Doctor laron was a great pleasure to welcome you to this event. Im a christian and i directed the history and Public Policy program at the Woodrow Wilson center, a program that tries to provide Historical Context to current Public Policy issues in washington. Many of you are familiar with one of the subprojects of the history of Public Policy, the program we have run here for 25 years. More than 25 years. A project thats devoted to uncovering, collecting, translating, disseminating, making accessible and discussing new evidence from what used to be the former communist world archived but its crept to what now include really all hard to access archives around the world. We are delighted to launch with this event today, a series of activities discussing, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the sixday war. We will have today the launch of perhaps the most important new publication of International History to come out on the war. I thank you are all in for a treat. We are also doing
France. Times square, on heightened alert. In the case of new york, very high, a Greater Police presence in paris. A greater flis presence throughout much, much western europe and the western world. More attention to something that we thought was, well, a few weeks old. It was because it happened again. Gerri willis with the latest on what we are learning what went down in brussels. Gerri the death toll now raised to 34. As many as 180 injured. What happened . A twin rush hour attack in brussels, the heart of the European Union, and belgium, the capital of brussels. Three explosions went off in the belgium capital tuesday morning. Two in the Brussels Airport at 8 00 a. M. And one at the metro station at 9 00 a. M. This is prime time for workers there to be commuting. Belgium police mount a National Nationwide manhunt for a suspect seen league tuesdays bombing. I want to show you have the picture belgium officials released. These are the folks they believe are responsible for the airpor
To kidnap somebody, either that engineer or his family. Reporter right. This report is sourced to a security expert in europe. So i would say it is an interesting report though we have not independently confirmed it but it is consistent with the view that isis has encouraged its operatives to pursue weapons of mass destruction, in particular dirty bombs are referred to as weapons of mass miss tear yaw. What it means, it causes so much fear among those impacted would have effect of even larger explosive if you can find of follow my logic. Not the number of people who are injured. The fear of the use of nuclear material. Deirdre and it is frightening. Reporter thats right. What we have been able to confirm in last few minutes, deirdre, sorry to interrupt, the two brothers. The one that was suicide bomber at the airport and his brother khalid who was at the subway station they were known to the u. S. Intelligence community and they were on the terror watch list, the databases. So in a Per
And two to tango. President obama roped into argentinas most famous dance at a state dinner and the reviews from his partner are in. Today is thursday, march 24th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news this is today. With matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today, its thursday morning. Im savannah guthrie. I have willie in as matt travels back from brussels and thats where we begin this morning. There are new raids tied to the terror attacks there and we have new information on the suspects who were involved. Lets go with what we know right now. Police say three of the attackers can be seen in the photo right there pushing carts carrying bombs they say that were disguised as suitcases as they walked through the Brussels Airport check in hall. This mean is Najim Laachraoui originally wanted in connection with last years paris attacks, he is believed to be an a come police of Salah Abdeslam. Authorities say lash raury had a hand unt
Democrats and republicans, as they often are divided on a lot of things. But also surprising areas of agreement. Lets start with the biggest question, whether the u. S. Should send troops to fight isis . Here are the results. The country is split down the middle, 44 to say yes, 45 say no. Taking a look at the partisan breakdown. The polarization is so much the driving factor. Democrats overwhelmingly say no, republicans overwhelmingly say yes. Mark, what is this to the likelihood of the u. S. Muster the ability to do this . Mark the country is surprisingly divided. Many saying we should send troops as not. The republicans overwhelmingly support it. Jeb bush for the first time aggressively saying yes. The Republican Party is headed in that direction, but its still a country divided. John its hard to imagine a country split this evenly getting to the point where it sends troop into the conflict. Mark its easy to say yes without the specifics. What is holding back even some republicans ar