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plus. i m from the world busker s festival in new zealand, where artists are searching for weird and wonderful ways to entertain the crowds we begin in northern iraq where the kurdish peshmerga are launching a major offensive against i.s.i.l. cutting off a route. supplies from its base in araka, in syria, to mosul - the second largest city of iraq which is under the armed group s control. the i.s.i.l. stronghold is one of the towns along the route. peshmerga forces which control the dam. what they are trying to do is take those another to the area and cut off the supply routes. zeina khodr is there for us. reporter: we have been talking to commanders they say they ve pushed approximately 25km south of mosul dam, and have taken over a number of towns and villages. we saw for hour how the islamic state of iraq and levant is fighting back, using heavy weapons. they are firing rockets landing close to peshmerga positions. peshmerga commanders said this will take some ....
hockey show down. and girl power. how a group of girls selling girl scout cook kiss turn into crime fighters. they help police catch a thief in the act. their remarkable story today, saturday, march 15th, 2014. from nbc news, this is today with lester holt and erica hill. live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a saturday morning. i m lester holt. i m erica hill along side jenna wolf and dylan dreyer. we want to get you to today s top story. that s the breaking news coming in overnight involving the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight 370. that development, this the disappearance was intentional. they made that statement earlier this morning. the plane has been missing for 8 days and investigators are finally getting more details about at least the track of the airplane. some of the initial movements. they now know for sure that the plane did make a deliberate u-turn and someone disabled the devices that w ....
reporter: in the oval office this morning, president trump declared obamacare is on its last leg. obamacare is virtually dead. reporter: just five days ago, he cut off $7 billion in subsidies that help lower-income americans. people who make too much to qualify for medicaid, but still need help paying for their coverage. americans like nevada retiree marcy shelton. i am not a deadbeat. i pay my bills. i ve worked hard all of my life. this is what i was told, that this was going to be there for me. reporter: 6 million americans benefit from these subsidies, nearly 70% of them live in states that voted for trump. but the president today described the payments as a handout to insurance companies. this is money that goes to the insurance companies to line their pockets, to raise up their stock prices and they ve had a record run. reporter: but just minutes later, he seemed to back a new bipartisan deal to restore those same payments. the solution will be for about a ye ....
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. stories here, who has more perceived credibility at this point? it s a tough call. what do you think? well, that s a good question, i don t think either one of them does. president trump says things that are untrue all the time. he has about this very anecdote because the new york times reported a year ago he helped create a false statement about this meeting. don jr. most likely told his father about this meeting, it s not plausible that he wouldn t have. michael cohen doesn t have credibility. rudy giuliani doesn t have credibility. i think what this does, we don t know again if this is collusion, if collusion is a crime. if this is actually an impeachable offense. we ll wait for mueller to figure this out. whether or not there was a direct act that could be translated from collusion to conspiracy. but i think what this d ....
must be talking to don jr. so he erased them. the expert is going through them trying to figure out a few things like is is a recording of a recording? that he cut it off at the time the? did to go back to laboratory whatever he had and cut it off? harris: it didn t stop there, also went after cohen reclaim the president knew about that 2016 trump tower meeting between trump campaign officials and a russian attorney. giuliani says it s flat-out not true. is wild, crazy, and are out of their minds. he did not participate in any meeting of the russian transaction. the other meeting said he was never there. at least four separate witnesses who say that against a guy who has been proven to be one of the biggest liars in america. harris: one top democrat is not dismissing michael cohen s allegations. senator patrick leahy says it s time for donald trump jr. to come back before the senate judiciary committee to answer them, but this time in public under oath. what do you think ....