In a special edition of Meet the Press, Kristen Welker sits down with bipartisan duo Sen. Raphael Warncok (D-Ga.) and Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) to explore how Americans can find common ground in a deeply divided nation. Doris Kearns Goodwin, Russell Moore and Antonia Hylton join the roundtable.
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I don’t remember Meet the Press in 2020 discussing a plan for Democrats who won the presidency and controlled Congress, particularly the House of Representatives, to promote bipartisan cooperation.
They impeached president Trump twice,de-plateformed him,silenced him and then they depicted him as a dictator, now suddenly you about bipartiship
The great dumb s of a is going downhill quick, it will be full of chaos next year without anything done
Finally…an interesting panel!!!!
Hah! Imagine that…Trump wins the poll with Americans “without a degree!” His whole agenda appeals to these low IQ, three teeth rednecks who couldn’t even spell president. This country is seriously going down the tubes.
Why didn’t she ask Langford to address the background issue on guns?
Great show! Thank you!
What our politicians not talking is supporting genocide Apartheid occupation and colonization it’s time to free free Palestine 🇵🇸 let this fellow human being to live in freedom independent Palestine state . Just today Palestine in Gaza are being attacked and killed by our tax dollars let’s stop genocide and believe in freedom for all people in holy land Palestine 🇵🇸
Most American families have never had a family of another race over for dinner!? I get that this is anecdotal (in the interview), but… for real? I guess I’m glad that when I was growing up, my parents were open enough (despite being Republicans) to have families of other races over for dinner. That was quite normal for us. So as an adult, the idea that some American families or even most American families have never had a family of another race over for dinner seems absurd to me. I don’t just have friends of other races, but I regularly invite them over for dinner without thinking about it. What are other people’s experiences?
Here goes the media again with their false equivalency. These Trump butt-lickers are at it again.
This is a duh conversation. An orange clown who’s been fighting court battles for most of his life, scammed the dumb, uneducated, and ultra rich to fill and his rich friends pockets. He gave every opponent in his party and the opposing party an insulting nickname as he insulted them and cried “lock them up” while he was the only one the broke laws and societal norms. The guy that has three wives and cheated on them all as Jefferey Epstein buddy, conned the ignorant into believing he was for family values. A failed businessman made them believe he could help them make money, as he sells them cheap junk like shoes, photos, watches, and hats to make an extra buck. And now you saw “why are we divided”? This country has been divided since day one. Nothing’s new. It’s just worse because unintelligence doesn’t value truth and legitimacy.
Not likely to happen in the next 4 years with President Trump, an amoral man with a personality disorder and a dark heart and depraved mind.
Good episode before Christmas good to listen to 2 Pastors.
How do you know when one side in a two-party system has lost? They trot out Lincoln and start talking about “Bipartisanship”..
Though this bunch said Not Much about it when they were on top.
The Left has been weighed in the balance and found wanting. Their punishment is to watch DJT conceive and implement better policies. If he executes the Left could be out a decade.
Two particular comments;
Kornacki- So..I’m an ignoramus…but I’m not racist, right?? (whew!)
Mrs. Goodwin- re. teh election of 1800..who did you vote for?
Meet the Press is so clueless as a program, they are ten steps behind the voting public.
This kumbaya BS is why we are where we are now. No Change comes without cost. No change comes without confrontation and complacency is the death of progress.
Get rid of Nancy. That is a start.
I got a great idea maybe you media should start telling the truth that would cure everything
To tell the truth, should start with Trump!
@vm6044 so farms i hear a lot of talking from you so tell me what trump is lying about where are you just a mumblr
Rev Wornack you promote homosexual
the 12 sanctuary states have a right to their beliefs of a fairness act to break laws that cause squander to their own states funds given away to immigrants accommodations, breaking illegal entrants laws, sanctuary states can fund themselves as they wish to oblivion, but while they breach illegal immigration laws, federal funds will be reduced and/or nullified, states can stand alone as they wish and may time of their populace struggles respond timely. may the feds triple all the illegal undocumented employment penalties.
Trump will never unite the country. It’s not in his best interest.
We need more senators like these 2 . That actually want to help the American people
The Dems created this division. They lied to us by concealing Biden’s obvious cognitive decline and promoting a false narrative of his capabilities. They also claimed men should complete in women’s sports, men can get pregnant, men can have a period and appointed a Supreme Court justice who can’t define what a woman is. No wonder they lost! Best thing that happened for America.
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The problem is all of the elective officials in both parties all of them are for the rich. The help everybody but the one that need the help other countries and the rich nothing for the poor or for seniors or for the children the Biden presidency claimed two hundred dollars a month extra for seniors but that was a lie and Trump claimed lower gas and food prices and that was a lie but the rich high grocery prices and gas prices and no 200 dollar boost to social security it hurt them
Senators why do we have such a gigantic economic divide in America, 90 percent of wealth belongs to the top 1 percent???
… it’s called DIVIDE AND RULE…just the opposite of UNITED WE STAND… DIVIDED WE FALL… but according to Jesus: “If a kingdom is divided against itself… that kingdom cannot stand… and if a house divided against itself… that house cannot stand”…Mark 3:24-26
These 2 will hopefully help our country turn the corner & provide the Leadership we need to be a GREAT country again.
