The last half minute and a penalty is coming up on the collision at the blue line. Pierre wilson for interference. Its a calf chance to go out on a power play. And interferes with jeanmichel lyles. Thats graphic interference. The deficit two, 28. 3 to go. Pierre you and i have been around this group a long time. This Capitals Team is for real, and they have done a great job manufacturing enthusiasm and a lot of quiet confidence going into the playoffs. Fantastic season. And theyll be rocking the red for a long time down in washington, d. C. This is a really really good team. Net empty. Five attackers against a goaltender in four. If they mash in a quick one this could get interesting. And chara walks it across. Gives on to spooner. An early shot seems necessary, doesnt it . Chara forced it across, a forced shot by pasternak and it doesnt work. Dealt back in deep, backes trickled along. Pasternak gets after it. Still they battle and its bergeron handing it back to chara with five to go.
Im chuck todd. Joining me to provide insight and analysis this morning are matt bai of yahoo news, former Hillary Clinton press secretary karen finney, my colleague Andrea Mitchell here at nbc and former Senior Adviser to mitt romney, kevin madden. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. From nbc news in washington, this is meet the press. With chuck todd. Good morning. The white house is hitting back hard on the issue of iran. Late last night they sent their own letter to senate republicans. The message, dont meddle and blow our chances of getting any deal. This, of course, comes after 47 republican senators warned irans Supreme Leader or was it president obama they were warning, that congress could undo any deal the president makes . The gop president ial contenders were quick to endorse the letters message. But democrats and some prorepublican newspapers blasted the move. By weeks end, some signers of tom cottons letter were expressing regret. Keep this in mind. It is not just the Un
Joining me to provide inside analysis this morning are former Senior Advisor to president obama, david axelrod. Kathleen parker of the the washington post, Helene Cooper of the New York Times and former Senior Advisor to john mccains Campaign Steve schmidt. Welcome to sunday, its meet the press. Good morning. Lots of 2016 politics on the show. First breaking news overnight. A major rescue operation that is under way. Hundreds feared drown south of an italian island of lampedusa, after a boat carrying as many as 700 migrants cam sized in the Mediterranean Sea between north africa and italy. Kir simmons joins me from london. It is a fear most of these 700 already drowned. Reporter there is. Good morning. That search and rescue operation is under way involving italian boats, the multis, navy and commercial vessels. The Italian Coast Guard said 24 bodies have been recovered and 28 survived. One International Organization is saying 49 are rescued and taken to sicily. The sinking boat capsiz
sent by jeffrey. played by alzner. shoved off by sullivan. bouncing near mike knuble. very responsibly just chopped it on back. trouble for michalek because of chimera. the two of them tie and cancel. martin having some trouble. reaching in is chimera. michalek back up for knuble and a shot blocked. started up ahead. marching back on is sullivan, picking up wingers from the bench and the defensemen too. letang comes up for that one. dumps it along. karlss carlson ripped it the other way. kunitz gets across. letang comes back. 2:40 to go. back up around behind. it comes for neal. neal had trouble holding, though, and it s lifted back out. eddie: that area of the ice, doc, you made mention of brouwer getting the puck out. capitals have really done a good job after the first period of winning the battles inside their zone just short of the blue line. mike: black over for neal. malkin. neal. save by neuvirth! neal again. came back to him. protected. led it to the point. letan
michalek connects back on. sent by jeffrey. played by alzner. shoved off by sullivan. bouncing near mike knuble. very responsibly just chopped it on back. trouble for michalek because of chimera. the two of them tie and cancel. martin having some trouble. reaching in is chimera. michalek back up for knuble and a shot blocked. started up ahead. marching back on is sullivan, picking up wingers from the bench and the defensemen too. letang comes up for that one. dumps it along. karlss carlson ripped it the other way. kunitz gets across. letang comes back. 2:40 to go. back up around behind. it comes for neal. neal had trouble holding, though, and it s lifted back out. eddie: that area of the ice, doc, you made mention of brouwer getting the puck out. capitals have really done a good job after the first period of winning the battles inside their zone just short of the blue line. mike: black over for neal. malkin. neal. save by neuvirth! neal again. came back to him. protected.