Nbc news, im proud of our partnership with survey monkey. Wonderful job. A lot of money for that. Pay them in cash and bananas, fantastic. They sit there first they poll people and then they start picking bugs off each other, grooming each other. This was happens when you try to talk politics. Its a reputable real poll. Its got moaningies. Nbc news. An online poll that shows donald trump at 35 Boston Holding a 17point lead over ted cruz and 22 points over marco rubio who is in third place. Lets look at the democratic side. Hillary clinton leading bernie sanders, again in the national poll, by 17 points, 5336. Martin omalley is hanging in there. Hacking around. The rations are much closer in iowa and New Hampshire on the democratic side which is actually whats important as we start this. Now, yesterday bill clinton hit the campaign trail for the first time in earnest. Against this issue of how to handle donald trump. Yeah. Hillary clinton has not been hesitant to go after him, but it appears in the new year theres a new approach to sort of ignore the donald. The republicans will have to decide who they are going to be nominating. Im interested in your response to the donalds comment that you and president obama created isis. I have adopted a new years resolution resolution. Im going to let him live in his alternative reality, and im not going to respond. So there you go. Yeah. Andrea mitchell had actually asked president clinton in that clip we showed but thought about all the comments from donald trump. Right. You could almost see the president biting his tongue and saying, you know what, well let republicans sort that out. Let them settle their fight and well meet them in the general election. The strategy is interesting because Chris Christie tried it would ignore donald trump and eventually they were pulled into the fray, so others have tried to their peril because people who tried to ignore donald trump ended up at the bottom end of the poll, but its interesting on that rope line with Andrea Mitchell and bill clinton, chuck todd also said that bill clinton is famous for letting loose on the rope line. Thats where you really get him to answer a question without the standard, you know, list of points that they like to hit, but the strategy is really to keep bill clinton locked in until they are ready i guess to unleash. Its amazing on the republican side, as you said, how few people are going after donald trump. Almost as they conceded. Jeb bush, interviewed him earlier this morning on morning joe, he is going after donald trump. Chris christie kind of obliquely went after him yesterday in New Hampshire. None of the campaign ads. Its rubio against cruz and cruz against christie and all these others. Donald trump gets a free ride and has not had to spend a lot of money for advertising. Working for him. About him. Working in the na polls, but the polls out of iowa could be an interesting night for tet cruz, especially if he brings in his father who is a minister and certainly will appeal to the evangelicals. How quickly things can change, to, in a drum beat. A lot of people talking about changes in the new year. We talked about resolutions. Many of you have now the have made diet resolutions so youll be interested in what u. S. News world report, released their annual list of the best diets. In the category the best diets overall, no surprise, Weight Watchers is always in the top, number three on the list. Just saw the new oprah Weight Watchers ad for the first time over the holidays. So revealing and so powerful. Number two is a tie between tlc which is cutting down on high cholesterol diet. Great job. You only eat when the channel is on. And then theres that not the case cutting high cholesterol and also the mind diet which focuses on preventing alzheimers disease, eating the mono unsat rated good fats in your diet, the dash diet, focuses on lowering high Blood Pressure by cutting back on salt, eating more vegetables, whole grains, eliminating sweets, red meat. Thats from the mayo clinic. I havent heard of any of these, not a one of them. Not heard of any of these. Because you havent been needing to diet, i suppose, right . Youve got a good thing going. Dr. Natalie azar best not to remove overall food categories. To obviously check with your doctor, whatever. So i im not on a diet but i decided to test myself because im terrible with any of these cleanses or any ive tried juice clensz, tried whatever. Im horrible with that stuff and normally, theres no reason to do it and i think most people say why do it if you dont need to, but for me it was more like mind control, can i do it. Kind of like detoxification so i felt like i needed much drinking and eating over the holidays, a soup cleanse, super pure based out in los angeles. They will be launching nationally, but it kind of takes the juice cleanse to more of a nutritional. A couple of these look like specimens. This one is asparagus, they are delicious, made with organic ingredients ingredient w in it that cleanses you . The whole idea youre drinking rather than its more liquids rather than solids. Okay. Its that same idea but its more filling, but the funny thing is i wrote to my friend who is doing this. We keep each other and hold each other accountage, dont like it, snowfall. Would you send this over to the lab for me. This is chicken broth with raw misto. Pineapple, basil, cucumber, go try it. Its pineapple water. Ive been punked before. Youre not getting me. Look what al drinks in the morning. What looks worse, als cleanse. Ginger, mint, and thats. And this which is a healthy alkaline water. Me up. Chug it. Its delicious. You know what, your sister sent that. Tastes like water. So nice. Youve got green stuff in your teeth. Wow. Look in the