Meet the Press (NBC) (with Sunday Today snippet) - 1996-04-07
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[0:00] studio
[0:02] >> from NBC [music] News in Washington.
[0:05] This is Meet the Press with Tim Russard.
[0:07] [music]
[0:11] Welcome again to Meet the Press. Our
[0:12] issue this Easter Sunday morning,
[0:14] politics, religion, and God. This week,
[0:17] this very familiar face grace the covers
[0:19] of Time, Newsweek, and US News. Is the
[0:23] United States trying to become a more
[0:24] Christian nation? And what does that
[0:27] mean for non-Christians?
[0:29] And does God have a position on school
[0:31] prayer or abortion or education or
[0:34] welfare or families or even tax cuts?
[0:37] And can we find common ground on these
[0:40] most difficult issues? We'll ask our
[0:42] guests, the man who succeeded Dan Quail
[0:45] in the US Senate and the author of the
[0:47] Project for American Renewal, Republican
[0:49] Senator Dan Coats of Indiana, the former
[0:53] governor of the state of New York, who
[0:55] has written extensively about religion
[0:57] and public life, Democrat Mario M. Cuomo
[1:01] and an Orthodox Jew who avoids political
[1:04] activity on the Sabbath and has been
[1:06] outspoken on the issue of values in our
[1:08] society. The Democratic senator from
[1:10] Connecticut, Joseph Lieberman. And a
[1:13] former college football all-American
[1:15] turned Baptist minister, now the first
[1:18] elected African-American Republican
[1:20] congressman from the South since the
[1:22] Civil War, JC Watts of Oklahoma. As we
[1:26] celebrate Easter and Passover, a focus
[1:29] on the role of religion in our politics.
[1:32] And in our political roundt, the author
[1:34] of this new book, Showdown: The Struggle
[1:37] Between the Gingrich Congress and the
[1:39] Clinton White House, and a preview of
[1:41] the upcoming struggle betwee