casting diane lane as the lovely diane lane as hillary clinton is enough of a tip-off as to where this will go. personally, cast phillip seymour hoffman. >> casting decisions aside, leslie, do you buy the assurances and even if you know they do their best to have projects that don't touch the news division and do have a factual overview of hillary clinton's life, they're inviting some criticism. there are those who will say it just will not be accurate. >> obviously they're inviting criticism. i agree a little bit with howard, a little bit with chris but just a little bit. >> on the casting? >> yes, just a little bit. me on the casting, definitely. my husband is in love with diane lane. he'll watch it just for that, chris. i have to tell you, nbc is perceived by many americans as left leaning. they have entertainment and news. i think honestly, the real identity problem here at least in my opinion is cnn. since the boston bombings, their ratings have come up. they definitely have been looked at again by americans as a news network. for them to have a film division now, look who's runni

i love diane lane!rive down lane. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: that's right, diane lane's going to play hillary clinton in a new miniseries here on nbc, but they haven't cast the role of bill clinton yet. which is interesting, because several members of the roots do a pretty decent bill clinton. guys want to give it a shot? quest, you want to try it? >> questlove: yeah. sure. all right. [ as bill clinton ] "i did not have sexual relations with that woman." [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that's pretty good. tariq, you want to give it a try? [ as bill clinton ] >> tariq: i did not have sexual relations with that woman. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that was really good. that's really good. kamal? [ as bill clinton ] >> oh, i totally had sexual relations with that woman. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: thank you. never mind. [ laughter ] >> steve: oy. >> jimmy: you guys may have heard, last week the royal baby was born. did you guys hear about this? the royal baby fever is dyin

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>> the diane lane mini series combings um. starts in 1998.he full flower of the monica lewenski scandal. >> i don't think it's going to help her at all. networks are doing this. can you kiss a politician's butt so far. at the end of the day you have got to get ratings and make money. >> bret: hillary clinton is the talk these days. a little early to be talking 2016 politics but she is the talk because of a number of different reasons not the mention a cnn documentary series. be a dean and anthony weiner story. you have a number of stories. plus, you look at the latest polls as you look at polls 2016 on the democratic side. hillary clinton at 55% in the average real clear politics polls. we are back with the panel. what about this? is all of this attention now a bad thing? kirsten? >> i don't think it makes any difference. i can't imagine that come the election many, many years down the road that anybody is going to be looking back at what's happening right now. especially talking about the scandal, you you know, with her aide and her husband

start measuring diane lane for the pant suits just now. the actress just got the nod to play hillary clinton in an nbc mini series scheduled to air just before the 2016 election. i'm sure that's entirely a coincidence. >>> welcome back to "the lead." in world news, before there was edward snowden, there was bradley manning. tomorrow the former u.s. army intelligence officer who showed the world military secrets will learn his fate when it's handed down in a verdict from a military judge. he has spent the last three years in detention, including months in solitary confinement for leaking three quarters of a million documents to quik leaks. he could spend the rest of his life behind bars under the charge of aiding the enemy. so what does the man who leaked all of this to the world think of this? julian assange joins me. we're less than 24 hours of finding out manning's fate. you're not in jail, which is where manning may find himself living out the rest of his life. do you feel any responsibility, any sense of guilt? what are your feelings o

. >> and diane lane playing her. >> huge. >> she's adorable. >> she is. yeah. diane lane or hillary clinton? >> the similarity is striking. both gorgeous women. can i bring up one point about weiner, spent $45,000 to look into, hired investigator to look into the sexting, as though he hadn't done it himself, spent 43 grand to falsely investigate a coverup that he was covering up, which has to be illegal. that's like -- >> with his own money? >> i don't know, who knows. bill clinton telling the secret service to investigate a strange man having sex in the oval office. oh, it might be me. >> narrow the pool down. >> the other lesson in that is that if you're going to college in a month, study cyber security, become a private investigator, get 45 grand to help these guys out. >> thriving business in new york, by the way, private investigators. >> girlfriend hiring investigators to attract the boyfriend? >> because of divorce laws, it is incredible. >> one quick point. bill clinton is so popular, i think it has faded. your point about well, he may have set us all u

