Page 13 - Make Headway News Today

Wanted to do the most damage. meanwhile, though, forces continue to make headway against isis in iraq. nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley joins us live from erbil. iraqi forces have taken a city of nimrud, correct? >> reporter: correct. its been four weeks to the day since the iraqi prime minister announced the beginning of the offensive to retake mosul. its been under isis occupation for the past two and a half years. now, as you mentioned, theyve already been going, everything has b...

So hes got to make in roads with college educated voters. and the way to do that is to talk about issues. not about himself so much. and his own problems about the issues, that might have some resonance with voters. when he talks about draining the swamp, that -- being anti-establishment, being the outsider, thats what he needs to focus on if hes going to make headway. >> i think hes slightly ahead on the economy in our poll. >> so he needs to sort of focus on the areas where he actually does we...

Have her ashes placed there, which was of course incredibly saddening for our family. so we struggled for a while, trying to figure out what to do. my mother had to submit a foyer request just to gain the memo from former secretary of the army, mchugh, which overturned the previous decision by the assistant secretary of the army to allow w.a.s.p.s to be placed in arlington. >> right. >> we tried to go through the official channels. we asked assistance from my mothers local senator ba bra mccalsk...

Lane. chris christie, its marco rubio, its jeb bush, its john kasich. whats interesting about this conversation with trump is you would think the attacks on a surging christie would come from a bush, come from a kasich. would come from rubio. its not. its actually coming from the frontrunner. >> matt, how do you see it real quick? two months ago before christie was coming up. how people responded to him at his town halls and where he was in the polls. it didnt surprise me he is going to continue...

Lane. chris christie, its marco rubio, its jeb bush, its john kasich. whats interesting about this conversation with trump is you would think the attacks on a surging christie would come from a bush, come from a kasich. would come from rubio. its not. its actually coming from the frontrunner. >> matt, how do you see it real quick? two months ago before christie was coming up. how people responded to him at his town halls and where he was in the polls. it didnt surprise me he is going to continue...

Their parents understand this high thc marijuana is permanently diminish your long-term memory. we still have spent millions and millions of dollars and we still havent gotten everyone to realize, youre taking some serious risks, certainly as a teenager where your brain is going rapidly. >> so what im hearing from you, the bottom line is the jurys still out? youre still not sure whether it was a good move? >> well, i think weve got another year or two, two or three years to really be able to get...

Come in as bush campaigns down the road in iowa today trying to make headway in the key early voting state where he is badly trailing the leaders. he downplayed the leaders. >> last time who was winning in october four years ago. >> reporter: rubio campaigning in new hampshire talked about his former mentor. >> it doesnt really matter very much. polls are polls. what is going to matter is what voters are ready to do in february. >> reporter: and while carson is rising in the polls he is also fac...

Oppose the brady bill signed into law by bill clinton. you can see the opportunity there for hillary to go after him. its hard to see her head on confronting bernie, but i do think shell at least obliquely talk about her consistent record in support of gun safety. you see the other candidates who are trying to make headway in the democratic primary. already trying to make this an issue martin omalley, his super pac hitting bernie on the issue earlier this year. im sure youll see some of those fo...

First of which will happen today. >> i feel they should let me out there until i disprove them or whatever. give me the opportunity. >> coming up, angel pleads his case. >> its up to them to determine to believe me or not, right? so what if i really dont know anything? im stuck. >> theres a level of truth and theres a level of dishonesty. >> yeah. >> well know. >> and sergeant thompson tries to make headway in the soranos gang stabbing case. >> whether they did serious damage to him or not, they...

>> certainly as formidable as hillary clinton was the in 08, i think she is even more so now. these crowds that bernie sanders are drawing, theyre impressive. im not sure theyre significant. whats more significant is the fact that he has raised $13.5 million and three-quarts of it is from small contributors. he has a lot of passion and energy out there. the question is whether he can take that and build upon it and broaden it. >> thats the key question going forward. a lot of polls will be comin...