All the president s critics. Pa. How do you make obamas eyes light up. Shine a flashlight in his ears. Reading mean tweets for laughs this friday march 13th 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning and welcome to today on a friday morning. Matt and natalie have the morning off. About 10,000 of our closest friends. We will hold our own mini tournament. Impressed when the college kids wake up so early. You assume they ever went to bed. We will get to the top story. Tensions are high in ferguson missouri as Police Search suspect or suspects involved in the shootings of two officers there. National correspondent craig melvin is on the story. Good morning to you. Reporter the two officers are at home with their families and they are expected to recover. Meanwhile a senior Law Enforcement official told me while they have strong leads in the case at this point they do not have any suspects. As the i
U. S. History reporter republicans held firm, john boehner says gop has passed bills delaying obamacare, senate rejected them. Senate decided not to work yesterday. My goodness, if there is such an emergency, where are they . Ayes 54, nays 46. Senators voteed to strip the antiobamacare from spending bill. Barbara mcclowesski voted against. It was deliberately designed to be provocative. Continuing resolutions are about decemb disputes over money. They are not about viewpoints over past legislation. The Obama Administration warned shut down or shut down it insures changes for tuesday. We are less than 24 hours away from open enrollment. There is no guarantee the federal government will be in business itself. White house today, president obama led a Cabinet Meeting to show how to proceed furlough guidance went up on the official office of personal management opm. Gov. Matt. Tom fitzgerald, thank you. Can anything be done on capitol hill at this late hour to avoid a government shut down .
Across the district and the country. Law enforcement is working overtime to prevent violence on the streets ahead of the transfer of power. Lets spend this hour looking ahead at president elect joe bidens inauguration. From nbc news in washington, im Joshua Johnson. Welcome to the week. All right. Lets begin with the latest. Security is tight with three days until joe biden is sworn in. 15,000 troops are quartered here in and around the u. S. Capitol with more on the way. Many had been sleeping on the marble floors of the Capitol Visitors Center before cots were brought in. So far we know of two arrests made at checkpoints but more than 300 cases have been opened in the broader investigation. Investigators are combing through more than 150,000 photos and videos and other evidence from tipsters. Also, the new yorker released new video of the january 6th riots. Well share some of it with you in a moment. But lets begin with americas 59th president ial inauguration. A lot has happened thi
Lets begin with the latest. Security is tight. 15,000 troops are quartered here and around the u. S. Capitol with more on the way. Many had been sleeping on the marble floors of the Capitol Visitors Center before cots were brought in. So far we know of two arrests made at checkpoints, but more than 300 cases have been opened in the broader investigation. Investigators are combing through more than 150,000 photos and videos and other evidence from tipsters. Also, the new yorker released new individual yes of the january 6th riots. Well share some of it with you in a moment. But lets begin with americas 59th president ial election. A lot has happened this month. So how did we get to this point . So far, the story of 2021 can be told through the events of three consecutive wednesdays insurrection, impeachment, and inauguration. Wednesday january 6th brought an insurrection to our nations capitol. A mob of protrump rioters stormed their way into Congress Looking to usurp the election and k
Confession was heard today on Oprah Winfrey. Deborah villalon is live where she watched the Oprah Winfrey interview with other cyclists. Win at all cost truly. Serves me well on the bike, served me well during the disease. But the level that it went to for whatever reason, is a fall. Reporter as details poured out, bicyclists poured in. Some say armstrong deserves some slack. It doesnt take away from what he has done for the sport and its still a remarkable feet no matter what. Reporter others race competitive. We race clean, we race fair. I think it puts a big dark shadow over it. Reporter Lance Armstrong says he never forced teammates to cheat. I think hes mean. Hes mean spirited and i think that really comes across. Reporter occasionally armstrongs answers drew laughter. He called doping a habit like putting air in his tires, water in his bottle. Thats probably my favorite quote of the night so far. Even scarier. Reporter did you feel in any way that you were cheating . No. The scar