Americans need economic support not therapy on meet the press.
If things are broken in government, what sense does it make to worsen it. If these tRump voters think he will do anything to really make it better they’re delusional. If we as a nation don’t make the correct choices and changes and actually hold our legislators and judiciary (Supreme
court) accountable we will be doomed to fail.
😂😂😂😂. After four years. Literally every single day of calling Trump “hitler,” “Dictator,” and ” Greatest threat to democracy in history,” then tired to bankrupt him, tired to stop him using nonsense court cases, tired to block him from Even appearing on ballots, and two Assassination attempts.
NOW, the democrats want peace ✌️? 😂😂
This is exactly why you got crushed in the election.
The two parties want us to be divided the old saying is divide and conquer as long as they can keep us against each other and keep us divided that deflect us from seeing what they are really doing every elected official that goes in the office they get rich that’s why they never want to be primary it’s because they’re not there for us they’re there for themselves and to become rich millionaires and the mainstream media they helped them pull it off
Media played a major part in dividing the nation. In fact they are to blame the most with their lying, spin, propaganda and concealing facts from public.
We are divided by the Media’s part in creating this Divisiveness by their constant pointing it out and displaying the obvious differences between the two sides… and we are divided from the heightened awareness of both intellectual and ethical inferiorities between us. Statements people say OUT LOUD and IN PUBLIC make a huge difference between both sides. What comes out of the mouths and minds of the far right is clearly disturbing to those on the Left as well as those who are in the so-called MIDDLE. What can we do to lessen this great divide is simply to get educated as per what the political issues really are and get educated as per being able to discern RIGHT from WRONG and GOOD from BAD. Until people know the difference between these things they will continue to be divided. The Media must stop their poor levels of reporting by simply reporting the facts rather than stating their damned distorted and biased opinions. That is NOT reporting but sadly, they haven’t been taught what reporting the news actually is. Where is Walter Cronkite when we need him.
Democrat cities have not educated youths. The culture is one of violence that is unchecked. America is a REPUBLIC not a Domocracy
Too many minds result in too many differences of opinions. Our way of governing is a major cause of these differences. Please tell me how many Congressmen and women would be willing to NOT receive money from the Lobbyists. Answer me that, Batman.Let’s do a special on the amounts of money that is being used to BUY Senators off in practically every area of this division & contention.
I need to drive better
I’m going to love my neighbor and my friends when they are thinking and acting smartly and clearly rather than thinking with no real awareness of right or wrong in basic political and life issues. Parents are responsible for teaching their children but, many parents have failed at these teachings and we are all suffering from these collective failures of the ill-informed parents and those becoming followers of lies and misinformation with nothing being founded in truths or facts.
Steve trell
Republicans have definitely divided Americans for political gain. Since they just won again, they’re not going to unify us and lose their power.
I just subscribed!
A brilliant edition!
That chart was shocking! The uneducated voted for Donald.
The Democrat and Republican parties are not going to get along. I personally stay away from Democrat people. I do not like abortion, woke agenda and illegal immigrants in this country. If a Democrat comes to my home. your not welcome here. You must leave.
The largest Protestant sect is the Southern Baptists, who broke away from the Baptists because they wanted to keep their slaves.
SUGGEST TO. T; STOP CALLING NAMES and threatening vengeance. Tell BANNON to return the BORDER WALL DONATIONS he pocketed.
Apologize to CAPITOL POLICE for BETRAYING THEM.
What was this?.. counseling session or news program? I definitely dig Ms. Hylton’s hairstyle ..she is super sharp
Langford has fallen into the Republican 27% Club. Compromising and giving up 73% is still a victory. Romney disease
Warnock stays far away from the word “meritocracy”.
The problem isn’t THE PEOPLE. The problem is the POLITICIANS and the MEDIA. Politicians want $$$ for themselves. Media wants to turn up the heat, get clicks, in order to get $$$.
DKG is a national treasure.
No. DKG wants 18 years old to be conscripted into national service? Not Harvard kids like her though. Right? They have studying to do.
Religion needs to be out of politics and off of these political shows..
I’m in my 30s and I’m exhausted w/ all these ongoing interviews w/ politicians that highlight Americans problems but go to Washington and do nothing! Absolutely nothing. The media has become a complicit in this. Hold these guys to account! Stop playing nice! Ask hard questions! I’m sick of mainstream media…
I mean, Christian nationalists do not care about the constitution so there is that whole thing… If we want an America worth fighting for we have to get past racial and religious prejudice.
The host never bothered to ask Senator Lankford about the bipartisan border bill that was detailed by his party😮
The question was asked: “Have you ever invited a person of color to have supper with you at home?”
The response was: “I have colored friends.”😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
The same fake poll keeps coming to mislead the pilublic.
The fake polls and fake news were in November on election night. IMPEACH Trump NOW
The media needs to show accountability for their division in our country!!
