jeh johnson, african-american man, undersecretary in the department of homeland security in the obama administration and he's in the mix for defense. senator tammy duckworth for defense. she may be an interesting part for the department of affairs. salliuates who was an undersecretary is is on the list and stacey abrams who ran for governor in georgia. she is on the list for the justice department. then another big position is a treasury department. that can be a very big role in a biden administration. look at the fallout from the pandemic. and a number of women are on the short list, including janet yellin, former chairman of the federal reserve. a fed official and a senior member of the economic team is on the short list. so a number of names. the washington parlor game, who may get the call if joe biden

joining me for insight and analysis are former homeland security secretary jeh johnson, "wall street journal" columnist peggy noonan, rich law erie with "national review" and former obama white house communications director, jennifer palmieri. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press with chuck todd." >>> good sunday morning. if there's any good to come from the terribly unsettling news that the president of the united states has been infected and hospitalized by the coronavirus, it is this -- perhaps americans who have flouted medical advice to social distance and wear masks will now take this disease a lot more seriously. this is all happening just as the country is experiencing a rise in cases amid fears that colder weather will lead to yet another deadly wave of the pandemic. yesterday, the white house initially offered a far less upbeat report on trump's condition than his doctors did, creating public confusion and further doubts about whether we can trust what thi

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what do you think of that idea that jeh johnson put forward? >> jeh johnson served in a particular spot so i think we should second guess him. at a minimum, you would think the next in line would take precautions. maybe not go into a bunker, but it should be contemplated, but at a minimum, shouldn't be doing the exact same thing that got us into this mess in the first place. attorney general bill barr who you have been showing and television stations have been showing the footage from the amy coney barrett nomination being in close proximity to multiple people who have since tested positive for covid. i've seen the reports that the attorney general who you and i talk about a bunch on the show refuses to quarantine. and it's astonishing to me given the predicament that we're in. mull pl senators in the last few days -- >> we're showing the attorney general at that event a week ago with kellyanne conway over there who has now tested positive for coronavirus. and elsewhere the vice president was sitting right in front of senator mike lee of utah,

jeh johnson suggesting that they should be quarantined now. joining us now is chairman of the host select committee on the coronavirus and the majority whip of the house of representatives, the honorable jim clyburn, thank you so much for being here, sir. >> thank you, rachel. >> i first want to get your reaction to the events of today. i know you held your big hearing today on the coronavirus crisis and spoke with health secretary azar. this is all after the president tested positive. now we know that the president have symptoms or hospitalized, i want to get your reaction. >> first of all, i think all of us in respective of whatever may be, however our persuasions or to be keeping the president and the first lady in our thoughts and prayers, hopefully they'll have a speedy recovery. that's first and for most. i believe that the country must move forward and our constitution will guide that. the 25th amendment is conduluded. the goal is for us to sit together and have discussions as to what will happen whether or not there will be a vice pres

do you agree that giuliani is being used as what jeh johnson is calling putin's useful idiot? >> i think this has all the earmarks of a russian soviet era style agent of influence campaign. rudy is obviously close to the president. this is something that any intelligence service that is hostile to the united states would want to try to exploit and it looks to me like that's exactly what they're doing. if this kind of information about hunter biden came to a legitimate u.s. intelligence service, it would undoubtedly be given a stiff counter intelligence scrub to see if it was planted. to see if it was information that had been created for that purpose. that, obviously, didn't happen here. i think it's important for people to speak up on this and some have. you know, they're doing it for their own political purposes but make no mistake about it, when you have a president who allows this to happen, in fact, who encourages his private sector supporters to go out and do it, nobody should be surprised when our adversaries take advantage of it. >> do you think giuliani is a useful id

secretary of homeland security under president obama, jeh johnson.ryone is hoping the president a speedy recovery, as well as all of the people who may have been exposed in that cluster, including members of the staff at bedminister. are you confident we have all the staff in place to deal with exegenesees? >> i was a member of the white house docs. i've been an inpatient at walter reed overnight, it is a first rate hospital. the president is receiving the absolute best of care. so people have asked me today what are the national security implications of the current environment? what are the things we should be worried about? in my judgment right now in this environment, the greatest threat we face is, frankly, misinformation hysteria. in this kind of environment, frankly, social media is not our friend. i would encourage people to get their information about what's going on from reputable, responsible news sources, this network included, because we have to be careful not to buy into conspiracy theories, misinformation that is probably circulating as

