That why dont you tell me . Strongly denying any collusion between the Trump Campaign and russia during the election. It is an appalling and detestable lie. But why did he refuse to talk about his private conversations with the president . All that, plus another ugly incident for the airlines. Bill cosbys tv daughter speaking out in an exclusive live interview. And a fathers day promotion strikes out bigtime. Today, wednesday, june 14th, 2017. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Its a wednesday morning. So glad to have you with us. Craigs in for matt this morning. Its a busy morning. A lot going on in your world. We start with the breaking news in london. Wire r fire ripping through a highrise Apartment Building while people slept. The images are horrifying. Some had to jump to safety. Others waving towels and flashlights, trying to signal for help. This is a live shot o
Extremist group al morabitum which we havent really heard of before. How big is this is the first part of the question and secondly how do you rank the groups and their threats toward the homeland . Which one should we be the most wary of . Let me bite that off in a couple of different chunks madam vice chair. We did point out in our statement this year to the emergence of this group in north africa which is an offshoot on which is al qaeda and ghraib, and internal fights about direction is a group that we know of as the al mura battalion which includes known links to al qaeda and they have engaged in internal feuding that has put them into separate organizations from the way we look at them. We look at that grouping as a significant threat to our interest in and across north africa. As far as the ability to project a threat potentially to the homeland i would describe that as more potential than actual at this point but they certainly have taken note of what happened in western europe
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It was either with you are chairman smith asking about working with faithbased organizations. We do work with that. In fact, we visited with the archbishop in kurdistan when we were there to talk about the work they are doing. I know the king and jordan has been very open in meeting with different religious leaders both sort of from an islamic perspective to reduce the lore of isil, but also how do we work with the various religious groups. Syria was one of the most tolerant countries in the entire middle east before all this took place. It is important but there are many groups we work with to try and reduce the tension that is going on. Is there a way to hold those areas that you have the refugees in going to school and being abused with whatever type of abuse that is. Gender abuse, we will say how do you go about making you said you are helping those countries deal with that and trying to make sure they are protected, but how do you go about holding that country or that government a