Plus republican civil war. Steve bannon identifies the enemy of the trump movement. There is a time and season for everything and right now it is a seasonal war against a gop movement. And more and more women accuse Harvey Weinstein of harassment. Will the growing anger change hollywood and behind . Joining me is kim early strasle, dan balz, nbc news capitol hill correspondent casey hunt and heather mcghee. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. The longest running show in television history, celebrating its 70th year. This is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. It was easy to watch President Trump go after president obamas signature domestic and Foreign Policy achievements this week and conclude he was simply working to undo the obama presidency. But it was also possible to conclude mr. Trump was eager to look like he was doing something. Heres the president on friday about the proposed cuts to the poor on subsidies on obamacare. Now, if the democrats were smart, what they would do is come and negotiate something. What would be nice, if the Democratic Leaders could come over to the white house. The democrats should come to me. I would even go to them. And here is the president on iran. We will see what happens with iran. Were very unhappy with iran. Because well see what happens over the next short period of time. Of course, complicating matters for mr. Trump is the chaos that consistently surrounds his administration. The president engaged in a twitter battle with a chairman of the committee responsible for my reworking of the iran deal. He larked out at rex tillerson, actually, even questioning iq and when tom price resigne eres. President trump is promising to make sweeping changes here and ov overseas. It has become a familiar tactic. Congress has already begun the work and hopefully congress will come through. President trump pledged to follow through on his Campaign Promise to dismantle president obamas signature domestic and Foreign Policy achievements. We are going to have great health care. We are very unhappy with iran. Then pass the buck to a congress controlled by his own party unable to pass significant legislation, challenging lawmakers to either constrain him or to help him achieve the goals in a more realistic way. On health care the president ended government payments to Insurance Companies that subsidized premiums for six million lowincome americans on the obamacare exchanges. The Budget Office says this move could raise premiums by 20 next year and leave one million more americans without insurance. That money is going to Insurance Companies to prop up Insurance Companies. That money is going to Insurance Companies to lift up their stock price. The president is already facing pushback from some republicans. Lowincome people are going to have a very difficult time that for some it may be impossible affording their deductibles and their koepays. The costsharing reductions if theyre not paid to the Insurance Companies, premiums will likely increase. So the Insurance Companies will get their money either way. In the blame game of who broke health care, democrats are threatening to make this a Campaign Issue this year and next. Obamacare is not perfect. We should try to improve it. It doesnt mean you take it away and hurt people. Meanwhile, on iran, after mr. Trump was urged by many of his own Foreign Policy advisers to keep the knnuclear deal in place iran is not a material breach of the agreement and i do believe the agreement today has delayed the development of a Nuclear Capability by iran. In the event we are not able to reach a solution working with congress and our allies, then the agreement will be terminated. The president has kind of rolled the grenade in the room, had it go off without having a strategy as to where were going. And joining me now is the u. S. Ambassador to the united nations, ambassador haley. Welcome back to meet the press. Let me start with the nuclear deal and what the president has proposed here. Defense secretary 3459 tis said he believed the deal was in the National Security interest of the United States. Are they wrong . Reports indicate that you have been advocating what the president did more strongly really than anybody else in the administration. Why are they wrong and youre right about this . Theyre not wrong. When you talk about compliance, that is with the International Agreement that was supposedly made. What were talking about is all of the factors that go into u. S. Law for the president to decide sit still proportional for the threat. When you look at the threats and when you look at the fact that theyre the number one state sponsor of terrorism, you look at the Ballistic Missile tests they continue to do, the arm sales, all the trouble they are causing around the world, what the president is saying is its not proportionate. We need to look at this and see how it is. But in reference to what mattis said, with that, no one is questioning that what they have seen so far they are in compliance. You said something in a speech a couple of months ago and it was a rhetorical question, so i am going to make you answer it, i hope, which is the iran deal. Congress has to determine whether it is too big to fail. Do you believe ifs too big to fail . It seems like the International Community acts like it is too big to fail. When the International Community gives iran a pass for all these things and they look the other way all in the name of keeping the deal, then you are looking at something thats too big to fail, and thats the problem, is