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good morning. a good one. good weekend. how was yours? >> it was. happy mothers day? >> i slept, my kids made me breakfast. it was a beautiful day. i hope you had a great weekend. lets get started with five things to know this monday, may 15th. president zelenskyy is in the uk this morning meeting with the british prime minister. the visit is the latest a series of high stakes meet agz cross europe. russia experience az string of battleground setbacks. >> also, illegal border crossings...

Turkey and beyond. this is a country that played major role in many different conflicts and crisis around the world. of course major nato ally and u.s. ally seen as an unpredictable one under the leadership of pred erdogan. but what we understand is vote counting is continuing. theyre continuing to count ballots with more than 99% of vote counted so far. neither of the candidates president erdogan or the opposition managed to get that 50 plus 1% threshold need ford wayne. president ergodan at a ...

Your -- let me go back to normal times. >> when the polls were bad for bush and cheney, we could have a meeting in the residence and tell them the polls were terrible, we had to do things differently. when the polls are bad for donald trump, you have to communicate with him on television. >> thats one of many reasons this presidency is different now than bush, cheney, biden, everybody who came before it. this is a different calculus and this is yet another example of that. >> i think they probab...

Hampshire and iowa are the independent voters. thats the group clearly when he was trying to go for the middle with the so-called tri an gu lation approach to things in washington, he was trying to appeal to independent voters. doesnt look like it was working. certainly, in new hampshire and iowa and theings nale poll suggested it wasnt working nationally either. we are seeing a little more red meat. in this case, for blue states to try to get independent voters back in line. i should say the de...

Im chuck todd. and later, the academy award-winning filmmaker debe hyped at kwn inconvenient truth" and now "waiting for superman" will also be on the show. lets get to the rundown. well start with those new poll numbers. five weeks from election day. our new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll shows a little bit of a silver lining for democrats. when asked who they independent power come january, republicans still come out on top but their lead has shrunk to nine points. was 49/40 in august and...