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Mr. Trump feeling freer to follow his own instincts abroad. Let the other people take care of it now. At home, firing his secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin. This morning, i ask shulkin what he thinks is the real reason he was fired. Roseannes ratings. Look at roads roseanne. Look at her ratings. What does the successful reboot of roseanne tell us about the disconnect between hollywood the coast and the rest of america . Joining me for insight and analysis are george will, danielle pletka, joshua johnson, and political analyst elise jordan. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. Annou...

>> death is always hanging around this hospital. >> morning. >> "m-a-s-h" was obviously an influence on me because i was drawn to comedy that somehow was still about something. >> his isn't really what i expected, you know? most of my patients are checked out, mentally. >> pumpkin, that's modern medicine -- advances that keep people alive who should have died a long time ago, back when they lost what made them people. for the love of god! what? >> do you think we should be talking about it in front of her? >> her? she's dead. >> then in the early 2000s, there was this hunger to reinvent the ne...

>> this isn't really what i expected, you know? most of my patients are checked out, mentally. >> pumpkin? that's modern medicine. >> advances that keep people alive who should have died a long time ago. back when they lost what made them people. for the love of god. what? >> do you think we should be talking about it in front of her? >> her? she's dead. >> then in the early 2000s, there was this hunger to reinvent the network sitcom and nbc decided to take a chance on a uk hit called "the office." >> there's good news and bad news. the bad news is, some of you will lose your jobs. yeah. yeah....

Dishes? >> i just can't wait till they invent the faucet. >> with all the progress that was happening in the late '50s and '60s, "the flintstones" is an escape from the pressures of the modern family and the question, is progress good? >> [ laughs ] >> it was kind of a satire on the consumerism -- "get the newest thing for your kitchen, get the newest kind of car with, you know, these kind of stone wheels." they have a car and it has wheels, but you need your legs to make it move. i bet that is how they did it. >> a lot of people think it was a cartoon on saturdays. that was actually a network...

Work families can be even funnier than biological ones, since the endless array of wacky sitcom characters on the job offers hilarious insights into the state...