Temporary Protected Status Runs Out for Nicaraguans; Meet the Meet the Press Team; The 'War Within' the Democratic Party; Nollywood Comes to the U.S.

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In this photo taken Wednesday, Feb, 5. 2014, a man arranges Nollywood DVD's in a shop in Lagos, Nigeria.

Coming up on today's show:

  • Heather Axford, senior staff attorney at Central American Legal Assistance, and Anu Joshi, immigration policy director at the New York Immigration Coalition, discuss the Trump administration's decision to end the Temporary Protected Status program for Nicaraguan immigrants and what may be ahead for immigrants from Honduras, El Salvador and Haiti who currently receive the special permission.
  • As Meet the Press celebrates its 70th anniversary this month, Chuck Todd, NBC News political director, the moderator of Meet the Press and host of MSNBC's Meet the Press Daily, and John Reiss, executive producer of NBC News' Meet the Press and MSNBC’s MTP Daily, talk about the evolution of the Sunday show, what it's like to cover politics on the weekend in news cycles that are never still and the national political news of the day. 

  • In the wake of the Democrats' loss last year but success on Election Day this year, Susan Glasser, chief international affairs columnist at POLITICO, host of The Global Politico podcast and contributor to The New Yorker, talks about infighting in the party and its trajectory, as well as President Trump's trip to Asia.

  • Emily Witt, Brooklyn-based journalist and the author of Nollywood: The Making of a Film Empire (Columbia Global Reports, 2017), talks about her study of the Nigerian film industry, Nollywood, and is joined by Daniel Oriahi, Nigerian director, director of its highest grossing film, "Taxi Driver."