earlier today i had a chance to talk to "meet the press" moderator chuck todd about the revelation that attorney general jeff sessions had contact with russia's ambassador. take a listen. did this controversy eclipse the president's address to congress this week and is it sidetracking his agenda? >> i think it absolutely did. i think russia is absolutely on the verge of consuming this presidency. it's i think becoming a major distraction on capitol hill. i think the question is going to be how do republicans figure out how to compartmentalize this distraction? >> moderateder chuck todd will be discussing the trump administration's alleged rushing yeah connection with exclusive guesting senate minority leader chuck schumer and republican senator marco rubio. "meet the press" comes your way in a few moments at 10:30 on nbc 10. >>> eight minutes past 10:00 right now. in new jersey is child safety being put on hold? mandatory sensors to detect kids near school buses were signed into law last year, but they are still missing from most buses in the state. we'll explain why. >>> also, changes

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. >>> chuck todd will have an exclusive interview with health and human services secretary tom price. they're going to talk about the republican plan replace the affordable care act and the effort to sell it to some skeptical republicans. chuck will be here in ten minutes to join us for a live preview. >>> winter is back. and a major nor'easter coming our way taking shape. tom is closely tracking how much snow we could all see in our neighborhoods. >>> winter weather is taking a toll to our west. the slick roads and temperatures nine pe low. y29phy y16fy announcer: while everyone discusses the future of health care, 18 million americans are already choosing it.... with medicare advantage: a proven public-private partnership, where health outcomes are valued over volume. where early intervention and management of chronic conditions is leading to better outcomes. and costs are more predictable and affordable. why do so many seniors choose medicare advantage? maybe because with age comes wisdom. ♪ we are family >>> sad news this weekend as the world learns of the sudden death of sister s

chuck todd -- why did you not ask these questions?hat is my question. >> sean: let me ask you a quick last question. because you put all this together and you made such a compelling case here, it cannot be argued intelligently because it is either one or the other. then you get attacked by these little pipsqueaks on televisiono let us go to one example. >> what does the white house gain by the president -- by steve bannon most likely handing the president of the united states a breitbart article and talking about what a rabid right wing talk show host has been theorizing? >> sean: liberal joe is calling you a rapid right wing host. >> he is a chameleon. let me say this. here is what i do know -- remember the movie, "thehe deliverance?" joe is a spitting image, isn't he? >> sean: [laughs] okay, i have to go, will you come on the show more often? you are invited on all the time, you are one of my best friends and you don't come on the show. tell the audience why. >> we have crtv right here. baby. >> sean: thank you, my friend. good to s

let's bring in moderator of "meet the press" chuck todd. with two investigations going on, one into russia and one into trump's surveillance claims and this week both took unfortunate turns for administration, how do they get out of this and move past it? >> at some point they have to accept it exists. you have the president that doesn't want to accept the conclusion that russia tried to interfere in the election and that there is going to be an investigation in this and whether he likes it or not and ultimately, that's the problem here. the source of all of the current problems for this west wing right now for this presidency right now stems from the tweet where the president accused president obama of wiretapping him. since that time, this is all been self-inflicted. look, the russia cloud is dark enough by what is already been reported and what's being investigated. this sort of nunes keystone cop situation has made it that much worse and stems from the fact the president himself will not accept the idea there is going to be a russian in

he exploded at his staff. >> and may have opened the door further with his tweets this weekend, chuck todd, thank you as always. chuck will dive deeper on "meet the press" this morning where he'll be joined by senators chuck schumer and marco rubio. >>> as i mentioned, we're talking to former president george w. bush a bit later this morning about his new book "portraits of courage" and the trump administration. i asked president bush what he would say if trump were to call asking for advice. i know you don't want to criticize president trump. if he picked up the phone and called you and said, president bush, how am i doing so far, what advice would you give him? >> i would say, same advice i gave before, really hard job and i wish you all the best. it depends what he would ask. of course i would answer his phone call. i want him to succeed. one bit of advice is you pick good people and empower them and make sure they're able to give you their unfettered advice. tillerson, mattis, these are all people i know and admire a lot. >> his take on immigration and the way the president talks about

