NBC Nightly News - 1982-08-19
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[0:04] This is NBC Nightly News [music] with
[0:06] Tom Brokco in New York, Roger Mud in
[0:09] Washington, and commentary by John
[0:11] Chancellor.
[0:13] >> Good evening. After an allcourt press
[0:16] that was endowed until this afternoon,
[0:18] President Reagan won his tax increase
[0:20] victory that he said was good for
[0:22] America. The vote in the House was 226
[0:25] to 207. 89 Republicans voted against the
[0:28] president. The Senate has yet to act,
[0:30] but when it does, perhaps later tonight,
[0:32] it's expected to be favorable. For a
[0:34] report on the fiercely lobbyed House
[0:35] victory, here's Lisa Meyers. Mr.
[0:38] >> Chairman,
[0:39] >> outside, a White House lobbyist
[0:41] maintained a dayong vigil.
[0:43] >> How's the luck, Jack?
[0:44] >> We're all right. We're all right.
[0:46] >> But no one was certain. Lobbyist for
[0:49] restaurant workers and for realtors,
[0:51] both administration allies, continued to
[0:53] press for votes.
[0:55] >> We really need your help. There was
[0:57] ample reason for nervousness. Inside,
[1:00] conservative Republicans were leading a
[1:02] revolt against their own president.
[1:04] >> Mr. Speaker,
[1:06] this is stick it to the consumers and
[1:08] constituents day. Ladies and gentlemen,
[1:12] whether we call it reform or compliance
[1:14] or a tax increase, we are taking $100
[1:18] billion dollar out of the economy. But
[1:21] while some argued it would be disastrous
[1:23] to raise taxes during a recession,
[1:25] others argued it would be disastrous not
[1:27] to.
[1:28] >> A $150 billion deficit is staring at us
[1:33] with bloodshot eyes. I'm convinced
[1:36] personally the vote for this bill will
[1:38] reduce those interest rates further. And
[1:40] that's the key element to full economic
[1:43] recovery. While many of the president's
[1:45] traditional allies were deserting him,
[1:47] he had some new ones, including House
[1:49] Speaker Thomas O'Neal. First, O'Neal
[1:52] lectured Republicans.
[1:54] >> Are you going to follow the leader that
[1:55] brought you here?
[1:57] Are you going to run? I ask you to just
[1:59] to think of that.
[2:01] >> Then a final appeal. I ask you today as
[2:05] a leader of the opposition party, as a
[2:08] as a leader opposed to the president of
[2:10] the United States and most of his
[2:11] philosophy, the president is right. We
[2:15] need this tax bill. I ask for your vote.
[2:18] >> 51% of Democrats and 54% of Republicans
[2:22] voted with the president, meaning that
[2:24] for all the fingerpointing, this is
[2:26] truly a bipartisan tax increase. Lisa
[2:29] Meyers, NBC News, at the capital. The
[2:32] Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act
[2:35] of 1982, which is what it's known as,
[2:37] has been called a lot of things. Tax
[2:39] increase, revenue enhancer, tax reform,
[2:41] and spending cut. Economics
[2:43] correspondent Irving Aravine reports on
[2:45] the effect of the bill on the taxpayer.
[2:49] >> Like other Americans who have a
[2:51] telephone, Betsy Shyro will be paying
[2:53] more under the new tax bill. The 1%
[2:56] federal tax on telephone bills triples.
[3:00] Cigarette smokers like Robert Davis will
[3:03] be paying more, too. The present 8 cents
[3:06] a pack tax goes up to 16 cents. And
[3:10] Linda Thomas, like other Americans who
[3:12] have savings accounts or own stocks,
[3:14] will have 10% of her interest or
[3:17] dividends withheld as an advanced tax
[3:19] payment. Although the business lunch is
[3:22] untouched, restaurant employees like
[3:25] Kathy Rich, whose reporting of tips has
[3:27] depended largely on conscience, will be
[3:30] taxed a percentage of the restaurant's
[3:32] income. Airline travelers who have been
[3:35] paying a 5% tax on tickets will pay 8%.
[3:39] Also, taxpayers will be allowed smaller
[3:42] deductions for medical expenses and for
[3:45] property losses caused by accidents.
