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Another hour but were out of time. My thanks to steve schmidt, most of all, thanks to you for watching. Mtp daily with chuck todd starts right now. Welcome to thursday. It is meet the press daily. Good evening. Im chuck todd here in a big curly w washington. Lchl exactly a year after the president ial election, todays been another hectic day in the Nations Capital from capitol hill to the courts to the white house. House backed an Impeachment Inquiry into the president and historic symbolic acti...

We will learn whether or not weve really had a primary process at all. Part of that really ties into Donald Trumps messaging around these indictments that hes had and his opponents, and i put that in quotation marks, they are using the same language that trump does. When trump gets indicted, not only did Nikki Haley and Ron Desantis not go after Donald Trump which they would for any other candidate, they use the same rhetoric, a weaponized system of justice, twotiered system of justice, so if th...

A nuanced position on abortion. to me, its just a process argument opposed to having to make a specific policy argument. but i think the thing i hear all the time from people when i meet folks on the road is, you know, why cant you get these folks to contrast? why arent you asking them about trump? we can only ask the question so many times before it becomes clear, they dont want to have a different answer. where does that leave them? youve strategized on campaigns before. if youre not willing t...

Divisive. without accountability insurrections are just practice. >> john, political question here because folks will pars whether the january 6th committee had a political impact before the doj make its decision. amy walter made the point yesterday that, well, if you look at the midterm elections you can argue that the january 6th committees findings as well as other things that have been revealed by reporters and other revelations and so on already had something of a political impact in the el...

Of the tuesday elections. not even about terry mcauliffe, but is there any evidence that they weaken joe biden at a vulnerable point in his presidency because they did not get to this point before today? >> everything that we are talking about legislatively has been a democrat-only affair. house democrats in particular are keenly aware that inaction is not helpful. now, they will make differing arguments about which bill might have been more helpful, if any, to any specific race. but i asked spe...

This -- as eli said, think of it as a hot potato. its hot because you say, look, we have done everything we can in the congress. we literally are referring this as a public crime. then they say were going to look at this very closely but there are a lot of reasons they dont love that kind of case. counsel here just gave us one, which sometimes that kind of case you lose, because as i emphasized briefly in the lead, max, its not a separate crime. its not like you stole something and you defied th...

But for the fact you have the progressives holding it hostage because they want to make sure this reconciliation package goes forward. thats why you have the process argument happening in congress and joe biden in michigan trying to make the larger point, which is there are a lot of things to talk about that isnt just about the price tag. >> and actually, we should probably update the graphic to put a question mark after the price tag because its almost certainly not going to be $3.5 trillion at...

Cuomos future? >> things get getting worse for governor cuomo, mark my words, hes going to fight it. worst public relations defense of all time when he essentially argued, listen, im in appropriate with a lot of people not just victims, the attorney seems to have pivoted to a new strategy which is making process argument. thats what they are going to try on the impeachment side of things and major development that now hes under criminal investigation as well. im familiar enough with the cuomos, ...

Jennifer rogers. jennifer, what is your reaction to how the governors legal team tried to discredit, begin to discredit his accusers today? what do you make of their defense? >> they are trying to do two things, they argued about the merit and process. i thought the merit was a weak defense. they only addressed two of the 11 accusers and even then tiki tack in the way they try to pick at certain as sppects of the stories. i thought all of that was pretty unimpressive. the process carried weight ...

Conspiracy theory that all of these women are somehow lying, that tish james office has an ax to grind. and you saw little threads there throughout of this big conspiracy theory, everybodys against governor cuomo. i thought it fell really flat, and i dont think its going to work. >> elie, why would the new york attorney general withhold the full transcripts of the interviews in this investigation? why arent we seeing more, and what is your view of the overall defense? >> yeah, pam. so the first ...