Joining me this morning are radio talk show host hugh hewitt, Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, Kathleen Parker of the Washington Post, and Nathan Gonzales of the nathan and gonzales political report. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. From nbc news in washington, this is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. If youre one of those who does want a revolution, guess what . I think the two parties have two of them for you. The Democratic Left and the republican right are pulling away from the center. Bernie sanders strong polling is frustrating the Hillary Clinton captain and forcing her to switch positions and move to the left. Well have my interview with Bernie Sanders coming up in a few minutes. On the republican side, the revolt by conservative house members has thrown the party, at least in congress, into disarray. Having already defeated majority leader eric cantor and forced out speaker bane, they claimed their third victim this week when Kevin Mccarthy was
Second place behind ben carson. We informed ben, but he was sleeping. [ laughter ] how do you respond to mr. Trump . Everybody has their own personality and if hed like to do that, thats fine. Thats not who i am. And i dont get into the mud pit and im not going to be talking about people. I will tell you in terms of energy, im not sure that theres anybody else running whos spend 18 or 20 hours intently operating on somebody. Do you think that people mistake your softspokenness with lack of energy. I think so. I have plenty of energy. But, you know, i am soft spoken. I do have a tendency to be relaxed. I wasnt always like that. There was a time when i was, you know, very volatile. But i changed. When was that . As a teenager. I would go after people with rocks and bricks and baseball bats and hammers and, of course, many people know the story when i was 14 and i tried to stab someone. And, you know, fortunately my life has been changed and im a very different person now. Why do you see
Actually has stood up to washington. Who has stood up to both democrats and to leaders in their open party. You think that distinguishes you from donald trump and ben carson . And from everyone else on that stage. I think my record is markedly different in terms of actually standing up and taking on the washington cartel. And thats why were seeing, particularly as voters get more and more educated, study the candidate, listen to the candidates in person, i think thats why were seeing the grassroots momentum that were seeing. If you were sitting there staying that you could stop obamacare if you just did what you did and shut down the government and that republicans could stop the iran deal, the fact is, you couldnt. The numbers werent on your side. Theres a democratic president. So did you overpromise . I understand youre saying others, but didnt you . Look, when it comes to promising, what i promised is that i would fight with every breath in my body to stop the outofcontrol spending,
Whatsoever from the United States. Has the u. S. Ceded the upper hand . Joining me are mark leibovich, amy holmes of the blaze, ruth marcus of the Washington Post and rich lowry of the National Review. Welcome to sunday, its meet the press. Good sunday morning. This week roseburg, oregon, joined the roll call of american towns that have suffered a mass shooting. Nine victims from 18 to 67 gunned down on a Community College campus. Jason johnson. Serena daun moore, lucero alcaraz, rebecca carnes, quinn cooper, trevin taylor, Lawrence Levine and kim dietz. Familiar questions about how this could have happened and what it means for the battle over the issue of guns in america. Well get to all of the politics in just a moment but for the latest i want to go to nbcs Miguel Almaguer who is in roseburg. Migu miguel, i want you to address we heard from the shooters father who decided to weigh in on the gun debate. Tell me more about it. Absolutely. Chuck. The gunmans father, 26yearold chris ha
Cooper of the New York Times, an gearann of the New York Times and david brooks. If its sunday, its meet the press. Good sunday morning. Choose your metaphor. On life support, in critical condition, on its deathbed. Whatever painful phrase you use, everyone agrees jeb bushs campaign is in trouble. Bush needed a good debate performance on wednesday and he failed spectacularly. Hes rebranding his campaign with a new slogan called jeb can fix it. The phrase can suppose to mean that bush can fix the countrys problems but people are already joking the it jeb needs to fix is his candidacy. Thats the big question hanging over the Bush Campaign can jeb fix it . At this critical moment, i caught up with bush in miami yesterday and began with a question a lot of people are asking. Do you still want to be president . I do. I do. I see great possibilities for our country. I honestly belief were on the verge of greatness. We have to fix big complex things and i have to leadership skills to do it. I