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the peacock network will air a four-hour miniseries about hillary clinton starring diane lane. >> do you see it? can you picture it? >> she can work it out. she's a great actress. >> i want to see her with the makeup on. curious. >> they are also working on "cleopatra." this will recount the highs and lows of the former secretary of state going back to 1998 to the president. >>> the "sharknado" is expected to be in movie theaters august 2. for on night only fans can get a fix on a midnight showing on approximately 200 silver screens. >> i'd only go if it was 3-d. >> funny stuff. talk about being born with a silver spoon in your mouth. in the last two months the stork has delivered a bevy of baby millionaires. kanye west and kim kardashian's north tops the list with a net worth of $140 million followed by jessica simpson, penelope cruz and javier bardem. they just dropped a cool million to furnish their home with six beds worth $175,000. sleep well, my friends. i'm richard lui. this is "early today." we hope it is just your first stop of the day today on nbc. >>> leading the news in "

diane lane will be starring as the first lady. the role of bill clinton has not yet been cast. that's your morning dish of scrambled politics. >>> heavy rain in philadelphia broke the record for one-day rainfall on sunday. over seven inches of rain fell within four hours causing road closures and flooding throughout the city. . a flash flood warning has been issued for areas in pennsylvania and delaware. meteorologist bill karins joins us with all the latest. >> it wasn't that widespread. philly just got nailed. it was the most rain they had seen in 140 years in one day. more than any hurricane that's moved through the area. eight inches of rain is too much for any location. you'll get some pretty crazy flooding. it's amazing that it wasn't widespread. everyone else had a quarter inch. all the rain and gloomy weather has pretty much exited. a lo of clouds are lingering in new england. the sun will poke out and drier air will move in during the day. the big weather story will be a tropical storm heading for a very unusual place, hawaii. the storm does not look as impressive toda

. >> diane lane. the lovely diane lane. >> i bet people in hollywood were chomping at the bit. very often you don't get a big name from film to come over to tv but in this case, you can imagine maybe why they wanted to do that. we're not sure who will be playing bill clinton. >> but we're sure about the timing of it. it will come out in 2015, 2016. >> four part series. >> and also making the rodham movie at the same time. they don't have an actress to play in the big screen version of it. >> diane lane has been in pretty big movies. >> what was the one with richard geir? >> unfaithful? with the snow globe and all of that. >> i don't remember. just pull out imdb. let's check in with janice in for rick with a look at our forecast this morning. >> nice to see you. i'm in the studio. i love it. we'll do it all the time i hope. we have the potential for showers and thunderstorms across the southwest. an incredible rainfall across the east coast. we have this frontal boundary on the move and we also have moisture across the atlantic streaming in so flooding potential is quite large a

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over the weekend, they confirmed green lighting a four hour television series which will star diane laneher most recent movie "man of steel." she will star as. former secretary of state. it will begin in 1998 with clinton in the white house and go through her years as a senator and then secretary of state. no air date yet but nbc hoping to get it on the air before clinton announces a run for the white house. >> bill: yeah, right. otherwise it could be a little awkward. >> pretty good commercial. >> pog tour star hunter may happen made it clear what's important in life. he was halfway through a tournament victory saturday at the rbc canadian open where he quit while holding the lead because his wife went into labor. had he held the lead through yesterday, he would have won a million dollar paycheck but he was in the delivery room instead and became dad to a healthy baby girl. he thanked all of his sponsors for appreciating what's important in life and supporting his decision to leave the tournament. >> bill: good for him. you wouldn't have done it. >> i didn't say that. >> bill: i see tha

