joining me for insight and analysis are "wall street journal" columnist peggy noonan, eddie glaude, chair of the center for african studies, kristen welker, and erick erickson, editor of "the resurgent." welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >>> good sunday morning. it wasn't just the stock market that experienced wild swings this week. consider the last few days at the white house. white house staff secretary rob porter resigns amid charges by his two ex-wives of physical abuse. chief of staff john kelly reportedly offers to resign over his handling of the issue. we learned that white house counsel don mcgahn has known for a year about the alleges against porter. white house communications director hope hicks who is reportedly dating porter takes part in crafting the initial statement supporting him, and white house chief writer david sorensen resigns after his ex-wife claims to the fbi he was physically abusive. yesterday, president trump tweets in an apparent defense of both, quote, people's lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation. is there no such thing any lo

wendy osefo, ryan williams, eddie glaude as well. >>> candidate donald trump and hillary clinton back2016, let's take a listen. >> from everything i see has no respect for this person. >> well, that's because he would rather have a puppet as president. >> no puppet. you're the puppet. >> it's pretty clear, you won't admit -- >> you're the puppet. >> russians have engaged in cyber attacks against the united states of america, that you encouraged espionage against our people. you continue to get help from him because he has a very clear favorite in this race. >> now 13 russians have been indicted by robert mueller for interfering in u.s. politics. according to that indictment handed up yesterday months before that debate, the defendants and their co-conspiratorers sent money to build a cage large enough to hold an actress depicting clinton in a prison uniform. the indictment also quotes an e-mail one of the russians sent to a family member, quote, we had a slight crisis here at work, the fbi busted our activity, not a joke. so i got preoccupied with covering tracks together with the col

chair of the department of african-american studies at princeton university, eddie glaude, jr., nbc newsill correspondent kasie hunt, donny deutsch joins the conversation, tongue twister, along with pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the "washington post" and msnbc political analyst eugene robinson. joe, that dichotomy between the president's words and the heart felt desperation of that mother was chilling. >> well, i'm just struck by the emptine emptiness, the hypocrisy of donald trump's words "we will do anything protect you." after 20 children were slaughter ed in newtown five years ago before christmas break. washington did nothing to protect those children. they did nothing to stop american from being gunned down in future attacks. >> after san bernardino they did nothi nothing. after country music fans with shot in las vegas, their bodies being used as target practice they did nothing. bump stock was added to a semiautomatic to make it fire like an illegal weapon. we'll do anything to protect you? they did nothing to protect americans from future kill ings. wh