already doing the hula in honolulu today may 17th, 2013. from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. pretty morning here in new york. good morning. welcome to today on a friday morning. i m matt lauer. i m savannah guthrie. the house committee first dead kated to the irs scandal and the outgoing director is expected to get a grilling from republicans today. that scandal is one of the political controversy facing the obama administration right now, but this morning the president s trying to move past them. he is speaking out about the economy. let s get to the white house. chuck todd is there. chuck, good morning to you. reporter: good morning, savannah. it is still damage-control mode for the white house. they are trying to stay in front of these three controversies that have basically hit the pause button on in the president s agenda. but aides say the president is keeping things in perspectiv
goes by that i m not into you i should be over all the butterflies but i m into you and baby even on our worst nights i m into you let em wonder how we got this far cause i don t really need to wonder at all yeah after all this time i m still into you i m still into you i m still into you paramore. thanks to tom cruise and kesha. want to apologize to matt damon. ewith ran out of time. nightline is next. good night! tonight on nightline, is this a guardian angel at work? from surviving a terror attack to sky diving from space. conquering the worst with a little help from above. is it devine intervention or hallucinations? hill billys, life in the fast lane and he wouldn t have it any other way. billy ray cyrus talks about marrying off his superstar daughter miley. and hollywood glamour. tonight, secrets from behind the scene of abc s hit show. is it other worldly or a synapse in the brain. some people reported an overwhelming sense of calm piercing thr
iraq will be tested in the days ahead. by terrorism. by those who would seek to divide. by economic and social issues. by the demands of democracy itself. challenges remain. but the united states will be there to stand by the iraqi people as they navigate there you see leon panetta earlier today in his speech which, by the way, baghdad, no teleprompters yet. you see a guy speaking from the heart with his speech written in long hand. they have officially retired the flag of u.s. forces in iraq. troops lowering the flag as you saw there wrapped in camouflage. we showed it earlier formally casing it according to army tradition. right now, let s go out to jennifer griffin who is traveling with the secretary of defense is in baghdad on the phone. jennifer, there wasn t a huge iraqi presence there, was that surprising or scripted? i think it s a little bit surprising. what s interesting is the number of iraqis present, the band just stopped playing, the number of iraqis her
by terrorism. by those who would seek to divide. by economic and social issues. by the demands of democracy itself. challenges remain. but the united states will be there to stand by the iraqi people as they navigate there you see leon panetta earlier today in his speech which, by the way, baghdad, no teleprompters yet. you see a guy speaking from the heart with his speech written in long hand. they have officially retired the flag of u.s. forces in iraq. troops lowering the flag as you saw there wrapped in camouflage. we showed it earlier formally casing it according to army tradition. right now, let s go out to jennifer griffin who is traveling with the secretary of defense is in baghdad on the phone. jennifer, there wasn t a huge iraqi presence there, was that surprising or scripted? i think it s a little bit surprising. what s interesting is the number of iraqis present, the band just stopped playing, the number of iraqis here was less than a handful. you remember t