diane lane has been casted to play hillary clinton.et the liberals in hollywood were chomping at the bit to figure out who was going to play hillary clinton. usually very often you don't end up seeing big actors or actresses from the silver screen coming down to television but not the case. >> i think a lot of people would like to play the role of a bill clinton and hillary clinton because they have been fascinating to watch, although sometimes a tres bizarre when you see bill clinton and the days at the white house. you were talking about bill clinton and the president, the bill clinton speech during the campaign is probably what saved his campaign. >>steve: absolutely. some at the time were going why would he come to the rescue of barack obama at this point because mitt romney was right there with him, and it looks like a deal was done, some said behind closed doors. some said i'm going to do this but you've got to support hillary, and it kind of looks like that. this four-hour mini series, two things that probably won't be in it: be

. >>> diane lane is flipping on the pant suits.hillary" follow the secretary of state from the monica lewinsky scandal through the present day. a couple things with this, guys, they don't know who is going to play bill clinton. >> i didn't think about that. >> the number two thing, when is s it going it be released? if she decides to run in 2016, could it be seen as a ad? >> intriguing stories. >> make you think at the beginning of the week. >> hillary rodham clinton is feeling good about diane lane playing her. >> i like that casting. >> always a pleasure. >>> coming up here on "new day" he is caught up in a unique custody battle that could change the rules when it comes to parental rights when it comes to sperm donors. we'll hear from jason patric live. >>> record rainfall in the east as hawaii is bracing for tropical storm flossie. to the next level to takee you're ready for roc® new roc® multi correxion has an exclusive 5 in 1 formula it's clinically proven to hydrate dryness, illuminate dullness lift sagging diminish the look

diane lane will play the role of hillary clinton. see you both later. [laughter] patti ann?"happening now" is coming up at the top of the hour, and jon scott has a preview for us. jon: i am waiting for that miniseries that hemmer just described there. looks like a war is shaping up, patty ann, between president obama and congress over the budget and raising the debt ceiling. it is the real blockbuster this summer. karl rove weighs in on that. plus, bret baier on the mainstream media. are they dropping the ball on the irs scandal? bob cusack is here to discuss the president's health care overhaul, and are peace talks really possible between the israelis and palestinians? a big announcement from secretary john kerry just minutes away. we'll have it for you, "happening now." patti ann: jon scott, thanks. bill: we'll get you a dvd copy of that series, all right? for you special. [laughter] pennsylvania path well, are you craving some fast food for lunch? i know you're not, you eat healthy. not so fast, why there may be no one there to take your order today. bill: also, scientist

create a mini series about the former secretary of state ahead of the 2016 presidential election and diane lanethe first lady, but the role of bill clinton has yet to be cast. >>> developing now sh, the char have been filed against the driver of the boat that crashed into the bridge on the hudson friday leaving a bride-to-be missing and katy tur joins us. before we get to the charges, and are the authorities expected to speak in a few minutes? do you know what they are going to talk about? >> they are talking at 1:15 and unclear what they will talk about whether they have recovered the second body. right now they have found a b y body, and many believe it is the bride lindsey stewart, and they are searching for the best man on the boat 30-year-old mark lennon and they and four others were faking a short trip across the hudson when all of the sudden the speedboat crashed into a barge under the tappan zee bridge. the bride and four others were sent into the water, and four others seriously injured. that includes the groom-to-be, and he has such injuries he cannot speak. and the driver is jo-jo jo

it will star diane lane.: don't we all? zack in madison. >> caller: hey, guys, thanks for keeping me sane while i'm unemployed. i was going to make the call the previous caller did. we don't know are they in a -- an open relationship or a monogamichigan relationship. i don't know what kind of country we live in when politicians can pass laws where we can detain people indefinitely without trial and somebody sends [ bleep ] pictures. >> stephanie: speaking of politics, senator john mccain's daughter megan getting her own tv show. raising mccain on the pivot channel. i wonder if she will invite dad on. >> we can't bash heads like we used to. >> stephanie: there's episode one. [ ♪ "nbc nightly news" ] >> stephanie: launching august 1st. >> channel 1,6 2k 1. >> i think that's taken. >> not much room. >> stephanie: wow. we've been talking about the pope and how he's been poping. [ ♪ "nbc nightly news" ] you think that it's a little too good, chris. you suspect him. >> yeah. usually when we get good news after good

