Is the president paying for the flight back from hawaii . Personal travel the first family will appropriately fund in line with past president s. Viafirst lady will travel government aircraft preview are accurate in your description that this was a government aircraft. You are accurate in your discretion that this was her decision to remain in hawaii. Kids, you know that telling your spouse they can spend a week away from home is a big presence. Not that we dont love our kids. Acknowledged her birthday. We will see what we can come up with. I have to run to a meeting. [inaudible] on the disclosures issues . The president will speak about those issues prior to the state of the union. On january 28. Sometime between now and then he will address those issues. Great to see you all. Good luck. [laughter] missed any of our coverage of today possible i tells briefing, it is available on our website. O to www. Cspan. Org live at the brookings institution, a group of analysts a group ofas that
Guardian. Lets just start with the nsa stuff, since it is the big issue right now. Can we talk a little bit about how the introduction of the snowden leaks has changed the way we are doing business and how much harder were easier it has been . It has cut both ways. I have not been writing much on the snowden documents themselves, but i have been writing on related nsa issues in the midst of all the snowden revelations. I found as many people, less inclined to want to share information. There are probably at least as many at this point who now feel i do not know if it is emboldened or they just feel it is an issue that will get more attention and it is worth their while to share what they know with reporters, whether context or Additional Information and detail. I think on balance it has led to a greater amount of information that reporters are learning, even beyond the snowden documents. The government is behaving somewhat differently from the way it did. The nsa is setting up a whole
Now they dont have that for a number of reasons. One, we dont have a good way of understanding what our losses and what are risks are. Often when we talk about the theft of competitive data we usually think about the special sauce. When cocacola was hit in 2010 so it was literature be due to the group associated with the Chinese Government. Did the bad guys go after the secret formula for cocacola . No, no one really cares about that. But we do know is that less than 10 days after the attack happened the Chinese Government rejected cocacolas bid to buy the largest soft drink bottle or in china. Now this was a kid that everyone on wall street thought would go through so we have to think about what is at risk from a very broad perspective. The challenge is actually understanding what is at risk and how to defend ourselves and that is a really big job. Because the dan balz having a holistic view of what is at stake in an organization. That has to come from the board top down and it also h
You saw a lot of new york luminaries there. There was tons of press. So many people just came out, they were across the street behind barricades watching to see, you know, joans daughter, and grandson. It is nice to see just the outpouring of people who just wanted to say hi or give a flower to her daughter, things like that. There was melissa and cooper. And it was, you know, you wonder what kind of funeral it was going to be. You heard all the things she wanted. She wanted to have all the she wanted to be a big hollywood affair. And it had a lot of really great new yorkers there. What did you think of the service . When i was leaving and tweeting about it, i said i think it was the perfect combination between the profane and the sacred, because joan was like that. We all know the profane part of joan, but there was a sacred there were things that were sacred to her. The person that surprised me the most was howard stern. We didnt know it was announced he was going to be a speaker. He
Vieira, returns to the anchor chair in studio 1a, as we kick off our special homecoming week today, monday, september 8th, 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 monday morning. Its been a while since ive said this. Im matt lauer alongside Meredith Vieira, and al roker and natalie morales. Yeah. How does it feel to wake up . It feels really good to wake up, no. This is so much fun. Its great. Great for us, too. Meredith was already in, in my room, on my table with this wonderful little note that said, hey, censored, your Worst Nightmare is back. Im here you needed to put that little censored on there. Normally i draw it on your mirror in lipstick. Security told me i couldnt do that anymore. I know they did. Meanwhile, how about this breaking news . Its great. Natalie the royal family is set to expand as william and kate revealed that she is expecting. Nbcs Kelly