Republican race who just might have the best shot at winning the nomination. Im chuck todd. Joining me to provide insight and analysis this sunday morning are, Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise institute. Pulitzer prize winning historian, doris kernsgood within. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. Good sunday morning. Anyone who thought donald trump might tone down his rhetoric was disabused of that notion yesterday. Yesterday trump made clear his goal is to promote what is the new silent majority. Yes, he used the phrase and he took aim at the other candidates for president. Hard. I hear like donald trump doesnt deserve to be on the same stage with some failed senator, or failed governor or something. It is sort of amazing, isnt it . The scene at phoenix turned rowdy at one point when protesters tried to disrupt trumps speech and wound up clashing with his supporters. Well get to a lot of the trump stuff in a few moments, including the donald trump you may not recognize. The one who was prochoice, prohillary and proobama. But first, trumps rally presents a stark contrast to what could have been a weekend when the Republican Party celebrated making inroads with another Minority Group africanamericans. My first guest, governor nicky haylie nikki haley was instrumental in removing the flag. Governor haley, welcome to meet the press. Good morning, chuck. Thank you for having me. Governor, what did friday mean . Is it a symbolic end of this what we described as sort of the symbolic end of using the battle flag to protest the civil rights era, or is it Something Else . You know i think it meant a lot of things to a lot of different people. What i can tell you is that it felt like a massive weight had been lifted off South Carolina. We can truly say it is a new day in South Carolina. What did it mean to you . It was emotional. I think that it was hard for me to look at that flag coming down and not think about the emanuel nine, not think about those nine people who took in someone that didnt look like them didnt sound like them and accepted him and prayed with him for an hour. It is hard for us to not think about those nine people. It reminded me of how much South Carolina has moved forward. The way that we didnt have any protests. We had vigils. We didnt have people getting out of harndfof hand. We had hugs. It was just a real proud moment for South Carolina. This was a fascinating moment to watch for someone like me whos covered president ial politics for a couple of decades. Thought this was intractable. To watch you and senator scott and Lindsey Graham sort of linked arms and you sort of dared the legislature to not do this. And when you challenged them to do it. What do you take away from this in pushing an agenda Going Forward that is perhaps dealing with educational standards that are different for whites and blacks in South Carolina . We actually started doing this a couple of years ago because i so wanted to make sure we were lifting up everyone. So we changed the way we funded education. We now give more money for areas of poverty. We now have reading coaches. We now have technology for those areas of School Districts that cant afford it. We were the first state in the country that had a body camera built. Weve already been moving in this direction so this was like a nice move forward to say were not that state that everybody thinks we are. We actually are a state where we love our god, we love our country, we love our state, but we love each other. You know, one of the issues of Clementa Pinckney was the Voting Rights laws. Thats been a big controversy with a lot of africanamericans particularly and with a lot of republican governors. Do you see theish issue differently now . Do you understand the what some africanamericans believe these voting voter i. D. Laws end up being a way to single them out or disenfranchise them . You know the flag coming down was a moment that i felt like needed to happen. That doesnt mean that i philosophically change the way i think about other things. Ive never seen the voter i. D. As a racial issue. For whites, for blacks, for asians, for anyone. What i see is it is an issue you where people prove who you are. I think thats important to our democracy and important to america. Having to show a picture i. D. When you get on a plane or show a picture i. D. When you buy sudafed, you should absolutely provide a photo i. D. For anyone to vote. We think thats an important part to the process. Want to go a little bit to the investigation of the shooter. We found out that the fbi background check essentially didnt work because some the arrest records of dylann roof didnt get into the system in time. When they gotten in may he wouldnt have been able to purchase the gun that he did purchase. When you look at background check laws i know this is as much about a federal issue as it is a state issue and you see this disparity that perhaps more time was going to be needed for Law Enforcement to get the record into the system. Do you think the background check system should be expanded instead of a threeday period . Maybe longer . Well first of all, whether we got the call from the fbi telling us what had happened i was literally sick to my stomach. You know we expect when the feds say theyre going to do something, we take them at their word that it is going to get done. The fact that it didnt get done is terrible and its one more thing that these families are going to have to go through that they dont deserve to have to go