am nana was, nationalpo corrent for the pbs news hour. shawna thomas, f vice news.rian bennett, white house correspondent for "time" peter, we have the census here of paper, it's a piece but also a broader debate about the country, about its future. y does it mat her peter: it sounds like the wonkiest debate in washington st i whether one question should be on a piece of paper. why is it fundamental? it's about power and money. the reason it'sbout power and money is because we divide america up into disicts based on this district of columbia yumet. paced on how people respond to thissen. -- to ts census. whether eff more money or less money depends on how many people are said to live in your community. some people won't answer the --e won't answer census because they're afraid of the citizenship question. the president said for the first time something very relegaling, for the first time he seemed to acknowledge that he wants bcitizenship to be theis for redistricting. right now it's based on total population. how many people live in a community, whether citizenor n

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nbc news capitol hill correspondent kasie hunt, democratic pollster, white house correspondent for pbs news hour, and republican strategisal cardena. welcome to sund t. it's "meet press." >> from nbc news in washington, the longestinrunning show television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> gorn sunday mog. we're going to get to the big political news of the week in a moment, but we're going to begin this morning with president trump's visit withorth korea's kim jong-un at the dmz. it was an historic first as the two agreed to resume their efforts at a nuclear agreement. >> good to see youai ag i didn't expect to meet you at this place. >> the president then walked over the rder, iefly, becoming the first sitting u.s. president to step into north korea. afterwards, mr. trump spoke to reportt's. >> i just an honor to be with you. it was an honor you asked me to step over that line. i was proud to step over the line. >> nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel is the at dmz. okay, richard, is this just a moment for a headline, or is there some substance to this?

also white house correspondent from the pbs news hour and political analyst and congressman eric swalwell from california, a member of the judiciary committee. >> you gave one of the most powerful statements on the floor yesterday before that vote to condemn what president trump has been saying about your colleagues. i want to get your reaction to what he continued to say and said tonight. our own government tells its employers that is something you cannot say to employees because that's something our own government condemns. we will send donald trump back to new york whether it's through impeachment or election. he is going to face swift indictment and probably bankruptcy. the question i have been asked the most when i was running for president is when will republicans step up and do the right thing? lawrence, as someone who serves with so many of these individuals, i can tell you, they are not. donald trump started this riot. mitch mcconnell and kevin carthy and gang are the looters and they are going to take everything. tax cuts for the wealthy and a woman's right to choose. a worker's

attorney joyce vance and msnbc legal analyst and pbs news hour correspondent yamiche alcindor who is also a political analyst. you had supervisory role, right? you had people working for you that were prosecuting cases that were running things up to you as the boss for important decisions to make, which is the role acosta was in. he was not the sort of line prosecutor on this case. were you persuaded by acosta's account today of why things went down the way they did? >> you know, chris, i wasn't, not in the least. and i spent almost -- well, i spent more than 25 years at doj. i was a line prosecutor. i ran our appellate division. i was ultimately the u.s. attorney. one thing that anyone in a u.s. attorney's office knows is that the buck stops with the u.s. attorney. and so this notion that he tried to throw the career prosecutors, the fbi, the state prosecutors under the bus and not take responsibility for the decision here to let epstein off with a nonprosecutive agreement really rang very hollow. >> yeah, that's one of the things the palm beach prosecutor said in response, yamiche.

debbie powell of florida, a member of the house judiciary and white house correspondent for the pbs news hour and analyst. leonard pits, jr. for the "miami herald" is with us tonight. congresswoman, i never heard of this kind of rehearsal before. is this the first time they have done this. >> they haven't said, but we didn't decide to get ready because the republicans held a mock hearing. we had discussions about doing that. we have one opportunity inviting special counsel mueller and we have to be prepare and strategic. we prepare on our own. we can't be asking the same questions. i'm looking forward to that tomorrow. >> what are the rules of the hearing as you understand it? is it possible not every member will get to ask questions? >> i believe we are all asking questions. we will make sure that everybody has enough time. we have been talking to the chairman and will have an opportunity to question special counsel. >> what we hear from jerry nadler is he supports impeachment and is treating this as a preliminary procedure to getting to impeachment. >> without formally calling it an in

