Entertainment industry just cant get enough. Were living on the corner where satire and reality intersect. Im chuck todd and joining me with luke russert, eugene robinson, amy walter and ken blackwell. Welcome to sunday its meet the press. Good morning. We start with breaking news. A search is under way after an airasia flight carrying 162 people from indonesia to singapore lost contact with air traffic controllers. Its reported that the pilot had requested a deviation from the planned flight path because of bad weather. President obama was briefed on the situation late last night. Katie, i know we dont know a lot. But do you have some new information. What do you know . Reporter its nighttime here in singapore. They called off the search for the each. They will resume it tomorrow morning. This happened around 7 24 local time when the plane suddenly dropped off radar. Pilots asked for a change in course. They wanted to go at 38000 feet because of weather. There was a line of thundersto
Entertainment industry just cant get enough. Were living on the corner where satire and reality intersect. Im chuck todd and joining me with luke russert, eugene robinson, amy walter and ken blackwell. Welcome to sunday its meet the press. Good morning. We start with breaking news. A search is under way after an airasia flight carrying 162 people from indonesia to singapore lost contact with air traffic controllers. Its reported that the pilot had requested a deviation from the planned flight path because of bad weather. President obama was briefed on the situation late last night. Katie, i know we dont know a lot. But do you have some new information. What do you know . Reporter its nighttime here in singapore. They called off the search for the each. They will resume it tomorrow morning. This happened around 7 24 local time when the plane suddenly dropped off radar. Pilots asked for a change in course. They wanted to go at 38000 feet because of weather. There was a line of thundersto
I mean, i will say that theres many times im the only woman in the room. But i dont think about it. I think about what kind of personal jokes. Structure whatever. I guess i think theres also theres more women i think its reassuring, theres more women going into comedyd writing. Selffulfilling. For a while there werent a lot of women going into comedy . I think it was a numbers game. People sort of hiring people who are like them and often times its a white guy hiring a white guy. Lets talk about race and comedy. Norman leer admits when he was writing Ground Breaking comedies based on africanamerican families it was white writers. He said in hindsight he knows that was a mistake. At the time he didnt believe he was he didnt see what was wrong with that. Im glad he admits that now. Yes, theres Corporate America, the hollywood is not different than Corporate America in that theres a predominance of white males who are running things, making decisions. Whenever they bring black people in o
Because given the speed and complexity of the challenges were talking in cyber, thats where weve got to get. We have to work our way through how we do that in the u. S. Department of Homeland Security which plays a central role here. Our capabilities support them and other u. S. Government support partners in attempts to do that. On that topic as a journalist, ive asked the nsa whether my Cell Phone Communications have been monitored in any way because i submitted through proper channels, i got a response we appealed. And we got a stock response which others have gotten. Im a journalist, i lived overseas a lot of the time. As part of my work, i spoke to people who i would imagine you might want to listen to, some in the terror community, et cetera. As a lawabiding american, why wont the nsa tell me if theyve looked at my phone communications . First youre asking me directly. I dont know. But its a policy because they told others the same thing. What i would say is look its a matter of
Screeria nigeria. Obamas executive orders on immigration. And later, a hearing on Home Ownership and mortgage lending. At an event hosted by the center for American Progress, state legislators from texas minnesota, and new jersey spoke about what their governments are doing to help the middle class. Topics include the minimum wage and health care costs. This is just over an hour. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for braving the cold. For those of you watching at home, we had a big snowstorm here in d. C. , and it was difficult for a lot of people to get in, and we have a pretty full room considering the circumstances. So welcome to all of you. Thank you to winnie. One of my first jobs in politics was here at the center for American Progress when it was still just a fledgling organization with about i dont even remember at the time. But winnie was my boss here, and it was an honor to work for her. I learned so much from her, so thank you for the introduction and thank you for hosting u