[3:48] Businesses will be hit harder than
[3:50] individuals and will lose about half of
[3:53] the tax breaks granted by last year's
[3:55] big tax cut bill. Administration
[3:58] officials claim that only those
[4:00] Americans who have been avoiding taxes
[4:03] on savings, investments, and tips will
[4:05] really feel the bite of the new tax
[4:07] bill. Irving R. Lavine, NBC News,
[4:11] Washington.
[4:12] Not since the tax battle with the
[4:14] Congress of last year have the president
[4:16] and the White House apparatus lobbyed so
[4:18] intensely and put so much of the
[4:20] president's prestige on the line. Judy
[4:22] Woodruff is at the White House with the
[4:24] Reagan reaction.
[4:27] >> The White House kept the president's
[4:29] victory statement deliberately subdued
[4:31] so as not to rub salt in the wounds of
[4:33] those fellow Republicans whom he had
[4:35] just beaten down on the floor of the
[4:37] House. On behalf of the American people,
[4:40] I want to thank the members of both
[4:42] parties
[4:44] in the House of Representatives for
[4:47] today's who made today's victory
[4:49] possible.
[4:51] This was a hard choice for many of them,
[4:53] especially in an election year. But when
[4:56] it came to the test, a bipartisan
[4:58] majority bit the bullet and voted for
[5:00] the revenue increases and spending cuts
[5:03] we so urgently need to get deficits and
[5:05] interest rates down and Americans back
[5:07] to work. This vote does not mark the end
[5:11] of the crusade to get our country's
[5:13] economy moving again, but it is an
[5:16] important milestone.
[5:18] Reagan aids have felt all along that
[5:20] they had to win at all costs because a
[5:22] loss would have been a disaster, both
[5:24] for its implications for the economy and
[5:26] for the damage it would do to the
[5:28] president's reputation as a leader. Even
[5:30] with a victory, however, the president
[5:32] is left with a divided party, and aids
[5:35] here are already talking of a fence
[5:36] mending session with conservative
[5:38] Republicans. But the president's more
[5:40] moderate aids don't think that putting
[5:42] the party back together will be a
[5:43] serious obstacle. As several of them
[5:46] have put it, the right wing has nowhere
[5:48] else to go. Judy Woodruff, NBC News, at
[5:51] the White House.
[5:59] [music]
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[7:32] >> In the Middle East, the long difficult
[7:34] process of working out a PLO withdrawal
[7:36] from West Beirut appears to be in the
[7:38] final hours. Today, the Israeli cabinet
[7:40] gave final approval to mediator Philip
[7:42] Habib's plan, and the departure of the
[7:44] first units of PLO fighters may be very
[7:47] soon. Martin Fletcher reports.
[7:50] It's possible the PLO will start leaving
[7:52] Beirut this weekend, but the evacuation
[7:55] process lasts 14 days, and Israeli
[7:57] officials are quick to point out that
[7:59] many things could still go wrong, such
[8:01] as a radical Palestinian group trying to
[8:03] sabotage the whole operation. And just
[8:06] before the Israeli cabinet gathered this
[8:08] morning to discuss Ambassador Philip
[8:10] Habib's plan, they were told that a
[8:12] group of Palestinians had kidnapped an
[8:14] Israeli soldier overnight in Beirut.
[8:16] That aroused Israeli fears, and the
[8:18] meeting ended with a yes, but yes to the
[8:20] plan. But the evacuation could begin
[8:23] only after the PLO handed back the
[8:25] kidnapped man as well as a captured
[8:27] pilot and the bodies of nine Israeli
[8:29] soldiers. Defense Minister Ariel Chaon
[8:32] rejected Cleo claims their withdrawal
[8:35] was a victory for the Palestinians.
[8:37] >> It's not a withdrawal, it's an
[8:39] expulsion.
[8:40] >> He said it was a great success for
[8:42] Israel.
[8:43] >> And I believe that is one of the
[8:46] major achievement that Israel ever
[8:48] achieved.
[8:49] >> Chiron also said the Israeli army would
[8:51] not leave Lebanon until the Syrians
[8:53] left. And talking to tourists tonight,
[8:56] the former Israeli Prime Minister Yitsak
[8:58] Rabin summed up what many are thinking.
[9:02] >> This will be the end
[9:04] of quite a sad story, but I'm not sure
[9:09] is the end of the problems in Lebanon.
[9:13] >> The PLO's departure from Beirut will be
[9:15] the end of phase one of Khabib's talks.
