the big fight in washington this sunday over your personal information. i m chuck todd. joining me for inside analysis on this busy sunday morning are msnbc chris math he s. former white house political director under president george w. bush sara fagen. the cook political reports amy walter and politico ranu roger. it s sunday, it s meet the press. good morning. we start with sad news from overnight. beau biden has succumbed to brain cancer at the age of 46. he was first diagnosed with the illness in august 2013. he received treatment. that was initially successful. the cancer recurred and this month he was admit to a hospital right here near washington. many viewers will remember this photo from 1973. it shows a bed-ridden beau watching his dad being sworn in from his hospital bed after a
patriot games. the big fight in washington this sunday over your personal information. i m chuck todd. joining me for inside analysis on this busy sunday morning are msnbc chris math he s. former white house political director under president george w. bush sara fagen. the cook political reports amy walter and politico ranu roger. it s sunday, it s meet the press. good morning. we start with sad news from overnight. beau biden has succumbed to brain cancer at the age of 46. he was first diagnosed with the illness in august 2013. he received treatment. that was initially successful. the cancer recurred and this month he was admit to a hospital right here near washington. many viewers will remember this photo from 1973. it shows a bed-ridden beau watching his dad being sworn in
whom we don t know. then someone else will go. this is what they will do. as long as the president believes it is getting closer and closer to the white house people will get shoved under the bus. they have been good at rallying the wagons around hillary clinton. now that benghazi has traction because the press rltzed they were realized they were lied to she could get in the firing line at some point. tom, welcome to the program. thank you. i m glad you left your good humor truck outside. how would you grade the white house s response to the irs scandal from a scale of sad face to f minus? it is brilliant. it is generating stories like this saying even the president s friends are turning on it, but they are really not turning on it. did you see the chris math shoes interview? the president chris matthews interview? he will have to step up. and he says it is no watergate for sure. so they are going to say the president needs to speak up on this, and then the president comes
now, romney was here last night, but he won t be here tonight for ryan s speech. he s actually in indiana today campaigning. but, of course, lynn, he will be back tomorrow to accept the nomination. he will. all right, tracie potts there for us in tampa, thanks. last night on hardball, the former republican governor of florida, charlie crist, talked to chris math news aboth the gop convention. he s endorsed obama because he feels republicans have moved too far to the right. i ve seen the party drift to the right so significantly that it s at a point now on the inversion of ronald reagan where i didn t leave the republican party, the republican party left me. and why i ve decided to support the president is because he s helpful to all people. when i was a republican governor, for example, he obviously a democratic president, but on issue after issue, president obama was very helpful to us on education, on the environment with the handling of the bp oil spill and so many other iss
is kinds of aid, given the supreme court decision and general precedence i don t think there is a chance that will happen. state by state and overturned is i suspect where they are headed. politics of that are already divide. let s talk about it. if it comes down to state by state, up to the states and democratic party recognizes that situation. urges states to make it. how is that going to affect ohio? i think ohio, iowa, virginia, and north carolina are all states where democrats can look at and it say if the targeted messages go out right this could unbalance and four important states. your thoughts, mr. frank about how this will affect the election? chris, this is i m puzzled by this. the president has already said that is his position. doma is unconstitutional and believes people should have the right to get married to people of the same sex and taken concrete action to oppose it. all the ohio democrats voted against the defense of marriage act. on this issue, the ge