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viewersquestion for our , what is your view on the death penalty? .pecial lines if you support the death penalty, call 202-748-8000. if you oppose it, call 202-748-8001. you can also reach us on social media, on twitter and facebook. good morning. before we get to your calls, your views on the death penalty, we begin today by speaking to lance rogers from bloomberg, the legal editor. we will talk more about the supreme court cases. good morning, lance. thank you for joining us today. tell us a little bit about these two cases the u.s. supreme court agreed to hear. caller: a pairenalty guest: of death penalty cases per one has to do with the question of how we determine if someone is o mentally disabled to execute and the other is whether racial discrimination changes capital sentencing. lawyers for duane booker saying the sentencing was tainted because blacks and hispanics are overrepresented in the criminal justice system and he considered race when co calculating so ....
attack. we cannot confirm the report. we have confirmed that information. this is the linkedin page of showing his impressive resume. at this point, it is still unclear exactly what unfolded and why. one agency that tracks the sort of attacks says that a group affiliated with the islamic group i saw the islamic group isil is claiming responsibility. no socks the northeast leaving people diit. snow socks the northeast. it could continue to be an issue. the north east storm spared us but it is causing some travel delays here and across the country. a look at how travelers are coping. there is still not a lot of good news for passengers here. take a look at this order. all of these fights canceled. most of going to work or new york or canceled are canceled. that is why many are making this airport home for the second night. that northeast storm has some planes grounded here. flights to new york city, canceled, flights to boston canceled. mike rosen on his way ....
yamaguchi give us their best guesses. and the history-maker. ted ligety the only american skier with two gold medals, and one race left in sochi. not before he hangs out with us, today, thursday, february 20th, 2013. 2014. from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the olympic games with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live in olympic park in sochi, russia. welcome to today and sochi on a thursday morning. good morning, everyone. i m savannah guthrie. and i m matt lauer. alongside natalie morales and al roker. with medal winners that s ted ligety, who took home gold yesterday. took home gold yesterday. we re going to talk to him about that record setting performance. but first we want to get to our top story this morning. we re talking about violence intensifying in the ukraine overnight between police and anti-government protesters. richard engel joins us. reporter: good morning, matt. we are still overlooking the square that is in the c ....
before returning to the u.s. on saturday. you can watch coverage of his trip this week on the c-span networks. we have to remember two thing, i think. first, we re there because we were attacked in new york city, and 3,000 americans were murdered. that s why we went to afghanistan, to get those people who were killing us. and second, president obama has said there s a limit to this. within two years, we re not doing it anymore. so i agree with you, julie, at some point you have to let them do it. but in our, in our first goal if we get away from the afghans, etc., and look at what our first goal was, if i had told you or any of the listeners in 2001 that we would not be attacked again in the united states of america for the next decade, none of, you know, none of us would have believed that. because at that point al-qaeda had more of the advantage. now we really hav al-qaeda and the terrorists definitely on the defensive. and so we can at this point get out most of ou ....
also. with the rebalance of asia-pacific theater i am having a bit of trouble understanding the new air force plan which would move for air force kc-135 tankers from joint harbor had come to the mainland. given the space and time to my keeping the tankers for deployed in hawaii would make the most sense. would you like to share some of your perspective on this? well, i have not yet seen no formal proposal by the air force. as you know, the proposal would have to come through me further my comments. the decision to move any forces that are cocom to pay, or under my command would have to be would have to be authorized by secretary hegel. there will be a dialogue about this. i don t think there will be a lot of perspectives as we look at it. i believe those four airplanes are a result of a braque initiative. what i understand is that there are some maintenance deficiencies that as we look at across service efficiencies that are being forced on us by the that we are b ....