Know you need more ways to show your disapproval on social media today, wednesday, september 16th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Probably the last guy to ask about facebook, but apparently this is a new way to show a wider range of emotions. Yeah, why is there only the like button when people post something thats kind of sad or poignant it feels awkward to press like so maybe there should be an alternative, a dislike button. Socalled. Exactly im longing for the old days of sideways smiley face and frown face but well get into that a little bit. Our top story, politics. The second republican president ial debate hours away. The site this time, the reagan president ial library in california and the man to beat remains donald trump. Were going to talk to the head of the Republican Party in just a moment, but first nbcs National Correspond
Welcome to your world this morning. 2015 is ending with more worries in missouri where rivers keep rising. Major flooding across the reason is responsible for at least 21 deaths, 14 of them in missouri. It has caused widespread evacuations. Water has topped at least 9 levies in the worst flooding this country has seen in more than 20 years. How series has the situation got and where you are this morning . Serious reporter Mother Nature wins again. Look here west of st louis, it is a close to a record of 20 feet above flood stage. Interstate 44 west of the city is also shut down. We have just driven over this road a couple of nights ago. It is now topped. Take a look at this. This is interstate 5 from over night. The Missouri Department of transportation has been putting down sand bags which they hoped would prevent flooding, but it failed. The water has now over topped the interstate there. The top news here is that even when this river reaches its crest, it will take about 24 hours fo
Trip to the gym. Marco rubio will enjoy some time with his wife and daughters and Carly Fiorinas camp, matt and savannah, says she needs an she will be fine. Well be watching. Reince priebus is the chairman of the Republican National committee. Good to see you, good morning. We have apparently lost our signal to mr. Priebus. Well get him back in just a second. Got Nicolle Wallace here, a former republican strategist and worked for president george w. Bush as his communications director. Good morning. Good morning. As we await mr. Priebus, if youre in his shoes and thinking im the head of the Republican Party and this is my bunch and donald trump is blowing away the yeah. Do you think the mission tonight for any candidate not named trump is go after trump . Well, i think they all have to run their race and do whats comfortable for them. I think that whats interesting to me is the only two humans that have laid a glove on donald trump are Carly Fiorina with her attack, her counterpunch t
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Live within the constitutional con strastraints of buckley and thats whats led to some of this sort of starts and fits of reform. The other thing i think buckley has changed, or what would be different if there hadnt been buckley, is that probably Political Parties would be much stronger and much more in control of their candidates, much more influential over their candidates and so that would probably be a big difference as well. Yeah, i was going to ask you about what do you think the impact would have been on parties . Can you give us a reason why do you think the parties would be stronger if, under that scenario . Well, the parties are a source of resources, of brand name, and so if candidates are less free to raise their own resources, make their own brand, then they have to rely on the parties more. And, therefore, youre going to see more Party Discipline and you see, you know, more powerful parties in the u. S. Like you see in european countries. There wouldnt be a ted cruz. He