film, fashion, and music worlds all paid $40,000 each to attend the exclusive get-together. earlier in the day the president and challenger mitt romney were both in ohio and both a little more down to earth talking about the economy and the middle class. nbc s steve handelsman reports. reporter: for the first time on the same day, the president and the challenger went to ohio for dueling speeches. barack obama with students, worried about the economy on his watch. we re all just trying to get a job. we re all just trying to get a future. let s put some folks to work right here at home. reporter: no major new initiatives, but a passionate repeat of main obama themes, taxing the rich more, not cutting, key spending. in an age where we know good jobs depend on high skills. now s not the time to scale back our commitment to education. reporter: he warned a romney win would mean more gridlock. this election is your chance to break that stalemate. if you want to give
he s even going to talk about this today, friday, june 8th, 2012. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this beautiful and very exciting friday morning. i m ann curry. and i m lester holt, in for matt lauer this morning. we ve got a big, big crowd. that s right. because superstar chris brown is going to be perform iing. already across the street lined up all the way back speaking of big crowds, millions will have their eyes on t the belmont stakes this week as i ll have another tries to win the triple crown. natalie morales spent some time at the track. when she wasn t gambling she met up with the trainer and the horse. or she was saying i ll have another. also this morning we ll be talking about a story that s really interesting. the mother of four who essentially she had her stroller stolen. she decided to do something about it. she set up a sting operation and had the suspect arrested in the process she helped the police stop
captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this beautiful and very exciting friday morning. i m ann curry. and i m lester holt in for matt lauer this morning. we ve got a big, big crowd. that s right. because superstar chris brown is going to be performing. already across the street lined up all the way back speaking of big crowds, millions will have their eyes on the belmont stakes this week as i ll have another tries to win the triple crown. natalie morales spent some time at the track. when she wasn t gambling, she met up with the trainer and the horse. or she was saying i ll have another. also this morning, we ll be talking about a story that s really interesting. the mother of four who essentially she had her stroller stolen. she decided to do something about it. she set up a sting operation and had the suspect arrested. in the process, she helped the police stop what they say was a million dollar crime wave. so we re going to
this today, friday, june 8th, he s even going to talk about this today, friday, june 8th, 2012. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this beautiful and very exciting friday morning. i m ann curry. and i m lester holt, in for matt lauer this morning. we ve got a big, big crowd. that s right. because superstar chris brown is going to be perform iing. already across the street lined up all the way back speaking of big crowds, millions will have their eyes on t the belmont stakes this week as i ll have another tries to win the triple crown. natalie morales spent some time at the track. when she wasn t gambling she met up with the trainer and the horse. or she was saying i ll have another. also this morning we ll be talking about a story that s really interesting. the mother of four who essentially she had her stroller stolen. she decided to do something about it. she set up a sting operation and had the suspect arrested in the proc