Nightly News | January 24, 2013
Obama’s uninvited guest: a pesky housefly
A giant black fly joined in on the festivities as President Obama announced his nominations for head the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.
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>>> with temperatures in washington hovering in the 20s, what may be the last surviving house fly of the winter season was hovering in the white house today, and had an encounter with the president during a press event.
>> that's why today i am nominating mary jo white to lead the security and exchange commission , and richard cordray to continue leading the consumer financial protection bureau. this guy is bothering me here.
>> the incident left us with this unfortunate still photo of the president. and while we presume secret service wrestled the offender to the ground, the president has a history with flies, famously dispatching one during an interview with our own john harwood .