent to prison? who killed martha moxley. we know who killed martha. we have proved it. it was a very intense case. it s a throw down now. i m lester holt and this is dateline . is it hard for you to fathom that 40 years after the murder of your sister, there s still legal issues surrounding this case. 41 years is a long time and i can t tell you how many times we have been in the courtroom and it s mind boggling in a lot of ways. every time there s a legal twist or turn, what does it do to your peace of mind? i don t know that there are legal uncertainties, we have proved it and he was convicted and he was sent the jail. but the case has been turned upside down. the man convicted of killing 15-year-old martha is out of prison. michael skakel s conviction has been set asid