hi, chuck's mom! hi, chuck's mom! hi, chuck's mom! haulie: have you seen chuck?he needs to go to the mechanic for his tire. rowdy: um... [ clattering ] what was that? um... [ chuckles ] oh, it was my, uh, transmission. i-i think it needs some fluid. well, rowdy, come by later, and i'll take a look. if you see chuck, tell him i'm looking for him. yes, ma'am. good luck, ma'am. ahh. all clear, amigo. no, digger, don't! [ crash! ] chuck, it looks like all your tires are running low on air. i'm fine. but how am i gonna hide now? we...could... build another pile. no way. not that again. hey, i know how to throw your mom off the trail. alley-oop! [ splort! ] whoo-hoo! those look nice and stinky. excuse me. [ crash! ] ahh. there's nothing like a good roll in the smelly stuff. ugh. what'd you do that for? ugh! i can barely stand to be near you. you smell. exactly! haulie: chuck? chuck, where are you? are you boys sure you haven't seen -- [ gasps ] whoa! ew. okay, i'm ready to have my transmission checked. oh, and i have this little dent in my fender. oh, my. that smell. i

my name is chuck.nice to the people he works with -- you get a movie no one wants to work on or see. but when you work together, it's like a tuned-up, smooth-humming engine. so, what do you say, guys? i'm really sorry how i treated all of you. want to work together? chuck, i think i speak for all of us when i say... bumpers up. all: friends for the long haul! [ up-tempo music playing ] [ tires screeching ] chuck: off to jail! no more crimes for you! but a lot more making movies for us. [ ting! ] [ all cheering ] [ chuckles ] now, that's how you do a picture show. great work, chuck. yeah. you made a really great movie. no, guys, we made a really great movie. [ laughter ] ♪ give me a mountain to climb ♪ ♪ rescue heroes! ♪ ♪ rescue heroes! ♪ rescue heroes! ♪ rescue heroes! global response team! ♪ (electric buzzing) >> whoa! >> computer: warning! space arm malfunction! >> whoa! ♪ >> that was too close for comfort! what in the world? no! (growling) >> aah! (growling) (chattering) >> i guess that means the m

i'm chuck todd. we'll get right to my fist reads of the morning and we of course begin at the washington navy yard. it's open this morning but only to essential personnel. the fbi is continuing to work the building as a crime scene, trying to pin down the sequence of events that led to the shooting deaths of 12 people. just over 24 hours ago, 8:20 in the morning that the alleged shooter, 34-year-old aaron alexis, arrived at building 197 at the naval complex, armed with just a shotgun. less than four miles from the white house and just blocks from the capitol building itself. this naval building, 197, is home to about 3,000 employees. officials say alexis shot and killed a naval officer at the complex, then took the officer's pistol and somehow obtained an ar-15 assault rifle inside. once inside, witnesses report seeing alexis open fire on the third fourth floors. on the fourth floor he used an overlook to fire down on people eating breakfast in the building's atrium. >> a few shots and it sounded lik

you were the foreign policy advisor to chuck hagel when he was serving in the senate. i wonder if you are advising him today as he pushes for the obama's case for military action what you owould advise him? >> i think what's happening in the congress today is a difficult choice for many members. while the resolution seems to be going ahead, the senate foreign relations committee on which chuck hagel served as well as secretary of state john kerry, president obama and vice president biden all served on that very committee, they had a full day of hearings yesterday and that committee has marked up a resolution, which may be voted on as soon as this afternoon, and which has tightened the language regarding the authorization of force to be sure that the -- if there is a strike on syria, the strike will be limited in duration and scope and targeted for -- to degrade chemical weapons.

how is this playing out so far, chuck? >> reporter: good evening here, abby.y dinner time, and that's an important point because right now is this working dinner that's going on between the 20 world leaders at the g-20. as

chuck and mike and john and casey and by the way, where is chuck. did chuck make it? (calling names) tony, steven and also castro construction manager the construction manager put your fists in the air i've got pour. we want to thank the consulting team allen are, of course, he's here and applied partnership and charles associates and they told me to go this faster. martin raul and associations and linda hicks and the design jerseys tip i didn't and tommy mary and associates let's give them all a hand human resources, of course, i not be in trouble if i didn't introduce the board. (calling names) gordon? are you in the house. let's hear it for the old guy. i'm not that far behind him. there are so many people to thank but heavy duty who did the heavy lifting on the staff side? but the housing development team we want to give them the spur hand and joy to the world. anyway, we really need affordable housing we're so happy to have a mare that cares about it. this goes for our community. i envision a lot of the families living here. this is when real estate becomes more

