All. We will begin a florida later on on washington journal. Talking to people on both sides of the aisle. We will begin with those late the ciders. How did you make up your mind . Or if you think you are going to make up your mind and the last 13 days, we want to assure you as well. If you are supporting governor 1. Mney called calle202585388 if you are supporting obama call 2025853880 0. If you are supporting another candidate call 2025853882. Go to twitter. Com campaign 2012. How did you make up your mind and when . Since the first president ial debate how and when did you make up your mind . Late decider is only. Or if you think you were going to make up your mind during the next 13 days. Here is the wall street journal. Candidates a bottle to lock up key states. Mitt romney will spend much of the final two weeks of the campaign presenting himself as a bipartisan bridge builder. That is the wall street journal. And in the Washington Post trying to rebut criticism. Republican nomine
That is essential to your choice. That is trust. When you choose a president you do not know what is going to come up. When i was running in 2008 we did not know that we would see the Financial System completely implode. We did not know that the Automobile Industry might go under. We did not understand what i happening in terms of an arab spring. You both did of someone who you thought you could trust to work for you every single day. Trust matters. I think you have seen over the past four years is that i mean what i say. I do what i say i am going to do. We have not finished everything that we want to get done. That is why im running for a second term. Every time i set foot in the oval office i am fighting for your families. With your help i kept many of the major commitments. I told you i would in the war in iraq. We ended it. I said we would in the war in afghanistan. We are. I said we would refocus on terrorists who attacked as on 9 11. Now have a new tower rising above the new yor
55 of americans support legalizing marijuana. Why is this the case . Because we are talking about it. Because debates are raging at dinner tables that havent been raging at dinner tables in the past. Lets regulate it. Lets attacks it. Lets tax it. Its on the ballot in colorado in november. Coloradoians have the opportunity really to change drug policy worldwide. Coloradans get it. Six years ago they oat voted to decriminalize marijuana on a Campaign Based on marijuana being safer than alcohol. I am not a hypocrite on this issue. I have drank alcohol, i have smoked marijuana. I dont drink alcohol, i dont smoke marijuana. I can tell you, in no category is marijuana more dangerous than alcohol. [applause] and yet we are arresting 1. 8 Million People a year in this country on drugrelated crime. We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 2. 3 Million People. Half of what we spend on law enforcement, the court and the prisons is drug related, and to what end. Look, t
People take advantage of the somebodyat giving money to do things is incentivizing them to do nothing. Well, you know, i think that is a lot of the debate over welfare reform in 1996, that a lot of people felt like that, that we should not incentivize people to stay home and not work areas that i think there are a lot of misconceptions about that. As it turned out with welfare reform, a lot of people getting will fair back in the 1990s were working. Know, the Welfare Benefits in the 1990s, you could get maybe 400 a month for a family of three. No one can live on that. It was a fiction that 400 a month could keep you home. That money is even less today. I do not know anyone who had the opportunity to take a job versus get food stamps and would take the food stamps. It is just not enough money. Obviously you can make more working and have a better life. Its a pretty easy ovulation. Im sure there are people out there who may be working the system. A pretty easy calculation. I think they a
Not exactly how that happened. And never give up, from disappointment in london to redemption in sochie . Lolo jones trades the track for the bobsled to keep her dream alive. Shes with us for the first live interview since making the team for tuesday, january 21,2014. 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. Its 7 00 a. M. On the west coast on a tuesday. Im savannah guthrie. Im matt lauer alongside al roker and willie geist. When we came on the air at 7 00 a. M. East coast time. Be happy youre not on this side of the country that the hour because look whats going on. Thats times square. Snow is already coming down as it is right here on the plaza. Were about to gets whole bunch more of it, right . Even if you dont live in this area. For example, if youre trying to reach a federal office in washington, d. C. , theyre shut down. 2500 flights have already been cancelled and there will