. >> that was my colleague andrea mitchell t. manhunt for an election in the shooting of two georgia police officers ended late last night. >> the suspected shooter is now in custody. authorities say grd gordon shot one officer in the hand the other in the shoulder after they pulled him over in a traffic yesterday. gordon then fled the scene on foot. he is facing two counts of atestimonied murder along with other charges. officials say the officer's injuries are non-life threatening. they are receiving treatment at a local hospital. >>> this morning arc bomb scare set off an investigation for one lufthansa flight from houston, texas, to frankfort, germany it had to stop at new york's jfk airport after a bomb was thrown into lufthansa's people had to be evacuated from that flight. this as the spokesperson says the plane was taken to a remote area, where it was searched. however, nothing suspicious was found on the plane. >>> new orleans is mourning a former star while family friend and former coaches said their final good gooi bye

that as vladimir putin also t k talks of strengthening his own nuclear capabilities. nbc's andrea mitchell has a report. >> reporter: after setting off alarm bells throughout the campaign about how he would handle nuclear weapons, donald trump signaled he wants more nukes. shocking nuclear experts by tweeting, the united states must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability. until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes. reversing u.s. policy since ronald reagan to cut the number of nuclear weapons. hours earlier, vladimir putin, who u.s. intelligence officials say was personally involved in the sircyberattacks told his generals we need to enhance the combat capability of strategic nuclear forces. >> they're hearing a guy running for president of the united states talking of maybe using nuclear weapons. nobody wants to hear that by an american president. >> why do we make them? >> less than a month before he takes office, arms control experts are stunned. >> all during the campaign, donald trump has dealt with nuclear weapons loosely, cavalierly. this tweet ma

should apologize and the comm t comments he made when i was campaigning for my friend, donald trump. >> and we have news on secretary of state. let's go to andrea mitchell on breaking details. this is about the secretary of state pick. what are we learning? >> what i've learned from two sources close to the transition, it will be rex tillerman barring an unforeseen problem. he is to be the new nominee for secretary of state and very likely would be paired with an experienced and sometimes controversial diplomat, john bolton, the former u.n. ambassador who would be the deputy secretary of state in this unusual pairing of corporate ceo from exxonmobil who has no experience in dropsy, spent his entire career in the increasing spector but in fact has wide global experience and could be controversial because of his close relationship with vladimir putin. they had a long standing relationship and one of their biggest deals was a victim of the ukraine sanctions imposed by the obama administration, canceling 5$500 billion deal between exxonmobil and russia in the arctics. >>ents ing you just mentioned that. you know how we prep on the show, the next couple of h

t. rowe price. invest with confidence. . >> president-elect trump's labor secretary nominee andrew pudzer getting grilled how he does business. listen to what chris murphy told andrea mitchell donald trump has given a big middle finger to the entire department nominating somebody who was found to have 50% of his restaurants in noncompliance with labor laws. this is the guy essentially been a labor law scoff. >> some of the biggest scrutiny comes with his views on pay and replacing humans with machine. withis christine owens, an crew pudzer thinks it would hurt businesses and jobs. what would his confirmation mean in the battle to raise minimum wage to $is aan hour? >> we're looking at putting the fox in charge of the henhouse. not only has he opposed meanful increases to the minimum wage. he's opposed the adjustment to the overtime rules, to protect overtime rights for mid level managers, including many who work in his business. he's opposed obamacare, which has made health coverage possible for a lot of low wage workers in his industry, and he is a leader in an industry that has very high rates of violations, basically standards like minimum wage and overtime and child lab

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