Dont talk, listen. Crawl towards me. [ gunfire ] so, why did a jury just find the officer not guilty. A factcheck on amazons promise to lower prices at whole foods with surprising results. And dancing in the dark ed sheeran right here, the superstar, with a Perfect Performance, today, friday, december 8th, 2017. From nbc news, this is today, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Its friday. Nice to have you with us. Say that again. Its friday. Were so happy. And we have ed sheeran, with us. Come on, its going to be a good day. Friday, ed sheeran, its a great day. We have a tough time in california. Those worsening wildfires there, and new one has roared to life near san diego. While crews in and around los angeles struggle to contain the fires there. We want to get right to Miguel Almaguer with the latest. Miguel, good morning to you. Reporter savannah, good morning. Some 500 structures have been damaged or destroyed in one fire alone.
Robert and democratic congressman john conyers announced he would retire after facing multiple allegations of Sexual Harassment and pressure from party leaders. Across the aisle, arizona congressman trent franks announced he is leaving immediately. Plus, the countdown to tuesdays special election in alabama. Will voters look past the accusations against roy moore . We discuss it with Philip Rucker of the Washington Post, Yamiche Alcindor of the New York Times. Peter peter of the New York Times and Andrea Mitchell of the nbc news. Funding is provided by their leadership is instinctive. They understand the challenges of today. And research the technologies of tomorrow. Some call them veterans. We call them part of our team. Additional funding is provided by newmans own foundation. Do noting was profits to charity and nourishing the common good. The ethics ask excellence in journalism foundation. Koo and Patricia Yuen through the yuin foundation. The corporation for public broadcasting an
Robert and democratic congressman john conyers announced he would retire after facing multiple allegations of Sexual Harassment and pressure from party leaders. Across the aisle, arizona congressman trent franks announced he is leaving immediately. Plus, the countdown to tuesdays special election in alabama. Will voters look past the accusations against roy moore . We discuss it with Philip Rucker of the Washington Post, Yamiche Alcindor of the New York Times. Peter peter of the New York Times and Andrea Mitchell of the nbc news. Funding is provided by their leadership is instinctive. They understand the challenges of today. And research the technologies of tomorrow. Some call them veterans. We call them part of our team. Additional funding is provided by newmans own foundation. Do noting was profits to charity and nourishing the common good. The ethics ask excellence in journalism foundation. Koo and Patricia Yuen through the yuin foundation. The corporation for public broadcasting an
Officials. 2027488001 for republicans, 2027488000 for democrats, for ndependents, 2027488002. Thanks very much for being with us. Inside the opinion page of Washington Post, photograph of senator al franken, one of three public official who is resigned this week along with trent franks of alabama and john conyers of michigan. And also in the Washington Post, nbcs matt lauer, roy moore of the Alabama Senate race, bill oreilly of the Fox News Channel sch and harvey weinstein. Will the federalist website have two different points of view that we want to get your opinions on this. First from denise in mccallister. She wrote a mans character is certainly a factor in the quality of his governors but when the sins are governance, but when the since are personal n nature, host you can read the full essay by the federalist website. And theres this from georgey borman if a politicians personal life doesnt matter for voting, why even voice support for those values at all . Going on to say im not
Work available at washingtonpost. Com and moana who is a senior chairman at the Ethics Center and indicated syndicated columnist. Having worked for jack kemp does the tax bill moving to the senate have mirrored what jack kemp would have wanted. In many ways no. The tax bill has a feeling of desperation about it that was simply necessary to pass something and so they went for arbitrary corporate levels and for me the biggest disappointment in the big the bill, there are many good things but the disappointing part of it was mike lee and marco rubio proposed they just drop the corporate rate from 35 to 20 and with the savings they got there they get added benefits to families raising children and they didnt go for that. I thought that would have been the kind of tax reform that would have really touched the lives of a lot of people who need it desperately. It is, it feels more like just standard republican, you know, cut taxes for businesses and it will create growth about which im not ho