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captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on a sunday morning. im lester holt. >> and im jenna wolfe. and its so great, how refreshing it is to wake up to breaking news thats good news for a change. >> these pictures posted on her facebook by staffers, they were apparently taken may 17th. i guess it was the day after her husband, mark kelly, went up on the shuttle. its the first time weve seen her face since she was shot back in january....

create resentment and a feeling among believers of islam that they are not fully islamic unless they do some of these things. >> now u.s. district, gerald bruce lee called the case disturbing, because ahmed can be considered a success story. after imposing that 23 year sentence, he also said that ahmed when he gets out at age 56, must remain under probation for the next 50 years. his computer and correspondents must be checked and has to check in with a probation officer once a week. r...

when you are describing speaks to a grumpy, gloomy mood. do you think that is right or are we going to see the optimistic upside of america on display, as well? >> i think what we saw last week was a recognition on the part of the administration that maybe they ought to get back and talk about jobs, talk about the kind of issues people face around the kitchen table which is essentially getting for the month, worrying about to question, whether they can retire or not. if jobs are the ke...

and looking benignly at me as i argued. i even thought there was a nod somewhere. when the opinion came out, it was 7-2, and he was one of the dissenters. i wrote a law review article about the issue of was addressing in the lawsuit, and essentially said dont take people for granted on this issue. justice stevens wrote a dissent that is a roadmap of how legislation and administrative actions ought to be taken to steer clear of some of the problems he saw in the federal statute i was de...

frailty. having a sense of human frailty is a very useful thing in confronting the world, and being honest about it in yourself can make you a far more understanding and decent person. he was not someone who was flawed and then judge everyone else by some other standard. i was struck about his own candor. >> lets talk about that in terms of biography, a political autobiography. 99% of people the right political autobiographies about himself are lies. this book is amazingly self revelat...

medium at the armory -- meet him at the armory, which was a black-tie event, and shake hands with him there. they could not do both. three statewide democratic officeholders were the lieutenant governor, the attorney general, and a young secretary of state by the name of kevin white. air force one comes in to logan airport. kevin white, and frank chose to greet the airport -- to greet the president at the airport. just as the plane is landing, the lieutenant governor shows up in black ...

he saw himself in the -- in the fashion of governing like in brazil, not like chavez in venezuela and i dont think anyone was surprised at the outcome of that election and contrary to maybe some of the trends in europe and elsewhere. . . economic standpoint that will recognize human rights and the defense of those rights, i do think those are some themes that perhaps can produce a somewhat different way. somewhat different way. again, very much grounded, we like to call in virginia the...

help governments that have committed to fight corruption. they take their own steps to defend institutions. they continue to make progress. there are hard issues like ending gender inequality against gays and lesbians from the middle east to latin america. we have to continue to press for resolutions. tensions threaten to add to the devastation. we will work to identify ways that we and our partners can in hand human security while focusing greater attention on efforts to prevent genoc...