Plus heat wave on the east coast, nevada declares a marijuana emergency, and an american surprise at wimbledon. As Venus Williams tries her own historic run today, today, july 13th, 2017. Announcer nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today, its thursday morning. Nice to have you with us. Youre joining us on a busy morning. A lot of news breaking overnight. We want to start with major doemts with four young men missing in philadelphia. Officials say they found a body with other remains buried in a common grave 12 feet deep. Stephanie gosk at the scene in pennsylvania. Stephanie, good morning. What can you tell us about this. Reporter hey, good morning, savannah. It was a late night here. This is really the news that these families were dreading. This is now officially a murder case and police seem to be right on the cusp of the mystery of these four young men. At the center of it is a
A recap of the days news. Would do. Right . Instead this white house put on a display today in the briefing room. A display intended to send a message to the American People. That message is to convince you that this administration actually takes russias attacks on our democracy seriously. So they trot it out one top official after another. Every one of them pointing the finger at russia, which is all well and good, but obviously there is one person missing. Want to guess who it is . President donald j. Trump who no matter what the members of his own administration say just cant seem to bring himself to blame russia for anything without walking it back in the same breath. Lets compare the director of national intelligence, what he said today to what President Trump said after that disastrous helsinki summit. Here it is. The Intelligence Community continues to be concerned about the threats of upcoming u. S. Elections. Both the midterms and the president ial elections of 2020. Dont. Wha
Hi, everybody. Good morning. Im Thomas Roberts here at nbc headquarters in new york. Just after 9 a. M. In the east. Just after 6 00 a. M. In the west. We have new word from the outgoing press secretary with the new Communications Director trying to set the tone moving forward. I think theres been at times a disconnect between when we see the president and the way we see the president. Going on the charm offensive. Well take a look at the changes and whether there are more on the way. And a new tweet from the president about Jeff Sessions. And following the monday trail. A disclosure forth giving more insight and a hint at the net worth of Jared Kushner and ivanka trump. And a new carrier that will be named for president ford. But we begin with politics. Later this morning President Trump giving those remarks there at the naval station. Well keep an eye on his movement as he departs the white house. As we await for him to arrive there, the president started out the moment with a tweet
Top advisers and watching Television News coverage. Thats when hes not on twitter denying hes doing just that. The white house is functioning perfectly, focused on hx, tax cuts and many other things. I have little time for watching tv. He certainly watched donald trump, jr. On fox and tweeted about it. My son donald did a good job last night. He was open, transparent and innocent. This is the greatest political witch hunt in history. And then keeping them honest, it would be better for reporters if every source to every story agreed to go on record. But it didnt bother candidate trump to quote stories that benefited him. In the story, the sourcing the New York Times had, has all been confirmed by the very emails that donald trump, jr. Finally released under pressure from the New York Times. And now hes talked about that meeting on television. In retrospect, i probably would have done things differently. Again, this is before the russia mania and before they were building it up in the p
Told the january government was directing her efforts to spread damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Thats according to the New York Times citing through sources familiar with an email sent to trump jr. That email reportedly says the information about clinton was part of a kremlin effort to help the Trump Campaign. The email was written by british publicist Rob Goldstone, an entertainment business associate of trump sr. , with connections to moscow. Although goldstone suggested the damaging material originated with the russian government, there is no evidence it was related to the russian hacking of the dnc. Last night, don jr. s newly hired attorney dismissed the times report calling it much ado about nothing. His statement reiterating that don jr. Didnt do anything wrong by taking the meeting and that nothing came of it. The white house consumed on monday by questions about this meeting. Spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee sanders insisting the campaign did not collude, describing the