NBC Nightly News - 2009-02-24

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[0:03] On the broadcast from Washington

[0:04] tonight, sending a message. What the

[0:06] president has to say to the nation this

[0:08] evening, gripped in an economic crisis

[0:10] in just the second month of his

[0:12] presidency. Trust Factor, a big bank

[0:15] that took money from the taxpayers in

[0:17] hot water for what they chose to spend

[0:19] money on. Reversal of Fortune. If this

[0:22] place is hurting, then you know the

[0:24] financial downturn has gone global.

[0:27] Tonight, we'll visit a place where

[0:28] spending was once a way of life. And

[0:31] airing grievances, a new side of Captain

[0:34] Sully was on display today. Now he's

[0:37] saying airline cost cutting is having an

[0:39] impact on safety. Also tonight, why

[0:42] Sarah Palin and Tiger Woods are both in

[0:45] the news. Nightly News begins now.

[0:51] This is NBC Nightly News with Brian

[0:54] Williams reporting tonight from

[0:56] Washington.

[0:58] Good evening. Behind us here on Capitol

[1:00] Hill tonight, the president will address

[1:02] a joint session of Congress at a crucial

[1:05] time early on in his presidency and at a

[1:07] crucial time for this nation mired in a

[1:10] deep economic downturn. The lawmakers

[1:13] sitting before him in the audience

[1:14] tonight, after all, were just asked to

[1:16] ram through the biggest single piece of

[1:18] spending in US history, and we don't yet

[1:22] know what effect it'll have. Consumer

[1:24] confidence is at an all-time low, and

[1:26] anger at this economy is at a modern-day

[1:29] high. The head of the Federal Reserve

[1:31] was on Capitol Hill today, and to the

[1:33] north in New York, Wall Street had a

[1:35] rare update. The Dow was up over 236

[1:39] points. So with that as the backdrop, a

[1:41] preview tonight from NBC News White

[1:44] House correspondent Savannah Guthrie.

[1:45] Savannah, good evening.

[1:47] >> Brian, the president spent the day

[1:48] practicing this speech, making some

[1:50] lastminute edits. It's a speech that

[1:52] will mostly be about the economy. He'll

[1:54] sound some hopeful notes, but there will

[1:57] certainly be a lot of talk about the

[1:59] serious situation we're in.

[2:03] >> This was the only public sighting of the

[2:05] president today. an Oval Office visit by

[2:08] Japan's prime minister.

[2:10] >> All right, thank you guys.

[2:11] >> The president spent much of the day

[2:13] putting the final touches on the first

[2:15] major speech he'll give since his

[2:17] inauguration.

[2:19] >> The speech is expected to trumpet early

[2:21] accomplishments like the economic

[2:23] recovery plan the president signed last

[2:25] week, give a sober assessment of where

[2:27] the economy is now, and lay out broad

[2:30] goals for solving the economic crisis,

[2:32] hitting themes that will sound familiar.

[2:35] and modernizing our costly health care

[2:37] system. We're making the largest

[2:39] investment in education in our nation's

[2:41] history. How we produce and use energy

[2:44] is fundamental to our economic recovery.

[2:46] >> Advisers say the president will not lay

[2:48] out specific policy proposals, but frame

[2:51] the economic crisis as an opportunity to

[2:54] take action in areas long neglected.

[2:57] >> This is a situation that calls for

[2:58] action. He the president tonight needs

[3:00] to be specific and clear about how at

[3:02] least he's going to begin to handle this

[3:04] horrific financial problem.

[3:06] >> We welcome the chairman of the Federal

[3:07] Reserve.

[3:08] >> On Capitol Hill today, Fed Chairman Ben

[3:10] Berneni told a congressional committee

[3:12] the end of the recession may be in sight

[3:15] if the programs designed to get the

[3:16] financial system operating again start

[3:19] to work.

[3:20] >> There's a reasonable prospect that the

[3:21] current recession will end in 2009 and

[3:24] that 2010 will be a year of recovery.

