And im looking forward to this because im tired of listening to myself. I guess between the two of them, for close to 70 years neil and i go back 30 odd years. These are folks i have enjoyed being with and love watching their work. They are two great pros and two great people. Let me do a nutshell of where i am and then i want to get neil and stan and talk about what they are seeing out there. If you go back to the early part of last year, there were two competing scenarios two theories of what the 2014 Midterm Elections could be about. One theory was some of the challenges facing the Republican Party in 2012 would flow into 2014 will stop the other was it would be a classic Midterm Election referendum on the incumbent president and all that entails. Two competing directions and it could have gone either way. In terms of challenges facing the Republican Party, some of them were with key voting groups and some of it was their own, some of the things they were doing. The challenge of min
Two competing scenarios, two sort of theories of what the 2014 mid term elections could be about. One theory was some of the challenges problems facing the Republican Party in 2012 would just sort of flow on into 2014. The other was that this would be a classic mid term election referendum on the incumbent president and with all that that entails. So two competing directions and it could have really gone either way. In terms of challenges facing the Republican Party some of them were with key voting groups, some of it was sort of their own, sort of some of the things they were doing just sort of a nutshell. The challenge of minority oters as we know that governor romney got 59 of the white vote and gosh nobodys ever gotten 59 of the white vote and lost a president ial election before and quite simply what was happening was the country is changing so much that its getting hard and the vote for congress was almost identical if youre losing the African American vote by 87 points and the l
Their dramatic story in an exclusive interview. And flashback. For seven years you started your day with bryant and jane and for the first time in nearly 25 years theyre cohosting again today, monday, december 30th, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. I feel like i should have come to work in a delorean today and the year is 1982 and we have Bryant Gumbel and jane pauley. I got to get back. I cant see the teleprompter and bryant cant see me. They said are we going to have to read off that small camera. Thats not going to happen. Football yesterday, lets talk about playing hurt. Poor jane. I was going to show up no voice. Hot water and lemon. You are supposed to say, jane, it sounds great. It does. Were going to have a lot of fun with bryant and jane this morning. Savannah of course is off. But first we want to talk about breaking news coming o
Himself. What is behind this . I think weve done a lot of thinking over the last couple years at dfs where i work. One thing we realized is, we have had a series of corporate actions and big corporate penalties paid, case after case after case yet the bad conduct seems to continue. We hear scandal after scandal after scandal. If it is not Money Laundering it is tax evasion. If it is not tax evasion, it is libor manipulation. Melissa those are very serious crimes. A lot of people think what youre talking about after the financial crisis we hear again and again from folks saying we had whole financial crisis no one is in jail. No one from the big banks went to jail. Do you extend it that far. I dont think in terms of jail. Were a regulator and Civil Enforcement authority. We dont put people in jail. We dont have indictment authority. I think about it in terms of responsibility. I think about it as the reputational problem wall street has. When we focus so much on punishing the entity, th
Including ambien. Bien, why doctors are now telling women, in particular, to cut their doses in half. Doctors ari well explain that, savannah. Ngr all right. And then a family in ohio, dealing with a rather bizarre s . All right. Then a family in problem. Ohio dealing with a rather bizarre pr take a look at what happens when fire gets near the faucet. The water fire gets near the faucet. The water literally explodes into flames. Flt turns and, as it turns out, this is n not an isolated problem. Well tell you whats behind it but we will begin this morning l with the winter storm taking aim at people here on the west coas taking aim at people from here to the great lakes. West coast e al has the forecast details. Als got the forecast details. Al good morning to you. ,ng to you all right, good morning, savannah. Weve got a big storm system. Storm system. E video, show you what people have been dealing with out west from utah on into show you what people have been dealing with out west fro