what were trying to say is just because we all made the deal, just because that was done previously doesnt mean you dont look and say, sit still working . Is it still in our best interest . Are we still doing the right thing . Thats what we have to make sure we do, make sure we are always looking at these agreements we make and say is it still in americans interest to be doing this . The ball is in congresss court here. So what specific is the president asking for he obviously wants some more leverage in dealing with iran. I get that. What leverage is he looking for . Leverage to renegotiate this nuclear deal, or is it something that allows for a separate deal to be negotiated with iran Going Forward . The goal at the end of the day is to hold iran accountable, to get them to be Good Community leaders, get them to stop all of these violations theyre doing. Look, the agreement was an incentive. It was for you to stop doing certain things. You havent stopped doing certain things. What do we do to make iran more accountable. I think what you will see is the president will work closely with congress to try to come out with something more proportionate and something that does make sense for the u. S. To agree to, as long as it is disproportionate, congress does need to take a look at it. If the United States walks away congress has not been effective at getting a lot of things through. Its not been an easy thing to watch this year. But if nothing gets done and the president does cancel the deal, what message does that send to a kim jongun . What incentive does he have to strike a deal with the World Community if the United States walks away from iran . It is interesting you say that because the whole reason we are looking at this iran agreement is because of north korea. When you look at accountability not kept by north korea, thats the whole situation that got us to where we are having to watch day by day to see if they do an icbm test Going Forward. Dont let it become the north korea. So what this says to north korea is dont expect us to engage in a bad deal and also if at any point we do come up with something, expect us to follow through with it. Expect us to hold you accountab accountable. So i think we are sending a strong message. We are not going to give you a lot of money and say have a good time. Look, this is a deal. You either comply. Is it better to keep this deal in place or get rid of it . Well, i think right now you are going to see us stay in the deal because we could improve the situation. And thats the goal. Right now we are in the dpeeal see how we could make it better. Were trying to make the situation better. If there is Nothing Congress can do to make it better in the eyes of this administration, is it better to stay in this deal as it is or get out . Im not going to try and pretend that nothing is going to happen. I think we have to go with the hopes that something does happen. I think on both sides of the aisle we both agree that iran is a threat. The Previous Administration never let congress have anything to do with this. This was an executive agreement. It was never an International Agreement that included congress. Thats not fully fair. The reason we have this Certification Congress is because congress put constraints on the deal to do this. That is bringing congress into the conversation. And congress did that because president obama didnt give them the authority to be a part of that decision. So they did it to try and control the situation and not let it get to a bad problem. So i think congress was actually thinking of this in the first place. Now we should let them follow through and see what they could do to make it better. In the reporting on this, they called you the president s iran whisperer. And within that, there was a white house official that described some escalating tensions between yourself and the secretary of state and using the world war 3 tensions. What is your reaction to that comment . That is just so much drama. It is all this palace intrigue. Every member works very hard to put options on the table for the president. Our goal is to keep americans save. I am glad to be living in new york just for that reason. Im going to continue to do a good job and so is ever member of the nsc. I want to ask you another question about something senator bob corker said. He believes, he said this, us working with beijing effectively is the key to not getting to a binary choice. When you publically kas strait your sec sar of state, you take that off the table. Do you agree with his assessment here that the president has essentially undermined his secretary of state when it comes to north korea and china . Im not going to get into the drama of the he said he said situation. What i had witnessed is the president and secretary and president tillerson work very well together. They continue to work strongly together. He makes a decision. There is a Mutual Respect and they go forward. So everything that i have witnessed all is fine. And if there is a problem thats really a question for secretary tillers tillerson. Do your understanding, does the president have full confidence in secretary tillerson . Yes, he does. I want to ask you, put your hat on as a former governor of South Carolina. The president s decision on health care and these insurance payments, one estimation says that premiums could spike in South Carolina 23 with this decision. If you were still governor, how would you handle the fallout from this decision by the president . Well, i think when i was governor, along with so