How did you process all those years . Do you take that personally . Took it personally. I was serious when i said i lost to jack lightman, tony randall, Michael J Fox twice. And they are very good people. At one point, i stopped putting nominations so i can just sit at home and watch the emmys and say, i wouldve one. Won. [laughter] i would have walked away, no question about it. Let me take the funny and tweak it just a little bit because your comment makes me think of something and my staff around here knows this. Some years ago, after winning a few awards for this show, i stopped submitting my name. I dont let the staff submit the show for anything. Reason is, i have a thing it might be arrogant or hubris, but i have a thing about people judging what we do. I think we do the best show that we can do and once we have done that, thats it. If they like it, they do and if they dont, we will try to do better tomorrow. But there is something about waiting for the judgment of others when y
July 11th, 2013. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. Good morning everyone. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im matt lauer with natalie morales. I am not a child of the video digital generation, but i can tell you right now, if my car were being swept away by a mud slide my first instinct would not be to take up my camera and Start Recording the entire episode. You wouldnt be instagraming it . No, i would be screaming and trying to steer out of it. Remarkable video though. Scary. Well have a little more on that in a moment. Meantime it is a busy morning around here. We expect closing arguments today in the George Zimmerman trial, and the judge has a key decision before her. Should the jury be given the option of convicting zimmerman on a lesser charge than murder . We will have that story and be live at the courthouse. We want to begin on this thursday morning with the overnight release