everybody loved you this week. and a great show to kick off the holiday weekend, that the guests have gone, and good news, and now it is time to get your house back in spic and span shape and now we will will show you how the get out the stains and the scratches so that your house will look new i love these segments because there nothing like stain getting washed out. true. and you won t believe what a guest did at somebody s house, and we will get of that. and it is a nonprudent thing. and it is nasty. and we will talk to joy bauer who challenged to turn junk food into great food. she is going to share her are recipes in a minute. it is not a stain, but it is very delicious. oh, my gosh. she is a genius, and a cookbook coming out with all of this. it is about time. and you will meet two fun guys dave and ethan who call they have a new show where where they roam the city streets trying to make a love match. we will play a game with them. and i can t wait. they
questions from the widow of american sniper chris crime. the laws that we create don t stop these horrific things that happening, right, and that s a very tough pill to swallow. right. going up, tomorrow s powerball jackpot now worth $700 million. this morning how you can actually improve your chances of winning the big one. and he s back as hollywood gears up for the golden globes, we catch up with return host ricky gervais. his biting humor has more in hollywood a little bit nervous. why he says he couldn t resist coming back for more jokes and jabs today, friday, january 8, 2016. announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer live from los angeles and studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning, everyone. welcome to a special split edition of today on a friday morning. i m matt lauer in los angeles. savannah is back in new york, and savannah, the people in this town are getting ready for the big event this weekend. yeah, absolutely. hopefu
he took a shot at the climate deal the president finalized in china. the president continues to send signals he has no intention of moving toward the middle. i was distressed about a deal he has reached with the chinese, which is requiring the chinese to do nothing at all for 16 years while these carbon emission regulations are creating havoc in my state and others around the country. mitch mcconnell said he has read the agreement. do you think he and republicans have any idea what the substance of the bill is? the democrats have been on the defensive. i m no expert on this. i read about the deal today. some people are saying the chinese don t have to do anything. some say it is a great achievement. republicans will attack the president on this first day even though there is talk of compromise. if it is right the agreement says that china has to reach peak energy by 2030 that means they re going to have to curb emissions to get there. the race they are building will h
to fight ebola. first, i want to get to you get you to the top stories of today. her greenhouse gases, the chinese resident wrote ranks with india, brazil, and that the, setting its target for the first time to reduce fossil fuel emissions by 2030. president obama pledged to double carbine carbon dioxide to 2020. this is a major milestone in the u.s. china relationship and shows what is possible when we work together on urgent, global challenge. by making the announcement today, together, we hope to encourage all major economies to be ambitious. all countries, developing and developed, to work across some of the old divides so we can include a strong climate agreement next year. createthanks agreed to 4.3 oh in dollars to settle a key foreign exchange last year. the hardest hit is citigroup and j.p. morgan. the banks will pay over $1 billion each to regulators in the u.s. and the u.k.. i do not want to sit here in two years time with another press conference with anot
the president continues to send signals he has no intention of moving toward the middle. i was distressed about a deal he has reached with the chinese which is requiring the chinese to do nothing at all for 16 years while these carbon emission regulations are creating havoc in my state and others around the country. mitch mcconnell said he has read the agreement. do you think he and republicans have any idea what the substance of the bill is? the democrats have been on the defensive. i m no expert on this. i read about the deal today. some people are saying the chinese don t have to do anything. some say it is a great achievement. republicans will attack the president on this first day even though there is talk of compromise. if it is right the agreement says that china has to reach peak energy by 2030 that means they re going to have to curb emissions to get there. the race they are building will have to slow down. there is, as you know, republicans who were proenvir
every one of those states, the revenues have gone down, the income tax has gone up, and the size of government has gone up. from my standpoint, a value- added tax is just a way to grossly expand the size of the government, and it does not fix our revenue problems. more importantly than that, just the point where i think this argument ends up, the american people would annihilate any party that passed a national sales tax rate. if the democratic party thinks they are in charge now, and they are, and the republican party has done some things to marginalize itself, but if you want to resurrect a republican party, give me a value-added tax. let s take the value-added tax off the table for this the session, and i want to turn to donald marron and bring it back to the reality we are today and get your numbers perspective. speaker boehner offered up to the president $800 billion in revenue, all through closing loopholes dealing with deductions, no increase in rates. first of all,
soon as possible on our most urgent repairs. raise the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour. john: republicans see it as a sign to balloon the government. to make it to the middle class no matter where you start out in life, it isn t bestowed to us by washington. what s next? gabby giffords deserves a vote. the families of newtown deserve a vote! the families of aurora deserve a vote! john: covering the week, karen tumulty of the washington post, todd purdum of vanity fair, jeff zeleny with the new york times, and eamon javers of cnbc. award-winning reporting and analysis, covering history as it happens, live, from our nation s capital, this is washington week with gwen ifill. corporate funding for washington week is provided by . we went out and asked people a simple question, how old is the oldest person you ve known? we gave people a sticker and had them show us. we learned a lot of us have known someone who s lived well into their 90 s and that s a grea
like you. thank you. once again, live from washington, sitting in for gwen ifill this week, john dickerson of slate magazine and cbs news john: good evening, this week, president obama gave the first state-of-the-union address of his second term. it was packed with almost 30 different policy proposals, some, like immigration reform, were familiar. others, like his call for expanding preschool and rating colleges, were new. it was a robust vision for a president engaged in hand-to-hand combat congressional republicans over the basic exchanges of government. still, the president said the country could afford all of it. nothing i m proposing tonight should increase our deficit by a single dime. it is not a bigger government we need, but a smarter government that sets priorities and invests in broad-based growth. john: , so, karen, if bill clinton kind the famous phrase that the era of big government over, did president obama launch the era of smart government? that s going
like you. thank you. once again, live from washington, sitting in for gwen ifill this week, john dickerson of slate magazine and cbs news john: good evening, this week, president obama gave the first state-of-the-union address of his second term. it was packed with almost 30 different policy proposals, some, like immigration reform, were familiar. others, like his call for expanding preschool and rating colleges, were new. it was a robust vision for a president engaged in hand-to-hand combat congressional republicans over the basic exchanges of government. still, the president said the country could afford all of it. nothing i m proposing tonight should increase our deficit by a single dime. it is not a bigger government we need, but a smarter government that sets priorities and invests in broad-based growth. john: , so, karen, if bill clinton kind the famous phrase that the era of big government over, did president obama launch the era of smart government? that s going
vote! john: covering the week, karen tumulty of the washington post, todd purdum of vanity fair, jeff zeleny with the new york times, and eamon javers of cnbc. award-winning reporting and analysis, covering history as it happens, live, from our nation s capital, this is washington week with gwen ifill. corporate funding for washington week is provided by . we went out and asked people a simple question, how old is the oldest person you ve known? we gave people a sticker and had them show us. we learned a lot of us have known someone who s lived well into their 90 s and that s a great thing but one thing that hasn t changed is the official retirement age. the question is, how do you make sure you have the money you need to enjoy all of these years? additional corporate funding for washington week is provided by boeing. additional funding is provided by the annenberg foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting and by contribution to your pbs station f