good morning from los cabos, mexico, i'm chuck todd. th this "the daily rundown." >> you're in a town which usually means vacation, but chuck hard at work. what issues do we expect to dominate the summit in the next two days? >> well, the two big issues, of course, the greece vote. and nobody knew exactly how this g-20 when it was scheduled -- everybody knew in the last three weeks, including folks at the white house, that the greece revote, if you will, was going to take place literally the day before things started. so nobody was quite sure -- there were two different agendas being prepared, if you will. obviously now it's the one of not having to deal with a crisis in that respect. there's still concern. president is going to fit in a new, we've learned, a new one-on-one meeting with chancellor angela merkel. because obviously there's a lot of asian countries here. the united states plus european countries. there is some stuff that can get done. but you're going to hear the same things you heard over the weekend, which is this is a eu

chuck todd with all things political from the white house tonight. chuck, thank you for that. this health care law affects just about every american, and tonight we are hearing some of the many american voices weighing in on the news out of the supreme court this morning. our report on that tonight. >> reporter: for kathy watson today's supreme court ruling is personal. >> it brought tears to my eyes. it took a ton of bricks off me. i felt like relief. i'm actually going to be able to keep my health care coverage. >> reporter: with a high white blood cell count she couldn't get insurance. she went through her savings to pay the bills then was diagnosed with cancer. the health care law created an insurance pool in florida for people with preexisting conditions like watson, allowing her to buy coverage. >> i'm not really sure what i would have done if the law was struck down. >> reporter: as of 2014, insurers can no longer deny coverage to anyone with preexisting conditions. there will be no annual dollar limit on the amount of coverage people can receive, and everyone will have

our chief white house correspondent and political director chuck todd reports tonight from los cabos. >> reporter: it was the first meeting between president obama and newly reinstalled russian president vladimir putin. the stickiest issue they discussed? syria. >> we discussed syria where we agreed that we need to see a cessation of the violence, that a political process has to be created to prevent civil war. >> from my perspective we've been able to find many commonalities. >> reporter: u.s. diplomats found some hope in what wasn't said, that putin avoided publicly standing by syrian president assad. but senator john mccain who has been leading an effort to get the u.s. involved militarily in syria sees the apparent lack of progress with russia on this issue as predictable. >> the diplomatic resolution in conflicts like these is not possible until a military balance of power changes on the ground. >> reporter: most striking, the two leaders' apparent body language which seemed tense and even cold. they barely made eye contact and rarely exchanged even the briefest of smiles, a far

and the beat goes on. >> chuck todd on a friday night at the white house. chuck, thanks. >> we have more now on what is going on in europe, and it's bad. spain is expected to formally ask for an international bailout for its banking system as early as tomorrow as greece is just days away from a vote that could have them bailing out of the euro entirely. as the president noted, what happens there has a big affect on the economy here. our report from nbc's stephanie gosk. >> this is an unemployment agency in spain. 24% of the country is out of work. spain's banks may need more than $100 billion to stay afloat. the housing bubble burst, leaving them with heaps of bad loans. and then there's greece. that country goes bankrupt without another bailout. an election in nine days could put an agreed upon bailout plan in jeopardy. it may be tempting to see the economic hardship in europe and think, well, at least it isn't that bad in the u.s. but europe is the u.s.'s largest trading partner. if europeans don't have jobs, they don't have money to spend. >> it doesn't

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our report tonight from our political director chuck todd. >> congratulations. >> scott walker at a steel plant outside milwaukee basking in the glow of his victory over democrat tom barrett tuesday but striking a conciliatory tone. >> today, the election is over. we're no longer political opponents. i think overwhelmingly, there's more that unites us than divides us. >> walker first defeated barrett in 2010 and led a successful republican effort to strip away bargaining rights for most public employees in 2011, prompting labor unions and democrats to target him for a recall. they responded aggressively. launching an unprecedented tv and ad campaign out spending barrett and his labor allies by a 3 to 1 margin on the error alone. overall, nearly as much money was spent in this one state for one election than mitt romney has spent to secure the republican presidential nomination. national republicans were quick today to use it as a rallying cry for november. >> the american people have had it with big government and high taxes and a regulatory system that knows no bounds. >> but walker hims

