Wednesday, february 17th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a tuesday morning. Im savannah and we have willie in for matt this morning. Well talk to donald trump in a couple minutes. Hes taking fire from a sitting president and two former president s in this campaign. Not to mention all his rivals. A lot to talk about in politics, fresh polls, as well. Our top story, the major showdown between the federal government and apple. This after apple declined to give access to encrypted content on San Bernardino shooters syed farooks iphone. Apple is asked to help the fbi get the data. Officials say this may be the key as to who suspects were doing at the time of the shooting. They say they need the key to the phone in order to make progress. Reporter a federal judge tuesday ordered tech giant apple to help the fbi unlock the iphone of San Bernardino mass shooter syed f
Its not promotion, its not marketing. Its hard. And this is what mr. Trump reacted to when he was told of the president s remarks. Reality show is not promotion, is not marketing, its hard. Thats from president obama. [ crowd boos] this man has done such a bad job and for him to say that is a great compliment. Your arer lucky i didnt run last time when romney ran because you would have been a oneterm president. But he soon turned his attention to fellow republican, ted cruz. Ted cruz who i think is totally unfit be to president , but these are minor details. Meanwhile in columbia, south carolina, cruz had his own take on the job. You know, people will be for thinking at times it seems like a bit of a circus. The time for games is over. We need a leader whos prepared to be commander in chief. [ applause ] when radical islamic terrorists wage jihad on the United States of america, the answer is not to tweet insults at them. And cruz picked up two big indorsements, kansas congressman tim,
And meet c. J. He beat out more than 3,000 dog fweez name s it be named best in show. Early today starts right now. Closing in on the South Carolina primary, republicans push back against critics. In the latest poll, the donald has a 12 point lead over sep nator ted cruz and jeb in a disappointing fourth place trailing marco rubio. President obama weighed in on the race and a direct shot at the frontrunner, donald trump. Being president is a serious job. Its not hosting a talk show. Or a reality show. Its not promotion, its not marketing. Its hard. And this is what mr. Trump reacted to when he was told of reality show is not promotion, is not marketing, its hard. Thats from president obama. [ crowd boos] this man has done such a bad job and for him to say that is a great compliment. Your arer lucky i didnt run last time when romney ran because you would have been a oneterm president. But he soon turned his attention to fellow republican, ted cruz. Ted cruz who i think is totally unfit
The frontrunner, donald trump. Being president is a serious job. Its not hosting a talk show. Or a reality show. Its not promotion, its not marketing. Its hard. And this is what mr. Trump reacted to when he was told of the president s remarks. Reality show is not promotion, is not marketing, its hard. Thats from president obama. [ crowd boos] this man has done such a bad job and for him to say that is a great compliment. Your arer lucky i didnt run last time when romney ran because you would have been a oneterm president. But he soon turned his attention to fellow republican, ted cruz. Ted cruz who i think is totally unfit be to president , but these are minor details. Carolina, cruz had his own take on the job. You know, people will be forgiven this election season for thinking at times it seems like a bit of a circus. The time for games is over. We need a leader whos prepared to be commander in chief. [ applause ] when radical islamic terrorists wage jihad on the United States of ame
News first at 6 00. An indictment in a brutal and gruesome murder in a d. C. Mansion. Daron wint is facing nearly two dozen charges for holding a family hostage and then torturing and killing them before he set that house on fire. Jackie bensen has been looking through the indictment and has details now from our live desk. This is a copy of the indictment we just received it. Just the listing of charges takes up a full page alone. 34yearold daron wint has been in custody since the murders. Now d. C. Grand jury has returned a 20count indictment against him, 12 counts include charges in the murders of amy sav vop louse, phillip, and the familys housekeeper. The indictment charges wint with aggravating circumstances including one finding that the murders were especially heinous, atrocious, or police say wint held the four victims captive for roughly 18 hours inside the familys home. Wipt is accused of being paid a 40,000 ransom and then killing them before setting the house on fire. There