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Spirit of peace so that we can be together. >> i love seeing baby face chris cuomo. that was a real treat. truth is look, today matties voice lives on with a call for peace. and its important because there are other dangerous voices out there calling for violence. in london some young muslims have heard that call to join isis or other extremist groups. khalif khadir was once one of them. he went to pakistan to join al qaeda but the violence turned him off. jim skutdo first met him ten years ago....

The united states postal service makes more holiday deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country. ♪ with one notable exception. ♪ war reporting for you live from florida. naernl, look at this blue wave the democrats say is sweeping the nation. "the new york times" reporting republicans are fearing the losses would damage morale and deal a blow to the party in florida and beyond if the democrats can work up a national impact. house democratic leaders are saying today that their first...

Extraordinary ability in face-to-face negotiations. however, i think our entire policy vis-a-vis iran is bankrupt. i think we have totally picked the wrong enemy in the middle east. in my experience, and decades of war reporting, the nuisance, the evildoer in saudi arabia. it was the saudi arabians who wore the 9/11 hijackers. they are isis, al qaeda, al-shabaab. the sunni saudi arabians are the real problem. the iranians, i believe we can do business with them. they are the persians. i think we...

Soon after that she got an unexpected call. a tv station backed by the iranian government wanted her to work for them. she hoped it was a steppingstone to a better job. >> this is amanda, press tv, baghdad. >> to be paid to live somewhere exotic must have been really attractive. >> yeah, absolutely. >> but war reporting was more daunting than she expected. amanda wanted to get more experience but also cover stories she cared about. >> you need to go out there and go somewhere where you can get a...

Oreilly. there was a controversy about his reporting, his war reporting. >> right, how he had -- things he had said about his resume? >> exactly. so we were calling him for comment. we wanted to write a fair and accurate story. i picked up the phone and it was bill oreilly on the line and he said that our reporting had been fair but if he found anything untoward he would come after me with everything he had and he would take that as a threat. whats really important, it didnt have anything to do ...

In the course of yuour reportin? >> it was not anything to do with this story. in 2015 i was writing a different story about bill oreilly. there was a controversy about his reporting, his war reporting. >> right, how he had -- things he had said about his resume? >> exactly. so we were calling him for comment. we wanted to write a fair and accurate story. i picked up the phone and it was boo bill oreilly on the line and he said that our reporting had been fair but if he found anything untoward h...

Zones. >> complete on one. >> caught on camera as they come under fire themselves. >> theyve been taking incoming rounds from at least two directions on these hills. >> war reporting is as old as war itself, and for journalists covering the wars in iraq and afghanistan its as dangerous as ever. in 2008, nbc news richard engel the networks chief foreign correspondent, heads to afghanistan to report the story of soldiers based at restrepo. >> we didnt know what we were going to find. we went to th...

To you man the catastrophic aftermath of the bankruptcy before? barclays inherited the smoking rubble of what lehman used to be. lehman paid jeb bush more than twice what they paid john kasich during these disastrous days. happy anniversary to us, but particularly to the guys in the middle of the disaster making tons of money off of it when it almost collapsed the entire world. happy uncomfortable anniversary. good luck with the campaign. >> in the vice presidential debate in the last election c...

In the vice presidential debate in the last election cycle, the moderator was a great reporter for abc. shes known for her foreign affairs chops and her war reporting, her all-around expertise on security issue answer foreign policy. for vice president biden whose decades in the senate had included being chair of senate foreign affairs, she was a pretty good match for biden. but those issues were not a strong suit of the vice presidents opponent in that vice presidential debate. they were nothin...

>> in the vice presidential debate in the last election cycle, the moderator was a great reporter for abc. shes known for her foreign affairs chops and her war reporting, her all-around expertise on security issue answer foreign policy. for vice president biden whose decades in the senate had included being chair of senate foreign affairs, she was a pretty good match for biden. but those issues were not a strong suit of the vice presidents opponent in that vice presidential debate. they were not...