[9:18] Phase two will concern the departure of
[9:20] Israeli and Syrian troops from Lebanon.
[9:22] But that could be even more difficult
[9:23] than getting the PLO out. Martin
[9:26] Fletcher, NBC News, Jerusalem.
[9:29] >> Today, the Lebanese government formally
[9:30] asked the United States, France, and
[9:32] Italy to form an international
[9:34] peacekeeping force to move into Beirut
[9:35] as the PLO is moving out. The request is
[9:38] a formality. The formation of the force
[9:40] was a key factor in getting everyone to
[9:42] agree to the evacuation schedule. Phil
[9:44] Breman reports tonight that the
[9:46] peacekeepers already are forming.
[9:50] All three nations sending peacekeeping
[9:51] forces to Beirut. All three were in
[9:54] evidence today at the international
[9:55] airport in Cyprus. French troops began
[9:58] arriving even as Italian officers in
[10:00] civilian clothes boarded US Navy
[10:02] helicopters. An American diplomat
[10:04] refused to explain. Criate sources said
[10:07] the small Italian party was going
[10:09] straight to Beirut to plan the
[10:11] deployment of the main Italian force.
[10:13] And off the Lebanese coast, American
[10:15] Marines now are believed aboard ship,
[10:17] just waiting for the order to go ashore.
[10:22] But it will be these French paratroopers
[10:24] and foreign legionnaires who take their
[10:26] positions first, standing between the
[10:29] Israelis encircling Beirut and the
[10:31] Palestinian fighters who will at last be
[10:33] leaving.
[10:35] >> And in a sense, the French contingent is
[10:37] itself a multinational force. One
[10:39] officer said, "These foreign
[10:41] legionnaires are from 31 countries. This
[10:43] French soldier is an Englishman."
[10:47] Only light weapons were seen. The French
[10:49] reportedly are under orders to get out
[10:51] of the way if shooting breaks out. But
[10:53] there was no anxiety on the toughened
[10:55] young faces as they boarded the French
[10:57] warships in Larnica Harbor for the
[10:59] 11-hour voyage. French correspondents
[11:02] traveling with them described the troops
[11:04] morale as high and their determination
[11:06] strong.
[11:08] All indications here are that the PLO
[11:10] withdrawal is on schedule. Sources here
[11:13] say these troops will set sail for
[11:15] Lebanon tomorrow. Phil Breman, NBC News,
[11:18] Larnica, Cyprus.
[11:21] Even if all of the PLO fighters go out
[11:23] of Beirut on schedule, Lebanon still
[11:25] will be one of the most heavily armed
[11:26] nations in the world. And in his
[11:28] commentary tonight, John Chancellor
[11:30] provides us with a kind of scorecard and
[11:32] talks about what other steps are
[11:33] necessary before the Lebanese can expect
[11:35] any real peace. John,
[11:37] >> Israel is ordering winter uniforms for
[11:39] its troops in Lebanon. And if Israeli
[11:42] troops spend the winter there, they
[11:43] won't be the only ones. Let's say the
[11:45] evacuation of the PLO and Syrians from
[11:47] Beirut goes according to plan.
[11:52] There will still be a lot of troops left
[11:53] in Lebanon. 5 to 7,000 PLO in the north
[11:57] not affected by the Beirut Agreement.
[11:59] 30,000 Syrians in the north and east.
[12:03] the Christian felange militia in Beirut
[12:05] and the north. Perhaps 50,000 Israelis
[12:08] in Beirut and the south and an Israeli
[12:12] supplied Christian militia north of the
[12:14] Israeli border. There are also the
[12:16] Lebanese army and UN troops. If the
[12:18] Lebanese can't control all these armies,
[12:20] the Israelis and the Syrians may end up
[12:22] partitioning Lebanon, but control won't
[12:24] be easy. Lebanon's different religious
[12:27] groups have been killing each other
[12:28] since the civil war broke out in 1975
[12:31] between Muslims and Christians. The
[12:33] Syrians and the PLO fought as well. As
[12:35] many as 70,000 Lebanese died, which
[12:38] leaves hatred and old scores to settle.
