NBC Nightly News open - 2008-06-13 (Tim Russert death)
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[0:00] for you.
[0:09] Tonight, we remember our friend and
[0:11] colleague Tim Russert, a giant in the
[0:14] NBC News family, in journalism, and in
[0:17] national politics.
[0:27] Good evening, and tonight finds us
[0:29] halfway around the world at Bagram
[0:31] Airfield in Afghanistan, but all members
[0:34] of the NBC News family are united in our
[0:37] profound sympathy for the members of Tim
[0:40] Russert's family. Tim died suddenly this
[0:43] afternoon in our Washington bureau,
[0:45] where of course he was the long-time
[0:47] bureau chief, and as we like to say so
[0:49] often around here, moderator of Meet the
[0:51] Press. So many of us f