Tony Robbins made a guest appearance on NBC’s “TODAY” show, America’s #1 morning TV show. In this interview with Matt Lauer, Tony discussed what it takes to thrive, not just survive, in today’s economic down times. http://www.youtube.com/v/2ELWd8jog70?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata Read the original: Tony Robbins on Motivation in a Slump
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Filed under: Michael Douglas Michael Douglas just dropped some incredible news about his battle with throat cancer — telling Matt Lauer , “The tumor is gone.” Douglas appeared on “Today” this morning and explained that he’ll have to get checked out “on a monthly basis now to… Read more
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On Monday's Today show, NBC's Matt Lauer downplayed the criminal factor in the release of hundreds of thousands of classified diplomatic communiques by WikiLeaks, twice labeling the website as only a ” messenger ” for the documents. Both Lauer and NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell insisted the State Department “crossed a line” by ordering diplomats to spy on foreign diplomats at the United Nations. The NBC anchor interviewed Republican Congressman Peter King seven minutes into the 7 am Eastern hour on this latest release of confidential documents by WikiLeaks. Midway through the segment, Lauer raised the espionage issue: “Were you surprised to hear that Secretary of State Clinton and her predecessor, Secretary of State Rice, asked their diplomats to, in effect, spy on diplomats at the United Nations, asking for things like credit card numbers, computer passwords, DNA, fingerprints? This does cross a line, doesn't it? ” read more
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Filed under: Akon , Michael Jackson It’s the most bizarre casting call we’ve ever seen — the people behind Michael Jackson ‘s new music video for ” Hold My Hand ” are in the market for some incredibly ironic talent … a person with no hands. The listing was posted yesterday on an LA… Read more
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Filed under: Lindsay Lohan , Dina Lohan , Matt Lauer , Today Show Lindsay Lohan now thinks her mom is part of the reason she’s in the state she’s in, and Lindsay’s wake-up call was Dina Lohan ‘s appearance on the ” Today ” show. Sources connected with Lindsay tell TMZ Lindsay told her mom not to go on “Today” last… Read more
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NBC’s Matt Lauer wanted one question to stick in the minds of his Today show viewers, as from the top of Wednesday’s show, to his interview with Vice President Joe Biden, the Today co-anchor repeatedly asked was the Iraq war “worth it?” As part of the analysis of the President’s Oval Office speech last night, in which Barack Obama announced an end to U.S. combat operations in Iraq, Lauer invited on Biden, in the 7am half hour, to press him about the costs of the war as he asked: “There is a question being asked in homes all across the country this morning, after seven years and 4,400 lives and tens of thousands of U.S. servicemen and women wounded, some of them horrifically, and of course billions and billions of dollars spent, was Iraq worth it?” [ audio available here ] For his part Biden responded that since he had a son who served in Iraq for a year, “I could never say to any of those parents it’s not worth it” but that didn’t dissuade Lauer from pursuing his line of questioning, from the left, as he cited a New York Times editorial to the Vice President: I want to read you something from an editorial in this morning’s New York Times. Quote: “In many ways the war has made Americans less safe, creating a new organization of terrorists and diverting the nation’s military resources and political will from Afghanistan. Deprived of its main adversary, a strong Iraq, Iran was left freer to pursue its nuclear program to direct and finance extremist groups and meddle in Iraq.” Do you agree with that assessment? The following intro and full interview with Biden were aired on the September 1 Today show: [7:00am] BARACK OBAMA: Now it’s time to turn the page. MATT LAUER: Page turner. In a primetime Oval address President Obama announces the end of combat operations in Iraq. Was it worth it? Especially for the families who lost loved ones. This morning Vice President Joe Biden tackles that question. … [7:11am] MATT LAUER: Savannah Guthrie, thank you very much. Vice President Joe Biden is in Baghdad this morning. Mr. Vice President, good morning to you. JOE BIDEN: Good morning, Matt, how are you? LAUER: I’m fine, sir, thank you very much. There is a question being asked in homes all across the country this morning, after seven years and 4,400 lives and tens of thousands of U.S. servicemen and women wounded, some of them horrifically, and of course billions and billions of dollars spent, was Iraq worth it? How do you answer that question? BIDEN: My answer, Matt, is that all the sacrifices made by the American people, but particularly by our troops, we have to, in fact, make sure that this transition to the Iraqis works. We have to make sure that when we leave here, there is a stable government that is secure within its own borders, not a threat to its neighbors, in order to, to justify all that sacrifice that, that is taking place because the sacrifice is real. LAUER: Well so you’re saying if we don’t ensure the future, it may not have been worth it? In other words, at this stage, is