Mccain enters its fifth day. Target texas. The remnants of Tropical Storm harvey, posing a threat to the gulf coast. Farther north, flooding leading to dramatic new rescues. Plus, what was she thinking. Why the wife of the treasury secretary is apologizing. And espn apologizing for pulling this announcer from a game. Are you feeling lucky . Powerball hits 700 million, with the crdrawing just hours away. Today, wednesday, august 23rd, 2017. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on this wednesday morning. As always, thank you for joining us. Our top story, the president s raucous Campaign Rally overnight. He started with a call for unity. Then, he quickly tore into his detractors. As he was speaking, protesters were on the streets outside of that arena. Kristen welker, get us started. Good morning. Reporter hi, matt. Good morning to yu. President trump is weeks up here in ariz
Country. Todays drawing is the second biggest in u. S. History. So, in which state are you most likely to buy the Winning Ticket . New york. Hmm. Hopefully its one you live in. We say good morning, everybody. We start with breaking news from phoenix. Police using pepper spray overnight on protesters after a largely peaceful demonstration. Police say some antitrump protesters threw rocks and bottles at them. The cops then responded with stun grenades and pepper spray forcing some of those protesters to douse their faces with water. Now, inside the Convention Center the president started by talking about unity and love. But then quickly turned combative and at times angry blasting the media and his critics in congress. We get started with abcs janai norman. Reporter a heavy police presence, pepper spray and protesters. [ chanting ] reporter tensions were high in phoenix as supporters and protesters squared off outside. Abcs tom llamas is there. The Phoenix Police department had a very go
Finance committee in about an hour. Well bring it to you live. Plus netflix boom ten years after launching its u. S. Streaming service. Netflix crushes earnings expectations. Not just its largest quarterly subscriber gain in history. And ecb leaving rates unchanged. Nasdaq futures pointing to a mostly flat open but dow on pace to drop for a fifth session in a row. First up, more trump cabinet picks heading to the hill for more confirmation hearings including Steven Mnuchin, president elects choice for secretary treasury to appear before Senate Finance in about an hour. Expected to be grilled on his role overseeing foreclosures while running one west which was indymac, also expected to be asked whether he agrees with weaker dollar policy, a lot to get to today. Look, i was involved with in indy mac, which he bought, people are willing to leave their homes before they leave their cars and it was the most reckless there was and they reamed me on it. And this guy went and bought indy mac a
Senator hatch committee will come to order. Welcome to everyone to this mornings hearing. We will discuss the nomination of mr. Steve mnuchin to serve as secretary of treasury for the Incoming Trump administration. I want to officially welcome mr. Munchin to the finance committee. I appreciate your willingness to appear before us here today and serve in this important position. The position of treasury secretary is among the most important in the executive ranch. The next treasury secretary will be asked will be asked a lot of questions that are going to be very, very important here today. They will be we are going to be talking about advancing policies to improve our nations economic and fiscal outlook. This position oversees both the collection of taxes and the management of our debt and in addition, as Congress Works to reform our nations tax code and fix our broken health care system, it is absolutely essential that we have a cooperative partner overseeing reasury. That is, quite f
Arpaio. In the next hour, a lot more people are here. More than 10,000 people have signed up on facebook to participate in the protest. The rally begins in about two hours. Right now, the police are doing a good job keeping both sides separate. The s. W. A. T. Is here with rifles. Gary, thank you very much. The mayor of phoenix opposed the president s visit. He is a democrat. In a recent oped, he accused the president of dousing racial tensions with gasoline and he fears he may be looking to light a match. I spoke to the mayor before we went on air. You called on the president not to come to phoenix. Im wondering what your concern was, is it just the possibility of the protest, certainly there are a lot of Trump Supporters there that want to see him tonight. I felt after the tragedy in charlottesville, which happened just a short time ago, the president failed moral leadership after
charlottesville. His failure to condemn the racism and the nazis there, to have a Campaign Rally here in