It well check in with our road warriors covering the election in virginia, arizona, and well reunite our 2016 road warrior team to share their fresh reporting on the 2020 race the gang is getting back together with one exception, a notable one here our friend kristen welker, part of the 2016 road warrior team, shes a little busy these days preparing to moderate a president ial debate. Successful road warrior graduate lets dig in with our current crop, nbcs mike memoli following the Biden Campaign in hermantown, minnesota, near Lake Superior nbc Garrett Haake is in midge gee, minnesota and nbcs Hallie Jackson, one of my fellow 2016 road warriors, now the chief white house correspondent, shes with us, too welcome everybody. As voting begins in some places around the country, mike memoli, let me start with you. The Biden Campaign, joe biden set to be in duluth today on the shores of Lake Superior looking at a clinton state here barely in 2016. Youre in a part of the state where donald tru
Hostage were evacuated alive but they died of their wounds en route to a u. S. Navy ship. Defense secretary chuck hagel in afghanistan today addressed the rescue missions difficulties. This mission, which there will be more detail forthcoming, was extremely wellexecuted. It was a very dangerous and complicated mission. But like always in these efforts, there is risk. Somers, a photojournalist, was abducted in yemens capital back in 2013. South african teacher who was also killed was seized in may of 2013. Nbcs Kristen Welker is at the white house for us with the very latest on this. What are you hearing from there at 1600 pennsylvania . Reporter alex, ive been talking to Senior Administration officials and they tell me once that video of luke somers was released on thursday in which aqap terrorists threatened to kill him, officials determined based on that and other intelligence, that he would be killed on saturday. So that set off a chain of highlevel meetings at the department of def
Two of the three most recent polls in ohio show trump in the lead there. And here in florida, its not even close. Trump holds massive leads over mu marco rubio ahead of tonights debate. And the president is weighing in again, at a joint press conference a short time ago with canadian Prime Minister justin trude trudeau. President obama was asked about the current political climate. He lashed back at the suggestion that he himself contributed to the overall negative political tone across the country and the rise of donald trump. But he did say that negative environment is a place where donald trump can thrive. He called out several candidates by name and then this. The tone of that politics, which i certainly have not contributed to, i have not you know, i dont think that i was the one to prompt questions about my birth certificate, for example. What youre seeing within the Republican Party is to some degree all those efforts over a course of time, creating an environment where somebody
And for that crucial debate tonight ahead of the next round of super tuesday voting. We are going to have a big i think were going to be a fantastic week. At this point our campaign has beaten donald trump not once, not twice, not three times, but eight separate times. Anyone tells you, oh, marco rubio is getting out you tell them you heard it from me, they are lying to you. You knock them out. If you knock him out nothing can happen. You want to go for a knockout. Id rather go for a knockout. When the Opposition Union nice donald loses. Everybody that has hit me has gone down. It is true we havent done as well in some of those states as we wanted to but its going to come down to florida for me. The only guy who can beat donald trump is ted cruz. I dont have any steaks to sell. I dont know whether you noticed or not but i refuse to get down in the mud to be elected president of the United States. Okay . Do you pledge that on tuesday you will go and we will make America Great again and
Grabs in republican answers winner take all. And right now it is all about donald trump. He leaves the three most recent major polls by wide margins here in florida and of course this is marco rubios home state. Remember, he is a sitting u. S. Senator from here. And then over in ohio, tuesdays other big prize where john kasich serves as governor, trump leads in two of these recent polls. That may be surprising considering a wall street journal poll which shows 25 of voters nationwide have a favorable opinion compared to 64 unfavorable. That the largest our poll has ever seen for a prominent candidate. A safe bet president obama is one of those with an unfavorable opinion. During joint fuse conference with canadian prim minister, he slammed donald trump and two other candidates by name. In fact in terms of his positions on a whole range of issues, they arent very different from any of the other candidates. It is not as if there is a massive difference between mr. Trumps position on immi