tonight our political director and chief white house correspondent chuck todd speaks with one of the five men involved in the original break-in and the reporters who exposed the scandal. >> i shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. >> reporter: that is of course how watergate ended but the biggest political scandal in american history began to unfold 40 years ago on june 17th, 1972, when five men were arrested after breaking into democratic headquarters at the watergate complex. one of those men was eugenio martinez a cuban born cia operative told to look for evidence tying fidel castro to democratic presidential candidate george mcgovern. today at age 90 martinez regrets what he did. >> the whole thing was a stupid mistake one after the other. how could i feel proud of it? >> reporter: martinez and his fellow burglars were being supervised from this command post in room 723, an old howard johnson turned gw dormitory, all to make sure nobody was coming on the sixth floor of the watergate where the dnc had its headquarters. democratic operative r. spencer oliver's phon

here is nbc's political director and chief white house correspondent chuck todd. >> as president obama attempted a moment of political civility, hosting his republican predecessor's portrait unveiling -- >> it's a great privilege to have you here today. >> on opposite ends of the country, his chief political strategist and his current republican rival mitt romney were engaging in not so civil dueling political stunts. >> under governor romney, the state was 47th in job creation. >> the obama campaign traveled to massachusetts for a press conference on the state house steps to slam romney's record as a one-term governor. >> romney economics didn't work then and it won't work now. >> broken record. >> but given the close proximity to romney's headquarters in boston, david axelrod was knocked off message by a vocal group of romney volunteers. a few hours later, the romney campaign had a political stunt of their own to unveil in california. at solyndra, innow bankrupt solar power company president obama visited two years ago after his administration awarded the company a half billion dolla

broadcast, we're debuting our new nbc news wall street journal poll, we're joined for that with chuck todd in our washington newsroom. good evening. >> good evening, brian. it's been a tumultuous month on the presidential campaign. he had that anemic jobs report, the attorney general under fired. lots of money spent on tv ads. about the only thing that's changed in the race, the country is getting more defiant for their candidate, leaving the country more polarized, if that's possible. all month, june has felt more like october on the campaign trail. today alone, the president barnstormed three states, including florida. the vice president in iowa, mitt romney, virginia. >> the president failed to lead. he failed to do what he said he'd do. >> reporter: why the urgency? the race is tight. our new nbc/wall street journal poll shows the president narrowly ahead of mitt romney, 47-44. it's nearly identical to where the race stood last month. what's remarkable about this tightness, is that this poll exposed more weaknesses for both candidates. president obama saw his job approval rating slip w

with us now our chief white house correspondent and political director chuck todd, who is at the white house. chuck, look at this for us vis-a-vis the campaign under way. >> reporter: well, in crass political terms, today was a day where the obama campaign was pretty happy with what happened and the romney campaign was not very happy. let's start with president obama. you talk to some democratic strategists and they say the part of the law that was upheld will only help them motivate hispanics even more and help them essentially alienate them from the republican party. as for mitt romney, brian, you saw today he doesn't like talking about this issue right now because they know the fine line they have to walk between not looking like they're contradicting what romney said during the primary campaign and not alienating hispanics. he said today he was against the decision, if you will. he wished that the supreme court had given states more leeway, but he's trying not to talk about it much. he wants to talk about the economy. >> all right. chuck todd on the white house lawn. thanks. that's

chuck todd joins us on that. the man behind the supreme court decision, would john roberts have done the exact same thing if he was an associate and not chief justice? made in the usa, two big companiesç bringing business t america. will it mean more jobs? good morning, everyone. welcome to weekends with alex witt, i'm richard liu. millions of people are without power after the destructive storm struck states from inds to maryland. hurricane force winds knocking down hundreds of trees in dv and virginia. fallen limbs there killed two people and the entire state of west virginia is under a state of emergency. weather related power outages are reported in seven states. residents and officials will assess the damage today. officials are uncertain when power will be restored there. all of this during a time of dangerous heat. forecasters expecting more storms and record high temperatures again today sean nbc meteorologist bill cakarinss here with the forecast. >> thunderstorms and this amazing heat wave, the worst w

