Found. His own attorney unableni to re rm announcer nbc 4ok co lannew ise1 today with matt lauer an savannah guthrie. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. Tamron is here while savannah enjoys some time off. Well see a familiar face in rio. I love the hand. How sweet it is. A comeback of sorts after a rough patch following the london games. It will be good to see him in rio. More on that story coming up. Story. The first arrest in the attack at istanbuls ataturk airport. Richard engel is in istanbul with the latest. Reporter there have been police raids in istanbul at multiple locations. A Police Source also told us they identified the three member russian cell, russian speaking cell they believe carried out this attack and identified them as a russian national. The turkish media reporting the three rented an apartment here in istanbul three months ago paying in cash. An upstairs neighbor said they were suspicious because they installed a Second Security gate, never opened the window
His two adult sons don, jr. , and eric trump are also in this room. This is an announcement that has been heavily filled with suspense. Remember when the announcement of the Vice President ial pick back in the day came out . We found out on thursday who it would be but it got delayed. Theyve been much more disciplined this time around. And well now listen to the president of the United States introduce his First Supreme Court pick to fill the seat of Antonin Scalia. This is the second individual who will be nominated for that seat. The first, Merrick Garland, who never got a hearing. Lets listen to the president. Thank you. Thank you very much. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. When Justice Scalia passed away suddenly last february i made a promise to the American People, if i were elected president i would find the very best judge in the country for the Supreme Court. I promised to select someone who respects our laws and is representative of our const
We can expect Democratic Senators to hone in on mccabe to try to get some information about what is happening. Shifting timelines from the white house, undercutting republican support and their resistance for the calls for a special counsel or prosecutor here. That will, obviously, dominate this hearing. The Intelligence Committee moving on another track. Remember, this is the only show in town. The Ongoing Investigation that they have now. There was a deadline the other day for a voluntary submission of documents from general flynn and others involved in this controversy. Obviously, not met a subpoena forthcoming and, also an invitation now from the same committee to jim comey himself now, of course, a private citizen to come and testify before this committee and presumably in close session as early as next tuesday, hallie. I want to know what is going on behind you. See anybody coming in and out. Anybody saying anything to this hearing so far . No, weve seen the chairman richard burr
Limit. And who is behind the massive cyber attack that hit u. S. Computers over the summer. North korea, the Homeland Security adviser giving an update to let us know how bad it was. U. S. Retaliating. Lets start with the big news over the next 24 to 48 hours, that is this tax plan. Garrett haake knows the ins and outs. Garrett, i want to know more about the time line. When the house will vote, what will we know when the senate will vote . And why a dozen of House Republicans have now come out against this thing . Hey, hallie, the house will go first. We expect them to vote around 1 30, 2 00 this afternoon. That starts the clock for the senate. It could take as much as ten hours. They know speed kills. They have the votes in place. They want to see it pass. They want to see if they can turn this into law. As for the republican defections in the house, this comes down to the state and local tax issues. In the house, youve got a lot of lawmakers from hightax states like california and ne
With the president makinga move related to mule pert another journalist behind the New York Times scoop joining us. And Mark Zuckerberg is now in day two of his congressional contransition seat. I want to start with garrett. Weve all been working on sources in the last 60 minutes or so. Members have been walking out of the gop conference. What have you been hearing on the talk of paul ryan and his announcement than hes no longer going to serve as speaker after this term . The primary thing that were hearing is this a decision made about his family, hang on a second here. Weve got mark meadows coming around the corner, im going to try to grab him. What were hearing is that this is a family decision. This is something ryan has said for quite a long time, that he would discuss this with his wife when he went home sometime in the spring, make a decision before the filing deadline in june. And he has now made that decision. Several members said they werent surprised by it, that they knew th