to jump into the 2016 race, hoping he can ride an evangelical wave to the white house. why evangelicals may be more important than ever in choosing the next republican nominee. and speaking of republican presidential candidates, why is one courting the survivalist crowd by suggesting it is time to stock up and hoard supplies? i m chuck todd. joining me for insight and analysis are nbc s joe scarborough hillary clinton s former policy director, neera tanden kathleen parker of the washington post and sam stein of the huffington post. welcome to sunday. it s meet the press. this is meet the press with chuck todd. a topic that dominated conversation around the world, the news that a plane crashed into the alps with 150 people on board was horrific enough. but the story took a bizarre and even more disturbing turn when it became clear that the co-pilot had deliberately slammed it into the mountain, turning it into a mass murder. we re learning more about that pilot
with them to identify the policies that can most effectively defend america and also to preserve our freedom and civil liberties. within this context i welcome our good friend and it the acclaimed middle east analyst and author of the new book hamas vs. fatah the struggle for palestine comment jonathan schanzer. thank you so much for being here today. jonathan is the executive director of the jewish policy center and worked at the office of intelligent and analysis at the u.s. treasury and served as a research fellow at and author of the allocate army, study arabic at the american university in cairo, a ph.d. candidate at cannes college documenting history of the united states congress he has published many scholarly articles and featured on tv in this country, europe also in the arabic me and has traveled widely to egypt, ed turkey jordan the palestinian territories. and those that make back most of us think of the struggle for palestine we think of israelis and arabs