you take the good and bad and make it great. >> chris jansing, nbc news. >> that's our broadcast on a thursday night. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams and we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. >>> good evening, everyone. i'm jessica aguirre. >> and i'm raj mathai. we begin with a white lie or perhaps an inadvertent error. yahoo! is on damage control tonight about the resume of its ceo. george katayama joins us in san jose tonight with the details. george. >> reporter: raj, that is the big question tonight, is it a lie or is it, as yahoo! says, an i

we get more tonight from nbc's chris jansing. >> the photos are faded, but rosa glover's memories are fresh from the day in 1989 when her 19-month-old son shane disappeared from a playground in harlem. >> i figure he's out there somewhere, we just have to find him. >> the arrest in the etan patz case has given families of missing children new hope, and changes since etan's abduction have been dramatic. >> in 1979, you couldn't enter missing children information into the fbi's national crime computer. you could enter information about stolen cars but not stolen children. >> patz's disappearance led president ronald reagan to sign legislation establishing the first national database of missing children. a critical step to take on a daunting problem. every year, an estimated 200,000 children are abducted by family members. 58,000 by non-family members. 115 are stranger abductions where the child is killed, held for ransom, or taken with the intention to keep them. technology has been a game changer. pictures that once went out on milk cartons are now sent out instantly. on websites for m

chris jansing, nbc news, new york. >>> good note to go out on for our thursday night broadcast.ou for being here with us. i'm brian williams, and of course, we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. as we leave you tonight, one sure and solemn sign that memorial day weekend is upon us. the placing of the flags. it's under way at arlington national cemetery. 220,000 of them, one for each headstone. thanks to the men and women of the old guard, the third infantry regimen. they have been doing it the same way every year since 1948. a sight that puts a lump in your throat. good night for all of us. >>> good evening, everyone. i'm jessica aguirre. >> and i'm raj mathai. the suspect of the sierra lamar disappearance stepped into a courtroom for the first time since being charged with murder and kidnapping. we have live team coverage, including the volunteers who showed up in support of sierra. we begin with

you take the good and bad and make it great. >> chris jansing, nbc news. >> that's our broadcast on asday night. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams and we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night.

chris jansing, nbc news, new york. >>> good note to go out on for our thursday night broadcast.e with us. i'm brian williams, and of course, we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. as we leave you tonight, one sure and solemn sign that memorial day weekend is upon us. the placing of the flags. it's under way at arlington national cemetery. 220,000 of them, one for each headstone. thanks to the men and women of the old guard, the third infantry regimen. they have been doing it the same way every year since 1948. a sight that puts a lump in your throat. good nig

a report from nbc's chris jansing. >> jennifer ramirez also helped she would be the first person fromfamily to graduate from college. then she got pregnant when she was just 15. >> i ahad all these emotions going through myself. i didn't know what i was going to do. >> unwilling to let her dream die, she had her baby, graduated from high school, and is now at the university of maryland. it was often overwhelming, classes, work, raising jordan without a dad. then just when jennifer needed it most, generation hope came to the rescue. >> positives can occur out of uncertain circumstances. >> this past fall, she was 1 of seven young malls who were given scholarships up to $2400 and matched with mentors. jennifer's mentor, suzanna simpson has a son almost the same age, and he's always there for advice. >> i see jennifer in our family's future for a long time. >> she's like a second mother to me. >> it's those relationships far more than the money that are the driving force behind generation hope. the brainchild of nicole lynn lewis. >> good job. >> a teen mom herself, she worked hr way thr

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>>> good morning i'm richard lui in for chris jansing. this morning everyone is trying to figure out what the political consequences will be for president obama, the first president in history, to come out in support of gay marriage. >> this was something the president did as a matter of conscious. i think it's sort of -- we're in a chips fall where they may moment. >> what the president did yesterday was have his words match his deeds. >> a close election it can make a marginal difference. >> i think it has a very powerful symbolic effect. >> the president said his decision was personal but he made it clear, it's not for political gain. >> i think it would be hard to argue that somehow this is something that i would be doing for political advantage because, frankly, you know, the politics -- it's not clear how they cut. >> joining me now, "washington post" columnist and msnbc contributor and "usa today" washington bureau chief susan paige. good morning to you both. e.j., i want to start with you. polls showing about half the pay supporti

