Making it all the way to california before being captured, tells his story. I had to do something pretty risky and gutsy to prove that these guys that i can handle myself in the community. This morning, the one burning question he wouldnt answer. Those stories, plus growing outrage over a new policy that allowing elephant trophies into the u. S. Ben affleck talks scandals and superheros here in studio 1a. And Country Musics king and queen, tim mcgraw and faith hill, are taking over our plaza for a special live concert. Today, friday, november 17th, 2017. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Country musics king and queen. I know. Sounds pretty good. I thought we were that at halloween. Exactly. We felt that way. This is the real deal. We cant wait to hear tim and faith on our plaza. Well get to that later on. Lets start with our top story. The waves of scandal reaching capitol hill. Al franking now apologizing in t
What they think about the euro zone economy. Lauren stocks ended mixed. The nikkei in japan slightly lower while the kospi and south korea rose another half or 1 as tensions at the northeast. Turning to social media cracks down on hate groups with twitter taking off the daily star were and Mark Zuckerberg failing to remove threats from facebook. We will take a look. Fbn am starts right now. Lauren 85 01 a. M. In new york. Thursday, august 17th. Lea i am trained for and for cheryl. Lauren President Trump disbanded two of his Business Councils following controversial comments. Trump blaming the last as well as White Supremacists and for the mayhem. Lets go to get more. Reporter ken frazier announced he would resign from the president Manufacturing Council. The president continued as the ceo drops he could fill their spots. Wednesday afternoon report circulated a separate group from the strategy and policy forum would be disbanded and the president then try to suggest he was providing bot
Have decided any contest between march 1 and march 15th must award there are delegates in proportionality. Republicans being republicans, they have a looser definition than democrats. So, what that first means is, if you are an republican voter in a state that votes during that time, your vote counts less than a state that votes afterward, just because your vote to delegate ratio is going to be lower. Secondly, for some reason, the very conservative states of the south and the midwest have all decided to lockstep vote in that window. Onality when you read the polls about ted cruz gaining and ted cruz telling you how he will unite all aspects of the movement, he will walk out of those key smallerith a much delegate lead. States more heavily influenced by moderates, particularly in the midwest midwest and northeast have adopted much more winner take all approaches. Someone who wins new jersey will get 51 delegates. For deepave to win Southern States by a large margin to get the 51delegat
Are now massed along the border. The Russian Military has commissioned more than 40,000 troops. They would need only 12 hours to carry out a full scale invasion of ukraine. The white house praising the measured response by the ukrainian government, blasting instead russia and at the same time the Obama White House has ade it clear once again that the United States will not provide military assistance to the ukraine. We are not actively considering military assistance. There is little connection on my about the connection with russia and the armed militants that are provoking this unrest in eastern ukraine. They have a right to maintain the common ordering the country. Russia continues to deny any involvement with those separatists in the eastern region. And today the ukrainian unrest was described as a civil war. While any violence directed at the prorussian separatist will result in russia walking away from the ukraine peace conference that is scheduled for thursday. The russian gover