for more, i'm joined by yamiche alcindor, white house correspondent at pbs news hour, danielle moodie-mills, siriusxm host. the president said of his soon to be former labor secretary, it was him, not me. you heard him in the clip saying in my mind he did not have to resign. of course, the president could have refused the resignation, i suppose. behind the scenes, take us there behind the scenes. was a message delivered to acosta from somebody close to the president, somebody inside the administration that it was time to offer a resignation? >> this was an incredibly awkward moment at the end of an incredibly awkward week for secretary acosta. the president pushed acosta, and sources tell me he encouraged him to go before the cameras, to make a public case to try to defend himself to keep his job. it was essentially a tryout to say if you can go before the cameras and i like what i'll see, i'll keep you. sort of like the "the apprentice." instead, the president looked at that didn't watch it live. essentially, acosta didn't do a great job. as a result, the president essentially walked him o

deputy editorial page editor for "the washington post" and maesha taking on the president for the pbs newsllenged him in the clip you just heard. you were there, he was pushing back against everything and misstating what mueller said in terms of mueller's correction to the question in the afternoon when he came back and said he said is not correct. ei believe misstated what that had all l actually involved. >> exactly. from the very beginning when president trump walked out to the white house lawn, he started misleading what mueller had said and started talking about the fact that there was no defense to the report and wasn't contradicting anything that he said. robert mueller said he did not exonerate the president. they weren't a group of 12 angry democrats. in fact, his people were exemplary and they were not asked about political affiliations. then, of course, eput the question to him that mueller said he was generally untruthful in his answers submitted to the team and white house aides and campaign aides lied and that was impeding the mueller investigation. the president pushed back

. >> hi with pbs news hour. as labor secretary, you have tried repeatedly to cut a program that deals with human trafficking in the labor department by up to 80%, going before congress advocating for that. why should people trust you to focus on human trafficking and trust victims if you have done that. >> you're referring to grants that go to foreign countries for foreign country labor related work as part of the budget every year. those grants have been removed as have other grants for foreign countries and let me add as part of the budget every year, they are quick right back in by congress. this is what happens in washington, and i fully suspect those grants will remain in this year. your follow up. >> my follow up question is sources have told me that the president encouraged you to hold this press conference. can you speak a little bit about what the president told you ahead of this press conference and whether you're here to give a message to the president, are you fighting for your job or are you trying

pbs news hour. at labor secretary, you have tried repeatedly to cut a program that deals with human trafficking in the labor department by up to 80% going before congress advocating for that. why should people trust you to focus on human trafficking and protect victims if you've done that? and i'd like a follow-up question. >> so you're referring to grants that go to foreign countries for foreign country labor-related work as part of the budget every year those grants have been removed, as have other grants for foreign countries. let me just add as part of the budget every year, those grants are put right back in in, congress. this is what happens in washington, and i fully suspect that those grants will remain in, in this year. your follow-up? >> um, my follow-up question is sources have told me that the president encouraged you to hold this press conference. can you speak a little bit about what the president told you ahead of this press conference and whether you're here to give a message to the

white house correspondent for pbs news hour, and nbc news capitol hill correspondent kasie hunt. >> noning bolt. >> she's a mother to be. this is not appropriate. >> we have that out of the way. does anybody other than me know who fog hat is? jonathan, let's do a little slow ride right into the next story. donald trump always has to seize the initiative. i just used the census as an example. he can't win that fight. but he's still fighting the battle so he can now take on the united states supreme court and thur enough you have breaking news that he's going to once again try to fete out front on that issue. >> slow ride, take it easy. the president just tweeted this afternoon he's hosting a social media summit chrks we knew which twitter and facebook were not invited, and he's foing to meet with some right wing groups. us this is a b unscheduled news conference. he's going to head to the beautiful rose garden. the forecast in washington is for thunderstorms. so outdoor news conference may be tough to hold. he's going to make a pitch for the citizenship on the census. despite the resign