[3:26] White House advisers say the president

[3:28] will acknowledge the anger many

[3:30] Americans feel toward Wall Street and

[3:32] Washington. But according to excerpts

[3:34] released tonight, Mr. Obama will strike

[3:36] a hopeful note, saying, "Tonight, I want

[3:39] every American to know this. We will

[3:41] rebuild. We will recover. And the United

[3:43] States of America will emerge stronger

[3:45] than before."

[3:47] It won't all be economy. The president

[3:49] is expected to touch on foreign policy.

[3:52] A way out of Iraq, a way forward in

[3:54] Afghanistan. And in fact, Brian, the

[3:56] president is set to give a major speech

[3:58] about Iraq on Friday.

[4:00] >> All right, Savannah Guthrie starting us

[4:02] off at the White House tonight.

[4:03] Savannah, thanks. And about this

[4:05] nation's dual ongoing wars, we learned

[4:08] today of the deaths of four American

[4:10] soldiers in Afghanistan and what was the

[4:13] worst single attack so far this year.

[4:15] And another American soldier was killed

[4:17] in Iraq. This afternoon, I spoke with

[4:20] David Axelrod, senior adviser to

[4:22] President Obama. We talked about the

[4:24] president's plans for this speech

[4:26] tonight and some news on how the

[4:28] president plans to handle Iraq. It had

[4:31] just come out when we sat down for this

[4:33] interview.

[4:35] First of all, Associated Press, uh, just

[4:37] over the past hour, administration

[4:39] officials say Barack Obama is planning

[4:41] to announce that most US troops will be

[4:43] out of Iraq in less than 19 months,

[4:45] leaving behind a force of between 30,000

[4:49] and 50,000 largely to advise and train

[4:52] Iraqi security forces. Uh, can you

[4:55] confirm or deny?

[4:57] >> Well, I can evade. I I don't want to in

[4:59] the sense that I think the president

[5:01] will make uh his own announcement uh

[5:04] very shortly uh on this subject, but it

[5:07] should surprise no one that uh he uh is

[5:11] uh uh considering how to uh remove our

[5:15] troops from Iraq. It's something that he

[5:18] talked about for years uh as a candidate

[5:21] and it's a commitment that he intends to

[5:23] keep.

[5:24] >> How much optimism will we hear from the

[5:26] president tonight? Look, the president

[5:28] is optimistic. He believes deeply in the

[5:31] fundamental strengths of this uh

[5:32] country. Uh but uh he's also going to

[5:36] speak to the situation we're in now. He

[5:38] trusts the American people with the

[5:39] truth. Uh and and what he's going to do

[5:42] is share his sense of where we are and

[5:45] what we need to do to get out of the

[5:47] morass we're in and to get to a better

[5:48] day. And he firmly believes there will

[5:50] be a better day, but we have to have the

[5:52] discipline and the strength to do what

[5:54] needs to be done. Will the president

[5:56] note the anger uh of uh members of the

[6:01] public?

[6:02] >> Oh, I think that uh you can't you can't

[6:04] I mean it's not just members of the

[6:06] public who are angry. The president

[6:08] shares their anger. There's been an

[6:09] awful lot of irresponsibility

[6:12] uh on the part of many that has

[6:14] contributed to um uh to the situation

[6:18] we're in. and people are demanding uh a

[6:22] sense of accounting for that and a new

[6:25] sense of responsibility going forward.

[6:27] So, of course, he'll speak to that, but

[6:29] ultimately um uh we can't wallow in our

[6:32] uh frustrations. We have to act and

[6:35] he'll talk about where we need to go

[6:37] from here.

[6:39] >> Part of our conversation today with

[6:40] senior White House adviser David

[6:42] Axelrod. Of course, we'll have live

[6:44] coverage tonight of the president's

[6:45] address that begins at 9 Eastern time, 6

[6:48] on the West Coast. On the topic of this

[6:51] nation's economy all this week, as you

[6:53] may know, Nightly News is joining forces

[6:56] with our friends at our financial news

[6:57] network CNBC to get a sense of this

[7:00] economic meltdown. Carl Cinttonia

[7:02] reports tonight on what needs to happen

[7:04] after the president's speech tonight.

