andrea mitchell, who normally would preside over this hour, andrea, forgive the intrusion. >> not at all. >> we want to talk about what we just witnessed. those of us with a few stripes on our sleeves remember someone else named trudeau. >> we do. >> we remember richard nixon toasting a 4-year-old son of pierre trudeau making a toast to the future prime minister of canada, and lo and behold, richard nixon was right, he grew up to be prime minister, and here he is in washington. >> indeed. i have a few strips, es, as you know, so it's so interesting to see these persist who are ideologically matched, although generationally different. when i was covering ronald reagan, there was a famous blowup at a g-7 summit at williamsburg, virginia, hosted by reagan, over how to deal with the then-soviet union and how to deploy missiles over europe. and at one point reagan threw his glasses down on the table and said, god damn it, pierre, i'm doing everything i can. so there were a lot of disagreements, and also on climate change, on acid rain, which was a big issue in canada but not at all for ro

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>>> right now on "andrea mitchell reports," tracking the terrorists. police are hunting for at least one man believed to be connected with the deadly bombings in brussels. and as the investigation grows, the broader scope of the terrorist problem in western europe is becoming increasingly apparent. >> the european news organization is saying they now believe that the isis networks in europe are greater than they had estimated talking about around 5,000 europeans being recruited to isis. >> security in the homeland. here in the u.s., the attorney general says law enforcement is on guard. >> while we have received no specific credible threats to the homeland, we will continue to remain vigilant to be sure to keep the american people safe from harm. >>> the wives war. donald trump and ted cruz battling for the republican nomination and taking it to a new low involving their spouses. >> hey guys, knock it off. the world is falling apart. man up. you've got great wives and families. give me a vision. talk about things people really care about and not this s

let's go over to andrea mitchell. to quote the journey song playing in the background while kelly was speaking, don't stop believing. that is what the dreamers and the true believers on this team will be saying. under the surface, won't some democrats be saying to the republicans, if we succeed, if we get a democratic president, you'll be longing for the days when merrick garland was our pick for the court because he is such a moderate. now we're going to put up a liberal, say. >> i think the best argument is that some of those republicans may be facing, the political arguments might be just think of what president trump or president cruz would nominate, whom they would nominate. we're going to take a break, i think. mitch mcconnell has taken the floor, but we'll complete that thought on the other side. >> republicans in the senate, mitch mcconnell. >> so of course, of course, the american people should have a say in the court's direction. it is a president's constitutional right to nominate a supreme court justice, a

i'm andrea mitchell. at the reagan library in simi valley, california, the country is going to say farewell to one of the most influential first ladies in modern history. we'll be here throughout the day covering nancy reagan's life, her death, the funeral services, but first, to a presidential race that she was known to be following very closely this fall. today, donald trump endorsed by former rival, ben carson, told reporters he believes the reaction to supporters is, quote, very, very appropriate. >> he was swinging. he was hitting people, and the audience hit back. and that's what we need a little bit more of. >> and joining me now from florida, nbc's katy tur covering the trump campaign and gabe gutierrez. ka katy, first to you. you've seen these rallies, not just the protesters but donald trump's reaction last night and again today about protesters in the audience and what he says about them. >> reporter: you know, that's been a big story for this campaign for quite a while, but it's really reachin

i'm andrea mitchell in washington. we begin with breaking news in the fight against isis killed by u.s. special forces in an operation inside syria. secretary of defense, ash carter, confirmed the killing in a briefing a short while ago. >> the u.s. military killed several key isil terrorists this week, including, we believe, haji iman, serving as a finance minister and who also is responsible for some external affairs and plots. >> this is the other isis leader in u.s. air strikes in syria earlier this month. two major scores for u.s.-led forces for taking out biggest names on the u.s. terror hit list. it comes on the heels of the attack in brussels where the large police raid just ended. three people were arrested. one eyewitness described what he saw in one of the raids. >> the police shoot one time and they take his doctor. they take the kids and security, safe. he was not dying. he was moving. and the police asked him to put the bag far from him. that's what he do. he put the bag far from him. and after, i just wa

