luke: mom. luke, what do you want? went on dad's computer, contacted some of his geek friends, told them that he was dying and his last wish was an ipad. luke, what have i told you about the ly-- one of them felt so bad, they brought over an extra. oh, my god. you got it, you beautiful little liar. oh. [ door opens ] here comes dad. who's got you? such a pretty face. who's got you? [ gasps ] who wants some cake? i used to, but i don't desire food any-- oh, my god! you got it! all this time, i said i didn't care, but i do care -- i care so much! do you want to blow out the candles? yes! go on. go. [ blows ] it did not just do that! yes, it did! honey! [ smooches ] oh! who's ready for the first day of the rest of their lives? phil, happy birthday. look at this. happy birthday. can i touch it? yeah. not so hard, but touch it. it says "happy birthday." touch it, but don't touch it. touch it, but don't touch it. okay. i ever doubted you. i love you. jake: thank god that guy came over. what did he say his name was? he didn't

luke saw this. there you are, luke. what are you able to see right now?> as of right now, tamron, the perimeter around the capitol, the west front, it looks to be completely secured. you guys, i think, saw that helicopter just take off. we're still being told to shelter in place, being that no one can leave any of the house office buildings or the literal capitol. the emergency personnel that responded that seem to have sort of congregated around constitution avenue closer over toward the senate side heading over to union station. i can also see a bunch of office workers who are in buildings over there looking over on to the street. hold on one second. we're now being told -- >> luke, hang on. pete williams has a special report. we're going to dip into this. let's listen into pete. >> for all intensive purposes over, but we're waiting to get confirmed they have this car, that they have the driver. we don't know that for a fact yet. that's the last bit of this we're trying to get. in any event, it was a long running situation that started at the white hous

so luke, cuba is nothing if it'. and some even say baseball is k. how embedded is the sport in cun >> thank you so much for having. in cuba, baseball is something . this is the crown jewel of the . >> talk about the challenges thy came into play. >> to be fair, even with this n. and i'll get into that at some . >> why do you think that the ne? >> it's the result of circumsta. you remember when cuba abolishet was the height of the cold worl. and they were beginning to play. and after the revolution, they . and they basically work out of r the world, but now, the societyt is the process of political lib. because now cuba because the government is allowing people to ralph and professional players tore appear. >> arturo, the community has a lot opinion on that. cuba is only looking to "slave out baseball players to create a source of it can for their failed economy, and amy says, i understand that cubans are afraid of over development. but perhaps the baseball players are up and coming: okay, roberto, we'll go it you. professional experts in cuba were b

thanks so much, luke. i should remind our viewers, we were told earlier there would be a capitol police briefing at 4:15. that's been delayed somewhat. but we'll bring it to you live at any moment. joining us is our correspondent kasie hunt who i believe is actually on the scene where this incident began to unfold. casey? >> reporter: hi, martin. yeah, this is still an active crime scene. you can see it i'm sure behind me. this is where that capitol police officer who has been injured was hurt. you can still see the car that crashed actually sitting in the middle of the street on constitution avenue, which is, of course, a major thoroughfare here in washington. what we're waiting on from the capitol police is just more of a discussion of exactly what happened. it's still murky as to who shot first, who was in the car. there's another car that's further up that road that, as you can see, the suspect continued to drive up constitution. so this police officer was actually stopped, according to eyewitnesses i

(car door closes) luke, luke, luke... where is she? dad, i don't like this. why not? friend molly's dad bought a sports car, and now he lives in a studio apartment and dates a girl who works at forever 21, which she won't be for two years. hear that? honey, i'm not leaving your mom. might not be your call. oh, my god, it's so pretty! i love it! and i love you, and i promise i'll take super good care of it! can i tell her? please. i ask for so little. alex, be nice to your sister. it's dad's car, not yours. what? but you're too old for this! it's just like last year when you wouldn't take off those skinny jeans. wouldn't or couldn't? hey. i looked hot. and you look hot in this car. let me tell you something about your dad. your dad is a man and he gets it. oh. at least that's what i heard. you know, i was there more as a friend and an observer than anything. andre. hey, claire. honey. is this the new car? i know it looks impractical, but andre's seen a lot of people die. i'm not upset. i'm not upset. it's a beautiful car. just surprised you didn't get the sedan, that's