[7:09] It's the political equivalent of show me

[7:12] the money. Having pushed through

[7:13] programs to save jobs, rescue banks, and

[7:16] stem foreclosures, the president must

[7:18] now seize on any evidence those plans

[7:21] are taking hold

[7:23] on jobs. That could mean a slowdown in

[7:25] the number of Americans filing for

[7:27] unemployment. It's been relentless, over

[7:29] 600,000 last week. Already, White House

[7:32] economists are making some cautious

[7:34] promises. I think we're going to see

[7:36] some job creation out of this plan very

[7:39] soon within uh you know months uh maybe

[7:42] maybe even weeks. Saving the banks is a

[7:45] much taller order, but the president

[7:47] could help by explaining how the

[7:49] government will remove toxic assets from

[7:51] banks and hopefully sell them. Without

[7:54] that, banks remain nervous, hoarding

[7:56] cash and keeping mortgage rates

[7:58] stubbornly high.

[7:59] >> The banks can find some stability. They

[8:01] can bring down their lending rates and

[8:03] people can refinance and lower their

[8:04] interest payments.

[8:05] >> That's exactly what the president's

[8:07] housing plan hopes to do. Stabilize

[8:09] prices, which new data today said fell

[8:12] 18.5% from last year in 20 cities across

[8:15] America. Home prices are now down 27%

[8:19] from their peak 3 years ago. We know

[8:22] behind the numbers uh that there are

[8:24] real families struggling out there and

[8:26] that's exactly what we're trying to do

[8:28] is make sure we're doing everything we

[8:30] need to do to help those families and in

[8:34] turn help the American economy recover.

[8:36] >> Until there's solid evidence the economy

[8:38] is on the mend, critics say Mr. Obama

[8:40] may have to rely more on his tone with

[8:43] less of an alarmist message.

[8:45] >> This is an unprecedented crisis.

[8:46] >> And more reassurance to help boost

[8:48] consumer confidence that today hit its

[8:51] lowest level since 1967.

[8:53] >> It's all about hope and restoring

[8:56] confidence and shoring up the shattered

[8:58] collective psyche because uh without

[9:00] restoration of confidence, the economy

[9:02] is not going to regain its footing.

[9:05] >> Since election day, the Dow's fallen

[9:06] more than 2,000 points. Markets been

[9:09] unimpressed with all those rescue

[9:11] packages which is why Brian after

[9:12] tonight the emphasis may shift proving

[9:15] those programs are working little by

[9:17] little rather than promising that they

[9:18] will work someday.

[9:20] >> Carl Kinttonia from CNBC with us here in

[9:22] Washington tonight. Carl, thanks as

[9:23] always. With all this talk about the big

[9:25] banks that may not make it without help,

[9:28] one particular bank is in trouble

[9:30] tonight for what it chooses to do with

[9:32] its money. The bank has accepted

[9:34] taxpayer bailout money and now it's

[9:36] under fire from some in Congress for

[9:39] throwing a huge party complete with

[9:41] luxury hotels, lavish dinners, even rock

[9:44] stars. NBC's Lisa Meyers has our report.

[9:48] This time it was Northern Trust Bank,

[9:51] headquartered in Chile, Chicago, which

[9:53] has taken 1.6 billion dollars in bailout

[9:56] money. The bank flew hundreds of clients

[9:58] and executives to Bali, Southern

[10:00] California last week, and as first

[10:02] reported by the entertainment website

[10:04] TMZ, put them up for 4 days in the

[10:07] ritziest hotels in Los Angeles. Northern

[10:10] Trust hosted luxurious cocktail parties

[10:13] and elegant dinner with Tiffany gift

[10:15] bags

[10:17] and bigname entertainment, including the

[10:19] band Chicago paid around $100,000 for

[10:22] the evening. Members of Congress,

[10:25] angered before by an AIG event at a

[10:27] California resort and a Las Vegas

[10:29] conference sponsored by Wells Fargo and

[10:31] Morgan Stanley were outraged.

