The democratic nomination to take on trump in november. And tonight bloomberg is apologizing for his remarks about stop and frisk. There is one aspect, approach that i deliberately deeply regret, the abuse of a Police Practice called stop and frisk. I defended it, looking back, for too long, because i didnt understand then the unintended pain it was causing to young black and brown families and their kids. I should have acted sooner and faster to stop it. I didnt, and for that i apologize. And it is a controversial way of encouraging africanamerican voters to cast their ballots for trump. But is it voter outreach or is it pandering . You can decide for yourself. First, lets talk about the attorney general sending a very pointed message to the president. To have public statements and tweets made about the department, about people in the department, our men and women here, about cases pending in the department, and about judges before whom we have cases make it impossible for me to do my
95 of people who tried it agreed that it relieved their headache fast. Visit fastreliefchallenge. Com today for a special trial offer. Thanks, everybody, around this table for the conversation. Before we go, quick programming note. Tomorrow on today, former basketball star Dennis Rodman speaks out about what . Yes, his fascinating trip to north korea, if you can believe it. Also, for this weeks press pass conversation, i sat down with popular author of the secret of happy families, bruce filer. Very good advice for those of us with kids at home. You can watch it at meetthepress msnbc. Com. That is all there is for this week. Well be back next week. If its sunday, its meet the press. A good sunday afternoon to you. You are watching msnbc, the place for politics. Today it is business as usual in washington, d. C. There are smarter ways to cut spending. Our hope is that as more republicans start to see the pain in their own districts. As the sequester kicks in can the two sides come toget
Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. For a storm wreaking so much havoc along the west coast tonight, the force behind it sounds almost harmless. But what forecasters call the Pineapple Express is serious business. Its a virtual river in the atmosphere hundreds of miles wide that is driving tropical rains from across the pacific into Northern California on up to western Washington State. Its triggered widespread flooding, Power Outages, even shutting down a major highway. And tonight more rain is on the way. Nbcs Miguel Almaguer is outside seattle with details for us. Miguel, good evening. Reporter lester, good evening. Rivers across the region are surging tonight. There are flood watches in effects for counties in three different states. And tonight widespread damage is already done. 30 miles outside seattle a community at one point 30 inches under water. The town of brennan first hit hard by pounding rain and then by a river that jumped i
Why this building was included. It is all happening now. But we begin our second hour with the republican race for the white house. The show down for the empire state eight days away. I am jon scott. I am heather in for jenna lee. Eight days and counting. Democrats and republicans as well. And donald trump is back on the trail and campaigning in rochester, he told supporter ares that the primary process is rigged. He and john kasich campaigning in upstate new york today. He has more support than kasich and cruz combined. We have edhenry and we start with the republican race and john roberts in albany new york. Reporter a lot of complaints with the delegation. The Republican Committee said it is the rules that are the rules. The Trump Campaign insisting where people freely vote he wins and the places where the party votes he loses. That is not true. Cruz has lost some. But in colorado cruz came away with all of the delegates in the state conventions and causing donald trump to tweet tha
Still in its early stages, and i talked about the president and the possibly Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and the president started talking about susan rice, about how this is a big story, it is going to become the biggest story, he intimated without powering any evidence, there are other people involved in this, and he was adamant that she had done something wrong and improper, suggested it was not getting the Media Attention that it deserved including the times and other papers. And when i went on to say do you think she may have committed a crime, he said do i think . He said yes i think. I said do you have any intelligence that relates to this . And this man has a habit of escalating and also when he has previously made claims that he will provide Additional Information for, and he has not. So well see where this goes. He didnt offer any evidence to support the accusation . Reporter he did not, he said there were other people, we asked him how high up this might go, he wouldn