nbc news senior capitol hill correspondent, garrett haake, and "wall street journal" columnist peggy noonan. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning. after a week after among the most significant in our recent history, even before the roe decision, january 6th committee heard evidence of an attempted coup who sought any way possible to hold on to power. we saw the supreme court significantly expand gun rights even as president biden signed the first gun safety bill into law in decades but it was the court's decision to overturn roe v. wade in nearly five decades of abortion rights that gripped the nation in celebrations and bitterness from coast to coast. we know is abortion is likely to be banned in roughly half the states. justice clarence thomas suggested birth control, gay rights and same-sex marriage could be next. we now know that donald trump's 2016 election which gave him three supreme court picks, all of whom voted to overturn roe is eas

this weekend peggy noonan caption perfectly with the ideologues.tupid people should understand the consequences of their ideology. and she is absolutely right and the most important question is to strike any event bigger blow. not meet one of the leaders of the organization trying to make that happen. chair of the recall campaign. and not yet guaranteed to happen and you are doing incredibly well so tell us what about the impact on your efforts quick. >> thank you so much. and to people and los angeles to recognize the voices can be heard. we will turn in all the signed petitions. and over 566,000. and we have a pathway to do that. we have also sent out and then to get a very good return on the mailers so we have a pathway to get the number of signatures we need and assuming we get that number we are confident we will then be on the recall ballot. >> that is even a bigger story and a bigger deal. a few weeks ago with 400,000 you don't want to give out any numbers now but it felt like this was a realistic prospect just remind us why it's so importan

i could go back and do what you read in the a-block, peggy noonan, c and b block.g it, super skeptical of this deal. he has been from the beginning. he said, i don't understand how this is going to come to fruition and end. however, i will quote charlie gasparino, said, "what's twitter going to do? it's a $20 stock," is what he said. if he comes back and says "i'll give you 28," the board will have to eat it. >> you heard it from dana perino. filthy lady. isn't he doing when anybody should do something, check under the hood? that's kind of what he's doing. >> absolutely. all the attention is being focused on this because it's elon musk, and also because of why he's doing this, right? as a, quote, unquote, free speech absolutist i think people recognize how much it's needed, how dangerous we have people in our government working with big tech and many in the mainstream media to essentially advance like a specific narrative. it's a de facto propaganda department. if you are not in line, then you will be censored. i saw this with my presidential campaign. google suspe

our panelists, andrea mitchell, nbc news senior correspondent garrett haake,Ñi peggy noonan, d kimberhr. they said it's not suddenxd but radical jolt that will lead to chaos, further loss of confidence in our government. john roberts, judicial restraint, peggy. i'm curious of what happened to small conservativism in judicial restraints. >> in a way, i understand what susan collins said, but another way to view this is a long 50 year struggle that observed all processes and appeal to the public and tried to get support and play the long game and did its very best has suddenly, it seems, but after 50 years, succeeded in the court and the end result of that is that a big huge dramatic question will not be settled by the court as it were, as it had been 49 years ago, but will actually go back to the people of the country who, state by state, will decide through their legislators and representatives what their local abortion law will be. i do not see this big decision as a settlement of this question. >> right. >> but i do think it has put forward a legitimate and desirable democratic sett

peggy noonan's column got at this wisely. i think what they're putting in the ground water of american politics is you can't -- trump was culpable for january 6th, and by the end of this, that is going to do damage to him politically. yes, within his own party. they're never going to admit it to a pollster. probably not to a reporter either. but i think the sort of cumulative baggage from this is going to weigh on trump within his own party, probably more than he wants to admit. >> to your point, even for trump loyalists, it's too lis can i? >> right. and like the policies they'll say, like him, but they'll quietly say it's just time to move on. look to the future. somebody else. it doesn't mean trump won't be the nominee in '24 given the hold he has on a lot of republicans. but i think at the end of this, you're going to find a larger froup in the gop quietly looking for an alternative. >> part of the conversation is we continue to listen to the committee. they've done a remarkable job presenting new evidence, is are we doin

i will also say when it comes to peggy noonan specie is right.ent's role now to do a forensic analysis of everything that happened that day and to with a clear and concise and accurate explanation. not just for the families who were directly impacted and for the school district in uvalde but for the entire country for the entire nation is following the fallout from that day and has been traumatized by it ever since. the one thing here in washington i can tell you is that lawmakers have reacted in such a way they are saying to their constituents this is different for this time is different we are incensed by this. we want to protect children paid whether that is enough as you guys know, to push through some kind of a policy solution a legislative policy solution is really a whole other matter. but everybody my point being from senior senators to your cousin sitting at home on the couch is laser focused on this investigation and what we learn coming out of it. >> absolutely. i want to go to some sound from biden calling for an assault weapons ban l

. >> dana: following the news while i was away one of the things that struck me was peggy noonan's piece as a people we're becoming increasingly unlovable. my god, i have never seen a country so in need of a hero. such a striking last sentence and you talk about when people say do you think the country is on the right track or wrong track? the vast majority of people believe it's on the wrong track perhaps for different reasons. this idea of what can he merge as a leader that can get us out of this and we'll see how that develops. also disturbing trend in washington state. get this, drivers aren't stopping for cops when asked to pull over. plus president biden will make a late night tv appearance this week as his approval rating keeps dropping. is laughter the best medicine ahead of the mid-terms. jimmy failla is next. the unknown is not empty. it's a storm that crashes, and consumes, replacing thought with worry. but one thing can calm uncertainty. an answer. uncovered through exploration, teamwork, and innovation. an answer that leads to even more answers. mayo clinic. you know where t

i read peggy noonan wrote about this last week. >> mm-hmm. >> i'm curious, what -- how do you process. little children being shot at, bleeding out, and the officers run outside. >> i can't process that, joe. i really can't. i don't understand it. why did you become a police officer if not to protect and serve? how are you not going to act when you know that there is a gunman inside the classroom killing 10-year-old and 9-year-old children? taunting them as he kills them. it is unfathomable that this happened, but it happened. it does, to me, it raises the whole fallacy of the good guy with a gun approach. this is a bit different. these are police officers whose job it was to protect those kids or try to protect those kids. they didn't do it. they just flat out didn't do it. but it is also something to think about, confronting a maniac killer with a weapon of war, obviously a police officer should think about that in a different way from the way civilians would think about it. but it does, to me, it says this nonsense about let's arm the teachers and that'll solve the problem. or let's