The award season revs up this morning as the Golden Globe Awards are announced today, thursday, december 12, 2013. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on a thursday morning, im Savannah Guthrie. Im matt lauer, we have cold weather in the northeast and in many parts of the country you will have much more on that and that storm thats headed in our direction. This will be the fifth storm in a row in the last five weeks. Crazy stuff. We want to get to our top story. A new interview with the man who ired people for faking sign language interpretation at Nelson Mandelas Memorial Service. Nbcs ron allen is in pretoria, south africa with the story. Ron, good morning to you. Reporter good morning savannah, this fiasco could perhaps not come at a worst time during the days of mourning for the late president , Nelson Mandela. But the interpreter at the Memorial Service the other day who claim is a complete fr
What they do, where they come from. Were confidently sure that every month the number of arabs or pakistanis come across the border illegal in the south, and to face facts as an adult, neil, the one thing we could have done to secure the United States the day after 9 11 was to close the southern boarder and bring people in, in an orderly manner, after proper review. We have done not done that yet. So we are standing next to a bonfire with a garden hose but the federal bureau of investigation and local and state Police People dont have a clue who is in this country. Anyway might already be here, then. I think so. You would have to be silly not to take advantage of that opportunity. And you can say many things about the islamist but silly they are not. They cut off mr. Doyles head to lure us back into iraq. They are not dumb. Were dumb. The difference with this group, isis or isil, they have a lot of money. Unlike a lot of other terrorist groups in the past, seem to have a network and th
Teach civics in school . Americans and lawyers and judges utterly ignorant of the structure of our government and how it functions . I assume everyone knows we have three branches of government and each are equal to the other. The founders took extraordinary measures to prevent too much power by one group. It is based on the longest used constitution. The congress controls the purse and money and executive controls the sword and the judicial watches over and offers opinions as to the constitutional compliance of the other two. And my friend matt and dean in the University School of law points out in a outstanding bockz called judicial qu tyranny. The bill of rights is designed to protect the minority against the majority. But our constitutional make up does not give the minority veto over the majority. The major social questions of our day been given to the majority through the legislative process and taking away the right of the majority will ultimately result in rebelian. To take awa
Teach civics in school . Americans and lawyers and judges utterly ignorant of the structure of our government and how it functions . I assume everyone knows we have three branches of government and each are equal to the other. The founders took extraordinary measures to prevent too much power by one group. It is based on the longest used constitution. The congress controls the purse and money and executive controls the sword and the judicial watches over and offers opinions as to the constitutional compliance of the other two. And my friend matt and dean in the University School of law points out in a outstanding boc called judicial qu tyranny. The bill of rights is designed to protect the minority against the majority. But our constitutional make up does not give the minority veto over the majority. The major social questions of our day been given to the majority through the legislative process and taking away the right of the majority will ultimately result in rebelian. To take away
Teach civics in school . Americans and lawyers and judges utterly ignorant of the structure of our government and how it functions . I assume everyone knows we have three branches of government and each are equal to the other. The founders took extraordinary measures to prevent too much power by one group. It is based on the longest used constitution. The congress controls the purse and money and executive controls the sword and the judicial watches over and offers opinions as to the constitutional compliance of the other two. And my friend matt and dean in the University School of law points out in a outstanding boc called judicial qu tyranny. The bill of rights is designed to protect the minority against the majority. But our constitutional make up does not give the minority veto over the majority. The major social questions of our day been given to the majority through the legislative process and taking away the right of the majority will ultimately result in rebelian. To take away