A melt down on a flight accused of threat ining to kill the crew and calling fellow passengers peasants. His explanation this february 4th 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. We will tell you more about that later on. What a scary situation. So many people ride on this train to the city every day. Its a deadly collision between a train and an suv north of new york city and the impact triggered a huge explosion. Kate snow is at the scene for us. Kate good morning. Reporter good morning, savannah. Federal investigators are on the way here now. This is the most deadly accident ever on this railroad. You can see the burned out car behind me. There were more than 600 passengers on board as it slammed into a car stuck on the tracks. A twisted heap of metal and glass is all that remains after it collided with a commuter train from new york city bound for the northern
And i thought the threat to our nation was well articulated earlier today by Professor Feldman when you said, if we cannot impeach a president who abuses his office for personal advantage, we no longer live in a democracy, we live in a monarchy or we live under a districtatorship. My view is if people cannot depend on the fairness of our elections, then what people are calling divisive today will be absolutely nothing compared to the shredding of our democracy. After the events of ukraine unfolded, the president claimed that the reason he requested an investigation into his political opponents and withheld desperately needed military aid for ukraine was supposedly because he was worried about corruption. However, contrary to president s statements, various witnesses, including Vice President pences special adviser jennifer williams, testified that the president s request was political. Take a listen. I found the july 25th phone call unusual because in contrast to other president ial ca
Theres a question of what point does amending a testimony become straightup lying or perjuring one self . One said that the testimony of other witnesses helped to refresh their memories and see in new light their own experiences and will be instructive to see what volcker has to say for himself on the two key questions, quid pro quo, bribery plot, and what he was doing with Rudy Giuliani. His testimony was that he Rudy Giuliani as being a nuance and more helpful to bring Rudy Giuliani in and help him understand that he was promulgating the debunked conspiracy scenarios instead of freelance out there in ukraine. Jeff bennett on capitol hill for us, thank you very much. Joining us is democrat congressman jim himes from connecticut. Congressman, your questioning of
control knell vind man was one of the more emotional moments this morning. I wonder if you could look back to that for us this morning. Yeah. Well, it was a pretty tough moment for me. We had gotten word and sort of saw on soci
They are paraded through the streets. The fate of these men here unknown. Whats known is the fact isis may be facing a new enemy on the frontlines a united arab force. Egypt said its in talks figuring out a military strategy to take down isis. Welcome to you. Hi, brook. I had a fantastic expert on last hour who was saying brook, the idea is great on paper but the notion of having jordan and egypt with a story past of issues this realistically is not possible. I disagree some. How . First off, there already is an air force called peninsula shield. Its where the countries on the persian peninsula, saudia kuwait. Its a 40,000 man force. The last guest rngs, strategically, nay sayers will be nay sayers and i think its great hes pushing this. Weve seen the president of jordan hes pushing it now. For us this is what we want. We want them to do this. What we should become is lets coach them together to do it. What would this look like . Some type of arab led force that can eradicate isis. Ira
Bigger fight . Ill ask former senator Allen Simpson. And after reports that fox paid out at least 13 million to female employees accusing bill oreilly of harassment, advertisers are fleeing the show. Is this justice or censorship . First, the president is mostly receiving praise from both sides of the ail for the tomahawk missile strike on syria in response to Bashar Al Assads sarin gas attack on children. Im not against it. Its harder for me to say that im for it. How could you be against the idea of seeking retribution after seeing those horrific pictures of kids who were gassed to death . I just want to make sure that were really going after the evil doers this time, that we really have the goods, that it was al assad who initiated this, and that the base we hit was in fact the point of origin for the sarin gas. So far, that all seems to check out. With my cynicism about government at an alltime high just because im told its the case, i dont necessarily buy into it. That blind faith