Everyone knows of your second tour in duty and government where you have a powerful position, to know how you spend your time now what do you do all day . Thanks for doing this. It was never one of my career goals to be an unemployed be list celebrity. But here we are. Guest this is a strange and i hope temporary phase in my life. What im trying to do with my time is be useful especially to young people. Im teaching and writing, trying to focus on the university level, trying to make sure they dont get so discouraged by the picture leadership not just in our government but across all different sectors that they withdraw. I have been worried about that and trying to make a small contribution to encourage them to remember how much we have in common. People who tell you we are irreparably polarized are lying to you because we have in common a set of core values i dont care whether you are republican or democrat you believe in them and they have to be front and center in our leaders, the r
Barisma. Officials to crack down on curfews as city struggles with unrest. Weve got the very latest, mornings with maria begins right now. Joining the conversation dagen mcdowell, columnist for the hill and liz peek and real clear politics, great to see everybody here this morning. [laughter] dagen go. Maria pretty good firmer tone this morning for future after 2 days of having losses, dow, s p 500, nasdaq seeing steepest 2day decline since august and the day before, trading growth concerns weigh on investors, i just want to point out that i know manufacturing is a major issue here in terms of the weakening, lets not underestimate the power of boeing and tollback and production of the jet, the max yet because of its issues in terms of its influence on the manufacturing slowdown, so i just dont want i mean, i look at these numbers, i see the manufacturing is slowing, i get that, but boeing was a big part of that. Im sorry . And gm strike. Thats also had an impact on this. Maria i spoke
Plus, the race to land amazons headquarters heating up. Which cities made the cut . The woman accusing Michael Douglas of Sexual Harassment breaks her silence. I was very scared. And in the zone. The olympic flame arrived overnight at the heavilyguarded dmz, with the Opening Ceremony just three short weeks away. Today, january 19th, 2018. From nbc news, this is today, with Savannah Gurthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Thank you for being with us on a friday morning. I hope the control room is taking song requests. The olympic music. Three weeks away. Thats amazing. And seeing the flame by the dmz is an incredible sight. Its amazing. The olympics and the world comes together. We got business to take care of. Its washington that leads the newscast this morning. Is the government just hours away from shutting down . Lawmakers on capitol hill, racing against a midnight deadline. And the senate is bracing for a bitt
Lets talk about our weather here in the bay area. Steve has the latest details and it sounds somewhat wet. Reporter wednesday. Yeah. Reporter wednesday, not today but wednesday, wednesday afternoon, evening, certainly to the north and maybe in the extended out look as well. For today, a lot of cloud cover. There could be a few light showers, not a big deal. Theres plenty to the south though. Morning clouds and afternoon sun. Unless youre san jose south, then probably mostly cloudy. Next rain does look to be wednesday evening into thursday morning and again sunday night into next monday. A lot of cloud cover here. It is taking direct aim at central and Southern California, so if you have to head that direction, i would anticipate some rain. 40s on the temps or 50s. Cloud cover holding up most of the temps. There are a few 30s. Mid40s, upper 40s for just about everybody or right around 50. We have 48 hours before the next system arrives. 60s on the highs today, low and mid. 5 02 and traf
With comey, which is very bother some. The people who have been hired are all Hillary Clinton supporters. The whole thing is ridiculous if you want to know the truth from that standpoint. Charles this as a Senate Judiciary committee is looking for answers from former attorney general loretta lynch. Joining me now. Jim hanson. President trump has a problem with the relationship, the friendship, and the hiring of a lot of Hillary Clinton supporters. And these are people who plowed lots of money into Hillary Clintons campaign. To the average person it doesnt feel they can be impartial. I doubt they can be impartial. The problem trump has is the democrats and their deep state allies have turned what was a reasonable look into whether russia tried to influence the election into an investigation into trump and pretty much everybody he has ever met. They ground trump to a halt. Charles hes talking more conciliatory about the reports. Even though reports are he will fire mule per and everyone