Its sunday its meet the press. From nbc news in washington, th i chuck todd. Good sunday morning. President elect donald trump spent the weekend at his bed minister new jersey club meeting with possible members of the administration including onetime rival and critic mitt romney who is reportedly being considered for secretary of state as well as michelle reed, a democrat who ran the School System in washington, d. C. She could be the next education secretary. But if mr. Trump has made one thing clear its that hes not many conservatives perhaps had feared or liberals had hoped. Flynn says that militant islam poses a threat to the u. S. And sessions who has been accused of making racially insensitive to a federal judgeship in the 80s and mike pompeo, a tough critic of Hillary Clinton, on benghazi hes gotten bipartisan for the pick. Republican senators were largely supportive of the choices and democrats on the most part in particular Jeff Sessions sharply opposed. Joining me from new je
Surprised theyve taken control of your senate. Jeff im not surprised they im surprised at the margin, they are to be commended. They ran a good campaign. They have a supermajority which weve been in that position, myself, ive been tied, majority, supermajorities and now in the minority, the dynamics are different but the issues are the same. Iowa usually has approach how to solve them. Ron this election cycle was the most bizarre, you ran a positive commercial, not going after your opponent at all, like we saw in some local races. Why did you take that approach rather than following the consultant model which is attack ad, attack ad. Jeff i believe in a positive vision and thats the first statement of we have to do Better Running our campaigns and communicating with our voters. This consultantdriven campaign framework, i dont think is positive in the long run. Ron were you shocked and i guess a lot of people were shocked at the defeat of a gentleman who many people thought kind of ran
Terrorism programs. Governors from across the country are meeting in des moines, iowa. Gary herbert and vice chair Terry Mcauliffe held a News Conference at the start of the conference joined by iowas Governor Terry branstad. We will go ahead and get started. I am scott madison, the executive director of the National Governors association. Feel free to take your seats. Welcome. This is the 108th summer meeting of the National Governors associati association and taking place with the backdrop of a lot of serious issues across the nation and world and of course two major Party Conventions taking place in the next couple weeks. I am happy to introduce the chairman of the National Governors association from utah, governor branstad and we have the vice chairman, governor mcauliffe from virginia and the host, the longest serving governor in the mystery of the United States terry branstad. We are happy to have him. [applause] and now, it is funny, people say the meeting is going great so far
We will go ahead and get started. I am scott madison, the executive director of the National Governors association. Feel free to take your seats. Welcome. This is the 108th summer meeting of the National Governors associati association and taking place with the backdrop of a lot of serious issues across the nation and world and of course two major Party Conventions taking place in the next couple weeks. I am happy to introduce the chairman of the National Governors association from utah, governor branstad and we have the vice chairman, governor mcauliffe from virginia and the host, the longest serving governor in the mystery of the United States terry branstad. We are happy to have him. [applause] and now, it is funny, people say the meeting is going great so far and i say it is good laws of governor branstad. I am turn it over to david yepsen and many of you probably know david. Heavy has been with the Des Moines Register and on Public Television in different capacities and now he is
A fishing boat with dozens on board crashing into rocks, taking on water. Passengers scrambling for life rafts, waiting desperately to be rescued. We were in the right place at the right time for those people. How Good Samaritans got there in the nick of time. And good morning, america. Happy labor day. Great to have paula faris here. Oh, thanks for the invite, george. We hope youre having a safe and enjoyable Holiday Weekend so far. But this morning all eyes are on hermine, a posttropical cyclone tracking north. Warnings and watches are in place along the coastline. Its still ruining the holiday for millions even as the storm spins into the atlantic. Most beaches are closed to swimmers this morning after red flag warnings like this one in bradley beach, new jersey. And look at ocean city on sunday. Those winds are so high right now, lets take a look live at that beach right now. Should be pretty packed this labor day. Those waves are hitting pretty hard right there. Ginger, even thoug