appear nine, ten hours later in the u.s., people are wondering whether social media helps or hurts. nbc s saying it helps. people can see the results ahead of time, then they want to see how it unfolds on tv, hour it plays. the numbers are good. advertisers are happy. we re talking 20 million to 25 million people a night. look, that was always a question how does it work when you pretape something and then play it later. a lot of people don t realize, howard, you and i taped this interview a year ago. two years ago actually. right. you look great. you know, i m trying to hold it together, ari. that s all we can do here. howard bragman, thank you as always. we ll turn to another corner of the web, today s tweet of the day comes from kate hansen, who tweeted out this video and wrote, wolf in my home, sash sochi problems, #sochifail. you can check it out. more than likely to be a large husky type dog, one of many
who wouldn t. he joked in eight years they never lost his baggage. lol. w. also said he misses saluting the veterans. and the democratic candidate for texas governor wendy davis has found a new source for campaign cash, ted nugent. the campaign is hoping his comments could support voters to support davis. that wraps up this hour of jansing & company. i am ari melber in for chris jansing. the one, the only, craig melvin is up next. but she loved it so much. i told her it was homemade. everyone tells a little white lie now and then. but now she wants my recipe [ clears his throat ] [ softly ] she s right behind me isn t she? [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. 800,000 hours of supercomputing time, 3 million lines of code, 40,000 sets of eyes, or a million sleepless nights. whether it s building
their own salutes to a lot of their classic figures as well as some of the new ones. it s interesting you mentioned the gender divide. there are certainly many images of beautiful women that don t have that same divide, that don t have the criticism as you re finding from women online, partly because of the issues around objectify case. but if we re talking about sports and sports illustrated, we can talk about real sports, too, howard. the winter games in sochi r wrapping up. how is that playing? if you remember a few weeks ago before the beginning of the olympics it was trending about 2-1 negative. now it s 2-1 positive, which is great numbers. good news for nbc and people love the olympics, we re not talking about terrorism, we re not talking about problems in the hotel rooms in sochi. we re talking about great stories of great athletes. the american hockey team, bode miller s dramatic story. these are the kind of things that are trending. ari, there is one interesting part of t
nothing can reverse copd. spiriva helps me breathe better. does breathing with copd weigh you down? don t wait to ask your doctor about spiriva. today in sochi, a battle for gold in hockey and figure skating. let s go right to it in sochi with msnbc s chris jansing. chris, tonight is the gold medal event for women s figure skating. how do the americans stand going into this final performance? reporter: they re still in the hunt, ari. that s the big news. i ll tell you, they didn t disappoint with the short program last night. yuna kim, who was expected to be in the lead, the defending champion from south korea, skated beautifully, but then everything went kind of haywire.
let me tell you where the americans stand. gracie gold, who had to fight for several of her landings, this is something she s learned from her new coach, the legendary frank carroll, and she said she was not going to be denied landing those jumps, she s in fourth. she is in the hunt far medal. and so is ashley wagner. she is a scrapper, a fighter. she has indicated that from sixth place the only way she can get on that podium is to try something crazy. now, what s crazy in figure skating? a jump or combination of jumps you have not done in international competition before. for her that would likely be the triple axel, kind of an all or nothing, i m going to go for it. we ll see if she does it tonight. i think, ari, this is going to be one of those extraordinary memorable competitions, unlike the men who were falling one after another, most of the women not only managed to stay on their feet but skated some pretty amazing programs last night. we ll see what happens tonight. yeah. you