Boy, this is a desperate driver. As a wanted man weaves through traffic as he tries to escape police. How police. Reporter stopped them. Reporter luck of the draw. People rushing to get their hands on a powerballti ticket. You should get your hands on one today, friday, may 6th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rock feefeller pla we have willie here. Matt has the day off. Lottery dreams. 415 million. Well take the lump sum. By the time uncle sam takes it, were down to 1 150 million. You the stretch out the payments annually. A lot of people are dreaming a bit. Lets start with p Republican Party. From the highest ranking republican paul ryan saying he isnt yet ready to endorse donald trump, to former president s and president ial candidates saying they wont attend the convention in july. We have it covered. Lets begin with nbcs National Correspondent peter alexander. Good morning. Hi, savannah. So much for party un
John when i titled the show political reality, we put reality in quotation marks because so much of what politicians say and do is fake. Their handlers try to make the candidate look good. Recently the Political Class decided Hillary Clinton didnt appear authentic and likable. Her campaign staff, i mean in the New York Times ran this headline. Clinton to show more humor and hearth. And Rolling Stone said clintons fake populism is a hit. Really . Listen to her at the coffee shop in iowa. Its so exciting to be here you know who says hello . Senator harkin says hello. Senator harkin told me to say hello and you remember me. How are you, dear. John you think she was really excited to be here . I dont think so. I dont blame her or any politician for struggling to fake it. Day after day of smiling at strangers, who can do that . But thats the phoniness of politics. Political ads are phony, too. This election cycle, one candidate has run ads so honest, so authentic, i may vote for him. A pres
Then and dan what do you think . I am worried about this. The week that we learned that china is over the toxic gas in the environment and that they have been lying about it for a long time obama clamps down on the industry and as if theyre the ones that are lying. What theyre going do to produce the oil and refine it and where is it . Well, the argument against it was that the whole rational floor is coming. The jobs are up and the energy prizes are down. We dont need it and then theres a thing happening in paris. Yeah were talking of the building out of a pipeline. Its done and oil could be 150 a barrel. I they the idea that the Obama Administration could say with a straight face and its the first and foremost and Climate Change and they can apply this to anything and everything that he rules on and the teexecutive action and thats not. You cause the jobs and already in the new york state and already in the country. This is a major blow to a friendly country and a industry to create
Maniac and shallow. Ill be talking to bobby jindal here tonight and ill ask why trump did that blistering verbal. Well have trumps reply. Also, Congress Giving the president a free pass on iran. Senate democrats successfully blocked they are vote in the senate on a republican rez lawings to reject the president s deal with iran, and in the house the best republicans could do was to approve a nonbinding resolution saying the administration hasnt provided the necessary promise and require legally legally require documents for a vote on the deal. Ill take it up with citizens wrun itd david bosni and others here tonight. And a story that will leave you reeling in disbelief or simply confirm wur worst fears about the countrys military in the fight against the Islamic State. Were learning disturbing new details about the obama administrations disaster wrus strategy to try to defeat the Islamic State. U. S. Officials now admit they lost track of all of the 54 Syrian Opposition fighters they t
Pontiff saying Climate Change is a huge problem that can, quote, no longer be left to a future generation and president xi pledging to fight Cyber Attacks insisting the Chinese Government does not engage in Cyber Attacks and thefts, this is the same china behind the cyber attack that stole the personal information of nearly 22 million federal government workers and brand new fox polls out tonight confirming voters want an outsider candidate to be elected to the white house in 2016, donald trump dr. Ben carson, Carly Fiorina capturing the support of more than half of primary voters leaving establishment candidates far behind. Our top story, security concerns over europes illegal immigration and refugee crisis. European leaders trying to overcome divisions of what to do with the hundreds of thousands flooding their borders. Eu leaders have agreed on a mandatory quota for each region to relocate refugees. Hungarys foreign minister calls the plan unreasonable and nonsense. Slovia vs t bck