But offers no proof. I hope its not so, because if it is theres never been anything like it in the history of our country. While Rudy Giuliani says truth is relative and that Robert Muellers team may have a different version of the truth than we do. My guests this morning, senator jeff flake of arizona who attacked the president and also congress for failing to respond to President Trump. And, patriot games. Nfl owners vote to find teams whos players kneel during the National Anthem. Who gets to define how to be patriotic. Joining me for inside analysis are nbc news chief correspondent Andrea Mitchell. Eugene robinson, amy walter, and Matthew Continetti editor and chief of the free beacon. Welcome to sunday, its meet the press. From nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning and a happy memorial day weekend wherever you are. We have two big stories were following this morning, first north korea whe
Outside baghdad. The president spending three hours on the ground meeting with some of the 5,200 troops that are currently serving in iraq. He also met with the u. S. Ambassador to iraq as well as commanders on the ground. Asked if he was concerned about flying into a war zone, the president said, absolutely. I had concerns for the institution of the presidency, not for myself personally. I have concerns for the first lady, i will tell you. But if you would have seen what we had to go through with the darkened plane with windows closed, no lights on whatsoever anywhere, pitch black, ive never seen italy. Ive been in many airplanes, all types and shapes and sizes. Ive never seen anything like it. Were coming in and i know all the things that were surrounding us for safety. Defense secretary james mattis ordered to leave his post by january 1st two months earlier than planned after clashing with the president over his announcement last week to pull all u. S. Troops out of syria. His resi
0 are you negotiating with that taliban on the issue of legitimizing them as a real government? not only us but virtually the entire international community has made clear what we expect and insist on from the taliban. if they want to seek any legitimacy or support. it starts with freedom of travel. we ve been intensely engaged with turkey and qatar to get the airport in kabul up and running again, which is now the case. we started to get flights out last week with american citizens on board. with regard to masari shareef. there s been charter flights there for some time that have not been allowed to leave. we want to see the flights leave. we need to so a process put in place to allow the flights to start to move. we re working on that every day. thank you. i yield back. thank you. mr. secretary, we requested sets of classified briefings not long ago. welcome your assurance to schedule this briefing sometime in the immediate future. yes. absolutely. i now recognize respect b
0 tonight before dumping rain in tennessee and ohio river valleys tomorrow. there s flash flooding and mudslides along the way. we wish those people well and a quick recovery in a very difficult situation. thanks nor being with us today for the story, august 30, 2021. the the story continues tomorrow. see you back here. neil: thank you, martha, very much. we re on top of two storms gripping the world right now. certainly our part with the flooding and damage and winds and still more flooding and damage and winds to come from hurricane ida, now tropical storm ida. also following what s going on in afghanistan with less than 24 hours to go before we go and are gone. where does that stand right now? welcome. i m neil cavuto. this is your world on a day of dramatic developments on the mother nature storm and the storm brewing in afghanistan as we get ready to call it a day in less than a day after better than 20 years in that country. let s get the latest from lucas tomlinson at th
it s a disgrace. but is it constitutional? tonight, the ruling from the supreme court. [chanting] shepard: plus the chaos in libya threatens a major oil facility. and qaddafi warns the u.s. butt out. we will get into a very bloody war, thousands and thousands of libyan also die if america ornate toe enter. shepard: but the u.s. military is not backing down. a no fly zone begins with an attack on libya to destroy the air defenses. if it s ordered, we can do it. shepard: and the apple ceo steve jobs comes back from sick leave and wait until you see the new ipad 2. but first from fox this wednesday night, two united states airmen are dead tonight. gunned down at an airport in germany. another two wounded in the same attack. happened at the main international terminal in the city of frankfort, which is one of the busiest air hubs in all the world. according to the investigators the suspect is a 21-year-old man from the republic of kosovo which used to be part of yug