To move on with my life. So why did he do it . His answer, today, january 30th, 2013. 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 wednesday morning. Im matt lauer. Good morning, everyone. Im savannah guthrie. Weather is the story again this morning. Severe storms moving east, packing heavy rain, high winds. Al is tracking this for us. Well get to him in just a moment from now. Also ahead, bill gates is considered one of the great visionaries of our time. For example, take a look at what he said to tom brokaw in 1992. One of the big things over the next couple of years will be getting the computer on enough desktops that well actually communicate through whats called electronic mail and its surprising to me its not happening a little faster. Ooh, electronic mail. I think we call this email. I guess he is a visionary. Any other crazy predictions you want to make . Its amazin
Lets face it. The big show is going to be the Supreme Court. And i think also the planned parenthood funding. Some republicans are squishy on that. One other thing he said this morning that will cause concerns on the hill from his party was talking about a border tax, instituting a border tax on companies that ship jobs overseas. Thats something when he talked about that after the election, republicans were running away from that. Majority leader of the house, Kevin Mccarthy warned it could start a trade war. Paul ryan started to distance himself from that saying well worry about doing this in a larger tax reform bill. Trump today made it very clear that he wants to go that route. As president , you do have fairly wide latitude to impose tariffs. Does he carry through with some of those threats . I agree with karen. A lot of stuff is symbolic. We knew tpp was dead. A symbolic move. When we get into details of legislative push on obamacare and Supreme Court nominee and on doing things l
Troops in there to stabilize the area that we wouldnt see what is happening in ramadi today. And the push as they have taken that country and i do believe thats their intent to take baghdad and eventually take all of iraq. And if that happens, that changes the middle east and is strategic for our National Security over there. And so i just dont understand why the administration doesnt want to have policies and strategies in place that would let our troops who are the best trained military in the world go in there and do what they do successfully and stabilize that area and take it back and get rid of the terrorists. I hear you you on your frustrations with policy and well have ill have an entire conversation about what the u. S. Is doing as it pertains to this fight over there. But we talk about ramadi and the fact that you yourself as a mother went twice and then you see the black isis flag and then you hear the words from the chairman of the joint chiefs general martin dempsey. Let m
Good evening, thanks for joining us just past 9 00 p. M. Here in new york just after 8 00 p. M. In iowa where Hillary Clinton has arrived by minivan on her 2016 campaign. To the surprise of no one, she officially entered the race yesterday. The announcement coming by video. Im running for president. Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times, but the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top. Secretary clinton and company hit the road Brianna Keeler joins us now from cedar rapids the next couple days the next few weeks, what do they look for in a cathdy date . The next few days shell be visiting a Community College here in iowa. Shes on the ground in iowa shell be going to this Community College and shell be going as well to a Fruit Company on wednesday. These are expected to be small events. And while we knew she was getting into the race. Its this interesting visual i think, picturing Hillary Clinton in a van taking this twoday road trip to get here to io
Table and now asking for new revenue. Woodward says the white house is trying to shut him down. The white house says thats just not true. Now the exchange is becoming heated. Veteran Journalist Bob Woodward isnt backing down in his criticism of the obama white house. On fox news thursday night, woodward again described a testy phone call last month with the president s economic adviser, gene sperling. It was a half hour in which he was shouting at me. Reporter all week, woodward has complained that sperling crossed the line, in suggesting via email that woodward would regret reporting that president obama moved the goalpost in the sequester fight. He said that im going to regret, you know, thats thats that goes into the coded, you know, you better watch out. Reporter the white house denies there was any kind of threat thursday, pointing to a leaked email that sperling sent to woodward after they talked. Quote, i apologize for raising my voice in our conversation today, but as a friend,