[10:34] >> I scratch my head and I wonder what

[10:36] planet these guys come from. I mean, do

[10:39] they have no respect and no sense of

[10:41] what's right with respect to the

[10:43] American taxpayer. It's absolutely

[10:45] stunning.

[10:46] >> Northern Trust parties were associated

[10:48] with a professional golf tournament

[10:49] sponsored by the bank, the Northern

[10:51] Trust Open. Northern Trust says it's a

[10:54] healthy bank that actually made money

[10:57] last year and that these are legitimate

[10:59] marketing activities. The bank also

[11:01] argued that it didn't seek bailout

[11:03] money, but was asked to take it by the

[11:05] government. That did not fly with

[11:08] congressional leaders.

[11:09] >> So, I have written to them and asked

[11:10] them to return to the Treasury at least

[11:13] as much as they spent on this whole

[11:15] affair. Key Democrats also are now

[11:17] proposing that any company that receives

[11:20] bailout money be banned from throwing

[11:22] these kinds of extravaganzas until

[11:25] taxpayers have been repaid in full. Lisa

[11:28] Meyers, NBC News, Washington.

[11:32] >> Sarah Palin has agreed to give back some

[11:34] money. Word came late today. The Alaska

[11:37] governor and former McCain running mate

[11:39] has signed a deal agreeing to reimburse

[11:41] the state of Alaska for nine trips taken

[11:43] by her children using state provided

[11:46] transportation. Among them, a flight her

[11:48] daughter took last year to attend a

[11:50] snowmobile race. The nine trips are

[11:52] among 40 that were investigated

[11:54] following an ethics complaint filed

[11:56] against Palin last October. Today's

[11:59] agreement settles that complaint. A NASA

[12:02] satellite that was meant to orbit the

[12:04] Earth and monitor greenhouse gases in

[12:06] the atmosphere came crashing down to

[12:09] Earth instead minutes after it was

[12:11] launched early this morning from

[12:12] Vandenberg Air Vandenberg Air Force Base

[12:15] out in California. It landed in the

[12:17] ocean near Antarctica. NASA says the

[12:20] module that held the satellite failed to

[12:22] separate from the Taurus rocket. When

[12:25] Nightly News continues in just a moment

[12:27] from Washington, from wild economic boom

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[14:47] >> It was once known as the place where

[14:49] money flowed through the streets. So if

[14:51] they're hurting in Dubai, then it must

[14:54] be some sort of proof that this downturn

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[15:11] The message at the Dubai Shopping

[15:12] Festival is spend, spend, spend. A month

[15:16] of bargains, discounts, and deals. But

[15:19] the timing couldn't be worse.

[15:21] >> It is hurry. It is hurry.

[15:23] >> The day the shopping festival ended

[15:25] >> in the city of the future, Dubai.

[15:28] >> The annual real estate fair began.

[15:32] >> Its message, by by hurting, too. Where

[15:36] are the customers? It's probably down

[15:39] 60% 70%.

[15:41] >> The world's economic downturn has hit

[15:43] even Dubai, the poster child of excess,

[15:46] which built the world's tallest

[15:47] building. Palmshaped islands reclaimed

[15:50] from the sea. Arabia's only indoor ski

[15:53] slopes. But even Dubai is now in

[15:56] trouble. Although some developers here

[15:58] insist their projects are doing just

[16:00] fine. Most of these homes along here

[16:03] have been sold and they should be built

[16:04] by 2011. Then there's this island here

[16:07] of hotels and luxury vacation villas.

