There was some grand master tragedy. This is something america stumbled into. Exactly. With us on set. Are we saying the same thing . Veteran columnist and msnbc contributor mike barnacle. Politics editor for the daily beast, sam stein, where are you . Crazy. Sam, whats the name of that park . Nathan. Have you been to nathan . Not since. What do they do at nathans park . They spoke weed. Special agent. Im going to tell my daughter to come home now. Nbc news capitol hill correspondent and the host of. Laser rock. Casey d. C. On msnbc. Good way to wake up, guys. I will start, so did you enjoy your time at dartmouth . Is that a rhetorical question . Its amazing, its the best school ever. Really . Hanover, im one of those parents that get every excuse to visit. Very annoying. Cowboy for coffee . The best school in New Hampshire for sure. At least. All right. Enough about nathans park. Garden. Oh, it turn noose a guarden, does it . Lets start with that testimony on capitol hill featuring to
He is drunk on power. He really is. And calls the president s move an attempt to scare and silence others who might dare to challenge. My guests, the man at the center of the controversy, john brennan. Plus, late word that president Trumps White House counsel don mcgahn has been cooperating extensively with Robert Muellers russia investigation. One prosecutor calls this like having keys to the kingdom. Ill talk to President Trumps current lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Joining me for insight and analysis are Washington Post columnist eugene robinson, nbc news political reporter carol lee, hugh hewitt, host on the salem radio network, and Yamiche Alcindor White House Correspondent for the pbs news hour. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. Announcer from nbc newinon, show in television history, this is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. No ordinary august. We have a big show. John brennan and Rudy Giuliani. We are going to get to both of them in a moment. It was almost a half
The problem. Ill talk to the pioneer researcher in this issue. And everybody agrees were in the midst of an opioid crisis, but is the federal government doing all it should do to solve the problem . What could be done . Ill ask a former head of the fda. But first, he said it. On that, i have no doubt, and i think he knew exactly what he was doing. The profanity that the oxford dictionary defines as an extremely dirty, shabby or otherwise unpleasant place, ben zimmer who writes a language column in the wall street journal told the Washington Post its a word commonly spoken among friends but rarely written down or documented. True, weve all heard it. Some of us have said it, me included, but he should not have, and certainly not in this context, because regardless of whether the word enters the vocabulary of others, its beneath the dignity of the office of the president , and when a president uses such a word, he triggers a slur being whispered down the lane. Marty barron, the the editor
So, lets fix that. This week was an example of Trump Administration callousness, exposed by members of the media. This is drone footage of one of the Detention Centers, just one of many examples of reporters going to the border, trying to find out whats going on, pressing for answers about how many migrant families have been broken up and where they are staying. These reporters, anchors, columnists, were channeling the publics outrage. The statue of liberty i think is weeping right now. This is going to be a lifetime of pain for thousands of children. Tomorrow, geraldo this is cruelty as policy. This is an obscenity. It is despicable and inhumane to scar children for life. President trump was watching. He reportedly hated what he saw, but he also saw fox news supporters backing him up. According to the new york times, trump told his supporters that my people love it, they love this policy. Thats a quote, my people love it. Not the American People, but his people. Now, when he reversed
Brokaw and a strange story about joy reid. Plus, an important new look at americas standing in the world when it comes to press freedom. But first, the debate is raging over last nights white house Correspondents Dinner, a night to celebrate journalism took a turn. The question now is whether comedian Michelle Wolf went too far and maybe damaged the journalism profession. Her performance is being called embarrassing and cringeworthy but hilarious and epic. Being cast as wildly inappropriate and others saying, hey, whats the big deal . She was very funny. It is clear the partisan warfare is under way. There are charges of liberal intolerance and conservative hypocrisy. Of course, this is all coming at a moment of incredible tension between the press and the president. Incredible distrust in the media. You have to ask if this performance made it worse. Lets talk about it with four cnn analysts here. To talk through all of it, they were all at the dinner last night. Washington post josh d