former democratic congresswoman done 'edwards and peggy noonan. msnbc news analyst. welcome to our merry ship. thank you for being here. peggy, let me start with you. i have all your columns. i print them out and read them at night when i'm weeping about the state of our politics. my favorite from 2016. bob corker questioning openly donald trump's competence and stability. i went back and read this. you wrote on, look, he is a nut, donald trump. you know he's a nut. i go to battleground states and they all know donald trump is a nut. some of them vote for him anyway. nothing has changed. >> you know, i think that's kind of true. it was an interesting fact of the voting in november of 2016 that so many of those who voted for now president trump were people who also told pollsters when the pollsters would say, so you think he's really a totally great guy? and they'd go, oh, no. so you think he's really got the most stable thing going in his head? they'd go, well, no. so this has actually continued for a while. and in some ways it hasn't at all changed. i always wrote th

peggy noonan. former congresswoman donna edwards of maryland. and stephen hayes, editor in chief of "the weekly standard" and a fox news contributor. welcome, mr. hayes. no offense, steve. peggy is now an nbc news analyst, so with that, welcome to the team. >> thank you. thank you. it's good to be here. >> you this week wrote -- you essentially said -- concur that the president essentially doesn't have moral authority right now. can he get it back? >> you know, i think one of the things we were talking about that you showed in your what i thought were fabulous interviews with j.c. watts, who was so bracing, and andrew young, who seemed so wise and at a grandfatherly distance, but the subtext of the questioning was has the president lost his moral authority because of the events of the past week. i thought about that, and i think the problem for him is that he did not lose his moral authority because he did not have moral authority, and you cannot lose what you do not have. the whole tale of the first seven months of his presidency was i know i'm

joining me for insight and analysis are eugene robinson of "the washington post," peggy noonan, columnist for "the wall street journal," stephen hayes, and former democratic congress woman donna edwards of maryland. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, celebrating its 70th year, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. let's say up front that years from now this will not be remembered as the week steve bannon left the white house. make no mistake, while his departure may have significant consequences in the months to come, as expected, even by him. no, this will be remembered as the week for choosing sides. president trump seemed to choose his. though this may not have been his intention, the president's equivocation over who was to blame for the violence in charlottesville allowed white supremacists to claim him as being on their side. here are the covers of three national magazines. while some may seem liberal bias in the mainstream press, "the economist," the one on

joining me is eugene robertson and donna edwards and and peggy noonan point welcome to sunday, it is "meet the press." >> the longest television show in history celebrating its 70th year, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning, years from now this is not remembered as a week that steve bannon left the white house. his departure may have consequence in the months to come. he was widely expected even by him. this was the week for choosing sides. president trump seems to choose his. though this may not have been his intention. the president's equivocation over to blame. here are the cover of three national magazines. some may seem liberal biassed and the economists on the right often does reflect international. the largest in boston were some 40,000 people gathered and 33 people were arrested for mostly disorderly misconduct. mr. trump chose to be the president over red america over the country healing. democrats have it easy. their voters expect them to criticize this president. the elected leadership are desperate to criticize but quietly waiting for permiss

peggy noonan is a different deal, i love her.act that three republican intellectuals, with whom you disagree on pretty much every other issue -- >> howay about america? he has half the popularity of obama. how about the world? the pew research center didbo a survey -- >> laura: i am shedding a tear about the world thinks. >> let me get to the conclusion of one sentence. they ask people around the world, would you trust trump or obama, who is out of office? 64% trusted obama. 22%, trump. we are a laugh laughingstock numerically. >> laura: we have established that, in your view, trump is the worst, -- pipe down. piped out for a minute. you have spent your minutes here saying donald trump is the worst. my question to you is, okay, what next for you and the democratic party? what do you have to offer those middle-class voters who did turn out, my many of them voted for obama, they had a lot of faith in him, they voted this time around for donald trump. his popularity, among those people, is deriding pretty highh what do democrats off

when the challenger exploded, reagan goes out that night and gives that great peggy noonan speech and. and says tear down this wall. he says these racists might support me. i don't support them. george h.w. bush, his successor, stood up and condemned david duke. that's the kind of moral authority that donald trump is not providing. >> maggie, for him to say during the election he doesn't know anything about white supremacists, he doesn't snow what that is just ludicrous. >> right. >> someone is saying they like to give him the benefit of the doubt and wait and see what happens. how many times are you going to give him the benefit of the doubt? this happened repeatedly through the campaign. he rose to prominence nationally in 2011, championing birtherism. he barely renounced it until the very end of the campaign. he would retweet white supremacist twitter accounts. there was the star of david controversy that he scoffed that anybody would be offended. we hear constantly from the white house and from aides to the president, try to understand how he sees things. try to understand how he