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>>> a special live edition of "andrea mitchell reports" in miami. can the front runners separate themselves from the pack? >> the biggest people in the party are calling. they want to sit down. a lot of people calling because they want to see what's out there. for the democrats, hillary clinton retreating to the safety of friendly florida. is she giving up the midwest to bernie sanders? >> there's a large voter turnout and we're going to do just great here in missouri and ohio and hopefully north carolina and florida. >> for the republicans, two win or take all states. a do or die election here. >> i will never take a low road to the highest office in the land. i will not do it. >> good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in beautiful miami getting ready for a night to separate the political contenders from the pretenders. a presidential primary race never short of surprises. our team all in place. donald trump is first going to be addressing the press later tonight. nbc's peter alexander in columbus, ohio, covering john kasich. and here with me in m

nbc's andrea mitchell on a nasty fight already beginning. >> reporter: game on. hillary clinton and donald trump going after each other as though they were nominees. today trump firing off this instagram video. ridiculing clinton as a weak commander in chief against putin and isis, showing her barking like a dog as she told a joke on the the tag line. punchline. after clinton ridiculed trump in her victory speech. >> our commander in chief has to be able to defend our country, not embarrass it. >> reporter: clinton's strategy, don't get in the mud with trump as some of his republican rivals did, go after him on policy, on immigration, the ban on muslims, embracing torture, highlight how he dodges questions about foreign policy. today on "morning joe." >> who are you consulting with consistently so that one? >> i'm speaking with myself, number one, good brain, and i've said a lot of things. my primary consultant is myself, and i have -- you know, i have a good instinct for this stuff. >> reporter: clinton's campaign spokesman telling me today -- >> with hillary cl

good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. donald trump and ted cruz lobbying accusations at each other in a primary race that gets more contentious by the day proving there's no civility in this civil war. joining me is katy tur with the trump campaign. katy, you've been through this. you've seen the way trump attacked and counterattacks and changes the subject, but here, he's going after ted cruz and blaming ted cruz for what was a super pac release against melania trump that started the battle of the wives. and ted cruz denies any movem t involvement. is there any evidence? >> reporter: no evidence at the moment that ted cruz had anything to do with the super pac and the image of melania that went out to utah voters with the message, vote for ted cruz last week. either, trump does not know that or understand it's a super pac or accusing him of criminal activity or he just doesn't really care and the point he's trying to make is that he's trying to undercut ted cruz's, not his viability but his candor with voters, trying to

i'm andrea mitchell in washington. trump, the candidate until now taking a big hit when the candidate who prides themselves on never saying he's sorry made himself a target to both sides of the abortion issue and moderated by the inevitable chris matthews. >> should abortion be punished? >> people in certain parts of the republican party and conservative republicans would say yes, they should be punished. i would say that it's a very serious problem, and it's a problem that we have to decide on. are you going to say put them in jail? >> you say you want to ban it. >> i am pro life. yes. >> how do you ban abortion? how do you do it? >> go back to a position like they had where people will perhaps go to illegal places. you have to ban it. >> running for the president of the united states, chief executive. do you believe in punishment for abortion, yes or no? as a principle? >> the answer is that there has to be some form of punishment. >> for the woman? >> yeah, some form. >> ten days, ten years? >> that, i don't know. i

. >> reporter: today sanders telling andrea mitchell it's a sign he can go the distance. always have us very, very far behind until election day, and then we have won state after state with huge margins. >> reporter: it's been an unpry dictable year for pollsters. in michigan the high percentage of independents threw off the polling. sanders' win so unexpected even he was caught off guard prompting this hastily arrange and late press event. >> the political revolution that we are talking about is strong in every part of the country. >> reporter: despite the upset, clinton has a substtiea in delegates. today the clinton campaign downplayed the loss, particularly after her big win in mississippi last night, looking ahead to next week's battleground primaries. >> if you work for me and if you vote for me, i will work my heart out for you. >> reporter: but the loss in michigan underscores vulnerability. democratic officials expressing concern clinton was so focused on pivoting to the general election her ground game faltered and more troublesome, her message failed to resonat

