Officials reveal the deadliest agent ever created was used on the halfbrother of kim jongun. How did it not affect the attackers. The 89th Academy Awards just two days away. Is it a lock for la la land . Its hollywoods biggest night. We have your guide to it. Today, friday, february 24th, 2017. 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 this friday morning. Im matt lauer, with carson daly, wrapping up buddy week. Savannah has one more week of maternity leave. Are you with the oscars like you are for march madness and the final four . I do. I have la la land. Well see if carsons predictions have much more early on. Lets start with the top story. President trump taking the stage at the largest gathering of conservative leaders and activists. His speech comes a day after members of his administration addressed the gathering, including controversial strategist steve bannon. We ha
You can check it out on youtube and other places. And her work is fantastic. To readitely feel free her articles and explore her work and think deeply about how representation and identity is connected to photography. This is what the exhibition is about. Mikitall handed over to best, a much better speaker than myself. Have a great time. She will speak for 45 minutes and then we will open up to the queue and day. Can ask questions. So think up some great questions. [applause] thank you for that wonderful introduction. The best introduction i have ever had. Very nice. So i think can the lights go down a little lower . Are the lights going to go a little lower . Oh, ok. So i am interested into questions today. About more significant photographic portraits in terms subject matter and technique. The other subject matter is about the Historical Context ed drew during this. To answer these questions, we need to think back to the 19th century. We need to understand how the native americans en
A leader whose whole life was for the people. A sturdy, humble air to the allect and affection peoples felt for lincoln. Such a man is general dwight d. Eisenhower, the man from abilene. Never in history have so Many Americans known so much about the very essence of one man. 100 million met americans americans know eisenhower by heart. White elite cheer from him for him . Because we believe in him. We hail the hometown boy who was all the best of america. I come here first to thank you to say the proudest thing i can claim is that i am from abilene. [applause] i want to speak first of the dreams of a barefoot boy. They are to be a streetcar conductor or a policeman. Ve all, he may rich reached the position of locomotive engineer. Is that days dreams when finally he comes home, comes home to welcome from his own hometown. Ike has been claimed as a native son. Texas the cattle state of has first claim. That is where he was born. Dwight David Eisenhower was one of seven sons of deeply rel
The Senate Permanent select Intelligence Committee, providing ongoing oversight of the intelligence agencies, and the creation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 19 28, which we know as fisa. Two former Staff Members of the Church Committee are with us and will be with us to help provide Historical Context and help us understand the significance of the 40yearold video you are about to see. Frederick Fritz Schwartz is with our studio is elliot maxwell, who was counsel to the committee. Thank you to both of you for joining us. Lets just start with the basics, mr. Maxwell, could you explain how the Church Committee got constituted . What was the impetus . Mr. Maxwell most of it came about from a series of articles with activities by the Intelligence Community within the United States and followed by many people. This was in the context of the postwatergate resignation of president nixon. By still continuing the vietnam war there was the thought that the intelligence agencies
About the holocaust and other subjects. His talk tonight will focus on his first book called, reagans 1968 dress rehearsal and it tells the littleknown story of friendship that developed and ultimately a member a mentorship between eisenhower and reagan. I will not steal the thunder, but dwight d. Eisenhower was really instrumental in Ronald Reagans early political career. We all know how that ended with reagans election as president to decades later. So, he will tell that story. He will talk for about 4550 minutes. There will be some audio and presentations. We will do our best to make sure that we are adjusting it in the back and he can hear it. After he is done, we will open it up to a q and a paid leave join me. Please join me in welcoming gene kopelson. [applause] gene thank you for coming on a beautiful sunny seattle day. The audience should know that it really was. Thank you to the other people here at the discovery center. Keith, who originally helped, tessa, and also cspan. I