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>> sahil, it does look like there hasn't been much coordination between the white house and congressional leadership on voting rights while there is on other issues like infrastructure and guns. >> i think that's right, chuck, i think on the issue of infrastructure and economics, one of the reasons the white house is so invested in this, they see a path of getting this done with or without republicans. there is a filibuster proof track that worked on the covid relief bill that is possible with infrastructure. whether or not they got a deal with republicans that is possible on these other multi...

All of the other social issues that you can imagine certainly were affected by the pandemic in and of itself. so, here we are coming out of this pandemic. but let me be clear about something, from my estimation, this is not because of covid. this is because what was beginning to emerge event before covid. and then covid hit made this much more challenging. but we have to get to the root causes of these issues in our country. and hopefully, that will be addressed by the president today. and that certainly includes unemployment for both adults and youth. it includes housing, homesness, mental he...

Deck. it's all men and women in our police departments. >> yeah. >> but joined by our communities, chuck, that is going to address the issues here and now. they both need to be supportive of each other. everything that you hear the president talk about today is going to be long term. what we need immediate action to stop this that is going on across the country on violent crime. >> said deliberation alexander, former police chief of illinois, thanks to get your perspective, sir. thank you. >> thank you. coming up, multiple developments today in the prosecution surrounding the january 6th ins...

Have risen sharply in large cities, up 20% in 2020. and up another 24% beginning to this year, lisa monaco told police chief those statistics are staggering and sobering and she also called it profoundly troubling and a bad trajectory. but the crime rate is down. and it is a bit of a nuanced story. president biden comment as will come, with the barrage of attacks from republicans to tie violence on progressive calls from police. even though most prominent democrats and a handful of quite a few progressives did not back those calls. they're struggling with combatting the politically damaging na...

Committee to combat the siege if a bipartisan submission is doable in the senate. ♪♪ welcome to wednesday, it is "meet the press daily." i'm chuck todd on a very busy hump day for the white house and democrats. they're dealing with the fallout, today, the president puts his focus on the issue of gun violence. democrats are struggling with both of those issues as well as democrats see an opportunity to seize a political advantage. to do anything substantive on the issue, they either need to get ten republicans to come aboard. that won't happen, or they need to convince kyrsten sinema to k...