From the White House Correspondents Association on the presidency and the press. This is just over an hour. Hello . Is everybody ready . If dr. Kumar would sit down. Thank you all for staying for the second panel. After that lively beginning. Im alexis simendinger, and i am a correspondent with the hill. I am delighted to be able to talk to colleagues that i know well and have known over several White House Administrations. Margaret from bloomberg. Steve from reuters. Before i get started, could each of you run down the row and remind everybody of how many president s you have covered . I know you are really young, but go ahead. Steve i started covering the midpoint of george h. W. Bushs white house. I came in at 1990, before cell phones were a thing. I have covered five president s. Alexis five. Margaret i moved back to washington in 2005, so i was here for the second part of the presidency of george w. Bush. But i did not start covering the white house fulltime until barack obama, Wh
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Finally, terror abroad and concerns at home. How serious is the threat to us . Im chuck todd and joining me is former Republican House speaker newt gingrich. Michael eric dyson of georgetown university. And charles ogletree. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. Good morning. Perhaps it was a bit of hyperbole, but one writer said this is a week historians will write books about. A week when an africanamerican president sang Amazing Grace as the country buried the confederate battle flag. The left right ideological struggle strung in sharply in favor of progressives. As americans came to look at issues in rapid order. The Confederate Flag was seen by most as eye reminder of hate, not heritage. Health care reform a right, not a privilege. Samesex marriage became a law of the land. It was a week that cemented president obamas legacy as well. Here he is celebrating the Supreme Court Health Care Decision with his chief of staff, denis mcdonough. On friday night, the white house was bathed
Finally, terror abroad and concerns at home. How serious is the threat to us . Im chuck todd and joining me is former Republican House speaker newt gingrich. Michael eric dyson of georgetown university. And charles ogletree. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. Good morning. Perhaps it was a bit of hyperbole, but one writer said this is a week historians will write books about. A week when an africanamerican president sang Amazing Grace as the country buried the confederate battle flag. The left right ideological struggle strung in sharply in favor of progressives. As americans came to look at issues in rapid order. The Confederate Flag was seen by most as eye reminder of hate, not heritage. Health care reform a right, not a privilege. Samesex marriage became a law of the land. It was a week that cemented president obamas legacy as well. Here he is celebrating the Supreme Court Health Care Decision with his chief of staff, denis mcdonough. On friday night, the white house was bathed
Im chuck todd and joining me is former Republican House speaker newt gingrich. Michael eric dyson of georgetown university. And charles ogletree. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. Good morning. Perhaps it was a bit of hyperbole, but one writer said this is a week historians will write books about. A week when an africanamerican president sang Amazing Grace as the country buried the confederate battle flag. The left right ideological struggle strung in sharply in favor of progressives. As americans came to look at issues in rapid order. The Confederate Flag was seen by most as eye reminder of hate, not heritage. Health care reform a right, not a privilege. Samesex marriage became a law of the land. It was a week that cemented president obamas legacy as well. Here he is celebrating the Supreme Court Health Care Decision with his chief of staff, denis mcdonough. On friday night, the white house was bathed in rainbow colors in honor of the marriage ruling capping the social transforma