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what is going on, luke?d the whole thing so we could go on the trapeze without you three. - why? - because... because... because of this! you're all monster-ating! - luke, no! - are you kidding me?! - oh, my god! - oh, my lord. sorry! i know you told me not to say it, but i... phil! do you have any idea how offensive that is? - i do, honey. - (scoffs) and from the bottom of my heart, i am so... (whispers) s-s-scared. - ugh! - oh, no! don't go away. "modern family" will be right back. - (singsongy) okay. 3, 2, 1! (all) surprise! (laughs) oh, my gosh! oh, it's amazing! - yeah, it's a boat party. - oh! because? your life is like a voyage. oh! well, everyone's is, but i love it because none of our other friends have ever done it. ohh! oh, that's so sweet. it must be easy with no dirty, broken woman in the relationship. (luke, alex, and haley laugh) what are you laughing at? okay, everybody follow the birthday flag! what'd you call me? oh. uh, oh, yes. oh, my gosh. it's so elegant. pepper must be dying. oh, you k

only on al jazeera america. [ speaking spanish ] >> so that's an excerpt of luke's documentary, the cuban dream. luke, you traveled to cuba to produce it, and legally, that's tricky because of the embargo and the sanctions, whatever you want to call it, and how did you do it in >> well, it helps being a cuban-american. in 2009, president obama allowed cubans to visit family. and i still have family in cube, and that was my entryway into the country. so in regards to the project itself, i believe in the power of good and the power of common loves, and with baseball being my national pastime as an american, and being the pastime in my blood of my father's country, i thought it will be an incredible opportunity to do something that no one has done before. to play in cuba's major leagues, and be the first foreigner and think outside of the box. >> and expectations? >> the rollercoaster in 2012 and this year, there were ups and downs, but i would have to say my experience in cuba, and the people that i met and the barriers, and to the and we were able to represent the power of connection and h

luke, stay! luke, stay! come back soon! i'll see you later! luke, stay! luke! stay!for a yoplait. i don't mind, i mean it's orange crème. and when mom said bobby was too edgy... 'sup girl. i just swapped him out for tyler. 'sup girl. mom never questioned bobby again. two can play at this game. [ female announcer ] swap one snack a week for a yoplait. and everybody wins. yoplait. it is so good. frank. hey, jay! good to see you. great to see you. didn't expect to find you here. well, listen, when my granddaughter's boyfriend's band plays an under-21 club with my daughter-in-law's brother's gay partner, i show up. that's just how i was raised. i don't think you met my wife, gloria. hola. well, it's a pleasure. you are a lovely woman. you must be frank. okay, then. you are hotter than a las vegas sidewalk on the 4th of july. [ laughs ] did i go too far? not you, frank. no. , please, please, please. okay, what is this? we're making sure i'm tall enough to ride all the rides at disneyland. without having to spike up my hair. buddy... (tape measure retracts) we are good to

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luke: why did he paint "starry night"?aybe 'cause the sky is beautiful and everybody likes looking at it. and it reminds us that something's up there watching over all of us. aliens, who could be here in a second to liquefy us and use us as fuel. so, wake up, people. we're next. mom? you better get down here! when ouwe got a subaru.s born, it's where she said her first word. (little girl) no! saw her first day of school. (little girl) bye bye! made a best friend forever. the back seat of my subaru is where she grew up. what? (announcer) the two-thousand-fourteen subaru forester. (girl) what? (announcer) built to be there for your family. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. mmm! oh, my god. whoa! delicious. haley: uh-huh. i am so proud. oh, thanks, mom. i'm just gonna wrap these up. oh, you know what, sweetie? you're gonna be late for school. just go. i'll bring them by later. are you sure? i'm done? yeah, get out of here, betty crocker. okay. so proud of you! [ retches, spits ] ugh! do we still have the number for po

steve horseford, a democrat from nevada, and luke mecir, from indiana. you both are fresh persons. >> baptism by fire, right? >> what a crazy way to start. let me start with you. we are already off to the same kind of thing. i hear from a lot of conservatives this president, you know, he never reaches out, he's a dictator, a tie rant. let me throw some facts and you tell me why many awrong. i don't see it that way at all. he has reached out. i remember when he got inaugurated, republicans met -- this is before the tea party before he had done anything and said we're going to block him on everything. i remember mcconnell say it's going to be a one-term presidency. i remember people yelling "you lie" i remember with the stimulus bill, he reached out, $republicans voted against tax cuts. health care bill, republican bill, romney-care. can you tell me, honestly -- >> don't let him get away with all of that. >> you'll havement of time to respond. don't you think the president has done anything right? can the republicans take responsibility for the tone? >> i

