journalist michele norris heads up the race card project and works with the aspen institute, jeffrey goldberg is the editor in chief of the atlantic. michael gerson is a column must for the "washington post" and david frum is a senior editor at the atlantic. jeffreyly start a with you, and i want all of you to 0 take this assignment, i will start a with you because it is your job. >> what did i do i don' wrong? >> in the new year, if you want to target -- i will target you with this question, you are an assignment editor and you have to assign coverage for the year 2017, how do you deploy your forces? what is the story? >> well, the story is there there is one overarchingly huge story, the story is -- the story is the upending of american politics, the story is of the outs coming in and the ins going out. the story is trying to explain to the american people what happened to their two main parties, and the deeper story also, i don't want to forget this, the deeper story is globalization and technological disruption and anxiety born of rapid change, rapid destabilizing change, the fragility of

jeffrey goldberg, editor-in-chief of the atlantic, mike cam gersen, columnist for "the washington postand david from, senior editor at atlantic. jeffrey, all take the assignment, start with you. >> what did i do wrong? >> in the new year we want to target you with this question. which is you are an assignment editor. you have to assign coverage for the year 2017. how do you deploy your forces? what's the story? >> the story is there is one overarchingly huge story. a very bigly story as michelle might say. the, the story its -- the story is the up ending of american politics. the story is of the outs coming in. the ins going out. the story is, trying to explain to the american people what has happened to their two main parties. and, the deeper story, also, i don't want to forget this, the deeper story is globalization and technological disruption and anxiety born of rapid change, rapid destablizing change. the fragility of institutions. all of that is there. under the larger more immediate story which is how did donald trump become president of the united states? and what does it mean

jeffrey goldberg said i wish there had been more facts. you saw what dan dressler and max fisher said. it was just odd and there seemed to be a lot of padding in there, including throwing in things about russian television shows for russian audience people and spoken in russian and somehow influencing our election. give us your take of the report. what was missing and what we still need to dig into? >> joe, i was one of the people friday night when i read the report who was surprised. the allegations are very strong. they are the ones that mika read at the outset in introducing this segment. but as i looked in the report, i thought the evidence was thin. you put out a query to me and a couple of of others saying what do you think? and i responded friday night. just that. that the evidence in this unclassified version is not sufficient to back up the claims that were made. so that tells me that it's likely that in the classified version, which we have not seen, there is significantly more evidence and that raises really interesting question

then a panel discussion with journalist michele norris of the race card project, jeffrey goldberg, editor of the atlantic, "washington post" columnist michael gerson and atlantic columnist david frum,

he defends it with people like jeffrey goldberg at length and in detail. i just think he was wrong.ot ill-intended, but wrong. the consequence of that is that i don't have a lot of faith in the old guard at the cia, and i am glad mr. brennan is retired, and i have huge faith in mr. pompeo. i do not know senator coates, but i am told he is very good on the intel committee. i am very high on general mattis, who i have only met once in a closed session at hoover. i knew his former chief of staff and general mcchrystal. i am very sorry he is not in the administration. if there is one guy i would recruit, one of the most trusted americans is stanley mcchrystal. charlie: how about david petraeus? hugh: yes. they did not show the urgency of the two threats. the people's republic of china into the southh china sea with artificial islands. huge problem, then this bread of -- the spread of radical islamic terrorism. putin does not scare me. he doesn't worry me the way those two threats worry me, and they weren't much discussed. charlie: china is a much stronger nation economically and , other

trump did, fulfilled it, wanted to live with the consequences and defends it with people like jeffrey goldbergnd others at length and in detail. i think he was wrong, not ill-intend bud wrong. the consequence is i don't have a lot of favorite in the old guard at the c.i.a. i have huge faith in mr. pompeo. i don't know senator coats but i am told he's good on the intel community. >> rose: john mccain is good. i'm high on general mattis. i only met him once but knew his former chief of staff. i know general mcchrystal. i'm sorry he's not in this administration. if there's one guy i would recruit is stanley mcchrystal. >> rose: how about david petraeus. >> yes. there is a ministry of all talents. the one thing i don't think the campaign allowed to develop is a sense of urgency around the world represented by the near peer status of the people eats republic to china and their insurgence into the south china sea and the spread of islamic terrorism. putin doesn't worry the way those two. >> rose: china is a strong -- dr. kissinger's book, the tigers and capitalists, and if the tigers get control we'

