Mike lee, and democratic senator cory booker. All that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by bnsf. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. Support also comes from Carnegie Corporation of new york. A foundation created to do what Andrew Carnegie called real and permanent good. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. The scenes are all too familiar a mass shooting today leaves a trail of death and disbelief. It happened today in oregon, when a 20year old man started shooting in classrooms at college. The state attorney general reported 13 dead, including the gunman. State police said 20 others were wounded. William brangham begins our coverage. Brangham classes were well
Good sunday morning. If you get the feeling that theres a new sense of urgency in this president ial campaign, well, youre right. On the democratic side, Hillary Clintons Strong Performance in the las vegas debate on tuesday has led to calls for the Vice President to say thumbs up or thumbs down now. On the republican side, rand paul and Chris Christie are proving they may be pretenders. Jeb bush and marco rubio are both struggng and pointing the finger at the other and a number of other candidates soon may not even be able to pay their bills. So if you dont think the leaders donald trump and ben carson are in this for the long haul, then the conservative you may want to look at is our next guest. Ted cruz was the only other candidate in double digits in this weeks fox news poll and he looks like the candidate most likely to pick up trump and carson supporters if and thats a big if they do eventually stray. Plus, cruz is raising lots of money, not spending much, and he has men areplent
But mx he was president. Or is jeb bush desperately looking to pick a fight with trump . Finally, the Bernie Sanders impersonation weve all been waiting for. Hello, hello, hello, enough with the hellos, lets do this. Joining me to provide insight and analysis are the nationnational journals ron fournier, nbc mitchell of nbc news, amy walter of the Cook Political Report and republican strategist alex castellanos. Welcome to sunday, its meet the press. Good sunday morning. If you get the feeling that theres a new sense of urgency in this president ial campaign, well, youre right. On the democratic side, Hillary Clintons Strong Performance in the las vegas debate on tuesday has led to calls for the Vice President to say thumbs up or thumbs down now. On the republican side, rand paul and Chris Christie are proving they may be pretenders. Jeb bush and marco rubio are both struggling and pointing the finger at the other and a number of other candidates soon may not even be able to pay their
Dialing in. The candidates talked terror last night. Thats the headline over las vegas. That was the topic after the paris attacks and the San Bernardino shootings. If you look at some of the early voting states, well start with the des moines register, where they have the caucus, the headline out of iowa, republicans in that state say trump slips, rubio shines. A little bit from jennifer acobs piece this morning host it said bush repeatedly feuded with trump, and at the same time drove home that National Security is his wheelhouse, the iowans said. Take a look at the he can changes between the Florida Governor and donald trump last night. Well begin with trump defending his stance on muslims and jeb bush following occupy that, saying its not a serious proposal and that donald trump is not a serious candidate. First of all, we need to destroy isis. That should be our objective much the refugee issue will be solved if we destroy isis there, which means we need a nofly zone, safe zones f
His lead widens on the field. Hill Hillary Clinton weighting in with comments last night on late night with seth myers. I have to say, seth, i no longer think he is funny. Yeah i carted stash. Maria well have latest developments in San Bernardino, california. Fbi focusing on a lake near the terrorist attack. Divers looking for missing exciter hard drive. In sports, Arizona Cardinals clinch ad trip to the playoffs. They beat the Minnesota Vikings 2320. Back to our top story right now. Islamic state militants stolen up to one billion dollars from bank vaults in syria and iraq. They made another half a Million Dollars in black market sales of oil. This according to a top u. S. Treasury official. What is more, syria and president Bashar Alassads government are merging in millions and millions of dollars in oil trade with isis, despite being at war with one another. Want to bring in congressman lee zelden, good morning to you. Good morning, maria. Maria what is the take on relationship betw