Good morning, everyone, it is friday, may 5th, im alex witt along with ayman mohyeldin. Seven years in the making, this morning the first credible push to overhaul obamacare is on its way to the senate. Nbc White House Correspondent Kristen Welker reports. Reporter President Trump taking a victory lap. This is a repeal and a replace of obamacare, make no mistake about it. Reporter its only a first step, but mr. Trump turned it into a madefortv celebration flanked by republicans in the rose garden. How am i doing . Am i doing okay . Hey, im president. Can you believe it, right . I dont know. I thought you needed a little more time, they always told me. More time, but we didnt. Reporter the event came after a dramatic vote in the house that went down to the wire. The ayes are 217, the nays are 215. Reporter democrats lashing out, warning people could lose coverage. I guess their desire to give a tax break for the rich just trumped everything. Reporter on the house floor, some even singin
Came directly from the top, president Vladimir Putin himself with the goal of hurting Hillary Clinton and helping donald trump. They get the playbyplay of President Trump and president obama delivering their response. We have one of the reporters behind this major, major story. Thanks so much for joining me. This is the first time that folks are hearing not only of Vladimir Putins direct involvement, but that intelligence captures his specific instructions and the objections he wanted to obtain. How and when was the president first alerted . Thats one of the important facts here. This intelligence bombshell surfaces in the very beginning of august. Not long after both parties held their conventions and way before the election, of course. So, one of the things our story explores is why is it that it was only five months later that the Administration Shared any of this information with the public . You also spoke to more than two dozen current and former u. S. Officials for the story. It
Are you back today . How should we work this . So everybody can live here . We could do that. Have you ever been in the part living in a dorm. Ali velshi, ill see you at 5 00. Good afternoon, good luck. Thats the answer coming from Rudy Giuliani. Does he want to interview the president . Good luck. After what they did to flynn, the way they trapped him into perjury. When you say good luck, you mean, no interview. Thats a joke, over my dead body, but you know, i could be dead. Making the tv rounds, giuliani seemed to cause more harm than good. Things went awry when discussing building a trump tower in moscow. Those discussions went on until the election. According to the answer that he gave, it would have covered all the way up to november of 2016. Earlier they sent those conversations stopped in january of 2016. The date now, the whole point of giuliani going on tv was to discredit Michael Cohen, sentenced to three years in prison last week. By all accounts it didnt work. The president
Weve got the tales on the latest conditions on our latest correspondents. Al roker is here where they just released the National Forecast from the National Hurricane center. Let us start there. Latest advisory just coming out. Mr. Roker, what are we seeing . Heres the deal. There you can see this is the path where we finally saw landfall in america in Cape Hatteras. Interestingly enough, its the fourth landfall. It ran it made three land falls in the bahamas, of course creating massive destruction. And now there it goes. This is the latest from the National Hurricane center. Still a category one storm. Its 50 miles northeast of Cape Hatteras. The winds are still 90 miles per hour, but heres the big change. Finally getting picked up by that trough northeast. Its moving northeast at 17 miles per hour. So this things is now finally starting to book. Look at this. We have Tropical Storm watches all the way up into new finland. Weve got hurricane watches for parts of new england. And were i
New poll numbers out just this morning showing back on top with a wide lead over his opponents. These new polls are also potentially the last chance for some 2020 democrats to qualify for next months debate. Did the new numbers push them over the edge and onto the stage . We have our team of reporters and analysts standing by. Michelle grossman is closely tracking the path. Mariana, lets start with you. How are the people of puerto rico preparing this morning . Reporter good morning, morgan. As we drove into the eastern part of the island, most of the people i have spoken to really caught off guard by Tropical Storm dorian shifting overnight, heading to the eastern part of the island. Cities like humacao where i am now, an hour southeast of san juan, one of the busiest places for tourism in the direct path of dorian. Morgan, this city was directly hit. Maria came in through here. A lot of concern. People starting to board up, evacuate. I was just at the Emergency Command Center set up