The late, great, david rackoff, sarah vowell is going to be with us this evening. cheers and applause we begin tonight in egypt, best known for its spectacular supporting role in brendan frasiers the mummy and the mummy returns. How did egypt not get nominated for that movie. Now if you recall in 2011 egypt had a bona fide peaceful and popular revolution ending the rule of long time dictator Hosni Mubarak and ushering in egypts first free election in 5,000 years. When of course a bird with eyes with lines under it won a comfortable eight points. Then in 2012 mom Mo Mam Ed Morsi was elected president and egyptian could could enjoy the sweet fruits of democracy. Just one problem o egypt does i have warm climate and you know what can happen to fruit. Just hours ago the countrys experiment with democracy appeared to go up in flames. The military removed Mohammed Morsist morsi, suspended the constitution and installed the countrys top judge as interim president. Thats right, interim preside
And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im willie geist along with tamron and al. Matts been kind enough to yank himself away from the black jack table to join us. I was on a losing streak anyway. The press conference mike tyson had last week was exceptional. He was supposed to talk about his career as a boxing promoter. Instead he started talking about his demons. He said he was a vicious alcoholic, that he hated himself and was trying to kill him. It was a stunning public moment even for a guy whos had a number of stunning public moments. I sat down to talk about what appears to be the fight of his life. Well have that in the next halfhour. Back to you. We will look forward to that. Well begin with the breaking news tied to possible military action against syria. We have more from the pentagon. Good morning. Reporter good morning. This is clearly a new twist over the tensions between the u. S. And russia over potential u. S. Military a
I dont know anything about about these emails. I havent followed it. But im very proud of the campaign that i ran. I cant speak to what people who were not working for me, who were saying whatever they were saying, i cant speak to that. I can only speak to my campaign. It was a larger gathering than anything we saw in cleveland. Peaceful from what weve seen. Keep in mind that this is even before the convention got underway. Also keep in mind the conditions. It was oppressively hot and humid yesterday, yet they still managed to come out in droves. Those protests by the way, were far away from the Convention Center site where we now stand. They will be migrating up this way to fdr park which is just about a block away for further protests. As many as 30,000 people are forecast to attend one of those rallies. Another potential problem for them is the weather. I dont know if you can hear it but there is a tremendous rainfall coming down here right now and a big red blob on the radar screen
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