Story of survival today, monday, november 4th, 2013. 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. Good morning. Im Savannah Guthrie along side al roker and Natalie Morales. Welcome to the 4th day of no shave november which we like to call 50 shades of grey. Very light, isnt it . Very manl. A little depressing. Were not doing this just to have fun. Were doing this to raise awareness and draw attention to Mens Health Issues during this month of november, testicular cancer and prostate cancer. Well be filling you in. And our entire crew. Yes. Good cause. Coming up, the men behind one of the most talked about books in the country. Double down. Why they say the president s advisors had to stage an intervention in last Years Campaign and why there were pitfalls that led to mitt romney and a running mate with Chris Christie as a running mate. Theyre
Clinton and don, jr. Among others. And there is more. A federal judge is forcing a longtime aide to Trump Advisor Roger stone to Turnover Documents and testify before a grand jury hearing, Hearing Evidence in the mueller investigation. Stone sought damaging information about Hillary Clinton from wikileaks, the website which published thousands of hacked democratic emails, emails stolen by russian hackerses, hackers the Trump Justice Department identified as agents of the russian government. There are also new developments in the trial of the president s former Campaign Manager, Paul Manaforts bookkeeper testifying that her boss was effectively broke and lying to banks about his precarious financial situation after losing his biggest client, which is the prorussian former ukrainian president. And that was right about the same time that manafort started working for the Trump Campaign. The bookkeeper also testified that she knew nothing of foreign accounts controlled by manafort. That pos
A recap of the days news. Love trump or whether you disdain him, i think everyone can collectively agree that his relationship with the truth theres a major disconnect. There was one report i saw said he told 2100 lies since office. Another one said 3,000. Another five a day. Another ten a day. If you sit down with mueller, if they dont have obstruction, we dont know whether they do. Hes tweeting. His State Of Mind is all over the place. He could say he fired comey. If they dont have obstruction and there is no collusion conspiracy, its conspiracy, but the fact is you can get him on perjury. So why take the chance of going sitting with mueller no matter how smooth you think you are, no matter what you think you can say when youre going to get caught in a lie because you will lie because thats what this president does, period. Harry, so far mueller hasnt moved on this demand that he wants trump to sit down in person. This negotiation has been going on since january that we know about. A
Start because there was never any pow tore a crucial signal beacon . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Were following two major score stories right now. Thousands of protesters taking to the streets in Madison Wisconsin after the Fatal Police Shooting of an unarmed teenager. Were following the latest details. Major battles are under bay right now on two fronts in iraq. In the north Kurdish Forces back are advancing against isis. Further south, iraqi troops and shiite are gang ground against isis near takrit as americas top general arrives in iraq to assess the situation. Well talk with democrat senator tim kaine, our correspondents and analysts and guests are standing by. Lets begin with barbara starr. She has the latest. The chairman of the joints chief of staff landed in baghdad today for consultations. Iraq has been relying on iran for help in many of its recent gains. General everyonecy perhaps reminding the arook kays that the u. S. Is putting a lot of muscle power of
Continues to demonstrate his contempt for the nomination process. Rnc Communications Director will join me this hour and respond to trumps accusations that the system is, quote, rigged and well have his reaction to the breaking news from capitol hill. This afternoon, House Speaker paul ryan will speak to the press pouring ice water on weeks of speculation that he might be gearing up to join the president ial race. We have a lot to unpack this hour. Our msnbc Political Team is covering this jam packed political calendar on the ground and across the state. I want to begin with the breaking news. The House Speaker, paul ryan announcement, luke, that hes officially not going to be making a run for the white house. The white house with fallout from the Panama Papers and sort of the cameron let up from the discussion. Im wondering if you can just tell me whether or not the white house is following that and what we should expect the president to defend . Josherne ernest saying he wi leave it