Dangerous flooding and tornadoes likely. Pray for my journey. The popes message to the faithful as he gets set to arrive in egypt. Security is extremely tight. Were live in cairo. And baby on board. Stealing the night bringing his infant son on stage showing him off to the stage, garrett bolles. The touching moment that has fans cheering today, friday, april 28th, 2017. From nbc news this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller center. I lo disney on us. The crowd loved it. It is cute. Well have more on the draft in a while. Lets get to our top story. Its the surprisingly candid new interview with President Trump as he opens up about the challenges facing his administration and the job of being president. And in a moment, were going to have a candid conversation of our own with attorney general, jeff sessions. But first, nbc National CorrespondentPeter Alexander is at the white house. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning. Day 99 for President Trump. The president this morning in a new interview saying the u. S. Is considering serious action in north korea. Also offering a personal view of kim jongun refusing to say whether he thinks the young leader is rational or ir rational. President trump insisting he prefer a diplomatic solution but well, theres a chance that we could end up having a major, major conflict with north korea. Absolutely. Reporter in an interview released overnight the president saying this about north koreas erratic dictator kim jongun. Hes 27 years old. His father dies, took over a regime. Say what you want but thats not easy. Rex tillerson will chair a special meeting today focussed on north korea with the u. N. Security council signaling an openness for the u. S. To have direct talks with the country. That would be lithe way we would like to solve, but north korea has to decide they want to talk to us about the right agenda. A top north korean official swore would never happen. Overnight the country releasing this propaganda film showing a simulated attack on the white house building. Saying the enemy to be destroyed is in our sights. The comments coming as the white house is pushing back against new accusations it failed to properly vet Michael Flynn. Insisting flynn received top security clearance long before President Trump took office. Why would you rerun a background check on someone who is the head of the department of Defense Intelligence agency that had and did maintain a high level of security clearance. Reporter but flynn was fired by the Obama Administration in 2014 and nbc news learned from sources close to the investigation the trump transition did do its own background check on flynn and hired him anyway. Now the pentagons Inspector General saying they opened an investigation over payments he received in a speech in russia and lobbying work for turkey last year. Also this morning from the interview, President Trump acknowledging he misses life house. Take a listen. I love my previous life. I had so many things going. I actually this is more work than in my previous life. I thought it could be easier. Im a detailed oriented person. I think you would say that. But i do miss my old life. I like to work, so thats not a problem, but this is actually more work. More than five months after his victory the president says he misses driving and now feels like hes living in a cocoon. Back to you. Peter , thank you. Jeff sessions is with us, attorney general sessions, good morning. Its great to see you. Nice to be with you. Let me start with a simple question. Was Michael Flynn properly vetted by the Trump Transition Team befo team . They do the best they can. Its impossible to know everything. I dont know what they did in that case. Involved in studying it. There are investigations underway. If it turns out general flynn lied on his paperwork for that application, or if he continued to work for a foreign interest while he was the National Security adviser, he may have committed a felony, and it will fall on your department to decide whether to prosecutor him or let him go. Youve already recused himself from investigations involving any coordination between Trump Associates and russian officials. Does that recusal extend to general flynn . It deals with the campaign issues, but i would expect not to be involved. You would recuse yourself from any decision involving general flynn . Yeah. I dont know if theres an investigation or should be. And we dont confirm investigations of in the department of justice. His Attorney Says he has a story to tell, and theyve asked for immunity in exchange for testifying. Should he be given immune sni. Well see. The president recently gave an interview and talked about this investigation from which you recused yourself. He said the russia is a faux story. Its made up. Democrats lost an election. And they used the russia story as a way of justifying how they lost. Its a fake story. Your department of justice is, in fact, investigating whether or not the Trump Campaign colluded with russia. Thats a matter to be on the new person. Im not going to comment about the case. And you know i cant talk about that. True, but is it a legitimate area of investigation . Im not going into that. Ill let the officials who have responsibility for the case discuss it. Do you agree with the president that its a fake investigation . Ill let others comment on that. Here we are at the 100day interview about the job of the president , this is more work than in my previous life. I thought it would be easier. What do you think of that . Well, it is a tough job. I got to tell you. And he works so hard. I mean, this man has tremendous strength and energy, and he works into the night every night, and so but it is a tough job. My job is 12hour a day job also, i got to tell you. Its exciting. Its thrilling. You feel like every night in you make a contribution to america, and im sure the president gets satisfaction from that. He may get points for candor saying its harder than i thought, but on several issues its as though hes just realizing, health care is more difficult than he thought, he said. North korea, its not as easy. Should he have been more prepared . I think hes prepared and has a good approach, but carrying out the through the congress and all the problems you have to actually execute change in america is a real challenge. And it is frustrating, im sure, for a businessman on occasion who is used to getting things quickly. I have one other thing. The cia director roontly delivered a speech and said it was time to call out wikileaks for this it really is, a nonstate Intelligence Service often abetted by state actors like russia. Were having a tremendous problem throughout our system with leaks. Some of this is very serious. Not just a leak of abuse, a theft of some whistle blower appro approve government. These are threats to the security procedures or government has. Im worried about it. I think we need to do more to end this. We have to step up our efforts. But to the question do you agree with the director, wikileaks is essentially a state actor . Like