And secretary kerry and karzai look at the future of troops in the country. Zplorchlt. Its good to have you with us. In washington president obama has wrapped up a productive meeting with democrats in the offeoval office. We are at capitol hill with more. What more can you tell us about obamas meeting with the caucus . He went on to say that the democrats are willing to dpoash negotiate on anything that the republicans want to discuss as soon as we reopen the government and pay our bills. The republicans say they have heard that before. The democrats say open the government and well talk. It was the state of the Union Meeting reill really involving e president and harry reid and dick durban and the idea was to update the president on a meeting that some of those people had had with Senior Republicans had early in the day. Harry reid described that as good that meeting. He went on to enshine his relationship with the minority leader. Mitch mcconnell and how they worked together in the p
First of all, ive never been so excited to take a test, ever. You took the test yourself . Right. Which they didnt want me to do, which made me want to take it so much more. They never had a reporter take the test, and they sometimes reuse some of the questions. Theres a whole security question there. They dont want after rewrite all the questions every single time which makes sense. I had to sign an affidavit swearing i would never reveal the exact questions, and get it notarized which was nostalgic. And then i could take the test. Likely theres a bunch of questions they had made public so i could share some of those, but i went to this place and i sat they had some poor woman making sure wasnt going to cheat or anything, for hours she sat there. It was the weirdest thing. It is the only time in my life i took a standardized test where i had to actually slow down and do that thing that as adults sometimes dont do enough, thank. I had to say, wait wait, what is asking me . I had to com
I cut into said to you this afternoon however frustrating via our it will not be long. They will rise again. How long . Not long. They will live forever. How long . Not long. Estimate the book is called alabamas civilrights the illustrated guide to the cradle of freedom and basically it looks at the history of the Civilrights Movement in alabama to tell this jury geographically i wrote an earlier book history telling a chronologically but it is the theme of both books alabama had a central role starting with a the montgomery bus boycott with the freedom ride and a the birmingham movements and the montgomery march. But there are live to of smaller stories so i tried to tell those the best way i can. People that i had never heard of. There were abuzz they do Amazing Things under stressful situation. So it was a movement says much says great leaders. Wanted to attract down as many people as i could that were still alive to talk to them about their stories while they still remembers the de
Mentions the college is one of the places that offered hope and inspiration and try to do the right thing. So i just want to call attention to the fact that in addition to those dramatic headlines for you saw police dogs and you saw the bombed church in earning him and those horrific scenes that were the flipside of the courage that the civil rights leaders and protesters were displaying that you also had these quieter things going on in a number of different places. Mobile had an africanamerican man whose name was john leflore and mr. Leflore back in the 1920s decided he was going to take on segregation and started one of the earliest naacp chapters in the south here in mobile and kind of quietly went about the business of opposing lynchings and pursuing the right to vote, pursuing the desegregation of buses and public accommodations and mostly he did it through negotiation and lawsuits and that kind of thing less like demonstrations and confrontation. He found a few moderate wide all
Captivated the nations attention, and now victim ron goldmans sister kim is opening up about her attempts to visit simpson behind bars and the time she considered killing him herself. Our exclusive live interview today, friday, may 9th, 2014. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Nice to have you along on a friday morning. Weve got willie in for matt this morning. Good to be with you guys. The big news, the first round of the draft. Johnny football, Johnny Manziel, a lot of people thought he would go like second, third, fourth in the draft. Were you surprised . Two . Thats where i had him in my mock draft. Mel kiper guthrie over here. She watched the draft. Yeah. But just for the outfits. Were going to have more on that in a moment. We want to start with our top story, and its this weather. Another round of Severe Weather rolling across parts of the south and the midwest today. Lets get righ