In for lester who is getting ready to moderate tonights president ial debate. The stage is literally set right behind us. There are the two podiums where Hillary Clinton and donald trump will take their positions in just a short while from now. And the stage is set in every other way. In expectations, in stakes, in suspension, in importance to the choice voters make in 43 short days. Tonight, a string of new polls shows the race is nailbitingly close for both our new nbc News Survey Monkey poll shows Clinton Holding on to the lead by five points. Other polls show a tie and some in key battleground states as well. Some are estimating a total audience on the order of 100 million tonight and thats super bowl level. We have our Political Team assembled and ready to go. Nbcs Hallie Jackson won the coin toss, and evening. Good evening. Reporter good evening. And if were sticking with the football talk, put it this way, donald trump cannot afford a fumble tonight. A senior aide said the candi
In for lester who is getting ready to moderate tonights president ial debate. The stage is literally set right behind us. There are the two podiums where Hillary Clinton and donald trump will take their positions in just a short while from now. And the stage is set in every other way. In expectations, in stakes, in suspension, in importance to the choice voters make in 43 short days. Tonight, a string of new polls shows the race is nailbitingly close for both candidates. News survey monkey poll shows Clinton Holding on to the lead by five points. Other polls show a tie and some in key battleground states as well. Some are estimating a total audience on the order of 100 million tonight and thats super bowl level. We have our Political Team assembled and ready to go. Nbcs Hallie Jackson won the coin toss, and evening. Good evening. Reporter good evening. And if were sticking with the football talk, put it this way, donald trump cannot afford a fumble tonight. A senior aide said the candi
Crowd size yet again with congressional leaders. It was clear this was still on his mind. And the handover. Trumps businesses now officially managed by his sons but is it enough . And the collapse. The governor of minnesota fainting while delivering his state of the state address. But despite that nobody wants to see that. We have an update on his condition this morning but well begin today with President Trump bringing Business Leaders back together for the second time in two days. This time the heads of the big three automakers sitting down for a breakfast meeting. And at 10 00 a. M. The focus shifts to capitol hill. Hhs nominee tom price sits down for an official hearing while at least five other nominees get an official vote and at 1 30, press Secretary Sean Spicer takes his latest turn before the media and we have the best team watching all of it. I want to start with Kristen Welker at the white house. Talk about the meeting with automakers. For donald trump to have day one, day t
Release of the vulgar video from access hollywood in 2005. I will not be voting for donald trump. Should donald trump withdraw from the race . I would support that. To defend the nominee, its just Rudy Giuliani on the sunday show circuit. Listen. Men at times talk like that. Its obvious hes apologized for it. Hell remain in the race. It seems to me we should move on. Even more bad news for trump, new polls out this morning, look at this, showing him lagging behind Hillary Clinton in key battleground states. We have so much to get into this hour and we have our team of reporters in front of this rowdy crowd in st. Louis here on the campus of Washington University but i want to kick it over to new york at trump tower with my colleague katy tur. Katy, youve been looking to see whos on the elevator, whos not. Katy, whats your latest reporting on whats happening inside the campaign . There is a parade outside of trump tower right now which im currently caught in but there is a growing sense
in a string the tweets today, the president is demanding that the anonymous whistle-blower be exposed and questioned and is putting new pressure on the intelligence community s inspector general whose own investigation validated the whistle-blower s complaint. joining me now is nbc white house correspondent kristen welk welker, jeff mason, michael carpenter, and jacqueline a allemagne. kristen welker, the president overheated last night, with the white house now saying no cooperation at all, even though they were talking at least about permitting some people to testify. but they cut it all off. the white house making it very clear, andrea, that they have no plans to cooperate with the house inquiry. their argument is this is illegitimate and unconstitutional because there