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rose: welcome to the program. we begin our series of conversations about president trump s first 100 days with maggie haberman of the new york times and cnn. what s fascinating about him it s difficult to be a president, you re not going to have agreement on shared of facts with this president. we saw this a lot during the campaign. he will present numbers that are just not true about either crowd size or the effect of his policies or about when something took place. and when you challenge him on it, he will say well that s what i read somewhere or someone sent me that. it s never sort of his own domain and he doesn t own it, he doesn t take proprietary field for it. so a win is what he in his mind what he decides it is and that is his challenge right now is how do i tell people, how do i tell the public that a 100 day presidency, first period of high presidency where his poll numbers, personal approval rating has been around 40% pretty much give or take a few poi ....
how do i tell people, how do i tell the public that a 100 day presidency, first period of high presidency where his poll numbers, personal approval rating has been around 40% pretty much give or take a few points. where he has historic unpopularity and unfavorability where he has been stymied by a congress where his party has the majority, in both houses, how do i spell that as victory. rose: we continue with sheila nevins hbo documentary films her book is called you don t look your age and other fairy tales. it s hard to be a woman getting older that s working. it s hard to once have been saturdaysy and very pretty and suddenly see everything disappearing. it s hard the images of aging and women are so incredibly destructive to keeping it going. rose: and we conclude this evening with an appreciation of the oscar winning film director jonathan demme, he dyed this week at age 73. sometimes people asked me well what s the common link in your movies or what have y ....
to come? and chaos in the cabin. an airliner hits extreme turbulence. 25 people injured, some seriously and why the pilots never saw it coming today, monday, may 1, 2017. from nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. [ cheers and applause ] good morning, everybody, welcome to today, it s a monday morning. we have craig in for matt. looking at that video, it s incredible. if you re one of the people who ignores the pilot who says fasten your seat belts, turbulence is coming. a scary scene in the sky. more than two dozen folks were injured. more on that in just a bit. but first, this terrible shooting. it happened in california. a man suddenly opening fire on guests at a large pool party that was being held at the apartment complex where that man lives. katie b i overnight developments on this investigation. katie, good morning. reporter: good morning, savannah. the birthday party was being ....
in politics, the house will vote on the g.o.p. health care plan. it will be a partisan vote and it s just the first step in a lengthy process to ultimately make this bill a law, but we begin with late night politics. steven colbert he doesn t completely back walk or walk back from his vulgar anti-trump monologue. varney & company begins. folks, if you saw my monologue on monday, you know that i was a little upset with donald trump for insulting a friend of mine. so, at the end of that monologue, i had a few choice insults for the president in return. i don t regret that. i have jokes. he has the launch code. so, a fair fight. well, that was stephen colbert from last night addressing in the comments he made the night before. want to bring in james freeman with the wall street journal editorial page. seems like he did stop short of apologizing. yeah, i think a lot of people are asking, wouldn t he be fired in many circumstances? what i m happening for here is so ....
city, it s stephen colbert! (cheers and applause). stephen: hey. hey! stephen: good to see you. good to see you. hey, ladies and gentlemen, please. welcome to the late show. welcome to the late show. i m your host, stephen colbert. first of all, happy star wars shall star wars day, everybody, may the fourth be with you. also i think the republicans may have fourthed you off your health insurance because the house voted to repeal and replace obamacare just a few hours ago. for more let s go to our congressional no, i know the feeling. let s go to our congressional reporter ben. ben, what was that moment like? as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror. stephen: thanks, ben. now, he s a good kid. now when they tried to pass this kind of bill back in march moderate republicans thought that it was too harsh. while conservative republicans thought it was too soft. the only person who thought its with just right was oregon congresswoman goldi locks. she ....