Cheer the u. S. Mens soccer team to world cup victory today. Monday, june 16, 2014. From nbc news, this is today. With matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Nice to have you along on a monday morning. It is 7 00 a. M. On the west coast. Matts off this morning. We have willie here. You know what i like . The way you get into the team. U. S. Plays today in the world cup. Is that the bounce we should all do . That is the u. S. Bounce. They tell you all the chants you need to know. These are the soccer superfans who travel to brazil today. I was an honorary member. I wont ask how many beers were involved in that shoot. We will start with our top story. The crisis in iraq. The marines are brought in to help the u. S. Embassy in baghdad. Just this morning, secretary of state john kerry said he will not rule out working with iran to help end the violence. Lets get to chief Foreign Correspondent richard engel. He made his way to baghd
House live for us. Jeff, what are you hearing about why the president is so angry with Sarah Sanders . Reporter well, brianna, certainly another day here when many people inside this white house would prefer to talk about trade. Of course, there is enough drama surrounding that decision, but more on that in a minute. There is certainly tension inside the west wing about the whole Stormy Daniels situation, that it has indeed reached the white house for the first time. This is the first time really that this is drawn in. The white house, for more than a year, has been trying to keep this controversy outside, saying this has been asked and answered. Of course, yesterday in the White House Press briefing when i was asking the press secretary Sarah Sanders about this, it opened up this can of worms. This is what she said. The president has addressed these directly and made very well clear that none of these allegations are true. This case has already been won in arbitration. You said there
Youll have to ask michael. Youll have to ask michael. Those words were heard around the world, and certainly in the Legal Community last night. Michael cohen has of course been fielding these questions about Stormy Daniels because he facilitated this payment. But also bob mueller asking questions about this. A trump associate involved in business with the Trump Organization and oversees business deals is now caught up in this. And the questions focus on interactions involving, yes, Michael Cohen. This report comes, of course, after the Washington Post has already documented that mueller was probing cohens negotiations for a potential trump Tower Building in moscow. That building never built. But what exactly does bob mueller want to know about Michael Cohen, and how would cohen explain those preparations for any potential moscow deal . Well, we know how he describes trump. The words the media should be using to describe mr. Trump are generous, compassionate, principled, empathetic, kin
His campaign tweeting the efforts to undermine him have backfired. And things have turned around for the criminal deep state. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts is live with more on this. Good morning to you. The president with a lot of new ammunition to discredit the whole premise for the russia investigation after these revelations that an f. B. I. Informant had contacts and meetings with three members of the president s campaign. Lets put them up on screen so you know who they are. Carter page, a Foreign Policy advisor. George papadopoulos and sam clovis, an active member of the Trump Campaign. The president yesterday in the oval office with moon jaein of south korea sounding off about the whole thing. Listen here. President trump if they had spies in my campaign that would be a disgrace to this country. That would be one of the biggest insults that anyone has ever seen and would be very illegal aside from everything else. It would make probably every political event ever
That idea and today it wasnt something just being floated. We learned about this as a fate accompli. When you heard it, admit it, when you heard the the president named his doctor head of the faa, you thought of this guy. He submitted a Health Report that was like a cross between refrigerator poetry and the north korean leaders poem on dear birthday. His physical strength and stamina are extraordinary. If elected, i can state unequivocally he will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency. That was a very strange iteration of the traditional doctors note of a president ials candidates health. But then trump did get elected and that history meant with his private doctor meant there was a little more intrigue than usual around the president s physician. This is the president s unbiased 100 Accurate Health assessment. At the time of examination, the president of 71 years, 7 months young, his resting heart rate was a cool 68 bpm, his weight a very svelt 239 pounds. He has