So … Republican policies increase income inequality and poverty and make it harder to afford higher education, and then the poor and uneducated people vote for them. Sounds like a winning strategy, actually 🤷🏻♀️.
This reporter is the Most Dividing Individual. She thinks she’s better than the people she interviews.
Why wouldn’t we think we are divided when the news tells us everyday that we are enemies.
Thank you for focusing on this topic!
Are you kidding me?
It’s refreshing to see two adults talking!
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Bravo christen. Good for meet the press.ive been critical of the way this program go.but today im proud of you and hope this is the beginning of coverage of unity and compassion. Bravo!!!!
“Christen”????? Om Namah Sivaya.
😂😂😂 cope is real
Obama is not from Chicago he’s from Hawaii
Nice to get Doris Kearns Goodwin on the show.
Mate is politics all you Americans ever talk about? Do they even celebrate Christmas over there?! Hang it up and enjoy the holidays mate
To call Warnock a pastor is a joke
Maybe when the incoming wannabe-King Seditionist retracts his “Enemy from within” vile rhetoric geared towards democratic Fellow-Americans & individuals like Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, & those who exposed the wannabe-King’s treasonous scheme… Then maybe, America’s divisive wounds that the wannabe-King exacerbated (as phobic red meat to be gobbled up by the Right’s cognitive vulnerabilities) can begin to scar over once again.
& Lankford’s inability to recognize that his “Party” supporting & excusing/whitewashing Seditious conduct is not abandoning American Values & Principles, is as laughable as any presentation of the “Party” still possessing Integrity & ability to govern without a tweeted derailment.
Donald Trump started all the hate and the Republicans aides him in it. No there will be no common ground. For me anyone who voted for Donald Trump is my enemy.
Recap: Elections are no longer about white versus black, but about educated versus gullible.
I think the media needs to ask how we got here! It’s their fault!!
Fake News propaganda PIGS.
Two professional swindlers doing their slimy moralizing with useless softball questions give me a break
I think Americans need to evolve their viewpoint on family values and understand that those values are meant to be kept in your family’s household and not forced upon anyone else. Your values should shape who you are, not who I am. Therein lies the disparity between the two sides. One says its unamerican to think a certain way, while the other says it unamerican to have that opinion.
That’s how we retreated , was a mistake.
The divide not just in our nation but in our world seems to me to be between those who believe in fundamentalism and those who believe in mystic belief systems. It’s black/ white thinking vs gray thinking. Evangelical Christians are fundamentalists. They want to establish their version of Christianity as a national religion. There will be no compromise on stopping that from being done irregardless of the issue in which that divide plays: abortion, racial divides, foreign policy, etc.
I would also assert that capitalism represents fundamentalism and oligarchy whereas an economy of reciprocity is represented by more mystical approaches to faith values.
I’m sorry and I can appreciate that we are in the holiday season, but family? Really? All you senators are family? With us, the American people? You have all been complicit with the decades long DOING NOTHING VIA CONGRESS. Stop trying to cover up just how effed this country is with Trump and his “yes men” coming in. You leaders of this country have sold out our amazing country for money and media coverage. We will now get to learn what it’s like to be ruled by oligarchs . So spare us your brotherhood and simplistic snapshots of where we are as a country.
Oligarchy is a good country for Trump and the cult leaders to get sent to. Like Edward Snowden
this Mr Tibbs comes to dinner” stuff makes cute movies/ family tv show episodes, but I’m not sure it really solves much if anything…
“In the Cathedrals….. Of New York and Rome…. there is a feeling that you should just go home”. Patti Smith
The USA is full of stupid people!!!!
It’s hard when news agencies lie and cover for a political party. Be honest and stop lying .
That’s not true dear Christian, violence always leads, to your own destruction!
Finding common ground is what dems lose… Its time for dems to be aggressive like maga reps
Amen, Thank You Jesus
Let’s talk about reparations for FBA? Most Americans can’t come on board. Just remember, no tangibles Democrats….No vote! Republicans same thing
Let’s stop looking “out there” at division and check our biases. Especially the media…
Well, ABC, CBS, NBC, corporate media, and others can be proud that they did their best to end democracy. I can attribute the fall of America to one person. Joe Biden did not stop Clarence Thomas from becoming a Justice of the Supreme Court when he could have. Joe Biden appointed Merrick Garland as DOJ in 2021.
Being from Oklahoma I can testify that Landford is corrupt as they come. This has the most population in poverty, medical care and education but his buddies who own prison and toll roads are making record profits. Never move here!!
To ensure white folks keep MLKs (king of the proud bla) name outta their mouths, we make Elvis Presley’s (king of Rock and roll) birthday a federal holiday to be celebrated on the same MLK day. Or we make a week of celebration from elvis
Saying that your political opponents should be thrown in jail doesn’t help for any kind of healing.
You Guys Quit Crying Our Security over Rules anything you want to Cry about. And Since Trump Threw in A Stock Holder Offered Trump Millions of dollars to Stop The Banning PERIOD. Otherwise trump wouldn’t Have Anything to Do with It Unless its Criminal Then Trump is all In
The Oklahoma guy is going to get voted out and replaced by a maga member. Thank god!!