. >> jeh johnson, how much of in ?well, chuck, i'm going to give you an answer a little bit different than what you probably asked. the number one national security threat right now, obviously, is covid. and the president -- the most protected man in america who reportedly is a safe. we're seeing a resurgence in the country right now, in various parts of the country. and so what happened to president trump should be a vivid example of the danger we face right now. we've been letting down our guard. we've been getting sloppy. and americans need to know this little ten-cent device here actually does save lives. and this is now not a time to be sloppy. and now i'm also concerned in this environment with the president having covid of, frankly, misinformation hysteria. >> right. >> i believe that too is a national security threat. we know there are foreign actors out there trying to meddle in our democracy right now who may be as we speak peddling misinformation to try to explode the anxiety americans are feeling in this si

for now the city's iconic beetles tours are running but jeh johnson said the ruling elite is failing its working class. >> because i have no faith in them at all. they keep changing their mind. constant u-turns one after another. i personally feel that the government isn't doing enough. the prime minister is not doing enough for us. the prime minister has never done enough for us. >> reporter: while public confidence dwindles by the day, the government is calling for immediate compliance to avoid a second wave of the pandemic that may be even deadlier than the first. now everyone here agrees there is a problem. the rate of infection is rising. the number of coronavirus cases in the hospitals is growing. there is no debate over the fact that there is a growing surge in the north of the country. the controversy is over how to handle it. as you heard there in that report, there's been discussions of doing something that is short and sharp, an intense lockdown over a matter of weeks rather than a long, drawn out period of confusing measures. people are still allowed to shop, still allowe

again, former homeland security secretary jeh johnson suggesting they should be quarantined now for the sake of the stability of the american government. joining us now is chairman of the house select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis, also the majority whip in the house of representatives, the honorable south carolina congressman jim clyburn. representative clyburn, thank you so much for being here, sir. >> well, thank you very much for having me. >> i first just wanted to get your reaction to the events of today. i know you held your big hearing today on the coronavirus crisis. you had to speak with health secretary azar. this was all after the president tested positive. now that we know the president appears to be having significant symptoms, or at least symptoms and he is hospitalized, i just wanted to get your reaction. >> well, first of all, i think all of us, irrespective of whatever may be our persuasions, our religious persuasions, ought to be keeping the first family in our thoughts, in our prayers, and hopefully they will have a speedy and complete recovery. that's first

jeh johnson, clapper, even the president got a lot of flack for not warning the american people about election interference. john ratcliffe is a smart guy. he's going to tell you what he knows and you can do with that information what you want. i can tell you between ratcliffe an shy of no one has ever lied and the other handy tolded truth. >> bill: thank you for your time. we will see where we are in the campaign this time tomorrow. thank you for coming in. >> thanks, bill. >> bill: ask the state department spokesperson morgan ortagus about election interference as well as new reaction on china today. stay tuned for that blow up between "60 minutes" and president trump that happened this week at the white house. a new fox polling on the state of the race in three battle grounds that helped put the president over the top in 2016. campaign adviser mercedes schlapp live from nashville to react to that as we count down what will be the second and final debate of 2020, next. i can't do another four years of this. i can't. there's never been more divisiveness in this country. it's frighten

jeh johnson, president 0bama's secretary of homeland security.ts, people have travelled miles to find a testing centre, and now, at one of the most crucial points in the pandemic, we learn today that almost 16,000 positive cases went unreported last week. and all because of an astonishing spreadsheet mistake at public health england, which makes it highly likely that people who were in contact with those 16000 people, were not alerted, and have unwittingly been spreading covid—19. it's a reminder than in a pandemic data is key, lose control of it and you have effectively lost control of your response. let's get more on this from rowland kao, a professor of epidemiology and data science. it's good to have you with us. just explain to us what is happening with the spread street. why did all go wrong? this is an entirely avoidable problem. what they did was use microsoft excel, many of you are aware of. they exceeded the limit of records it can hold, and that rest essentially disappeared. so they've obviously got a record of the 16,000, and they're

security secretary jeh johnson is standing by.ty ahead of the tuesday vote. first, some severe weather to keep track of. a powerful system is taking aim at southeast louisiana with strong winds and intense rain. let's go straight to bill for a check on that and at the forecast. bill. >> good morning, mika and joe. unbelievable. for the fifth time in hurricane season a storm heading for louisiana. this one is heading right for new orleans later on today. just got the update from the hurricane center. perfect 2020 fashion, this storm is stronger than expected and it looks like we are going to have a category 2 landfall now instead of a category 1. it will probably maintain that strength over the top of new orleans. we are talking extensive wind damage expected later today in new orleans. so it's moving to the north at 17, 90-mile-an-hour winds, less than 300 miles away from new orleans. here is the forecast path. that center red line goes right over downtown new orleans. we are pretty sure the eye of the storm will be over new orlea

a message of reassurance tom ridge and michael chertoff served up president bush napolitano and jeh johnson not only the safety but the importance of the election and the patience as we wait for results to come in next week's election. how concerned are you about the integrity of next week's elections? >> i'm not that concerned about the integrity of the actual vote >> we had a national the nation was at war with itself we know how to do this. >> i'm not concerned about the security of the election i'm concerned about the anxiety surrounding the election >> i'm not concerned about widespread fraud i think that's a myth. >> reporter: but americans are unsure a recent nbc news/surveymonkey poll finding only 15% of adults are very confident that the election will be conducted in a fair and equal way secretary johnson, people do pick up the newspaper. they might see a situation where some ballots got lost or mailed to the wrong person, and they might think, ah-ha, there's that ballot fraud what would you say to somebody who reads about these incidents and wonders whether mail-in voting can be c