chuck hagel is a bit more interesting. he was back before his former colleagues. these two men are former senators, which is another subplot. he has a rough go of it for his on confirmation hearing. with regard to this mission he's talked some publicly but not a lot. a lot of questions will be directed at hagel and martin dempsey because in talking to a lot of the members of congress, some of their main questions are about the military action and how they can be as limited in scope as the president is saying. before i toss it back to you. ted baron and i talked to a source close to harry reid's thinking and he is confident that he will have the votes to pass this authorization for military action in syria through the senate. they know it's possible, maybe even likely that they will need 60 votes to overcome a potential filibuster and they feel confident they have that. they are making changes to the language of the authorization to make sure that they have everybody on board and it really is the read as limited as they say it will be. >> when i always feel skeptic

thanks, chuck. >> thanks, chuck. >>> big night for comedy as the laughs return to weekend late nightith familiar sound. >> and live from new york, it's saturday night! >> the 39th season of "saturday night live" kicked off last night and nothing was off limits. >> uh, yeah, i already have a complaint about obama care. my iphone 5s broke and i took it to the genius bar and they would not fix it. i mean, what the hell is that? >> okay. all right. see, i believe you're confusing obama care with apple care. >> well, either way, happened on your watch. >> with former head writer and funny girl tina fey hosting, the hbo hit "girls," senator ted cruz and even the so-called obama care took a few shots as well. the cast says this year they are trying to get back to the magic from the original season, trying to do this with edgier laughs and less bit comedy and a couple fresh face. >> let's meet them. come on out here, new kids. >> that's right. snl cast welcomed six, six new members to the show with a musical number where they were forced to dance around in gold sequinned jackets. miley cyrus

but i do think chuck made the right point, judge us by the results. a handshake is not a result, so it may be something. and it may be promising. but count me skeptical. it still feels to me like obama is making chicken salad out of something else. >> there's a lot of a flesh metaphor here. >> chicken is pretty uniform. >> he's gotten a little fortunate, and i think the level of skepticism both about iran and about syria ought tbe very, very high. >> but there is a very, there's sort of like the foreign policy reality and the domestic reality. and i think president obama plays foreign policy and i think there have been op-eds about this and i'll read those a little bit later, that he's playing foreign policy through a domestic lens. to chuck's point about judge us by the results, i'm not sure the american public doesn't think that he's come a really long way, to the point on syria, to the point that iranians may be shaking the hand of great satan. that may not measurably not change much actually in the region, i'm highly skeptical that this plan in pu

>> andrea, if i can speak to that quickly, chuck is absolutely correct. i spoke to a house member on the conservative side. he said there's a desire to have a picket charge before october 1st. when october 1st comes along the president's health care law comes into action and becomes this federal entitlement there forever, one last hurrah against it. that's definitely part of the thinking here which may mean the calendar could perhaps cool gop opposition after a few days once the law goes forward. it's absolutely fascinating to witness. >> one little comparison back to 1995 and '96 when some of us are covering. we had appropriations bill then. there was a budget process. it could be more severe if it goes for an extended period of time. no appropriations rule, nothing was passed. an incredible do nothing congress. >> it was a partial shutdown 17 years ago because you had a bunch of bills pass. this is a complete shutdown. there are things they change to ensure some services go on no matter what. they don't get shut down no matter what. there's still a big

but the back story on this is chuck grew up in the portola. and next to mclaren park and he spent his whole childhood there. and when he and she married, they wanted the same childhood experiences chuck had had, and even better ones. so, they have spent their time working on the play grounds and all the other aspects of the park. and they worked so well and collaboratively with all the other park groups that represent mclaren park. parks alliance and rec and park department. i know they want me to thank everybody who has been such an integral part of giving them this award and all the work we still have to do on mclaren park. so, thank you for chuck and trilsy. (applause) ♪ >> fantastic. easily one of the best views in san francisco, so, if you've never had the opportunity to visit mclaren park, i highly recommend it. it's like finding a whole new part of san francisco. and now it's time for our last award, which is an award that we felt was an important element of our vision for the neighborhood empower. ment network and that was to takethe o

