All the president s critics. Pa. How do you make obamas eyes light up. Shine a flashlight in his ears. Reading mean tweets for laughs this friday march 13th 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning and welcome to today on a friday morning. Matt and natalie have the morning off. About 10,000 of our closest friends. We will hold our own mini tournament. Impressed when the college kids wake up so early. You assume they ever went to bed. We will get to the top story. Tensions are high in ferguson missouri as Police Search suspect or suspects involved in the shootings of two officers there. National correspondent craig melvin is on the story. Good morning to you. Reporter the two officers are at home with their families and they are expected to recover. Meanwhile a senior Law Enforcement official told me while they have strong leads in the case at this point they do not have any suspects. As the i
Think you. Thank you for your support of american phoenix. Thank you for coming out tonight and also cspan and booktv. Is an honor. I am thrilled to share with you american phoenix the remarkable story of William Skinner, a man who turned disaster into destiny one question every writer gets when people find out if youre writing a book. Cocktail party or supermarket or on the street, what is your book about . That is a fair question. It is a good one and extremely challenging to answer. You have spent thousands of hours writing thousands of words with a ton of information in your head and the right to one story that includes many others that do have to figure out how to condense the information into a 152nd sound bite of the 10 words or less. I have it down to seven words if you include american phoenix is about. People ask if your book was made into a movie house would you give it . The titanic meets rocky. American phoenix is about in essence disaster and a survival. Disaster of Epic
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