First time today. Baltimore orioles player. Theres bigger issues than the baseball game. This is entertainment. How jones turned an ugly scene into a positive outcome. And first on today, brad pitt breaking his silence about his split. Well share his comments, what was behind the breakup, how its impacted him, and how its forced him to face his weaknesses and failures. Today, wednesday, may 3rd, 2017. This is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 15 plaza. Brad pitt doesnt love to talk about his personal life. Thats why this interview is so revealing. Well have a look at that in a couple moments. But youd think it was november 2016. Clinton versus trump sflchl. Well talk about that. Well start with a wave of headlines coming out of the white house from fresh obstacles to retool the health care in the nation, to the phone call with Vladimir Putin and a new war of words with Hillary Clinton. We have complete coverage starting with peter alexander. Reporter President Trump and Vladimir Putin eyeing an in person meeting. Here in washington while Top White House aides shied away from another artificial deadline for a health care bill, House Republicans may be running into another wall now looking for last minute tweaks with new indications they are this morning the latest republican attempt to overhaul obama care appears to be in critical condition. A tally of House Republicans revealing 21 oppose the bill with no democrats on board republicans can only afford 22 defections. President trump in the rose garden still searching for his first major legislative victory. How is health care coming, folks . All right . Were moving along . All right. I think its time now, right. During a ceremony to celebrate an air force team, boasting about the budget compromise that avoids a government shutdown. This is what winning looks like. Something that you folks really know a lot about. Reporter the spending bill does not include more than a billion dollars the president wanted for a border wall. The budget director insisting the president delivered on his promises. We are building this. We are taking their taxpayer money to build his frustration with democrats tweeting the government needs a shutdown in september to fix the mess. I think the president is frustrated that the president s tried to make him look bad. Reporter following the call between trump and Vladimir Putin, word of a possible russian rendezvous. The leaders are trying to schedule their first face to face meeting at the g 20 summit in july. Thank you very much. Overnight President Trump fired back on twitter after new comments from Hillary Clinton about the president ial election. Clinton saying with days to go she was, quote, on her way to winning before two major events influenced the outcome. Andrea mitched has more on this. Hillary clinton in her most candid comments about her loss, not holding back about the man who defeated her, donald trump. Hillary clinton surrounded by planned parenthood event. Four words. Resist, insist, persist, enlist. Earlier tuesday declaring she is back. Im now back to being an activist citizen, and part of the resistance. Reporter and no holds barred clinton taking on donald trump. Health care is complicated, and so is foreign policy. Reporter including the president s talk of meeting with north koreas leader. Negotiations are critical, but they have to be part of a broader strategy, not just thrown off in a tweet some morning that hey, lets get together and see if we cant get alone. Reporter clinton almost taunting the president to tweet at her instead while taking a jab at winning the electoral college. He should worry less about the election and my winning the popular vote than doing other things. President trump taking the bait tweeting about his thing that ever happened to Hillary Clinton, and then he gave her a free pass for many bad deeds. The phony story was an exexcuse used by the democrats for losing the election. Perhaps trump just ran a Great Campaign. But clinton deflecting blame for her loss. Of course. I take absolute responsibility. I was the candidate. But i was on the way to winning until the combination of jim joemmy comeys letter and russian wikileaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were intending on voting for me but got scared off. Reporter never mentioning her lack to inspire blue voters or why she lost a majority of White College educated women. Did i make mistakes . Oh, my gosh, yes. Youll read my confession, but the reason why i believe we lost were the intervening events in the last ten reporter comey is testifying today before the House Intelligence Committee and they will be asked about clintons charge. But even some former clinton aides say she is not really confronting her own political failings for her unexpected defeat. A loss from which they say she has not recovered. Thank you. Lets bring in Nicole Wallace and steve karnaki. Did Hillary Clinton strike the right tone . Did she draw the right line in terms of the blame she took and the blame she laid at the feet of others . She got