through. I think we need to look at the fact that its not about time. Its about technology. This is something when someone has a charge filed against them, it should go into a database and it should be shown immediately to anyone thats looking at it. So i would be more interested in what went wrong, what sort of why are they dealing with paperwork and not dealing with technology that they wouldnt have had this to start with. You think it is the feds and not necessarily local . Not necessarily lexington county or anybody else . We were told when the fbi called us that it was an fbi issue, that it was not a state issue. I got to ask you, youre the daughter of two immigrants. What do you make of Donald Trumps a rethetoric . I understand the frustration that he has about illegal immigration a lot of people have. The difference is we need to be very conscious of our tone we need to be very conscious of how we communicate. There are a lot of legal immigrants that have made this country the place it is today. We need to make sure that were always communicating in a way thats got respect and dignity and thats what so much was about with South Carolina, was when you saw all of this happen, people respected each other, they may have disagreed but they respected each other. That tone is important for the country. So its okay to be frustrated. Its not okay to have a harsh tone in the way that you communicate that because it hurts people and its just not necessary. You think donald trump is fit to be president . I think thats going to remain to be seen. I think weve got 16 candidates. Im looking forward to debates. Im looking forward to a lot of things but i will tell you tone and communication is one of the things that everybodys looking for. We want someone that brings people together. We want someone that understands that what unites us is a lot more than what divides us. Thats going to be something that i think the entire country is going to be looking at, is how someone communicates the tone and are you bringing more people in as opposed to excluding people out. Lot of people are speculating that your National Star is rising, that we may see your name on a National Ticket either next year or down the road. What do you make of the extra political attention youve been getting . Its painful. Because nine people died. Nine people died in charleston. And what we have been dealing with is nine funerals and people like cynthia hurd who said her life motto was to be kinder than necessary. Tywanza sanders, 26 years old, our youngest victim, as he stood in front of the murderer he stood in front ever his aunt and said we want no harm. Thats what im talking about the emanuel nine changed this country. What a wonderful way to end. Governor haley thanks for answering the question that way. I appreciate it. Thanks for coming on. Let me bring in the panel. Arthur brooks, one of the most influential conservative think tank leaders in washington. Pulitzer prize winning historian, doris kernsgood win. Maria hinojosa. Doris youre americas historian on this one. I still friday i still cant get over it. I did not think wed see this day in mypy lifetime. You were mentioning that youve been covering these be issues for a couple decades. For me it is half a century since lbj signed the Civil Rights Act the Voting Rights act, the flag goes up in part to the opposition of the Civil Rights Movement and desegregation. Now that the south itself has taken the leadership role lbj predicted, republicans will be there for a generation. Democrats have lost. The country hasnt lost if republicans in the south start taking a leadership in this role. I found it an extraordinary emotional moment. I think that if they can say to themselves we want to heal this country they lost the war. It is good they lost the war. If they hadnt lost the war we have had a split country. We wouldnt have been able to fight hitler. We might not have been able to fight the cold war. It is a great thing for the country that theyve taken the leadership. Arthur brooks, you have a new book conservative at heart. Youre a guy whos been trying to soften the image of the Republican Party. You believe it is a huge issue and i just see the contrast. Governor haley just now. Donald trump, what i just i mean could you get more stark contrast than those two when it comes to talking about america . Look. Nikki haley is the future of the Republican Party. It is a new day in american politics politics. A new right is moving. Nikki haley, the daughter of immigrants bans together with a republican conservative senator . They both take down the confederate battle flag tocchet, to the cheers of South Carolina citizens . This is the trend. Republican candidates not paying attention to donald trump need to stay the course toward a humanistic kind of movement thats based on compassion based on inclusiveness and this is the future. Maria, it is a symbol. I guess the question is whats next . Well im kind of stuck in the fact that Governor Haley in this amazing moment didnt actually say i abhor what donald trump has said. She didnt actually say this is unacceptable. Shes not alone in Republican Leaders. Correct. So when i see this amazing moment in South Carolina, its kind of like well which party is it . And, frankly, is it the party that says were choosing the future, we get it, we get we accept change were good or donald trump. And for people out there, it is very confusing. I also want to tell you my driver today, who brought me here, pakistaniamerican citizen. He said when i