i agree with chuck. i haven't seen anything like this, ever before. >> howard dean, what was your reaction to the president's integration of the two parts of the speech? including the incorporation of the most recent developments with russia and syria? >> i thought it was fine. i actually thought, it was what the american people wanted to hear. which is really important. second of all. i thought he did a great job. the first 2/3 lays out as you all said, clearly what the case was. and then he says -- but -- we don't have to do these things right now. i thought it was great. you could argue putting the speech together and all that stuff. the american people are going to see the president is in tune with them. that's important. >> there were clearly in the speech some specific reactions to things said in the last couple of days. john kerry said it is going to be at a certain point, a very, very small attack. that provoked people to refer to it as a pinprick, that phrase found its way into the speech tonigh

is chuck -- are we going to chuck? no, it's luke! we've got luke russert straight ahead. chuck's show. >>> breaking news, the new jobs report shows the unemployment rate falling again. and the jobs numbers falling short of expectations. but the real tough news may be in the latest round of revisions for older numbers. we'll break it all down in minutes. also this morning, president obama lowraps up two days of intense talk over syria with other world leaders in russia. his effort to convince congress didn't slow down one bit during the trip. now he heads home to try to get it done. meanwhile, back at home, john mccain hearses an earful on syria at a town hall in arizona. and outgoing homeland security secretary janet napolitano. >>> good morning. happy friday from washington, d.c. it's september 6th, 2013. i'm luke russert in for the great chuck todd who will join us in just a moment with more of the president at the g-20 in russia. quite busy here. we begin with the new jobs report for the month of august. the good news, the unemployment rate is down to 7.3%. that's the

i'm chuck todd. this special edition of "the daily rundown" live from the crema cafe in harvard square. ambassador nick burns, harvard professor charles ogletree will be here, former kentucky secretary of state tray grayson and boston's own jim and marjorie, plugged into the political scene here like no one else. i'm here because it's a school i never could have gotten into but they invited me to speak anyway so why not make the most of it. my first reads of the morning. >>> president obama doesn't just have an uphill battle tonight. he has a virtually impossible task, to convince the american public that right now at this moment the only course of action in syria is the u.s.-led military strike. as one of our pollsters describes it, the public's red line on syria appears to be stay out. does the president have a diplomatic escape hatch, though? the last 24 hours have been among the most turbulent in an already fast-moving debate. the next 12 will determine whether the president makes the case for mi

>> sounds like a moving situation, chuck. at 8:20 this morning, shots were heard fired in believe 197 is what is being reported. anywhere from to three people down depending on whose report you deal with, but this latest report is disturbing also. what we don't know is where that alleged officer down report was. was it inside the building? was it inside the navy yard? or could this be a running shooting situation with the subject as he tries to escape? perhaps it's even unrelated. that's always the challenge as you know when we are trying to report the fast moving situations. you don't want to report something as fact when it's not sourced yet. what we clearly know is this is a traumatic situation. there hundreds or literally thousands of people trying to get out of that area and there the gawkers trying to get into that area. law enforcement and first responders are somewhat in between. this is going to take a while so they can sort this out. realize they still have to deal with one or more victims we are told have been shot

chuck todd, thank you very much for the update. joining me now, "daily beast" special correspondent and former state department officer joel rubin. let's pick up where chuck left off regarding credibility. in his estimation, this is not just the credibility of the administration, it's also members of congress, especially those on the right who traditionally would be behind effort using the military and now saying that they will not support this president, which brings us back to this typical partisan, if obama's name is on it, whether it's obama care or this effort, there's an instant no. >> exactly right. the arguments that chuck just laid out are exactly the ones -- i think he laid them out very well -- they're exactly the ones the obama administration has to make. this isn't about barack obama. it's about the united states. it's about this century old taboo. it's about how we act as a global community. i don't know how far that's going to travel, though, in right-wing tea party circles. it's just going to be automatic. a certain

