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general michael flynn at this hour. the fallout from his resignation last night resonating from the capitol to moscow. president trump s national security adviser falling on his sword after it was revealed he talked to the russian ambassador about sanctions during the transition and misled vice president pence putting pence in a very awkward position. richard haas was a staffer at the national security council on bush 41. now the counsel on relations with me live on what he says is the most burning question you all should have about flynn s departure? and tesla was far and away the leader in the driverless car race but is the combination of silicon valley and detroit about to leaveering lon muscin the slow lane. jeff flock and star auto analyst tim higgins is a journalist on this stuff. he ll get the checkered flag in the next great car race. which names you might want to be looking at to buy on this one? air jordan slam-dunks the drama at madison square garden betw ....
debut. we have our spectacular first look, today, thursday, february 16th, 2017. announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a thursday morning. we re happy to have hallie jackson up from washington to fill in for savannah. it s like the spy who came in from the cold. i m telling you, indoors for once. no scarf. no jacket. a pleasure. great to have you here. did you see planet earth i ? i loved it. watched the series on dvd. they tell us planet earth ii has the most incredible scenes. look at this with the lizards and the snakes. it went viral. it did. there s a washington joke there somewhere. but i m not going to make it. let s get right to our top story. the white house, dealing with a series of controversies, including new questions over the trump campaign s possible tie toss russia, and the president s cabinet pick whose n ....
find offensive. [applause] thanks. go ahead. you start. figure out what to do. so much of this book is based on the interview, interviewing people. i am going to be up front. i am really intimidated by this guy. i thought i was intimidated by you. i want to give a little bit of background. i never really met john. i heard of jon else. he is this ghost. my first job was with chinese american filmmaker, legendary filmmaker and i came on the tail end of a series called bean sprouts. the crew a crewmember they would talk about jon else as the white guy that passed the asian litmus test and so i never met him but heard of him. i was working with wayne weighing in monaco and john was her, wayne congratulated him, winning the macarthur fellowship. i had no idea what it was at the time. wayne said it is called a genius grant. and then i was actually in started working on a film that was actually because what we did is we gave don a camera to just film his everyday ....
pelley: america s long pause from launching humans into space may change with a bold mission to send two private citizens, paying customers, around the moon and back. the announcement came from elon musk, the entrepreneur who created tesla electric cars and spacex, a rocket maker that already sends unmanned cargo capsules to the space station for nasa. musk plans to launch late next year, about six years after the space shuttle s last flight and nearly half a century after the last apollo astronauts left their foot prints in the lunar dust. here s don dahler. two, one, zero, liftoff. lawsuit spacex will attempt to lawn two unnamed individual, said to be very serious about traveling ash the moon. they ve already put down what s described as a serious deposit. cbs news space expert bill harwood. talk is cheap. launching a mission like this safely is a tall order. reporter: the company has not released what the week-long journey will cost, but it says it will take ....
with scott pelley. harwood. talk is cheap. launching a mission like this safely is a tall order. reporter: the company has not released what the week-long journey will cost, but it says it will take the amateur space travelers near the moon s surface and further out to space before looping back to earth, a distance of 200 to 300,000 miles. they ll be aboard a fully automated spacecraft with no human pilot. three years ago spacex founder elon musk told scott pelley for 60 minutes his friends were dubious. i had so many people try to talk me out of starting the company, it was crazy. pelley: what did they tell you? one good friend of mine collected a whole series of videos of rockets blowing up and made we watch those. he just didn t want me to lose all my money. reporter: in fact, spacex added to the collection of explosion videos with two spectacular failures, but recently the company has had a string of successful launches and landings. still, musk is kno ....