hear donald trump, hes talking about me. And hes pakistaniamerican. Nikki haley could have gone one step further, like the Republican Party, like the democratic party. People talk about a Republican Party in decline. I dont necessarily see it that way. I think it is a Republican Party in transition as arthur was saying. I think donald trump in a sense does them a favor. Right . I think you can look at it as doing republicans a favor, hes stavg staking out an older phasing divisive position and giving the new generation of republicans a chance to step forward and say, no we want a different party. Im priced more republicans arent taking that stance in a more public way. I think thats going to change in the next week or two. Would anybody here be surprised if nikki haley is on the ticket in 16 . Without question. Shes a woman. She handled this gracefully. She can speak so well as you can see. When the meet a moment, the moment hits you it is how you handle the moment you dont expect. Few people are given that chance. When they handle a moment like that dramatically and well they plop into the spotlight. Thats a very gracious way of saying it. She struggled the first couple years as governor. Then sort of and came to power, remember it would have been impossible for a woman of south asian decent to come to power in South Carolina with this very powerful, conservative movement. Her transition her journey not that shes changed so dramatically but her journey is the journey of this party thats experiencing a transformational change. Sort of get rid of the tea party label. But the question is, it is one thing to take down the visible scar of the flag or coloredonly signs, but Voting Rights, as you brought up real discrimination thats still going on against blacks in the south. Those are the substantive issues. Can we also not forget the south is no ng lolonger white and black. The most intense demographic change and multicultural change is actually happening in the american south. So it isnt just what is happening with africanamericans and whites. Its whats happening with the new immigrants, whats happening with latinos, how are they going to be brought in. As a latina, i care about the lowering of the confederate flag. We all do. So that is the new south. It is no longer a dynamic of black and white. Thats all. I mean, look. Her instinct is the important thing to keep in mind. When her instinct is, when something bad like this happens you mentioned this before to take down the confederate battle flag and talk about how south carolinians can come together in love for each other, notwithstanding what their background is thats a new movement. Well pause there. I promise we have more to say about donald trump. When we come back, donald trump in his own words. That was then. Hillary clinton i think is a terrific many would. This is now. I think hillary would be a terrible president. 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His hardline views on illegal immigrants, particularly those from mexico, is creating a problem for the rest of the gop field with a party that needs to secure more of the latino vote than mitt romney did if they want to win the white house. Party chairman Reince Priebus called on trump yesterday calling on trump to tone down the rhetoric. Didnt seem to work. It seems clear when it comes to immigration and the others in the race, trump has no intention of pulling any punches. In a 70minute monologue last night, trump took on macys, nas nascar, nba jeb bush caroline kennedy. Yes, caroline kennedy. So i had an idea. I think its good. Every time mexico really intelligently sends people over we charge mexico 100,000 for every person they send over. Boo usa usa i wonder if the Mexican Government sent them over here. I think so. Im tied with jeb bush. I said thats too bad. How can i be tied with this guy . Hes terrible. Hes terrible. I hire lobbyists. I have lobbyists all over the place. Theyre great. I want this go do that. I know the system better than anybody. Im a donor. Someone said you gave to the democrats. Of course. I give to everybody i want to go everything done Everybody Loves me. Oshgkay. One of the reasons trump is breaking through this year is because people feel they know where he stands but do they . Weve looked at his positions through the years and it would be fair to say hes evolved quite a few times, on some key issues, interest. Health care to abortion to his feelings about the top democrat in the 2016 field. I think hillary would be a terrible president. She was the secretary of state in the history of our nation. Why would she be a good president . Hillary clinton i think is a terrific woman. Im a little biased becausive a he known her for years. You support her . Get into this because ill get myself into trouble. Thats why i asked you. I know. I just like her. I like her around i like her husband. Some people would say hes incompetent. I would not say that. Yeah yes, i would. I think Tim Geithners done a good job. I think that the whole group has really done a good job. When you look at whats happening. At least we have an economy. You wouldnt have had an economy had they not come up with some very drastic steps two years ago. Im almost more disappointed with the republicans. They have to toughen up on obamacare which is a total lie and which is a total and complete disaster. Health care. Liberal on health care. We have to take care of people that are sick. Universal Health Coverage . I like universal. We have to take care. Theres nothing else. Whats the country all about if were not going to take care of our sick . Let me tell you everybody wants to pay as little as possible including warren buffett, by the way. And somebody said whats your tax rate . I dont know. I pay as little as possible. I would tax people of wealth, of great wealth, people over 10 million by 14. 