yamiche alcindor, and former republican governor of north carolina, pat mccrory. 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. we're going to get to all the political news in a moment. we're going to start with a deadly clash in portland, oregon. pro trump and counterprotesters clashed overnight. fist fights broke out and at one point gunfire broke out during a confrontation and a man was killed. joining me now is mike baker of "the new york times" who has been covering these events in portland. mike, tell us what you saw, what you witnessed, and if you can, who shot this individual? >> yeah, last night there was a huge gathering of trump supporters out in the suburbs of portland. they had this vow that they were going to go into portland waving flags as sort of a caravan. initially the plan was to sort of circle around the highways, but some of the ppdowntown wher were a whole large crowd of counterprotesters th