Injured, two homes destroyed. An investigation under way. Bad time to tweet . New information on the big flub at the Academy Awards. There is a mistake. Moonlight, you guys won best picture. The twitter post that may have led to one of the most embarrassing mixups in oscar history. Today, tuesday, february 28th, 2017. Announcer from nbc news this is a special edition of today on the hill with matt lauer live from capitol hill and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to this special edition of today on a tuesday morning. I am matt lauer standing smackdab in the middle of the u. S. Capitol in washington. Savannah guthrie is back smackdab in the middle of studio 1a in new york city. How about this for a view . Nice spot. I have been looking at your beautiful shots of washington, d. C. I thought, arent they peaceful when they sleep . Its going to be a busy night in washington. I am standing above where the inauguration took place, about a month ago. Let me set
[inaudible conversations] host book tv live coverage on tucson festival of books continues on the campus of the university of arizona, which has been the home of the festival for the past nine years book tv has been live for the last several years as well and coming up there are several more panels including in half an hour or so freedom of the press with authors maureen dowd, joe carson and evan thomas. Thats whats coming up and if you want to follow along you can go to book tv. Org and get the full schedule or you can follow us on twitter at the tv or facebook, facebook. Com. book tv. Lots going on outside, but we are inside and for the next halfhour we are pleased to have New York Times calm this, maureen dowd here before her panel. We will take your calls as well. Maureen dowd, how do you view your job . Guest well, peter, thats a big question. I dont like to talk about this because it sounds a little corny. I view my job as a watchdog and times readers often dont understand that i
Can follow us on twitter at the tv or facebook, facebook. Com. book tv. Lots going on outside, but we are inside and for the next halfhour we are pleased to have New York Times calm this, maureen dowd here before her panel. We will take your calls as well. Maureen dowd, how do you view your job . Guest well, peter, thats a big question. I dont like to talk about this because it sounds a little corny. I view my job as a watchdog and times readers often dont understand that im not an ideological columnists, not coming from the left or right. I was a political reporter for 20 years and so i come more from a political reporting point of view. On just going to try to tell them its like toto pulling the curtain in the wizard of oz. Im going to try to give our readers anything i can find out that they need to know about, you know, what is true and what is false and whats these people will have lifeanddeath power over us are really like and where they are lying and where they are, you know ris
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Before her panel. We will take your calls as well. Maureen dowd, how do you view your job . Guest well, peter, thats a big question. I dont like to talk about this because it sounds a little corny. I view my job as a watchdog and times readers often dont understand that im not an ideological columnists, not coming from the left or right. I was a political reporter for 20 years and so i come more from a political reporting point of view. On just going to try to tell them its like toto pulling the curtain in the wizard of oz. Im going to try to give our readers anything i can find out that they need to know about, you know, what is true and what is false and whats these people will have lifeanddeath power over us are really like and where they are lying and where they are, you know rising to the occasion of. Host maureen dowd most recent book is called the year of voting dangerously. , us president s have you covered you know . Guest well, i covered the very tail end of reagan when he wa