for more i'm joined by journalist joshua cooke charities in the capital yerevan joshua what was the turnout for today's election. well as you said the polls just closed but we the latest data we have is now three hours old five pm local time at that point it was just under forty percent eligible voters had voted it was interesting is that that's down from fifty one percent in the last parliamentary elections last year most people i've talked to every survey did that to the fact that the former ruling party used to use some unsavory methods to get people to the polls like bribery or when organizing through schools or government offices people to all go to the polls together so. now that that's not happening turnout is somewhat lower when can we expect the same results of today's. i'm told that if the pattern holds from previous elections starting at about midnight which is four hours from now local time we should get some preliminary results. and what about the expected outcome do we know anything they are. everyone is expecting. alliances called my staff is going to win a huge victory wheth

could mark the advent of real democratic change and for more i'm joined now by journalist and joshua cooke chatter who is in the capital yerevan welcome joshua what is the expected outcome of this vote. well as your report suggested the polls show. my stuff alliance with a huge victory and we we still don't have any official results yet even for them in our results but opinion polls showed him getting around seventy percent analysts that i've talked to said it could be anywhere from sixty to eighty percent but everyone agrees that it's going to be a landslide victory for him and what challenges will passion young face if he does indeed day now parliamentary majority. well the challenges are considerable. the economic problems that our media has are deep longstanding you know dating from the. i mean is it a balance from the soviet union in that you know anyone. has been making big promises about changing that talking about bringing in foreign investment new jobs with higher salaries that's not going to be easy to do. until now he's had to kind of excuse that without a parliament and his han

joining me for analysis are amy walter, national editor of the cook political report, joshua johnson, host of 1 a on npr. hugh hewitt, host on the salem radio network and yamish, white house correspondent for the pbs news hour h 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. in a week when much of washington talked about a shutdown, which came at midnight on friday, the word many mentioned around this city was actually meltdown. there were a lot of other words and phrases that he mernl as the week came to an end amid serious questions whether the trump presidency lost its footing that it may not be able to fully recover. mr. trump likes to project an image of independence and strength. polital survival was cy on the exposed when he appeared ready to give up funding for his border wall temporarily, at least in order to keep the government running plchlt trump's base revolted with white ring ann coulter writing gutless president and a wal

cook: i'm sorry. i'm sorry. we do have one speaker, joshua davidson. >> hi, everybody. i'll be brief because i have to be at work in, like, six hours so i'm josh davidson, i'm the chef for sfusd, and actually, i think as of a week ago, i'm a permanent employee, which is pretty exciting. [applause] >> so this is -- i'm coming up -- i think ten days, it'll be my ninth anniversary in sfusd, and we have seen massive change over the last nine years. and the thing i'm most excited about is i think in jennifer, we finally have someone who's ambitious enough to take us forward. and the vision is great. there's a lot of work ahead of us. turning the ship is going to be a huge project. just getting the plumbing working in my kitchen is, like, if we can do that in the next year, i'll be real excited. but there's just so many opportunities for us to do great work here and to really make the food a part of welcoming students and make the school environment somewhere they want to be throughout the day that nourishes the whole child. and i will disagree with jennifer on one thing, tho

joining me are amy walter of the cook political report, joshua johnson from npr, hugh hewitt from the salem radio network and yamiche alcindor, white house coronado for t correspondent for the pbs news hour. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> from the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. in a week when much of washington talked about a shutdown which came at midnight on friday, the word many mentioned around this city was actually meltdown. there were a lot of other words and phrases that emerged as the week ended among questions if the trump presidency has so lost its footing it may not recover. mr. trump likes to project an image of independence and strength. the president's growing dependency on the base for political survival was exposed when he appeared ready to give up funding for the border wall temporarily in order to keep the government running. mr. trump's base revolted with right wing provocateur ann coulter writing gutless president in a wall-less country. on the basis of his self-interest