He did not go over those areas one time. They went over them four times. The tsa standing by the agent. What should you expect the next time you take your kids to the airport . And rokerthon rolls on. It was boomer sooner in oklahoma. [ gunshot ] all right. Wildcat pride at northern michigan. The largest game of freeze tag. And al is planning more fun at his newest stop, with lots of volunteers to help him out, today, wednesday, march 29th, 2017. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Weve been having a lot of fun with al this week. The weather is a very serious story this morning. It is breaking news this morning. Got a new round of violent storms spawning tornadoes, large hail and very high winds in texas. Nbcs Tammy Leitner is in dallas for us this morning. Tammy, take it away. Reporter good morning, matt. Overnight, a line of storms swept across te
Saying. Chairman nunes needs to recuse himself. Its time for him to leave this investigation. This is a what a cover up to a crime looks like. For him to step down. I think it would be best for him to step aside. Let someone else handle this veinvestigation. Its not just the democrats. Late this afternoon, the first republican came out public ly t say chairman nunes should recuse himself. Shafs walter jones of north carolina, who does not serve on the Intelligence Committee, but several republicans on the Intelligence Committee now jumping in, defending chairman nunes and they are not the only ones. So is paul ryan. Should nunes recuse himself from the russian veinvestigatio and do you know the source . No, i dont. Also today, a forceful pushback from the white house on this story. The post reporting that the Trump Administration tried to block sally yates from testifying on capitol hill about russia. The white house did not respond and took no action that present pre vented miss yates
White House Press Secretary sean spicer just finished briefing reporters and said the administration continues to support the embattled chairman. He is the chairman. Hes conducting an investigation. Its up to the house of representatives and the speaker and the members of the House Republican conference. But theres nothing i see that theres problematic in him conducting an investigation. Lets get right to our Intrepid Team of correspondents. Kristen welker is at the white hou house. Although sean spicer said they were going to be standing by devin nunes, he did admit there was a perception problem when he was talking to april ryan. Reporter thats right, and theyre acknowledging that, no doubt about at, katie. Bottom line is, there are mounting calls for him to recuse himself from this investigation. The white house not willing to go that far yet. But indicating that, yes, clearly this is creating some difficulty. Particularly as they want to be focused on things like tax reform. What i
2015. It is not often you celebrate the 70th anniversary of a world event. Instead of waiting around for more obvious numerical milestone like 75 year anniversary. People who fought in world war ii are disappearing from the earth. You lose the opportunity to pay them tribute. The 70th anniversary we made a really big deal about it around the world in 2015. It was a big deal here in the United States and anywhere that world war ii veterans were able to be recognized by their country men. In russia and in china in 2015 even as everybody was making a big deal of it russia and china went to a whole other level. They went hog wild for the 70th anniversary of the end of world war ii. And not just in the way that had them celebrating, you know, the survivors of that war, the folks who actually fought in those wars. What russia and china did for that anniversary in 2015 is they decided to hold absolutely gigantic, unprecedentedly gigantic displays of their own National Military power. It was a
Cars, police cars, that are now, of course, you can see many of them down here and that it ultimate ultimately. Police were trying to slow down this driver and when they attempted to ram into the police car there were three shots fired by Capitol Police. Now nobody was injured according to the News Conference we just heard a little bit earlier from officials here and you can see, this is quite calmed down and business as usual is returning on capitol hill. This is being described as a criminal incident, not something related to terrorism. And it does seem to be one of those situations where theres more high alert around something that doesnt necessarily have a broad broader terrorismrelated situation where because of the proximity right next to the u. S. Capitol the response is one that maybe is more visible unanimous another situation if this had taken place a couple miles from here you wouldnt be seeing the response were seeing here. We did see a woman put in handcuffs and put into t