Hours away, horse racing fans watching to see if he can take the next step to the elusive triple crown. Today, saturday, may 17th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with lester holt and erica hill live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning and welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. And im erica hill alongside jenna wolfe, dylan dreyer and all eyes on the horses today. Did i just say horse facing fans a moment ago . I think you might have said horse facing. I love horse faces. Big fan. I often dont listen to the words coming out of my mouth but i thought i said horse facing. Horse walks into a bar. Why the long face . There we go. Ill be here all morning. Anyway, weve got on that note, should we get to the top story of the day . Lets get to the news of the day. Lets do that. On a more serious note, nonstop efforts to get the upper hand on those Southern California wildfires, firefighters continuing to attack them from the sky and also on the groun
Who just aches to get back into some more theme where i can get shot at. I do admire those who do but its just not what i do. What im interested in doing is policy and ideas and where do these ideas come from . They dont just drop from the sky. They usually do not automatically appeal to everybody as a matter of logic. Where did the ideas come from . Who were the people and there were a lot of comp eating ideas. How did this particular set of ideas get transferred . Was there resistance . How was the resistance overcome . It usually isnt just one person. Its a community of people. How did this Community Form . Will was the basis of a . That is what history is all about. Its a story. That is what the stories are about. Its about the interplay between personalities in politics and policy and accident, coincidence. That is what im interested in and i am interested in how this applies to war because war and all of the arenas of human conduct, this is the most highprofile thing there is. I
T what im interested in doing is policy and ideas and where do these ideas come from . They dont just drop from the sky. They usually do not automatically appeal to everybody as a matter of logic. Where did the ideas come from . Who were the people and there were a lot of comp eating ideas. How did this particular set of ideas get transferred . Was there resistance . How was the resistance overcome . It usually isnt just one person. Its a community of people. How did this Community Form . Will was the basis of a . That is what history is all about. Its a story. That is what the stories are about. Its about the interplay between personalities in politics and policy and accident, coincidence. That is what im interested in and i am interested in how this applies to war because war and all of the arenas of human conduct, this is the most highprofile thing there is. I mean, its the difference between life and death for thousands of people. Its the difference between National Victory and nat
We must ask how good is the model. There is a story about a man from minneapolis who walked into a store, target, and asked to see the manager. His daughter was being bombarded with pregnancy related coupons from target. They asked are you trying to encourage her to get pregnant, he asked . The store manager apologized profusely. He called the father several days later to apologize again. Only this time come the man was less irate. This has turned be apologetic. He said it turns out there has been sacked activities in my house i havent been completely aware of. Father said she is due in august. Statistician had figured out that his daughter was pregnant for heeded. This is not even the creepiest part. [laughter] that is their business, it is also not their business. I can feel more than a little interested. Some companies mask a much they know. For example, if you are a pregnant woman in your second trimester, you may get coupons in the mail for cribs and diapers. Along with a coupon f
Tootive they came in the mail along with the other junk. In fact the Company Knows you dont bowl or cut your own lawn. Its merely covering the tracks so that what it knows doesnt seem so spooky. You with watch this and other programs online. At booktv. Org. From politics and prose in d. C. , Lawrence Wright rights on the church of scientology. The author who interviewed over 200 current and former scientologists exams the church, recounting the history, and profile the founder, the late Science Fiction writer. Its about an hour. [applause] thank you, bradley. And thank you all for coming. This bookstore is a great institution, and its ive been here many times. Ive spoken here many times, and my son used to be a baa baa rei stay here as a matter of fact. We have a lot of ties to politics and prose. And, you know, i thought i would talk a little bit theres so much to say about scientology. Here i am in washington which has a unique role about scientology. I thought i would talk about how