A very big donation to a cause close to their hearts this morning. And winners . A thrilling finish at the National Spelling bee, and the event ends in a rare tie, the first in more than 50 years. The cochamps are celebrating with us today, friday, may 30th, 2014. Life is a highway from nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Can we take that shot one more time . That is a concert crowd. Wow. So many. Eat your heart out, austin mahone. That was a big crowd earlier this week, but huge today. And there is good reason. This is the most awarded Country Group in the past decade. They have 14 number one hits, 22 1 2 million albums sold. They have a new album thats getting critical acclaim and theyre going to give us a great concert in a few moments. That crowd, its all ages. They, Everybody Loves rascal flatts. Good to have them here. Were going to get to our top
i got to point this out. you know, you sort of list the potential trump cabinet based on conversations that you had with former members these are the kinds of people that he wants to put into office. you ve got pam bondi, michael flynn. i read through this list and it reminded me of that scene in blazing saddles trying to put together the gang and they got nazis, clan members. i was waiting to see garg mel and saron on this list. worlds gallery of maniacs and freaks who would destroy our government. look, our new administration could look like a clown car, were they saying it because they were like, i do believe this is going to happen. or because this is our best case scenario because it could actually be worse. yeah. i mean, honestly the people that i interviewed for this book, my former colleagues and trump cabinet secretaries described this as, quote, a nightmare slate. i mean, the fact that trump s