The general election matchup now set this morning. Donald trump is on the attack as the democratic ticket makes their first joint appearance today. Live on the campaign trail. Photo controversy. These adorable pictures of Prince George released for his third pirt day. One in familiar provoked outrage online. Why this is causing a meltdown today, saturday, july 23rd, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning and welcome to today. Im Sheinelle Jones with craig melvin, stephanie and dylan dreyer. We need to reintroduce ourselves. Someone said you were having a baby. You werent here . How long has this been . No. You look great. Thanks. Well talk story. The dangerous heat wave blanketing a lot of the country. The high temperatures that gripped the middle of the country earlier this week are now moving east. Some areas could feel temperatures well above 100 this weekend. Nbcs Morgan Radford is covering the story. Good morning. Yeste
Deal with some of the oversight responsibilities that congress has. Of course, Congress Passed the patriot act and some of the authorities to do the surveillance are contained therein. So look for him to ask congress to cooperate with him on that. There are some sort of, i would say, Broad Spectrum of people in support of that from the liberal left as well as the more conservative libertarian side that do want to see those changes. Expect news today from the department of justice. Were expecting some of that legal rationale behind some of these decisions to be released along with new information directly from the nsa, which is intended to give an operators manual for what the nsa does and try to fill in some of the gaps. Officials say theres been too much confusion and con flags with the leaks, understanding what these programs have been about. They hope to kind of lead the way by clearing up some of this. Whatever they do disclose will be scrutinized. Congress will certainly have its
Talking about Chris Christie. This time its president obama an the Tappan Zee Bridge minus the scandal. The president is right there now driving a week long push for roads an bridges. He put the rebuild on the fast track two years ago. The existing bridge is in such disrepair, one of the top aide was called the hold your breath bridge. It has a 4 billion price tag, more than a quarter comes from a federal loan. The president wants congress to pass a 302 billion Transportation Plan because the current fund is running out. Anthony fox says a quarter of u. S. Bridges need significant help and 2 3 of roads are inadequate. Its also about jobs. 700,000 according to the wiet house. All that congestion is causing more problems than other. 120 billion in gas and lost time and 27 billion in additional shipping costs for businesses. 6 in 10 americans feel roads and bridges are up will they use it to ref their midterm engine. Henrich is here with more. You have sarah palinsstyle knowledge about th
This happened in kansas. Whats going on within the Republican Party here in kansas . People are so irritated at what the president is doing, they want somebody to throw a brick. Republicans proi approval 19 . We havent made our case on why republicans should take control. They have made obstruction their mode of governance. They want somebody to throw a brick. Republicans cannot afford interparty fraticide. The headlines coming out of the primaries was kansas senator pat roberts and his victory over Tea Party Challenger milton wolf. Something he accomplished with the help of a superior bank account and a steady tack even further to the right, especially on anything wreaking of amnesty. Roberts called for harmony. Republicans in kansas nationally cannot afford the kind of intraparty fraticide. We cant afford to waste scarce resources and energy telling ourselves apart. The gop cannot afford intraparty fratricide. On dont mthe basic ten aents o government. That thing is a lusty hatred fo
they are calling on people to kill twitter because the social media is blocking their accounts. they don t know who has posted the threat but brookings said since last fall twitter has linked 45,000 accounts to isis propaganda. 800 confirms isis members have had accounts disabled and 18,000 related accounts. mean while, overseas the iraqi military is launching a massive attack on the city of tikrit the former home town of saddam hussein in control since the summer. and this devolving fight for tikrit. and the city is a sunni majority with shiite military. and fighting with irani air support. it is a mix with massive backlash even if it succeeds with backlash. jessica mcfate is research director at the institute for the study of war and recently war an op ed in the wall street journal. and jessica, why is it important to tikrit and what are the dangers there? it is a sunni majority city and a capital in a sunni majority province in forthern iraq so in one sense it is a ver