luke, i want to bring it to you. what do we expect when it comes to negotiations against the only leverage boehner has, he's giving up. >> it's one of the reasons why they didn't want the government funding fight. they wanted their attention on the debt ceiling. there would be a way to extract concessions from the white house. what you see is a speaker who has been weakened by the strategy. his closest allies tell you that privately. what you could end up seeing is government funding meshed into raising the debt limit. what would they get back? would it be they repeal the medical device? is the president truthful when he says he will not negotiate the debt limit? it's hard to see john boehner getting spending cuts to the cost of $2 trillion which he got in 2011. it might be something less. one thing democrats usually they cave. they have caved in the budget fights. so far, whether it's because the president is because of his re-election or harry reid is tired of dealing with the house republicans, they have held thei

i want to ask luke about this in a second. but jonathan, the person of interest in all of this is mitch mcconnell, right? there was a -- the conventional wisdom was mitch mcconnell is facing a primary challenge from the right. he cannot swoop in on angel's wings or devil's horns or whatever form of transportation you prefer and do anything measurable here because he is vulnerable. yet, somehow, mitch mcconnell did the hard work. >> but here's the thing. mitch mcconnell understands what it means to govern. he looked and said, yeah, i'm being challenged on my right and i'm running for re-election, but the country is at stake, and i'm in the leadership. boehner can't get it done. no one can get it done. i have to step in. >> he also took a long time. >> he hung back a very long time. >> there was a front page story on "the new york times" that said the republican party was losing the chance to retake the senate. mitch mcconnell's no dummy. he wants to be majority leader. this was really damaging the party's chances going into 201

luke russert is standing by on capitol hill. white house is simply given senate leaders more time to come up with the contours of a deal or is it not that at all? >> reporter: no, it actually is a positive sign from where we stand because by the doing this they allowing them to tie up loose ends they have in the supposed disagreement which details are starting to leak out shortly. casey hunt just reported that the deal in place in theory would fund the government through january 15th and extend the debt limit through february 15th. so the government would be funded for january 15th and debt limit would be funded -- extended to february 15th. and within the confines of that extensions for both, you would then sort of see large scale negotiations between the house and senate to figure out a longer term budget. presumably there would be something in there health care related. there's been a lot of talk about this repeal of the medical device tax for two years. look for that to possibly be in here. these details are going to trickle

luke, thanks for filling us in. luke russert. an interesting dynamic in the marths here the markets seem to want to believe there will be a deal by monday. seeing that the markets levitate in today's session, josh. >> take it backward. name one significant d.c. event before which it made sense to have a radical shift to asset allocation, every time you play the game you probably lost. so i think what the plarkt is telling you here they view this as the, quote, unquote, last tackle to break. and typically if you want to look at what the stats say, a year that gets off to the start this one did, you'd rather be long than short. trust me. and typically, october is, quote, unquote, the pivot month. where the bears really get killed historically speaking going back as many decades as you'd like to. that's the prevailing sentiment. >> i hear you. but i think if you think about 45 s & p points which take us 1.5% from the highs of where we were before there was a government shutdown isn't it a little risk -- i think you're right. people

time now for luke russert with "the daily rundown" in d.c. luke? >> with one crisis averted, president obama tries to steer the next budget brokering on a less chaotic pass. as leaders begin to punch at conservatives calling the shots. meantime one bright spot in washington, the zoo is open and that means the panda cam is back online. we will go live to the scene where their shared excitement for donkeys and elephants. across the potomac, campaign for govern might be the first ballot box winner for democrats thanks to the shut down. how the hopes are hurting with a couple weeks to go. good morning from washington, it's friday, october 13th. i'm luke russert for the great chuck todd. now that the government sputtered back to life, leaders are plunging into the next count of budget talks. can he use capital to bridge the partisan divide and win a broader agreement and will he? president obama challenged republicans to work with him on a long-term spending bill. >> nothing has done more damage to america's credibility in the world, our standing with o

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luke is the found er of a restaurant chain called luke's lobsters.e grew up in maine before moving to new york city. >> the average price was 30 bucks and now they are screwing it around. >> luke opened up his first restaurant aimed at serving his simple sweet lo lobster roll. we have three in d.c. and you are here at cape seafood which is our latest venture. this facility has processed 45,000 pounds of lobster a day. all of this meat ends up at humidex's luke's lobsters. >> do you find away to better the path. >> we are finding away to ship lobster and is there an opportunity to make it more successful on the west coast and internationally? i think so. >> with the amount of lobster we harvest and put on the market now we need people like that that are selling that type of product that have people look at lobster in a different way. it's not the big cooked red center plate item. it's also something you are goings to have for lunch. oust you cayou can have a lobstr lobster soup or lobster mac and cheese. it's a great ingredient in a lot of meals. >> a

