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Comfortable with him. that can be a blessing and a curse. we'll have your conversation. we have smart reporters talking to democrats. what do we see in three days, five days, eight days from democratic polling when the candidates are back in their crowds. let's take some of the examples were yes, the vice president showed up and fought. yes, the vice president turned to kamala harris and challenged her health care plan. yes, he picked an interesting immigration fight with julian castro and a fight with cory booker some think he could have skipped that one, but a little more from joe biden. >> ...

The germans gave them chemical weapons. nobody gave us a single missile to defend ourselves. so it's impossible to tell the iranian people that's why the united states is selling $87 billion worth of military equipment while saudi arabia is buying over $87. and the united states is selling $50 billion to the persian gulf every year that they expect us to abandon our only and most important means of defense. >> so let me ask you. we don't have much time. what is the win for president trump? you say there has -- the only way that you're going to get out of this is a win-win, not a lose-lose. how...

Being showered with missiles and bombs and even chemical weapons and nobody gave us the minimum means of defense. everybody from the soviets who gave the iraqis midair planes to the americans that gave them recognizance to the french who gave them missiles to the brits who gave them tanks to the germans who gave them chemical weapons. everybody helped them. nobody even allowed us to buy a single missile to defend ourselves. so it's impossible to tell iranian people that while the united states is selling $87 billion worth of military equipment, why saudi arabia is buying $87 billion worth of m...

>> reporter: schools crumbling in front of today's students. >> it'll leak through the ceiling and actually drip into the lights. >> without having windows, some days it's 80 in my room and there's no fresh air. >> reporter: money for school facilities comes largely from local communities. the taxpayers voted against spending the $22 million it would take to fix the school. so in this suburb of chicago they're hoping for state funds to fix the building. the idea of getting federal dollars still seems too far-fetched. in the united states for students in kindergarten through 12th grade there ar...

Agreement is now tentatively in place. this inta the face of staunch republican opposition to the proposal of tariffs against mexico, $87 billion in commerce would be under threat if it had gone through. for now it appears as though this crisisou has passed. one other item from late yesterday involves the rainbow pride flag at u.s. embassies overseas. what's the story there? >> some reporting that nbc news has done from josh letterman over at the state department, st the state department refusing permission,in rejecting request from embassies around the world to fly the pride flag now during...