About to get freedom as the prosecutor weighs in on an exclusive interview. A new Fidget Spinner. A teen swallowed up on a flooded street before reemerging seconds later. And kermit, youre fired. After 27 years, the man behind the famous frog let go and hes speaking to us live today thursday, july 20th, 2017. Announcer this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on thursday morning. Glad to have you with us. Outpouring for senator mccain just immediate last night. Coming from all corners of the country, president of the united states, former president obama and all the people who worked close to john mccain over the years. Thats breaking news overnight john mccain, arizona republican, one of those powerful and vocal lawmakers on capitol hill diagnosed with brain cancer. Weve got full coverage. Well start with nbc National Correspondent peter alexander. Peter, good morning. Hey, savannah, good mor
Boycotts on both sides of the spectrum . I think that the political boycotts will pretty much fall flat. It only works when theres a lot of Media Attention on the companies. Youve seen, for example, 55 out of 144 companies have conceded to their customers when theres a change, but when it comes to these political boycotts, its different than a traditional boycott. Whats becoming so strange, eric, the fact that you have the ceos of the companies coming out and really being outright political, stating their opinions, instead of really just focusing on what products they want to sell and for customers, its a turnoff. They want to say i like my latte, i want it buy it and move forward on it, so, i really find that it really its shortlived these political boycott. Eric lets talk about about youre going to buy the tesla order . I was considering buying a tesla, but now that theyre on the board, im reconsidering it. Eric why . I have problems with donald trump and anybody who is on that may b
Boycotts on both sides of the spectrum . I think that the political boycotts will pretty much fall flat. It only works when theres a lot of Media Attention on the companies. Youve seen, for example, 55 out of 144 companies have conceded to their customers when theres a change, but when it comes to these political boycotts, its different than a traditional boycott. Whats becoming so strange, eric, the fact that you have the ceos of the companies coming out and really being outright political, stating their opinions, instead of really just focusing on what products they want to sell and for customers, its a turnoff. They want to say i like my latte, i want it buy it and move forward on it, so, i really find that it really its shortlived these political boycott. Eric lets talk about about youre going to buy the tesla order . I was considering buying a tesla, but now that theyre on the board, im reconsidering it. Eric why . I have problems with donald trump and anybody who is on that may b
[ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] dont try to take credit for it, its our thing. You might not have been aware but monday was send your soninlaw to iraq day. [ laughter ] President Trump send his daughters husband Jared Kushner to baghdad to meet with the iraqi Prime Minister and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. The military posted a bunch of photographs of jareds spring break. I found them on flickr last night. I was looking around, so tickled by them, i wanted to share them with you. Theres jared. Hes the one on the left. With general Joseph Dunford of the marines. This is the face you make when you have no idea what the people around you are talking about but you dont want to look stupid so you do a lot of nodding. Here he is from another angle. You can see its like a militarytheme bar mitzvah. [ laughter ] why didnt anyone tell me to wear camo . I would have worn camo. I guess they were worried jared wouldnt be able to sit through an entire meeting, as you see they gav
Jimmy youre wasting my time just answering the question. Guillermo yes jimmy well start with a report card, if you will, for our celebrity president , donald trump, whose Approval Rating continues to drop. Donald trumps positive performance mark is now down to 35 . Only about onethird of americans polled say theyre happy with his job performance. 66 say they dont think hes levelheaded. Which in his defense, you know [ laughter ] how is his head supposed to stay level when his hair keeps trying to chase every squirrel . [ laughter ] [ applause ] its not just the poll, even isis is piling on. A spokesman for isis, which thats what you get when you major in communications by the way, you become a spokes whatn for isis. [ laughter ] released a statement yesterday saying america is drowning, were bankrupt, and were being run by an idiot. You hate to agree with anything isis says. But i dont know, maybe we are being run by an idiot, maybe we are drown and bankrupt. But i want to be very clea