While houston begins to dry out. Ill talk to the mayor of houston, sylvester turner. Also, after a brutal august, a now weakened President Trump faces a challenging september. I am fully committed to working with congress, and i dont want to be disappointed by congress, do you understand . Can he get a budget passed, raise the debt limit, keep the government open and get his border wall funded . Ill talk to roy blount of missouri. Joining me for insight and analysis, nbc News White House correspondent kristin welker, usa todays Washington Bureau chief susan page and eddie glaude of princeton university. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. From nbc news in washington, the longestrunning show in Television History celebrating its 70th year. This is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. Well get to the latest on the flooding in texas and the recovery in a moment, but we begin with very big news overnight while you were sleeping. North korea carried out its sixth nuclear
Which reportedly rattled buildings in china and russia. Pyongyang has been conducting weapon tests at a record pace this year, drawing new sanctions from the International Community. The Trump Administration is now threatening to toughen those penalties, potentially cutting off all trade with any country doing business with the north. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts is live from the north lawn. John, a stunning announcement earlier. Yeah, arthel, i mean, what you just talked about there was really just not even the half of what happened today. An extraordinary statement from the secretary of Defense James Mattis just down the driveway here at the white house, talk that we really havent heard from a public official in the United States since the october 1962 cuban missile crisis. The secretary of defense starting off by saying that the president gathered together a small group of his National Security advisors. It was secretary mattis chairman of the joint chiefs of staff,
All of it as this special edition of the the 11th hour gets under way. Geegts once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. The holidays are here again. We are on the brink of a new year and it gives us another chance to revisit some of the conversations weve had here in this studio at this very desk with storytellers, journalists, and writers that we admire. Throughout broadcast were going to listen to the people who told those stories, the best and the most prolific documentary filmmaker of our time, biographers of the president s inner circle in the east wing and west wing of the white house. We will also hear from some exceptional men and women who were born outside of our country but decided to devote their lives and lifes work to the United States and what they mean to all of us in this perilous time for our countrys political life. But we begin this hour of storytelling with one of the very best storytellers around, our friend ken burns. It comes from right in here
Under way on a wednesday night. Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 811 of the Trump Administration. Ar its a charge we have heard from the president , and from several people on fox news that the Trump Campaign was somehow spied upon by our government in a way that circumvented due process in this country. Today we heard our attorney general william barr make that same charge. It came during a hearing of the Senate Appropriations committee. One of the things i want to do is pull together all the information from the various investigations that have gone on, including on the hill and in the department, and see if there are any remaining questions to e be addressed. We want to make sure that during i think spying on a Political Campaign is a big deal. Im not talking about the fbi, necessarily, but intelligence agencies more broadly. So youre not suggesting, though, that spying occurred . I dont well, i guess you could i think spying did occ
Under way. Well, greetings once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. The holidays are here again. We are on the brink of a new year, and it gives us another chance to revisit some of the conversations weve had here in this studio at this very desk with storytellers, journalists and writers that we admire. Throughout the broadcast were going to listen to the people who told those stories. The best and the most prolific documentary filmmaker of our time, biographers of the people inside the president s innermost circle in the east wing and west wing of the white house. We will also hear from some exceptional men and women who were born outside of our country but decided to devote their lives and their lifes work to the United States and what they mean to all of us in this perilous time for our countrys political life. But we begin this hour of storytelling with one of the very best storytellers around. Our friend, the awardwinning documentary filmmaker ken burns. Countr