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i agree with chuck. i haven't seen anything like this, ever before. >> howard dean, what was your reaction to the president's integration of the two parts of the speech? including the incorporation of the most recent developments with russia and syria? >> i thought it was fine. i actually thought, it was what the american people wanted to hear. which is really important. second of all. i thought he did a great job. the first 2/3 lays out as you all said, clearly what the case was. and then he says -- but -- we don't have to do these things right now. i thought it was great. you could argue putting the speech together and all that stuff. the american people are going to see the president is in tune with them. that's important. >> there were clearly in the speech some specific reactions to things said in the last couple of days. john kerry said it is going to be at a certain point, a very, very small attack. that provoked people to refer to it as a pinprick, that phrase found its way into the speech tonigh

chuck. >> hey, richard. good morning to you and good morning everybody. our stretch of nice weather will continue right through the heart of your saturday and your sunday as well. right now, current temperatures are generally in the 50s in the suburbs. 55 degrees in rockville and 57 college park and silver spring. head on down to the south side of town. 55 degrees in springfield and burke virginia this morning. temperatures rising into the low 60s by 9:00. mid 60s by 10:00 a.m. and a beautiful afternoon coming. plenty of sunshine today. temperatures up into the low and mid 70s and even a little warmer tomorrow. richard, over to you. >> thanks, chuck. another news update in 25 minutes. now back to the today show. have a great day everyone. >>> we are back on this saturday morning, september 28th, between. >>> we got a lively crowd out there on rockefeller plaza. we will be out to say hello in a few minutes. >>> we have a lot to talk about. teenagers and drivers are they being safe behind the

back to you.  >>> thanks, chuck.iving and talking on a handheld device in maryland becomes a primary offense, violators could face a hefty fine. not everyone may be familiar with the cell phone laws in our area. >> hang up or go hands free, message dialed up loud and clear for thousands of drivers. is everyone getting the message? >> that explains why i've been pulled over in the past. >> you're a bad offender? >> many times. >> reporter: now he says that he knows about the new law he will think twice but -- >> sometimes you need to communicate. obviously the call can wait and safety is important. i suppose in our minds the alternative is texasing. >> in d.c., there are handheld and texting bans. in maryland, handheld ban moves to a primary offense tuesday, and there is a texting ban. in virginia, no handheld ban. there is a texting ban. back here in maryland where drivers were chatting away today, some not aware that the change is right around the corner. >> i did not know that, no, until you told me. >> safety grou

chuck, thanks. let's bring in the other members of our team covering all of this both at home and abroad. andrea mitchell, richard engel, david gregory. andrea starting with you, everyone was so ready for a way out. everyone pounced on this idea of the world community having some say over chemical weapons in syria. where does that stand? >> reporter: well, first of all, secretary kerry is now going to go back to europe on thursday to meet with his russian counterpart sergei lavrov and find out just how real is this? are they really serious to try to hammer out the details? we learned today that the syrians said they will finally join the chemical weapons treaty. that remains to be seen. how serious is that? and we've also learned today there is a lot more to this. putin is already saying -- vladimir putin is saying it will only work if the threat of war is taken off the table. but as you just heard, the president says the threat has to remain on the table. so there is a lot of confusion until to be

chuck todd with the president tonight in stockholm, chuck, thanks. >>> now back to what we said at the top of the broadcast about washington and the conversation going on there. the huge lobbying effort by the obama team to get a yes vote on this military strike. our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell covering from our d.c. newsroom tonight. andrea, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. the president's proposed air strikes did get past the first hurdle in a key senate committee today, but the president is still facing a fierce debate in the house as tea party republicans and liberal democrats joined forces against the white house. the war continued today with the government battering rebel forces near damascus. as congress fought political wars in both houses, a sharply divided senate foreign relations committee voted to support the president, 10-7, but added time limits. 90 days for military action, and to satisfy john mccain the white house has to deliver a strategy for syria within 30 days. the house was even tougher, as members asked the questions voters

i'm chuck todd. right to my first reads of the morning. president obama and the iranian president ra hanni assuming such a meeting logistically could take place. if it does it would be the first time u.s. and iranian leaders have spoken since 1977. if it doesn't happen, you can probably blame logistics more than anything else. it's been hard to coordinate this. no official meeting is scheduled. with rue hanni opting out of the u.n. lunch because it's serving alcohol, there's no opportune moment to bump into each other. the president is still expected to address iran in his speech. maybe iran will make concessions on the nuclear issue. rouhani tweeted. the president addressed iran in all four previous speeches at the u.n. general assembly, sometimes offering a carrot and sometimes offering the stick. >> the world must stand together to demonstrate that international law is not an empty promise and that treaties will be enforced. the united states and the i remember community seek a resolution to our differences with iran and the door remain