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. ♪ >>> and good day i'm andrea mitchell in new york.onald trump is speaking about the lewendowski situation right now in wisconsin. leapt's go to him. >> big steel cages being dropped in to the waters and lifted up an hour later. and i'm trying to figure out -- and then you have ted cruz, he should be fired. i said why? i don't do that. i'm loyal. he did a good job. now, the girl made statements -- actually she made some terrible statements because she said that she was -- should i read the statement? does anybody want me to read it? huh? yes. i'll just read it quickly. listen to this, this young woman, reporter, who shouldn't have been where she was and she grabbed me twice, she said, i was jolted backwards. she wasn't, right? did anyone disagree? someone had grabbed me tightly by the arm and yanked me down. did she go down? did she even go a little down, like a little, like a couple of inches? did she have any facial expression? if i bring one of these big, strong guys up here of which we have a lot in this room, that's called wiscons

my colleague, andrea mitchell is here. taking over coverage and the trump campaign announced that florida, an event with governor sarah palin has been cancelled. she was supposed to campaign for donald trump in florida. that's been cancelled now. we don't know exactly why, but the trump campaign confirming that sarah palin will not be campaigning for donald trump in florida. let's go to andrea mitchell. >> it's incredible. and it's very sad when you look. even with the protesters, the level of anger from all sides including the anger from our side, we're angry. we're not angry people. i tell you that. we're good people. but there's a lot of anger. and there's anger, chris, and incompetence when you look at the trade deals, our military, where we can't beat isis. we can't beat isis. and there's anger at the fact that america, the united states, it doesn't win anymore. we don't win on trade. we don't win with the military. we can't take care of our vets, who are so important. education is a disaster. education. common core,

chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. you have chronicled the incredible influence the former first lady had on international politics, but i'm curious your take on what she would think of the presidential campaigns under way today. >> well, it would be hard -- i wouldn't want to presume to say what she would think about it. but from just all of her history, we know that she did not believe in extremes. that she believed in compromise. that she believed as did her husband in walking -- working across party lines. we once heard him say when he compromised on taxes that that sound you heard was the concrete breaking around my feet. so i would think that she would be pretty concerned about the state of the republican party. i did not speak to her in, you know, the last year or two about what was happened in the republican party, but it would be hard for her to imagine the kind of republican debates that

andrea mitchell has been traveling in cuba with the president. not a lot that the president had to say. actually what you would expect him to say on a morning like this. >> reporter: indeed. the fact that he spoke at all about this is an acknowledgement that he didn't speak quickly enough after the paris attack. he regretted he didn't realize how that would instill fear in the american people. prime minister, charles michel, offer support. he says that the people of the united states and the president of belgium as well as nato and the european pledging full kwop cooperation from the united states. the u.s. intelligence and united states will be deeply involved in this investigation and in helping whatever they need, as they were after paris, also the forensic help of the u.s. and the fbi can be of great assistance to the belgian police as they look through the horror of this attack and try to find whether there are any traces, any trails from the perpetrators from the suicide bomber, from the explosives back to any known terror cells. >> we know

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. >> and good day, everyone i'm andrea mitchell in washington. after a night of upsets and surprises in both parties, the candidates are zeroing in on five critical contests only six days away. on tuesday night, bernie sanders proved everyone wrong defeating hillary clinton in michigan, winning independents, winning white voters and young people by huge margins. propelled by distrust of the front-runner. but the delegate math is still with clinton. she won more delegates for the night with an overwhelming victory in mississippi, increasing her delegate lead even without superdelegates to 200 plus. senator bernie sanders joins me now from miami after his big victory in michigan and congratulations, senator. thank you for joining us. >> thank you very much, andrea. >> let's look ahead. you're in florida then florida is, of course, one of the big states coming up. what are your chances in florida and do you think ohio most importantly could be the new michigan? >> well, you know, what's going on from day one in this campaign is the polls always have