. >> reporter: robert luke of the san diego county sheriff's bomb squad and atf agent matt beals were the lead investigators. they quickly learned that something about the day care may have made it a target. >> on that particular day care center, we were aware that there were other law enforcement officials who had their children in that particular home during the day. >> reporter: was it possible someone was out to kill cops and their kids? if so, connie, who always parked in front of the day care home, could have been the perfect yet unwitting delivery system for the bomb. >> they weren't looking for any known or suspected domestic terrorists or possible watchlist type people that may be in the area. >> reporter: no question that this was an ied, an improvised explosive device? >> no. >> reporter: and suddenly, they had more questions after they ran connie's address and discovered that, in her neighborhood, two weeks earlier, police had found another bomb. >> police make an explosive connection. this was personal. when we come back, had connie or her family been targeted before? >>

because they aren't treating him -- yeah, i know, luke and laura.e not treating him like wow. they are treating him like, really? reportedly he is now furious because executives want to cut his salary in half. well, tmes are hard out here, you know? so they want to cut his salary in half. the shocker to me is that his salary is $1.5 million and i'm thinking, if you've been with a show for 35 years, i don't care how hard times are, you're supposed to be making more than 1.5 -- who is his gent? right? and he wasn't just a random person like one of the cassadines, remember them? he was luke. he got with laura. remember when he was accused of rape? he was a reason to watch the show. well, now he is 66 years old and they feel like if he -- if he won' accept the pay cut then they want to get rid of him. so they want him to go down to 1.5 divided in half. what is that? $750,000. well, now he is 66 years old and, you know, i would just take it at this particular point and i'm going to tell you, i would take it because if they fire -- first of all, they're p

reported for us now, nbc's luke russert, because luke heard the gunshots and watched as tourists ran for safety, and he joins us now. luke, talk us through exactly what happened moment by moment because our viewers are used to seeing you on air with us element every day. >> well, martin, it's been a harrowing day here on capitol hill. around 2:20 p.m. i was in my office. it overlooks the west front of the capitol, and i heard four very loud booms and bangs. they were so loud and out of place it immediately caused me to

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now we're where we are. >> that's just not accurate, luke.is $238 billion less than the funding bill that we just approved that funds government through january. that was the budget that paul ryan himself proposed. had you guys just accepted that in july we would have been able to keep our government open, averting the default, and we could have been focusing on a jobs bill, passing immigration reform, moving our country forward. there's a lot of other things we could have been doing. the president and democrats met the republicans at their own budget number. but the republicans couldn't even take yes for an answer. >> this is what passes for negotiation now, this president and the democrats. they decide what thing we don't like we should take and then they decide something they don't like, too, and that's a compromise. that's not the way that real compromise works in real life. sure doesn't work that way in my marriage. probably not yours either. and what we need to do now is not focus on the last 12 days or 16, 17 days, and focus on what we

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let me start with you luke messer. many people, most moderate republicans scratching their heads wondering what is going on here. what is going on here? why are republicans causing all this mess work harder and worker to resolve it? >> listen, we've worked all day. we passed three bills, one that would fund the national parks, another that would make sure that we had the national institution of health open so that we could fund those that are trying to cure diseases. we don't want the government closed. we want to try to protect the american people from obama care, and i would echo the comments from your panel just a second ago, i have to tell you overwhelmingly in my district, people aren't applauding for closing the government. nobody wants the government closed but applauding us for standing up against obama care. >> adam shift, i mean, the president made it very, very clear he sees no reason why he should sacrifice any part of obamacare as part of some kind of political terrorism, as some are seeing it, on behalf o

let me start with you luke messer. many people, most moderate republicans scratching their heads wondering what is going on here. what is going on here? why are republicans causing all this mess work harder and worker to resolve it? >> listen, we've worked all day. we passed three bills, one that would fund the national parks, another that would make sure that we had the national institution of health open so that we could fund those that are trying to cure diseases. we don't want the government closed. we want to try to protect the american people from obama care, and i would echo the comments from your panel just a second ago, i have to tell you overwhelmingly in my district, people aren't applauding for closing the government. nobody wants the government closed but applauding us for standing up against obama care. >> adam shift, i mean, the president made it very, very clear he sees no reason why he should sacrifice any part of obamacare as part of some kind of political terrorism, as some are seeing it, on behalf o