later in this hour we'll be talking live to chuck todd for a preview. >>> this north jersey man wanted for harassing women in dover kent county is now under arrest. police in delaware say marvin wiggins approached several women in department stores last week asking about baby shower or house warming gifts. they say that's when he committed lewd acts in front of the women and asked them to touch him. >>> in south jersey a police officer in mercer county is giving a first-hand look as he raced into a house to put out a fire. officer joseph mcneil arrived at the house last weekend and saw the fire in the laundry room. he grabbed a fire extinguisher from his patrol car and ran into the smoke-filled house and quickly put out the flames. because of his actions, the fire damage was limited to just that area. >>> in philadelphia today, a cold start for the thousands of runners gathering right now near the philadelphia museum of art, taking part in a half marathon to raise money for charity. nbc 10's matt delucia is in the middle of the action on ben franklin parkway. >> reporter: we're here at

chuck todd is here with our team. chuck, this suddenly came up with network broadcasters today, "maybe i'll talk about the immigration bill." >> he talked about what he might do about so-called dreamers, kids brought here by their parents, not on their own. it felt almost off-the-cuff at one point. he said maybe the time is right, maybe there's a point where you could do a big immigration bill, as he called it. >> he used the word "compromise." >> a big immigration bill. he said, maybe i'll mention in the speech tonight. there's a little bit of drama there, if he does it. he's got a laundry list of things he has to accomplish tonight, especially when it comes to obamacare. if he adds immigration to this, that only adds to the big-ticket items in this speech. >> it's being billed as a speech of unity. chuck, sit tight, we're also joined from new york by savannah guthrie and nicole wallace. let me ask both of you to discuss who the audience is that the president wants to get to. is it his base as we've seen over the last

off-guard. >> as we know, alex, when we heard from james clapper in the atement and in speaking to chuck toddt there was no wiretap of trump tower. so why is that not putting it to rest? >> well, i think this is classic donald trump. i mean, he is the president of the united states. so when he speaks you have to take him seriously, but he has many times, put out statements without evidence to back them up, and on his very first day in the white house when he protested the size of the crowds at his inauguration saying there was 1 1/2 million people even though the papers said otherwise. what he wants to do is muddy the waters and he spent the week in terrible headlines about his alleged ties to russia, jeff sessions and meeting with the russian ambassador and he's trying to turn this around saying this is a product of a conspiracy by the obama administration to make it seem like there's both sides involved here, and essentially muddy the waters. >> if you're going to muddy the waters and why muddy the waters with something that could muddy you even more. if it were true, you have the fisa orde

and so is chuck todd, nbc news political director moderator of "meet the press" host of "mtp daily" every day 5:00 eastern. chuck let's take a deep breath and assess what we have today. we have the health care bill, a do or die showdown, the timing predicated by the white house, not by the speaker's preference. we have reporting last night from glenn thrush and maggie hab haberman that the president or people close to him were cutting paul ryan loose and trying to blame him for what could be a defeat here. you have nancy pelosi the cheshire cat saying if you can't count the votes why do you go to the floor. >> sure. >> the very good vote counter she is. >> she is. >> despite being in the minority and at the same time you have open warfare between the chair and the vice chair of a bipartisan committee house intel. >> the house is a mess and it's funny you bring that up. speaker ryan has a crisis on his hands in the intel committee that right now is a backburner issue. he has to deal with it. i think it is, there is, two ways to look at the situation. unin one he's a man on an island. nobod

another high ranking official, former director of intelligence james clapper telling chuck todd there was no fisa warrant at trump tower. >> for the part of the national security apparatus that i oversaw as dni, there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president -- the president-elect at the time or as a candidate or against his campaign. >> if the fbi, for instance, had a fisa court order some of sort for a surveillance, would that be information you would know or not know? >> yes. >> you would be told this. >> i would know that. >> at this point you can't confirm or deny whether that exists. >> i can deny it. >> there is no fisa court order. >> not to my knowledge. >> of anything at trump tower? >> no. >> now, congress being asked to investigate the president's claims, republicans said there was no evidence today. >> i've never heard that before. and i have no evidence or no one ever presented anything to me. >> i've seen no evidence of the allegations we have seen in the media. >> at this point, i've seen no evidence of what he's alleged. >> but if this is true, senat

