so why does it matter to you? because of this. the wall fight. the president demanding more than $8 billion for it, on top of the $8 billion he hopes to get from his national emergency. this is a re-election pitch. president trump basically saying, hey, the reason you should re-elect me is these are great, frankly, rosy predictions for the economy. with fears of another shutdown, what does this mean for the country s bottom line? we have a lot to get to. let s get to geoff bennett at the white house and garrett h k haake on capitol hill. let s talk about the pr pitch on this. in past presidencies, you often see the commander in chief going out, trying to sell his budget plan, even though everybody knows it is not going to go anywhere politically. reporter: right. look, for donald trump, retail politics has never been his thing, right? the view from the white house is that the president is selling his vision for america in tweet after tweet, in speech after speech, and even in this ne
before she begins criticizing others,let s let s see what she going to do. got elected to congress. ocas ocasio-cort ocasio-cortez, of course. i want to get to joe biden. obviously, lots of intrigue around him. our reporting at nbc news is he may decide early this week. he s telling folks he s leaning. he s going to fall into the race. does he need to fall over soon and into the race? i hope he does. i think he wants to. i think he knows it is going to be tough. i think he wants to leave it all on the playing field. jennifer and i were talking about this before we came on. you re not allowed to talk about things you ll talk on set. then we ll go back to hating each other. but if the election were tomorrow, i could pick the nominee and spare the world from campaigning, though donald trump is the new disciplined donald trump we ll see, according to reporting, i d pick joe biden. if i couldn t pick hillary clinton. i don t think donald trump is
mercedes-benz stadium with the bleacher report. good morning, it is finally here. yeah, the wait is over. patriots and rams have made their way here to atlanta, both teams holding big fan rallies. check out gillette stadium in foxborough, more than 35,000 fans on hand to see the patriots off. this is nothing new for the patriots. this is the team s fourth super bowl in five years. but bill belichick says this was the biggest sendoff they have ever had. this will be tom brady s ninth super bowl and he got all the fans pumped up before leaving. let s let em hear it all the way down in atlanta. we re still here, we re still here, we re still here! apparently brady will be here for a long time. he told espn yesterday that there is a zero percent chance that super bowl liii is miss
general bondi. on behalf of rick scott, rather than defending the people of florida went to court to sue to take away right force people with pre-existing health condition. you re talking about obamacare. right and gates, who brings a holocaust denying to the state of the union, that s the trump brand in florida. and while i respect the service they provide, people understand it. they want someone who is actually going to stand up for them, for the people and not for president trump alone. i ll let you respond to that. let s let attorney general bondi respond first. thank you. as chief officer and legal officer for the state flf i firmly believe in covering pre-existing conditions but we have to do it in a legal way and congress has to act. and that s why we filed this lawsuit. we all want pre-existing conditions covered.
not the only shooting. laura: of course it s not the only shooting. we have had shootings in chicago and gun violence and deaths of great young men and women as you know for decades and we didn t have. and acceptable. laura: we didn t have school walkouts and george clooney fly in. we didn t have any of that. as a mainstream society we have accepted that. laura: no we haven t. i haven t accepted it. absolutely we have. laura: no, we don t. young people raise their voices, when young people raise their voices, we want to say that they re being parroted by adults. how many of us have grown up. hold on. no, no, let me finish. laura: hold on jitu, let s let. hold on i let you talk. how many of us. laura: let lawrence speak. i gave you a chance. the fact of the matter is they are being funded by a group. they are being given talking points by a group antigun. we talked about this from emotional aspect. at the end of the day thee legislators don t know what