And joining me for insight and analysis are robert costa, of the Washington Post. Msnbcs joyann reid. Republican strategist nicolle wallace, and jose diazbalart, of nbc news and telemundo. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. From nbc news in washington, this is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning, with Bernie Sanders prospects for taking the democratic nomination from Hillary Clinton getting slimmer by the day, sanders told me yesterday hes fallen behind because in his words, poor people dont vote. Theres a lot more in that interview and well get tait later in the show and well get to the democratic as well. But we begin with the republican race. Its no stretch to conclude that when it comes to donald trump, the Republican Party has slowly been working it way thou the classic five stages of grief. The first one was denial. Trump cant be taken seriously. The second one, anger. What makes this guy think he is even a republican or a conservative anyway . The third, barg
Should they be declassified . And joining me for insight and analysis are robert costa, of the Washington Post. Msnbcs joyann reid. Republican strategist nicolle wallace, and jose diazbalart, of nbc news and telemundo. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. From nbc news in washington, this is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning, with Bernie Sanders prospects for taking the democratic nomination from Hillary Clinton getting slimmer by the day, sanders told me yesterday hes fallen behind because in his words, poor people dont vote. Theres a lot more in that interview and well get tait later in the show and well get to the democratic as well. But we begin with the republican race. Its no stretch to conclude that when it comes to donald trump, the Republican Party has slowly been working it way thou the classic five stages of grief. The first one was denial. Trump cant be taken seriously. The second one, anger. What makes this guy think he is even a republican or a conserv
Establishment that seems more cowed by trump than energized to defeat him, and they look more willing to accept the man whose man offer appears after the word never. President ial is easy. With stop trump going nowhere, signs republicans are tip toeing toward sundacceptanc. Sign one, evidence of surrender by the partys leaders. At the rnc Spring Meeting in florida, Reince Priebus warned, stop trump sympathizers to get in line. Politics is a team sport. And we cant win unless we really around whoever becomes our nominee. And the party went out of its way to disprove trumps charge that its rigging the game. It rejected changes to convention rules. After Mitch Mcconnell seemed to relish the idea of trump losing a multiple ballot convention. Im increasingly optimistic there may be a second ballott. He quickly walked that back. What i said somewhat inartfully is that well have a nominee once we get to 1,237. With republicans, including former nominee john mccain threatening to skip the conv
And it has to stop. Speaker ryan, you and i dont agree on a lot of policy, but i know you are a great father and a great husband. And i know you want whats best for america. And we may fiercely disagree on policy and nfc north. And i dont have a bad word to say about you as a man. The president today on civility. In another important story, floodwaters are getting deeper and no place has been hit harder than deweyville texas on the louisiana border. David begnaud is there. Reporter this is the worst flooding deweyville has seen in over 100 years. Everything, sheriffs department, post office, church, school, and the towns only Grocery Store is underwater. Deweyville, town of 1,100 sits west of the sabine river, a funnel for tributaries carrying walter downstream from three larger bodies of water. 20 inches of rain over the last week. And 45 billion gallons of water release from an overflowing reservoir left deweyville flooded in four feet of water. Lack ook at the dog. Rescuers spotted
Barking dog and that appears to be what alerted the hostages captors to what was going on. During the firefight that then followed, u. S. Forpdss saw a militant go into the shack where the hostages were being held. It is believed that is when he shot both of the hostages, both of them died as a result of those injuries, as u. S. Forces were transporting them away. U. S. Intelligence did not know the identity of the other hostage being held with somers. He has since been identified as South African teacher pierre korkie. A char that worked with korkie says he was due to be released today. To discuss this and many of the other top stories for the week, joined by our panel, bring in democratic strategist basil smythe, jr. , political consultant and former adviser to mitt romney, cater packer gauge and msnbc correspondent, casey packer hunt. Obviously on this hostage story, we are learning the details, obviousiously a heartbreaking story, another report i know in the New York Times this mo