With a man who doesnt sit down very often. The founder and ceo of under armour kevin plank on the 20 year husbandle from building a company from his grandmothers basement that now has its eye on the king of the industry. You got to tell me, true or false. In the early days of under armoarmo armo armour, you used to send the head of nike a Christmas Card every year and say you will know our name. Yeah, thats true. Plus a special report from the heart of the Opioid Epidemic ralphaging the United States. All a bit later in the show. Lets begin this morning with the battle looming this week over the Senate Health care bill. Kelly odonnell is live on the white house checking on it for us. Good morning. Reporter it will be another high stakes week for the Trump Administration over health care. It has been harder than they expected to deliver on the promise of repealing the obamacare law. Theyre several votes sure of what they need. They took a brief break on a lovely summer night to live up
With a man that doesnt sit down often, founder and ceo of under arm or on the 20 year hustle of building a company from his grandmothers basement to a 500 million sports giant who has his eye on the king of the industry. Tell me, true or false. In the early days of under armour, you used to send the head of nike a Christmas Card every year and say you will know our name. Yeah, thats true. Sunday sit down with under armour founder kevin plank. And special report from the heart of the Opioid Epidemic ravaging the United States. Lets begin with the battle looming over the Senate Health care bill. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell live at the white house checking on it for us. Kelly, good morning. Reporter good morning, willie. It will be another high stakes week for the Trump Administration over health care. It has been harder than they expected to deliver on the promise of repealing the obamacare law, and the white house and Senate Republicans are several votes short of what they need, but they took a
Statistical statistical savanat, the cockiest guy in your Fantasy Football League nate silver. When he was still working at the New York Times silver nailed every one of his election predictions. Now hes over at espn. But hes still doing vital analysis. Case in point, his recent poll comparing the favor ability ratings of star wars characters. laughter yes, nate silver is now officially in a gal axy far, far away from journalism. The star wars results were then picked up by the Washington Post who further crunched the numbers. And found that darth individual certificate polling higher than all potential 2016 president ial candidates. cheers and applause folks, this is shocking. A group of broadly outlandish unbelievable characters are less popular than the people from as far wars star wars. Lets go straight to the result, everybody. You got Emperor Palpatine running evening with marco rubio. Now many people expected palpatine to do better against the florida senator but remember in flo
Session but there was also the message from the head of the European Commission john kruger who said we still have time we can still strike a deal the problem of course is that nobody here knows what this deal could look like because apparently there are no concrete proposals from the u. K. Government on that so what we are doing is getting closer and closer to the braggs a deadline on the 31st of october d without a real solution in sight the e. U. And its side is preparing for the scenario probably the only thing i can really do at this moment. Brussels vera chief maxell fun and strasbourg scotlands 1st minister is in bergen today to discuss braggs it nicholas sturgeon is calling for a new referendum on either membership but as did obvious marinus trials found out if that doesnt happen shes willing to put all options on the Table Including independence 1st minister youre calling for a 2nd referendum even if its by no means clear that this outcome will be any different than last time
Also coming up the 1st comment from iran on last weeks massive antigovernment protests some of the largest in decades they wanted to use the opportunity to carry out this move which was an act of destruction. This move was destroyed by the people. Unions Incoming Commission president has won the parliaments approval for her new team on the line is the 1st woman in the used top job and she has set out some bishops goals including turning the bloc into a superpower on trying to boost Economic Growth as well as those challenges should also have to deal with deep divisions amongst the Member States. Resoundingly approval from the e. U. Parliament confirming the new team of Incoming Commission president lion. Fun to line is the 1st ever woman Commission President and her team of 26 dont differ too much in profile from the usual brussels career politicians but her ambitions are a marked change her ideas a forward thinking as is the gender balance of her team it is a team with almost all wall