25 . This tax would raise approximately 5. 7 trillion, which happens to be our national debt. Well, im very prolife. And feel strongly about it. Im very prochoice. I hate the concept of abortion. I hate it. I hate everything it stands for. I cringe when i listen to people debating the subject. But you still i just believe in choice. Lets bring the panel back in. Got a little bit into trump before. Maria, when you hear his het rick rhetoric yesterday, your reaction . Since we are arthur here representing the heart, it is heartbreaking. Isnt it . How are we moving forward as a country about tronld dumpdonald trump is saying this about one of the Fastest Growing demographic groups in the country. I put it in a Historical Context with all due respect to our esteemed historian. I did my research. I was like what did fdr say about japanese americans . He said they could never be trusted to own land. They could never be trusted to assimilate. What did Strom Thurmond say when he was running for president in 1928 . They will never force negroes into my church. From latin leaders ive been speaking to if these comments were being said about any other group ar africanamericans, eye tal italianamericans, the entire Media Establishment would stand up and say, no. The feel is, how much can we get away from insulting mexicans, latinos, immigrants . How much can the Republican Party actually deal with this . And for latinos again, what im hearing is this is unacceptable. This is just unacceptable that it is to a point where you can throw an entire community under the bus. Corporate america is sort of hearing you. Lets look at this list. I cant read them all because it is getting so long now but the list of people trying to cut their ties. Absolutely. With donald trump is getting quite large. If he cares about money again if you care about money. This is where i come in. What is your real interest here . If you care about making money, we know donald trump doesnt like the richest man in the world, hes mexican hes laughing all the way to the bank. I dont understand from a smart businessman perspective, you are roz losing 1. 5 trillion market of latinos who are saying no to trump. Those pinatas of trump being hit by kids who are american citizens who will soon become voters will not forget, trump equals Republican Party equals i dont know will i ever vote for them . Interesting. Matt bai you said the first time you covered donald trump is when you saw some of those 1999 comments. That was donald trump the liberal. I was in his apartment with the marble statues. We had dinner with alec baldwin. Donald trump and alec baldwin at a dinner party. Thats Something Else. A charity benefit. He was talking about running against pat buchanan who now hes become in a sense. Look, you cant think of this as a campaign. This is my point. This is a reality show. Hes been doing this forever. He has no interest in governing the country. He has no plan for governing the country. Hes running for one reason only so People Like Us will sit around on sets like this and talk about him. And here we are. Im not faulting you for it because i understand what hes saying is all really interesting. I dont think the polls are indicative of anything other than noise. I dont think hes a serious candidate for the presidency and i dont think there is any staying power. Arthur, i think the question is, are the Republican Leaders doing enough to distance themselves . Are they going to look back a year from now and say, i should have been tougher . I just finished a book on this subject. Truth of the matter is unless you are an an spirational candidate, are you not going to win. The republicans dont win if theyre about anger. They win when theyre about aspiration. Thats a historical truth and the future truth as well. Thats what the republican candidates need to Pay Attention to. If they follow donald trump down any rabbit hole at all, theyll pay the price. That means stay the course and continue to do what theyre doing. Say i disagree on every policy position and heres what i am for. Pivot immediately to what you are for after saying i dont agree with these policy positions and i dont think it is representative of what americans want to hear. Doris weve seen versions of donald trump over the years. Not just versions of this donald trump. I mean a George Wallace and things like this. This does happen and they do strike a chord. I think the important thing is not to understand the chord hes strishging but we as journalists have a responsibility to question, is this the kind of person who could truly be a leader, a person so quick to anger a person who yells at other people, a person who bull ryyiesbullies a person whos loose with the facts a people who has conspiracy theories about whether obama was born here, about vaccines, about Climate Change as a hoax. I think it is too much for us to give him the credit of liking what hes saying because it is interesting. We as journalists have the responsibility to figure out which candidates are likely to be our leaders. I remember talking to tim russert about this. Rather than who has the highest polls, who is likely to be a leader. This guy has shown qualities i cant imagine him as a president ial leader. I dont think anybody can. I think the question is what does this implode. Back in a moment with that hack attack on the u. S. Government computers. Are we losing the war on Cyber Security ka security . And why you should be very concerned about this. Announcer meet the press is brought to you by Morgan Stanley where capital creates can a business have a mind . A subconscious. A knack for predicting the future. Reflexes faster than the speed of thought. Can a business have a spirit . Can a business have a soul . Can a business be. Alive . 