this evening to the inauguration of president-elect donald trump and talk to kathleen parker, jeffrey goldberg feemed and john meacham. >> i expect to hear notes of bind up the wounds. i want to be president of all the people. but i also expect him to draw, an i think you should, a sharp line, no more begs as usual,-- no more business as usual, you elected me to drain the swamp. you elected me to change the culture of washington. kind of like what obama said but in a much more militant way. and i do think, i expect to hear him say things like that. what i-- what i devoutly hope among other things is that he does not ad lib, this isn't an inaugural address, this isn't a

. >> joining me is rich lawrie of the national review, he lean cooper, jeffrey goldberg of the atlantic and daniel pletka of the american enterprise constitute. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> from nbc news in washington, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good nday morning on this martin luther king jr. weekend anth last sunday of the obama presidency. even before john lewis's explosive statements denying donald trump's legacy of president, monday president-elect trump in effect challenged decades old laws against nep tich by hiring his son-in-law. embarrassing but unverified accounts of donald trump's accounts are published by buzzfeed. thursday, the justice department's inspector general announces a review of how james comey handled the hillary clinton e-mail investigation and lewis doesn't consider donald trump to be a legitimate president. i'll talk to reince priebus. but with john lewis's comments making headlines all weekend, we will begin with part one of my interview. >> you have forged relationships with many presidents. do you plan on trying to forge a

jeffrey goldberg is editor in chief at the atlantic. frank, i want to start with you.e have seen over the last two days, is that the tableau of america for years to come marches against him, is. >> there are three attributes that matter more than anything else in american life, respect, civility and tolerance and we are not seeing much of that from anyone right now. when donald trump delivered a speech he had some very powerful lines and talked about the people getting the government back, and that's to be applauded. but there was no respect for the previous president or any of the presidents, there was no respect for people who are up there on the podium and the next thing that got attacked the next day, not even at the rally someone called me a fascist and used the language, i will get fired, but we now believe we can say and do anything to anyone at any time. we have lost that sense of decency situate and from, and frankly i don't know how we are going to get it back .. i will talk about the speech in a minute but susan what was the purpose of the march yesterday? i

then a panel discussion with journalist michele norris of the race card project, jeffrey goldberg, editor

. >> would not -- >> join the conversation is jeffrey goldberg and white house correspondent for thed press, julie pace who was there yesterday and also coming up, joe, you're going to have to zip it! >> why is that? >> when i tell you this block is over, it's over, because bernie sanders is coming up and i'm so excited about it. >> you came on the set and john heilemann wouldn't say hello and he wouldn't shake your hand. one of the worst examples of anti-semitism of anything on national television. >> i will defend my friend john heilemann from these charges. i have a dossier i would like to release at this point. >> it's like a stack of papers at trump's press conference yesterday. a manila folder. >> jeffrey, let's talk about what i think, right now, everybody was talking about the press conference. we have talked about the press conference. it was -- >> imitated the press conference? >> exactly. right now, though, what we are going to be worried about two or three years from now, who is secretary of state and who is running foreign policy. david ignatius, we got david here. and s

joined by cbs news foreign affairs correspondent margaret brennan who's at the white house and by jeffrey goldberg on the national mall. good morning to you both. margaret, let me start with you. what are the three biggest foreign challenges facing this nation? >> reporter: only three, anthony? if i had to whittle it down, i would put syria at the top of it. the heartbeat is emanating from there whether it's al qaeda or isis and that's sparked a refugee crisis that has de-stabilized the middle east and also europe. it's bashir al assad's allies, iran and russia that seems to attract more of those who perhaps feel sympathetic to al qaeda or isis, and as they turned around and watched what remains of the moderate opposition take a very severe blow with fall of aleppo, that really leaves the strongest fighting forces on the ground to be some of those extremist groups. after that i definitely put north korea, the fear that they could reach u.s. territory with a missile loaded with a nuclear warhead within the next four years and china there in terms of the long-term strategic issues that the u.s. need