Making a splash. Michael phelps shows up at a College Basketball game to try and distract a free throw shooter. Did the speedo do the trick . Today, friday, january 29th, 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. Im Savannah Guthrie alongside willie geist, in for matt this morning. My last button on the tv was used a lot last night. Well see if this paid off for donald trump. Donald trump going through on his promise to skip last nights president ial debate, but his often. At his own to ventevent, trump admitted over with voters. We have peter alexander. Good morning. Good morning. I think you hit it on the head right there. It was compelling counterpro counterprogramming. It was also a big risk for donald trump. On stage, he said he didnt want to be at his own event, that he likes debates. But without him, the Republican Debate took on a deci
Alternatives that are there. Senator crapo. The private sector markets are contracting. Im concerned that this reduces student bar options. Could you describe the current state of the private student loan market and how that compares to the market and made a claim why we are seeing this dynamic . Thank you very much for the question. We have gone from a 24 billion industry to about an 8 billion industry. And yet performance rating for many of her banks have exited Student Lending business. There are few others thinking about it. We have a 3 default rate. We flip the equation. We dont want to look at a refinancing option. We dont need to because we do all the work at the front end. We make sure we have an ability to repay. Theres nothing worse than telling a student at the very beginning of the crew were not sure you can afford the loan we are about to give you. We do have selfsegregation 90 some of our loans are certified by the institution. When there is a time to repay the loan, we w
September. Mr. President , before we finish our business and senators return for the work period at home, i want everyone to know about whats going to happen when we come back. Following the august recess, were going to convene on september 8 and were going to be here for one week, two weeks, and two days. Thats it. September 23 is our target date to adjourn until after the election. I hope we can do that. This leaves us no more than as ive indicated two weeks and two days. Thats not a lot of time for the workload that we have to do. We need to pass appropriations measures to keep the government from shutting down. We need to pass temporary extension of the internet tax freedom act. We need to do something about, as i just mentioned, about exim bank. We have to do the Defense Authorization bill which is extremely important for the fighting men and women of this country. We are going to address the udall constitutional amendment on Campaign Finance reform. And were going to reconsider a
Of your question is. [laughter] thank you for having this broadcast today as my constituents i appreciate what you are doing time also proud of our country but up here it is not universal support which i think is a mistake. What would you tell my colleagues and why we should go three times the amount of money we are supporting right now or four times. I dont care. [laughter] ive would be happy with twice but that is the good question. It goes back to what do we provide the taxpayer . We do provide research and development we get new products and new ideas which always helps the country in the future 10 or 15 years down the road that creates that is better for the economy in to make the country stronger to help those whole human race. My question comes from the bay area have three young aspiring astronauts. But the first question is the easy one for the commander what is your favorite food in space and also for commander swanson did think one day we will encounter light from another pla
Narcotic on the market. And weve seen an increase in use just by the statistics that were presented by some of the panelists today. But are you adapting the department of transportation regulations or advisories to where we see the most risk . Weve got faa, federal railroad administration. National highway safety. Tell me if there have been any changes in directives in the last 24 months. There have not been any changes to our random testing rates but many of our employees are interstate. So if a pilot flies in and out of denver doesnt mean he or she lives anywhere near denver. Many of our employees throughout the different modes of transportation are not purely in one state. They operate across states. Again, i think we need to be preemptive in d. O. T. In protecting people. I had dinner the other night with a friend from florida. And asked him what he was going to do for a vacation. He says were putting it off a little and were going to go skiing. He said this is just in conversation