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"don't let it be forgot that for one brief, shining moment, there was a camelot." opening in limited release this weekend in new york and los angeles is "jackie." the film takes place in the days preceding and following the assassination of president john f. interview the first lady gave to "life" magazine. the movie is playing on just five screens this weekend, but is expected to enter wide release later in the month. this year's national christmas tree lighting making a milestone of sorts for president obama and the first family. it's the last time they'll carry out the holiday tradition. "three, two, one. hey! merry christmas, everybody!" obama and their youngest daughter sash for the tree- lighting ceremony. the celebration includes a concert with kelly clarkson, marc anthony and garth brooks. the national christmas tree has been a washington tradition for more than 90 years. the first such ceremony occurred under president calvin coolidge back in 19-23. a family is hitting a grand slam this year with their christmas ra sandwich as full of intrigue as it is fla

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alive in that time during the kennedy years and john glenn became the small town ohio expression of camelot, if you will. he wasn't the fancy guy from the fancy family in the east, he didn't go to choate and harvard. he was a guy from small town ohio who became a hero to the world and to all america. he was himself a fulfillment of the kennedy promise. that's what gave him the original lift -- >> bobby asked him to. >> first with bobby kennedy. >> didn't he seem more like a republican? seemed to me if he had a different set of friends, he might have gone the other party. >> i don't think it was political. it was who he was. >> space typically has been very bipartisan. that's what he grew up with and stayed where he was. grounded. >> he was somebody who actually rejected this notion of identity politics. he was somebody who was an mensch icon, an american hero. one of the reasons he didn't do better in 1984 is because walter mondale understood identity politics better than he did and he was running a different kind of campaign. he was running as the america can, we can win guy. >> what was b

new at the movies, could the new film about camelot beganner a new oscar for natalie portman. >> portman the first lady in the days immediately following her husband's assassination. jamie yuccas has a preview. >> reporter: in the dark days after president kennedy's assassination, the first lady showed both dignity and back bone. natalie portman takes on the role in the new film jackie. >> scary, because people, when people are so familiar with someone, then you really feel like you are almost setting yourself up for failure. >> reporter: the movie focuses on the immediate aftermath of complex portrait of the first lady. still soaked in her husband's blood, she knows it's up to her to define his legacy. >> we will have a procession and i will walk to the cathedral behind his casket. >> reporter: she's well aware she's writing a page to the history book. >> i think she understood history so well and understood people need symbols and ritual and people need this sort of cultural identity. >> why are you doing this, mrs. kennedy? >> i'm just doing my job. >> reporter: as first lady, she was

38-31, welcome back to camelot!y in the history of the big ten championship, james franklin and the nittany lions, 38-31 over wisconsin. let's go down the to shannon for the taste of winning sponsored by coca-cola. >> shannon: another huge play from grant haley, oh, my goodness, there were so many emotions of this game particularly in the second half. what were the emotions in your defense on that fourth down pla play? speak of the team battled the whole year of the first game to last game, we didn't know we, we knew we had to come out and what we were going to do. physical and offense, everybody just hit their gaps hard, sugared well and stop them. >> shannon: all season long, you guys have watched barkley do his thing, what'd you think about what trace mcsorley did had tonight? >> he's a winner, he's been waiting since high school. he's a leader of our team, when things don't go well, he's good to be the one to talk of the locker room. he's a vocal leader, you can see it on the field. everyone respects him, the th

38-31, welcome back to camelot! the greatest comeback victory in the history of the big ten championship, james franklin and wisconsin. let's go down the to shannon for the taste of winning sponsored by coca-cola. >> shannon: another huge play from grant haley, oh, my goodness, there were so many emotions of this game particularly in the second half. what were the emotions in your defense on that fourth down pla play? speak of the team battled the whole year of the first game to last game, we didn't know we, we knew we had to come out and what just hit their gaps hard, sugared well and stop them. >> shannon: all season long, you guys have watched barkley do his thing, what'd you think about what trace mcsorley did had tonight? >> he's a winner, he's been waiting since high school. he's a leader of our team, when things don't go well, he's good to be the one to talk of the locker room. he's a vocal leader, you can see it on the field. everyone respects him, the things he does it's truly tremendous. >> shannon: all se