[12:40] Nobody knows for sure, but the Muslims
[12:42] may now outnumber the Christians. It
[12:44] used to be the other way around, and the
[12:46] Christians don't want to give up the
[12:47] power they once had. The Christians are
[12:50] the chief allies of the Israelis and
[12:52] have had military help and other kinds
[12:53] of support from Israel. Israel wants a
[12:56] central government under strong
[12:57] Christian control. But the Shia Muslims
[13:00] may turn out to be the key group because
[13:02] if the Christians can't put it together,
[13:03] the Israelis will back the Shia Muslims.
[13:06] That might not please Lebanon Sunni
[13:08] Muslims who have to be taken into
[13:10] account in any settlement. Proving again
[13:12] how complicated things can get in
[13:14] Lebanon. For example, the Drews Muslim
[13:17] sect has no love for the Christians, and
[13:19] there have been battles in recent weeks,
[13:20] which the Israelis have had to break up.
[13:22] This may not stop. It is not going to be
[13:25] easy after all the years of fighting and
[13:27] killing to get these people to put down
[13:29] their arms and shake hands. But there
[13:31] will be no peace without reconciliation.
[13:33] The process of reconciliation could
[13:35] begin next Monday when the Lebanese
[13:37] Parliament is to meet to begin choosing
[13:39] a president by secret ballot. Nobody
[13:41] knows how long that will take. This man
[13:43] is the only declared candidate by Shir
[13:46] Jamaal, head of the Christian fange
[13:48] movement whose opponents call him a
[13:49] fascist. Hated by Muslims and even some
[13:52] Christians, he sided with Israel in the
[13:54] siege of Beirut. The Muslims may never
[13:56] forgive him. Israel has a huge stake in
[13:59] a political resolution of Lebanon's
[14:01] problem. Unless Israel can create a
[14:03] stable Lebanon, it may have to fight
[14:05] there again. And it has already suffered
[14:07] great losses, over 300 dead. If the
[14:10] United States had lost that percentage
[14:12] of its population, the figure would be
[14:14] 22,000 dead. That's why Israel is stuck
[14:17] in Lebanon with no easy solution in
[14:19] sight. That's why Israel is ordering
[14:21] winter uniforms for its soldiers.
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[16:01] On Wall Street today, it was relatively
[16:03] calm after the mayhem of the last two
[16:05] days. More than 78 million shares were
[16:08] traded today, and the Dow Jones closed
[16:09] up 9.14.
[16:12] Lower interest rates have been getting a
[16:13] lot of the credit for the stock market
[16:15] rally, of course, but as Mike Jensen
[16:17] reports tonight, the lower rates have
[16:19] not found their way to two critical
[16:20] consumer areas, housing and cars. Tom
[16:24] and Sue Grove are house hunting, but
[16:25] they're bothered by the fact that
[16:27] mortgage rates have not come down while
[16:29] other interest [music] rates have.
[16:30] >> It's made us considerably more
[16:32] selective,
[16:34] >> the interest rates. [clears throat]
[16:35] >> We're not quite in such a rush to just
[16:38] get into a house, but to make sure we've
[16:39] got one that we really want.
[16:41] >> The prime rate, the one banks charge big
[16:43] business, has come down from 20.5% a
[16:46] year ago to 14% today, a decline of
[16:49] 6.5%.
[16:51] But look at mortgage loans. 15% a year
[16:53] ago, 16% today, an increase of 1%. And
[16:58] auto loans, 15.5% a year ago, 17.5%
[17:03] today, an increase of 2%.
[17:06] >> The experts say mortgage loan rates
[17:08] haven't come down as fast as the prime
[17:10] rate because they didn't go up as fast.
[17:12] >> Same thing with auto loans. But bankers
[17:14] admit privately that they're keeping
[17:16] consumer loan rates high because they
[17:18] worry about interest rates rising again.
[17:21] And they say they don't want to get
[17:22] stuck with a lot of loans at rates that
[17:24] are unprofitable.
[17:26] Still, analysts say consumer loan rates
[17:28] will probably drop in the months ahead.
[17:30] >> The person who wants to borrow to buy a
[17:32] house may see mortgage interest rates
[17:35] coming down some over the near term, but
[17:37] probably not as much as he anticipates
[17:39] they will come down. The experts say
[17:41] that at best mortgage loan rates and
[17:43] auto loan rates might come down a couple
[17:45] of percentage points by the end of the
[17:47] year, but even that depends on a
[17:49] continuing decline in interest rates in
[17:51] general. And a lot of analysts say that
[17:53] may not happen. Mike Jensen, NBC News,
[17:57] New York.
