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Lets start with the big gi. On wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in shelby county, alabama versus holder. Just in case you were wondering, yes, its attorney general, eric older the named defendant in the case. They are asking the court to review the 2006 decision to reauthorize section five of the Voting Rights under the 14th and 15th amendments and violated the tenth amendment and article four of the constitution. It may sound like legal mumbo jumbo. Nine of the states covered as...

Is the u. S. Losing the war against isis . Im chuck todd and joining me for insight and analysis this morning are conservative radio talk hoe hose hugh hugh yitd nbcs Andrea Mitchell former adviser to president obama Stephanie Cutter and historian and journalist evan thomas. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. Announcer from nbc news in washington, this the meet the press with chuck todd. Good morning. It is dynasty weekend. They came from the two most powerful political families in american ...

Visit on the hill today after visiting him at National Park at the baseball game last night making lastminute urgent appeals on critical trade legislation. A top priority for his white house. Chuck todd is nbcs news political reporter and moderator of meet the press. There are three votes back to back today. Its in the house and he needs democrats. He needs the democratic leader. What role is nancy pelosi playing here . Look there is a fight inside the House Democratic caucus that is essentially...

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Jon and im jon scott. Both sides digging in their heels over the raising of the debt ceiling. Republicans propose deep cuts to medicare and the president S Health Care law while democrats say theyve already done more than enough to get the debt under control. The president has made clear we cannot negotiate about whether or not the government of the United States would default. It was a mistake in 2011 to have that debate. It hurt the economy. And i think Congress Knows that it has to deal with ...

This country was all about. In the period after world war ii, a growing middle class was the engine of our prosperity. Whether you owned a company or swept its floors or worked anywhere in between, this country offered you a basic. The sense your hard work would be rewarded with fair wages and decent benefits, a chance to buy a home, to save for retirement. And most of all, a chance to hand out a better life for your kids. That is the heart of the American Dream. But the president made clear he ...

Africanamerican to be elected to that chamber ever. He has a busy and active agenda before he arrives. Whats going to happen before he gets there . We will be looking inside his file of facts. If its saturday here on up, that means its time for up against the clock. Get ready to test your knowledge against news and pop culture. Thats later. But, first the government had been closed 16 days. A default was a mere hours away wednesday night when the senate planned to avert and fund the government. ...

President. Of course now that its 2014, washington is obsessed on the midterms. The republican establishment now thinks it is on the verge of an almost total rout of the tea party. These days in the House Republicans actually give john boehner a harder time than they give me. The Republican Congress is so fractured. Which means orange really is the new black. In your sunday forecast today, the midterm elections. Its may 4th, exactly six months away from the critical 2014 midterm elections, which...

Same. We are also seeing a rare cooperation between Kurdish Peshmerga and iraqi forces, two historic adversaries. They are now united against isis, a common enemy. Coordinating attacks and sharing bases. France and the cia are helping arm the kurds but they are still outgunned against isis, which is armed with our heavy weaponry captured from the iraqi army. We start again today inside the kurdish capital of erbil, iraq, with nbcs duncan golestani. Duncan, what is the latest . Reporter hey, abby...

Or easy. But im confident that we can and will working closely with our allies and partners. Welcome to the journal editorial report. Im paul gigot. That was president obama saying his Foreign Policy team wassing working on a range of options but backing off reports they were close to a decision authorizing air strikes against the islamic extremists in syria. My guests say a plan to take on isis is needed now more than ever and believes american Led Coalition can still successfully defeat the te...