in for chuck todd today. welcome to mtp daily. in politics, what's bigger than a promise from your president? they are backing a plan that could break those promises. so what now for the white house and the gop? just moments ago, president trump was scheduled to have a call with speaker of the house paul ryan and majority leader kevin mccarthy to plot a way forward amid the drama. and this afternoon, skeptical gop senators, including ted cruz are meeting at the white house to try and hammer out a compromise. earlier today at the white house press briefing sean spicer was pressed on this subject multiple times. here is some of that exchange. >> president trump has said that under his plan there will be insurance for everybody. how do you square that with the cbo numbers andishat a promise he can keep? >> the cbo number, a record that doesn't match-up with the ability to count people. pretty good at dollars, not as good as people. when you look at the additional phases or prongs of this whole comprehensive approach, that actually ch

acro espe theal fallout fromelings strongly on h chuck todd ise.ither the endorsing the view l bi writer called the biggestke pol who owns this this. a essentially the number oneell,e need the senate. okay, we need the presidency. days. that's the surprisinghe be is going to forgive either simym lay-up. you had both the congr a of oba and yet come up with the votes to do it. what do you think president trump learned from this? i hesitate to say he was humbled by it, but did he learn something about being president, that it's not like being ceo, that not just by sheer personality can you get a vote? >> we'll find out what he's learned. if he doesn't learn anything from this, then what was a major setback turns into a debilitating one. but if you take him at his words and sort of read between some of the lines on friday, notice he didn't -- he went out of his way not to trash anybody publicly, though he may have done it through his tv recommendations, and then he started talking about the democrats. while he was trying to blame them, he also said may

he said clearly to chuck todd that he's talking about the agencies under his purview. it's a big administration, a big government filled with people. judge jeanine: kellyanne, we are both lawyers. he's saying it could be title 3. if it's title 3, it would be a local or state prosecutor and a criminal case. he's talking about foreign intelligence. so it's important if it's a federal criminal case. >> my on point is mr. clapper in issuing aly denial about a specific question chuck todd asked him later in the interview left open the possibility it could comepe from somewhere else it's the the same thing that happened yesterday when president obama's spokesman said the white house never interfered in a department of justice investigation. but he did leave open the possibility that other pieces of the administration may be the source and the leakers. judge jeanine: is it appropriate for a president to accuse another president based on open-sourced reporting and open-ended question?cc if the head of the f.b.i. is saying and pushing back and asking d.o.j. to push back on this

joining us for a preview is moderator of the "meet the press," chuck todd. good morning. ng with us. >> morning, ted. >> chuck, we are more than halfway through the first 100 days of a trump administration. so far, does it seem like the white house is just spinning its wheels on major initiatives like health care and the budget? >> this week was one of those weeks where it certainly looked like it. they had a revise travel ban, blocked again by the courts, health care, even as they pull out all the stops to try to get the bill passed in the house, they only have seen a growing opposition to it in the senate. so, what looks like progress is actually a couple of steps back. the budget proposal was not received very warmly by most republicans, let alone, of course, not surprisingly democrats. and then the fact that he's allowed himself to be distracted all week by this wiretapping claim that has been so far unproven. and no matter the official in washington or, frankly, even folks in the british government, no matter what they say to dispute the president's accusations, he co

