Jet. Deadline day arrives for amazons Second Headquarters sweepstakes. Remember me for centuries 21, the count. And staying alive. The cubs top the dodgers to stave off elimination. Hammered into left. Watch it fly. The yankees make it three in a row over the astros, putting new york on the brink of the world series today, thursday, october 19th, 2017. Remember me for centuries announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Nice to have you with us on a thursday morning. Matt, yankees, on the brink of the world series. I dont think we should say that about the dodgers and the yankees. Youre on the brink of the world series when you win the fourth game. I dont want to jinx anything here, but it was a great game last night. Fun to be at. Meanwhile, we had a big event in our studio this morning. The former cia director, john brennan, is with us. Well have a live, exclusive in
Reset his presidency after controversial advisors after bannons ouster. How much has changed at 1600 pennsylvania avenue . Juncker Martin Schulz steps up his campaign to unseat her. Challenger Martin Schulz steps up his campaign to unseat her. In the u. S. , he saw the s p and of dow futures starting to turn around. We have green arrows on european futures. If you take a look at the bond trade, we have a threeday chart of the german debt. You can see we have come down in a yield that we are now headed back up. This is the end of fridays trade into today. ,he yield heading back up investors starting to sell a little bit more of the debt and that twitches that pushes the yield higher. We will get some direction in about 28 minutes as we get the market open. What kind of direction do you see from that jim and screen . Screen . Creen gmm manus these are the equity markets across asia. We have more risk coming in terms of political theater. We have a reset on afghanistan this evening and so
And changing his view, the president abandons promises to get out of afghanistan, admitting hes going with the advice of his generals and against his instincts. New reaction tonight as mr. Trumps policy is attacked by the farright. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. We are following breaking news. President trump returning to Campaign Mode in arizona one week after his widely condemned remarks about White Supremacists and the violence in charlottesville, virginia. Mr. Trump leaves soon for a rally in phoenix from arizonas southern border where hes been meeting with the marines and Border Protection officials. People are on the streets of phoenix right now. They are awaiting the president. Thousands are expected to protest his visit, giving President Trump a fresh taste of the charlottesville backlash. The states Top Republicans will be conspicuously absent tonight a
Cnn has learned that the u. S. S. Mccain suffered. They said there is no indication right now of a cyber attack, but the investigation will consider, quote, all possibilities. How vulnerable are u. S. Warships . Selling danger. How far will north korea go to raise money for its Missile Program . U. N. Experts are looking into a report that shipments were intercepted by kim jonguns regime bound for the agency in charge of syrias chemical weapons. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Breaking news, President Trump is in arizona right now about to hold a rally aimed at firing up his base amid dropping poll numbers and a white house in chaos. Its his first trip as president to arizona where he made immigration a key and controversial theme of his 2016 race. And its his first public rally since he was widely condemned for his remarks on the white supremacist rampage in charlottesville, virginia. Thousands of opposition protesters are expected to turn out tonight, and the democratic
Ive learned so much in your hour. First of all that people in phoenix are called phonicians. Which the mayor of phoenix said on your show. I did not know that. Nor did i. Inspector generals report, rachel, i remember when this story first came out, the second secretary in effect, picks up the phone, threaten et Lisa Murkowski over the Health Care Vote with resources in his department. Immediately i started saying, wait a minute, there are legal issues around that. I know everyone thinks thats wait it works, but it is not the way it works and there are legal prohibitions against doing that kind of thing and here we have tonight Inspector General of that department looking into exactly that. Yeah. And it is a very interesting legal question and political question, because ryan zinke is in the cabinet and what he did is not really contested. Just a matter of whether or not it is policeable. We had Barbara Mcquaid here who brought up that incident saying thats an example of, not of a crimi