Why was the Pilot Landing in a busy suburban neighborhood . We know what star wars means to you. And a global exclusive from the set of star wars. How you can go on location with the entire cast for the filming of one of the mostanticipated movies of all time. May the force be with you this morning. And we do say good morning, america, on this monday morning. And you just heard from the director, j. J. Abrams, from the set of star wars, standing by with that huge announcement. Cant wait to get the details on that, but right not chaos at the crash scene. There it is live right now, investigators arriving right now, and russian president Vladimir Putin breaks his silence overnight. We have full team coverage, starting with abcs terry moran on the scene in ukraine. Good morning, terry. Reporter good morning,george. 272 of the 298 bodies have been recovered. Theyre in a nearby village. Theyll leave the village today, but rebel authorities arent telling us where theyll go. Fighting is ragin
Russia brought down malaysian flight 17. Prorussian militias need to be neutralized said some republicans on msnbc. If the president decides to move forward you will have the support of congress . That will be interesting. Reporter aides say president obama is considering tougher sanctions on russia. And u. S. Intelligence knocking down claims that Ukrainian Government shot down Malaysia Airlines flight 17. A memorial outside the Netherlands Embassy in northwest d. C. Is growing and now there is a new way for people to share their thoughts. The embassy has placed condolence registers in its lobby. If you would like to drop by those books will be out tomorrow from 10 00 a. M. Until noon and from 2 00 to 4 p. M. There is also an online registry. We have a link to that on nbcwashington. Com. Just search the word condolences. It cost lesz than 2. Police say a guy in his 60s attacked a driver. Pat collins is at the scene in northwest d. C. With more. Reporter let me set the scene for you. T
Welcome. There are many meanings of transparency. Im not going to get into all of them today, but im sure there will be many different aspects. Their widely divergent opinions on the successes of the Obama Administration and i hope to explore some of those today. President obama made a number of promises when he was running for president. A number are Still Available on change. Gov. During the course of the administration, new issues came up. Everything from Campaign Finance disclosure to dealing with the lawsuit and others on visitors logs. Theres been a lot of changes during the course of the administration. What i hope we will talk about today is wouldve occurred or not occur during the last four years am looking forward to what will happen over the next. I am joined by three experts. I have on my right, anne weisberg. I have sent through the Data Transparency Coalition and a former hill staffer. To my last is Josh Gerstein with politico. Theres more extensive biographies on your ch
About the policy. That is an improvement in the eyes of most reporters. If you are asking whether the press office or press secretary acted as an advocate on behalf of reporters in terms of access to be president and meetings taking place at the white house, that has not been my experience in this administration. The second half of that question was regarding access to wires. We had seen in previous administrations would be a mystery she would come up with a policy and be excited about it. When you talk to people at the front lines, they have no idea there has been in changing with the are supposed to do. Is there a Communications Gap . Do the people have the information they do not care chimbote you have a sense of what is happening . The great do you have a sense of what is happening . People have enough swatge to reach swathe to reach down into the a magician and make things happen. The administration and make things happen. That is usually the feedback that produces positive change
Bans. And i havent made any decisions yet. I managed overdub past month to have some conversations about what my future might look like and i am excited by some of the possibilities. I am sure you guys will be among first to know. Let me i will it is not my last briefing and i will probably have a few more polished things to say at some point before i go, but off the cuff i wanted to thank the president , the Vice President , first lady, joe biden, chief staff i had the privilege to work with including Dennis Mcdonald and everyone here. There will be another time for more of that. Found it has been an amazing experience. So fulfilling and i said as we surprise some folks in here in the minutes before i came out, that probably the best part of its is in mid flight you dont often make a whole new set of friends, not just friends but people you would fight by and for under any circumstance and that is certainly what i have been lucky enough to get over the past 51 2 years so it has been a