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Wide-eyed charm captured the hearts of millions of girls worldwide. >> youre taking is auto shop. >> me, too. >> the parred ridge family, a musical sit-com about a family and a rock n roll band gave him a national audience for his own music. ♪ i think i love you >> i think i love you, the shows first single, topped the billboard 100 in 1907 and sold over 5 million copies. >> i was always a musician but i never pursued my career as a musician. it was just fate the way the stars aligned themselv...

Ridiculous idea that this band of courageous folks, somehow roy moore was going to arrive in the senate and they would band together and discharge him. no, they want the vote. >> shannon: if they dont do something like that. >> shannon: if this tax bill smelled like snickerdoodle cookies and gave everyone a free unicorn, there is no tax bill that would be worth what it woue to have a campaign with a cutout of roy moore next to you. steve and i will take the snickerdoodle cookies but not the unic...

This is a man who said that a mexican american judge could not be impartial because he is mexican american and always seems to he hsitate when it com to white nationalists terrorists on other americans or other people of color. but seems never to hesitate in terms of when it comes from the opposite end. attacks a white person or church or anything of that nature. look how quickly he acted on the lonened attacks. within minutes. >> even mayor. . >> he finds a way to hold back. that tells me a lot...

Sensibilities and blast me into sweet oh livon. make it a mimosa. >> we had the luck to be able to rotate cast and every time we put somebody in, they were explosions. >> there was something very special about that setting, those characters that i never got tired of writing that show. >> sophisticated surveys, telephonic samplings, test audiences. all of those things help to separate winners from losers and make mid course corrections. you cant cut all comedies from the same cookie cutters. all ...

>> i am hans. >> i am frans, and we want to pump you up. >> a lot of things they could do on saturday night live they couldnt do on a sit com. >> let me just sum up on track stay the course, 1,000 points of light, stay the course. >> governor dukakis, rebuttal. >> i cant believe im losing to this guy. >> ill get it. >> people were taking all the old principles of comedy and try to turn them into something new. weve spend years and years watching sit coms and dramas and talk shows. we knew them b...

Just let me drop off my friend, and then well talk. >> when we entered the 80s, a lost one-hour dramas that were light-hearted like "magnum p.i." were very popular. after "m.a.s.h." went off the air, the next season there wasnt a single sitcom in the top ten. first time that had ever happened in tv history. the prevailing feeling was that the sitcom was dead. >> brandon tartikoff, nbc programming chief, says reports of the sitcoms death were greatly exaggerated. >> time and time again, if you st...

Player when it comes to our relations with russia that that relationship is not as strong as it should be. i dont think its breaking. i think chancellor merkel was making a point that she had another, not such a great meet with president trump. her first meeting in march wasnt very good. meeting in both nato and in italy at the g7 summit was a problem. and shes making it clear that if it com to the future of how we are going to make decisions, dont automatically assume that germany will be follo...

Kushner n his failure to disclose that connection on his security forms. its a wide net and the fbi is probably going to go back a lot farther than 2017. >> they are now looking at financial crimes. your point is the portfolio of what investigators can look at is, you think that the signals are being sent and the reporting is fairly broad? >> yes, i think that, you know, when it com to this, if there was collusion, which i tend to not think is the case, but this nex nexus, it probably didnt occu...

President-elect trump on the telephone and in a letter stressed the need for all sides coming to the table. he said thats how progress happens. this continues to bubble up. president-elect trump again pointing out that congressman lewis has in fact boycotted an inauguration in the past, hallie. >> anything from the trump team on these new sort of very fiery and emotional comments from john brennan? >> reporter: no, nothing publicly. but when you reach out to officials behind the scenes, they str...

Seat of the pants. i was doing some reporting and we were kind of reflecting on his impact. >> i remember being a 10-year-old kid watching this 10-year-old kid on tv one night and it would become an overnight sensation. he would go on and his career would become a sensation. its one of those things the more you talk about it, the more you realized how big his impact was. i have never met anyone to this day that didnt like his music. >> eyes were glued to wall to wall coverage of all stories mich...