Waves theyve ever seen. Well have you hanging ten right alongside them, today, saturday, january 25th, 2014. Good morning, and welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. And im erica hill alongside jenna wolfe and dylan dreyer. And more cold. Were starting to feel like a broken record. I do. And youre busy, dylan, at least, which is good. And its crazy to think the worst could still be yet to come, monday, tuesday. Yeah. I mean, the coldest air weve seen in years. Are we complaining or should we just say, hey, its january, lets go with it. Both. I think part of it is, its january. And by the way, that surfing thing that seems scary, all were thinking is, well, it is at the beach. Looks good right now. It was great that we were sitting in our meeting yesterday and britney, one of the girls on our staff, said shes from alaska and its 30 degrees above normal there. There. And its warmer in alaska than new york. Thats not complaining, just simply stating facts. Do you want to
Dont have. If we stopped testing right now, wed have very few cases, if any. Im sorry. If you dont test, you dont have any cases. We tried to explain this before. What does he mean cases like officially, because people still have it. And theyre dieiying of it. Thats the remarkable thing. Thats incredible. The United States has 115,000 people who have died 117. 117,000 people who have died of coronavirus. And donald trump keeps saying that if we dont test for the coronavirus lets just stop testing. Then it will magically go away. We wont have any more cases. Actually, testing for the coronavirus does not kill people. Thats just like saying, you know, pregnancies are pregnancies would be driven down to zero if we stopped having pregnancy tests. So we have brought along willie geist to explain what the president of the United States was trying to mean yesterday. Willie, please explain it for us. Well, i think he meant exactly what he said, and how do we know this . He said it before. He j
People said he wasnt going to do it. He finally officially did it. He did it. Everyone thought oh, this is another, maybe like a tease. What happens to at pointment . A lot of money involved here. Boy, we have we have Bernie Sanders foldpoll. Now we have the poll earlier in the week. Now we have another. Bernie is within ten in New Hampshire. Casey hunt is here. Bernie is burning up New Hampshire. He can take it across the country . I dont know. Maybe. Thats the answer. All right. Donald trump announced candidacy for the republican nomination yesterday. He did so before supporters at the tower that bears his name in a colorful speech, full of his signature bra vadvado. I will be the greatest jobs president that god ever created. I tell you that. The American Dream is dead. But if i get elected president , i will bring it back. Bigger and better and stronger than ever before and we will make America Great again. Our country is in serious trouble. We dont have victories anymore. When did
Paid for this mike, mr. Green. Big moment. Of course it was mr. Breen. And when you look at teddy white or anybody else, they say thats the defining moment of the primary campaign for Ronald Reagan. It showed strength in a time of weakness. And here we are how many years later . 45 years later . Wow. Do you believe that . It makes me feel old because i am 35 years old. We were just talking about feeling old, me and Mike Barnicle. The same thing happens except its happening at fox news in the final week. Its getting ugly. And trump says im not going to a debate where the rules arent fair. We have somebody openly hostile against me, actually got a cover photo on vanity fair simply because of hostility about me, gets Michael Moore on fox news to side with me. There are a lot of people at fox news going are you kidding me . So donald trump, just like Ronald Reagan front page of the New York Times. Just said you know what . Thats fine. Every paper. Look at this. I dont understand the provoc
Morning . All the trump apologists, all the people spinning, all the white house hacks came out and said he had to do this because the Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein had a memo and the memo was so incredible, he had no choice. What if he had not followed that memo . Imagine the scandal. Thats all we heard. Then we find out two things. First, that james comey, the fbi director, went to rosenstein, the sainted figure according to people in the Trump Administration whose wisdom and knowledge came down from mount sinai and could not be ignored. What did we find out . Actually the president of the United States called him on monday into his office along with Jeff Sessions and said, i need a memo to justify my firing of comey. What makes this even worse, mika, is the fact that is the same man, Rod Rosenstein and this needs to be investigated on capitol hill, this is the same man, right there, the man you see leaving his house yesterday morning, had a meeting with the fbi director, wi