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While there is no official word on who carried out this colossal cyber attack, most officials have been pointing the finger at china. So is the u. S. Losing the cyber war . My next guest retired Major General brett williams, is perfectly placed to offer an assessment. Last summer he served as director of operations for the u. S. Cyber command. Hes now president of operations and training at iron net Cyber Security. Welcome to meet the press. Thanks very much. Let me ask you this. What does the opm hack say about Cyber Security in America Today . I think what this says is that we havent all realized were past the wakeup call stage. The wakeup call has occurred. Everybody in the neighborhood how many times is the wakeup call . Exactly. The problem is people are stumbling around in the dark looking for the light switch and theres been a guy hiding in the close closet for nine months and hes stealing the jewelry and tv and walking out the door. My question is how many of these people are already in places gaining the foothold, just waiting for the right time for the next attack equally as serious as the opm attack. The question is why did china go here . Had a lot of viewers are going well, if china was going after the cias computers or pentagons computers, that would all make sense. Why opm . I think everybody youve heard from the Intelligence Community is correct. This is standard espionage. The fact that we can now do it through cyberspace makes it somewhat easier. We can hoover up a lot more records and collect a lot more things. I think it is pure espionage because theres been no evidence so far that any of this information has shown up in call it the black market that you see on the internet. It is more than likely an espionage type of action. Now theyll go back and cull through those records and, like any other intelligence agency, theyll figure out how to use that information in order to further their own objectives. If this was an attack by china, should we retaliate . We need to put this in the context of our National Security policy as it relates to china and National Security policy i think was difficult before we had cyberspace. Now cyberspace has made it even more difficult. From my experience in the government, what i saw is were struggling to figure out how does this cyber activity fit in with the rest of our elements of National Power if you will. We havent quite figured it out. There is a tendency to say, i was attacked in cyberspace i have to respond in cyberspace and i dont think thats the right approach. We have to look at all the tools the government has available. Lets not be naive here. The United States conducts its own Cyber Espionage does it not . I think you would expect your government to be not to make you confirm anything. Against countries that have opposing goals. I think you would expect the United States to cover a variety of intelligence activities and theyll certainly use the means that are most effective. Watching the last three days and the requisite sort of washington firing of the person in charge at opm, is it really on her or do we have a governmentwide issue here where we have i. T. Problems of different sizes all over the government . Let me say first i dont know if it is my military experience, but i do think the leader of an organization at that level is accountable given what i read in the media about the warning flags and reports and that sort of thing. But when you think about the failure, lets take it above the i. T. Level. I would characterize the failure in these two respects. Its poor Risk Assessment, and then it is a lack of will to do what needs to be done. What i mean by that is basic Risk Assessment is im going to determine whats the probability that a bad thing will happen to me and then if it does happen, whats it going to cost . How severe is it going to be . I think we continue to underestimate the probability that well be hacked and underestimate how bad it is going to be, how much it is going to cost. Then even if we do that, there is a lack of will to make really hard decisions about making ourselves more secure. Is it financial . Is that what it is . It seems as if we never like to spend money for preparation. We only like to spend money to fix. After we know the price. There is an element of that. When i was working on the air force budget i was taught never to say we have enough money. But i think that thats not the primary thing thats the problem. I think it is these two things. I think it is one, we dont spend the money that we have in the right place, like after there is a big hack, there is a tendency to throw a bunch of money at the problem and you end up with a bunch of single Point Solutions that have already been proven not to work. Weve go the to get to the next generation of security. And then the sucked thing that weve got to do weve got to people people that are at that csuite boardroom level, commensurate