. >> it is camelot. >> was it overwhelming to become her because i'm telling you, young lady, you weres overwhelming. it was scary to play someone so well men that people are so attached to. natalie portman became attached to this role. >> jack, i love you jack. >> to consider her emotional landscape, and her intelligence was a real opportunity. >> reporter: billy cutof the play ace journalist who jackie opens up her doors to after yfk's death. she said portman's portrayal is on point. >> is there a person case that is undeniable, she has power, she has grace, she has the authority. you know that she cane vice rate you with a look and stop you cold. >> people leave and what i know to be real. >> how would you you like him to be remembered. >> why are you doing this, mrs. kenty. >> most challenging part of this entire project, for you personally was what. >> i think doing the assassination scenes the worst. it is not a part of history that you really want to relive and acting level it is very hard when you have an idea what people did exactly but you are trying to replicate and bring tr

modern day camelot. jamie cc >>> welcome back, everyone. before the election mortgaee? rates were a concern. now the rates have gone up. >> here totell ?e:hwhat it mean analyst jill ??schlesinger. happy december. why have the rates gone up to quickly? >> reporter: longer term ?? mortgages key off the treasury, and these yields closed at ??2. yesterday, the worst month for government bonds in seven years. here's what's going ??on, investors believe that president-elect trump's will heat up the economy. but that will prompt ??the fed hike rates more quickly and that will put an end to the era of ??ultralow interest rates. average contract industry for for a conforming rate increased 4.23%. it'7o)hby nearly 0.75 of a percent since the election. home purchase plans before rates go higher? >> reporter: i would say this is ??the most frequently asked question of the last week for me here. presuming you have run your numbers and it still makes ?? sense, yes. look, these rates are going to continue to rise next year most likely. but still, i ??don't want you t be so spooked, be

is this camelot 2.0? i'll ask robert f. kennedy jr. >>> meanwhile the president-elect tells the tech titans this today. >> we have no formal chain of command around here. >> no formal chain of command, what will that mean once donald trump takes the oath after office in just 37 days? let's get right to cnn's phil mattingly live for us outside of trump tower where he will be stationed for a while now. and has been. phil, good evening to you. titans of tech were at turn tower today. what else can you tell us? >> reporter: well, what's interesting, don, is this aren't natural allies. if you look over the course of the last 15 months on a number of different policy issues, the tech community and tech campaign split rather sharply and frankly on the support, itself. they also did. if you look at some of the individuals who are in the room, tim cook, sheryl sandberg, eric schmidt, not just opposed to donald trump, supported and in many cases raised money for hillary clinton. today they're willing to try to put that aside. you tal

she took in telling her own family story and her own family legacy, that she was the one who coined camelot, which is wild. and very ahead of her time. >> reporter: while john f. kennedy is barely seen in the film, robert kennedy is at fist forefront. a roll peter sars gard nearly turned down. >> you said you don't like playing real people. how do you end up with this role? >> i did this movie in spite of it. when i was first offered it, i did not want to do it. people are just going to be mark of perfection, sounding like him. and i don't -- it's not what i do. >> reporter: but critics are loving sars gard has bobby, one of the few characters that jackie confides in. yet it's her relationship with the unnamed reporter played by billy crude-up that gives us some of the film's best moments. >> i'm saying, jack? jack, can you hear me? jack, i love you, jack. >> i'm guessing you won't allow me to write any of >> no. because i never said that. >> what makes her a great figure is not that she's an idol or an icon, or an arc type, it's that she's a human being who had to suffer through something