i'm jeff rossen in for chris jansing. day two of the nato summit in chicago, already under way. and there's a lot going on this morning. president obama scheduled to make remarks any minute now, likely about the war in afghanistan. nato members expected to endorse a plan today to hand over control of combat operations to afghan forces by the middle of next year. >>> meanwhile, police bracing for new clashes. dozens were arrested yesterday. we have all the angles covered for you this morning in chicago. >>> we want to begin with chuck todd about what we can expect from the president this morning in his remarks coming up. chuck, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, jeff. the whole point of this day of the nato conference is to try to emphasize this idea that they're going to formalize this transition of combat and nato, basically meaning u.s. troops taking the lead on the combat mission. they call it milestone 2013. this is an agreement that afghan security forces take the lead combat role by the summer of 2013. this is an attempt, frankly, to appease a lot of some of t

i'm chris jansing and it is battleground blitz. today a brand-new ad hits president obama in battleground states. >> promised so much. >> we must help the millions of homeowners facing foreclosure. >> promise broken. one in five mortgages are still under water. >> today i'm pledging to cut the deficit we inherited by half by the end of my first term in office. >> broken. because he hasn't even come close. we need solutions, not just promises. >> that is part of a $25 million ad buy from crossroads gps. while the obama campaign is up and running with a $25 million ad campaign of its own. that $50 million total is for a month. joining me now is susan page and "washington post" columnist and nbc contributor. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> as far as attack ads go, is that going to get your attention? >> i think it will to some degree. it's fairly conventional but not as vicious as some of the ads you're going to see out there. i thought the important thing was in your graphic that you just showed. notice on the one si

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i'm craig melvin in today for chris jansing. rick santorum is finally on board the mitt romney express endorsing his former rival late last night. santorum pledged his support last night. it wasn't the most enthusiastic endorsement with the actual endorsement coming way down in paragraph 13. santorum writing, quote, governor romney will be that nominee and he has my endorsement and support to win this, the most critical election of our lifetime. joining me now, molly ball and ezra klein. good morning to you both. molly, is this as tepid as you can get? >> i think it is. he managed to wedge the word "endorsement" in there. but if you blinked, you might have missed it. it was very clear this was kind of the opposite of getting up there on stage with him and giving him the full-throated attaboy. this was almost obligatory, here it is, i'm doing it. >> why not a major production to announce the endorsement or at least an in-person endorsement? >> because mitt romney didn't give him anything. there's an argument out there that rick s

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i'm chris jansing.omic signs that are important to what happens in november's election. first, a new poll shows 71% of people think the state of the economy is poor, but there is also optimism. more than half think things will be better a year from now. and in half an hour, jpmorgan chase ceo jamie dimon will face shareholders after the bank's $2 billion trading loss. today more lawmakers are asking if wall street is back to risky betting and if main street will end up paying for it again. >>> the economy is the issue for the president and mitt romney. romney will give a major speech later today on debt in iowa. president obama speaks later this hour. joining me now is the columnist for the washington post, dana

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i'm chris jansing. the one-year anniversary of the death of osama bin laden has turned into an unexpected and unexpectedly pointed campaign battle. team obama has been touting the mission's success and pointing out in the past mitt romney suggested he would not have gone after bin laden. romney responded to those charges formally this morning. >> and i think them taking credit for the right decision is entirely appropriate. i think trying to attack me on that basis is disappointing. of course i would have taken the exact same decision. the idea to political size this and say, oh, president obama would have done it one way, mitt romney would have done it another is really disappointing. there are plenty of differences between president obama and myself, but let's not make up ones. >> i want to bring in "washington post" deputy national political director ann co cornbluth and michael sheer from "the caucus." good morning. >> good morning. >> i don't know if you saw the interview but at least three times m

i'm chris jansing. but a national poll shows president obama's lead dropping to less than 2%. and brand gnu nbc/marist poll shows it's a dead heat in three battleground states as well. in iowa, a tie. both candidates at 44%. in colorado, the presidentas

