Our popular musical comedies, music that is russian. It is a part of us as well and it would be to me, i still believe culture, we got to work harder than ever. That is hard. We can talk a little bit about how to start that again because we do things now have been changed very badly. One of them is trust. As far as i can see there is now no trust in the United States and vice versa. No trust. That becomes very difficult because as you said and i told president reagan, without trust there is no talk. There is nothing. That, i consider very, very serious and i do not know right now how we can fix and although i know we have to try. We really have to try. And i am very distressed at the demonization of president putin, frankly as Henry Kissinger said demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy. It is an alibi for a policy. Why is our press demonizing absolutely everything . I followed this very carefully. One thing, here is one thing americans dont know and they arent being told in the
Possibilities. My own office at the state department has had a pretty consistent budget thanks to the congress to support Civil Society actors in a variety of countries and, of course, the National Endowment for democracy remains the pree moore institution in the world premier institution in the world for targeting assistance to democrats usually many tough places. So they know they have support from the outside community, from the International Community. So let me mention a couple of things just to wind up this opening scene setter. One is that i think we in the United States need to appreciate the Important Role that congress plays. While we disparage its occasional polarization and inability to resolve certain major things, the congress has been a major contributor to american democracy programming in a lot of ways. Not least in the creation of my part of the state department. You know, the bureau for democracy, human rights and labor was created 30 years ago over the objections of
Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im matt lauer. Im Savannah Guthrie alongside tamron hall who is in for natalie this morning. Well get to todays top story, the deadly mall attack in kenya where militants are Still Holding an unknown number of hostages in a twoday standoff that has already left at least 68 people dead. We go right to nbcs ron allen in nairobi with the lat est. Good morning, ron. What can you tell us . Good morning, savannah. Were behind security from the mall where you can see smoke billowing out of the building. The morning began with five or six loud explosions and sustained gun fire that went on for some time, and also firefight firefights spilling out outside of the mall, and you can see the kenyan soldiers firing at places around the mall. Unknown at this point is the fate of the hostages and the gunmen inside. And we believe
Everybody else. Neil Patrick Harris was the host again for the emmys. What did you think . I went to bed after about an hour because im old and i cannot do what i used to do. I knew with the roundup everybody would be talking about it anyway. I thought the stuff with the tvs went on too long, the opening. I liked the other hosts showing up a giving him grief about it. I thought it was cute. Jimmy kimmel, jimmy fallon, every jimmy in the world except jimmy smith. I never saw him. There were some surprises. When i knew it was going to get off to a good start is when tina fey and amy poehler were in the front row and after the opening monologue was over, they jumped in. Take your pants off. Take your pants off take your pants off and twerk it. Yeah. I came to the awards show for the twerking. No, stop. Im not twerking. Im not going to do that. That would be degrading. Yeah, it might be degrading, but we would be degrateful. You guys think you know what america wants . Why dont you get up
Can i tell you something, when she starts singing, the place just transforms. People were happy, especially when they play believe. Lets listen for a second. What am i supposed to do sit around and wait for you but i cant do that no sitting back i need time to move on i need a love that feels strong time to think it through youre girl looking at dancing next to savannah is shall remain nameless. The biggest cher fan probably on the planet. Didnt she used to be president of the fan club . Secretary. Secretary, okay. Cher sang a beautiful ballad called i hope you find. It is so moving. I hope you find it what youre looking for i hope its everything you dreamed about to be and so much more i hope youre happy wherever you are i wanted you to know that i dont think ive ever met anybody in my life who doesnt love cher, ever, you know . Just love her. Shes such a survivor for one thing. She just delivers. Shes one of the best performers live ive ever seen. I saw her in vegas years and years a