joining me for insight and analysis are eugene robinson of "the washington post," peggy noonan, columnist former democratic congress woman donna edwards of maryland. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, celebrating its 70th year, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. let's say up front that years from now this will not be remembered as the week steve bannon left the white house. make no mistake, while his departure may have significant consequences in the months to come, it was actually widely expected, even by him. no, this will be remembered as the week for choosing sides. president trump seemed to choose his. though this may not have been his intention, the president's equivocation over who was to blame for the violence in charlottesville allowed white supremacists to claim him as being on their side. here are the covers of three national magazines. while some may seem liberal bias in the mainstream press, "the economist," the one on the right, often reflects int

joining me for insight and analysis are eugene robinson of "the washington post," peggy noonan, columnist

the president doesn't seem to realize that most of his tweets as conservative peggy noonan and othersave pointed out are demonstrations of utter weakness. they are mostly expressions of his frustrations, about things he's not powerful enough to change. his tweets end with the word "sad" because he doesn't have the power to do anything. tweets from the president who tricked voters into believing that he would be the toughest guy whoever occupied the office. now he's just the sad guy. of course president trump attacks democrats too, but the public attacks against members of his own party in congress are uniquely trumpian and are producing new power dynamics in the republican party. senator luther strange, who was appointed to jeff sessions' alabama senate seat when sessions became attorney general is running for the seat in a special election. so is alabama republican congressman mo brooks. brooks is a trump republican. senator strange is now a mcconnell republican, and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is doing everything he can to deliver financial support to senator strange's ca

. >> peggy noonan said there will be patriots and there's political opportunism in the white house.ome of the friends i talk to in the white house are true patriots unbiassed but they believe that this -- despite all of the this chaos -- >> you want to name ones? >> well, sean spicer. he's a true patriot and -- >> even though he lied on the podium. >> i can't speak to the lying part. >> a lying patriot. >> my point is bigger than that. there are people that work in the white house, particular will i in national security positions that feel as though that if not me, then who? if we -- for example, let's take harvey for example right now. that's going on right now. i think mr. leibovitz did a great job of putting this in context. i want my president to succeed tonight. i want him to succeed because when he succeeds, that means fema succeeds. that means those people down in the gulf hopefully are safe. so let's hope and pray that he does the right thing. let's also hope and pray that there are people that work for him in that context are doing the right thing. >> right. and actually, f

msnbc political analyst peggy noonan. and mark barnacle. and the great lawrence o'donnell. great to see you. i want to just take a first big swing at this. trump has had crises, some self-inflicted. some not so self-inflicted. this is a particular category of challenge that the president faces when lives are lost, or when the resources need to be marshalled. how do you think he's doing? >> it's early. this is a catastrophe that is going to be a rolling one that takes place over the next few weeks. it has been going on in the past few days. every level of government going to be challenged by it. everyone i think in politics right now is speaking of good coordination between the federal, the state, the city and the national guard, et cetera. so it looks okay. but i don't think that's the story. i think the story is what's happening to those poor people in houston. >> it is obviously a huge humanitarian climatological event. and being the devil's advocate does it matter what donald trump says about this? if it's handled well on the ground, does it matter whether he's tweeting

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stuart: as peggy noonan pointed out when you walk around the house of commons, the house of parliamentking and installed the dismal government who failed, the statue still stands there because he is part of history. case closed. larry, i'm out of time -- go ahead, last word. go ahead, last word. >> another inconvenient fact, a new poll,npr poll, more blacks than not want the monuments to stay, 44% versus 41% respectively. a little awkward, isn't it? stuart: yes, it is. i'm glad you brought that up, good stuff. larry elder, thank you very much, sir. appreciate it. >> thank you. stuart: did you catch the eclipse yesterday? people flooded the streets coast to coast to watch. fox news meteorologist janice dean was there in the thick of it. she'll be with us next. >> i'm shaking, and this is amazing. i mean, unit expect it to be this awesome. i accept i don't bike as far as i used to. i even accept i have a higher risk of stroke due to afib, a type of irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. but no matter where i ride, i go for my best. so if there's something better than wa