>>> good morning, i'm chris jansing and, boy, a discouraging jobs report out this morning, the unemployment rate dropping to 8.1% but only because more people gave up looking for work. the economy added just 115,000 jobs. less than we saw in march. a sign things are slowing down economically. let me bring in chris hayes host with "up with chris mhayes" on msnbc, and i wish we had better just. let me hear what we played from "the daily rundown" alan krueger had this analysis of the numbers. >> i think you need to step back and kind of put these numbers in context. they move around, it makes a lot of sense i think to look at a moving average if you will of the data coming in. and i think we also have to recognize that given the severity of the recession, given the nature of the financial crisis, this recovery has faced a lot of headwinds. >> how's that for an answer? >> well, i mean, i think it's true from a macroeconomic perspective. we know from sort of comprehensive analysis of the wake of financial crises that growth in the wake of financial crises whether you are talking about japan, per

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i'm chris jansing. but a national poll shows president obama's lead dropping to less than 2%. and brand gnu nbc/marist poll shows it's a dead heat in three battleground states as well. in iowa, a tie. both candidates at 44%. in colorado, the president has a one-point lead. in nevada he pushes it to 2%. the obama campaign's big push today is to attack mitt romney's record as massachusetts governor. check out this clip of a new web video. >> mitt romney was not an effective leader in massachusetts, and the proof is in the pudding. >> i had worked only under republican governors, and i worked really we with all of others. there was not much working with mitt romney. >> i want to bring in jackie kucinich, and author of the new good "our divided political heart. "good morning to both of you. now the democrats are moving on to attack romney's record as massachusetts governor. they've actually released a five-page memo calling his time as governor a

i'm chris jansing.d by a proposed ad campaign linking president obama to reverend jeremiah wright, strong denials this morning saying that ad was never going to run. here's the head of e super pac that got the $10 million proposal. >> the world is full of bad ideas. this was one of them. but this wasn't a proposal that we requested in this format at all. we never funded it. and i tried to make that very clear to the "new york times." >> the super pac is bank rolled by billionaire joe ricketts who founded ameritrade, he owns chicago cubs and owns dnainfo.com. this whole thing begs the question with six months until election day, just how far are outside groups willing to go? is anything off limits? has it ever been this hard for a campaign to control its own message? joining me

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i'm chris jansing and it should have been a huge day for mitt romney finally clenching the delegates needed to be the gop nominee. >> this is a big day. 1,144 we finally got there. >> donald trump stole the spot light dominating the air waves by reigniting talk of the president's birth certificate. trump's central position highlights how unprecedented the need for big dollar donors is in 2012. >> this is really been a special day and a special evening. it's been amazing the amount of money that was raised. >> joining me now columnist for the las vegas sun and clarence page. good morning, gentleman. >> the last i read you had the goal at 2 million and at that point had commitments of 657,000. how did it go last night? >> they are saying, chris, that they got over the $2 million mark and they had a star studded cast there from the republican establishment including prominent names in the casino industry. the two loudest critics of president obama. they bundled probably more than $100,000 each. so did lorenzo who had station casinos. they are well known republicans. you had some other g

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i'm chris jansing. we wish you all a very happy memorial day. we're honored to be joined by two retired generals, both vietnam veterans. general wesley clark with us today along with general barry mccaffrey. i didn't realize, general clark, when i was reading chuck hagel's biography, i knew he'd been a vietnam veteran, a highly decorated one. so was his brother, thomas. it brings to mind the sacrifices that so many families went through during that time to have in his case and many others more than one member of the family who served at the same time. >> that's exactly right. and it was a family decision as well as an individual decision. people knew the country was calling, and they went. some volunteered. some waited to be called. but all through, especially through america's heartland, patriotic young men answered the call. we knew it was about more than action and adventure. we believed at the time it was essential to maintaining freedom in america. we saw it as an essential strategy of containment and stopping the spread of communism, stopp

i'm chris jansing. we wish you all a very happy memorial day. we're honored to be joined by two retired generals, both vietnam veterans. general wesley clark with us today along with general barry mccaffrey. i didn't realize, general clark, when i was reading chuck hagel's biography, i knew he'd been a vietnam veteran, a highly decorated one. so was his brother, thomas. it brings to mind the sacrifices that so many families went through during that time to have in his case and many others more than one member of the family who served at the same time. >> that's exactly right. and it was a family decision as well as an individual decision. people knew the country was calling, and they went. some volunteered. some waited to be called. but all through, especially through america's heartland, patriotic young men answered the call. we knew it was about more than action and adventure. we believed at the time it was essential to maintaining freedom in america. we saw it as an essential strategy of containment and stopping the spread of communism, stopp

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