[16:10] That's the plan. This is the place and

[16:12] this is the reality. They're waiting for

[16:14] hotels to commit and people to buy. But

[16:18] where are they? With the price of oil

[16:20] down 65% and reducing their neighbors

[16:23] cash, a collapse in foreign investment,

[16:25] and no more cheap credit. With cranes

[16:28] falling idle and massive projects on

[16:30] hold, the question is, has Dubai's

[16:32] bubble burst? had this enormous New York

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[16:38] consequence that their hurt uh is going

[16:41] to be a lot greater.

[16:42] >> 1,500 people reportedly losing their

[16:45] jobs a day.

[16:46] >> His company relocated Rashid Albana and

[16:49] his family from Houston to Dubai 8

[16:51] months ago. Things looked good, but then

[16:54] from feast to famine, the property

[16:57] bubble basically burst essentially.

[17:00] >> So you got to let you go back to

[17:01] America.

[17:01] >> Yeah, but we have nothing to go back to.

[17:02] We don't have homes. almost

[17:04] architectural.

[17:05] >> Back at the real estate fair, nobody

[17:07] will admit how bad things are.

[17:09] >> It's become a bit slow.

[17:10] >> They're doing their best to keep their

[17:11] game face on. Martin Fetcher, NBC News,

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[20:17] Among the special guests in the House

[20:20] Chamber for President Obama's speech

[20:22] tonight, the crew of US Airways Flight

[20:24] 1549, who inspired everybody with their

[20:26] heroism in the Hudson River when they

[20:29] landed there last month. On Capitol Hill

[20:31] today, Congress heard from the captain

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[20:37] changed. These days, he's talking about

[20:39] the hard realities facing the airline

[20:41] business these days. Our report from

[20:43] NBC's Tom Costello. We had the

[20:46] opportunity to welcome

[20:47] >> on Capitol Hill today. A welcome

[20:49] distraction with a bit of hero worship.

[20:52] >> People who literally walk on water as

[20:54] far as I can see

[20:57] >> and a rare bipartisan standing ovation

[20:59] for the miracle on the Hudson crew and

[21:01] their air traffic controller.

[21:03] >> Lindberg would be proud of you.

[21:05] >> For the first time, controller Patrick

[21:07] Harton described hearing Captain

[21:08] Solenburgger say he would not make the

[21:11] runway.

[21:12] >> We can't do it.

[21:13] >> Okay. Hey, which runway would you like

[21:14] to see tomorrow?

[21:15] >> We're going to be in the Hudson.

[21:16] >> People do not survive landings on the

[21:18] Hudson River, and I thought it was his

[21:20] own death sentence. I believe at that

[21:22] moment I was going to be the last person

[21:24] to talk to anyone on that plane alive.

[21:26] >> This is the first time I've heard the

[21:27] detail of your experience, and I'm I'm

[21:30] greatly touched by it. Solenburgger and

[21:32] first officer Jeff Skyles used their

[21:34] appearance to ask Congress for help in

[21:36] reforming the airline industry,

[21:38] detailing how they have lost most of

[21:40] their pensions and 40% of their pay over

[21:43] the past 8 years.

[21:44] >> It is my personal experience that my

[21:46] decision to remain in the profession I

[21:48] love has come at a great financial cost

[21:51] to me and to my family. Financial

[21:53] turmoil, bankruptcies, layoffs, and

[21:57] revolving door management teams have

[21:59] decimated our airlines and our careers.

[22:02] To pull off their Hudson landing, Sully

[22:03] and Scowl relied on their 70 plus years

[22:06] of combined cockpit experience.

[22:08] Experience they warn is now drying up as

[22:10] military pilots avoid the relatively low

[22:13] pay of the airlines.

[22:14] >> We made it up in the Hudson.

[22:15] >> For his part, Controller Harton admitted

[22:17] he was haunted at first by flight 1549.

[22:20] Every time I saw the survivors on

[22:22] television, I imagined grieving widows.

[22:24] >> But he promises he'll be back at work

[22:26] this week watching the skies over

[22:29] LaGuardia. Tom Costello, NBC News,

[22:31] Washington.

