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The white house. General election coverage gets underway today. Im Andrea Mitchell reporting from washington along with my colleagues. Donald trump is the Presumptive Republican nominee at nikki haley suspended her campaign this morning without endorsing trump. I said i wanted americans to have their voices heard. I have done that. I have no regrets. It is now up to donald trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him. We will look to exit polling to see whe...

These are people who are in guerrero, and theyre on the phone in guerrero, in iguala, in most cases. I he reads in english if i dont answer, it is because ill be lunching with the military. I mean, these are evidence that theres direct Communications L and direct levels of contact between leaders of the Guerreros Unidos cartel and members of the Mexican Military. From the very beginning, like the morning after the attacks against the students, the big question was, what did the army do . Theres ...

Be the youngest president since napoleon. He was voting in his hometown, rather nice seaside town. He wants to shake up french politics. He wants to bring together he says a Coalition Of The Willing which he said would be able to reform france. And he wants an open facing france at the centre of a much more deeply integrated European Union. He is the favourite but he is up union. He is the favourite but he is up againsta union. He is the favourite but he is up against a woman who needs very litt...

0.1% but my next guest says its the upper middle class, those in the next 9.9% that are really drivers of inequality in this country. joining me is matthew stuart, the author of the new book the 9.9%. its great to have you, matthew. this is a book thats caught my attention this week, its been making headlines and i wanted to talk to you about it and were seeing it in realtime play out. lets talk about inequality here for the moment. at the end of 2019 in the u.s., the bottom 50% held just 1.5% o...

Added in april. the unemployment rate still 5.8%. still double of february of 2020. wages are growing. theyve been growing month after month for the past couple of months for the first time in about 15 years. average wages are up 15 cents in the month of may to $30.33 on average for weekly pay. the average hourly work week climbed to 34.9 hours. people are working harder and making a bit more money. as we know, inside the unemployment numbers is a dynamic thats not so good. and that is the unemp...

Way. and i think that given where trump is with that relationship with south korea, there is some shoring up to do. i think it would have been an opportunity for him to show that they were walking hand in hand, literally, in the dmz. bad weather, mother nature. >> theres houses between the border between north and south. if youre in there, you can walk into north korea and you stand next a north korean soldier. its a pretty incredible thing. i wonder if the president would have done it. lets get...

Mississippi has the nations highest rate of adult obesity at 34.9%. >> i was going to say, if its not the highest, its up with the highest there, and i wonder what the correlation is on that. >> a 50-1 vote in the state senate. >> theyre sending a message, the anti-bloomberg bill. >> 36 minutes after the hour. google has reached a multimillion dollar settlement over how it selected its map i78ages. the tech giant is paying 37 states a totals $7 million. google admitted when it sent around cars w...

With 40.24%, 36,424 and mitt romney is second with 34.9% of the vote. 22,855 votes cast. newt gingrich comes in third with 12.81% of the vote, 8,390. and congressman ron paul at 11.77% of the vote, 7,708 votes cast. we have a total of about 65,489 votes with 99% of precincts reporting. >> okay, mr. chairman. its definitive. hes the winner. just characterize the campaign there in colorado for me, if you could? i mean, the romney campaign going in seemed like it felt confident on the ground. did y...

With 40.24%, 36,424 and mitt romney is second with 34.9% of the vote. 22,855 votes cast. newt gingrich comes in third with 12.81% of the vote, 8,390. and congressman ron paul at 11.77% of the vote, 7,708 votes cast. we have a total of about 65,489 votes with 99% of precincts reporting. >> okay, mr. chairman. its definitive. hes the winner. just characterize the campaign there in colorado for me, if you could? i mean, the romney campaign going in seemed like it felt confident on the ground. did y...

With 40.24%, 36,424 and mitt romney is second with 34.9% of the vote. 22,855 votes cast. newt gingrich comes in third with 12.81% of the vote, 8,390. and congressman ron paul at 11.77% of the vote, 7,708 votes cast. we have a total of about 65,489 votes with 99% of precincts reporting. >> okay, mr. chairman. its definitive. hes the winner. just characterize the campaign there in colorado for me, if you could? i mean, the romney campaign going in seemed like it felt confident on the ground. did y...