in terms of opposition, chuck, i expected this. this is hard and i was under no illusions when i embarked on this -- on this path. but i think it's the right thing to do. i think it's good for our democracy. we will be more effective if we are unified going forward, and, you know, part of what we knew, there would be some politics interjecting themselves -- no, i said some. but what i have also said is that the american people have gone through a lot when it comes to the military over the last decade or so. so i understand that. and when you start talking about chemical weapons, and their proliferation, you know, those images of those bodies can sometimes be forgotten pretty quickly. the news cycle moves on. frankly, if we weren't talking about the need for an international response right now, this wouldn't be what everybody would be asking about. you know, there would be some resolutions that were being proffered in the united nations and usual hocus-pocus but the world and the country would have moved on. so trying to impart a se

they did, as chuck said, brief the israelis. they also had a talk with the saudis and others in the gulf who are enemies of iran and suspicious of iran. but the real payoff here could be if they can prove verifiably and transparentally that they are not developing a bomb. just a year ago when netanyahu was here he was talking about a six-month window before military action would be taken. now there is really the prospect if they can prove that we can trust them and it will be u.n. inspectors who have to prove that. the other piece is this could be a breakthrough on syria because they are holding up the prospect that iran could join peace talks. iran has 10,000 hezbollah fighters on the ground supporting the assad regime and weaponizing the assad regime. that could be a breakthrough as well to end that ifl war. >> andrea mitchell and ann curry, thank you to you both. >>> the other issue the president addressed this afternoon in the briefing room appearance is this looming government showdown. we also heard from one of his most ou

hey chuck. >> good morning you two and good morning everybody. anything you want to do today, if you're heading down to run one of the morning races, no real complaints. start off temperatures are in the 50s but nowhere near as chilly as we have been. right now it's 55 degrees in bristow, virginia. 57 degrees in washington virginia. 55 in martinsburg, west virginia. 57 in hagerstown and 63 downtown washington. we're off to a cooler start, temperatures mostly in the 50s. low 60s by 9:00 a.m. and mid 60s by 10:00. highs this afternoon into the low 70s. great weather for your saturday. we'll see you in a few more minutes with another clege football forecast. >>> in the day ahead, the volunteer fire department will raffle sporting guns to raise money. that money will be used to improve outdated facilities and equipments. tracy wilkins explains the fund-raiser will go on despite disapproval from the county. >> reporter: without question the volunteer fire department is committed to saving lives. that message is clear. but prince george's county fire o

chuck, good evening. >> reporter: good evening.nother day of dysfunction and squabbling in washington as the clock ticks down for the potential government shutdown. republicans trying to defund the president's health care law to do this shutdown. but guess what, even if they avert the shutdown, it's a deal that will actually cost you more money. >> reporter: at a rally in suburban maryland today an exasperated president. >> we are not going to submit to this kind of total irresponsibility. congress needs to pay our bills on time. congress needs to pass a budget on time. congress needs to put an end to governing from crisis to crisis. >> reporter: the republican speaker, just as frustrated. >> the president says, i'm not going to negotiate. well, i'm sorry. but it just doesn't work that way. >> reporter: time is running out. >> every hour that ticks by puts our country closer to a shutdown. >> reporter: tea party republicans ted cruz and mike lee continued to delay the potential compromise, angering members of their own party. >> it

joining me is chuck todd who is also the host of msnbc's ""the daily rundown."" chuck is traveling with the president in stockholm sweden. we know we have a delay. i know you commented on this on twitter. the president's line that his credibility is not at stake, that this is not a red line that he created but one that the international community determined, what do you make about that of the white house sales to the congress? >> reporter: this is an argument about depersonalizing it a little bit and what the white house has been saying and they said this this saturday, this is about the chemical weapons treaty, that a majority of the nations in the world had signed on to. syria was a notable exception when it came to the chemical weapons treaty that was passed back in the '90s. that is -- when you hear him talk about international norms, that's what you're talking about. i asked a direct question in a background briefing with senior officials on saturday. would we be in this place had the president not used the phrase red line. they pushed back on that saying, n

chuck todd next, see you tomorrow. >> vlad the inflamer. russia's president delivers a daunting article in the "new york times." switzerland finds a diplomatic solution to syria. hard words from capital hill. the president can't speak to the nation or the world as a commander in chief anymore. on capitol hill, they try to figure out the fiscal fight that is looming and how far the other side is welling to go to prove a point. the shut down showdown. it's been a tough week for the outgoing executive. the anti-bloomberg candidate to replace him at home and the rocky mountain rejection with the gun law group push on the colorado recall. good morning from washington. it's thursday, september 12th, 2013. let's get right to the first reads of the morning. secretary of state john kerry arrived in geneva this morning for two days of talks on a russian proposal to put chemical weapons under international control. the last ditch effort with the world leader who called kerry a liar. russia repeatedly used the veto punishing syria. >> this cannot be a

