jack reed: thank you. obviously, we're trying to approach the north korean issue with a comprehensive strategy, diplomacy, military action, military preparedness certainly. one aspect is information warfare. my sense, and i'm not the expert, you are, but kim jong-un is paranoid about his own people and what information they're getting. and do you think we're making a sufficient effort to get information into north korea through various means so that we can begin to by-pass the dear leader and go to the people, and that could create pressures on him to forestall his nuclear ambition? harry harris: i believe we're making an effort. i'm not with the totality of that effort. but i do believe that people in north korea revere kim jong-un. and i believe that the idea that somehow we could -- or that somehow that they could rise up against kim jong-un, if the situations in -- situation in north korea became so dire, i think that might be a hollow hope. i believe that they consider him a god king, and they truly r

talk to two leaders of the senate armed services committee, republican john mccain, and democrat jack reed. >>> plus how the trump administration plans to get tougher on illegal immigration. >> it is fair to say that the definition of "criminal" has not changed. but where on the spectrum of criminality we operate has changed. >> homeland security secretary is with us. >>> you have to understand that the bible is our constitution. >> on this easter sunday, we bring together three religious leaders and ask, can we really separate religion and politics? joining me for insight and analysis are andrea mitchell of nbc news, mark leibovich of "the new york times," former republican senator john sununu and heather mcgee of demos action. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest running television show in history, celebrating its 70th year, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning, happy easter to those celebrating. first, north korea last night launched a ballistic missile from its base in sinpo but it exploded on the

talk to two leaders of the senate armed services committee, republican john mccain and democrat jack reed. >>> plus, how the trump administration plans to get tougher on illegal immigration. >> it's fair to say that the definition of criminalas not changed but we're on the -- here on the specter of criminality we operate has changed. >> john kelly is with us. >>> and politics in the pulpit. >> you cannot understand the faith movement if you do not understand that the bible is our constitution. >> on this easter sunday, we ask bring together three religious leaders and ask can we really separate religion and politics? joining me for insight and analysis, andrea mitchell, mark leibowitz of "the new york times," john sununu and heather mcgee of demoos action. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> from nbc news, the longest running show in television history, celebrating its 70th year, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning. happy easter to those of you celebrating. we have a lot of politics to get to. but first, the growing tension between the united states a

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joining me is jack reed, an army veteran and a member of the senate armed services committee.ome. >> thanks, jake. >> the president said it ordered the strike because it was in the direct interest of the united states. >> i think it was important to respond to the despicable behavior of the syrian regime, assad regime, but hasn't changed the facts on the ground which is assad controls significant territory. there's russian support, but in terms of stopping if you can the chemical weapons attacks against the people of syria, i hope it succeeds. >> the white house said today it would hold open the possibility of further military action against the assad regime, and they said there's no change in their posture, but sean spicer, your fellow rhode islander, also said that gassing a baby or using a barrel bomb would prompt a response from the president. how did you interpret that comment? >> well, there's been several directions that the administration has taken over the last several weeks. one is seeming to concur that assad should stay in power. there's no attempts to remove him a

. >> senator jack reed, the ranking democrat on the armed services committee, supports a tone on chinance more diplomacy. >> so if china can be brought to a point where they are putting pressure constantly on north korea there is an opportunity i think to try to freeze their systems and then roll them back. >> now on monday the annual white house easter egg roll will be attended by more than 21,000 invited guests which is smaller than usual. but trump officials say this is in order to provide a less crowded more thoughtful experience for attending children. elaine. >> errol barnett, thanks. >>> president trump said last week he wants to repeal and replace the affordable care act without moving on to other priorities but with rebels in congress struggling with a new health care law, president trump will have to decide whether to leave it in its current state or move on. chip reid. >> let obamacare explode, it is exploding thousand. >> that's what president trump said after republicans scrapped their health care bill last month but larry levitt session the president is wrong. >> there is