time to go to chuck todd. this is the hour. they will be talking about it 100 years from now. take it away. >> decision day. the supreme court is just an hour away from one of the most important rulings in 80 years. judging the constitutionality of the sweeping health care law, the power of congress. it's president obama's signature achieveme achievement. full coverage of the legal, the policy, and the political impact. plus -- what would come next? meanwhile, house republicans are poised to do something that never has been done before. hold a cabinet in contempt. our big questions, besides who will any notice politically after 10:00 a.m. and our new poll takes a look at where mitt romney stand. three swing states are only on the out skirts. we are talking michigan and north carolina among them. a very busy thursday. this is "the daily rundown." i'm chuck todd. maybe about 57 minutes away. let's get to the first reads of the morning. the supreme court will issue what may be the most important ruling on the power of congress in 80 years. the court will deliver a verdict on the

msnbc political director chuck todd and pete williams, nbc news justice correspondent. chris, let's start with you. the president is targeting the swing states we just talked about in a bus tour. they just announced today they are going out next week. just where is the president going? >> well, i believe he's headed into the rural midwest, which is a place he needs to go. the states that you showed, i would add, those states, the most striking finding i found at least from the nbc/"wall street journal," i know chuck talked about this so i will defer to chuck but the thing i found, those swing states, he's ahead by more than he is nationally. we always said this is a national election in name only. that is, what matters is the margin in those swing states. you know, i'm from connecticut. president obama is very likely to win connecticut. if he doesn't win connecticut, he's got bigger problems on his hands. the fact that he's ahead by eight in those swing states and only three nationally, i find kind of striking. i know chuck concluded at least part of it's about negative

let's go back to nbc's chief white house correspondent and host of this show, chuck todd, traveling withresident. and he's in los cabos, mexico. chuck, you've taken a nice look back at this watergate scandal and probably learned a lot. >> you know, i have. and that's what's great about having the opportunity to do this on the show, because there's a lot of stuff that we did for nbc, and then ends up on the cutting room floor, and it's stuff that is just amazing history, amazing perspective from people still alive, including one of the burglars. first to sort of wrap-up, it was 40 years ago yesterday that we had the most famous break-in american political history. >> i shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. >> that's, of course, how watergate ended. but the biggest political scandal in american history began to unfold 40 years ago, on june 17th, 1972, when five men were arrested after breaking into democratic headquarters at the watergate complex. one of those men was eugeno rolando martinez, a cuban-born cia operative told to look for evidence tying castro to democratic

>> if i'm chuck todd i got a reason to be mad, right?blanked -- dodgers can't score a run. >> not just a sweep, not just to the giants. it's not scoring a single run in the series? >> yeah. >> this is ugly. matt kemp, please hurry up. >> come on, man. >> come back. come back. >> look at that. >> you're killing me. >> by the way, your meat heads are getting tagged out by hippies by san francisco hippies. >> you know, san francisco -- don't get me started. >> that rivalry -- >> i was in the giants -- i really appreciate it, the one time you don't have your east coast bias is this week. really appreciate it. thanks. >> you know, we were actually saying, chuck, if this was an east coast rivalry -- >> it would be important. >> it would be all we would be talking about. it is one of the great rivalries in baseball. let's start out by looking at the battleground polls you have put out, nbc news and maris polls showing pretty close races between barack obama and mitt romney. three tough states, the two were tied at 45 apiece in new hampshire. le

