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 co
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, t
We have three states that will be a little tough for us, that is west virginia, montana, and south dakota. Im sure we will talk about south dakota. But we have strong incumbents in the red states. We have two more tossups, iowa and colorado. Our candidates are running very strong but they are very tough. If you talk to anybody on both sides of the aisle, as he races tighter and tighter, the maps become narrower. What gives you the confidence if you look at all the , all sayaround town that the republicans are favored. Youre going to have to run the table in places like North Carolina, iowa, colorado. Where is your confidence coming from . Out of those six races, they have to pick up four of them. Races, the at the ,emographics, kay hagan somebody who, 18 months ago they said there was no chance she would be winning. Here she has, to five days out, and she has a small but steady lead. Phenomenalve a infrastructure. If you look at the early vote numbers, absentee vote numbers, those are
Not normally vote in. I think there is this myth, and some of it is based in reality, the democrats vote big on president ials and not in midterms. I think that signals that this election is a big deal. How big a liability as he . To my this goes back whole thing on the national environment. Is the president particularly popular . No. The president isnt on the ballot. Are Mary Landrieu or kay hagan, you vote for a bill not because it is the president s bill. Its because you vote for what is right for your state. Something like equal pay for women. Something like raising the minimum wage. These are all important issues that have been championed by the president. He is the head of the party. Also by our members. They know it is right for their state. Republicans, its funny. Reported on it just this week. The republicans thought they were going to win this whole election by talking about the economy. The economy is getting better. Is there more to do . Absolutely. We must do more. Obamaca
And we start with that breaking news, the coldblooded execution of two new York City Police officers shot to death by a suicidal gunman bent on revenge for killings by police. The assassination immediately condemned by president obama and the attorney general drawing a fierce reaction from police in an atmosphere already so highly charged after ferguson and staten island. Abcs linsey davis is on the scene in brooklyn. Good morning, linsey. Reporter good morning, george. Police are calling this murder even though the suspect in this case will never have his day in court. And two Police Agencies are saying new yorks mayor has blood on his hands. Last night officials put the ambush of two new York City Police officers here in stark terms. They were quite simply assassinated, targeted for their uniform. These officers were shot execution style. Reporter according to the nypd, officers wenjian liu and rafael ramos were sitting in their marked patrol car in brooklyn when 28yearold Ismaaiyl B