. >> joining me is senator jack reed, democrat of rhode island, the ranking member of the senate armed services committee, he and senator mccain do a lot of work together sometimes. welcome to the show. >> thanks, chuck, very much. >> let me start with north korea and get to the issue of the unpredictability aspect of president tr korea is an asset and not a liability? >> i don't think it's an asset. i think you have to have a strategy. as senator mccain indicated, china is key to that strategy. they're the biggest trader with north korea, their trade went up, in fact, last year. they've indirectly provided electronics for these missiles. if china can be brought to the point where they're putting pressure constantly on north korea, there is an opportunity, i think, to try to freeze their systems and roll them back. but it has to be a long term, deliberate, day by day strategy. one of the things about the president, he's getting good military advice from general mattis and general mcmaster, but he needs a much stronger state department. >> i want to ask about this, you talk about his re

talk to two leaders in the senate armed services committee, republican john mccain and democrat jack reed. >>> plus, how the trump administration plans to get tougher on illegal immigration. >> it is fair to say that the definition of criminal is not changed, but where on the spectrum of criminality we operate has changed. >> hoemeland security secretary john is with us. on this easter sunday, we bring together three religious leaders and ask, can we really separate religion and politics? joining me for inside an analysis are andrea mitchell, nbc news, mark leeb vich of the "new york times," former republican senator john sununu and heather jackson. welcome to sunday. it's "meethepress." kour >> announcer: the longest running show in history, it's "meet the press." this is chuck todd. >> good morning and happy easter to those of you celebrating. we have a lot of politics, but first the tension in north korea. north korea launched a missile from sinpo, but the missile exploded just after its launch. this after vice president mike pence landed in south korea for talks on how to counter nort

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. >> reporter: senator jack reed supports the president's softer tone on china and wants more diplomacy>> so if china can be brought to the point where they are putting pressure, constantly on north korea, there is an opportunity, i think, to try to freeze their systems and then roll them back. >> reporter: now on monday, the annual white house easter egg roll will be attended by more than 21,000 invited guests, which is smaller than usual. but trump officials say this is in order to provide a less-crowded, more thoughtful experience for attending children. elaine? >> errol barnett, thanks. >>> there are more than 2 billion christians around the world, about half of whom are catholic. today on easter sunday, christians of all denominations celebrate the resurrection of jesus according to scripture. here's tony dell culpa. >> reporter: on christianity's holiest day, pope francis lamented the problems in the world but promised divine assistance, an unseen hand helping all migrants share bread and hope on their journey. in england, queen elizabeth traveled to mass in a jaunty hat, while th

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as he saw jack reed say earlier, the president needs to come to congress and the american people anythingwith the policy will be going forward. for example china. which is funding north korea's activities. they may have had a nice meeting in mar-a-lago but what are we going to do with that? will we have sanctions and so forth? >> the president tweeted today while attending china a consummate leader which had been a major campaign promise when they're helping with north korea? we see now a transactional foreign policy rather than a doctrinal foreign policy? >> i think foreign-policy to work has to be transactional. if it's not confrontational. the president wants to avoid confrontation he will do that. >> and al off-camera was not into that which is been doing. we appreciate that joni. thank you so much. happy easter. al mottur, sean noble, good to see you. >> still ahead, your looking images from this some mornings sunrise service. coming up we will see what easter means to millions of americans. then it's a fortune. well, i'm sure you talk to people all the time who think $100k is just p

talk to two leaders of the senate armed services committee, republican john mccain, and democrat jack reedw the trump administration plans to get tougher on illegal immigration. >> it is fair to say that the definition of "criminal" has not changed. but where on the spectrum of criminality we operate has changed. >> homeland security secretary is with us. >>> you have to understand that the bible is our constitution. >> on this easter sunday, we bring together three religious leaders and ask, can we really separate religion and politics? joining me for insight and analysis are andrea mitchell of nbc news, mark leibovich of "the new york times," former republican senator john sununu and heather mcgee of demos action. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest running television show in history, celebrating its 70th year, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning, happy easter to those celebrating. first, north korea last night launched a ballistic missile from its base in sinpo but it exploded on the launch pad. v

host: senator jack reed there on "meet the press" with chuck todd. about president trump's tax history. we're asking whether it matters to you. phone lines for republicans, democrats and independents. we'll put those numbers on the screen and go to our line for democrats. janus is in freedom, california. janus, good morning. janus, are you there? we'll go to ted, waiting in new york, independent. good morning. caller: good morning to you. trump had a problem with any embarrassing information, maybe anything damaging, it could have been leaked by now. believe it or not, our personal information has been out and that's true. so all these things is just political. and i know that donald trump -- trying to destabilize this man and then impeach him, maybe and that this will continue. even if the tax will resolve in the next month or two, donald trump is enemy number one and they don't want him to succeed. believe it or not. it is a sad thing. the next four years, he is going to be still protest, protest about whom, donald trump, they don't like to be pres

