Than 24 hours after donald trump sweat the primaries here in the northeast, ted cruz threw a hail mary pass, Carly Fiorina as his running mate. Actively trying to inject some juice into his president ial bid in an attempt to force trump in a contested convention. An extraordinary leader, my friend and the next vicepresident of the united states, Carly Fiorina. A and tripump made sure to hit them both on the move. I see on television they have a new relationship has started. Cruz and carly. He is mathematically eliminated. He has set a record, though. He is the first president ial candidate in the history of this country, whose mathematically eliminated from becoming president , who chose a vicepresident ial candidate. Cruz is hoping his fortunes fair better than ronald reagan, when he chose richard swchlt chwitzger. While cruz enjoyed a good portion of news cycle, trump wouldnt be out done. Trump delivered his much anticipated Foreign Policy speech, laying out his america heading into
Forced to turn around minutes after takeoff. We hit some birds on takeoff. Well have to come back and have the plane looked at. It lands safely but leaves a huge dent on its nose. And key clue . Local authorities find powerful prescription painkillers on princes body and in his home. The feds called in. Where the investigation goes from here today, thursday, april 28th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. Will you be my running mate . Are you running for something . No, but ill be yours if youll be mine. Absolutely. I was thinking czar of germ eradication. Oh, thats what i get . Exactly. Okay. Another odd day in politics. A twist for the race to the white house. Ted cruz naming a running mate three months ahead of the Republican Convention and even though hes not the nominee. Donald trump did not waste any time going after the new pai
It is announcing that it sold the last 70 million shares that it announced a couple of weeks ago. Finally with all said and done would recoup about 431 billion of the 421. That is about a 10 billion dollar gain on all other things out there. So i guess bringing history to an end here where treasury will leave or exit the General Motors once the biggest auto maker in america. Certainly one of the biggest. Certainly profitable as they point out, talking about 340,000 new auto jobs created for gm. Thank you, steve. Be careful. The stock that is not much of an overhang. A lot of people knew this. Going for the job saying this is happening. Those are taking it. You wont see it last a day unless the futures go up. Gm doing better in europe and china. It is a good story. Ford not going up since the the stock shouldnt be up at all. Along with that a lot of retail numbers. Shares of target are down sharply. Discount retailer posting results below estimates siting delusion relating to the canadi
And, america strong tonight. Would you do this for your brother . Good evening. And its great to have you with us here on a wednesday night. And just as voters across this country begin to acknowledge it could be donald trump versus Hillary Clinton this november, one candidate with whats being called a hail mary tonight. What ted cruz has done, just as donald trump stands by what he said about Hillary Clinton, that, quote, women dont like her. Hillary clinton signaling, bring it on, after getting much closer to clinching the nomination overnight. And this evening, rare words from amal clooney, after all this talk about women this election. Abcs tom llamas on the campaign trail again tonight. Reporter tonight, donald trump laying out a fierce vision for americas role in the world. I will never send our finest into battle unless necessary, and i mean absolutely necessary. And will only do so if we have a plan for victory with a capital v. Reporter in a rare move, trumps team even setting
What weve uncovered. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. What a mighty and humiliating fall. Dennis hastert once one of the most powerful men in the country and second in line for the presidency faced a blistering dressing down from an angry federal judge in chicago today as he publicly confronted a shameful past and was sentenced to prison. Hastert was convicted of a financial crime, but it was part of a scheme masked to cover something more egregious, his molestation of children. Today he came face to face with one of his alleged victims. Nbcs Stephanie Gosk was there. Reporter former speaker of the house Dennis Hastert arrived at chicagos federal courthouse today in a wheelchair. His lawyers argued his poor health should keep him out of prison. But the judge was unsparing. Saying of hastert, nothing is more stunning than having serial child molester and speaker of the house in