chuck todd will talk with nick mulvaney. chuck will join us for a live preview at 10:15. >>> it's 7:06 on this sunday. you still have time if you haven't yet gone out, checked out the cherry blossoms. peak bloom this weekend. perfect timing. >> you just need to throw on a jacket because we are motte havi -- not having the weather we had yesterday. if you plan on going down to the tidal basin, it's still going to be beautiful. yesterday, as you can see from these images, people flocked to the cherry trees to see them in bloom. the temperatures just soared. we know, 70s during the afternoon. while the earlier cold weather hurt some of those there were still plenty of them to see and photograph. >> we're used to the cherry blossoms have been more pop, more appeal. typically the crowds are larger, but we're still having a great time. >> yes, you can still have a great time. there's still more of the celebration going on as well. the national cherry plblossom festival runs through april 16th. >> so i have time. >> you have time. >

earlier today i asked "meet the press" moderator chuck todd about the allegations of the connection with russia that will top the discussion today. take a listen. >> did this controversy eclipse the president's address to congress this week and saturday sidetracking his agenda? >> i think it absolutely did and i think russia is absolutely on the verge of consuming this presidency. it's i think becoming a major distraction on capitol hill. i think the question is going to be how do republicans figure out how to compartmentalize this distraction. without that ability to compartmentalize, this thing is going to every beak eat i understand the president's ability to drive an agenda. >> chuck todd will discuss the trump administration's russia connection with his exclusive guest, senate minority leader chuck schumer and republican senator marco rubio. "meet the press" comes your way at 10:30 right here on nbc 10. >>> right here in our neck of the woods, the polo ralph lauren store in center city is closing today. the closure is part of a larger restructuring plan at ralph lauren. the center c

chuck todd will have an exclusive interview with chuck schumer. he'll speak with marco rubio and former director of national intelligence james clapper. >>> maryland governor larry hogan wants to change the redistricting process. according to to the -- excuse me dell marvin now.com website, hogan is rallying support for a bill that would set up an independent, non-partisan committee to hand that will project. democrats opposed the plan because lawmakers dominated state politics. redistricting reform is one of hogan's primary goals as he gears up for the 2018 governor's race. >>> well it's 6:06, good morning, a beautiful sunrise to start off our sunday. no doubt about it. you know what, you're going to need the hat and gloves again this morning. but a big change, it's coming up. and a we'll be in the 60s. >>> burgundy and gold making a big move. the new addition coming to the redskins sideline. >>> welcome back. redskins head coach jay gruden going to be sticking around a little bit longer. >> espn reporting that the skins signed him to a two-year

we spoke to chuck todd, moderator of "meet the press" and asked him if president trump can get republicans on board to support the budget. >> i think he's going to find that for now, no republican is going to feel comfortable embracing the budget. it's not a real budget, it's more of a statement of principles. it wasn't a complete budget. they still left out all the entitlement aspects of things, any potential tax rates, things like that. it was really more of an attempt to say, hey, congress, these are the president's priorities. he'd like to see an emphasize on spending in these areas, and he would like to see a de-emphasize of spending in these areas. >> the budget director joins "meet the press" with chuck todd this sunday. watch it here at 10:30 on nbc 10. ♪ >>> the irish flag was raised as the sounds of bagpipes filled the air at the irish memorial at penn's landing this morning. after the the singing of the irish national anthem, philadelphia mayor jim kenny talked about his heritage and the irish immigrant experience. >> happening at cardinal village senior living community in sewe

we have chuck todd standing by in washington. after all, at the top of the hour, this becomes "meet the press daily with chuck todd." chuck, what do you make of what we just witnessed? >> look, it's number one, for donald trump, as a party leader, he was remarkably discipline ld. he did not throw anybody under the bus inside his own party. he talked about being disappointed in the freedom caucus, but there -- he praised paul ryan. and paul ryan did the same. so, look, the fact that he's publicly willing to stand shoulder to shoulder with ryan on this and sort of admit defeat, admit that this didn't work, and he went out of his way to attempt a deflection game. i don't know if it's going to work in the long run, but saying, hey, health care is on democrats now, it's on democrats. but there is something else to read between the lines there, brian, that i know this about this white house and him right now, and his way of throwing out an invitation to democrats. he basically admitted, this is very difficult to do without the help of