positions in the federal government, who understand enough about Cyber Security and enough about business so they can make the tough business tradeoffs that have to be made in order to make us more secure. We had a Cyber Security summit at the white house. Plenty of members of congress have sounded the alarm bells. Yet there is no cohesive strategy. The lights are on but weve got to get past the talking stage. There is one big thing i would do if i had the option. I call it the Stealth Fighter thing. When we first flew the f117 Stealth Fighter in 1981 we jumped 15 years ahead of the air defenses. What we need is that Public Private consortium that manhattanlike project thats figuring out how does the federal government, how do the critical components of our private sector, how can they operate in the internet with a level of security that we expect . You see projects at darpa and National Labs but i dont see that really concerted effort. Hopefully it doesnt take the power grid going down for ten days or the faa going down for ten days before we are willing to put that kind of effort. I have to say, that was the sort of nightmare scenario we all felt for a few minutes last week between the New York Stock Exchange and all that. General williams, thanks for coming in, trying to explain this to us. Sounds like we got a long way to go. Thanks very much, chuck. You got it. This book by ted cruz sold more copies in its first week than any other nonfiction book. 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Joining me now, chairman of the Senate Foreign relations committee, republican from tennessee, bob corker. Senator corker welcome back to meet the press. Chuck good to be with you. Thank you. You are perhaps the single most important lawmaker when it comes to giving a thumbs up or thumbs down on a deal. Theres plenty of reports. Expectation is some provisional deal is getting close to being agreed to and announced tomorrow. Are you feeling better today than you did last week about secretary kerry as a negotiator . Well, chuck, its no. Okay. I went over to the white house on thursday night and had an update but no. I mean i think weve been on a downward trend for some time. We really crossed the rubicon when we went from agreeing to dismantling their program to managing proliferation. There are some key issues that remain that i hope we will hold firm to. Weve got to ensure that this is verifiable. That we have any time, anywhere inspections, that they are accountable, that we know what their previous military dimensions were. We have access to all of their scientists. We know they were building a bomb. We just want to know how far they got in previous efforts. And thirdly, we need to make sure it is enforceable. Likely iran will cheat by inches, meaning they will just cheat, cheat, cheat. Over time its like boiling an egg. They end up with a nuclear weapon. So what are the repercussions for that . Obviously there are other elements that are being brought in at this time. Im glad that they are taking their time because i believe the deadline was actually working to irans advantage. They started throwing in other elements. But no, im concerned about where were going. So it doesnt sound like a deal that they come up with. I know you dont want to prejudge whats in there but from everything you seem to understand, doesnt sound like you can support this deal. If you cant support this deal i dont see how this gets through the senate. Well chuck so, look. Part of what we do here is try to point out those areas that are not yet agreed to and to try to get them not to cross those red lines. Actually, i think weve been fairly effective. Other groups like the Washington Institute have done the same, a Bipartisan Group of people saying, look, we really changed the way weve gone about this hugely by moving to managed proliferation, but these qualitative issues here at the end really matter. And so chuck, what i think youre going to see is people in the house really looking at how they manage these issues. Obviously we want to go through the agreement in whole. We havent seen for instance there is an Iranian Nuclear development program. We know that its been agreed to but we dont know exactly what it says. We believe that it industrializes their program after year ten. But again, i want to see the agreement. I think ive been an honest broker in this from day one and certainly we plan to go through it in great detail. I guess my only question is so lets say you guys reject the deal in congress but the other five this has been with the p5 1, as we say, the world powers plus germany if the rest of the countries have agreed to this deal and lowering their sanctions, how effective is it for the United States to be the one country to backtrack . Yeah. Well, i understand whats going to happen. The worlds eyes are going to be on congress once this comes over. But, look. We have responsibilities to carry out. I think the fact that weve inserted ourselves as you know we had no power to intervene. The president had National Security waivers where he could go straight to the u. N. Security council. We injected ourself in to this. I think that that has helped the process. But at the end of the day i think people understand that if this is a bad deal, that is going to allow iran to get a nuclear weapon, they would own this deal if they voted for it. And so theyll want to disapprove it. On the other hand, if we feel like were better off with it people will look to improve it. I think at the end of the day