Versus getting people back to work is a false choice. Plus three top officials now in some form of quarantine after possible exposure inside the white house. My guests this morning, Infectious Disease specialist Michael Osterholm and jeffrey shaman, and republican representative Lamar Alexander of tennessee. Also historic unemployment disaster. Unemployment numbers not seen since the great depression. Im going to be homeless if i dont open my business back up. Im not trying to be a scofflaw, im trying to make a living. My conversation with billionaire businessman and philanthropist robert f. Smith on making sure no one is left out of recovery efforts. We have to reinvest so when we come back from the pandemic were actually in a much better position. And the latest in the Michael Flynn and tara reade stories. Joining me for insight are nbc White House Correspondent kristen welker, richard haass, president of the council on Foreign Relations, and wall street journal columnist peggy noona
In some form of quarantine after possible exposure inside the white house. My guests this morning, Infectious Disease specialist Michael Osterholm and jeffrey shaman, and Lamar Alexander of tennessee. Also historic unemployment disaster. Unemployment numbers not seen since the great depression. Im going to be homeless if i dont open my business back up. Im trying to make a living. My conversation with billionaire businessman and philanthropist robert f. Smith on making sure no one is left out. We have to reinvest so when we come back from the pandemic were in a better position. And the latest in the Michael Flynn and tara reade stories. Joining me for insight are kristen welker, richard haass, president of the council on Foreign Relations and wall street journal columnist peggy noonan. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press and our continuing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. Announcer from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is meet the pres
Way imaginable. This hour, four accused cop killers and accessories face a jump. George zimmerman remember him . The man acquitted of murdering Trayvon Martin isic maing headlines amid gunfire yet again. What happened this time . Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Breaking news in the world lead the pentagon and u. S. Intelligence saying the head of Isis Al Baghdadi severely injured and no longer running nuts and bolts for his terrorist group. Flatout wrong. Citing unnamed diplomatic sources reported the man atop the pyramid gauss clipped in a u. S. Air strike, similar to the one of the 18 bombings over iraq. U. S. Asserting, no evidence to back up these claims and isis is as dangerous as ever even on United States soil. Right to cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr. Pentagon officials and sources in the Intelligence Community outright dismissing these reports, baghdadi was injured in a coalition strike. What makes them so confident hes fine . Reporter y
The school. Can you see trees up there completely snapped in half. We seen trees uprooted around van as well. We are told that several of the homes are a total loss. More than two dozen people were sent to area hospitals. Of course a shelter has been set up as well. It will be a couple hours before we can get the full scope of the damage here in van. But we are told that the tornado sirens did sound about five minutes before the tornado struck van. Of course van wasnt the only place that suffered damage. We saw damage all across the central u. S. Throughout the weekend. Breaking overnight. Severe weather and a tornado touching down in the town of van. Inside inside the county Emergency Management team is describing the scene as a quote mass casualty incident. Dozens of injuries have been roared. There is significant damage and gas leaks throughout the city of 2600. This weekend. A very pronounced funnel cloud and tornado in progress. Reporter over 70 reported from south dakota to texas
Next, the 25 minute debate on the senate floor. It is now time for us to vote up or down on the nomination for many reasons. The nomination has been before us now inadequate time to get the information which our colleagues have asked for. There is also the looming fact of sequestration. We need to have a secretary of defense who is not only in office, but whose leadership is not in limbo, but is there. Our troops need it. Their families needed. Our country needs it. We have 66,000 military arsenal in harms way in afghanistan. The president of afghanistan has directed the United States to remove its special Operations Forces from a key afghan province. Our military bases key decisions about the pace of the drawdown between now and the end of 2014. The size and composition of a residual force in terms of conditions for the ongoing presence in afghanistan of the United States Coalition Partners after 2014. At the same time, we face new and growing threats elsewhere, including the ongoing