Nuclear fuel post-summit. is the u.s. being deceived again by another north korean leader? joining me for insight and analysis are nbc news chief corresponde correspondent, hallie jackson. cornell belcher. david brody, and kimberly atkins, chief washington reporter and columnist for the boston herald. welcome to sunday, it s meet the press. announcer: the longer running show in television history, this is meet the press with chuck todd. good sunday morning. happy july. the announced retirement of justice anthony kennedy this week helped make one political reality clear, despite his overall unpopularity, president trump is winning and the democrats are reeling. the supreme court, mr. trump is about to shape the court for a generation by choosing a
Educated, highly intelligent people. democrats fear the making of a conservative court with little chance to stop it. women s access to safe legal abortions on the line. they want republicans to delay the vote again until after the election. our republican colleagues in the senate should follow the rule they set in 2016. but republican leader mitch mcconnell says not this time. we will vote to confirm justice kennedy s successor this fall. can democrats stop president trump or will he shape the court for a generation. my guests this morning, lindsey graham and maria cantwell. but giant killer a political unknown topples a house leader. a sign of a changing democratic party. alexandria ocasio-cortez is here this morning. and president trump says there s no longer a nuclear threat from north korea. but nbc news reports north korea is increasing its production of
Country. we re a 51-49 senate. if he wants to throw an extreme conservative who basically says i m not going to follow precedence, these laws, then yes, that to me is a major change and something the president should be sitting down with moderates on that advice and consent and say what would be good for america. but the reality is i think we know where this is headed on a partisan scale considering he s only looking at nominees prevetted. so we know he s going to pick a conservative. so i ask you, how do democrats then can you defeat this nominee if it comes from that are you hoping to woo senators murkowski and collins? is that the plan here? the plan is to speak out about the change in balance in the court. you are not just voting as was with neil gorsuch for one more name you know that justice
Minutes to hear what they have to say about these important issues. you would have an easier time getting your moderate if the rules of the senate hadn t been changed. i want to play for you a remark mitch mcconnell made in 2013 when then senate democratic leader harry reed changed the rules for lower court nominat n nominatio nominations. you may regret it a lot sooner than you think. do you regret it? we re dealing with what we re dealing with today. and i don t that whatever the circumstances of the rules were then or now that they would be proceeding on this with 51 votes. the issue is, there s so many things before the american people and this position will change the balance of the court. the president has the right to nominate somebody, as he says, who he wants to change the balance. you want to just ignore that no. no. i guess i disagree with you. that is why we re in this
Justice kennedy. conservative, solid, i like a john roberts type myself. i m not picky. president trump ran on the idea of who he d pick. he gave us a list so i suspect the name will come from the list. and they re highly qualified. one of the things to come up will be the issue of abortion. when he was a candidate he said overturning roe v wade would happen automatically because his picks for the supreme court would be pro-life. do you see that connection as automatic? if you re pro-life you re for overturning row v. wade, and that s how the public should consider it? i m pro-life, and the job of a judge is to decide cases before the court, but one of the concepts that really means a lot in america is you don t overturn