And from Justin Timberlakes new mission to a new gig for jay leno to the mom making a surprise visit during her daughters audition video, all the trending stories this thursday morning. Good thursday morning, everyone. We begin with the white house firing back after the release of those bombshell audiotapes. The tapes reveal that President Trump admitted downplaying the coronavirus back in february. He spoke out late last night. Abcs faith abubey begins our coverage. Reporter this morning, the white house fighting back responding to recordings made public in which President Donald Trump acknowledged he understood the deadly threat posed by the coronavirus back in february but misled the public about it. Journalist bob woodward interviewed the president february 7th, 1 of 18 on the record interviews for woodwards book, rage. It goes through air, bob. Thats always tougher than the touch. You know, the touch, you dont have to touch things, right, but the air, you just breathe the air, and
Originally told. Well have a live report from inside iraq. All that, plus secret no longer. I put up with inappropriate behavior that i didnt know at the time was straight up sexual abuse. The wife of president ial candidate, andrew yang, with a disturbing story of sexual abuse by her own doctor. In the drivers seat. New pictures of Meghan Markle at an airport in canada overnight, with the queens decision on their royal future expected soon. And are you ready for some football . The nfls final four get set to battle it out for a trip to the super bowl. Today, friday, january 17th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Hi, everybody. Good morning. Welcome to today. Nice to have you with us on a friday morning. Its going to be a big weekend in the weather department. A big storm making its way across the country. And a lot of folks are traveling because of the long holiday weekend. Theyll be keeping the
Relatives of four men jailed on terrorism charges in newburgh new york have accused the fbi of entrapment. On thursday, a federal judge agreed and ordered the release of three of the men. In a stunning decision, the judge accused the fbi of inventing a conspiracy. We will speak to two attorneys who have spent over a decade trying to win freedom for the newburgh four. Then a former obgyn at Columbia University, Robert Hadden, has been sentenced to 20 years in a federal prison. He is accused of sexually assaulting hundreds of patients during examinations over two decades. We will speak to two survivors and look at why columbia ignored haddens behavior for so long. I was the first person to speak up about being sexually assaulted by Robert Hadden including when i was pregnant with my twin daughters. I was fortunate to be in Court Last Week to watch the sentencing in his federal trial. It is certainly a milestone in what has been a many years long quest for justice. Amy all that and more,
did you take any classified documents with you from the white house? i did not. yes, he did. poppy and i are here without classified documents. more classified documents have been discovered at the home of former vice president, mike pence. it s the former vice president this time leaving lawmakers stunned. breaking overnight, a significant development for the war on ukraine. the german government agreeing to deliver leopard two tanks to ukraine. this is a big story we re following from the southwest to new england. more than 80 million people are facing winter weather alerts. some cities are expected to get hit by nearly a foot of snow. plus this. it could have been my son. it could have been you. don t gavel me. i m here to let you know i can speak whenever i want. we want the tape. we want the tape and we want it now. tensions running high after the beating death of tyre nichols at the hands of memphis police what a new autopsy is revealing. we begin with
Prison in tehran. We will also get an update on the civil fraud trial of donald trump. No matter how powerful you are, no matter how much money you think you have, no is above the law. It is my responsibility and my duty and my job to enforce it. Today in court, we will prove our case. Amy we will also speak to an attorney suing Columbia University and its affiliated hospitals on behalf of some 300 more patients who say they were sexually assaulted by former Columbia University gynecologist Robert Hadden while they say the university shielded the sexual predator. And we will look at the largest strike of healthcare workers in u. S. History. Were here because we want the world to know kaiser is being unfair to us. We worked to the pandemic and hard times, we are understaffed and underpaid. They are not giving us what we need to take care of our patients properly. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Pre