The latest breaking news, reporting and live coverage of the day s important stories; hosted by trusted NBC News journalists, these dynamic hours offer.
laura: as we get ready to celebrate july 4th it s a great opportunity to reflect on our freedom so we ll end tonight on some enduring words. president george washington warned americans that they had l new responsibility. he said the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered perhaps as deeply as finally staked on the experiment entrusted toic the hands of the american people. you may not think of ourselves or our dempsy as an extremer. but look o around the world. people look to americas the cradledo of freedom. the rule under god are reality.
game on thursday that broke the record set back in 1929. the kick was clutched too sending the game into overtime where his team one 62-55. college scholarships are headed your way. who is the green pay backer dempsy? with the half foot. he had a half foot. a number of guys have. high school guy beats nfl player. that s remarkable. check in with rick reichmuth. i have got marbles in my mouth this morning. plays a guitar and kicks a mean bunt. you learn that at sports casting school? combine to genres. clayton your ride is showing up right now. john deere tractor. your john deere tractors are showing up. stay tuned on the show here in just a little bit. take a look at the weather maps and take a look at this picture from hunter mountain new york, up in the cat skills. don t go up there to sce ski.
nation in the world our ally. in other words, when it works, it s a good deal. but when it doesn t work, we got to opt out. $1.3 billion in that goes to their military. so sometimes we, i think in america have a feeling of like well we are helping to feed poor people or helping their poverty level there the lion s share of it goes to their military. that s who runs egypt. actually this was the point i was making. the military in egypt is probably the most pro-western element of the ruling class in egypt. so, that may be a result of our aid. i know chief of staff general dempsy is going down to florida to speak to this kind of way out minister with regard to the film in support of this stupid film about the prophet. assuming there is a film. i saw the trailer, unbelievably stupid. trailer on youtube. but what was said to the egyptian generals with whom we have this vaunted relationship
british soldiers including britain s prince harry who arrived a few weeks ago to start a four month deployment there. because of its size and location it regularly takes indirect fire. that s a type of one or two rockets that land in place like camp leatherneck or even bag gram air field which destroyed general dempsy s plane a few weeks ago. indirect fire a couple of rockets took his plane out. that happens fairly arrestingly at these places. however, according to forces intense attack that some of the firefighters got inside the perimeter, firing off a barrage of rockets, mortars small arms. very brazen attack considering that the taliban don t have night vision capabilities and this attack was launched at 10:00 at night. they got into that area, caused a lot of damage, two u.s. marines were killed in this attack. several others were injured as you said. but the military is not saying that this has anything to do with the larger unrest in the middle east. frankly, according to the