it half right. It was the most honestly ive seen her describe the process. But i dont think hes the worst winner ive seen, and shes publicly going through the ten stages of grief. Her supporters are still upset, but shes not winning over any converts. What did you think . If thats truly how she assesses the situation, give her credit for being honest, but she didnt grapple with some of the bigger thinks that were in the air and maybe driving the election. The simplest one is i cannot think of an election where the climate was more antiestablishment than it was in 2016. And Hillary Clinton had 25 years of experience not just on the National Political stage but at the center of it. And i think that was a major ingredient. I didnt hear her grapple with that. And what about President Trump . She kind of trolled him a little bit by saying i won the popular vote. She all but dared him to tweet to her, and he took the bait. Shes making the same argument as the debate. She said we cant have a commander in chief who can be baited with a tweet. Turns out the voters thought it was a risk to bake. And more than the big stuff about change versus establish. She got logistics wrong. Her plane didnt landin michigan, wisconsin, the states that she lost are states where democrats where not made any gains. Im not sure her appearance yesterday will help. Lets pretend the election is over, because it is, and get to the business of running the government and funding it. If youre a republican member of congress, steve, youre in one of the majority in the house or the senate, how do you feel about the president s tweet where he says, quote, our country needs a good shutdown in september to fix mess. This is donald trump responding not just to democrats taunting him, but he has talk radio saying trump got rolled on this budget deal. And donald trump doesnt like to hear that. The only thing he can come up with is the next time this funding comes around, well give them the shut doub, but meanwhile if youre a republican on capitol hill, what do you want to do between now and september . You want to get tax reform done. Thats where you want your focus and emphasis. Now he is side tracking with talk of a shutdown. Good to talk to you as always. Throwing it bac thank you. Breaking overnight, a suicide car bomber struck a u. S. Military convoy in afghanistan. It killed at least eight civilians and injured three American Service members. It happened near the u. S. Embassy in kabul. Isis has claimed responsibility for the attack. There are shock waves this morning. New developments tied to a number of Police Involved shootings. Lets begin in baton rouge, louisiana where the Justice Department decided it will not bring charges against two White Police Officers who shot and killed an African American man back in july. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez is outside the Convenience Store where the shooting took place. Gabe, good morning. Reporter matt, good morning. This city has been bracing for the Justice Departments decision for days and lawyers for the family of alton sterling thought theyd be the first to know, but they say they have net to be notified. The word leaked out that emotional outrage was immediate. The news spread quickly overnight. That no charges would be filled against the two Police Officers who shot alton sterling. Through the night protesters holding an emotion value vigil. Its been almost a year and were still suffer like it happened yesterday. Reporter last july police went to the store after a 911 caller told them someone matching his description pulled a gun. On the video the officers are scene wrestling sterling to the ground and holding him down. What happened before the graphic recording of the shooting is unknown. Shoots fired. Reporter an officer can be seen pulling something from his pocket. Police say it was a gun and sterling was reaching for it. I spoke to the owner of the store. Did you see mr. T for that gun or threaten the officers with the gun . No. No. Reporter for days after the shooting protesters filled the streets. Dozens of arrests were made. Almost immediately the Justice Department opened a civil rights investigation. Now sources tell nba news, they concluded there isnt enough evidence to bring charges but sterlings sister said the officers should be arrested. The its not okay with me. Because now you all are going to let these two officers walk, and thats the end of it. I guaranteed you if i shot somebody and they didnt even point the gun at me or anything of that sort, id be in jail. So why are they [ bleep ] not in jail . Reporter city officials are now pleading for calm. There were a few Peaceful Protesters around the Convenience Store overnight. The state could still bring charges against the two officers but that decision would be up to louisianas attorney general. Gabe, thank now to texas where police have fired the officer who shot and killed a 15yearold boy as he was leaving a party. They say he violated several Department Policies in the shooting death of jordan edwards. The teenager was