Fever pitch. The stars of the halftime show trying to get in the spirit. We definitely are beautiful, okay . America gets ready for some football today, friday, february 5th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Yesterday morning, we were standing out there, no coats. Yesterday it was warm. Nice. Al roker said, change was coming. Thats right. Take the snap and hand the ball thanks so much, guys. We told you, if the system makes its way a little closer, in fact, we would see snow more snow making its way along the eastern seaboard. Take a look. Portsmouth, New Hampshire, huntington, new york, here in the east coast. Heres what it looks like from portland to washington, d. C. Even raleigh looking at some snow. Were going to watch this now as this system develops it will be pushing in a lot of heavy, wet snow. Power looks could come down. Tr
International investment banker, bestselling author, political economists and economic analyst. By my guess you are 60 years old. But you dont look 60. So i dont know how that works. You are not 60. Not yet. Somehow you get all of this great life. The experiences. Two books, articulate the experiences of other examples of your journey to this time in your life command it is really amazing you are a talented writer and a good storyteller, and this is a good week. I thoroughly enjoyed it. First, lets talk about the book generally. Inspire you to write this. It is an honor to be hear with you. Thank you for everything you do. One of the most intelligent questions we get was what happened next. It stops very abruptly in 2,000. I wanted to try to give equal weight to both those two stories mina and the other who is now in your 14 pages the Correctional Institution in maryland. And so when i thought about this idea i knew that theyre was know way i could talk about my life since then because
The that you. I studied all of the roles that you effective lets see army captain, Rhodes Scholar white house fellow at the state Department International investment banker, tv producer host, best selling author, political and economic analyst, founder of a nonprofit to support struggling freshmen. By mike as you are 60 years old. But you dont look at 60. I know you have small children and youve been married recently. So i dont know how that works, so youre not 60 . Guest not yet. Host but somehow you of all of this great life. Already in these accomplishments is really great. Which because of these experiences youve been able to now due to books articulate the experiences in life lessons and other examples of your journey to this time in your life. And its really amazing. Youre a talented writer and to really good storyteller, and this is a very good weekend read, they tell you but i thoroughly thrown into it. And im busy like a lot of professionals who work or. It was really worth my
Good evening, mike. We knew that President Trump was planning to do this. We just didnt know when. And about two hours ago he made it official as he often does on twitter. The president said, quote it is my great honor to announce that general flibleg flynn has been granted a full pardon congratulations to jeb flynn and his wonderful family. I know you will now have a truly fantastic thanksgiving. Flynn pleaded guilty to n. 2017 about lying to his contacts Russian Ambassador kislyak. One of the first major courtroom victory for special Counsel Robert Mueller about. A year ago flynn tried withdraw that guilty plea. His attorneys argued that he had been entrapped by people like fired fbi agent peter strzok and then this spring attorney general bill barr tried to have the case against flynn dismissed. Barr accused strzok of setting up a perjury trap. It was a charge that strzok at the time dismissed as ludicrous. Well, that request to get the case dismissed was still pending when Presiden
To the fbi on two occasions and thats a guilty plea that he later tried to undo and tried to get his case thrown out. And of course that ended up in that shocking twist that we saw earlier this spring where the Justice Department tried to drop its own case into flynn. And it had been tied up in this legal limbo for the last several months until of course now the president has intervened and this is how this saga is ending. But jim, its really hard to overstate the effect that mike flynn had on Donald Trumps presidency. Because of course it was those contacts that he had and that he had lied about with then Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak during the president ial transition. Thats what he lied about to the fbi and to the Vice President about. But of course thats also what they started investigating and thats what the president was asking at the time. The fbi director jim comey about in that Oval Office Meeting when comey later said that the president asked him to let the investigation