every week we honor the everyday person to do extraordinary work to help others. we find the amazing people through the nominations, and earlier in the year, we recognize dr. rob gore, the emergency room physician doing anti-violence work in brooklyn and now meet the woman who helped to turn him into a cnn hero. i nominated dr. gore to be a cnn hero, because we grew up together, and then i saw him doing all of the wonderful community work. i am familiar with the cnn heroes, and i m a fan of the sh show. as i was volunteering here, i said to myself, wait a second, cn nshgts heroes and dr. gore and perfect match, and here we are. and i am so proud to to see my friend excel in this way, and show the world what he does. so surreal. so exciting. so rewarding.
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more on this with congressmen from both sides of the aisle coming up a little later in the sh show. president trump is proposing is $54 billion increase in military spending, that s nearly 10%. but he may not have an easy time getting the plan passed. mckinsey is a national security analyst with the american enterprise institute. she joins us live. thank you for joining us. i m glad you re going to break this down. when we heard that he was initially going to take funds from other areas of the budget, if you will and pump it into the military. what was your reaction and how does it impact the overall budget for the military? i think there s a plurality of congress that supports growing the defense budget and building up the military. elizabeth: is this how you would do it though? that s the issue, mr. trump is proposing a partisan way to do it and you re going to need democratic votes to get this passed.
in what was once again an over-the-top performance. imagine dragons electrifying act had taylor swift out of her chair and the twitterverse buzzing. actually, the grammys approached us and said that kendrick had asked to perform with us. so we were already blown away. it wasn t all about new artists. paul mccartney and ringo starr rocked the night with their anticipated reunion. but it was truly a lucky night for daft punk, who gave an all-star performance of their winning hit get lucky alongside pharrell williams and stevie wonder. the electronic duo took home five grammys, including the biggest trophy of the night, album of the year. not everyone, though, was pleased with all aspects of the sh
survey that shows he is the run-away winner as the league s most over-rated coach? the question is, is he? it s way too early for this. good morning. i m willie geist. this is way too early. the show that remains too close to call. glad you re up with us watching on msnbc or listening live on sirius xm radio. you can e-mail me or tweet me. lem know what you re doing up at this hour. or do what david action em rod s mustache does, text the word awake to we ll read the best responses later in the show. this is your cram session for thursday, november 8th, a lot to talk about, including the market s reaction to president obama s re-election. we ll tell you how the business community is feeling about four