Independents. How independent voters are changing the landscape of american politician. Im chuck todd. Joining me for insight and analysis this sunday morning, the former chairman of the Republican National committee, Michael Steele. Carolyn ryan of the new york times. Kathleen parker and chris slisaliza from the washington post. This is meet the press. Good sunday morning and happy fourth of july weekend despite some slightly unseasonable weather there were some spectacular fireworks on the National Mall here in washington, d. C. We do fourth of july really well in Washington Trust me. As america celebrated its 239th birthday. Thankfully, despite a heightened state of alert, there were no terror related incidents. That said, authorities across the country we main on high alert with the big fear being still that an isisinspired lone wolf attack could happen here. Weve got all the bases covered this morning. Richard angel is in turkey, Andrea Mitchell in vienna as the Iran Nuclear Talks
Sounds for him uncharacteristically defensive in trying to justify his remarks. You can read the whole statement on our website. Trumps a statement has become the dominant matter and republican president ial politics of late. Every republican president ial candidate has been asked to comment on trumps original statement. How to respond . One school of thought says show sympathy for the man. I salute donald trump for focusing on the need to address illegal immigration. The Washington Cartel does not want to do that. He is a colorful way of speaking. That is not how i speak but i am not going to engage in the devious game of throwing rocks and attacking other republicans. Im not going to do it. Mark so ted cruz, santorum and showing some empathy for trump and not going after him. Theres another school of thought that says hit him hard. Governor bush this was a guy who was a democrat for most of the last decade. I dont think he represents a Republican Party and his views are way out of th
Which is not as much as the 45 million that Hillary Clinton has raised. Jeb bush has raised an average of 700,000 per day and hillary more per day. And hillary at 562,500 per day. Al i dont care where this hangs, this is awesome fruit. In only 16 days, Dickie Gephardt says that there will be money but jeb bush wont run out of money. This was thought to run all of the candidates out of the field and scare them off, this done this didnt work. If jeb doesnt win one of the caucuses, that money advantage will be a lot less impressive. Mark i will say two things, my caveat is that some of the super pac donors have been restricted to the size of the checks that they have written. So i think bush will continue to swell even though he will not be able to make contribution some cell. The second thing is that i think this will go into may be april or may, but i suspect that bush and his super pac will be one or one of the few that can go the distance of the thing does go a long. Al yeah, i agree.
Move into the final stages in vienna. The stakes are very, very high. We will not rush and we will not be rushed. Im glad theyre not trying to meet some artificial deadline. Gwen will any deadline hold . And on the campaign trail war tests grow and donald trump and his tough stand on immigration become the issue du jour. Mr. Trump i will build a better world and cheaper and mexico will pay. The first rule in politics is when youre in a hole, stop digging. Gwen the leading democrat seizes on the disarray to tar the entire field with the same brush. Hillary clinton i dont care how many people running for president on the republican side try to demean immigrants, insult immigrants, cast aspersions on immigrants. Gwen is the trump factor hurting the g. O. P. . Covering the week, susan davis Congressional Correspondent for u. S. A. Today, Yochi Dreazen managing editor for Foreign Policy magazine, and Karen Tumulty of the Washington Post. Awardwinning reporting and analysis, covering history
Move into the final stages in vienna. The stakes are very, very high. We will not rush and we will not be rushed. Im glad theyre not trying to meet some artificial deadline. Gwen will any deadline hold . And on the campaign trail war tests grow and donald trump and his tough stand on immigration become the issue du jour. Mr. Trump i will build a better world and cheaper and mexico will pay. The first rule in politics is when youre in a hole, stop digging. Gwen the leading democrat seizes on the disarray to tar the entire field with the same brush. Hillary clinton i dont care how many people running for president on the republican side try to demean immigrants, insult immigrants, cast aspersions on immigrants. Gwen is the trump factor hurting the g. O. P. . Covering then week, susan davis Congressional Correspondent for u. S. A. Today, Yochi Dreazen managing editor for Foreign Policy magazine, and Karen Tumulty of the Washington Post. Awardwinning reporting and analysis, covering histor