[17:58] The Commerce Department reported today
[18:00] that the gross national product, which
[18:02] measures the country's total economic
[18:04] activity, grew by slightly less than
[18:06] originally estimated during April, May,
[18:09] and June. Some economists interpreted
[18:11] this and other figures released today as
[18:13] indications that the recession is at or
[18:15] near its bottom, but real recovery has
[18:17] not yet begun. Roger.
[18:20] The Justice Department and the American
[18:22] Telephone and Telegraph Company today
[18:24] announced that they had accepted a
[18:25] court-ordered modification of the plan
[18:27] to break up the company. Under the
[18:29] agreement, local telephone companies
[18:31] would be able to keep customer costs
[18:33] down by selling equipment and by
[18:35] printing the lucrative yellow pages.
[18:37] AT&T would also be prohibited for at
[18:39] least seven years from entering the
[18:41] electronic publishing business. Congress
[18:44] this week approved funds for the
[18:46] controversial MX missiles, but not their
[18:48] bases. And now the Reagan administration
[18:50] is trying to sell a basing plan for the
[18:52] MX known as Dense Pack. Richard Valerani
[18:55] reports.
[18:57] >> A mockup of the MX has been test fired
[18:59] successfully and the missile itself will
[19:00] be tested in January. But Congress says
[19:03] it will not provide money for basing the
[19:05] missiles unless the administration comes
[19:07] up by December 1st with a system that
[19:09] will make them invulnerable to a Soviet
[19:11] first strike. The Reagan administration
[19:14] is now pushing a system known as dense
[19:16] pack. It involves putting about 100 MX
[19:19] missiles 2,000 ft apart in super
[19:21] hardened silos arranged in a triangle or
[19:23] a single 9mm long row. Denspack might
[19:27] also have its own anti-missile defenses,
[19:29] but the basic theory behind it is that
[19:31] it would take dozens of Russian warheads
[19:33] to destroy the complex and the blast of
[19:35] the first warhead would blow up the
[19:37] others coming in behind it. Total cost
[19:40] of the system is estimated at between 25
[19:42] and 40 billion. And it has it skeptics.
[19:45] the idea that somehow uh uh the Soviets
[19:50] are going to be able to uh uh they're
[19:53] going to be forced to explode their own
[19:56] weapons uh zeroing in on a particular
[20:00] spot uh uh is is a little bit hard to
[20:03] prove.
[20:04] >> Uh my opinion is that uh we need to wait
[20:07] and before we make a judgment as to
[20:09] whether or not that system is going to
[20:10] work. Despite the doubts about the dense
[20:12] pack system, Pentagon officials argue
[20:14] that the Russians would be uncertain
[20:16] that they could knock out the MX
[20:17] missiles in a first strike and so would
[20:20] be deterred from trying it. Richard
[20:22] Valyriani, NBC News at the Pentagon.
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[22:02] >> A fire in downtown Toronto, Canada today
[22:05] killed one man and left others trapped
[22:07] and frantically waving for help high
[22:09] above the street. The fire was in the
[22:10] Plaza 2 Hotel and apartment complex. It
[22:13] broke out in an empty apartment on the
[22:15] 19th floor and firemen had to climb all
[22:17] the way up there to rescue some of the
[22:19] trapped victims. Three firemen were
[22:21] among the 17 people injured. Most
[22:23] suffered smoke inhilation. Fire
[22:24] officials still are trying to determine
[22:26] what caused it.
[22:29] Boston firemen, meanwhile, are battling
[22:31] an epidemic of arson in that city that
[22:33] began more than two months ago. There
[22:35] have been well over 100 suspicious
[22:37] fires, but to date, only one arrest.
[22:39] Nancy Fernandez has that story.
[22:42] >> Boston's ordeal began on June 11th.
[22:45] Firefighters were called to 14
[22:47] suspicious fires that night, but it was
[22:49] just the beginning. Since then, the
[22:51] Boston Fire Department has battled 132
[22:54] multiple alarm fires, all suspected
[22:56] cases of arson. Most have occurred on
[22:59] Fridays during the early morning hours.
[23:01] Most have been in vacant buildings in
[23:03] poor neighborhoods. Officials say they
[23:05] have no idea who is setting the fires or
[23:07] why.
