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And that is the involvement of Security Experts in development of the Design Excellence program. I know there were some who were on the commission to develop it. But ms. Munaz and mr. Green, if you could address the actual input of the Security Experts into the program and setting standards in the program, and whether theres an ongoing effort to keep the Security Experts involved. Beyond what the state department comes up with on its own. One of the criticisms that has happened has been that the state department has underestimated the security needs and the security threats. And i want to make sure as we move forward and build these embassies that security considerations are part of that ongoing process of assessment. So if you could sort of address that, s ....
Were doing. Could you comment, please, sir . Yes, sir. The observations that we made, and this is in the report and certainly not allconclusive. These werent six guys in the mess hall who dreamed these things up. These were based on comments we got from Security Experts who were with obo on a daily basis. I would tell you for one, if you can build a beautiful embassy under Design Excellence and you can do it as fast, and it doesnt cost any more, im all for it. I dont care. I dont care what we build. But what i am concerned with, its just not logical to the people we talk to and, frankly, to me that you can build under Design Excellence as quickly and as costeffectively as we did under standard Embassy Design. You pull a design off the shelf and build it and ....
Jon stewart a late night superstar directing his wit at politicians t media and pop culture. Now he is taking on hollywood in a very different way. Hell tell us why as he joins us live wednesday, november 12, 2014. 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 wednesday morning. Nice to have jon stewart coming back after a while. Its been a while. Thats right. Hes been busy. He took a summer off. Now were going to find out what he was doing in his free time. It wasnt all that free. It wasnt. A directing debut. Well get started with our top story. Amazing feat attempted deep in space a sign tipss trying to land a spacecraft on a speeding comet. Good morning. Reporter savannah, good morning. Space is the place to think big. They are doing that here. This comet, 2. 5 miles wide has taken almost a decade to reach and it is ....
Korea a rogue state, highlighting chinas unsuccessful efforts to rein in the north and criticizing south korea for what he described as talk of appeasement, saying north only understands one thing. A south korea official reacting saying south korea has experienced the tragic war and will not give up the denuclearization of the peninsula and will continue to pursue peace. Heres what the president said a short time ago. Mr. President , will you attack north korea . Well see. Well see. Nbcs gehrig haig is at the white house for us. Were hearing from the president. Lets talk about in total what were hearing, what he is saying. Well, after that cryptic message from the president a short time ago, two new tweets floim, outlining a little more about how the white house may respond to this nuclear test. The first, rather, from the president a short time ago, saying, i will be meeting with general kelly, general mattis and other military leaders at the white house to discuss north korea. Thank ....