Television for serious readers. Edit down we kickoff the weekend with yuval levin, the authors most recent book is the the fractured republic renewing americas social contract in the age of idividualism. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] hello everyone. Thank you for joining us today for this lunch. I have never had the microphone too low for me. My name is oren cass, a senior fellow here at the Manhattan Institute and our speaker today is trying to and founder and editor of National Affairs magazine. Its a real privilege for me to introduce yuval levin today. Is now standing mentor and role model to younger scholars such as myself and really all you need to know about yuval levin is that he has the wisdom not to use twitter. I should probably say more about him that he does not tweet, so less impressive, but more relevant today, i would say better than anyone in america he is at the funny w
Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im matt lauer. Im Savannah Guthrie. Details still coming in at this hour about that paragraowerful i in the south pacific. It sounds like it could have been even worse. Two waves, each about fivefeet high hit the west side of the Solomon Islands overnight, following an 8. 0 magnitude earthquake. Well have the latest in a report straight ahead. Closer to home, are we back to the brink in washington . Are those dramatic spending cuts that both sides say they fear closer to going into effect . Well have the latest. A frightening scene the a school in modesto, california, it was all a mock drill. But was it just a little too realistic . Well be talking about that as well. If you couldnt tell from the music at the top, a lot of attention on so muchchisochi, rs morning. The winter Olympic Games kick off in a mere 365 days
Lindsay vonn will be ready for sochi on tuesday. She had a bad crash in austria and needs surgery. What shes saying about her chances of a full recovery in time for the winter games. Let us start this morning with the decision by the Postal Service to end saturday mail delivery. Nbcs tom costello is in a post office in washington, d. C. Good morning. Reporter matt, good morning to you. This was a major move that the Postal Service is undertaking, losing 16 billion a year as it is forced to fund future Retiree Medical benefits. And Congress Still hasnt gotten around to addressing the issue. The Postal Service will act on its own to save money and heres the plan. Starting august 1st, the usps will stop saturday mail delivery and will however continue Package Delivery and we should say medical delivery, in other words, pills and that kind of thing. Mail delivery to post office boxes will continue on saturday. Post offices would remain open on saturday. The estimating savings here is 2 bil
Attention of arch rival india. In the next few hours, india schools observe two minutes of silence. Solidarity with pakistan after the assault that is now taken at least 140 lives, most young lives. School kids ages 12 and up. It happened in pa shower. The Pakistani Taliban was behind it and this is how the horror unfolded. Reporter First Responders desperate to save young lives rushed children to the emergency room. The latest casualties in pakistans war with the taliban. The siege on the Army Public School into Greek College begins at 10 00 a. M. , pakistan time. Pakistan militants set off a car bomb near the school to distract Security Forces and scaled the walls. 1,000 students, many children of Army Personnel are now inside. Translator the men entered the room one by one and started indiscriminately fired at staff and students. Within 15 minutes, pakistani Security Forces arrive on the scene, surround the school and take positions on rooftops. Inside, a massacre is under way. A to
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