The millions of dollars laid on the line. And super spotting. Inside the biggest pregame parties, hugh jackman, andy samberg and aaron paul, all caught up in super bowl fever. And good morning on this super bowl sunday. Americas secular holy day. To the live shot of Metlife Stadium in new jersey, and it will all go down tonight. Theres the countdown to the kickoff as the big moment approaches. Secular holy day, did you make that up . Yes, i did. Rolled off the top you were waiting once a year. Millions of americans are getting ready to do some serious partying, listen to this. We will consume 30 Million Pounds of snacks, and 325 million gallons of beer. To wash all those snacks down. Half of that consumed by by ron i will do my part. Put it that way. Contribute to the economy. Hes a patriotic american. This will also be a day for pizza places. Dominos alone expects to serve up to 11 million slices today, and you will not be able to miss the nfls official pizza sponsor, papa johns all o
Where a severe drought is likely to lead to a bad harvest and higher coffee prices all over the world. Russia officially absorbed crimea after approvals from both houses of parliament, president Vladimir Putin signed into law the treaty making crimea part of the federation. Crimeans voted overwhelmingly to join russia in a referendum sunday, putting pen to paper, putin congratulated them. The eu leaders have not backed down, maintaining crimea is still part of ukraine and signed an Association Agreement with kiev in brussels earlier on friday. In the ukrainian capitol, u. N. Secretary general ban kimoon is Holding Meetings with acting president , saying ukraine and russia needs to engage in direct talks to resolve the cries. We go to brussels in a moment. First, peter sharp joins us from moscow. Its official that in russia at least, crimea is part of the federation. Whats next for the region . It just took five days, unbelievable, really, that the people of crimea who now celebrate bei
Also freed. They were bound from alexandria to cairo when the hijacker claimed to have explosives and forced the plane to change course. The president of cypress says this is not a terror related incident. Richard engel has the latest for us. What happened here. It seems like this was a personal incident. Sip rheet Officials Say the explosive belt or what they thought was an explosive belt did not in fact contain explosives and one Egyptian Foreign Ministry official summed it up as the following. This person is not a terrorist. He is an idiot. That is the egyptian an official in the Egyptian Foreign Ministrys defense. What the motivations were exactly it is hard to know. This person is now in custody. Hes being debriefed. There were numerous reports throughout the day, numerous different demands that were allegedly being made. One that he wanted to deliver a message to an exwife or expartner in cyprus. Another possible demand he wanted egyptian women released from prisons. But official
What is required is that we unify this party. And the bulk of the burden will have to come from our presumptive nominee. He needs to bring all of the wings of the party together, then appeal to all americans. Martha donald trump said ryans comments caught him off guard. I was surprised by it. Its fine. He can do what he wants it temperatures fine. I had many endorsements coming in yesterday from left and right. He is the only one that was surprising. He talks about unity. With millions of people coming into the Party Obviously im saying the right thing. The party had a lot of problems, and now the Republican Party is the talk of the world because there is no place and no party increasing its scope like we have. Its a big story. Millions and millions of people have come into the party. Its hard to believe, and it doesnt bother me at all. Bill chris stirewalt, good morning to you. It appears paul ryan is starting to negotiate for leverage in public. Totally agree. Paul ryan offered a lis
Income tax. That are makes me smart. In an election where people have taken sides, what did the handful of undecided voters think . This is mtp daily that starts right now. Good evening. Im chuck todd here in washington. Welcome to a spin cycle that might be spinning out of control for the Trump Campaign. It was as i noted last night an abnormal debate. Something you dont normally see and something that we hope we dont see in the future. This was not the way the debate process was designed to be. That said, we didnt get much issues after the first 20 minutes. It became more about the positions and personal problems of one candidate. Trump is suggesting he might have been sabotaged. My microphone was terrible. When i tested it, it was beautiful an hour before. I said what a great mike. It was much more than hers and it was crackling. What a great mike. Clinton jumped on those comments with reporters. Anyone who complains about the microphone is not having a good night. A little shade th