to the middle of nowhere iowa and i think it was kind of a very positive visit. i think what we wanted to happen with russia went out the window about six or seven years ago with putin. at the rush in or the russian, diplomacy is conducted the midwestern way over a beer and a marriage. in owner s troy and tanya mount, east meets west. it s all about money. it s all about politics. they don t care about people. are you serious? i have family there. you know? they have to deal with this situations, you know? and i wish i can help them but i can t. and what would those two men all those years ago in black and white have said about that? our relationship is in tatters. we are really rabidly anti-russian right now, and i think they re really rabidly anti-u.s. right now. for meet the press, kevin tibbles. a great trip down memory lane there. a little history lesson from mr. tibbs. quickly, senator santorum, what
welcome to meet the press. thank you. very quickly, i m going to go through the president s basic reforms. no more bulk phone records will remain at the phone companies. nsa will no longer collect and hold these records. unless an emergency, officials must obtain a court order. is this enough to win the credibility back of the american people? this starts towards what ben franklin had in mind which is making sure that we can have have security without sacrificing our liberties. now, there s certainly more to do. for example, i believe the president ought to make the transition right away to ending bulk phone records on thursday, he signed another court order approving package bulk collection for another 90 days while you guys decide. patrick leahy said stop doing this. you would say stop signing these orders right now. right now. second, we ve got to the fix this back door search loophole in the foreign interrogation surveillance act. what that is unless an emergency?
the big 6 million enrollment number. will it still be a losing issue for democrats this election year? we ll have the debate. plus meeting america. kevin tibbles travels to the small town in iowa that hosted cold war leader nikita khrushchev. why are there new fears of a cold war in that same place today? from nbc news in washington, meet the press with david gregory, substituting today, chuck todd. as you can see, it s been a busy week. it s going to be a busy week. but we re going to start with ukraine. in the last 24 hours, a new flurry of diplomatic activity to find a solution to the showdown over ukraine. secretary of state john kerry abruptly turned his plane around to meet this russian counterpart sergey lavrov in paris today. president obama just returned last night from a trip overseas where he was trying to get europeans to take a stronger tact against vladimir putin. our people and our homeland
hear from the governor and if that leads us any place else. but personally, speaking for myself as the co-chair of the committee as one member, if the governor came before us under oath with all of the documents and all of these transcripts, i think everybody on the committee would be happy. all right. loretta weinberg, state senator there, part of the joint committee that is looking into this entire bridge mess, thanks for being on meet the press. we want to know what you think. this week s facebook question is this, can chris christie s presidential prospects recover from the bridge scandal? so go crazy and let us know. coming up, the future of the nsa with senator ron wyden. he s been one of the agency s toughest critics and making his first sunday show appearance in several years. of course, all the week s politics with our roundtable. how much are the democrats in danger of losing the senate come november? plus, a debate over the future of the single biggest issue that is dr
danger for the democrats after a special election that puts obamacare at the center of the fight. and a different perspective on the country s ideological debates this morning. comedian bill maher working the red states and speaking his mind about what s ailing america. from nbc news in washington, the world s longest running television program, this is meet the press with david gregory. lost a malaysian airlines triple 7 vanished is now nine days ago. all of our 21st century technology has turned up no concrete evidence of what happened to flight 370. these are the latest pictures from the u.s. navy tracking any potential wreckage. the fate of the 239 people on board is still unknown. however, the latest signs are pointing the a criminal act. malaiysi malaysia s prime minister saying