people will vote their conscience. I dont think theyll worry about what the other nations are doing. In my sense it is our nation thats pushed harder than the other western nations to try to get this done. I realize russia and china are going to be tough to hold. Obviously one of the key ingredients is keeping the International Community together with these sanctions. But we understand the position were going to be in but i think that by inserting ourselves in the way that we have weve helped the process. Weve helped to do everything we can to stiffen the backs of our negotiators. By the way, you just brought up russia. Incoming the president s pick to be incoming the next chairman of the joint chiefs, he said without hesitation when asked by joe manchin, he said that russia was our greatest National Security threat. Did that surprise you . You know, really its interesting. Our nominee, mitt romney, said the same thing during his last campaign and people made fun of him for doing so. Then we have russia now destabilizing 70 years of european policy where it would be whole democratic and free. Russia is a problem. Theres no question. They do not agree to international norms. They are obviously of concern in the baltics right now. We are having to rebuild nato really because of our concerns about them. I dont think its theres certainly a threat to world peace theres no question. Whats the greatest threat . We have so many of them that were dealing with right now cluck. I do not want to say theyre the greatest. We have the south china sea. Weve got isis which i dont think is that kind of threat. We have this issue with iran. There are numbers of issues around the world that are very important to the safety of our citizens. Youre no shrinking violet so ill ask you this last question. Donald trump. Whats he doing to the Republican Party . You know, chuck, weve got four people in the senate running. Weve got a lot of governors and friends running around the country. If i start responding to every Foreign Policy statement thats made by candidates or other statements, you know it kind of diminishes my ability to carry out our work. I want to be i want our committee to be the north star if you will, in laying out policies that are great for our nation. I hope that candidates will move towards those because i believe when people run for office they generally try to do what they say. Im going to keep my focus on trying to make sure we carry out great Foreign Policy for our nation and let the candidates discuss these issues as they wish. But thank you for asking me the question. Can i put you down as a no comment on donald trump . You can put me down as a im not going to be wandering all over the place relative to responding to comments that candidates are making. It ought to be an interesting primary. I know yall are enjoying it very much. Senator corker, thanks for your time and im sure well see a lot of you this week as the deal comes through. Thank you. By the way reminder if you dont have a chance to watch meet the press live dont despair. Were always available on demand. So even if it is not sunday, its meet the press. Well be back in 45 seconds. I swear. With our end game segment. And the republican whos not even in the race yet who may have a distinct advantage over all of his republican opponents and Hillary Clinton. Announcer stay tuned for end game. Brought to you by boeing. You can collect rainwater to shower with but there are easier ways to go green. Like taking shorter showers, which conserves water and lowers your bill. Youll sing long ballads in the rain and short ditties in the shower. The more you know announcer time now for meet the press end game brought to you by boeing, where the drive to build Something Better inspires us every day. Were going to begin our end game segment with some nerdscreen time. Today it is all about the importance of the midwest winning the white house and why scott walker who enters the race officially tomorrow has a potential geographic advantage because hes from wisconsin. Take a look at the 2012 map. Fairly typical of the bluered divide. While democrats dominate the east and west and republicans rule most of the south and plains, its these states up here in the midwest that have been blue lately that are critical to the republican hopes. In fact, take a look at this. These seven states in the midwest are prime real estate. Collectively, they hold 91 electoral votes. Candidate barack obama from illinois won all seven of these states in 2010. The old big ten, by the way. Indiana is the only state of these seven that consistently has gone red since 92. The only exception of course was 2008. The other states in the past six president ial elections, thats 36 state contests, democrats have won them 33 times. Republicans only three. But prior to 1992, it was republicans that dominated these old big ten midwestern states. So if walker is able to secure the nomination he would be the first socalled big ten republican nominee since gerald ford. And guess what he did . Gerald ford won a majority of the electoral votes in this region. Even walkers hopes of getting the nomination rest on neighboring midwestern states including well, you know it iowa. Lose there, and his candidacy may be done. Win there, and he could be taking off. So lets bring in the panel. Scott walker does announce tomorrow. In fact, we actually have a neat little thing. We think we can already preview his announcement speech. We were able to put together a whole bunch of tape from events hes