we do know that actress diane lane will portray clinton in the mini series.here. the movie will open in the white house in 1998, the year when president clinton's relationship with monica lewinsky went public. >>> and presidecongress is plan leave washington for summer recess. congressmen going into campaign mode. let's start off with the timing for president obama here. he's got a couple of battles he's got to prepare for with congress, the debt ceiling one of them, and the budget as well. how is he doing this? >> huge battles. right now the timing is key because a lot of people think the first year after a president's election is often when the presidents have the most muscle and maybe even the most ability, and next year we've got congressional elections, and after that, i hate to even mention it, we'll start talking about 2016. so the first year after an election, with all the issues hanging over him, may be the window for president obama, but it sure is closing. so he's moving fast. in fact, he's moving right now this week. let's take a look at the sched

and new a mini series in the works with diane lane portraying clinton and a documentary about clintonon cnn. >> it's largely friendship that's on the agenda for the lunch today. >> reporter: just how close are they? two of obama's 2012 campaign strategists are now on board the ready for hillary super pac. but the big question is will president obama campaign for her if she announces a run. now, clinton aides say the lunch at least yesterday between hillary clinton and president obama came together when the clintons and the obamas met where but in texas earlier this year at the dedication of the george w. bush presidential library. >> that must mean something. thank you for all the reporting. joining me now, ana navarro and paul begala. ana, i'll start with you. hillary has cut her hair. what does it mean? >> it means she's preparing for something. we watch everything that hillary clinton does. everybody is assuming she's the pre-candidate, the nominee for the democrat side. i think it's a bit practiematur. i think she's tired. she's done a lot. and we may be reading just a little bit

this is slated to be a four-part movie starring diane lane and will recount clinton's final years up think bill. >> he played it a couple of times. >> he's got the eyes. >> i could see that. >> and my monica lewinsky, elizabeth moss from mad men. >> what do you think nat? >> i was going john travolta. and then olivia munn for monica lewinsky. what do you think? >> woody harelson for bill clinton and katy perry. >> turn it into a musical. there's a thought. >> trending on the website of usa today, from first family to family firsts, golfer hunter mahan was leading a tour event this weekend when he got a call his wife candy was in labor. he was ahead by two strokes at the canadian open but it made no difference. he left the tournament and hopped a flight. what a whirlwind of the day but i'm happy to announce the birth of my daughter zoe olivia mahan. he also thanks his sponsors for understanding what's important in life. >> once in a lifetime. >> would anyone stay and pick up the money. >> no, but there should be a trophy for having your priorities straight. he gets a prize for that. >

. >>> the famous case of the murder on lover's lane was finally closed. justice diane, carole took the kids to live in colorado where she found work as a sheriff's deputy. to help erase bill from their live, they all started using carole's maiden name. >> she did her best to take care of us. >> were you all pretty close. >> yes, very close. >> ron who was 9 back then lived in the shadow of his father's crime. >> i was ashamed. i didn't want anyone to know who my father was. new kid out of state, didn't know anybody. we even told people that he didn't live with us or that he was dead. >> but as the years went by, hard questions about his father still cluttered his mind. >> there were a few times that i thought about writing my father and never got the guts to do it. >> what would you have written to him? what would you have said. >> well, i don't know. i probably think one of the first questions, why did you do this to us? >> and bill macumber wasn't going anywhere. >> i think i pretty much gave up. >> did you get to see your boys? >> i saw them one time. >> he sent doz