it still unclear whether it’s worth it? BIDEN: Matt, having a son who served here for a year and feeling lucky he came home and thinking about all those parents who didn’t have their child come home, I could never say to any of those parents it’s not worth it. What I have to say is we are committed to making sure that the sacrifices they made bear fruit and the fruit will ultimately be in a stable Iraqi government that is able to stand on their own and, in fact, is not a threat to its neighbors nor threatened by its neighbors. LAUER: You said recently that Iraq now is safe. And you know there were some 50 people killed in insurgent attacks, in the days prior to your visit there. From my understanding, since you been there, on at least three occasions, alarms have sounded warning of incoming mortars. So to, to the families of the 50,000 U.S. troops that remain, now that combat troops are gone, are their loved ones safe? BIDEN: Look Matt, the level of violence is the lowest it’s been since 2003 when we got here. There are traffic jams in the street, there are people walking around and the vast majority of the country, there are, been no attacks. The fact of the matter is that there was an uptick in violence, 12 simultaneous attacks that, in fact took place a week or so ago, creating significantly less damage than any kind of coordinated attack has in the past. It’s still dangerous. But the fact of the matter is those 50,000 troops are well equipped, well protected and they’re in a position where they’re much, much, much safer than troops were a year ago, two years ago, and three years ago. As a matter of fact safer than any time since 2003. But there’s still, there’s still danger that exists in this country. LAUER: In his speech from the Oval Office last night, Mr. Vice President, the President referred to former President Bush and he said that while the two of them were at odds on this war from the very beginning, he said that no one could doubt Mr. Bush’s quote, “support for our troops or his love of country and commitment to our security.” I want to read you something from an editorial in this morning’s New York Times. Quote: “In many ways the war has made Americans less safe, creating a new organization of terrorists and diverting the nation’s military resources and political will from Afghanistan. Deprived of its main adversary, a strong Iraq, Iran was left freer to pursue its nuclear program to direct and finance extremist groups and meddle in Iraq.” Do you agree with that assessment? BIDEN: Well look all I’m gonna focus on today, Matt, is Iraq. The fact of the matter is, that, we are moving in a direction where the Iraqis are better positioned to be able to be successful, free and not a destabilizing force in the world but a positive force. And the question about whether or not credit is deserved, who deserves the credit for this beginning of a fundamental transition, I don’t think is worth arguing about. The truth of the matter is there were a lot of mistakes. There’s no doubt that the President and I both disagreed with the way in which the war had begun, how it was conducted, etc. But, but the truth of the matter is, that at, by the end of the last administration, a transition was in place, there was a political movement that was afoot. We kept on Secretary Gates, our present, we kept on General Petraeus, we kept on a continuity here to finish the job and that’s what we’re in the process of doing. LAUER: Vice President Joe Biden joining us from Baghdad, this morning. Mr. Vice President, I thank you for your time. BIDEN: Thanks an awful lot, Matt. I appreciate it.
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Today co-anchor Matt Lauer traveled to New Orleans, on Friday, to mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and interviewed the likes of former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, former FEMA Director Mike Brown, current Democratic Mayor Mitch Landrieu and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, but saved any sort of direct shots at George W. Bush for his interview with Laura Bush. At the very end of his August 27 interview about her charitable work in the region, Lauer laid the following guilt trip on the former First Lady: [ audio available here ] MATT LAUER: There’s no easy way to ask this question, I’m just gonna ask it. Is it ever painful for you to come back to this region, because in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it seems so much of the blame for what happened or didn’t happen here was laid at the feet of your husband? LAURA BUSH: No, not really. I mean I feel very close to the people on the Gulf Coast and always have. And, and I know what the circumstances were. And of course the President takes the blame in any situation, as we can see now with the new president. But I also knew what George really thought and how he felt about the, the Gulf Coast. We gave unprecedented support. The United States Congress passed large bills. I think $180 billion that George signed and has come to the Gulf Coast. And what we’ve seen really is so inspirational. The people here, the school people are the ones that I’ve been with the most. And they came back, when they were in FEMA trailers or living with relatives and did everything they could to rebuild their schools so kids could come back. LAUER: I know the people of the region are thankful for the work you and your foundation are doing here. Mrs. Bush thanks for joining us this morning. I appreciate it.
