Martha that rocket. It was supposed to head to the International Space station. It had 5,000 pounds of supplies. But 6 seconds in this happens. Any indication as to what caused this . Reporter not yet. We are a long ways off here. All night long investigators were analyzing the cameras. The first stage is where it happened. It shook the earth for miles. But daylight is allowing the huge team of investigators to comb wallops island, virginia for debris that could hold the clue. This is the first catastrophic failure of the Space Program that replaced the shuttle program. Range safety initiated the flight termination system 20 seconds into flight. Reporter this was supposed to be the rockets fourth trip to the space station. The company is ground until it figures out what happened. 5,000 pounds of cargo worth 2 million is lost. That includes science experiments and 1,400 pounds of food. Martha i understand the space station crew watched this happen live from onboard the space station. Re
Its the moment of truth for donald trump, the moment of truth for ted cruz, the moment of truth for the forces desperately trying to stop donald trump. As the voting plays out today, controversy, more controversy from donald trump. New comments, surprising comments about ted cruzs father. We will have the details on that in just a second for you. Polls, as we said, they are open right now all across the hoosier state. This in a primary that could effectively end this republican campaign. Donald trump is looking good in the polls to put a win on the board tonight in indiana. He needs less than half of the remaining delegates to clinch the nomination before the convention. With a win tonight, that could be the nail in the coffin for the socalled stop trump movement. A movement that never really seemed to get fully started. New polling this morning shows a majority of Republican Voters now think that ted cruz and john kasich should drop out of this race. And our latest nbc News Survey Mon
It turns out there may be lots of planet earths out there. Finding a second earth is not just a matter of if well, if anyone on earth two, three, or whatever is listening, we have some advice for you. This is mtp daily that starts right now. Good evening, im chuck todd here in washington and welcome to mtp daily. Its hard to beat something with nothing. And right now republicans across the country are feeling the burn from an energized and angry segment of the electorate. Which is descending on gop town hams and these folks want answers. Whats going to happen really on one issue specifically to their health care among other things. And right now republicans dont have any legislative details. Or much in the way of answers. Yet. Senator, we should all have good health care. [ applause ] [ chanting do your job ] improve it. For god sakes ever since the election, i have felt like a passenger in a car thats being driven by a drunk driver. The veterans are broken down, theyre not getting wha
And elated. Even the rncs internal models and had trump losing in the final stretch by some significant margin. Lets comb through the shrapnel by political explosion. Nbc news has he surpassed the electoral votes needed to be the president of the united states. They have one consolation prize at the moment. Hillary clinton is leading in the popular vote. This is an unexpected battle ground. He did something a lot of us thought wouldnt be done. Trump does lead there. New hampshire remains too close to call. Clinton holds a tiny lead. Down the ballot, republicans control all the levers of power and retain the control of the house and senate. This just in. Kelly ayott ece conceded to her challenger. They picked up two seats in illinois and new hampshire. Shell shocked democrats continue their work and Hillary Clinton called out to young women in the crowd. Nothing has made me prouder than to be your champion. Its not often you see her show that vulnerability and urged the country to keep
The military. Pam larks on the president today, we saw him paying respects to the tomb of the unknown soldier. How is he spending this memorial day. The president has honored the fall fallen men and women, he had some other things on his mind on this memorial day. A tweet just before he went to Arlington National cemetery. The Unemployment Rate as well, and he attacked the russia probe in a series of tweets this morning as well. This follows a number of tweets over the weekend where the president also attacked the russia probe. In this particular tweet, why didnt the 13 angry democrats investigate crooked hillary clinton. Why didnt they take the server from the dnc rigged investigation. Its true that 13 of the at least 17 lawyers on muellers team have previously registered as democrats. Eight of them have given to democratic candidates. The man overseeing Robert Mueller is and what appears to be a coordinated effort here with his attorney in the russia probe. He had similar sentiment o