[23:08] >> Whether it's asking for profit, whether
[23:11] there's some something organized, we're
[23:14] we're not sure yet.
[23:15] >> Roger. 401 reported that uh we had three
[23:19] individuals under surveillance at that
[23:21] residence.
[23:22] >> Special agents of the Federal Bureau of
[23:23] Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms have
[23:25] joined local investigators trying to
[23:27] track down arsonists. At least one
[23:30] suspect is under 24-hour surveillance.
[23:33] No lives have been lost in these fires,
[23:35] but people are concerned for their
[23:37] safety. The vacant building next to
[23:39] Julia Smoot's house burned Tuesday
[23:41] night.
[23:42] >> I'm afraid to go to sleep at night.
[23:43] afraid that the house will when the
[23:46] house catch a fire next door that it
[23:48] might set my house on fire.
[23:50] >> Boston State Representative Royal
[23:52] Bowling says the arson epidemic is
[23:54] playing havoc with people's lives.
[23:56] >> Homeowners are worried. Should I move
[23:57] out? Should I stay? And this only
[24:00] increases uh the urban flight and urban
[24:02] decay.
[24:02] >> One Boston man has been arrested for
[24:04] arson, but officials believe more than
[24:06] one person is responsible for the fires.
[24:09] Nancy Fernandez, NBC News, Boston.
[24:13] Dr. Loyal Davis, Nancy Reagan's father,
[24:16] died today in Scottsdale, Arizona. He
[24:18] was 86 and he died of congestive heart
[24:20] failure. This picture with his daughter
[24:23] and son-in-law was taken last year when
[24:25] he was made an honorary fellow by the
[24:26] Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
[24:28] Dr. Davis was a noted Chicago
[24:30] neurosurgeon. He had been head of
[24:32] surgery at the Northwestern Medical
[24:33] School, and he was a major influence on
[24:36] Ronald Reagan's conversion to
[24:37] conservatism. The president is expected
[24:40] to join Mrs. dragon in Phoenix tomorrow
[24:42] for a memorial service.
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[26:21] The sport is called wind surfing, but it
[26:23] requires neither surf nor ocean. Any
[26:25] large body of water will do, and its
[26:27] popularity has billowed in recent years.
[26:29] This week, 250 very serious wind surfers
[26:32] are competing off San Diego. Meredith
[26:34] Lewis reports.
[26:38] Wind surfing, a California invention,
[26:41] has now graduated from a fad to a sport
[26:43] complete with rules and regulations.
[26:45] It's even being considered as a yaching
[26:47] event for the 1984 Olympics. This is one
[26:50] event in the wind surfing riata, a
[26:53] triangular run around three water buoys,
[26:55] six laps around on a 4 and 1/2 mile
[26:57] course.
[27:03] Wind surfing is one sport that looks
[27:05] easy to master,
[27:08] but even some masters have trouble
[27:10] getting started. And the best sailors
[27:13] wipe out sometimes.
[27:16] The riata is open to women competing
[27:18] against one another and against men in
[27:21] the lightweight division.
[27:23] The wind surfer rig is nothing more than
[27:24] a surfboard with a movable sail which
[27:27] can turn in any direction to catch a
[27:29] breeze. Wind surfers say they feel at
[27:31] one with the elements, the wind and the
[27:34] water. It's no wonder that the
[27:36] popularity of the smallest sailboat in
[27:38] the water has grown to 250,000 in the
[27:41] last 13 years.
[27:46] Meredith Lewis, NBC News, San Diego.
[27:51] That's nightly news for Thursday. Hey,
[27:52] I'm Roger Mud in Washington and welcome
[27:54] back Tom from all those places you went
[27:56] to.
[27:57] >> You get my postcard about January 15th.
[27:59] Roger. I'm Tom Bro on New York. Good
[28:01] night for all of us at NBC News.
[28:05] >> Tomorrow morning on Today, baseball
[28:07] commissioner Buoie Cune reports on how
[28:09] he survived the most recent attempt to
[28:11] fire him.
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[28:25] >> She's dead, man.
[28:26] >> Who asked you?
[28:27] >> Come on, Pete. It's over.
[28:30] >> This is good.
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[28:35] >> I thought I could handle it.
[28:37] >> It's a very stupid way for a little boy
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