we were told we would never be allowed at a taylor swift concert for life. that was a lifetime banay and we were on the curb. i never got to talk to my w boss or the denver police department. tucker: you asked for your boss and the police right then and there. what happened next? i asked for the police several times. and the next day i had to go in and talk to my bosses at the radio station, kygo. and i had a talent agent. i contacted my talent agent. i talked to my girlfriend s family because they were really the only people i was close to in denver at the time. and i went in and talked to my bosses and i told them i didn t do anything. and that and they said well why would she say that? i said i don t know. ask her. tucker: do you know? you were fired. she has become a kind of living symbol of the
fashion magazine vogue she threw a wizard of oz theme photo shoot with executives that cost 70 grand. in the end i think that all would agree that mayer s tenure was a disaster. a selling yahoo for less than $5 billion, a $95 billion discount from what it was once worth. and yet somehow in return for presiding over yahoo s destruction marissa mayer became richer than ever. she collected a total of $239 million in compensation from that company, that is $900,000 for every week that she spent mismanaging it. in an earlier age this will be called looting. the media would have attacked ms. domingo marissa mayer as a living symbol of incompetence and greed. angry yahoo employees might have picketed her house. that is not what happen. liberals celebrated marissabe mayer as a feminist hero. she is on the board of walmart. ever all is well for her.
president. she s a living symbol of this country, part of the respect that people have for her is due to the sacrifices she made that were shared by many people in this country during decades of strict authoritarian military rule. that was ivan watson reporting there for us. now to what has been a thorny reels ship with china and taiwan. saturday, introduced something that was quite historic. the first meeting between the leaders of the two governments since the end of china s civil war back in 1949. while the talks were more about symbolism than substance, the meeting was very controversial. matt rivers reports. reporter: their handshake lasted 70 seconds in a moment 66 years in the making. president ping of china and president jo of taiwan met
and everybody needs to be brought to justice at once. pope francis spending his last full day in cuba before heading to the u.s. tomorrow. the pope didn t meet with cuban dissidents but yesterday met with castro. nbc s ann thompson is in havanna. good morning, mika. pope francis made all stops expected of the state but the imagine ig has come when he s met the people. past the icons of the communist take over, pope francis rolled into revolution square to celebrate sunday mass. a living symbol of inspiration for many of the cuban people. what s driving the enthusiasm? i guess hope. we have a lot of hope in him.
mandela became almost a cult figure. but in the black townships of south africa, mandela was not a distant pop icon. he was the spirit behind the street fighting. he was the living symbol for township people in a struggle against evil. and when they buried their dead, the coffins were draped in the colors of mandela s outlawed anc party. and for many, he was also a symbol of evil. he should have been killed and executed 20 years ago. that was nbc news reporting back in february of 1990, two days before mandela s release from prison after 27 years. we re back with congresswoman barbara lee and danny shechter, who s author of a new book on nelson mandela. so mandela becomes this symbolic figure while in prison, and then he begins negotiations in secret, while in prison, with the apartheid regime.