The president fires up his base. President trump they are trying to take away our culture. They are trying to take away our history. And our weak leaders, they do it overnight. Robert and throws down an ultimatum to congress. Fund a border wall or else. President trump we have to close down our government, were building that wall. Robert so what happened to the plan to have mexico pay for it . Well get answers and analysis from julie pace of the Associated Press. Jake sherman of politico, Nancy Youssef of the wall street journal, and dan balz of the washington post. Celebrating 50 years, this is Washington Week. Funding is provided by weve all been affected by cancer some way, somehow. Danafarber Cancer Institute is pursuing breakthroughs every day to help end cancer, like identifying genetic mutations for targeted therapies and teaching your immune system to attack cancerous cells. By constantly using information in completely new ways, were cracking the cancer code. Learn more at dis
When he was found hanged in his prison cell. And what a drag. A bizarre scene in california. I dont know whats going on here. A car lodged in the back of a big rig barreling down a highway. The driver desperate for help. Hes not stopping giving the term truck stop a whole new meaning today, thursday, april 20th, 2017. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. Weve got willie in for matt again this morning. I have been playing all my Barry Manilows greatest hits for you. Overdrive this morning. Barry manilow in concert for us. A light rain not keeping barry out of the shades for one thing. How cool is that man . And the crowd on the plaza, well have that coming up later. We have a huge crowd out there. But lets get right to our top story, and it is the stunning fall for one of the biggest stars in cable news. Amid damaging Sexual Harassment allegations,
Next encore booknotes. Jill krementz was a guest on booknotes in 1997 to talk about her book the writers desk a collection of authors and photos photos. Cspan jill krementz, photographer, you have a book out called the writers desk. Whats it all about . Guest its a collection of my photographs over it period of 30 years of writers and i photographed over 1500 rider so of course its not all the writers. My favorite pictures of a lot of the writers at their desks but they are all writers that there had desks or near their desks or behind their desks. Somewhere theres a desk in the picture. Literally or figuratively. Cspan why did you pick this for the covert . Guest i suppose because its one of my favorite photographs. I think its pretty recognizable now so people would know it was my book and because i think that it is a picture about a writer. Its a picture about a writers place and i think you feel looking at that picture that of course this is where she would write. Its like her writ
Republican in congress, eric cantor was in line when john boehner stepped down as speaker of the house. Eric cantor expected to win reelection, looks like he will go down as losing from the right. This was a challenger from the right . It was a challenger from the right. His opponent accused him of not being Strong Enough on immigration, were seeing it become front and center. So the question is what does it mean for those who want a sort of compromise down the road . There are some i would imagine that say this makes the idea of compromise in the next year or two even unlikely. It certainly sends that message. It certainly emboldens the tea party. Well see what happens in the next couple of weeks, where we see a Tea Party Member, in Congress Since 1973. But with cantor we see something very unexpected. Certainly in the house of representatives this will make the Tea Party Movement bolder which has really been frustrated by their lack of wins so far this year. This will be a big win. I
Dana bash, mark presson and gloria borger. Dana, what happened to night . What happened to night is this was a surprise of epic proportions. This is a town where we are right now, that doesnt get phased by much. But everybody im talking to is numb. Is numb from the shock. Because even the challenger didnt really think he was going to win. He said, joking to our deidre walsh that there would be a cnn van pulling up in his drive way. But he didnt really mean it. At the end of the day, eric cantor and people that support him in general election campaigns didnt go out into the primary, didnt go out and to vote. The money he had, 5 million war chest, couldnt beat the 300,000 war chest of his unknown candidate because money cant buy enthusiasm. Mark, how broad does the fallout from this go . Very far. The local implication says that we will see a new congressman from a district north of richmond. National implications are new majority leader in congress. A new lineup of potential successors