May have been smart shortterm politics, but is it blatant opportunism . Joining me this morning are radio talk show host hugh hewitt, Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, Kathleen Parker of the Washington Post, and Nathan Gonzales of the nathan and gonzales political report. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. From nbc news in washington, this is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. If youre one of those who does want a revolution, guess what . I think the two parties have two of them for you. The Democratic Left and the republican right are pulling away from the center. Bernie sanders strong polling is frustrating the Hillary Clinton captain and forcing her to switch positions and move to the left. Well have my interview with Bernie Sanders coming up in a few minutes. On the republican side, the revolt by conservative house members has thrown the party, at least in congress, into disarray. Having already defeated majority leader eric cantor and forced out speaker
Opportunism . Joining me this morning are radio talk show host hugh hewitt, Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, Kathleen Parker of the Washington Post, and Nathan Gonzales of the nathan and gonzales political report. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. From nbc news in washington, this is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. If youre one of those who does want a revolution, guess what . I think the two parties have two of them for you. The Democratic Left and the republican right are pulling away from the center. Bernie sanders strong polling is frustrating the Hillary Clinton captain and forcing her to switch positions and move to the left. Well have my interview with Bernie Sanders coming up in a few minutes. On the republican side, the revolt by conservative house members has thrown the party, at least in congress, into disarray. Having already defeated majority leader eric cantor and forced out speaker bane, they claimed their third victim this week when Kevi
Front line defenders on the war on sexual assault, ill say. They report to me overwhelmingly that they think were making progress on all fronts but one. And here comes the hardest of all, i think. Were definitely not satisfied. And that is the issue of retaliation. So, retaliation, by the way, can be if you report sexual assault, the boss takes some action against you, which is or feels like retaliation. Ill call that official retaliati retaliation. The other form is just when your peers in the unit kind of find out whats happened or what allegedly happened and they take sides and maybe they treat you differently or maybe people who are your friends now shun you. Ill call that unofficial retaliation. Our piggest problem is on that unofficial part, people who rush to swrujudgment to and take si who is going to replace dr. La plant as acquisition czar . Rich lombardi is now in the acting capacity. Thats dr. La plants deputy, who has floeeted up to the actig role. Beyond that well have to
Sexual assault response coordinator. I immediate privately with the front line defenders on the war on sexual assault, ill say. They report to me overwhelmingly that they think were making progress on all fronts but one. And here comes the hardest of all, i think. Were definitely not satisfied. And that is the issue of retaliation. So, retaliation, by the way, can be if you report sexual assault, the boss takes some action against you, which is or feels like retaliation. Ill call that official retaliati retaliation. The other form is just when your peers in the unit kind of find out whats happened or what allegedly happened and they take sides and maybe they treat you differently or maybe people who are your friends now shun you. Ill call that unofficial retaliation. Our piggest problem is on that unofficial part, people who rush to swrujudgment to and take si who is going to replace dr. La plant as acquisition czar . Rich lombardi is now in the acting capacity. Thats dr. La plants dep
Infrastructure to deliver that care. Within the v. A. Within the v. A. But where we cant justify that business decision we need to be outsourcing. And just one more thing that follows up with that. In another year you guys are probably going to be gone with the new administration. I hope not, i hope yall stay but youre probably going to be gone. Are you laying into process so that whoever takes your place assuming that youre not brought back that the transition would be seamless and the justification to keep going . Were absolutely looking at ways that we can institutionalize what were talking about doing. Thats a better word. And i would say that one of the important roles that this committee can play is to be a stalwart of continuity about some of these operational things. Youve had six or seven different outsourcing. How to make sure theres a direct connection from v. A. And Community Providers and from the business side having one pot of money for care. I think what we tried to do