About to debut. We have your fantastic first look thursday, february 16th, 2017. From nbc news, this is today with mat lauer and savannah guthrie. Morning. Were happy to have Hallie Jackson up from washington to fill in for savannah. Its like the spy who came in from the cold. Indoors. No scarf. No jacket. A pleasure. Great to have you here. Did you see planet earth . I loved it. Watched the series on dvd. They tell us planet earth 2 has the most incredible scenes. Well have more of that preview coming up. Snakes and lizards. Theres a washington joke there somewhere. But im not going to make it. Lets get right to our top story. The white house, dealing with a series of controversies, Trump Campaigns ties to russia. And the president s cabinet pick whose nomination failed. Our Political Team is at the ready, starting with nbcs peter alexander. Hes at the white house. Peter, good morning to you. Reporter matt, good morning to you. Donald trumps xt presidency is not a month old, but it is
Before he gets into the questionandanswer, once again around of applause for mr. Mcculloch. [applause] i am going to have to get a Plastic Surgeon to write the smile off my face to do this. Before we get into our q and a, two quick stories. One is about to do Research View go to historic sites,. Residential libraries, when i was visiting the truman president ial library many years ago all the staff there came up and would say to me and it was unsolicited, a lot of the art do you know so and so was here . The mesa to me, you know who our favorite is . David mccullough. Given the color is here and he was the nicest, he said this to me, he was appreciative and they went on and on. Im enjoying all these stories. So what i did that night before it came in the next day to finish my research i bought donuts for the whole staff because i figured they might Say Something about me. [laughter] not the same breath as David Mccullough. I think we would all agree, its without question that David Mcc
Host this week on q a, historian david mccullough, discussing his book, who we are and what we stand for. Host when did you get the idea to do this . Mr. Mcculloch i was upset by the tone of the political andaign and the animosity the nastiness of some of it. And i thought, i have got to do to bring someelp balance back to remind people of who we are and how we got to be where we are and what we stand thought speaking up and down the land for 40 years or more, maybe there are some of those speeches, if we tested them off and put them together, speeches where i subjects thator pertain to reminding us about who we are, and what our values have been down the years. , who has beenr arranging all of my speaking dates all of these years, wanted very much to help with it, and she had whatever records we had. Nomany speeches, there was record of what i said, but we that there were manuscripts of it. I never wanted to give a commencement speech or speech celebrating some Important National even
Host this week on q a, historian david mccullough, discussing his book, who we are and what we stand for. Host when did you get the idea to do this . Mr. Mcculloch i was upset by the tone of the political andaign and the animosity the nastiness of some of it. And i thought, i have got to do to bring someelp balance back to remind people of who we are and how we got to be where we are and what we stand thought speaking up and down the land for 40 years or more, maybe there are some of those speeches, if we tested them off and put them together, speeches where i subjects thator pertain to reminding us about who we are, and what our values have been down the years. , who has beenr arranging all of my speaking dates all of these years, wanted very much to help with it, and she had whatever records we had. Nomany speeches, there was record of what i said, but we that there were manuscripts of it. I never wanted to give a commencement speech or speech celebrating some Important National even
Host this week on q a, historian david mccullough, discussing his book, who we are and what we stand for. Host when did you get the idea to do this . Mr. Mcculloch i was upset by the tone of the political andaign and the animosity the nastiness of some of it. And i thought, i have got to do to bring someelp balance back to remind people of who we are and how we got to be where we are and what we stand thought speaking up and down the land for 40 years or more, maybe there are some of those speeches, if we tested them off and put them together, speeches where i subjects thator pertain to reminding us about who we are, and what our values have been down the years. , who has beenr arranging all of my speaking dates all of these years, wanted very much to help with it, and she had whatever records we had. Nomany speeches, there was record of what i said, but we that there were manuscripts of it. I never wanted to give a commencement speech or speech celebrating some Important National even