This is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im savannah guthrie. Im David Gregory along side Natalie Morales and dylan dreyer. Maybe you can explain whats going on in washington. It is so frustrating. This is dynamic where each side thinks the other side is 100 at fault here. I dont think well get to thursday without a deal. Were seeing tempers fly on all sides right now. Absolutely. Thats todays top story this morning. The push to end the Government Shutdown taking on new urgency with the u. S. Days from losing its ability to borrow money. Peter alexander is at the white house this morning with the very latest. Good morning, peter. Reporter good morning, david. No deal in sight and not a lot of progress here. The next days will be critical on the u. S. Closing in on a thursday deadline. Thats when the government could begin defaulting on its bills. A heavy focus will be on t
Trying to get the dogs out. I get in the car and go okay. Only to find out i have no insurance anymore. So thats one problem. Then i get home and i go out in the backyard, its a beautiful, blustery day. I have my rubber kind of boots on. Boy, was i ugly. I looked like the queen of england with the corgis. I come in. As im coming in the door i feel this unbelievable pain go through my left ankle. I go, something just bit me and it aint good. Took off the boot and it was a bee. A bee in the middle of october. In the boot. A bee in the boot. He had his way more than once with me, which wouldnt be a first. Look at that foot. That was this morning. It looks like gangrene. No, i have gout. I have a cankle. Its this one. I could never be a weather woman. I cant do that. I have a cankle now. So youre taking benadryl. Why hasnt it gone down . Its been since saturday. Most people are wimps and they wouldnt come to work on monday on columbus day, but no. Did it. So youre icing it, thats it . Icin
Back from the iran deal. Plus, no translation required. Reading in between the lines of trump merkel meeting. Finally the russia report. House Intelligence Committee republicans are out with their repo report. Did they do much investigating . This is mtp daily, and it is start rights now. Good evening. Im chuck todd here in washington. Welcome to mtp daily. The president s allies are saying he might deserve the Nobel Peace Prize for whats going on with north korea while his critics worry he is being played and he might accidentally set off world war iii, with not with north korea, then with iran. Right now the president is barrelling towards a pair of complications both of which have nuclear implications. How do you take his statements. They are usually full of contradictions. At this time he says he is sbep on making a deal with north korea on denuclearization while at the same time saying he wants to break a deal he has with iran. This afternoon President Trump was asked specifically
chances. there was a lot in the recent weeks, if not months, we ve been thinking the economic picture has been getting rosier if not decidedly rosy. something like this would seem to be a problem for the white house. ezra klein has been saying all along he thought the number would go up. if you want to talk about unemployment, you have to talk about strategies to reverse unemployment. unemployment in spain today is 23.6%. in ireland, it s 20%. in greece, it s 20% and in the united kingdom it s rising above 9%. why? because those economies have chosen a single strategy which is the austerity, the very strategy, surprise surprise that eric cantor, john boehner, mitch mcconnell and mitt romney condemn the president for avoiding and ignoring. so we have an unemployment rate that s gone down to 8.2% and it s sputtering and it s relatively good and then not so great. do you want spain s level? i m not sure that s going to be an argument that obama is going to be able to make su