until noon of january 20, 2017. and jay john szob? jeh johnson? our book is on the justice department. yeah. i can t really answer questions about him. [inaudible] i don t believe so. .. so those folks, i could tell you from experience with them and people we talked to, they don t make the transition to be government lawyers. when you leave private practice and you go to work for the justice department you have to transition into being a government lawyers whose job is to represent it public as a whole. i can tell you the people that come from those organizations, they just now think they are working for those organizations but they have the government s power and resources to do what they want. but christian adams and i, a couple years ago, we did a foyer request for the resumes of all the career people that have been hired in the civil rights department since the start of the department and hundred percent of the people hired were clearly hired on the bases of
and not so funny. we showed you the controversial super bowl ad featuring a lost puppy. viewers so outraged go daddy yanked it hours later. will the company get out of the dog house today wednesday, january 28th, 2015. announcer: from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. good morning. welcome to today on wednesday morning. matt s got the morning off. got the shovel out. a lot of snow at his house. check out marshfield, massachusetts. we ve seen images. look at this. storm surge, the waves froze on the homes and the trees. waves coming over the homes and into the street ahead. that s amazing. the storm and its aftermath our top story. the impact of what ended up being a record setting storm in parts of new england. to dylan dreyer, she s in marshfield about 30 miles south of boston along the coast. dylan, good morning to you. reporter: good morning, savannah and man, are we happy that s over. ne
the elaborate proposal that had the would-be bride crying tears of joy. from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. good morning, everybody. welcome to today on a wednesday morning. i am matt lauer. i am savannah guthrie. everybody needs a personal fan today. if you look at the map it s hard to believe, two-thirds of the country with temperatures over 90 degrees, and isn t the heat wave getting longer now. yeah, it s into saturday. it s a heat wave we have not seen in about 16 years. and i was at the stadium last night, and it was an oven in the stadium. let s get right to nbc s tom costello, who is sizzling away in washington. good morning to you. good morning. already 81 degrees here in washington, and it s 7:00 and we are headed to 97 degrees, and high humidity today, and orange air quality, and if you have asthma they suggest you stay inside. the heat wave has a huge grip on much of the country and it s supposed to only get hotter.
we re keeping them honest tonight. we begin with breaking news. new details about the harm that this man might have been capable of. for starters, omar gonzalez did more than jump the fence at the white house. he made it through the front door of the white house. he was armed and had a troubling recent past that authorities say suggested he may have intended to harm the president. a whole lot of questions. more from jim acosta. reporter: investigators say they found 800 round of ammunition inside the car of alleged white house intruder 42-year-old omar gonzalez friday night. in less than 20 seconds he jumped the fence that runs along pennsylvania avenue and raced inside the north portico entrance to the white house. he was armed with a small knife. relatives say he s an iraq war veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder. in court prosecutors say gonzalez has had run-ins with law enforcement before. in july arrested in virginia with a sniper rifle and a map circling the
the relationship between the united states and iran is now on the verge of significant change. the united states implemented sanctions back in 1979 in the wake of the iranian hostage crisis. the u.s. secretary of state john kerry just said this today. but the fact is that today marks the first day of a safer world. one where we believe it is possible to remain safer for years to come, and particularly with the compliance of this agreement. i think we have proven once again why diplomacy has to always be our first choice and war our last resort. that is a very important lesson to reinforce. we have approached this challenge with the firm belief that exhausting diplomacy before choosing war is an imperative. and we believe today marks the benefits of that choice. in lock step with the sanctions being lifted, five american prison tphers iran have been set free. washington post rorpber jay john rezaian, saeed abedini and matthew trevithnick is also part of the deal. he is s