Versus getting people back to work is a false choice. Plus three top officials now in some form of quarantine after possible exposure inside the white house. My guests this morning, Infectious Disease specialist Michael Osterholm and jeffrey shaman, and republican representative Lamar Alexander of tennessee. Also historic unemployment disaster. Unemployment numbers not seen since the great depression. Im going to be homeless if i dont open my business back up. Im not trying to be a scofflaw, im trying to make a living. My conversation with billionaire businessman and philanthropist robert f. Smith on making sure no one is left out of recovery efforts. We have to reinvest so when we come back from the pandemic were actually in a much better position. And the latest in the Michael Flynn and tara reade stories. Joining me for insight are nbc White House Correspondent kristen welker, richard haass, president of the council on Foreign Relations, and wall street journal columnist peggy noona
In some form of quarantine after possible exposure inside the white house. My guests this morning, Infectious Disease specialist Michael Osterholm and jeffrey shaman, and Lamar Alexander of tennessee. Also historic unemployment disaster. Unemployment numbers not seen since the great depression. Im going to be homeless if i dont open my business back up. Im trying to make a living. My conversation with billionaire businessman and philanthropist robert f. Smith on making sure no one is left out. We have to reinvest so when we come back from the pandemic were in a better position. And the latest in the Michael Flynn and tara reade stories. Joining me for insight are kristen welker, richard haass, president of the council on Foreign Relations and wall street journal columnist peggy noonan. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press and our continuing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. Announcer from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is meet the pres
Headed in the right direction. And it will stay that way as long as there arent any more selfinflicted wounds coming out of washington. So lets keep on chipping away at this problem together, as democrats and republicans, to give our workers and our businesses the support that they need to thrive in the weeks and months ahead. The president s called for a fix of shortterm spending cuts and tax reform hit a brick on capitol hill. Politico reporting that obamas plan dead on arrival, and House Speaker john boehner was speaking on capitol hill, right now saying that his party plans to stand with the American People and we want to show you exactly what he had to say about that yesterday. On two occasions has passed a plan to replace the sequester. Its time for the Senate Democrats to do that work. Its time for the president to offer his ideas about how to replace the sequester. His first answer to everything is new taxes. And when you think about it, what happened in january, he got 600 bil
Sounding the alarm about home grown terrorism right here on american soil. First we go to conor powell standing by in jerusalem with the details. Reporter the family reportedly learned of his death not from u. S. Government officials but from a picture of his body sent from rebels in syria. The 29yearold somaliamerican was reportedly killed this weekend during a battle with the prowestern Free Syrian Army like the other american killed fighting alongside isis, mohamed was from minnesota and left the u. S. Some time in the past few months to join insurgents in iraq and syria. U. S. Intelligence officials estimate there are 300 americans fighting right now in the middle east. Just some of the more than 12,000 foreign fighters who have flocked to the region. Though not all have linked up with isis, some have joined the Free Syrian Army or even the al qaeda affiliate in the middle east. But all pose a major risk to the United States. The fear is that these foreign fighters are learning let
Sounding the alarm about home grown terrorism right here on american soil. First we go to conor powell standing by in jerusalem with the details. Reporter the family reportedly learned of his death not from u. S. Government officials but from a picture of his body sent from rebels in syria. The 29yearold somaliamerican was reportedly killed this weekend during a battle with the prowestern Free Syrian Army like the other american killed fighting alongside isis, mohamed was from minnesota and left the u. S. Some time in the past few months to join insurgents in iraq and syria. U. S. Intelligence officials estimate there are 300 americans fighting right now in the middle east. Just some of the more than 12,000 foreign fighters who have flocked to the region. Though not all have linked up with isis, some have joined the Free Syrian Army or even the al qaeda affiliate in the middle east. But all pose a major risk to the United States. The fear is that these foreign fighters are learning let