Of capabilities that they have. There has been a lot of focus, not surprisingly, to access denial to types of weapons, to raise the cost of particular of military interventions of the kind the United States have led over the years that the russians have found so noxious to their interests. I would look very closely at the Nuclear Balance and look at what the russians are doing with their Modernization Program and what we are not doing with our program. I would leave it to clark to comment on that. D vikrams comment about the longterm. Vladimir putin is 61 years old. He takes very, very good care of himself. He plans on being in power for a long time. And so you may sure, we would like to wish for the return back to a reforming russia, but i just dont see that happening any time soon. The logic of what he has done and where he has moved has constrained him and is actually encouraging him to go four they are. So im afraid, unless something happens to him personally, i dont see any way th
Beginning. And let the boonanza begin. Its halloween morning and exactly 20 years since today first dressed up and were marking the occasion with a reveal thats literally been decades in the making today, friday, october 31st, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today, halloween boonanza with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning on a friday morning. Happy halloween, everyone. Im matt lauer, along with hoda kotb, al roker, natalie morales. Savannah is back on monday. Indeed, she is. We have a band out there . What a way to celebrate halloween on the plaza. A lot of people are dressed up in their costumes. This is one of those shows that always starts one way and ends completely differently. Fun in our 8 00 hour. Were already thinking christmas. Weve moved ahead. Merry christmas, honey. Lets start on a friday morning with our top story. Twomonthold search for eric frein, suspected of ambushing two Pennsylvania
Know, probably not. But it shows you the great interest. They found it in al capones vault. Wow. Hello welcome to americas election headquarters. Right now were waiting for the results from the five states that went to follows today and the question right now is ted cruz leading potentially because of those attacks on donald trump . Are they working . Hello, everyone. We are likely to get the projections from the Associated Press where as you can see there in kansas you got ted cruz at 51 . The race has been called there. And you got donald trump at 24. 2 . Trailing behind is marco rubio at 14. 4 . Voters across five states will render their decision today. As republicans in kansas already voting there. And that race is call. Kaiser permanente, louisiana and maine. Democrats in kansas, louisiana and nebraska. Going into this weekends round of voting donald trump led his republican rivals in delegates just over a quarter of the way to the finish line to seal the nomination. Now on the d
Them. Has cory booker done enough to stop his recent polling slide . The final debate was this weekend. It was kind of ugly, finally, we will be shaking things fwhup americas favorite, abbreviated made for Current Events quiz show. L get ready to meet up against the clocks celebrity contestant. First, we begin with the latest in washington, a quick check of Miriam Webster dictionary the verb to compromise has more than one definition. One is to give up something you want in order to reach an agreement. The idea here being both sides give up something to come to a mutual agreement or it isnt compromising. Nor do you get everything you want, nor do you expect to by the same toen token, some are nonstarters. Another definition of to sxhiez as to expose something to risk or danger. To compromise, puts yourself in a compromising position. You heard that one before. That, yes, brings us to the third definition which is to leave something dangered or weaken as a result. On day 12, if big defi
Decided to descend on that citys Convention Center. Why . Good old donald trump is about to arrive and hell be taking the stage there. You are looking at live pictures of the scene outside the venue. More than a thousand demonstrators are on site with more coming. Its been organized and prescheduled. Police have been bracing for the unrest since yesterday. Some protests are spontaneous. This one is not. Four major groups are organizing around this trump rally, including the san diego democratic party. Some groups are encouraging people to try to get inside the event to disrupt it. So there is potential for unrest, both outside and inside the venue. It could be what many a trump event is, a made for tv spectacle. Well try not to allow the spectacle, though, to become the news. This of course follows a series of chaotic scenes at recent trump events, some of which have turned ugly. Authorities have warned they will not tolerate any illegal activity. Trump held a rally in fresno and that