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with that i would like to welcome with me white house correspondent for pbs news hour and political analyst, ken dilanian and former rnc communications director. welcome all. anish, let me start with you. what we saw this morning from the president, the tweets that came through in a series this morning, really underscores the point that democrats make when they've been dealing with their own infighting on racial issues and that could include the house or presidential race, depending on how you look at it. it really takes the eye off the real problem, which is the president. >> there are a couple of things. the first people i have been talking to is the president's tweets are simply racist. the idea even if you're only talking about -- >> he said go back to where they come from. >> he literally says go back to africa in the way he tweeted this and talking about these women as if they now need to go back to where they came from, that they're somehow now welcome in america. >> they're foreign when they're not. >> i think all of that is simply problematic and people i have talked to are offende

new role as guest editor of british vogue. meghan markle chooses women breaking barriers for the cover. for those watching on pbsnd around the globe, welcome to "world news america." more details about the shooting at a california festival on sunday which left three people and of the shooter dead. this, a six-year-old boy, a 13-yirr-oldand a man in , his 20's. then gunman has b identified as a 19-year-old who used an ak-47 type riflehich was bought illegally in nevada. officials are searching for a motive. dave li is in gilroy, california and starts our coverage. ?>> what's going on dave: as the shots rang out, there was at first confusion. then panic. eventually, disbelief. for most of the weekend, this was the scene of a happy, popular food festival, around 18,000 pple in attendance. by sunday evening, it turned into the latest american mass shooting. the 246th in this country in this year alone. >> pop, pop, pop. we went behind some tents and took cover. we knew right away when we saw a lot of people running away. >> we thoufit it was a cracker. when i looked to the side, we knew it wasn't. >> we turned at th

joining us now, white house correspondent for pbs news hour, and "new york times" reporter.we put the morning consult poll up, it shows kamala harris as people expected getting a nice bump from her performance at the debate and joe biden ticking down a bit. how big of a problem do you expect this busing question is for joe biden in the edge theic -- democratic primary? >> well, it went to the core issues and that's issues of identity, issues of diversity and issues of representation. she said as the only black woman on this stage, i want to have a moment to talk about race. what she was doing, i want to talk about i'm a woman and i'm black and make that central to my campaign. and also bringing up her merits so to the stage -- to the stage. i have been talking to the civil rights activists across the country who tell me they're not trying to let up, they want to keep talking about joe biden's history and they see it problematic. three can see a rise in the polls and her campaign over the weekend sent out new fund-raising numbers, they raised about $2 million right after the

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executive producer of "the circ circus" john heilemann, jonathan lemire, white house correspondent for pbs news hour yamiche alcindor. hard news to cover for sure. at a campaign rally in greenville, north carolina, last night president trump launched into a five-minute broadside against congresswoman ilhan omar of minnesota who as a child refugee fled war torn somalia and became an american citizen and is one of the four house democrats of color who the president said should go back to their countries even though the other three were born in the united states. as the president went on about omar the crowd's fury increased leading to a new and alarming rally chant. >> representative ilhan omar. omar laughed that americans speak of al qaeda in a menacing tone and remarked that you don't say america with this intensity. you say al qaeda, it makes you proud. al qaeda makes you proud. you don't speak that way about america. she looks down with contempt on the hard-working americans saying that ignorance is pervasive in many parts of this country. and obviously and importantly omar has a history of l

plus, history and change in newg york's harlem orhood as seen through art.ws a new pbs ur/npr/maristpoll offers clues into where trvoters stand on presidenp, the 2020 democratic candidates and health care. plus, what to expect from wednesday's mueller hearings. analyzing all this and more, our politics monday team. that's amy walter of the cook political report and host of s with amy walter" on w- nyc radio. and tamara keith of npr. she also co-hosts the "npr politics podcast amy and tamara, welcome to you both. shall we dig into this hole? let's do it. le's take will be at the presidential approval rating. this is its highest point ever, 44%. that has inched up recently, and take a will be at what's driving that increase right here, among independents, a bit of a shift. it was 42% -- sorry. it wase. 35% in j that's now up to 42%. amy, when you see those number what do you think? >> so the good news for the president is this is the first time since marist has beeng polls presidency that he's had over 40% approval rating for three consecutive polls. so that's the good news. but here's

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