allowed inside one of their daily meetings. are there any transnational trends we need to update him on? any threat to the homeland, any issue where u.s. purersonne could be at risk. from agency to agency we heard a consistent list of threats and adversaries. i won t surprise you by mentioning, russia, china, north korea and iran. he was president obama s briefer for four years. it s a high pressure job. what s the toughest moment you can remember? there s a number of occasions in which i was there on a friday morning and was briefing about here s the intelligence community s assessment about a weekend activity or the likelihood of a threat and coming back on a monday morning and going, well, here s what we missed. or seeing this happen on a
take a listen. to the gop establishment, if you stand on the platform, if you stand by your pledges, we ll stand with you. we have a disaster on our hands. we have a man right now that almost certainly will go down as the worst president in the history of the united states. all right. so let s bring in nbc news deputy political director mark murray. so, mark, we re getting those i guess unique quotes from donald trump but it feels like we haven t seen sarah palin firing up a crowd like that in a while. so what can we take from these latest stops? well, the campaign is really beginning to heat up. it was taking a while. president obama, of course, got in last week, filed his paperwork. all of a sudden now more and more people are beginning to get into the presidential contest. and we saw a flurry of weekend activity. of course, it was tied to today s tax day. a lot of tea party protests where republicans were railing against taxes and railing against president obama.
reasons this is important, look, the president s going to appoint a liberal to replace a liberal but there are certain justices who are deal makers, and stevens was a good politician in the court. that s the way conservatives have been in his ability to reach out to sandra day o connor and kennedy to get them to be the swing vote to side with them. losing him, even with another liberal on the court, it will not be another john paul stevens. shepard: all i can think about is my weekend activity. the masters and then fox news sunday. chris wallace and fox news sunday on your local fox station. we ll welcome the connecticut independent senator, joe lieberman and lamar alexander and the supreme court nomination will be part of the discussion and michelle bachman is on this