House Correspondent Dinner emcee. Joining me Asa Hutchinson dorris concerns goodwin, alien cooper of the New York Times, and matt bye of yahoo news. William welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. From nbc news in washington this is meet the press. Good morning before we get to all the weeks politics and the discussion of americas drone war one story is dominating headlines across the globe this sunday. Desperate rescue efforts are underway after the worst earthquake to hit nepal in more than 80 years. It struck near the capital, katmandu. The death toll is now over 2,000. It includes 17 climbers who were killed by avalanches on Mount Everest. One nepali journalist said this the sadness is sinking in. We have lost our temples our history history, the places we grew grew up. Lets go to richard engle. Reporter it is now a city where people arent living inside their homes. Every green taste space has been taken over. People are afraid to go into their homes, to sleep inside their homes. Be
Most effective job but it does come back to something that general keane said which is whole of government is a better approach to this end kinetics only and i would just suggest with respect mr. Chairman that calling all of these different groups al qaeda emboldens al qaeda. That is something we dont want to do. If we can separate them, and have strategies that take some of them out, which we do, not just with kinetics. I support the limited use of drones but i also support other strategies, think we will give further. Finally the world is extremely dangerous but viewing this set of threats is the only threats that i dont think are going to help us get to a place where the u. S. Can project our power, all of our power, our smart power in the way that we need to. Looking at failing states in how we can support them is a high priority. Helping a transition to democratic with a small d regimes is another high priority and building modern world structures. Some of the structures we deal w
Testified and said to me and started to become pretty clear quickly that this was certainly a terrorist attack, not just something sporadic check. I believe leon panetta was a part of this as well. Again, theres been the response was not that this is a al qaeda attack but some blame on some video and a protest over what do you make of that . Chair. A couple of things. The first is that it was obviously a terrorist attack, by any generally held definition of terrorism which is its use of violence to achieve a political end or convey a political message. These are people who are attacking the u. S. Consulate in benghazi. They obviously were not there just have a good time or profess they did not like that the consulate was there. There were there to make a statement against america. Classic terrorism. Why there was a hesitancy to do that at the beginning, frankly even if it was as some white affected by the video which i ended up concluding that it was it was only that the terrorists saw
As somebody with your viewpoint and seeing things all across the country, other any examples that are evolving that we can look at as an example of progress or success that we can look at and kind of understand, where is the hope in all of that. A great question. There is another great movie coming out, wont back down. You have a teacher and parent schools. If real important. Superman, i know all the sought, i needed to know whati found out she did get into school. Florida is a good model. Jeb bush is on another side of but he did a good job of forcing florida schools accountability. Right now, several years later, the africanamerican kids test scores in florida are on par with white kids in the rest of the country. By putting accountability in and giving some examples of opportunities for choice, he created an environment for these kids who are far behind and are now moving forward. Some of the stuff done in new york was amazing, particularly the agree the principals academy, where he
Reform. The rest are conservative or hardline. How did they view us . It seems to me that they might come to the view that we are , aed of war and as a result more aggressive approach to us might be in order. The other question goes to in interesting aspect of the run, the use of drugs and the source of drugs. If yous very high straight of heroin, for example. One of the highest in the world. They are increasingly a source for methamphetamine. Did you see in the streets or hear from any of the people that you spoke with concern about the use of drugs in iran . The first thing to say is everyone you encounter any row and has got a brother, somebody in the u. S. That has done spectacularly well. The idea of america is a place is a they have prospered very powerful idea and they look and makepeople go money and generally have good lives. We have taken down their two biggest adversaries, their Biggest National security problem was Saddam Hussein in iraq. They fought and inconclusive eight