Now. Background checks. But we have to have meaningful background checks. We already have very serious background checks. Even on buying greenland. Its not number one on the burner. This has been discussed for many years. My guests this morning, bill weld, who is challenging President Trump, and club for growth president david mcintosh. Also, democratic dilemma. Is it enough to run against the president s character and competence, or do voters want a nominee who will radically transform washington . I think the biggest risk we could take is to try to play it safe. Ill talk to democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg of indiana. And team of rivals. An Unlikely Group of former trump allies. Joining me for insight and analysis are you gene robinson, betsy woodruff, brett stefbs, and Kristen Soltis anderson of the washington examiner. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. Announcer from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is meet the press with chuck to
A long time. Im not looking at a tax cut now. Background checks. But we have to have meaningful background checks. We already have very serious background checks. Even on buying greenland. Its not number one on the burner. This has been discussed for many years. My guests this morning, bill weld, who is challenging President Trump, and club for growth president david mcintosh. Also, democratic dilemma. Is it enough to run against the president s character and competence, or do voters want a nominee who will radically transform washington . I think the biggest risk we could take is to try to play it safe. Ill talk to democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg of indiana. And team of rivals. An Unlikely Group of former trump allies. Joining me for insight and analysis are you gene robinson, betsy woodruff, brett stefbs, and Kristen Soltis anderson of the washington examiner. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. Announcer from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television hist
Rose welcome to the program, we continue with our series of conversations about President Trumps first 100 days. Joining me are mike murphy a political strategist and matthew dowd, a former political strategist, now a political consultant for abc news. If you look at these hundred days, i think theres a lot of thing the trump folks ought to be worried about. Matthew and i both eluded to earlier, hes got bad numbers. The president has the toolbox. If you are popular you can pressure the congress. He doesnt have that. Hes backed into one part of the Republican Party that loves him, but even that is not enough in a majority where you can see it in health care now between the Freedom Caucus on the right and moderates on the center trying to find a middle ground to change obama care which is a tough Public Policy program am but he is running out of tools. And thats a problem. Rose we continue with Clarissa Ward Senior International correspondent for cnn. Having spent time in iraq an afghani
Rose welcome to the program, we continue with our series of conversations about President Trumps first 100 days. Joining me are mike murphy a political strategist and matthew dowd, a former political strategist, now a political consultant for abc news. If you look at these hundred days, i think theres a lot of thing the trump folks ought to be worried about. Matthew and i both eluded to earlier, hes got bad numbers. The president has the toolbox. If you are popular you can pressure the congress. He doesnt have that. Hes backed into one part of the Republican Party that loves him, but even that is not enough in a majority where you can see it in health care now between the Freedom Caucus on the right and moderates on the center trying to find a middle ground to change obama care which is a tough Public Policy program am but he is running out of tools. And thats a problem. Rose we continue with Clarissa Ward Senior International correspondent for cnn. Having spent time in iraq an afghani
Cnn. Having spent time in iraq an afghanistan and gazza i know and have seen first hand the horrors of war and all people from all Different Countries and all different war zones are, of course, victims and suffering enormously. But there is something unique to the Syrian Crisis to both the david and goliath kind of element to it. Whereby you have a civilian population being bombarded from the skies, relentlessly. Where the rebel fighters do not have anything like the same kind of firepower that the russians and the regime and the iranians and hezbollah have when put together. So and to see hospitals targeted, to see Fruit Markets targeted, to see schools targeted, there is a cynicism to the syrian war that really is particularly haunting to me. Rose and we conclude this evening with author and new yorker columnist calvin trillin. I cant remember when pictures were introduced in the new yorker but a the lo of these store hees were written before there were photographs, and before there