killed on saturday night when oliver filed multiple spots. Police say the car was driving aggressively toward the officer, but officials changed it after viewing body camera video that showed the car driving away from police. His family is calling for criminal charges against the officer. In South Carolina a plea deal for the officer charged in the shooting death of an unarmed motori motorist Michael Slager pleaded guilty to violating the civil rights of walter scott. Slagers murder trial ended last december in a hung jury. As part of the deal the state of South Carolina will not file new slager was fired after cell phone video of the 2015 went viral. Scotts brother said his family was grateful to have justice. Back to the amazing video. A Small Plane Crash north of seattle. This incident caught on a dashboard camera. Watch the right side of your screen. The plane plummets to the ground over a busy intersection. It crashes into the power lines in a massive explosion. Officials say the pilot had just taken off from a nearby airport when the plane lost power. Neither the pilot for anybody on the ground was injured. To an incident at a baseball game that has the Boston Red Sox in damage control. The organization apologizing for apparent racist taunts from fans at fenway aimed at an opposing player. Today National Correspondent craig melvin joins us with more. Reporter good morning. Earlier in the season the red so got into heated arguments. The bad blood between the teams took a dark turn monday night when Baltimores Adam Jones claimed he was being targeted with racial slurs by a small group of red sox fans. The fallout was swift, but last night some of those boston fans tried to diffuse a tense situation. Here comes jones for the first time tonight. Baltimore orioles allstar adam jones receiving a round of applause from red sox fans at fenway park. Taking the field one day after being the subject of racial slurs. Jones heard the nword shouted a hand full of times from the stands. It was stupid. It caught my attention. Reporter one person even threw a bag of peanuts at him. The fan was ejected. The thing with throwing things onto the field is unfortunate. Our backs are turned. We dont know what you have. We dont know the intent. Reporter jones says hes end before. But called this the worst hes seen during his 12 years in the league. My Immediate Reaction was of disgust. It was sickening, maddening. Reporter the red sox president met with jones on the field before the game and delivered a heart felt on air apology. What he heard is entirely and completely unacceptable behavior at fenway park. It will not be tolerated. Reporter one of bostons stars also tweeted his support. Urging fans to stand up for jones saying we as red sox and mlb fans are better than this. The citys mayor lashed out at whomever was responsible for the racial taunts. Fool. Im going to call him or her a fool. Id like to say worse. Reporter through the uproar, jones is being praised for his handling of the controversy. Its bigger than the game. These kind of things are bigger than the game. This is a game. This isnt life or death. Theres bigger issues world than a baseball game. This is purely entertainment. This controversy in boston is happening as the league itself celebrates the 70th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier. The current percentage of African American ballplayers is single digits. It was a nice gesture of fans to understand the moment and make sure they sent a loud message last night. Agreed. Thank you. Let us check in with mr. Roker. Hes doing a road show this morning. First, al, some serious flooding in the midwest. Yeah. Absolutely. And theres more on the way. In fact, as you look, this is eureka, missouri, a town just outside of st. Louis. Theyve been dealing with massive flooding. 20,000 sandbags have been deployed to try to prevent more flooding. Theres more heavy rain on the way. We lookwn river right now to show you where were going to be looking at the severe flooding. 19 Million People under flood watches. Weve got an enhanced risk from houston including new orleans and parts of mississippi. 19 million folks for the chances of tornadoes and louisiana on into the texas. The heavy rain upwards of 6 to 10 inches of rain in that area is going to be falling over the next several days into thursday and into friday. Were getting to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. Good morning. Im chuck bell. A beautiful start to your wednesday morning. Temperatures are comfy and cool in the 50s in most areas. 57 now in virginia. 55 in front royal. School day forecast, temperatures in the 50s now. Low to mid 60s by lunch. Afternoon highs today mid to upper 60s. Plenty of sunshine and perfect weather for the baseball game tonight. Staying cloudy but dry tomorrow. Heavy rain on friday. And that is your latest weather. We hope in the next half hour to be making history. The first live broadcast ever from the venice or yeient expre. Were in italy and on our way to paris. 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