. >> camelot, high school musical. ea9). >> good. >>> thank you so much for joining us today with hope to see you again tomro >>> this morning on "today's" take. madonna makes a surprise confession during car pool karaoke. sfwlmpblts crash course in motherhood. not one, but six kids. plus the sweet sound of baby james. five-time grammy winner james taylor, right now. >>> from nbc news, this is "today's" take. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> this is thursday morning, december 8, 2016, and we are here and somebody is feeling a little grinchy right now. >> my christmas has been ruined. i'm just going -- >> not yet. it's only december 8th. >> i think you need to clarify

38-31, welcome back to camelot! the greatest comeback victory in the history of the big ten championship, james franklin and wisconsin. let's goow by coca-cola. >> shannon: another huge play from grant haley, oh, my goodness, there were so many emotions of this game particularly in the second half. what were the emotions in your defense on that fourth down pla play? speak of the team battled the whole year of the first game to last game, we didn't know we, we knew we had to come out and what we were going to do. just hit their gaps hard, sugared well and stop them. >> shannon: all season long, you guys have watched barkley do his thing, what'd you think about what trace mcsorley did had tonight? >> he's a winner, he's been waiting since high school. he's a leader of our team, when things don't go well, he's good to be the one to talk of the locker room. he's a vocal leader, you can see it on the field. everyone respects him, the things he does it's truly tremendous. >> shannon: all season long it's been about focusi

. >> i always -- >> -- very interesting they call camelot of san francisco. >> i always thought you were behind the operation. just my view. >> he wouldn't dispute that is he very generous in his praise and opinion of me. so he is now lieutenant governor and is he running for governor of california. >> interesting. >> and that's when we had the royals there. kimberly's royal segment. prince charles and camilla that was their first official visit to the united states and they selected three cities and we were lucky enough to host them in san francisco for a number of days. woe had a wonderful time and prince charles is so fabulous and very generous. he used to give me his extra deserts all the time because he didn't finish them. are you going to finish that? i will take a bite. >> did you have a program? were you for literacy or gardening or no you were busy being a prosecutor. >> he likes assistance farming. funny you say that working as purity i took a leave of absence because they said that's too much power on one mattress. d.a. and mayor. essentially what happened was we ended up havi

camelot, follow me, the lusty month of may. >> lin-manuel miranda: lusty month of may.'m bewitched by you so." >> rose: how can you have so many songs in your head? >> lin-manuel miranda: because i had a lot of time on my hands. >> rose: so many songs in your head. >> lin-manuel miranda: um, yeah, well these were. >> rose: do you have room for anything else in your head? >> lin-manuel miranda: i mean, i don't know my social security number. >> rose: he graduated from wesleyan university in 2002 with a degree in theater arts. that's where he began working on a show about his old neighborhood. >> ♪ lottery ticket, just part of the routine, ♪ everybody's got a job, everybody's got a dream. >> rose: it turned into miranda's first broadway show. "in the heights" won the 2008 tony for best musical. two months later, he picked up ron chernow's book during a vacation. >> lin-manuel miranda: this is what i knew from high school. i knew hamilton died in a duel with the vice president. i knew he was on the $10 bill. but really, i was just browsing the biography section. it could h

is this camelot 2.0?

and john glenn became the small town ohio expression of camelot, if you will.e wasn't the fancy guy from the fancy family in the east. he didn't go to harvard. he was a guy from small town ohio who became a hero to the world and to all of america. so politically, it was -- he was, himself, a kind of fulfillment of the kennedy promise. that's what gave him the original lift to get into politics. >> bobby asked him to. >> first with robert f. kennedy, campaigned with robert f. kennedy, and where i came was covering him in the senate and his presidential campaign. >> and you know who understood that being near a hero could benefit him politically was john kennedy and bobby kennedy. when he got back, they instantly befriended him and they launched his career. >> didn't he seem more like a republican to you guys? i never thought of him as a lefty, certainly. but it seems to me if he had a different set of friends, he might have gone to the other party. >> i don't think it was political. it's just who he was. >> space typically has been very bipartisan. i think he ju

