Trumps meeting with manufacturing executives today, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer briefed reporters. One of the main topics was former National Security advisor Michael Flynn request for immunity to testify before congress about the truck campaigns ties to russia. Mr. Spicer good afternoon. To catch, i want everyone up wasnt able to make the briefing last night on the theutive orders on executive orders the president is going to be signing this afternoon could the first direct the department of commerce and the office of u. S. Trade representative to examine every form of trade of these in a nonreciprocal practice that are currently contributing to the United States large and persistent trade deficits, the largest in a major nation in 2016, at 500 billion. Within 90 days, the department of commerce and the u. S. Trade representative will submit a comprehensive report to the president on the causes of our unduly large trade deficit. It is the first time in modern history that
Speaking on capitol hill more than 18 hours after he started. Cruz and a handful of other republican senators are speaking out against a new Health Care Law. We are going to have much more on this and follow the story throughout the day. Thanks for being with us. Thats what is happening today. Well be back in half an hour for a local news update. Er from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer, and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday. Its 7 00 on the west coast. Im matt lauer. Good morning. Im Savannah Guthrie along side al roker and Natalie Morales. Thats a good party trick for bono. Not that he needs one since hes a rock star. Former president clinton commented it must be easy to make fun of me. Its a good one. No question about it. Spot on. Meanwhile, look at whats happening at washington, d. C. Senator ted cruz still going at this hour. This is an effort to defeat funding for obamacare. Technically this is no
Nothing but the worlds longest tedtalk. But the issue is a real filibuster you are trying to disrupt the business of the senate or delay the business and what cruz decided to do was he was trying to walk this line of on one hand keep talk prove to house conservatives that there was some action behind his words. Theres a lot of theres a lot of skepticism about cruz, even among some of his fellow conservatives that think ted cruz is only out for one thing, ted cruz and the advancement of ted cruz and the president ial campaign in 2016 of ted cruz. So he wanted to show, no, he was willing to do something but its risk free. Hes notisrupting a vote or delaying a vote so you look at this and you just wonder, all it is is maybe the longest speech ever before the iowa caucuses. Where is this going . At what point are the sides going to get to the point . With a government shut down a real possibility, what point is it going to happen . One side is going to have to blink. In this case, were not
Very fresh and clean this morning. Exactly right. Lets get to the top story. Kelly odonnell is in washington. She has the latest on this. Kelly, good morning. Good morning, savannah. Its been going and going and going all afternoon through the night and here again this morning. It is a talkathon the official term of washington today as senator ted cruz has railed against the law known as obamacare trying to persuade some of his republican colleagues and many of them were not happy with this tactic. Reporter a late night endurance test. This is life and death. Reporter ted cruz began railing against the healthcare law at 2 41 p. M. Eastern calling out fellow republican senators that say they dont have the votes to block it. If you vote to give that power to harry reid to Fund Obamacare then you are responsible for it being funded. Reporter earlier it was bedtime reading dr. Seuss to his doctors who were watching on cspan. I do so like green eggs and ham. Thank you, thank you sam i am. R
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