archives. Back to what youre doing. Its two day. This is all youre ingesting all day. Got a couple more soups, but its can you eat solid food. You can if youre doing a mini cleanse. Im doing the full on theres the sweet potato one already. This is sort of had you hangry . Im going to give you credit, amy crh ho n. Yesterday i had three bites of chicken. Shame on you. So the good news is youll be transparent. Right. Ill really cleanse. This is day two. Okay. Well see what happens tomorrow. Chicken broth. You want to try, it tamron . Absolutely not. Is there a cupcake. I am from texas. Listen, the other white meat, the wheel meat, no, i cant do that. Many my cleanse is a tbone. I figured if i can stick with it, and im terrible at this. Good. Good for you. You can do it. Wait to go. Whatever. Were supporting. You go, natalie. You are doing something we could never do. Couldnt do it. Ive done a cleanse. You do clensz all the time. But maybe once a year, probably going to do one again in a couple of weeks, by eat solid food with it. Is that a cleanse if you eat solid food . Its like a detox, rather than cleanse. Thats a detox. Thats what this whole idea is. I think its i need a restart. Oh, okay cool. For breakfast. Meanwhile, just when you thought the matt ellen prank of last year, the prank wars were over. No, no. No, its back on, if you were wondering. On her show yesterday ellen showed a video of an interesting moment in matts interview back in november with adele when she visit visited. Take a lock. I mate a resolution in 2016 i was not going to mess with matt lauer anymore. Instead ill show you this clip of him interviewing adele. Hello from the other side i never said this to a woman sitting across from me but can i hold your hand for a second. Oh, yeah. Can i see the other. Yes. Wow. Oh, my gosh. I missed that earlier. I would go for that drink after seeing that again. Matt has to return fire. Like thats not the war he asked for. You know. You cant win. He cant win that one. Sorry. Your move. We need a cleanse. Can we have weather. We need a mind cleanse after that thing, wow. Lets show you whats been going on. Weve been talking about el nino, strongest el nino since 9798, tied with it and for the most part its been to the north bringing the storminess to the Pacific Northwest and northern california. Now the el nino weakened a little bit and resembles its signature pattern, stormy for Southern California and the southwest with the current radar. Weve got 14 Million People in Southern California under flash flood watches. Anaheim, big sur, riverside, san diego all under the gun. Winter storm, 30 Million People under effect. Warnings in the sierra mountains. This moisture is going to come pushing in bringing with it heavy rain. Could cause flooding. 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The nfl playoffs begin this weekend and a new movie is tackling a major issue within the league, concussion starring will smith tells the story of a doctor who first identified and diagnosed the longterm dangers of head injuries in football. I sat down with will and writer director Peter Landesman to talk about concussion. Concussion tells the story of a nigerian emmitt doctor who uncovers the pattern of brain there are men who continue to die, families left in ruin. Will smith plays dr. Om ha lu but initially he was hesitant to take on the character who takes on the nfl. Its a very inconvenient true. Some of the greatest times ive had with my son were around him playing football, so when i goat this, you know, screenplay, it put me in conflict with myself and then i met with dr. Omalu. After sitting with bennett and hearing his story, i actually became impelled as a parent to tell the story for other parents. What do they want . The nfl wants you to say you made it all up. I made it up . They are accusing you of fraud. Did you think about when you decided to take the role what you would be up against when this movie went public . Yeah. I felt very confident that there would be people who didnt want to hear it and the thing where i what about you, peter . If you focus on the consequences of what you do you quickly become paralyzed because at the end of the day, even from its inception, this movie was never about a takedown of anything. It was for something. It was about discovery. It was about the beauty of discovery and the investigation and the truth. The league has kept everyone in the dark, and youve turned on the lights and gave their biggest boogieman a name. Do you watch the games differently now on a sunday afternoon . Im just ooh, ah, every single play. And your son played payingtime High School Football at a Powerhouse School for four years. Absolutely. Knowing what you know now would you let trey play football growing up . Thats a very difficult question that i think his mother is much better suited to make the decision. What a copout. My kids mother will not be making that decision. Knowing now what i know to me its very simple. Ever let my child put on the pads. Will smith hes acting career seems to be going pretty well but did hint recently at future in politics. What were you talking about specifically . Shall we start getting your Campaign Running for 2020, like what year are we talking here . I was joking when when i made that comment. As an actor what happens when you take on a role, you actually begin to wear the qualities of the person, and while i was wearing dr. Omalu for this last year, i realized how good it feels, so when i hear antiamerican sentiments, im personally offended. Will smith challenges President Trump in 2020. There will be no President Trump in 2020. All right. Hes not running for office but hes starring in this movie. 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