russia . What were going to do is follow our responsibility to analyze these matters of the cia director shares with us leaks and things that he thinks are important, and he evaluate them appropriately, but we dont talk about any investigation that we have ongoing. It begs the the question, would it bother you that candidate trump would Say Something like i love wikileaks during the campaign . Well, they were putting out information that political information that im sure he valued. So its okay to embrace that kind of an organization if theyre helping you politically . There are limits on what you can do to take peoples private information off their computers. There are certainly limits of what you can do to share intelligence top secret information with our adversari s adversaries. Thats what you call a potpourri of to general sessions, thank you for being with us. And arkansas carried out another execution. The latest is prompting calls for an investigation after the inmate shook while strapped to the gurny. Someone said he appears to convulse and jerk for up to 20 seconds after the drug was administered. One of his attorneys described that execution of horrifying. Hes calling for a full investigation. A spokesman for arkansass governor called it an involuntary muscular reaction and says the state is unlikely to call for a review. Now to a high profile by the pope to egypt. Its the first visit there by the leader of the Catholic Church in nearly two decades. In the wake of attacks on christian churches, security is a huge concern. Were in cairo. Reporter good morning. On the pope side this morning, a trip to a church that was hit by an isis suicide bomber in december. Both nervous and excited for this trip. A trip where the pope will meet the president of egypt, leaders of the muslim faith. He touches down within the hour. Pope francis leaviing rome earl this morning, tweeting pray for my journey. In egypt tense preparation. Isis struck churches here just two weeks ago men in anne in february an isis propaganda video urged the followers to Slaughter Christians. The pope recording his own video message. I come as a friend, a messenger of peace. In place of the pope mobile, hell travel in a closed vehicle, but it will not be bullet proof. The pope is calm. We are calm. We go and take the necessary precautions and the local security takes care of us. Egypts security was criticized this month after bombs hit two churches in separate cities on palm sunday. 47 die captured on security footage, a church packed with worshippers, then an explosion. Egypts hard line president held a state funeral. More muslims are killed by islamic terrorism here than any other group. Isis declared war on the christian faith. The middle east largest christian community. Kids, the babies, the victims. They are killing innocent people for what . Catholics are a small minority. We are asking ourself if the pope will come in this condition. And he, himself, said i am coming to egypt. Reporter today hell reach out to all faiths. Join in peace and love. Reporter christians fearful but defiant. Despite the isis threat, churches in cairo this week packed. Officials tell me isis fighters driven from the government here has been criticized for a crackdown on opposition groups and journalists. You can see why. This is both a sensitive and high risk trip for the pope. Thank you very much. At home were learning more about the settlement reached between United Airlines and the passenger dragged off a flight. Tom costello has been on this one since the beginning. Tom, good morning. Reporter good morning. United airlines is hoping the turbulence caused by this Public Relations issue will settle. They reached a settlement in lightning speed, less than three weeks after it occurred with dr. Dao. This morning United Airlines is saying its pleased to have reached an amicable settlement. The incident, the brutal dragging of dr. David dao by Security Officers that caused him to a broken nose and concussion. Details of the settlement are not being made public but dr. Daos lawyers writing in a statement in part, United Airlines has taken full responsibility for what happened on flight 3411 without attempting to blame others. United airlines is to be applauded. The airline now promising more training for difficult situations. Creative solutions for agents, fewer overbooked flight uss and to 10,000 for people to be bumped until later flights. The ceo telling lester holt apologizing is not enough. It has to be followed up with action. Were going to put the customer at the center of everything we do. Reporter cell phone videos now shining a spotlight on almost everything that happens on board oh plane. Like this recent confrontation between a mother and a flight attendent over the removal of her stroller which left the woman in im not clear why im being taken off the plane. Reporter a passenger removed from a flight after getting up to use the restroom during the critical moments while the plane was waiting to take off despite instructions to stay seated. My bladder wasnt anything i had complete control over. Reporter the plane had to return to the gate delaying takeoff. Hamilton put on another flight and refunded half the cost of his ticket. Reporter the bottom line if the plane is moving on the ramp, you have to comply with the flight attendants instructions. Tom, thank you. A less son this morning on how not to approach a gas station. Take a look at this video from detroit. A car comes barrelling in. It slams entat gas pump, knocking it into the car. The man pumping gas got out of the way just on time. There wasnt a fire. Police believe the driver was fleeing the scene crash from earlier. Something tells me theres more to that story. Al, have we earned a good weekend. Here we have, but some other folks in rough shape in the middle of the country. Were talking about Severe Weather and flooding over the next 72 hours. You can see the storms already with snow behind it. Look at this. For today we have 24 Million People at risk from Wichita Falls to louisville. Large hail. The possibility of tornadoes from indiana down to missouri. 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Metro workers calling on the Transit Agency to change its sick leave policy which says employees need to call out three days in advance. Hundreds of requests for denied because of a sickout today. We just learned about a deadly accident that happened this morning in prince georges county. Jonathan griffin was killed en route 301 in upper marlboro. His car was the only one involved in the cash. He was a member of the now to Melissa Mollet with a look at your first 4 traffic. Good morning. A new problem here on the beltway. Outer loop after New Hampshire avenue, a crash. It was moved to the shoulder. That does help some. 66 inbound at 50. Crash on the left shoulder. Remember, 197 shut down between gw and powder mill road. You can take powder mill to get around. Well take a break and check your forecast next. Stay with us. This morning shun shooin start to finish and the warmup underw underway. Were 67