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. Im matt lauer. Morning. Im Savannah Guthrie along side al roker and natalie morales. Everybody is watching washington this morning. The u. S. Capitol open for business but for how long . A beautiful shot. Its not so beautiful inside. If you could be a fly on the wall. The big vote coming at 2 00 in the senate today. That will kick things off. A Chain Reaction following that. Well get a lot of perspective on this this morning. Including from bill oreilly. Hes here in our studio this morning. He has a new book called killing jesus. Well talk to him about that as well. That is our top story and its hours away now. Peter alexander has the latest on whats unfolding. Peter, good morning to you. Matt, good morning to you. Anything is possible, but it looks to be an almost uncertainty. That the government will shut down b
I did because my hodie spent time with me. We had fun. Our picture is hideous. That is the picture of the afternoon. Is that it . Thats it. Except for bambino, hold on. Did i send bambino. Oh. Were down at the bambino beach bar. You and unnamed shoes, came up for lunch. I had a chance to get to know him. It was really a lot of fun. Hes a very nice man. We had fun, didnt we . You know what frank said afterwards . What. I liked him, we talked a lot. Frank liked him. There he is the moment that is rude, okay they are close in size. What he loved, it was chilly when we first arrived, and you said to my friend, why dont you put on a jacket . And what did you pull out of the closet but a giants 1956 championship championship jacket. Yep. And that was cool. Very cool. He just loved that. He didnt want to take that baby off. He was bummed because i didnt get a picture of him wearing it. No, he was holding it, it was weird. He was holding it over private parts. It was kinky. I thought it was we
People are bummed out. You got to get over things like because there are real problems in the world. You know what i did this weekend, hoda, without taking care of you. I read three books. Of course you did. I read three books. One is killing jesus bill oreilly is on today. A fascinating read. I read elizabeth smarts book. Shes coming on next week. Its unbelievable this young woman lived through this ordeal and has emerged from it with such grace. Yeah. She is the picture of grace. Its amazing. The other is anne crofts new book. Its called wounded by gods people. You read three books . I was on fire. I love to read and i really wanted to read all of those books theyre really, really highly redeemable. While you were reading i was watching tv. There was this guy, you guys who wanted to do a dave devil stunts, okay . Yeah. Hes a 35yearold american bass jumper named jeb corliss. It was like threading a needle. He had to fly through there. Look, look, look look at this. No, indeed. No oh,
Tonight. Democratic and republican aids are predicting that much. The senate wont even begin considering the house bill until late this afternoon in what is as much a partisan crisis as a fiscal crisis the country is barrelling toward its first shutdown in 17 years. Its decision day. Congress has until midnight tonight to avoid a Government Shutdown but no one is getting their hopes up. House republicans are refusing to fund the government unless the president s healthcare law is delayed one year. The American People deserve to have time to see what this will do before its implemented. And the house plan is a nonstarter for Senate Democrats or the president who huddled with advisors insisting republicans agree to fund the government without conditions. Dont shut down the government and fail to pay the governments bill with the debt ceiling. Reporter the democratic controlled senate didnt even meet sunday. The halls silent. Instead, theyll wait until this afternoon to reject the house p
Off. He was bummed because i didnt get a picture of him wearing it. No, he was holding it, it was weird. He was holding it over private parts. It was kinky. I thought it was weird. Anyway, saturday night live returned. Tina fey. People were wringing their hands waiting for this. Its got a cast this is the new cast. Watch tina. I hope your father isnt watching. Oh he is then let me see some crouching crotching cant find that the right of passage that couldnt be say it loud, say it proud what thank you, ever so much. See, at my age, you cant see or hear. So, it is the new cast. They had fun with it because arcade fire was the group. Everybody was looking at everybody goes whos who. They were having fun in the game show, lets listen. The game is simple, contestants must attempt to tell the difference between a member of arcade fire and one of the featured players. This guy in the tie is coming in real hot. Hes way too happy with himself. On the left we got a hipster paul bunyan. Could be