done over the past three months. Heres a little taste of what we think his announcement speech will sound like tomorrow. Because i ran a base we could do business with. As a kid i can remember tying yellow ribbons around our tree out front because for 444 days iran held americans hostage. Thats just a little taste. You can see this whole thing. It really is what we think is taking a stump speech and putting it together and seeing if we can do that. Scott walker matdt bai, the forgotten frontrunner. You should put some rap music to that. Yeah, maybe. We talked about this before. This midwestern question is really interesting. That strain of republicanism in the midwest was your moderate, procivil rights Everett Dirksen that part of the Republican Party went away. I dont think scott walker necessarily speaks to that republicanism because hes been so much an instrument of the base of his party since coming to office. On the other hand you have john kasich who apparently is also getting in the race, the governor of ohio whos very much been in that john boehner strain of Ohio Republican politics whos dealt with a very diversified economy and a very industrial state and has had a lot of success. I think in some ways he is better suited to tap in to that lingering republican strain in the midwest than walker might be. Let me go to mr. Conservative heart over there. Kasich or walker, i think john kasich brings up his heart a lot. He talks about it a lot. Scott walker almost mocks kasich for some of his language. Scott walker has been really notoriously tough in taking on the Public Sector juneunions. His strength will be pivoting to these affairs of the heart. I saw him the other day in denver, we were both conservative speakers at the western summit, he gave a speech that was fighting against a lot of Different Things which is what people do for activists but in the end, it was interesting. He said you know what . Im an optimist about america. Think our best years are really before us. It is not the parade of horribles the pessimism and division of the obama years which has characterized the last seven years in my view. The natural tendency is to react to that with more pessimism but he pivoted to this optimistic unifying expression of what the future could look like. I thought, i want 30 minutes of that. He basically as the toughest governor somebody whos done a lot of things the conservatives like, can now pivot to say heres what the Better Future looks like. Im going to fight for all of the people who have been left behind. He could do really good. What do you make of walker . Well, a chicago girl myself. I know what changing demographics look like in the midwest. I actually think that the midwest often leads the conversation on central issues, certainly on the conversation around immigration. But since what weve seen today, that there has been you just gave an opportunity to senator corker to do this to distance himself from trump and those statements. So if scott walker really wants to be viable with this demographic, why doesnt he take this moment to just say, and im announcing and i am saying ekwivicallyekwiv ically equivocally i abhor these statements. This would be a moment for Hillary Clinton and omalley. If you want to lock in the latino electorate, what are they waiting for . Both republicans and democrats to say i am here with you, you are my people and i want you to vote for me. They could lock it in. The fact that its not happening is kind of amazing to me. Scott walker, doris, i am curious he is trying to break a stranglehold here. Theres all these National Names, national candidates. He became a little bit of a National Name because he got recalled and went after the unions. But he successfully won. Could you see him get the nomination . He seems to have a strategic sense having read about him that hes worked it out in his mind. I do iowa, i do this. Hes his own strategy. The problem is ive heard his major piece or the piece of the stump speech which is individualism will get you where you need to go in this country. I think what republicans and democrats both have to agree on that mobility isnt fair anymore. It is not working. It is family structure. It is neighborhood. It is education. Whether or not you rise from that bottom to the top. The old idea that individual hard work is going to get you to the top of the ladder has to be softened now. Im not sure that thats where hes at. We actually could have had that interesting debate this week between jeb bush and Hillary Clinton. Jeb bush was talking and he got taken out of context. We know what he meant when he said people need to work longer hours when he talked to parttime workers. I think well hear Hillary Clinton tomorrow. Is it wage stagnation or is it Something Else in the economy. I agree. It is going to be a great debate and a healthy one. It is the debate we should be having. And not this debate over what jeb bush said this week because obviously he was taken out of context and we do know what he meant and there is a more substantive debate to be had. Hopefully well have that substantive debate as we go on. Thanks to our great panel. Well be back next week because if its sunday, its meet the press. Welcome to the u. S. Bank nbc sports report. Here is your host jimmy roberts. The golf world radius foreadies for the open championship at st. Aint druse andrews. The scottish edition final round coverage is coming up. Golf in a moment but first the other news. While much of the mens golf world is assembled in scotland this