hugh hewitt host on the salem radio network and former democratic congresswoman donna edwards of maryland. >>> welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >>> from nbc news in washington, the longest-running show in television history, celebrating its 70th year, this is >>> good sunday morning. it's only been four weeks, but already we are running out of adjectives to describe the trump presidency, and this past week did nothing to clear things up. late yesterday president trump returned to familiar territory, comfort food for politics, essentially, addressing adoring supporters in florida, far away from protesters or reporter questions. mr. trump is hardly the first president to seek validation from campaign-style events. the last three presidents, george w. bush, bill clinton and barack obama all chose to escape washington early in the first months of office but none were dealing with the kind of self-induced crises that president trump is facing. this past week he fired his national security adviser, mike flynn. saw his labor secretary nominee have to drop out, forced to react to a repor

huge hue wit and former democratic congresswoman, donna edwards. welcome to sunday. it is "meet the press." >> from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, celebrating it's 70th year. this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning. it's only been four weeks, but already we're running out of adjectives to describe the trump presidency and this past week did nothing to clear things up. late yesterday president trump returned to familiar territory, addressing adoring supporters in florida, far away from protesters or reporter questions. mr. trump is hardly the first question to seek validation from campaign style events so early in his presidency. the last three presidents all chose to escape washington early in the first months of office. but none were dealing with the kind of self-induced crisises he is facing right now. trump forced to react to react to a report and realized that congressional republicans were becoming more em bolden to distance themselves from the president and investigate his ties to russia and he w

hugh hewitt, former democratic congresswoman donna edwards, amy walter, editor of the cook political report and david brooks, columnist for the "new york times." david, i'm going to start with you. two columns this week that you had were head lined "how should one resist the trump administration," that was on valentine's day. "what a failed trump administration looks like." you have -- that's pretty declarative in 30 days. >> enemy of the people. i'm an enemy of the people. you know what? my fear of the administration as it's shaken out so far is that it's anarchy. there are 696 appointed jobs that require senate confirmation and the trump administration has named 692 of them. so there is nobody home in the government. the civil service opted out because they've been offended by trump. the court system has given themselves permission to block every trump initiative, the intelligence community is disarray or disaffection. to lead, you need a government. and the government has gone awoln onest columns i liken him to captain kirk on the star ship enterprise of the command deck pushing t

donna edwards is here, amy walter, and david brooks, welcome all. david, starting with you. two columns you had were headlined "how should we resist the trump administration," that was a valentine's day one, and what a failed trump administration looks like. you have -- that's pretty declarative in 30 days. >> enemy of the people. i'm an enemy of the people. you know, my fear of the administration is not that it's fasci fascism, but it's anarchy. there are 696 appointed jobs that he requires confirmation, and the trump administrations named 692 of them. nobody's home in the government. the civil service opted out. the court system gave them permission to block and intelligence community is in disarray. to to lead, you need a government, and the government has gone awol. i likened him to captain kurt on the star ship pushing the pretty buttons, but they are not attached to anything. i've been in touch with a lot of foreign officials this week. they are noticing. they are afraid of a weakened united states. >> you were upset about the withdraw and angry about a, and weak-kneed

hugh hewitt host on the salem radio network and former democratic congresswoman donna edwards of marylandmeet the press." >>> from nbc news in washington, the longest-running show in television history, celebrating its 70th year, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. it's only been four weeks, but already we are running out of adjectives to describe the trump presidency, and this past week did nothing to clear things up. late yesterday president trump returned to familiar territory, comfort food for politics, essentially, addressing adoring supporters in florida, far away from protesters or reporter questions. mr. trump is hardly the first president to seek validation from campaign-style events. the last three presidents, george w. bush, bill clinton and barack obama all chose to escape washington early in the first months of office but none were dealing with the kind of self-induced crises that president trump is facing. this past week he fired his national security adviser, mike flynn. saw his labor secretary nominee have to drop out, forced to react to a re

. >> so that first rally donna edwards was tom reid, republican from new york. second one you saw was senator tim scott. he was doing a joint town hall with mark sanford. does that look familiar to you at all from back in the 2009 ho town halls? >> it looks familiar. you can't avoid them. you can't do -- some members are choosing to do electronic town halls. they better take them head on. republicans are going to face exactly what democrats faced then. it wasn't pretty. >> and, remember, the republicans who are in office right now, more than half of them, i think it's over 60%, were not in office in 20009 and 2010. they don't know what the town halls look like and they don't know what it's like to put legislation together as difficult as this repeal and replace is going to be. so they're kind of g but i do think that you're right. taking it head on rather than looking like they're avoiding it. >> does congress have a -- do congressional republicans have a legislating problem to you, hugh? president obama signed a giant stimulus bill. bush's tax cut was well on t

when he got in the room trying to fix social security, and when donna edwards ran against him, she hammered him on that. you were willing to compromise on social security. he said, look, we have to talk to each other in order to get things done. he's very strong. he's very partisan. we should be watching him a lot on capitol hill. >> all right. let's go from capitol hill to the white house. scott, you spent some time there this week. describe the atmosphere. >> the press room is standing room only. be a change in strategy by the people who run the white house press operation, the people who are speaking to americans through the white house press briefing room. they are kind of distances themselves from what we call the front row reporters, the national reporters, those who work for the wire services, cable, and network television. they're picking people from regional media outlets. they're having them skype in from cities far, far away. the cities want to speak not to the hot button processing issues, they want to talk to the local, regional reporters and their parochial interests. perhaps

edwards. welcome to "inside story." let's introduce you to the panel. we'll start with donna gentile o'donnell, nonprofit exec.ood morning. >> good morning, tam. >> sam katz, documentarian. >> hi, there. >> good morning. pollster terry madonna. >> morning. >> and temple prof jan ting. >> hey, tam. >> first of all, let's start with seth williams, who said he's not going to run. the town rampant with rumors. he's being indicted. he's being arrested. he was found in a restaurant just eating lunch going, "i don't know what's going on here." >> [ laughs ] >> do you think that either of those outcomes become true or he's allowed to quietly stay in office, finish out his term while we also focus on the d.a.'s race? >> well, first of all, i mean, gossip and rumor is the coin of the political realm, so it's not surprising that these rumors of someone's demise continue to perpetuate. i thought it was so funny that chris brennan actually tracked him down... >> yeah. >> ...and took a selfie and said, "no, he's not locked up. he's actually right here." so, i think in terms of what happens to him next, it all depends on whe

edwards. welcome to "inside story." let's introduce you to the panel. we'll start with donna gentile o'donnell, nonprofit exec.morning, tam. >> sam katz, documentarian. >> hi, there. >> good morning. pollster terry madonna. >> morning. >> and temple prof jan ting. >> hey, tam. >> first of all, let's start with seth williams, who said he's not going to run. the town rampant with rumors. he's being indicted. he's being arrested. he was found in a restaurant just eating lunch going, "i don't know what's going on here." >> [ laughs ] >> do you think that either of those outcomes become true or he's allowed to quietly stay in office, finish out his term while we also focus on the d.a.'s race? >> w