andrea mitchell, nbc news. >>> and that will do it for us on this thursday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for night. >> the following is a

andrea mitchell, nbc news. >>> and that will do it for us on this thursday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc >>> it's friday, march 11th. coming up on "early today," whiplash for the first time the republicans squard s s squared off in what was a civil exchange of ideas and policies. what's happening at trump ral rallies rallies? >>> we'll introduce you to an isis turn coat. >>> and an incredible scene in one ohio town. >>> preparing a good bye to nancy regan. >>> and a night to remember that white house. "early today" starts right now. . >>> a rare civil meeting among night. this one focussed more on policy than name calling. the suvilt of civility of the night was not lost on donald trump. >> i would say we're all in this together, we're going to come up with solutions and find the answers to things and so far can't believe how civil it's been up here. >> reporter: trump and cruz were quick to name this a two-man race and cruz backed up his views not shared by kasich. >> it's simple math, be to the republican nominee, you've got to get the 1237 democrats. there's only

>> andrea mitchell, thanks so much to talk about. let's bring in our political director, the moderator of "meet the press," chuck todd. chuck, if trump does well tomorrow, what are the points in which they can -- other republicans can stop him? >> the only way they can stop him within the party is to deny him the delegates he needs to get the nomination. to do that, he does well tomorrow night, then it becomes imperative that they defeat trump in march 15 in ohio meaning every other candidate other than john kasich decides to campaign there. maybe rubio says i'll let kasich go there and rubio has to win florida and maybe they find somebody else to rally around and beat him in illinois and north carolina. that's the only way they can do it within the party, but if they don't succeed by march 15th, there's nothing they can do, can't deny the nomination so then it's the third-party route. i've heard rumors of finding a candidate, mitt romney's name. there's a constitution party out there that has ballot access. if they want to start a t

andrea mitchell helping us with this special coverage. thank you so much, andrea. >> thank you very much. knl i'm joined right now by the cohost of "morning joe" here on msnbc, joe scar broe. a very sad day for people across the country. i would like to know what you thought when you heard about the news of the passing of nabsy reagan this morning. >> very sad news. but what >>> even nancy reagan one time said that there were parts of him that she never got close to. but she was ronald reagan's conduit to the outside world. she was the singular person that could reach in to reagan. and turn reagan from the b-list actor on the skids after a divorce that he was. when i say on the skids, i'm talking professionally, as on the skids professionally, into a man that worked again in television. a man who worked again in movies. and then in probably in 1966, took on one of the most popular progressive governors of the 20th century in pat brown and absolutely whipped him after he underestimated as a bumbling fool with a third-rate intellect, and th

>> andrea mitchell tonight, thanks. covering the reagans back in ronald reagan's days campaigning for governor of california. he knew nancy reagan for almost half a saleofthecentury. tom, thanks for being here. tell me the difference between the public nancy reagan and the private one that you knew. >> well, in public she was always deferential to her husband, obviously. she was the first lady, but she didn't expression her political opinions actively. she stood there and was adoring of him wherever she happened to be. behind the scenes she was highly regarded as a political strategist, as someone who would bring no disloyalty to her husband in whatever fashion. a lot of people had their jobs taken away from him because nancy felt that they weren't serving him well or that they had crossed her at some point. she was a very, very good political adviser for him. >> how clean was the break from hollywood? you were there during this transition into politics. >> you know, what he even said, i don't know how you can be president of the united states without having had some they never comple