many other governors, what we asked was for congress to act. And we said act in a way that we can get block grants. Ask in a way we have more control over our money and control over the decisions that need to be made for the citizens we represent. I think what you are seeing now is congress didnt act, so the president did what a lot of governors would want him to do, try and fix something that was really bad that wasnt working for any of the states. I think hes done that. Governors will now step forward and look at how best to move from here. I think thats going to be a conversation that happens between congress and the governors, the president and congress and well see where it goes from there. Is this, though you know this law well. You had to implement it in ways and i know you didnt necessarily agree with all facets of it and you didnt expand medicaid and things like that. Be does a decision like this, does it make the law work less better . Is that a good thing to do at this moment since congress couldnt come up with a replacement . I think you are asking the wrong person. I did not agree with the health care law. So i just as soon not have it. So having said that, what we saw is governors are best to handle their people themselves with their budgets themselves in the way thats best appropriate. What we have said is the federal government cant fix these things. So i think what that we saw was action from the president. Thats what every governor wanted to see. You will see every governor step up and do what is in the best interest of their people. And finally back to your ambassador duties. On cuba, john kelly at the podium was asked about whats been happening to american diplomats in cuba. He had a very cryptic response. And he simply said this, we believe that the cuban government could stop the attacks on our diplomats. But we have never accused the cuban government of being behind it. Does that imply we know who is behind it, cuba knows who is behind it and we just got to get on the same page . Or we dont know yet . Basically it says we are not saying that the cuban government is responsible for these attacks. What we are saying is they are able to get down to bottom of it. This is a small enough country they could go and find out exactly what is happening and thats what were asking them to do. What has happened to those diplomats is unconscionable. Until you go and tell us how you are going to fix it we need to start having this conversation. But, no, we are not implying the cuban government did it because we dont know that for sure. We are trying get to the bottom of it and make it stop. You mentioned a few times that you are glad you are in new york and not washington. Have you noticed a difference in john kellys tenure as chief of staff . Well, i can tell you this, he is certainly very disciplined. He has brought order and organization to the white house in a way that i think everybody is relieved. And i think that he keeps everyone on message. He keeps everything going in the right way. But he still allows for communication to happen. So i think we have all been very excited and happy to have general kelly. Hes a huge asset to the team. Thank you for coming on. When we come back, President Trump is increasingly under siege from those who would normally support a republican president. Heres just one example. Columnist george will saying the president is, quote, untethered to music plays throughout retail. Under pressure like never before. And its connected technology thats moving companies forward fast. Ecommerce. Real time inventory. Virtual changing rooms. Thats why retailers rely on comcast business to deliver consistent Network Speed across multiple locations. 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So get back to it and do the best work of your life. And using blockchain to help prevent fraud. Throughout my career, ive been fortunate enough to travel to many interesting places. Ive always wanted to create those experiences for others. With my advisors help along the way, its finally my turn to be the host. When you have the right financial advisor, life can be brilliant. Ameriprise welcome back. Our panelists and dan balz chief correspondent for the washington post. All right. Before you guys get into it, im going to start the conversation. Lets take a look at the criticism of President Trump. We have been hearing a lot these days, but it is all coming from folks who would normally be pretty supportive of a republican president. Used the phrase heading toward world war 3, recanting on the oath you took, something is going on, tantrum as governance. And hes better than this. You called it governing by cattle prod here. What is happening . It feels like we are at another level of republican concern about the president . I think you could argue it is another level. I think it is a continuing level. I think this comes and goes and there are moments when something happens. And i think you have to give senator corker the responsibility for ratcheting it up this week with what happened a week ago today in the tweets. But what we have seen from the president and both on the health care and on the iran agreement, we have seen this effort of him clearly frustrated in action, clearly wanting to send a signal to his base that he is trying to do the things he said he would do, but without a clear solution or a path to get to where he wants to get to, so he throws it to the congress and says, yall fix it. Kimberly, your colleague on the wall street journal opinion page had a pretty tough piece on the