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Were happy youre here and enjoying the morning. And theres a lot going on on. Rachel just a little. Will would you say what we exhibited privately behind scene was act of discipline or lack of discipline . Excellent discipline. We did a segment on Mark Zuckerberg fighting and we have a quarter founder, cheese burgers, fries, nuggets. Trying to tell me you didnt eat it. We didnt eat all of it. I thought i was asking you. Like half of the quarter founder and then disciplined or not disciplined . I...

With senator reid. The fbi steps in to investigate how 18yearold Michael Brown was killed. Legacy of laughter. Academy award winner Robin Williams dead at the age of 63 after an apparent suicide. Good morning from washington. Its tuesday, august 12th, 2014. This is the daily rundown. Im Chris Cillizza in for chuck todd. We begin this morning, though, in iraq, country dealing with military humanitarian and political crises all at the same time. Together they paint a picture of a nation that may b...

Vexing question of how joe biden, who was a senator for like several lifetimes, was dele to have all these huge houses in delaware ovelar the years. his wife didnt work ayeart goln sachs. she sort of taught att a community college, kind of dr. jill , not actually a doctor , by the way. is >> so is it possible that joe bidens lifestyle was financed by his son ? fores and his sons dealings with foreign governments apparently sharegovernd a bankh account with his son ? keep in mind that one , biden...

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Cards are on the table. maybe all the optics, everything were talking about now will be moot. who knows, we are really in the dark until we know where this ends up. >> only fools prejudge what mueller is going to end up with. matt a and harry litman, thank you for spending time with us. grateful to have you. when we come back gop senator bob corker calls out republicans are acting more like a cult than a politicarty. (indistinguishable muttering) that was awful. why are you so good at this? had ...

As a good plan. richardson backing this idea of sending a message to china, those seems contrary, but what we heard from matt a moment ago, some republicans and democrats and unions are backing the proposal. explain how this could potentially help the united states? >> well, lets go to the top line first, there is a subtle approach and there is a sledge hammer by putting tariffs of 10% to 25%. thats not small on aluminum, steel product first and for most. we can address your question with wilbur...

Kind of level that the trump administration would wanted to if they really wanted to hurt the chinese economy. let me read you the top five of chinese imports of the united states, jongeneral genera general machinery and toys and equipment and foot wawear round out the top five. you notice that steel is not in there. thats probably why we have seen it relative response, they are not happy at all. this is not across the board tariffs across the board. donald trump has said many times before, this...

Story indicates, there could be more allegations to come. now ive been trying all day to reach matt lauer, his representatives, so far, he has no comment. that means no confirmation or denial of these charges. >> thank you very much. and now, two people who worked with matt for years. jamie, special correspondent here. she worked with matt for about 20 years. jane hansen was the coanchor at today in new york. i worked with matt a number of years at the "today" show when i was filling in during m...

All of these cases across the board and nbc has had to deal with this before. they had the contributor, mark halperin. they had a booker, a producer, matt zimmermann. i think they have learned and we dont know what the details are yet, but that once they made the decision, they made it very quickly. >> go ahead. >> i was just going to say and probably do it and do it quickly. dont let it linger. >> you know, obviously in the light of what happened the to charlie rose, the questions are what was ...

Variety quoted staffers who said they tried to alert executives about lauers behavior. in response, nbc says we can say prior to monday night, current nbc news management was never made aware of any complaints about matt lauers conduct. on monday night, a female nbc employee and her attorney met with nbc hr and detailed quote, agree jous act of sexual harassment. the network investigated and decided to fire him less than 24 hours later. ry guthrie found out overnight. >> im heartbroken for matt....