Evidence that General Motors had a way to fix a dangerous defect years ago, but made a business decision not to use it. And together again. The dogs of sochi and the u. S. Olympian who fought to bring them home reunited. An emotional moment three weeks in the making today, friday, march 14th, 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 along with tamron hall, al roker and willie geist. I think we need a playbook to figure out whos in here. Weve got savannah and natalie off today. Im right here. But we have puppies. We had a puppy party once in the orange room, but were having a puppy shower today. Because when you get a new baby, youve got to have a shower. Sometimes, it happens whether you like it or not. Thats gus kenworthy, the u. S. Olympian and silver medalist. Were going to check in with him. But we want to get right to our top s
Incredible series. Mike, i cant believe we took two out of three in st. Louis. Amazing. St. Louis is a very good club. A club thats evenly matched, glad to get out of there with two out of three. Go back to fenway park wednesday night for game six. Its going to be electric. Were back in the series. I forgot for a minute in 2004 and 2007 they won the series on the road. If they can win one morton road this is the first at fenway since 1918. 1918, that was something. Those cubbies wouldnt go away. We have in washington Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and associate editor of the the Washington Post and msnbc political analyst eugene robinson. Senior Political Editor and White House Correspondent for the Huffington Post sam stein answering the question that you can be called a senior in high school and senior something at the Huffington Post. And julie pace and Senior Investigative correspondent lisa myers who has a heck of a story that well be getting to in one second. Sam stein, youre a
That these regulations were known by the president in july of 2010. Back then estimates were between 40 to 67 of customers. This does not involve the great majority of americans who get their insurance at work. Republicans are already using this to renew their repeatedly failed calls to repeal the law. If the president knew that these letters were coming and still indicated that you could keep your Health Care Plan if you liked it, now, that raises some serious questions about the sales job of obama care. Today on the hill, medicare chief marilyn tavenner. These individuals in a small group or individual market had no protections. They had no guarantees of coverage and they were still being charged somewhere between 20 or more of premium increases year over year. There were Health Care Plans is that a true statement . It is a true statement, plans were grandfathered in. Thank you for that answer. So if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor too . Is that a true statement . I th
Youre not telling us whether or not youre proactively determining whether, say, an under 26yearold is actually eligible for the subsidies youre trying to sell them and the problem is once we learn whether or not they were eligible and if they werent, people in good faith will be signing up for subsidies that theyre not eligible for. I think youre asking a different question, which is are we doing 100 Income Verification on everyone. And subsidy eligibility verification. Yes. So part of the question in the application process is are you depending on your parents, on your parents tax plan so that is part of the questioning that goes on and if so we move them in that direction. More importantly, part of what youre asking is the Income Verification, which is done in 100 of the cases. Im not asking about Income Verification. Okay. Im asking if a person signs up, were they offered credible employer insurance, because the mandate has been delayed, you dont have that Verification Tool so you h
As well. Absolutely no doubt that that is a baseball town. Seahawks rams tickets going for 10 bucks just before kickoff. World highlights on that game as well. We want to start this morning with the nsa. This morning its not just americas allies who are upset over the agencys wiretapping. One of the staunchest backers, Diane Feinstein now calling for a full review of the mass Data Collection at home and abroad. The california democrat who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee Says shes totally opposed to spying on u. S. Allies according to her congress has not been adequately kept in the loop. Feinstein also said the administration assured her surveillance would not continue, a point that some officials later challenged. While the president may be poised to order a ban on eavesdropping on friendly leaders its not year what the white house knew and when. The agency said it did not inform the president of reported monitoring of german chancellor Angela Merkel but the l. A. Times said