Cruz laughing it all off on media still calling trump his friend as the field gets set for another debate tomorrow night. Too hot to handle. A popular holiday gift even harder to find this morning. Some hover boards yanked from amazon amize growing safety concerns stemming from a series of fires. And hey, baby, its warm outside. Dozens of recordbreaking temperatures across much of the country, making it a banner weekend for millions, but dont tell that to the people in kansas today, monday, december 14, 2015. 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 monday morning. How about this weather. You know whats fun to do in the spring, go down to washington and check out the cherry bless somes. You can apparently do that right now. You said hey, baby, its warm outside. Cant believe you called america baby. Amazingly warm throughout much of the country. Al will have a forecast to
Kind to opponents of the Obama Administrations diplomacy with iran. On wednesday, iran freed 10 u. S. Sailors less than 24 hours after theitwo shipentered anian terrorial wars in th persian lf. This comes just days before the Iran Nuclear Deal is set to take effect, easing sanctions and freeing up billions in frozen iranian money. Is this a new era for u. S. Iran ties . Well speak to trita parsi of the National Iranian american council. Then today is day 84 of a runaway natural gas leak above los angeles thats emitted more than 150 Million Pounds of methane. Some call it the nations biggest environmental disaster since the bp oil spill. It is just like in hell. I dont know if i can work, if i can breathe. Amy then, health and environmental experts are cusing t obama ministraon of cang to th meatndustry its newietary guidelin. Whe the guelines rommend consing lessugar, th do not recommend eating less meat. This comes after an intensive lobbying campaign by the Meat Industry and despite
Unquote. Following in the foot steps of Many Republican appointed judges and Election Officials and governors who have stood up for facts and refused to indulge this nonsense from mr. Trump and the president s efforts to disenfranchise legal of millions of votes from people. This may sting more given the fact that barr has generally been a trump loyalist on other matters such as the mueller investigation. The blowback against barr is coming with Trump Campaign attorneys Rudy Giuliani and jenna ellis quite aggressively pushing these theories. His presidency is ending the same way yet another desperate embrace of unhinged lies. One so wild that even his most loyal republicans in his administration are refusing to stand by him. Kaitlan collins joins us live from the white house. Giuliani and ellis released their own statement. What do they have to say . Reporter that statement came moments after the Associated Press published rarkeemarks by barr and they are say with all due respect to th
Congress is about to get involved in changing this and democrats control the entire legislative branch of government. Their priority is House Resolution number one. Its called that because it is the first bill in the legislative pipeline. So what exactly is in that bill . Is possible that cnn hasnt brought you all the details yet, they are too busy trying to save the country from forbidden ideas on internet chat rooms. Heres what nancy pelosi said about hr one back in october. We had plenty of work to do in the joe biden administration, will build infrastructure of america in a greenway and make sure health care is available to all americans. Lower the cost of prescription drugs, we will learn to have hr one right off the bat, be about cleaner government so we can reduce the role of big, dark, special interest money. Tucker hr one is all about that big dark special interest money. But you have to wonder why nancy pelosi is still using that term dark as a euphemism for bad. But whatever
51vote sequester. The white house has had success so far but the signs are positive that hagel ultimately will be concerned, the question is how long and is there any possibility that hagel in the meechbt decides to step out and take himself out of the consideration, at least thats not what the white house wants. Big picture here, though, john, our First Read Team says this is a reminder for all future legislative fights and nomination battles. Well see over the next four years, lets stop pretending this will change any time soon. Meaning this particular strategy is something we will see perhaps in fights over universals background checks for guns. Even the prek for all children as all legislation as we move forward with this congress and this president as a dynamic could end up like were seeing now. Thats correct, tamron, but first of all we cant forget that democrats did defeat a nominee from for defense secretary before in john tower. But these two parties are in a state of more or