EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) Reacts to Sen. Warren’s Charge That Criminal Justice System is “Racist… Front to Back”: “The Solutions Are There for Us”
EXCLUSIVE: Klobuchar Brushes Off Cynthia Nixon’s Call for Socialism in the Democratic Party: “I Make of It That She’s in a Primary in New York State and Running for Office”
AUGUST 5, 2018 – In an exclusive interview on “Meet the Press,” Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) reacts to President Donald Trump’s tweets this morning calling the media the “enemy of the people” and “dangerous & sick”: “It’s not my point of view. … But you could certainly find people on the news saying things about the president that are not appropriate.”
“The president really believes that a lot of the news is not accurate,” adds Blunt. When asked by moderator Chuck Todd if he too believes that, Blunt replies, “There’s a vast variety of how the same news is reported, so somebody is not – that middle of the road news that people my age grew up with is no longer the news.” Watch the interview, including the senator’s defense of Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.).
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), who is running for her third term in the Senate, responds to two high-profile Democrats on the broadcast this morning in an exclusive interview. On claims by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) that the criminal justice system is “racist… front to back,” Klobuchar, a former county prosecutor, says she worked with “good” people, but “we know that there is racism in the system that needs to be fixed.”
When asked about New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon’s call for socialists to fit into the party, the senator brushed off the rhetoric as “she’s in a primary in New York state and running for office,” adding “but what I’ve seen in our party is that, yes, there are divides along certain issues, but what unites us is so much stronger.” Watch the full interview, including the Minnesota senator noting she is “very concerned” about the legitimacy of the 2018 midterm elections.
Republican strategist Mike Murphy joins Todd to dissect Republican primary ads, specifically those from candidates who, as Todd puts it, “have noticed the trend: that the closer you are to Mr. Trump, the closer you are to winning.” Murphy predicts the 2020 presidential election: “My bet is you’re going to have somebody Trumpian. … If we have a bumpy midterm, the whole Trump thing in ’19 could be a whole new ballgame.” Watch the conversation.
Republican strategist Al Cardenas, The New York Times’ Helene Cooper, The Washington Post’s Robert Costa and POLITICO’s Eliana Johnson discuss “QAnon,” described by NBC News national security analyst Clint Watts as “this idea that there is a secret source inside the intelligence community.” Costa notes: “There’s not really an expectation inside of this White House that the president’s going to somehow speak out on QAnon.” Watch the discussion.
Read the full transcript of “Meet the Press” this morning, and follow the show on Twitter and on Facebook for the latest.
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