EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL LORETTA LYNCH
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch joins the show live for her first Sunday show interview to discuss this week’s deadly San Bernardino shootings and more.
“Whatever the results of this investigation… one thing is clear: violence like this has no place in this country.” – Lynch on Thursday at a White House event
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SUNDAY EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS: PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES SEN. RAND PAUL (R-KY), SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R-SC)
Republican presidential candidates Sen. Rand Paul and Sen. Lindsey Graham join the show live for a discussion on surveillance and terrorism.
“I think really, if we talk about endangering the country, really I think it’s Lindsey Graham that has endangered the country just about as much – or more – than anybody else.” – Paul on Fox News this week
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THE LATEST ON THE SAN BERNARDINO SHOOTINGS
NBC News Chief Justice Correspondent Pete Williams joins Michael Leiter, Leidos EVP and former director of the United States National Counterterrorism Center, for updates on what we know – and still don’t know – in the investigation into this week’s shooting.
“There’s a lot of evidence in this case that doesn’t quite make sense, and so we are trying to be very thoughtful.” – James Comey, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, on Friday
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THE FUTURE OF ISLAM IN AMERICA
Dalia Mogahed, director of research at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, and Asra Nomani, author of “Standing Alone: An American Woman’s Struggle for the Soul of Islam,” speak with Chuck Todd and the panel about the ongoing national dialogues on Islam in the United States and anti-Muslim rhetoric.
“The Muslim community stands shoulder to shoulder with our fellow Americans in repudiating any twisted mindset that would claim to justify such sickening acts of violence.” – Hussam Ayloush, an executive director at the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
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THE WEEK IN POLITICS
The panel talks the week in politics, including responses to the San Bernardino shooting, Trump’s rise in the polls, and more.
Elisabeth Bumiller
Washington Bureau Chief, The New York Times
Rich Lowry
Editor, The National Review
Charles Ogletree
Professor, Harvard Law School
Amy Walter
National Editor, The Cook Political Report
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