Or exciting ones it helps enhance your excitement and be more joyous in life. What i love about music is that it bypasses the cortex. The sounds go right into the part of your brain that processes them, so you dont get caught up in the thoughts. When you think about great music, you are in the moment. Each of you in your own way describe so artfully, elegantly how you find that space. Even when are you tired, the ability to get to the zen moment, you are in the moment, is ultimately i think what we in this country look for. Helps us with sleep, helps us become aware of things and deal with stressors and focus on things that we talk about today to make it easier to do the right thing. The garbage can around the country for a whole year, i felt a lot better. Singing and gigging again. I want to thank cindi lauper, lisa loeb and Madeline Stowe for joining me. Thank you for joining me tonight and a big thanks to piers for letting me fill in. From cnn World Headquarters in atlanta, this is
Tax fraud conviction. If he loses he could be banned from Public Office. It could be the largest jewel heist in history. Welcome to around the world. Was he a whistle blower or a traitor . Well learn next hour where the Army Private First class Bradley Manning has been convicted or acquitted of leaking classified documents. Hes accused of the biggest leak of classify information in this countrys history. Prosecutors called him a traitor. The founder of wikileakss, the site that published the documents said manning did the right thing. The statements he made he was willing to take that risk. He believes that the results are so important. We call those types of people that are willing to risk not be a martyr for all the rest of us, we call those people heroes. Bradley manning is a hero. Lets bring in barbara starr. Always a pleasure to see you. 22 charges he initially faced. He plead guilty to a dozen of them. The big one yet to come. That is right, michael. Its the whole issue now aidin
From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. Brian is off tonight. Im lester holt. There is word tonight the pentagon is drawing up military options to respond to this weeks atrocities in syria, as the white house comes under increasing pressure to act. Those horrible images of lifeless civilians killed by what the rebels say were chemical weapons has sparked international outrage. As the u. S. Officials are trying to confirm the nature of the attack, nbc news has spoken to one of the doctors on the ground treating the victims. He says the world is ignoring them. Lets get right to chuck todd at the white house. Chuck, iraq, afghanistan. Is america about to get involved in syria . Reporter well, lester, it looks like in some form. The president seems to be leaning every on sending some sort of strike. The question is, what does that military option look like . Right now thats unclear and the president s closest advisers are di
Again sadly tonight we begin with the latest word of the latest School Shooting in this country. Today it was a high school in oregon. Before we take you there, were going to show you the frustration and anger evident in the president s comments late this afternoon when he was asked about the seemingly nonstop string of violent acts inside public facilities, where our children are supposed to be safe. Were the only developed country on earth where this happens. And it happens now once a week. And its a oneday story. There is no place else like this. The United States does not have a monopoly on crazy people. It its its not the only country that has psychosis. And yet we kill each other in these in these Mass Shootings at rates that are exponentially higher than any place else. Whats the difference . The difference is these guys can stack up a bunch of ammunition in their houses, and thats sort of par for the course. To the president s point there about once a week, in fact according to
Feeling bullish this morning, but theyre most worried about kansas, as you said. The republican incumbent there is, is in a race for his life. Against an independent, greg orman, who wont say which party he will caucus with, the other state that everybody who i talked to who is following this and strategizing about this from both parties, is North Carolina. For several reasons, one is if, theres an incumbent democrat, kay hagan, shes been a couple points ahead in the polls. But republicans feel they might be able to surge there, if they do, that is going to be very telling for what kind of night its going to be for republicans. A better night than perhaps even they think right now. You got battling narratives, the republicans who put out that this is a referendum on poor leadership and it has a name and it is president obama and you have the democrat narrative, which is somewhat of an unknown and seems to be about running scared. This will all come home to roost in iowa specifically, t