In the 14 burning of washington, d. C. Tonight, American History tour on westward expansion continues with a look at the lewis and clarke expedition from st. Louis to the pacific, and in covered wagons. Here is more now. We see them circling the wagons. Rarely if ever did that happen. There were very few deaths along the trail that had anything to do with thinly with indians. The indians actually helped the pioneers more than hurting them. But the dangers came in, first of all disease, which hit about 10 of the people west, and also things like drowning and accidental death by gunshot being run over by a wagon. That happened to a lot of kids who were climbing on the wagon and would fall off in the wheels the wheels would roll over them. It was really kind of an unprecedented mass migration. Were talking about over 300,000 people during methe period in question who passed up everything and went west. Watch the entire event tonight on cspan. Recent job look at numbers released for the mo
Individuals without a warrant and it led to the enactment of title iii, the Supreme Court ruled that for an intelligence surveillance, it had to be individualized. Third point, smith is different from this case from a lot of reasons. It is not just the government is acquiring certain types of information. Its not that the government is acquiring information about millions of individuals and not just one, but it is also that it acquiring information definitely and not made clear a few years after smith that when the government scales up a surveillance operation, the constitutional balance is different and needs to be addressed differently. Judge, you were exactly right. That the court is to assess the expectations of privacy of this program and not just what the Supreme Court decided. A quick related point. The minimization procedures would be constitutionally superfluous. If smith governed this case, they could collect the records without any of those protections in place and they coul
This is just over 30 minutes. All rise. Here ye, hear ye, hear, ye. Thank you. You may be seated. Good morning to everyone. Our first case this morning is thompson versus heinemann. Reedman. Iedman good morning. Good morning. Today. Re i would like to reserve three minutes of my time for rebuttal. We are asking this court to reverse the decision for two reasons. T, second lb 1161 does not the exclusive jurisdiction. We stand on those arguments. We will turn now to the merits of our case. Well, just a minute. On your standing, didnt we in cunningham versus x carve out an exception to the standing rule. . . Would you agree that this concerns a matter of great concern . Yes. And that was a standing. And that case did not have a legal extend it through involved, correct . That is correct. Why did exxon control that . In cunningham versus exxon, there was no one to actually challenge the constitutionality of the statute. It is not only that it has to be a matter of important public purpose
And back on american soil. The third infected ebola patient arrives in a special Isolation Unit. And we have usher live in concert today, friday, september 5th, 2014. 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 friday morning. Im matt lauer and long with natalie mor aales and willie geist. We have amy van dykenruen was in an accident three months ago and now she made a remarkable recovery. She looks great. Along with her husband tom. We will talk to them later on. Lets start on a friday morning with the sad news. The death of joan rivers. The 81yearold died thursday, a week after going into cardiac arrest and losing consciousness during a routine medical procedure. This morning, the new York State Health department is launching an investigation into the clinic where that happened. This as fans of the legendary comedienne leave flowers and other mementos on rivers star on t
Crystalle clear, we mean what we say when were talking about article 5 commitments and an increased presence serves as the most effective deterrent to any additional russian aggression that we might see. Angela king. Thank you, mr. President. What are your specific expectations for what regional actors like saudi arabia, yemen and jordan can legitimately provide to a coalition against an Islamic State . Is there a role for iran as well . As you know, secretary kerry today says he expects the allied countries to coalesce around a specific plan by the end of september. Do you agree with the timeline that he set out and what concrete commitments fx any, are you leaving this summit with from the other nations that were here . Let me start with a general point. There was unanimity over the last two days that i. S. I. L. Poses a significant threat to n. A. T. O. Members, and there was a recognition that we have to take action. I did not get any resistance or pushback to the basic notion that