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>> thanks, chuck. 8:31 on the dot. derek ward has breaking news out of the middle east. >> details are coming into our newsroom about another strong earthquake to hit pakistan. this is in western pakistan, the same area hit hard earlier this week from an even stronger quake. this is new video just into our newsroom. the u.s. geological survey says it was a 6.8 magnitude earthquake but they say it came in as a 7.2 quake. there's not a lot of new damage. most buildings in the region are already damaged or destroyed from tuesday's 7.7 quake that killed almost 400 people. we're not hearing any reports of causalities from this morning's quake. authorities there say the region could feel stronger quakes in the days to come. at the live desk, derek ward, news 4. >>> new this morning, police are on the look out for the person responsible. they're looking for a killer this morning. someone shot and killed a man on 30th street in southeast. this happened not far from southern and alabama avenues and when officers got to the scen

our chief white house correspondent chuck todd traveling with the president, with us by satellite, chuck, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. usually in the world of diplomacy, a handshake is simply a handshake. but when it comes to watching a handshake between president obama and vladimir putin, whose differences on syria have completely overshadowed this economic conference. the hand itshake was friendly enough and even lasted a couple of extra beats. russian president putin welcoming president obama to st. petersburg for the g-20 summit. but the formal gesture could not obscure the fact that it came on the heels of yesterday's tense war of words, the president bluntly describing the relationship with the russians. >> there's no doubt that, as i indicated a while back, we've kind of hit a wall in terms of additional progress. >> reporter: and putin dropping all pretense of diplomacy, calling secretary of state john kerry a liar after kerry denied al qaeda was fighting alongside syrian rebels. mr. obama pressed on the issue of syrian use of chemical weapons today during a me

i'm joined by captain chuck nash a retired u.s.and moks news military analyst and mike barrett a former navy intelligence officer. i'm sure for both of you it's heartbreaking to see that folks in the larger military family are going through this today. captain nash, how do we prevent this from happening? >> i was watching that lady on the monitor before we went on air. it truly is sad. it's that way all over the capital region today because there are so many people who go to work in morning believing they are in protected environments when in fact you can't offer that kind of protection without shutting down the system. it would be so laborious. 3,000 people work in that building. if you took one minute per person to screen people in it would take five hours to get in the building. you have to assume the people on the team are good people and you have to take reasonable security precautions but you can't protect against a madman. it's impossible. martha: 20-20 everything is clearer in hindsight. but he had two arrests. he had a his

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that's half of the full court press by the white house, and in an hour from now john kerry and chuck hagel will suppress the white house. >> at the white house, a lot of strong statement and support of the president's call for action. and del, it's important to important to hear that we're called to action. speaker boehner's press secretary coming out with a statement saying that it's still up to the president. it's his responsibility to make his case to the american people, perhaps tempering that support a bit, waiting to see which way the wind will be blowing ahead of the huge meeting this afternoon. secretary kerry, secretary hagel going before the powerful senate security committee, and we'll see if the committee gets behind it this afternoon. >> if two men know the senate well, it's both of those gentlemen, former senator john kerry and former senator chuck hagel. sherry from political co-,the white house must be smiling right now. oddsmaker would have said that this would not be the case. >> i think you're right, del. weekend when the president first announced this there was a

chuck todd is traveling with the president in russia. good morning, chuck. >> reporter: good afternoon from st. petersburg. i know it's morning in the states. the president has arrived here in st. petersburg. and he'll be having at some point some sort of meeting with russian president vladimir putin. but it's going to be quick. it may be just simply a handshake, a few gestures here and there but no formal meeting is set up and no informal meeting is set up by either side. the two countries and the two leaders have some big disputs over this last few months. namely edward snowden. of course, the nsa leaker and the decision by the russians to grant him asylum. that's why president obama is traveling from sweden today n not from moscow. he canceled a summit that he was supposed to have with putin. and then, obviously, the issue of syria is something the two countries are disputing a great deal. russia yesterday, the russian leader vladimir putin, actually called john kerry a liar to one news outlet having to do with claiming that what john