we can. joining me now, white house reporter from the washington post david mcnamara. two of my favorites, thank you for joining me. let s get to your reaction to hillary clinton s comment. any surprises, or is this what you expect to hear? i think not a surprise. she didn t endorse the terms of the deal. i assume she ll get questions about that as she goes on her book tour. the idea she said we bring people home. it doesn t matter at that point. whether it was desertion, captured in another way, we ll look at that down the road. i think she ll take the tone on this and other issues where she is loyal to the administration but not necessarily pledging allegiance to every single decision that was made and the follow-up questions that will come. senate majority leader, david, harry reid, he was asked about whether he was the only
hello, everyone. welcome to weekends with alex witt. actor/comedian tracy morgan in intensive care after a serious car accident on the new jersey turnpike. authorities say the 45-year-old was riding in a limousine bus involved in a multivehicle accident. it happened around 1:00 this morning local time. nbc s ron allen outside the hospital where morgan is being treated. good afternoon to you. what s the latest you re hearing about his condition? still critical is the bottom line. we just got a statement from morgan s agent. some detail he shared with us. we have a graphic of it. tracy remains in critical condition. he sustained these injuries in an accident that occurred early this morning as one of several passengers in a chauffeured suv returning from a tour date in delaware. we don t anticipate much of a change in his condition today but we will provide more information once that information becomes available. this was a very, very, very serious accident. his vehicle wa
senator rand paul s comments in which he said the republican party is going to have to adapt, evolve or die. here s more of that. that means with tattoos and without tattoos. with earrings and without earrings. black, white, brown. you go to a republican event and it s all white people. not because we re excluding anybody but we haven t done a good enough job encouraging people to come into our party. david, how do republicans broaden their base? is it easier said than done? it has been for republicans. they ve been wrestling with this since the 2012 election in which mitt romney was trounced by president obama with women, minorities. a lot of the party leaders say they want to do something. they want to, you know, maybe go forward on immigration for example. so far, the rank and file just hasn t been able to muster enough unity to pursue any kind of immigration bill, for example. you see other party leaders. prebus of the party started talking to african-american
let me bring in staff writer for the writer phillip bump and staff writer for the washington david mcnamara. so phillip, you wrote about congressman grimm s situation in your latest article. many remember him for that heated confrontation just a few months ago, where he threatened a local reporter on camera. being he later apologized. talk to me about this expected indictment and what he s accused of doing. so it s not entirely clear yet what exactly the indictment is going to be. acoring to the new york times, it centers on a health food store he owned on the upper east side in which he had been charged with not paying workman s compensation and not paying his employees fairly and apparently according to the times he allegedly lied under oath in a federal lawsuit. which is kind of remarkable just given that grimm has had a very colorful history both as an fbi agent in the private sector and as a congress member. so i don t think this is the thing that people thought would be the
so there will always be fights. but you will not see people talking about no one no one who no one comes out and says let s repeal social security, let s repeal medicare, right? so the idea of repealing is just going to be preposterous. that might happen in much might happen in five or ten. got to talk about kids. i ve got a 2 almost 2 1/2-year-old named ryan, my daughter, and my son who s 4 weeks today named david. and my wife s incredible. the kids are incredible. it s great. i love it. i really love it. you re probably having a lot of daddy/daughter bonding time, right? that was the best thing about paternity leave. was we my daughter and i spent so much time together. and it was so intense. and she was so affectionate. and it was really important for me to be there from a kind of attention standpoint which is she was just this volcano of emotion. she has you right here, doesn t she, just kind of wrapped?