[22:34] Tiger Woods says his surgically repaired

[22:36] knee feels good. He's ready to return to

[22:38] the PGA Tour, which he will do tomorrow.

[22:41] He played a practice round today getting

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[22:45] Championship outside Tucson. Woods

[22:48] admitted he's nervous. He hasn't played

[22:49] since June, but he said all that

[22:51] downtime had a definite upside.

[22:54] >> I I didn't realize how much I love being

[22:56] home and and and being around around Sam

[22:59] and and E and now Charlie. I mean, that

[23:02] I tell you what, that's something that's

[23:03] just

[23:05] it's just so important to me. Um I knew

[23:09] family would be and it it has been, but

[23:12] I didn't know it would be to this

[23:13] degree.

[23:14] >> Tournament begins tomorrow. NBC Sports

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[23:18] starting at 2:00 p.m. Eastern time. When

[23:21] we continue here tonight, movie reviews

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[25:59] We live in extraordinary times. Our

[26:02] nation's in crisis. And yet, there's

[26:05] that uniquely American feeling of hope.

[26:09] This is the story of our nation. You

[26:11] rely on us to get it right every time.

[26:15] This is the tradition of NBC News.

[26:21] Back here in Washington, like President

[26:23] Bush before him and many presidents

[26:25] before that, President Obama today

[26:27] continued the tradition of having a

[26:29] handful of television journalists to the

[26:31] White House for lunch. Always an honor.

[26:33] And it's one I shared today with the

[26:35] moderator of Meet the Press, David

[26:36] Gregory, who's in a place here with us

[26:38] tonight to cover the president's speech

[26:40] this evening. David, first we got movie

[26:42] reviews. The conversation started out

[26:43] light. He mentioned having seen Slum

[26:45] Dog, first movie he saw in the White

[26:47] House. reminded him of his youth in

[26:49] Jakarta and uh saw Gran Torino with

[26:52] Clint Eastwood last night. U we now know

[26:55] he fell asleep on the couch in the

[26:56] office at least one night working late.

[26:58] What did you take away when the

[26:59] conversation turned more substantive?

[27:01] >> Well, a couple of things. I think how

[27:03] quickly he's adjusted to the job that he

[27:05] feels comfortable in this role. And when

[27:08] you think about the substance tonight,

[27:09] he really feels that a he's got the kind

[27:13] of political strength to try to talk

[27:14] beyond Washington to leverage all that

[27:17] support in the country for him and his

[27:19] policies, but he also recognizes that

[27:21] he's got to be the one to take the

[27:22] American people through the complexity

[27:25] of our economy and this financial

[27:27] crisis. And I think tonight he really

[27:28] wants to try to put it all together in a

[27:30] way that deals with some of the populism

[27:32] out in the country and some of the anger

[27:34] in the country and explain what's

[27:35] necessary to bring the economy back.

[27:37] >> And we learned today about uh how

[27:40] surprised he is at the bubble, the

[27:42] confines of what they call the bubble,

[27:44] how extraordinary his security has to be

[27:46] in this day and age. that he was

[27:49] embarrassed in effect to learn that when

[27:51] he went to his seven-year-old's

[27:52] basketball game this past weekend, it

[27:54] meant that 200 other spectators, moms

[27:56] and dads, had to be searched before he

[27:58] arrived. That can be a tough dynamic.

[28:00] >> It really is because he he talked so

[28:02] interestingly about how much he enjoys

[28:04] the anonymity in life that has now left

[28:07] him. People watching at an airport, at a

[28:09] game to try to get a sense of people and

[28:12] situations, he can't do that anymore

[28:13] because everybody's looking at him all

[28:16] the time. the fact that he likes to take

[28:18] a long walk by himself to clear his

[28:20] head. He can't do that. People think,

[28:21] well, the White House is a big place,

[28:22] big backyard. Well, even so, you are in

[28:25] that bubble and life has changed for him

[28:27] for sure. I know you'll be on hand to

[28:28] cover the speech tonight with