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With your plans . Our dream team has all the answers in this secret weatherman handshake today today may 22nd, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning him welcome to today on a thursday morning. Sorry. Something nerve racking having the two of you here for the weekend. It will not go well. Exactly. Anyway, sam, nice to have you here. Al, we will get to you in just a couple of minutes. Lets jump into our top story, a dangerous wildfire threatening hundreds of homes out in arizona. Nbc is with that fire. Miguel, good morning to you. Reporter at base camp, the smell of thick heavy smoke, a clear indication the fire is growing. The blaze has destroyed some 5,000 acres. The containment is at zero percent. Overnight, feeding on dry forest land in whipped by winds, crews cannot keep the fire in check. Flames swept up steep canyons, hop scotching across ridges. The terrain here, a perfect funn ....
There. Thanks very much. Thank you. Federal reserve chair janet yellen talks about monetary policy. Thats next. And paul bremer and jay carney. Later, a Senate Hearing looks at stock practices and insider training. House republicans will meet tomorrow to elect a replacement for eric cantor. Congressman Kevin Mccarthy of california and labrador of idaho will chair. Next, the head of the Federal Reserve is asked about the status of the Federal Reserve program. Janet yellen spoke to reporters. Good afternoon. The committee concluded its june meeting earlier today. As was indicated in our policy statement, we will make maintained its Forward Guidance regarding the rate target, and remains appropriate. Todays po ....
Right, weve got to get almaliki. My view, my experience and the experience of every one of the american ambassadors who succeeded me in iraq is only the americans can actually be there and broker a political reconciliation. It cant they cant do it themselves for a whole lot of reasons. No other country can do it. I think that secretary kerry ought to be in baghdad. He ought to go there and he ought to go there and show that we really mean it. That almaliki is going to have to broaden and in effect the americans have got to get act i have active on the ground. Thats how you do it, its called diplomacy. Should Nouri Al Maliki go . I dont take a position. This is a democratically elected Prime Minister. He actually won the election just a couple of months ago. I dont think i dont think Public Comments he made yesterday cr ....
A lot of selfies. Including one with the shows star, steve bushemi. I to this take think those were only flashes. None of those cameras had any film in them. When you walked the red carpet . Yes. And to get that many people to cooperate, to pretend they were not pretending. Well, they werent, but we did get introduced and they were like because what happened is you were so late because you didnt know where the bridge was, you were so late that all the stars arrived and they all go in last. So we walked through with them. So they were confused. They were like, theres a lot of customers. They thought we might be part of the andrew it served you well in that case. It did. Otherwise we would have been welcome but then you left and i walked the whole premier alone. He was this is what a the mandate. It wasnt a mandate, but theres wing men and theres buddies and i was there. I was there for you. You were there for ten minutes, andrew, and then he left and i sat for a hour at boardwalk empire ....
They can make a guest they can make a recommendation. If an ambassador makes a recommendation like that i have never seen anybody resist that. Where you get more friction will be if you get people who are nervous in washington saying everybody should go home and the ambassador is saying we can handle this. It is too important to leave. That is one of the big dangers of in what has gone on in the discussion of benghazi. To my mind, that will make senior politicians in washington, not in the field, so afraid of having a casualty and their being attacked politically that they will force our diplomats deeper into bunkers where we will not be able to do our jobs and we will be functionally stupid and well will not we will not be given good advice. Host this is one of the issues you brought up at the benghazi hearing. Guest i think it is one of the biggest dangers, that we will treat security as an absolute. That this will happen whether future administration is republican or democrat the da ....