>> andrea mitchell, thanks. tom brokaw first met nancy reagan during her husband's governor run in the '60s. calm tom, looking across that room, there were a lot of faces we haven't seen for a very long time. what time did it take you back to? >> well, it took me back to the very beginning when people said, this actor is running for governor? it was one of the greatest magss in politics, two terms as president of the united states and now he's remembered in airports and politic arguments wherever you go and she was, as everyone said, his partner. i think in the context of what we're going through now, that the dignity of the reagan years was really quite remarkable. everybody felt that something larger going on. >> all right. tom brokaw, great to have you here. >> great to be here. >> thank you very much. >>> new concerns raised about the level of violence and vulgarity in and around donald trump's rallies. fresh squirmishes today and disturbing scenes in st. louis as trump's campaign manager is under fire. a re

we have all the political fallout coverage starting with nbc's andrea mitchell. >> reporter: on a day of anxiety and fear in europe, the president did not change his schedule. rapping up his cuba trip by joining raul castro as tampa bay challenged cuba's national team. before the first pitch, a moment of silence for brussels. president obama said he never thought of not going. >> you want to be respectful and understand the gravity of the situation, but disrupt people's ordinary lives. >> reporter: at the game, obama and castro, despite their differences, just two fans sharing a national pastime, almost catching a wave. in the stands of lineups of big hitters, dave winfield, derek jeter, plus key players on the national security roster, a starkly different setting this morning at the u.s. ambassador's residence, a secure call to belgium's prime minister. >> this is yet another reminder that the world must unite. >> reporter: and this from the first lady. >> we are outraged and heartbroken over the horrific attacks today in belgium. >> reporter: tonight raul castro saw the obamas off a

. >> we'll turn again to andrea mitchell, in havana traveling with president obama this morning. he was expected to give a big speech. has the president been briefed? >> the president has been briefed. susan rice, the national security adviser, is with him. the national security staff communicating, of course, back to washington and to all the intelligence officials. the director of national intelligence, james clapper, had recently testified about the high level of threat from isis and other groups. of course, we don't know who the perpetrators were of this apparent suicide attack, but that would be the most likely suspect. some felt related to the arrest on friday of abdeslam in belgium. obviously, there's been a lot of criticism of the officials in belgium, as well as some criticism of the french officials. they have been trying to step up coordination since what happened in paris in november. as well, john kerry is here, and now the secretary of state did have a planned interview, we are told, with telemundo. he was doing spanish language television today. we don't know if th

>> andrea mitchell tonight, andrea, thanks very much. want to bring in our political director hand moderator of "meet the press" chuck todd. chuck, for weeks now you've been talking about this date as an important milestone in the race for the white house. what should we be watching tonight? >> look, i've been calling it separation tuesday. can hillary clinton and donald trump truly separate as front-runners and become presumptive nominees? ohio is going to settle it perhaps in both contests tonight. that will tell us whether this race goes on or it doesn't. but i want to go into a little bit into the exit polls because this is also about whether donald trump is ready to unite the republican party and ready to be the presumptive nominee if he does well tonight, and what's interesting in collective exit polls when you ask republican primary voters if they would be satisfied with in november, only 57% call themselves satisfied. 37% said they would consider a third party. now, when you just isolate donald trump among republican voters and s

nbc's andrea mitchell has more. >> reporter: today nancy reagan began her final journey, her casket carried by her secret service detail past and present. salutes as the hearse traveled the freeway, including one named usually jammed. today area fire departments paying tribute. and as the hear sze approached the reagan library people gathering, some with red roses, nancy reagan red. patti davis spoke with maria shriver, also a former california fliedy. >> it's really comforting to see all of these people who i'm sure are not all republicans. >> reporter: right. >> standing out on >> reporter: >> and to your hand, oh, lord, we commend our sister nancy. >> mrs. reagan will days as people pay their respects. today including house speaker paul ryan. the last years in declining health and without herrony were lonely. >> she told me once she was not afraid to die. she said i don't want it to hurt, but i'm not afraid to die. i'll see ronny again. >> reporter: now a three-day period of >> america on sunday lost a former first lady, but i lost my mother. i'm happy for her that she's with my father.