jonath jonathan chafe and luke russell. tweeting from a source inside the room and wrote worrisome for leadership, hearing the response for a six week plan is near silent. i ask you, luke, do we have any sense that john boehner's own plan will actually pass among members of his caucus? >> that is the million-dollar question, alex. from where we stand right now, we don't know the answer. the reason being any clean extension of the debt ceiling is considered sacrilegious from any number of folks. what the leadership was doing, according to my sources, trying to stress team work saying we need to do this, get the possession of the ball back, to try to advance to fight against obama care. we can't bring the world's economy to its knees and be blamed for that, too. they also impair them that their polls are getting hit by this. talking to members coming out of there, there's a lot of trepidation for them to support something like this. i spoke to one member who said how's it going to look back home if the debt limit is lifted an

there is hope down the line. >> luke, your company is in the business of building online databases.ow bad is it? >> it's pretty bad. it's written as if it were created by people who had never created a commercial database before. >> what's the problem with it? stuff crashes. >> but there are crashes and then there are ways it crashes and reasons why it crashes. people will expect legitimized crashes because of too many users. but to ship something on the first day with typos, grammatical errors instructions that aren't clear that is just outright bad testing bad design bad review. >> but in your particular case you as an example went on and tried oregister yourself how did you get? >> i went on myself, i own asmall business, i pay for insurance for both my family and the other people in my company. so i wanted to compare the price i'm paying currently which is unsubsidized to -- >> so you tried? >> i went online and tried it. and i was just shocked by the process. i could just tell as soon as i started it that it was asking for too many questions for me to browse to understand what

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nbc's luke russert.nk you, luke. >> reporter: take care. >> the senate deal contains a budget negotiation frame work with a deadline of december 13th and implicit hope we won't be going through all of this again in february. my next guest will be part of that effort. joining us now, as luke just said, is democratic congressman, chris van hollen of maryland. good afternoon to you. >> martin, good afternoon, as always. >> for the last seven months, your colleague, patty murray, has tried to begin negotiations on no less than 20 separate occasions. each time, republicans refused and blocked. at the same time, republicans went on this pointless campaign of opposition to the affordable care act. again, a complete and utter waste of time and energy. i ask you, sir. what has speaker boehner and the republican party achieved, aside from humiliating and hurting the nation? >> nothing. is the simple answer. this has been a totally unnecessary episode in american history, in congressional history. it's a sad time f

luke, thanks for being here. >> yes, eat, live, and sleep it, whole nine yards. quite a day, huh? >> it's been hard to tell what's wishful thinking and what is actual progress. i know, luke, that you spoke to house republicans after, at least some of them met with president obama tonight. what did they tell you about that meeting? what are you able to report happened there? >> well, the talking point that circulated through the members who left that congress is that they had constructive talks, that they were moving in a positive direction. that tonight, now as we speak, rachel, just around the corner from me, staffers, hill staffers, republicans, are apparently figuring out a way to move forward on extending the debt limit, as well as possibly funding the government with their counterparts at the white house. so when we woke up this morning, we were still under the idea that if the government was funded without any concessions, that was unconditional surrender, as the speaker said, the president said he would not negotiate. so apparently they've backed off of that a little bit an

for more now, i'm joined by nbc news correspondent, luke russert. luke, all credit to these heroes.ou as odd that republicans like steve king and john cornen are celebrating them and asking that niece these memorials opened despite the shutdown. and before you answer, luke, here is michele bachmann greeting the veterans and their families. take a listen to her. >> and america doesn't shut down. >> yes. >> should they really be able to pick and choose which services are affected by the shutdown? which they, after all, have provoked? >> it's especially odd, martin, considering you do have, without doubt, a sizeable amount of republicans in the house gop conference that would not -- not only want to have a clean government funding bill on the floor right now, but would spore it, within ten minutes. i guarantee that is to be true. there are issues that we're not getting to any time soon. which is very interesting to hear, michele bachmann is somebody who actually was a champion of this whole movement of shutting down the government. >> of course! >> over the president's health care law.

luke russert. richard wolf. uf je eugene robinson and chris shays, thank you for joining us. >> coming up. what to expect in a few months when we go through all of this again. ezra klein and mark patterson will be here. that's why you take charge of your future. your retirement. ♪ ameriprise advisors can help you like they've helped millions of others. listening, planning, working one on one. to help you retire your way... with confidence. that's what ameriprise financial does. that's what they can do with you. ameriprise financial. more within reach. [ ding ] i sense you've overpacked, your stomach. try pepto to-go. it's pepto-bismol that fits in your pocket. relief can be yours, but your peanuts... are mine. ♪ congestion, for the smog. but there are a lot of people that do ride the bus. and now that the buses are running on natural gas, they don't throw out as much pollution into the air. so i feel good. i feel like i'm doing my part to help out the environment. prefer the taste of gevalia house blend over the