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NBC’s Matt Lauer, invited on former House Majority Leader Dick Armey and Freedom Works’ Matt Kibbe to discuss the Ground Zero mosque controversy and claimed that since the group behind the mosque existed in Manhattan before the World Trade Center attack, questioned: “So because of 9/11, do they have to move further away? Do they have to go elsewhere?” Armey, who was on with Kibbe to promote their new book Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto, responded to the Today show co-anchor “that because you have the right to do something doesn’t make it the right thing to do” and pointed out to Lauer that those behind the mosque should be more “responsive to the concerns that are being raised.” The following is the full interview with Armey and Kibbe as it was aired on the August 17 Today show: MATT LAUER: Dick Armey is a former Republican congressman from Texas, who served as House Majority Leader. Matt Kibbe is CEO and president of Freedom Works, a conservative non-profit grassroots organization. Together they’ve written a new book called Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto. Guys, good morning. Nice to see you again. [On screen headline: “Tea Party Manifesto, How Can The GOP Win The Midterm Elections?”] MATT KIBBE: Good morning. DICK ARMEY: Good morning. LAUER: Congressman, good to see you. ARMEY: Nice to see you. LAUER: Before I get to the book, I gotta ask you your take on this whole mosque controversy. The President seems to have turned it into a national debate with his comments over the weekend and it seems it’s getting more and more emotional. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich compared building a mosque on that site to the Nazis putting up a sign at the Holocaust Museum. Do you agree with that analogy? ARMEY: Well that’s a pretty harsh analogy, but this is an extremely important issue and it’s heart felt, as you can see, across the nation. I personally would prefer they build it someplace else, I think it would be a more respectful position for them to take. I was fascinated by the President, though. He’s obviously trying to change the subject away from his failed economic policies, but I think he really picked the wrong choice. LAUER: When you say it’s a tough analogy that Newt Gingrich came up with, I mean, you know, he’s comparing it the Nazis. We were at war against the Nazis. We are not at war against Islam. Never have been, are not now. Al Qaeda, yes, but not Islam. So do comments like that inform or inflame? ARMEY: Well it’s always, they are always difficult in both cases. I, that’s an analogy that I think is drawn a bit further than it needed to have been. Still, on the other hand, the stated purpose they give for the mosque – and in politics, you understand, I always say politics is like a dysfunctional marriage, every fight’s really about something else. The stated purpose for the mosque would be better served if out of respect for the strong feelings there, they said we want to continue with our program to enhance intercultural understanding, cross religious understandings and we’ll build it someplace else out of respect for these, these strong feelings. LAUER: So, so they have every right to build it at that site, but you think it’s, it’s in better taste to build it somewhere else? I’m, I’ll look at the title of your book, Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto. Liberty, by definition, is the condition of being free from restriction or control. That applies to religious freedom as well, doesn’t it? KIBBE: It sure does, but you know this community that we talk about, you find that there are people from, from all walks of life, all religions and what binds the community together is economic freedom. And we would argue about other things when we got into those issues, but it’s, it’s really, that’s what makes America great. It’s this, it’s this combination of all these different cultures and opinions. LAUER: When, when you talk about this particular group, though, this, this group has been in lower Manhattan for years and years. They were there before 9/11. So because of 9/11, do they have to move further away? Do they have to go elsewhere? ARMEY: No, there’s an old saying, that because you have the right to do something doesn’t make it the right thing to do. And I would again take this group back to their own stated purposes for the mosque. What do they hope to achieve with it? Which is greater cross cultural understandings. If that is the case, then let them be responsive to the concerns that are being raised and these concerns are legitimate heartfelt concerns. And the gracious thing to do becomes the right thing to do. And the right thing to do is to say, “I’m going to be deferential to your strong feelings because my greater cause, which I stated at the outset of this debate, will be better served by my being that generously responsive to you. And it now becomes a question of sort of a stubborn, refusal to be responsive to people’s legitimate concerns. And then you get what I call the hardening of the attitudes and now you got a national issue. LAUER: Let me move on, we’ll leave it at that. In the book you talk about the roots to of the new Republican revolution. This is a guy who led the last Republican revolution back in 1994. A revolution that in the book you read, or you write that “It did not live up to its potential because it devolved into an embarrassing gap between rhetoric and fiscal policy.” Why will the new revolution be different? KIBBE: Because this is a revolution from the bottom-up. This is real people saying politics is too important to leave it to the politicians. 1994 was an inside job of a, of a few true believers that sort of took over the Republican caucus. These folks are saying, “We don’t trust the Republicans or the Democrats to fix the economic problems we have in this country. We’re gonna do it for ourselves.” LAUER: In just a couple of seconds I have left a recent poll that I saw, NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, for the first time more people have a negative view of the Tea Party than a positive view. What is the main misconception that you think people have about the Tea Party movement? ARMEY: Well, obviously the misconception is being fostered by everybody who’s afraid of this massive big movement. Misconception that it is some place to the right extreme. This is right smack down the middle, standing on those issues that are most greatly of concern to the American people. There’s nothing violent about this. These, these are mostly grandparents. And the fact is the, the issue, the, this group of sincere, concerned Americans that are devoted to this preservation of this country as it is, are being mischaracterized every day. But I can guarantee you, if you read our book and if you walk among these folks, the first thing you’re gonna say is, “These folks are just like me and, and I got the same worries they got. And I don’t blame ’em for being here upset and trying to inform this government. You ought to listen to us for a change.” LAUER: Former Congressman Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe. Guys, thanks very much. We appreciate you being here. KIBBE: Thanks Matt. ARMEY: Thank you.
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Filed under: Lindsay Lohan , Dina Lohan , Celebrity Justice Dina Lohan is finally going to spill the beans about her daughter’s trouble with the law — and it’s all going down tomorrow morning in New York City. Dina is heading to the ” Today Show ” to give an exclusive interview with Matt Lauer — and she’s… Read more
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Filed under: Matt Lauer , Paparazzi Photo , Gossip / Rumors Despite all the breakup rumors — which they have denied — Matt Lauer and his wife Annette were spotted together outside their NYC apartment on Friday. It’s going to be a Memorial weekend after all. Read more
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