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guest: i think often times the conventional wisdom is wrong, and the conventional wisdom in money and politics you essentially have good intentioned government officials who who are being influenced or attempts to influence them by corporations or public unions and if we can only figure out a way to seal off essentially these public officials from this outside influences, everything would be great and so i call this the jimmy stewart mr. smith the great. so i call this the june knee damage jimmy stewart mr. smith goes to washington scenario. you have well-intentioned politicians being tempted by outside forces. my experience over the last 20 years or so the opposite is true that you have a lot of corporations and entities that essentially wants to be left alone by the federal government and have politicians or people in the executive branch who are looking for ways in which to enhance their services or the needs to get corporations involved. the high-tech industry i ....
a good wednesday morning. we begin with another busy day on capitol hill. lawmakers are set to vote on a trillion dollar spending plan to fund the government and they re still battling over a bill to replace obamacare. oh, yes, they are. republicans are struggling to find common ground on how to cover people with pre-existing conditions, but for now they still don t have enough votes to push the bill through. abc s kenneth moton joins us now from washington with the latest. good morning. reporter: good morning, kendis and diane. the white house is hoping for a health care vote before the house goes on a week-long recess tomorrow. today president trump making another play on health care. how is health care coming, folks? how is it doing? all right. we moving along? i think it s time now, right? reporter: the president more like a coach in front of lawmakers while honoring the u.s. air force academy football team. by our count two noes can tank the new house gop p ....
a good wednesday morning. we begin with another busy day on capitol hill. lawmakers are set to vote on a trillion dollar spending plan to fund the government and they re still battling over a bill to replace obamacare. oh, yes they are. republicans are struggling to find common ground on how to cover people with pre-existing conditions, but for now they still don t have enough votes to push the bill through. abc s kenneth moton joins us now from washington with the latest. good morning. reporter: good morning, kendis and diane. the white house is hoping for health care vote before the house goes on a week-long recess tomorrow. today president trump making another play on health care. how is health care coming, folks? we moving along? i think it s time now, right? reporter: the president more like a coach in front of lawmakers while honoring the u.s. air force academy football team. by our count two noes can tank the new house gop plan to repeal and replace obama ....
education secretary betsy devos gets booed at a historic black college. what was behind the anger and how the school is defending its choice to let her speak. and espn tragedy. wife of sports casting legends chris berman killed in a deadly car accident along with another driver and this morning the tributes are pouring in. it s important to all of us on this show to make our love to chris and his family known. investigators are trying to determine what caused that crash today, thursday, may 11th, 2017. announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning, everybody, welcome to today on a busy thu thursday morning. when we say mother of all storms we re saying mother s day. not storm of the century. a clever line. i saw what you did there. people don t go running for cover. don t stockpile stuff quite yet. this morning we re covering politics. we re hearing fro ....
gets booed at a historically black college. what was behind the anger and how the school is defending the choice to let her speak. an espn tragedy. the wife of chris berman killed in a deadly car accident along with another driver. this morning the tributes are pouring in. it is important to all of us on this show to make our love for chris and his family known. investigators are trying to figure out what caused that crash today on may 11, 2017. this has today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio center 1 a. when we say mother of all storms, we re referencing mother s day. that s right. al had kind of reaction. this isn t that huge of a right? i see what you did there. we don t want people to go running for cover. don t stockpile stuff yesterday. this morning we re hearing from president trump and james comey as the fallout over the firing grows. president trump defending the timing of his decision to dismiss the former fbi direc ....