Midterms having raised taxes on parts of the middle class . Ill ask republican senator rob portman of ohio. And did former National Security adviser Michael Flynn just cut a deal to cooperate with the Mueller Probe and what could that mean for the russia investigation . Joining me for insight and analysis are nbc news correspondent katy tur, hugh houston, host on the salem radio network, Heather Mcgee and Washington Post columnist michael gerson. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. From nbc news in washington the longestrunning show in television history, this is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. I hope everyone is having a safe and healthy thanksgiving weekend. There are moments in the past half century when as americans weve been forced to reexamine our attitudes and ourselves, vietnam, civil rights gay rights. In politics were facing the crucible of Sexual Harassment. Our revulsion at what weve learned and our uncertainty about what to do about it going forward
Our way towards the 1960s and the cultural revolution. Since historians have recently paid more attention to the ways in which whats often recorded as the 60s cultural revolution really had its seeds planted in the 1950s. So i wanted to describe what the old culture was like. Sometimes referred to as victorian, sort of the shared Anglo American culture of the 19th and into the 20th centuries. The little piece that i gave you from william oneills book on america 1945, sort of describes some of the cultural assumptions of americans of this generation. And in a way, victorianism, which today is considered, you know, conservative. In ways, its a derogatory term, puritanical, oldfashioned and retrograde, but much like liberalism, victorianism was actually liberal in its day. In the 19th century, it was an advance upon earlier, premodern cultural patterns, much as liberalism in the 19th century was sort of a progressive, new thing, and the principles of classical liberalism of the 19th centu
Is going to be voting on neil gorsuch at any moment. Youre looking at ted cruz speaking there about the need to confirm him. Its unlikely that thats going to happen. We are anticipating that this is going to be a party line vote. There is expected to be a big showdown on capitol hill later this week when the full senate votes on gorsuch, and that means only one option remains for senator Mitch Mcconnell, and that is to execute what is known as the Nuclear Option so that they could get this judge through. I want to go to adam shapiro who has all the latest in washington. Hey, adam. Reporter yeah. To keep it simple, there are two issues before the senate once they pass him out of committee to the full senate. First, to the vote on cloture which would end debate, the second would then be the vote on whether he becomes a Supreme Court justice. Democrats now have enough votes to filibuster judge judge gorsuch. 41 democrats have said they will vote no on cloture, that means they will vote ag
Make America Great again. Good evening and welcome to our special pbs news hour of the Republican National convention. T im gwen ifill. Im Judy Woodruff. Joining us all week from the other side of the arena next to the podium the host of nprs Weekend Edition sunday Rachel Martin. Rachel, great to have you with us and here in the anchor boothh as always syndicated columnist mark shields and New York Times ifill also with us, Nprs National political correspondent, mara liasson. Later on in the evening, nprs Political Editor Domenico Montanaro and Senior Editor ron elving will join us. Woodruff amy walter from the Cook Political Report is with us at the table, great to have you here. And down on the floor we have newshour correspondent lisane desjardin and npr congressional reporter susan davis. Welcome to you both ifill out on the streets, john yang is covering any potential unrest. Protests are expected, but the security is heavy and thousands of police are deployed. We expect an exciti
Those Traffic Cameras here across the region. Watching f anything that might morning commute. If youre coming in from lake 65milesperhour. 77 looking good right now, catawba avenue, down to gilead running in the green. Develop. Here across the charlotte area, most of our highways and roads are continuing to run in the green. Northbound 77 coming out of rock hill this morning, curb drive ti for you is 21 minutes with an average speed of milesperhour. And that is a check of traffic, john, over to you. John get back to breaking news in west charlotte that wbtv first broke, police are investigating a shooting that happened in connection to a carjacking. The victim was found on rozzelles ferry near johnson c. Smith university. Ashton pellom was theirst to report this story on socl media, and he joins us now live from the scene. Ashton, what can you tell us . What i can tell you right now the victim is recbdovering in the hospital. He was shot twice, once in the arm, once in the leg earlier