>>> good day, i'm andrea mitchell until washington. today, belgium remain at nation's highest threat level. individuals that may be connected with tuesday's attacks are at large and pose a danger to the country. we have updates on the men in the image we've been showing you over past 24 hours. the individual on the right in the light jacket currently on the run. the man on left is still unidentified by belgian official but was investigators can confirm he died in the airport blast. the man at center, ibrahim el bakraoui, killed in the suicide bombing. his brother, khalid, identify as the metro suicide bomber. earlier belgian prosecutors revealed flu eed new details, s will on a computer retrieve from a garbage bin. >> he declares that he was in a bad situation, sought everywhere. he's no longer safe, and that if he dies with his sword he may end up in a prison cell. >> u.s. intelligence officials tell nbc news they are convinces the terror attacks in brussels were carried out by operatives in the same network as those in the paris atta

>> andrea mitchell in washington, thank you. >>> an american student there the university of virginia has been sentenced to 15 years in hard labor in north korea after he was convicted of stealing a sign at a hotel with his tour group. he was shown in a video presented by the north koreans as a confession, and later seen breaking down as he learned his punishment. our chief foreign correspondent richard engel has the details. >> reporter: he look disoriented at north korea's top court, where the university of virginia student pleaded for a light sentence. >> please save my life. >> reporter: he didn't get one. 15 years hard labor. >> i beg of you. i'm only human. i have made the worst mistake of my life. >> reporter: but his crime a human rights group said was more like a college prank. the ohio native allegedly stole a propaganda banner from his hotel. he said in his confession it was for a church group back home in exchange for a used car. north korea found him guilty of subversion. former governor bill richardson who negotiated with north korea in the past is working to secure his

>> andrea mitchell tonight. thank you. >>> for more now on nancy reagan we're joined by a man who knew her well. james baker was chief of sfaf and later reagan. mr. kret, thank you for being with us and our condolences. i know your friendship with mrs. reagan was deep and long and we thank you so much for being here. >> yes, it was, lester, and thank you for saying that. people may not understand about nancy reagan and the relationship she had with her husband. >> well, i think they addition to the exceptionally beautiful love story that they enjoyed that adviser. but in addition to that she was his constant protector. he really had wonderful political and communications antenna. she was an expert at figuring out who in that white house was paddling their own canoe and who was working for the gipper. >> which makes me wonder. did she have good political instincts or just good protective instincts toward ronald reagan? >> she had both. she really had both. she was very protective of him. good political instincts.

>> andrea mitchell, thanks. tom brokaw first met nancy reagan during her husband's governor run in the '60s. calm tom, looking across that room, there were a lot of faces we haven't seen for a very long time. what time did it take you back to? >> well, it took me back to the very beginning when people said, this actor is running for governor? it was one of the greatest magss in politics, two terms as president of the united states and now he's remembered in go and she was, as everyone said, his partner. i think in the context of what we're going through now, that the dignity of the reagan years was really quite remarkable. everybody felt that they were a part of something larger going on. >> all right. tom brokaw, great to have you here. >> great to be here. >> thank you very much. >>> new concerns raised about the level of violence and vulgarity in and around donald trump's rallies. fresh squirmishes today and disturbing scenes in st. louis as trump's campaign manager is under fire. a reporter now filing a crim

andrea mitchell, nbc news, havana. >> reporter: i'm hallie jackson. the images from brussels, like paris and san bernardino before, now bringing into focus the dramatic differences between the parties' front-runners. >> i would close up our borders to people until we figure out what is going on. >> i think there are a lot of things we have to do to intensify our efforts. i think closing our borders is not one of them. >> reporter: for hillary clinton, a chance to prove her national security credentials. for donald trump, an opportunity to seem more presidential one day after calling for controversial cuts to nato based in brussels. >> a huge amount of uncertainty into the system at exactly the moment where we need intensified cooperation. >> reporter: trump, hoping to project strength, even where his opponents see weakness, like ted cruz, taking his own hardline stance, a striking one. demanding police patrol and, quote, secure neighborhoods of american muslims. >> anywhere where there is a locus of radicalization, where there is an expanding presence