Originally told. Well have a live report from inside iraq. All that, plus secret no longer. I put up with inappropriate behavior that i didnt know at the time was straight up sexual abuse. The wife of president ial candidate, andrew yang, with a disturbing story of sexual abuse by her own doctor. In the drivers seat. New pictures of Meghan Markle at an airport in canada overnight, with the queens decision on their royal future expected soon. And are you ready for some football . The nfls final four get set to battle it out for a trip to the super bowl. Today, friday, january 17th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Hi, everybody. Good morning. Welcome to today. Nice to have you with us on a friday morning. Its going to be a big weekend in the weather department. A big storm making its way across the country. And a lot of folks are traveling because of the long holiday weekend. Theyll be keeping the
Illness. That attack is just the latest in a string of violent antisemitic incidents across the area. Moments ago, i spoke to the rabbi from the pittsburgh synagogue where a gunman killed 11 jews last year. This was his sobering assessment. It made me sort of wonder, i dont recall them selling licensings to have open hunting season on jews but it can make jews feel that way. Do you feel that way now . Thats quite a statement. It sure makes you pause and wonder whats going on in our society that people feel that they have a godgiven right to attack any human being for whatever reason they choose to. It makes you pause and wonder whats going on, indeed. It does. Moments ago i spoke with joseph, an orthodox jew who survived a stabbing attack at the rabbis home and he spoke about how he fought back to stop the attacker. I was sitting in the rabbis dining room when the rabbi finished the candle Lighting Ceremony and when the attacker came in. He first stood in the entry room, started hittin
Them in the right direction. Witnesses in the impeachment inquiry testified that the allegation of ukrainian influence in the 2016 election was appropriate to examine. Ambassador volker testified that he thought it was fine to investigate allegations about 2016 influence. Ambassador taylor said, for example, that the allegations surprised and disappointed him, on this record i do not believe one could conclude that President Trump had no legitimate basis to raise a concern about efforts by ukrainians to influence the 2016 election. Let me now turn to the first assertion that President Trump withheld a meeting with president zelensky as a way of pressuring him to investigate the former vp. Here it is important to note ukraines long, profound history of endemic corruption. Several witnesses during the inquiry have testified about these problems. Ambassador marie yovanovitch, for example, said ukraines corruption is not just prevalent but, frankly, is the system. Witnesses testified to ha
Correct . President trump has done a lot for ukraine. Yes. Sir, but isnt it correct that President Trump did not raise anything about hunter biden and fizz his father in 2017 or 2018 in only the year before his election in 2020 when both he and Vice President joe biden were leading candidates. Isnt that true, sir . I think what happened is the president saw this video of the former vp and i think it, it coalessed in his mind. Please answer my questions. He didnt raise any of these issues in 2017 or 2018. I dont know if he did or didnt. You have no evidence he did. No, but i have no evidence he did not. This video is pretty remark bable. Let me ask you this. You talk ed about Lieutenant Colonel vindman, a highly decorated purple heart recipient and work ed in the Trump Administration, correct . Yes, sir. He had a reaction to the call, didnt he . He did. He was list b benning to it, correct . He did. Lets look at his reaction. He said i immediately went to john eisenberg, the lead legal
Soybean and pork shipments that putses up 343 points on the dow. We are positive for the week as a whole now despite the declines earlier on this week joining us for the first hour, nathan from risk aver sal advisers so that point exact ly that wer up. 2 on s p, do you think the b jobs number justifies that given where we were monday, tuesday . I think its helpful when you think about the weak ism data and services this week that was a cause of concern. Especially if you did not have a lot of confidence that we were going to have the fear of increas increas increased tariffs taking off so this kind of mitigates that and here we are in familiar territory back at all time highs. Theres a lot of cross currents here what has happened to get us here you know, the fed has expanded the Balance Sheet by 300 300 billion, right and theyve lowered Interest Rates three times, 75 basis points in the last four months just to get us and keep us here. Were going to focus in on the big stories were wat