. >> so todd talks about what the per-capita cap as a potential he uses the words camelot. >> like to tell you stories until of cows come home. >> as the general counsel's office. [laughter] we will not call those scams >> but everybody in the audience knows in their state as a taxpayer it is outrageous debt is much money as you can i do not blame them. >> but in terms of what tom is talking about, focusing on us potential and his explanation is that might seem attractive so what are your thoughts with the significant legislative changes? >> first it is hard to argue that there will be a fight with medicaid expansion of you have 17 states for those that did not really expanded to take advantage of that match to see what happens there but in terms of cms if you look at indiana plan that was approved and 2015 and who was involved in the development so to start you may say what would happen on that medicaid side? but in terms of working with governors is to develop the model waiver in this instance i suspect could be a lot more personal responsibility more premium or copayment you have t

and israel are sharing but camelot from bridge colonialism that predated the state. there is a lot of research out there. you can actually trace military tactics that to call new. we see a stream of information about how to oppress people in horrible ways who are just trying to live their lives. we want to say it is unacceptable that the police and the military are targeting people in this way. this is one example of what folks have been doing. the best example, an incredible collaboration by organizations in oakland to kick out a key example of this work literally outside the city. it is unacceptable care what happened was natural disaster byponders were being trained israeli companies and officials. information being told people as opposed to respond to earthquakes or the natural disasters. militarized the response, taking knowledge from how the israeli government, highly militarized u.s. allies, the knowledge is transferring. an incredible resistance to actually push set out and say this is unacceptable and like, we can minute -- mimic that in our own communities

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and branding, camelot and all that went with it. >> absolutely. and it's really impressive to see someone then, who was thinking so much about their image, even in a moment when they're -- impressive because she knew how much the image meant to the entire nation and how much it meant symbolically and how much it meant for national identity, what she really terrible moment for her. >> do you think, what would she think of your portrayal? >> i would be terrified. i have reverence for her. and we're not presenting this as a history book. it's not a documentary. it's a lot of imagination involved. >> that's amazing film. and "jackie" hits select >>> coming up, it's feeling like christmas, thanks to the hitman a cappella group, straight, no chaser. they have a performance to get all of ? happy holidays from crayola. so when do i start? um, shouldn't it be "spokes-crayon?" can somebody turn on the a/c? i'm melting here. ?air marker spraayer!!!? chemistry, baby! the holidays just got more surprising. you can find these great gifts and more in the crayola

and branding, camelot and all that went with it. >> absolutely. and it's really impressive to see someone then, who was thinking so much about their image, even in a moment when they're -- impressive because she knew how much the image meant to the entire nation and how much it meant symbolically really terrible moment for her. >> do you think, what would she think of your portrayal? >> i would be terrified. i have reverence for her. and we're not presenting this as a history book. it's not a documentary. it's a lot of imagination involved. >> that's amazing film. and "jackie" hits select theaters tomorrow. >>> all right. we're not going to do weather. here's what's happening in your neck of the woods. >>> . >>> good morning, everybody. there's a check of your five-day forecast. it's breezy in the 40s and 50s now, and that's where we are going to stay for the remainder of the day. chilly this evening if you are going to the national tree lighting, in the 40s with breeze around, and breezy and chilly for friday and saturday, and a chance for late s

and branding, camelot and all that went with it. >> absolutely.ecause she knew how much the image meant to the entire nation and how much it meant symbolically and how much it meant for national identity, what she would construct, even at this really terrible moment for her. >> do you think, what would she think of your portrayal? >> i would be terrified. i have reverence for her. and we're not presenting this as a history book. it's not a documentary. it's a lot of imagination involved. >> that's amazing film. and "jackie" hits select theate tomorrow. rs >>> good morning, i'm meteorologist bill henley. we are drying out this morning. look at the clear skies. lots of sunshine, a few scattered clouds at times, no more rain today. and the temperatures we're starting off mild, it stays mild all day long. 54 degrees in philadelphia. right at 50 degrees for the suburbs and 49 degrees for the lehigh valley. sunshine and a few scattered clouds in delaware. 54 degrees, and new jersey 53 degrees inland, up to 55 degrees at the shore. have a great day. >> t