PLUS: Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway Calls on White House Official Quoted by Washington Post to “Have the Guts to Come Forward”
EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) Calls House Intel Chair Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) Receiving Leaked Information from the FBI “Deeply Disturbing”
EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) Reacts to Losing Tuesday’s Primary: “I Wasn’t Trump Enough in the Age of Trump”
NEW THIS MORNING: “Meet the Press” Joins Forces with the American Film Institute for Second Annual Documentary Film Festival This October
JUNE 17, 2018 – “Nobody likes this policy” on separating migrant children from their families at the border, says Kellyanne Conway to “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd in an exclusive interview this morning.
“As a mother, as a Catholic, as somebody who has got a conscience … I will tell you that nobody likes this policy,” continues President Trump’s counselor, ahead of his immigration meeting Tuesday. “You saw the president on camera that he wants this to end.”
Conway also reacts to the unnamed White House officials who told The Washington Post that the president has “calculated he will gain political leverage in congressional negotiations” by separating migrant parents from their children at the border: “By the way I want that person to say it to my face. I really do. I’ll meet them at the White House today because I think that’s a disgrace. That person should have the guts to come forward and put their name to that quote.” Watch the full interview.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, reacts to this week’s revelation of FBI whistleblowers leaking information in 2016 to committee chair Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.): “This is the first that we’ve heard about it, and it is deeply disturbing, because if this was shared by New York field agents with Devin Nunes, was it also shared with Rudy Giuliani? Or did Devin Nunes do something, which we have seen subsequently, which is coordinate with the Trump team?”
In the exclusive interview, Schiff also addresses migrant children being separated from their parents at the border: “What the administration is doing is they’re using the grief, the tears, the pain of these kids as mortar to build our wall, and it’s an effort to extort a bill to their liking in the Congress. It’s, I think, deeply unethical.” Watch the full interview.
“I wasn’t Trump enough in the age of Trump,” shares Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) in an exclusive interview after losing this Tuesday’s primary race hours following a last-minute Twitter broadside from Trump. He continues: “People are running for cover because they don’t want to be on the losing side of a presidential tweet.” Sanford also argues that “there is no seeming consequence to the president and lies,” contrasting the “incredible consequences” he faced for “the story of 2009 and my implosion.” Watch the full interview.
Todd announced this morning that this October, the broadcast joins forces with the American Film Institute (AFI) for its second annual “Meet the Press” Film Festival in Washington. The #1 most-watched Sunday show first hit the big screen last year in a dramatic brand expansion, with Academy Award nominations for three of its featured films. Learn more.
Republican strategist Al Cardenas, The New York Times’ Helene Cooper and Bret Stephens, and NBC News’ Carol Lee joined this morning’s roundtable for insight and analysis on the week in politics, including the president’s impromptu press conference on the White House lawn on Friday. “You have to hold the president clearly accountable when he is contradicting information that he has previously purveyed,” argues Stephens.
Read the full transcript of “Meet the Press” this morning.
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