professor chuck todd. good to see you, my friend.ll. >> all right. >>> the 99% blames the 1% for economic inequality. middle america blames wall street. and it seems millions blame congress for the gridlock and dysfunction. how did we get here? that's the question posed by an author of a new book "twilight of the elites" joining me now, author chris hayes, host of "up with hayes" on msnbc every saturday and sunday and author of this book. congratulations on getting your first book out there. >> fantastic, thank you. >> so take us in a broad sense. who do you blame for the problems? who is behind this, in your view? >> what i think we have seen is, this cascade of institutional failure and elite failure over the course of the decade. let's remember, the iraq war, we watched katrina drown the city of new orleans on national television. >> dissipated. >> after talking about watergate, during watergate, there was a sense in the country we were under going a crisis of authority in which faith in our institutions was at an all-time low. an

i'm chuck todd. of course, stay with us this morning. the president will be making a statement in the press briefing room, also expected to take a few questions. let's get right to my first reads of the morning. presidential campaign is a marathon, and this is the week mitt romney caught up with the president. not just the national polls have been tightening for a while, but now romney has pulled even in a handful of key areas. most important is money. the president has had a big appraisering advantage, and even had his biggest fund-raising month in may. that didn't matter. romney and the rnc out-raised president obama by $17 million last month, pulling in nearly $77 million. the president is advertising in nine battleground states. iowa, colorado, north carolina, new hampshire, nevada, ohio, virginia, florida, and pennsylvania. well, now romney had only been up in four, then five, now seven. the only two he's not in at this point is florida and pennsylvania. it will be interesting to see if he does go to pennsylvania. then there's gover

joining me with more is nbc political director and chief white house correspondent, chuck todd.hat a scene just from what we could see from the outside looking in. what was the purpose besides sort of donor maintenance, they got to hear a well regarded speech on saturday by condoleezza rice. was there a vetting of vice presidential prospects? >> it was less about that. this is about expanding the donor pool. they were looking for new bundlers. they were looking for people to go out and find new contributors and i think that's -- it's interesting. there has been different analysis of how the fund-raising is going and mitt romney really does trail in small donors. he does really well on the higher end of donations. they need to fire up this pool. they need more donors. they are running out of maxed-out donors. i would say 90% of the point of this was that. were the political hands there to see how the various donors responded? sure. there's a little of that. but this was about wining and dining big donors who they would like to see become more than that, bundlers. >> what about th

chris matthews, andrea mitch, chuck todd. much more from all of them. look this is the decision.people are still reading it. we are still getting the details. but the headline clearly is that the supreme court has upheld the signature achievement of barack obama's presidency, which is the health care law. it largely does stand. that's going to do it for me. i'm chris jansing. thomas roberts is up next. thomas? >> great hour. as i'm watching you, i'm reminded of what the vice president had to say back in march of 2010 this is is a big deal. >> shall i give this? >> hand it over and keep going here. hi, everybody, great to have you Ãm%q!jujip &h(lc% thomas roberts, breaking news this hour, our agenda is the immediate reaction to today's groundbreaking decision from the supreme court which just ruled to uphold the health care law, the president's signature legislation, truly a defining moment for health care in this country, a decision that impacts millions of americans from the cradle to the grave and a ruling that will have a monumental impact on the future of this presidential ra

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we have chuck todd and john heilmann. he wrote the cover story on the obama campaign strategy, that's what we were going to talk about but we have to talk about this. bring us back for this. those covering him in 2004 in those small rooms in iowa and in new hampshire, he was a force to be reckoned with. it was emotional, populism like never heard before, and now here he is facing 30 years he was facing today and he is still free. >> let's not forget if bob had gotten his way in 2000, it would have been gore verses edwards. he was one of the short listers in 2000. >> that ticket might have won. >> it might have. he really made his stamp, put his stamp on his early career for democrats. that sort of is where he became a dc rising star winning that senate seat. so this was a guy on the fast track in the minute he essentially that gore didn't win and he didn't get picked, i think it was two months into president bush's first term that john edwards made his first visit to iowa. he was on the fast tract, and maybe just a week a

