Greg thanks, joe. Thats the smartest thing you have said in eight years. [applause] [applause] greg all right, the u. S. Intel report released friday directly accuse russian president Vladimir Putin of ordering a campaign to influence the election. I wish they told us this thursday we could have skipped listening to this. First we cannot say they did not change in the vote tallies or anything of that sort. We have no way of gauging the impact that certainly the Intelligence Community cant gauge the impact it had on choices the electorate made. Greg what is with this guy over here . Its like he just saw one of my nudes on snapchat. [laughter]
this is serious. And its on tv. Friday President Elect trump met with experts to discuss the findings. What does russia really to . For one, they had to John Podestas email. How did they do it . First they found one of his passwords. What was one of his passwords . Password. [laughter] this may be the greatest achievement in espionage history. Righ
Gyms now allowed to reopen their doors. Reporter thats right, ayman. Weve seen a steady stream of folks coming out to cross fit. Some of them are behind me getting that midday work out in. Were seeing Safety Measures implemented here as were seeing across the country. At this gym, they moved some of the equipment that was inside outside in order to create more space and promote that social distancing. But this does come as texas has seen record high numbers in terms of covidpositive cases. Saturday saw a singleday increase and so i asked some of the gym goers about that. Take a listen to what they told me. Does it surprise you that were seeing these spikes in numbers . No. As contagious the disease is, youre going to risk having more positives. As we open up, we have increased testing. Weve had limited testing in texas, were getting more and more testing. As we open up, were going to have more cases. Reporter and the governor has worked to increase that testing sending surge Response T
Its not about keepinging kids safe at school. That wasnt even mentioned in the president s speech. They only care about their decades long, decades old gun control agenda. The president has taken the art of public deception and manipulation to a whole new level. And now to the president s pick for defense secretary, chuck hagel is on hold for at least now. Republicans successfully halted his nomination until after the recess. Its just unfortunate that this kind of politics intruds at a time when im when i need a secretary of defense to make sure that the americans are getting the strategy that they deserve. John mccain offered this in to the pushback that the nominee is getting from within the gop ranks itself. Theres a lot of ill will towards senator hagel because when he was a republican, he attacked president bush mercilessly which antihis own party and people. We dont have a secretary of defense in place and were not going to because of a seven year old political grudge. Joining me
Fans. Racked up nearly 7,000 online fans. Today, february 16, 2013. Captions paid for by Nbcuniversal Television good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a saturday. Im lester holt. Im erica hill. Boy, the little pig that could. I think its adorable. Yeah. Weve got the little guy with wheels because he, obviously, cant his back legs dont work. Yeah. I dont think anybody will want bacon after seeing this cute guy. I certainly dont. Well have that coming up. Well meet him. This morning, were learning more about what happened aboard the Carnival Cruise ship. Very little of it is good. Passengers are waking up glad to be back on solid ground. The conditions on that ship horrible. Coming up, a look at what rights you have as a passenger when youre on a cruise. Also, the big cleanup has begun now in russia after a space rock exploded there on friday. It happened the same day a different asteroid hit earth. Could the two be related . Well talk to an expert about whats happening in the skie
Old political grudge. Joining me now is diane black. Representative, great to see you. Its great to be with you. Thank you for having me today. You bet. The president is about to honor six women who died at sandy hook and talking about Gun Legislation, the president said in the state of the union they deserve a vote. What do you think to the representatives who have made the same call . I want to say i cannot imagine being in the situation of the terrible losses that happened there at sandy hook and my heart goes out to all of the Family Members and that entire community. First of all, the president has not put a plan on the table and neither has the senate. But there are all kinds of solutions that the president is talking about. We have to talk about Mental Health. We have to talk about the people who use guns in crimes are really penalized to the highest standard that we can penalize them. The unprecedented amount of violence that the young people are seeing, these are issues that w