Something when theyre not sure if the votes will be there this time. You dont know exactly the parameters of the deal, this socalled breakthrough. Right. But we do know what they have been discussing broadly speaking for the last few weeks, and it those do with essential Health Benefits, with the socalled Community Rating, which is really preexisting conditions, states requiring that people treat people, offer the same prices, essentially, for health care, no matter what your preexisting condition. Right. And this is the essential tugofwar thats still going on. We know that conservatives want to repeal as many of the title one regulations as possible, and there are actually some members who will not settle for anything less than a full, wholesale repeal of the bill. Then there are the moderates who fear that taking away some of those essential benefits, taking away some of the basic protections that are in obamacare simply will not work and will not be accepted by their constituents. S
But offers no proof. I hope its not so, because if it is theres never been anything like it in the history of our country. While Rudy Giuliani says truth is relative and that Robert Muellers team may have a different version of the truth than we do. My guests this morning, senator jeff flake of arizona who attacked the president and also congress for failing to respond to President Trump. And, patriot games. Nfl owners vote to find teams whos players kneel during the National Anthem. Who gets to define how to be patriotic. Joining me for inside analysis are nbc news chief correspondent Andrea Mitchell. Eugene robinson, amy walter, and Matthew Continetti editor and chief of the free beacon. Welcome to sunday, its meet the press. From nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning and a happy memorial day weekend wherever you are. We have two big stories were following this morning, first north korea whe
Victor cha. Plus, weapons of mass distraction. President trump accuses democrats of campaign espionage. A lot of people are saying they have spies in my campaign. But offers no proof. I hope its not so because if it is, theres never been anything like it in the history of our country. While Rudy Giuliani says truth is relative and Robert Muellers team may have a different version of the truth than we do. My guests this morning senator jeff flake of arizona who attacked the president and also congress for failing to respond to President Trump. And patriot games nfl owners vote to fine teams whose players kneel during the National Anthem. Who gets to define who is patriotic. Joining me are nbc news chief Foreign Affairs correspondent andrea mitchell, Washington Post columnist eugene robinson, amy walter, National Editor of the Cook Political Report and Matthew Continetti of the free beacon. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. The longest running show in television history, this is mee
Easy. Democrats are outraged the administration is withholding more than 100,000 pages of documents from kavanaughs past during his time at the white house working for george w. Bush. This isnt normal. Its not normal because we are not able to see 100,000 documents that the archivist has just because the administration has said we cant see them. They have exerted their executive power. 148,000 documents that i have seen that you cannot see because they wont allow us to make them public. I cant even tell you about them right now on the show. Where do things stand right now . Lets go live to abby philip at the white house. What about these documents being withheld . What is the white house saying . In some ways this is the political fight that we have been expecting and anticipating when it comes to Brett Kavanaugh. The reason this is an issue is because he does have tomes of documents from his past serving in the Bush White House but also as a judge on the bench. So democrats are saying
Lawmakers questions. The questions begin with whitakers threemonth oversight of the Mueller Probe which he spent much of the Previous Year attacking on television, radio and online. Well bring you the session live. It begins at 9 30 a. M. Eastern at the bottom of the hour. Until then we have experts and analysts standing by beginning with manu raju on capitol hill. For a guy who has only had this job since November Whitaker and who will be replaced likely this month, there is a lot of drama around this. Reporter no question about it. The firing of Jeff Sessions that occurred after the midterm elections, democrats have a lot of questions about the circumstances of the hiring of matt whitaker, whether the president had discussions with him about whether he would recuse himself of overseeing the mueller investigation, why whitaker decided not to recuse himself, whether the president talked to him about the Michael Cohen guilty plea and the fact that federal prosecutors implicated the pres