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let's go to chuck todd. is the headline out of this, the more things change, the more things stay the same? >> i think that's fair to say. under the surface, it's like watching a duck. on the surface it seems like everything is the same. go underneath and you see the duck's feet peddling away. parts of the elector that was pro obama have become lead obama. his leads among hispanics went up. for mitt romney, same thing, though. where he was already fairly strong, he's gotten stronger among white independents. it had been more of a 50/50 split. his numbers have gone up. and among other groups that have been strong for him already, his leads have expanded. what you're seeing is a hardening of the base. but i have to tell you, thomas, there's a couple numbers i want to point out. where you see the polarization seeping into the answers to big questions. so, for instance, we ask, is the economy recovering? while it was interesting, 51% said it was recovering. 41% said it wasn't. when you look at the split, 75% of

. >>> chuck todd is in mexico where the group of 20 nations is meeting and i guess to follow up on theme that goldy taylor said, chuck, is there anything that isn't viewed through the political lens right now? how important is what happens there at the g-20, potentially to the president's re-election efforts? >> reporter: well, i think the biggest, obviously, is how to get europe to deal with its problems since that impacts our economy and what happens to our economy impacts the political environment which, of course, impacts the presidential election. that's the most direct thing. i think what you had here is a lot of including the u.s., obama administration was -- you had sort of two plans on how to deal with the g-20 depending on how greece voted. greece voted the way they did, president since added a one on one meeting with the german chancellor angela merkle. she waited until the results were known in greece. i believe she was the last leader to show up because of that. obviously, this is now all -- it's always been in germany's hands. there's been a joke that the single most impo

asian countries that members of the g20 because of of the concern of the global slowdown. >> okay, chuck todd in mexico. it's a tough job but somebody's got to go to cabo. >> i haven't dipped in yet. >> have fun, chuck. we'll see you soon. >> heading toward the close, about 50 minutes left in the trading session. the dow is still down about 14 but the nasdaq very strong, up 26 points at this hour. >> the nasdaq once again the winner. it's the safe haven. >> coming up my exclusive interview with vick rim pandit. >> we think we're going to be in a position to work with the fed to figure out how to return capital to our shareholders. >> is it a 2013 affair? everybody's asking. >> and she's calling for a breakup of the big about bang. former chair sheila bear says some banks are too big to manage. she'll join us next in a cnbc interview. stay tuned. ♪ i'm making my money do more. ♪ i'm consolidating my assets. i'm not paying hidden fees or high commissions. i'm making the most of my money. and seven-dollar trades ae start. i'm with scottrade. i'm with scottrade. i'm with scottrade. and i'm loving

thank you, chuck todd. more on the poll of course tonight at 6:30. >>> mitt romney has criticized the president's stance on immigration and said he is disappointed in the supreme court's ruling on the arizona law. but he's still avoiding specifics. just what he would do, how would he overhaul the immigration system. here's how he addressed the issue less than a half hour ago. >> the supreme court had to step in because states had to step in. states looking for a way to solve the problems he didn't address, tried to address it in their own ways. now the supreme court's looked at it. what we're left with is a bit of a muddle. what we know is the president failed to lead. he failed to do what he said he would do. >> joining me, mark mckinon, former advisor to president george w. bush. george w. bush took on the immigration issue and tried and did not succeed. as did other presidents and other senators. now we've got a case where both sides are accusing each other of failure of leadership. >> yeah, that's the d

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this is "daily rundown" i'm chuck todd. a ton to get to. 158 days until the election and as we count down the days, each monthly jobs report is more important than the last one. it's a gut punch. just 69,000 jobs were added in the month of may, while the unemployment rate rose to 8.2%. the unemployment rate had been trending down. that is not necessarily good news since more people were giving up on the job search. the rise in the jobless rate, this time, is due in large part to the return of more than 600,000 people either getting jobs or looking for jobs. nevertheless, the trend line for jobs added is unmistakable. that number dropped dramatically in march and then again in april to falling to 69,000 in may with the president working to beat the clock and convince americans the economy is improving, this report is nothing but bad news. a perception that could drive a reality. 58% of americans still believe the nation is on the wrong track and this morning, romney argues he has the experience to turn the economy around. >>