with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning, everybody, welcome to today on a tuesday morning. we will get the numbers later today, but they were saying this might be the most watched debate ever, maybe 100 million viewers, that would get us into super bowl territory. fs a i lot of hype, i think in some ways it lived up to it. i think if you look at the coverage this morning most people agree no knockout punch, no game changer in terms of ch chew on no question about it. we will get reaction to the debate from the two vice presidential nominees, tim cane and mike pence in just a little while. first our decision 2016 team has it covered starting with nbc national correspondent peered alexander. peter, good morning. good morning to you. i think you re right, it was a historic night that largely lived up to the hype. a night of contrast on policy, personality and preparation. inst instincts. after their opening remar
and be so kind to identify yourself to our guest speaker. i do see that you subscribe to the extent evans school. he always argued the 1964 california primary and the 76 north carolina primaries were the two most important primaries. absolutely, very much so. gives me an opportunity to say something i don t often have the chance to say, and it is that we have some heroes in the conservative movement. we have the barry goldwater s, ronald reagan s, jim demint and others. but we also unsung heroes. one of them, my friend morton blackwell, most americans have not heard of him but he is a person we all stand on the shoulders but we are deeply in his debt. on a short list beside beside mf unsung heroes is inane named tom ellis who was a. of former senator jesse helms in north carolina. in my opinion, ellis almost and randomly elected three of the best senators of the 20th century. jesse helms first election 1972, john east in 1980 and faircloth. tom is still active, a lawyer i
president s claims. let s get right to cnn s political analysis, mark preston and mr. ryan lizza, senior white house correspondent jim acosta and legal analyst laura coats. jim, at the white house now, president trump still under fire for those accusations of wiretapping he made against the former president. but no word from him on that today. he didn t talk about it. instead, he was touting the house plan to repeal and replace obamacare. let s take a look. i m proud to support the replacement plan released by the house of representatives and encouraged by members of both parties. i think really that we re going to have something that s going to be much more understood and much more popular than people can even imagine. this is the plan. and we re going to have a tremendous i think we will have a tremendous success. it s a complicated process but actually it s very simple. it s called good health care. so, jim, complicated but simple. he says it s going to be more popul
because the white house has really been doing summer salts, back flips, pretzels, all trying to figure out how to respond to these unfounded accusations made by the president that the former president wiretapped him. white house press briefing today, sean spicer. it s been a full three days since the president said that president obama had his wires tapped, his phones tapped at trump tower. in those three days has the white house come up with any evidence whatsoever to prove that allegation? i addressed this multiple times yesterday. i think the president we put out a statement on sunday saying that we would have no further comment. we ve gone back and forth with you guys. i think there s clearly a role that congress can play in its oversight capabilities. they made it very clear they have the staff, the resources and the process. i think that s the appropriate place for this to handle. i think if we were to start to get involved, you would write stories about how we we
affordable care act. let s get right now to senior political analyst, mark preston and julia, the author of security mom and jill daugherty now at the evans school at the university of washington. so, mark preston, to you first, because the white house has really been doing summer salts, back flips, pretzels, all trying to figure out how to respond to these unfounded accusations made by the president that the former president wiretapped him. white house press briefing today, sean spicer. it s been a full three days since the president said that president obama had his wires tapped, his phones tapped at trump tower. in those three days has the white house come up with any evidence whatsoever to prove that allegation? i addressed this multiple times yesterday. i think the president we put out a statement on sunday saying that we would have no further comment. we ve gone back and forth with you guys. i think there s clearly a role that congress can play in its oversight