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
Now the race for mayor in new york city. This formed the latest in a series of debates between the candidates with less than three weeks before voters in new york city go to the polls. The democratic primary is scheduled for tuesday, september 10th. If no candidate obtains 40 of the vote a runoff will take place between the top two finishers. In a leading democrat and republican will face each other in the november 5th general election. The race continues to make national headlines, and it will put the candidates and their campaign in the perspective. Joining us from new york, kate taylor for the New York Times. Thank you for being with us. A pleasure. Three weeks to go, set up this race. What youre looking at . As you said, if none of the candidates get 40 in the primary there will be a runoff but when the top two candidates. What you have right now is three candidates all in a very tight race for who will be the two people who get into the runoff. The most recent polls, roughly tied.
The race continues to make National Headlines and for the next hour, we will put the candidates and their campaign into perspective. Joining us from new york is kate taylor. Thank you for being with us. My pleasure. Three weeks to go, set up this race. What are you looking at . None of the candidates get 40 and the primary, there will be a runoff between the top two candidates. You have three candidates, Christine Quinn, Bill Thompson, and de blasio in a very tight race. Poll, christine were and bill de blasio tied. We will see some very intense backandforth. Some of the issues you will see, our term limits Christine Quinn made a very controversial decision to lift the term limits. Youll also also see some discussion of new york citys police stop and frisk baptist, which was the subject of a friskl stop and practice, which was the subject of a federal case. The candidates all have said they will reform the practice. They have slightly different means of doing so. Outher issue that will
Opening for democrats to say why do you remember some things. What was happening that triggers your memory on these items that wasnt. What do we need to do to get there . I just think it gives them an in. And all he simply has to say is he doesnt remember. Unless he can tell the whole context of it, i dont know if it gets us moving forward. It just seems like they are not going to give up the dog bone on this. I did think it was interesting, too, how many different roads that these lawmakers are allowed to go down. Look at Sheila Jackson lee. She was just all over the place. Sandra you can see a little activity on capitol hill. Attorney general Jeff Sessions has sat back down after a very brief break. So well go back to him when this hearing begins. It could be at any moment. The committee will reconvene. Sandra lets listen. Its reconvening now. The gentleman from florida mr. Deutsche for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Attorney general sessions thanks for being here. General se
Why, next was the fbi involved in this . The agency has 35,000 employees. Its got unmatched resources and expertise. Its the fbi. Why would it even consider going to a private investigator to do research on a President Elect . Keep in mind, this is not the first time the fbi has outsourced a major investigation. Recall that federal agents never examined the dnc servers after they were supposedly hacked by an outside party during the campaign. Instead, the fbi relied on the work of a dnc contractor this assured them that russia was behind the hacking. Why would the fbi do that . Did anyone at the Justice Department consider that hiring third party actors with unclear motives to conduct a highprofile investigation might be an Excellent Way for say foreign intelligence operations to sow chaos and promote their agendas . At the least without claims be colored by their natural desire
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