will be watching sean spicer live once the briefing starts in about 40 or 50 minutes from now, and chuck todd is the nbc news political director, the moderator of "meet the press," hey, chuck. this, i mean it is really bizarre to be here watching it from this perspective. you're hearing all of these leaders saying what is going on in washington, and you have secretary tillerson, and secretary mattis trying to explain what the policy is, but it is countered by a tweet. >> that's right and you have a presidency that is beyond saying it is in crisis mode, it is, you know, on the brink, the question is on the brink of what? on the brink of collapse? on the brink of being a temporary lame duck presidency. they don't think there s a political penalty to buck him. the russia cloud darkens all of the time, and all of these problems right now that they're dealing with front and center are self inflicted by one person, the president of the united states that could not help himself with a tweet on this wiretapping nonsense that essentially untraveling ten days of all things russia in their part of this

i spoke to "meet the press" moderator chuck todd earlier this morning about the health care bill and asked how much of an uphill battle it will be to convince house conservatives to get on board? >> i think they have a big uphill battle. politically they know what they have to do, they have to fulfill the promise. the policy is making different parts of the republican party uncomfortable. conservatives think this new plan leaves too much of obamacare's architecture in place. moderates, republican moderates believe it takes away too many aspects of obamacare that will make it unworkable for them, particularly the issue of medicaid expansion. so that's just inside the republican party. >> health and human services secretary tom price will be chuck todd's exclusive guest this morning on "meet the press." it comes your way at 10:30 right here on nbc 10. >>> we have a heads up for drivers. a bridge construction project means road restrictions in montgomery county. the road is going to be closed. we'll have the details coming up. ♪ we are family >> losing a legend. sad news to report about

my friend chuck todd crunched the numbers. he found that in the district of columbia 12,700 people roughly voted for donald trump. that is the total vote for trump. he points out that the average attendance at a ball game there is 30,000. so he asks why would the president head into a hot bed of booing? >> i can understand that that is possibly a reason why he might not do it although it is a ritual ever since taft when he threw out the first ball and ronald reagan came to the mound. i think they all look pretty awkward and maybe he is afraid i might not reach the plate. >> 6'06" sounds manageable until you look at home plate from the mound. it has been a symbol of george w. bush after 9/11 of great hope and renewal and things were back to the familiar and going to be okay. >> something about baseball and spring being renewal and maybe had he done it and gone to the pit where there may not be a lot of people waiting for him would have been a sign here i am president and i will do this. >> the number we talked about in the last

all right, chuck todd, we'll be watching "meet the press." uck will talk about the health care defeat and the push now for tax reform with president trump's budget director. >>> let's turn to other headlines today. today the united states military acknowledging a coalition air strike did hit a location in the iraqi city of mosul earlier this month. witnesses say that strike killed more than 100 civilians. officials at u.s. central command did say it hit targeted isis fighters and equipment. but one iraqi official is calling it a human catastrophe. an investigation is now under way. >>> uber temporarily has pulled its driverless rocars off the rd after an accident. it was struck by another vehicle making a left turn. police though blaming the accident on the other driver. for failing to yield. there were two operators in the vehicle testing the uber at the time. neither of them was seriously hurt. >>> today is a great day, power houses north carolina and kentucky playing for a spot in the final four. and s.e.c. rivals florida and south carolina

governor jerry brown will sit down with moderator chuck todd. k will also talk with allentown congressman charlie dent, a republican who opposed the bill. that comes your way at 10:30 on nbc 10. >>> the main jury in the eric freed trial is set. tomorrow lawyers will resume picking six alternates. jury selection is taking place in chester county. frein is accused of shooting two pennsylvania state troopers in the poconos last september, killing one of them before leading police on a seven-week manhunt. opening statements are scheduled for april 3rd. >>> i've got pieces of their house in my house. >> storm victims describe the damage from severe weather that pummeled the south. more storms are on the way. >>> plus shore rental. we'll explain why there are fewer properties available and why many have already been snapped up this season. fios is not cable. we're wired differently. maybe that's why we've been ranked highest in customer satisfaction by jd power 4 years in a row. and now you can love fios too. get 150 meg internet, tv and phone. all for