. >> michael, jack reed, ranking democrat on the senate armed services committee, this is something he said on our air a short time ago. take a listen. >> we don't seem ourselves the united states to have a plan or a strategy. the administration has been going very quickly from toleration it appears of assad to now rejection of assad. >> and there does seem to be a bit of a split inside the administration on just precisely how to deal with all of this. ambassador nikki haley talk regime change, tillerson say assad's fate is up to his people. what do we know aut this administration's position on the fu of syria and on the future of bashar al assad. >> it seems like they're still trying to figure it out. they do not seem to have adopted a policy of further american intervention to try to push assad out. nikki haley, her comments were interpreted that way from her appearances on the sunday talk shows. i don't think she was talking about an emerging american strategy where we, for instance, arm and train more syrian rebels to try to, you know, take damascus. she seemed to be saying that th

. >> meanwhile, democratic senator jack reed urging president trump to build up the state department to counter north korea's provocations. >> if china can be brought to a point where they are putting pressure constantly on north korea, there's an opportunity, i think, to try to freeze their systems and roll them back. but there has to be a long-term, deliberate, day by day strategy, and one of the things i think that's harming the president is he's getting good military advice from general mattis and general mcmaster, but he needs a much stronger state department. >> north korea's missile test coincided with vice president mike pence's trip to south korea. he said the u.s. commitment to the region has never been stronger, telling troops the missile test was merely a provocation. >> this morning's provocation from the north is just the latest reminder of the risks each one of you face every day in the defense of the freedom of the people of south korea and the defense of america in this part of the world. >> and nbc is in that part of the world in seoul for us with more. janice, hell

experts like senator jack reed of the armed services committee said there are no good military options for destroying north korea's nuclear options. >> there are military options but they are risky. >> nobody knows that better than admiral harris who has the power to destroy north korea but not before millions could unleash a barrage on the south korean capital. >> 25 million people in a relatively small area within artillery range of the dmz. >> u.s. has patriot anti-missile batteries in south korea, and in the coming days, a second defense system called thaad would become operational but those are designed to shoot down guided missiles like they cannot defend against an old-fashioned artillery rocket. >> isn't it incredible? >> it is, sir. and thaad is not designed to counter those kinds of basic weapons. >> and what is designed to do that? anything? >> we do not have those kinds of weapons that can counter those roths once they're launched. >> it would seem like this is a standoff in which each side has the capability to inflict unacceptable damage on the other, but admiral harris s

despite such overwhelming fire power, experts like senator jack reed of the armed services committee, said there are no good military options for destroying north korea's nuclear weapons program. >> there are military options, but they are risky. >> reporter: nobody knows that better than the head of the pacific command admiral harry harris, who has the power to destroy north korea. but not before thousands of artillery pieces and rocket launchers could unleash a barrage on the south korean capital. >> seoul is the most densely populated city on the planet. 25 million people in a relatively small area. within artillery range of the dmz. >> reporter: the u.s. has patriot anti-missile batteries in south korea. and in the coming days, a second missile defense system called thaad will become operational, but those are designed to shoot down guided missiles like these. they cannot defend against an old-fashioned artillery round or rocket. >> isn't it credibly difficult to -- incredibly difficult to counter the 4,000 artillery pieces that the north koreans have on the dmz. >> it is, sir, an

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reed, maurice bryant. i talk abouthipsters , and then i focus on the beats, the two figures of the cast of allen ginsberg and jack kerouac, two of the central biographical elements in this book. and then i go on and talk about timothy leary, ken kesey and a whole array of characters of course through the decade of the 1960s. when we think of the counterculture of the 1960s, when we think of the hippies we think of literally millions of participants in one capacity or another. and they were individuals who were disenchanted with matters as they were in some fashion. they were concerned about the greatest thing on the american body republic. and its continuance. they were deeply concerned about the war in vietnam. so those are kind of the two twin pillars in a manner of speaking. >> but they were also concerned about elemental issues. they were concerned about family relations. and personal dealings and sexuality. and consciousness. and rationality. >> and there was this coalescing of the forces, some demographic, some economic, some literary, some cultural, political in nature that melted together and provided thi

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